GRANAT is the Russian x-ray sattelite launched to the high apogee orbit (200,000 km) and operated almost for 10 years (1989 -1999) , carrying out four major instruments: French SIGMA coded-mask hard x-ray telescope (30-1000 keV), Soviet ART-P coded-mask telescope (2??-60?? keV), all-sky monitor WATCH (6-150 keV), and a gamma-burst detector PHEBUS . ... Since September 1994, GRANAT is in the survey mode. ... Explore pages devoted to individual GRANAT instruments (including main scientific results): . ...

... This is a personal project collecting and documenting early images of Harvard College Observatory, focusing on the site at Observatory Hill (previously Summer House Hill). ... Edith Gill . This page shows a list of all images tagged with "Edith Gill". [link] 1912ish Women Computers . ... Harvard calls this photo "Observatory Group", ca. ... Behind Miss Cannon is Evelyn Leland, a computer from 1889 to 1925. ... link] 1925 "As We Were" . ... link] 1925/05/19 Women Computers and Radcliffe Students . ...

The Astronomical Society of Australia has been asked by STANDARDS AUSTRALIA to compile a list of "designated" optical observatories that are valuable resources for (i) research, (ii) education and (iii) community use. The ASA is the final arbiter of whether any particular observatory is so designated. ... Upon receipt of your application form, your observatory will be entered on a list of "Pending Designated Observatories" on the ASA Home Page. ... It will be emailed for you. ... Email . ...

Общая Астрономическая Конференция . ... Правила форума . ... Сообщения за день . ... Добро пожаловать на Общая Астрономическая Конференция. ... Форумы общей направленности . Любые вопросы от новичков (просматривают: 17) . ... Общий форум любителей астрономии (просматривают: 7) . ... Новости магазина Starshop.ru . ... Менее астрономические товары (просматривают: 1) . ... Форум исключительно для сообщений об испытаниях астрономической техники. ... Общая Астрономическая Конференция статистика . ...

... Ceresт?? bright spots show unexpected changes . ... CERES | ... Observations made using the HARPS spectrograph at the European Southern Observatory s (ESO) La Silla Observatory in Chile have revealed unexpected changes in the bright spots on the dwarf planet Ceres. Although Ceres appears as little more than a point of light from Earth, careful study of its light shows not only the changes expected as Ceres rotates, but also that the spots brighten during the day and also show other variations. ...

Beginning from the May of the 1997 we started to publish our daily solar radio observations at RATAN-600 radiotelescope. ... Periscope System: South Sector+Flat Mirror . ... It is possible to track a source by moving the secondary mirror along the arc-shaped railway tracks or to perform azimuthal 2D map synthesis . ... 1) It is possible to simultaneously carry out independent observing programs using individual sectors at various discrete azimuths and secondary mirrors on corresponding railway tracks. ...

. The XMM-Newton website has moved to the following location: . http://www.cosmos.esa.int/web/xmm-newton

... B. Bertotti, R. Ambrosini, S.W. Asmar, J.P. Brenkle, G. Comoretto, G. Giampieri, L. Iess, A. Messeri, H.D. Wahlquist: "The Gravitational Wave Experiment" , Astronomy and Astrophysics Suppl. ... B. Bertotti, R. Ambrosini, J.W. Armstrong, S.W. Asmar, G. Comoretto, G. Giampieri, L. Iess, Y. Koyama, A. Messeri, A. Vecchio, H.D. Wahlquist: "Search for gravitational wave trains with the spacecraft Ulysses" , Astronomy and Astrophysics, 296 , 13 (1995). ...

... At 13:30 pm March 2 stars were acquired with the WUPPE detector and the focussing process had begun . ... The galaxy below, UGC 6151, is in the center of the field. ... In addition, the active galaxies NGC 4151 and NGC 1068 were done. ... Later in the day HUT made observations of Jupiter, the interacting galaxy pair NGC 6090 and the UV bright galaxy- Markarian 3. ... HUT acquired additional spectra of NGC 4151, a new spectra of NGC 4631, more data on the Cygnus Loop and a new spectra of MKN 421. ...

Astronomy Discussion Forums . ... I Expected More Sense Than That. ... Post Message | ... Posted by Richard D. Stafford, Ph.D. on November 8, 2002 04:14:05 UTC . ... You are missing the point - harvey1 - November 8, 2002 - 13:10 UTC . I hope Stafford doesn't mind my intruding his forum - mrsouza - November 8, 2002 - 14:55 UTC . ... www.astronomy.net . ... Forum posts are Copyright their authors as specified in the heading above the post. "dbHTML," "AstroGuide," "ASTRONOMY.NET" & "VA.NET" . ...

