... Feeding the Monster: Gas Caught in its Death Spiral into a Massive Black Hole . ... Stromlo Professor Mike Dopita have used the Hubble Space Telescope to discover how a massive Black Hole in a nearby galaxy feeds itself. ... Earlier Hubble Telescope data obtained by another team member, Professor Holland Ford of Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland, had found a disk of gas rushing around the Black Hole at a speed of 500 kilometers a second. ...

The accommodation fees for the IX APAO : . ... Team fee: 390.- Euro/team . ... Euro/person . ... The fee covers the board, lodging, transportation, excursions, sport, ceremonial, and general organization expenses since 12:00 of official Day of arrival till 12:00 of official Day of departure . ... Euro/person/day . ... The fees are to be paid cash the first day of accommodation. ... Dr. Michael G. Gavrilov, Founding Chairman and Coordinator of the Asian-Pacific Astronomy Olympiad (APAO) . ...

... Yes, Exploding Comet 17P/Holmes is one of the strangest things ever seen by astronomers - professional and amateurs alike. ... We also had some club members who received some Astronomical League awards...and we'd like to congratulate them! ... It is again a potluck, and is being held at the Masonic Temple in Galion ( 1252 State Route 598, Galion , OH 44833) Here's a map: Map of 1252 State Route 598 Galion, OH 44833-9367, US And, along with the party come RAS elections for 2008! ... Comet 17P/Holmes ...

... Radio Astronomy . ... ASRAS Board Members . ... To see the most up to date news and events happening with ASRAS log in with your user name and password and then click on the Activities page. ... Messier Marathon (Member Observing) CANCELLED Saturday, April 9, 2016 9:00 PM Location:Farash Center Ionia NY . ... ASRAS Members meeting - Friday May 6 at Farash Center - Ionia NY . ... ASRAS Board members meeting - monday May 9 @ Farash Center Monday, May 9, 2016 7:00 PM Location:Farash Center Ionia NY . ...

Stellarium 0.12.3 . ... BigStarCatalogExtension::SpecialZoneArray< Star > Class Template Reference . ... SpecialZoneArray (QFile *file, bool byte_swap, bool use_mmap, int level , int mag_min , int mag_range , int mag_steps ) . ... ZoneArray (const QString & fname , QFile *file, int level , int mag_min , int mag_range , int mag_steps ) . ... BigStarCatalogExtension::SpecialZoneArray < Star >:: SpecialZoneArray . ... SpecialZoneData <Star>* BigStarCatalogExtension::SpecialZoneArray < Star >::getZones . ...

... Forum . ... Recent Topics . ... MAO main . ... Information on IAU Commissions and New Members . ... Тема: Information on IAU Commissions and New Members . Dear IAU Member, . ... please see: . ... Members, please see: . ... The newly accepted IAU Members were recently invited to consider the . ... both the previous IAU members and the new Members, 2,517 individuals . ... Board Categories MAO main - Info - MAO - news - Flame Technical - Technical Support(Forum)(Техподдержка(Форум)) . ... MAO NASU . ...

A Christmas Carol Featuring Ghosts · Past · Present · Future Eric Torrence 1/9 December 2004 The Ghost of Christmas Past 7 Preliminary Analyses Presented Very impressive showing, broad physics interests 14 AWG readers, 21 RC members,.. ... Eric Torrence 3/9 December 2004 Ghost of Christmas (near) Future We are trying to get two Moriond Tau talks (one EW, one QCD) Publications of Tau04 results would be a natural reason to argue for these talks CWR must start no later than Feb. 11th! ...

... Telescopes . ... The International Conference "Dark Ages and White Nights (Spectroscopy of the CMB)" (June 20-24, 2016) . ... The International Conference "Stars: from collapse to collapse" (October 3-7, 2016) . The traditional annual competition conference of scientific and scientific-engineering papers of the Observatory staff members . ... A session of the Dissertation Council (October 16, 2015) . ... International scientific conference "Large Optical Telescopes" (October, 10-13, 2011) . ...

... Laboratory "Structure" was created in 1992 from the temporary scientific group formed in 1988 in SAO RAS. In December 2003 it was transformed into group of Physics and Evolution of Galaxies , which enters into new Laboratory of Extragalactic ASTROPHYSICS and COSMOLOGY. ... Kniazev A.Y. senior researcher, associated foreign member . Kniazeva T.F. junior researcher, associated foreign member . ... Lipovetsky Valentin A. (1945-1996) former leader of the Laboratory . ...

