... About ATMoB . ... The Observing Committee is starting an Observing Awards Program to promote observing among the membership of the Amateur Telescope Makers of Boston. ... Participant must be a current member of the Amateur Telescope Makers of Boston . ... To qualify for your Observing Award Certificate, turn in your worksheet and drawings to an ATMoB Observing Committee member or observing@atmob.org . ... This Excel sheet has useful macros. ... Copyright (c) Amateur Telescope Makers of Boston, Inc. ...

... Tonight's Sky . ... The Magazine . ... Observing . ... The double star 54 Leonis, spiral galaxy NGC 3198, and emission nebula NGC 3199 . ... Astronomy for Kids . ... Observing springtime deep-sky objects with a large telescope . ... Bright planets meet at dusk . ... Astronomy magazine subscribers can read the full article for free. ... Get instant access to subscriber content on Astronomy.com! ... Receive news, sky-event information, observing tips, and more from Astronomy's weekly email newsletter....

IV International Astronomy Olympiad . ... Text of these problems is available also . ... To solve every problem you may use constants and well-known values you know by heart. ... The apparent diameter of the Moon, as seen from the Earth, is 31'. ... Can you observe a star with magnitude . ... Consider the stars as black bodies. ... Estimate the diameter of a black hole constructed using this patent from a ship with the mass of 5000 tn (1 tn = 1000 kg). ... What stars would you observe this nigth? ...

Educator's Guide to Eclipses . ... In a solar eclipse you observe the Sun (using only safe methods, of course). ... In a lunar eclipse you observe the Moon. ... Because of the geometry described below, you can only view a solar eclipse when the Sun is up, and the Moon is nowhere to be seen. ... Eclipses occur when the Sun, Earth and Moon line up. ... In a solar eclipse the Moon passes directly in front of the Sun. ... In a lunar eclipse the Moon moves into Earth's shadow. ...

... The bright object in the center of the false color gamma-ray image above is quasar 3C279, a nondescript, faint, starlike object in the visible sky. A Quasar-Galaxy Collision? ... In 1963 astronomers were astounded to discover that certain faint, star-like objects have very large redshifts. ... The surface of Titan, Saturn's largest moon, is normally hidden from view by its thick, hazy atmosphere. ... Stars orbit the center of the cluster, and the cluster orbits the center of our Galaxy. ...

Общая Астрономическая Конференция > Товары для астрономов > Полезное для астрономии . Книга "Observing Handbook and Catalogue of Deep-Sky Objects" . ... Поиск . ... Observing Handbook and Catalogue of Deep-Sky Objects . ... Интересная книга. ... Созвездия (поиск и описание) .. Созвездия южного неба (поиск и описание) .. ... Лунные феномены (редкие, необычные явления) Жизнь астрономов-любителей Анонсы астрономических мероприятий Астрономические клубы Наш "Старлаб" . ...

... Science Users Information > Data Handling and Products > Data Reduction FAQ > Is it possible to calibrate the visibility data of our object with a calibrator observed in another mode? ... Observing Facilities . ... Observing with ESO Telescopes . ... Observing Tools and Services . ... ESO-MIDAS . ... Data Handling and Products . ... Data Pipelines and Calibrations . ... ESO Data . ... ESO Data Access Policy . ... The calibrator data should be reduced using MIA in HIGH_SENS mode (mode "D"). ...

XMM-Newton Science Analysis System . ... The `position angle' used is in actuality an ` astronomical position angle' (see XMM-MOC-TN-0109-OAD and INT-SYS-FD-TN-0004-OAD). This angle is counted from the celestial north in the mathematically positive sense around the axis pointing from the object towards the observer (i.e. anticlockwise from the observer's point of view, looking towards the sky). ... XMM-Newton SOC/SSC -- 2007-07-09 ...

... The Galactic low-mass X-ray binary GS 2023+338 was discovered during the burst on May 22, 1989 with the Japanise satellite Ginga (aka Galaxy). The flux reached 17 crabs (this unit of flux measurement is an bright X-ray source, Crab Nebula) at 10-35 keV. ... No other radio telescope worldwide carried out multi-frequency measurements. ... Upon 14 days the radio flux fell below the detection level at the RATAN-600 in relation to the decrease of the X-ray flux. ...

... The spectrograph is designed for detailed studies of extended objects - galaxies and HII regions with a moderate spectral resolution. ... The updated Universal Astronomical Grating Spectrograph (UAGS, Carl Zeiss Jena) with a fast Schmidt camera is a base of the Long Slit Spectrograph (LSS). A cryostated Charge Coupled Device (CCD) detector is built inside the Schmidt camera. ... It was realized in the Laboratory of Spectroscopy and Photometry of Extragalactic Objects of SAO RAS. ... Camera . ...