... Launch Date: 1966-08-10 . ... The Lunar Orbiter 1 spacecraft was designed primarily to photograph smooth areas of the lunar surface for selection and verification of safe landing sites for the Surveyor and Apollo missions. ... The spacecraft was placed in a cislunar trajectory and injected into an elliptical lunar orbit for data acquisition. ... An 80-millimeter lens system was used to obtain Medium-Resolution (MR) photos, and a 610-millimeter lens system was used for High-Resolution (HR) photos. ...

National Space Agency of Ukraine and . ... The Second International Meeting on WARNING Mission . ... Space Research Institute of Ukrainian National Academy of Sciences - National Space Agency, . ... The Head of Scientific committee of the Project “Warning” is DR V.G.Bar`yahtar, Academitian of Ukrainian National Academy of Sciences. ... Lviv Center Space Research Institute of Ukrainian National Academy of Sciences, . ... National Space Agency of Ukraine, Bozhenka St. 11, 252022 Kyiv-22, Ukraine. ...

... Right: The telescope's octagonal "dome" enclosure. ... MT KENT OBSERVATORY (longitude 1510 51' 19.5 E, latitude 270 S 47' 52.3 , elevation 682 m) Louisville Telescope ( Robotic astronomy research) · 50cm f/6.8 astrograph Celestron C-20 (new product) Supplier : www.celestron.com · 3.5m Sirius fibreglass dome Supplier : siriusobservatories.com · SBIG STL-6303 CCD camera + LRGB filters (UBVRI planned) Supplier : www.sbig.com · Vantage Pro weather station ...

... Director of the RAS ISR . RAS Academician . ... Astrophysics module Kvant of the orbital complex Mir launched in 1987 contains the largest on the station complex of the scientific equipment named the orbital observatory Roentgen. Observatory Roentgen consists of 4 X-ray telescopes, jointly exceeding the range of energies from 2 to 800 keV. ... Among the most significant results that were received in the observatory Roentgen are: . ... measurement of the periods of 9 X-ray pulsars; . ...

... The collecting area is increased by nesting concentric mirror pairs, all having the same focal length. ... Figure shows the largest optical element being ground at HDOS. ... X-ray testing demonstrated that the CXO mirrors are indeed the largest high-resolution X-ray optics ever made; the nominal effective area (based on the ground calibrations) is shown as a function of energy in the left panel of Figure , along with those of their Einstein and ROSAT predecessors. ...

... SAI CAS . ... Catalog Access Services . ... This site is about the Virtual Observatory project at the Sternberg Astronomical Institute, Moscow University ( SAI MSU ). We provide a public access to the growing set of astronomical services developed by the SAI RVO development team in accordance with the Virtual Observatory standards. ... We provide access (programmatic and interactive) to the all major and biggest astronomical catalogs (about 4 billions objects total) as well as other web-services. ...

Weekly Bulletin on Solar and Geomagnetic Activity Highlights on 13 - 19.02.2012, Forecast on 20 - 27.02.2012, Carrington Rotations 2120 (06,28.02.2012) SOLAR SUNSPOT ACTIVITY OF THE LAST PERIOD WAS ON AVERAGE AND LOW LEVELS. ... NEXT WEEK THE SUNSPOT ACTIVITY IS EXPECTED TO BE THE AVERAGE. ... IN THE GEOMAGNETIC FIELD ON FEBRUARY, 14 AND 15th ACCORDING TO IZMIRAN DATA TWO MINOR MAGNETIC STORMS HAVE BEEN NOTED. ... ACCORDING TO GEOMAGNETIC OBSERVATORIES OF THE WESTERN HEMISPHERE ITS WERE ONLY SUBSTORM. ...

Russian SHAREABLE DATA CENTER Institute of Solar-Terrestial Physics SB RAS . ... Chirp ionosonde main technical characteristics . ... Linear frequency modulated continuous signals sounding method is relatively simple and has wide application in various special-purpose systems. ... Chirp signals which are applying for ionosphere channel diagnostics usually have10KHz/s -- 1MHz/s. We must point out that under modulation speed increasing there is an increase in noise suppression and resolution power. ...

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