... S.P. KOROLEV ROCKET AND SPACE CORPORATION ENERGIA . ... OAO RSC "Energia" . ... News . ... RSC Energia is the leading enterprise of Russian rocket-space industry in the field of manned space flights programs which is responsible for building the ISS Russian Segment, its integration into the station and operational use, including manufacture and operation of the RS core modules (Zvezda, Pirs, Poisk, Rassvet, Nauka, etc.); production, launch and operation of Soyuz TMA, Progress M space vehicles. ...

... Dies on December 2, 1987 in Moscow. ... From autumn 1930 till May 1931 he studied at the courses and worked as a laboratory assistant at the Institute of Mechanical processing of minerals. In May 1931 became a laboratory assistant at the Institute of Chemical Physics of the Academy of Science of the USSR (ICP). ... From 1965 till January 1983 was a head of division at the Institute of the Applied Mathematics of the Academy of Science of the USSR. ...

... V838 Mon is a member of a new class of eruptive variables which appear as a peculiar novae having late K-M type spectra in their outburst. Before its outburst, it was a wide binary system of B3V type stars. ... The B3V companion was seen in the outburst in the UV spectrum taken with HST (Rauch et al., ... In the latest spectra, the light of B3V companion was predominating in the short-wave photometric bands. ... CCD blue frames of V838 Mon before the eclipse (left) and in the eclipse (right). ...

lsst.coordConv љ unknown . ... coordConv::ObsCoordSys Class Reference . ... ObsCoordSys (double date=0) . ... clone (double date) const . ... taiFromDate (double date) const . ... CoordSys (std::string const &name, double date, DateTypeEnum dateType, bool isMean , bool canConvert ) . ... convertFrom (double &toDir, double &scaleChange, CoordSys const &fromCoordSys, Coord const &fromCoord, double fromDir, Site const &site, double tai=0) const . ... virtual coordConv::ObsCoordSys::~ObsCoordSys . ...

Russian Space Science Internet (RSSI) is a successful result of RSSI Project. ... space oriented organizations; . ... RSSI offers for its members : . ... videoconferences via MBONE Internet protocol (there are 2 tunnels available now through the general IP network: one to NASA Internet, and another to Moscow State University); . ... It is designed so that all organizations connected to the RSSI gain access to the resources of Russian computer networks as well as world wide Internet. ... nic@rssi.ru ...

Общая Астрономическая Конференция > Практика > Астрономические наблюдения > Новые веяния в МРС . ... Просмотр полной версии : Новые веяния в МРС . ... 30 (MPC 43801-43802), . ... While the naming of minor planets has great popular appeal, it is clear . ... Returning to the matter of MPC funding, one MPML contributor remarked that . the MPC should make a competitive proposal for funding at a national level in . ... funding should be used to pay for the services the MPC supplies to amateur . ...

Note that while every effort has been made to list all members, any member of an E-ALFA project team, whether listed below or not, is a member of the E-ALFA consortium . ... Institute . ... University of Puerto Rico . ... Cardiff University . ... Ghent University . ... Colgate University . ... University of Wisconsin, Madison . ... Wise Observatory, Tel Aviv University . ... Radioastronomical Institute, University of Bonn . ... Osservatorio Astrofisico di Arcetri . ... Cornell University . ... NRAO . ...

. To see a Russian version of this page click here . (Senior Researcher. Graduated from Moscow State University (MSU) in 1982, Ph.D. 1986, MSU) . A member of EAS and IAU. Fields of interest: hot massive stars, close binary systems: optical photometric and spectral observations, X-ray observations; ill-posed problems, X-ray astrophysics. My publications (ADS link) . Linux on CLEVO 8750 (old stuff) . Phones/addresses of my university mates graduated in 1982. E-mail: igor@sai.msu.ru .

Winer Observatory P.O. Box 797, Sonoita, Arizona 85637-0797, USA . ... Outreach . Projects . ... Science . ... Participating in Project ASTRO, a national program to assist teachers in grades 4 through 12 in teaching astronomy . ... June, 1990: National Optical Astronomy Observatory, Friday Science Lunch Talks: "Engineering Big Science Projects" . ... May 4, 2007: National Optical Astronomy Observatory, Friday Science Lunch Talks: "The Ohio State University KELT Telescope -- Early Results" . ...

There are a lot of traditions connected with Christmas but perhaps the most important one is the giving of presents. ... Children leave a long sock or stocking at the end of their bed on Christmas Eve, December 24th, hoping that Father Christmas will come down the chimney during the night and bring them small presents, fruits and nuts. Not all Christmas traditions are old. The first Christmas card was made only in 1842 by an English painter who sent that card to one hundred of his friends. ...