... They are the offset in arcseconds for the x and y inst plane offset, the exposure time in seconds, and the number of exposures at each position. ... A point about offsets should be made here. The dither program uses absolute instrument plane offsets, so you should use object plane offsets to center up on the chip so that the script starts from where you centered up. INST and OBJ offsets are independent so an object offset will not be zeroed out by and inst plane offset, just added to it. ...

... Astronomy and Astrophotography - amateur tips and ideas from personal experience. ... CNES : CLEMENTINE data Server - Access to 1.8 million lunar images . ... Astrofili on the Web - Dr. Fabio Marino's CCD images and links. Astronomical Images - Deep-sky astronomical photographs. ... Astronomy Page - collection of amateur astrophotographs, along with observatory and Hubble images. ... Igor's Astronomy Page - with thumbnail links to images from observatories, including the Hubble Space Telescope. ...

... Courtesy of NASA/ESA Observation data (J2000 epoch) Constellation Right ascension Declination Redshift Distance Type Serpens Caput 15h 17m 14.4s[] +21° 35 08[] 12,740±50 km/s[][1] 600±30 Mly (183±8 Mpc)[1] SA0(r) [citation needed ] [a] Apparent dimensions (V) 0.28 в 0.28[] Apparent magnitude (V) 16.0[] Notable features Ring galaxy Other designations PGC 54559,[] PRC D-51[] See also: Galaxy, List of galaxies Hoag's Object is a non-typical galaxy of the type known as a ring galaxy. ...

... Spacecraft . 29b. Satellites looking down . ... 29e. Explorers of distant space . ... The Hubble orbiting telescope. ... The Hubble telescope , in low Earth orbit, overcomes such limitations, in the visible range and in part of the UV. ... So fruitful was this observation that a second "deep field" exposure of such length, near the southern pole of the heavens, was recently conducted. ... Some satellites specialize in observing the Sun, such as the Japanese Yohkoh and NASA's SOHO . ...

... Click on an object in the solar system or choose from the list at left to learn more . The Arecibo Observatory planetary radar is the world's most powerful instrument for post-discovery characterization and orbital refinement of near-Earth objects. ... The Solar System Studies group is a department of the Arecibo Observatory, which is an NSF facility operated under cooperative agreement by SRI International, Universities Space Research Association (USRA), and la Universidad Metropolitana (UMET). ...

OBSERVATIONS OF COORBITAL SATELLITES OF SATURN Emel'yanov N., Varfolomeev M. Sternberg State Astronomical Institute, Moscow, e-mail : emelia@sai.msu.ru Institut de MИcanique CИleste et de Calcul des иphИmИrides, Paris, e-mail : emelia@imcce.fr Abstract. To improve the orbital parameters and masses of coorbital satellites of Saturn, Janus and Epimetheus, new observations of these satellites are necessary. ... IN: Saturn. ... New observations of Saturn's coorbital satellites" - Icarus. ...

... 8) Why does WolfEdit crash when I fill a large area? ... Use one of the four "man pointing a gun" icons in the top left corner of the palette. ... Use the Lift Control Panel item. You can only have a control panel which faces east or west - the north or south face will appear as a lift side panel, although it will work as a control panel. Similarly, a lift side panel viewed from the east or west will appear as a control panel, but won't work as one. ... Because you used the Get Info... box. ...

... Asteroid . ... In case you didn't hear about it, which you probably didn't: On Jan. 7, an asteroid 1,000 feet across -- nearly three times the current diameter of Marlon Brando -- barely missed the Earth, which is most likely your planet of residence. ... What if this asteroid had hit the Earth? ... As it happens, the American Astronomical Society was holding a conference in Washington AT THE VERY SAME TIME as the asteroid nearly hit the Earth. ...

The Doppler shift is the effect of sound increasing or decreasing in pitch as an object moves towards or away from you. ... Light works the same way, except light is shifted to redder colours when an object is moving away, and to blue colours when an object is travelling towards us. ... Almost every object he observed had its light stretched to redder colours, indicating essentially everything in the Universe was moving away from us. ... So the Hubble constant tells us how old the Universe is. ...

Asteroids, Comets, Meteors (2008) 8010.pdf SPECTRAL SIGNS OF CARBONACEOUS CHONDRITIC MATERIAL ON (21) LUTETIA V.V. Busarev, Sternberg Astronomical Institute (SAI), Moscow University, Universitetskij pr., ... We have discovered considerable variations in the continuum slope and shape of the visible-range reflectance spectra of the asteroid with rotation in November 2004 (4/5, 5/6 and 7/8) and March 2006 (3/4). ... Resulting normalized (at 0.55 m) and smoothed reflectance spectra are shown in Fig. ...