... In this activity, students will observe that the faintest stars which they can see in the sky are affected by many things: the adaptation of their eyes to the dark, the presence of clouds or haze, the time of year, and the presence of light pollution. General Information . ... After completing this activity, students should have a better understanding of the practical processes for dealing with the light pollution problem and with other environmental and societal issues. << previous page | ...

The 14 th International Astronomy Olympiad has been held successfully in Hangzhou (China) on November 8-16, 2009. ... There were 17 teams participated and 1 team observed in the XIV IAO: . ... Sunday, November 8 - Day of arrival . ... Thursday, November 12 - Day of excursions . ... M. G. Gavrilov (IAO Chairman) - Chairman, . J. Zhu (Beijing, XIV IAO-2009 and X IAO-2005 LOC Chairman), . ... Dr. Michael G. Gavrilov, Founding Chairman and Coordinator of the International Astronomy Olympiad (IAO) . ...

Next: Emission-line galaxies Up: The Hamburg/SAO Survey for Previous: Data reduction . In total 217 candidates were observed during the January - June, 1995, of which 34 objects were observed with the 6m telescope, 183 objects with the Calar Alto 2.2m telescope, and 4 with both instruments. ... For 11 of the known ELGs we measure emission line ratios and make quantitative classification. ... Emission-line galaxies . ... Objects without emission lines . Absorption-line galaxies . ...

Newsgroups: rec.games.trivia Subject: Final Results: American Pie Lyrics From: mfterman@phoenix.Princeton.EDU (Mutant for Hire) Date: 24 Jun 91 14:49:35 GMT Organization: Mutant for Hire, Inc. ... Attributing various comments to various people is difficult due to the number of said sources and the fact that there were agreements on various parts. ... I can still remember how that music . ... I could make those people dance . ... the day the music died . ... bye, bye Miss American Pie . ...

... For each observed position the table contains designation of object as in file of observations, the time of observation, the number and name/ preliminary designation of minor planet supposedly identical with observed object, the values of O – C (observed position minus computed one) in right ascension and declination expressed in arcsec, the difference O – C between observed magnitude and computed one, the code of observatory in the Observatory list (see Observatories section). ...

... Authors: Spyros Basilakos (Imperial College London) . ... Title: Populating a cluster of galaxies - I. Results at z=0 . ... Title: The Merger Rate to Redshift One from Kinematic Pairs: Caltech Faint Galaxy Redshift Survey XI . ... Title: Multi-wavelength observations of an evolved galaxy group: An endpoint of galaxy merging? ... 23 matches for the search pattern galaxy merging . The URL for this page is: http://xxx.itep.ru/find/astro-ph/1/galaxy+merging/0/1/0/past,all/0/0 www-admin@xxx.lanl.gov ...

NMW survey overview . Access image archive . ... The New Milky Way survey aims to detect bright (V<13.5) optical transients near the Galactic plane using an automated wide-field (8x6 deg.) system capable of surveying the whole Milky Way area visible from the observing site in one night. ... All images obtained during the transient search survey are available online (please use the image archive access form ). ... Images per field: . ... Images per night: . ... Milky Way imaging time: . ...

... Liyong Liu (NAOC) . Site testing on seeing conditions of the astronomical observatories over China are briefly reviewed, including Xionglong station of NAOC, Gaomeigu station of Yunnan Observatory, Delingha station of Purple Mountain Observatory. ... PDF [3.0€аMB] October 8, 09:55 10:20 . ... In this paper, we will review the site survey activities in the past years, and present the site-testing results on the Oma site, including cloud cover, seeing, water vapor, transparency and sky brightness. ...

... Have you wondered which search method is best suited to discover supernovae? Supernova hunter Michael Schwartz, from Oregon, USA, has made some number crunching on recent SN discoveries. Some of his statistics and comments are in these and following pages. ... The following are some simple statistics describing three different type of search: . ... For each method we show two statistics. They show the number of supernovae discovered by galaxy magnitude and by supernovae magnitude. ...

Peremennye Zvezdy", . ... Min . ... 2MASS J16480306-6715178 . ... The variable star catalogued as ASAS 164802 6715.2 by Pojmanski (2002) was found to display two types of eclipsing variability by Pilecki and Szczygiel (2007). ... The comparison stars (identified in the finding chart) used were: . ... The data for Star A and B has been obtained using Comp Star 2 between HJD 2455709.956 and 2455710.089 and between 2455718.005 and 2455718.096. All other data was obtained using Comp Star 1. ...

... ISC Kosmotras . ... Dnepr launch record 17 August 2011. ... A Ministerial Committee (hereinafter the Committee) chaired by a member of the Russian Academy of Sciences Nikolay A. Anfimov has been set up by the state authorities of Russia to investigate the cause of the Dnepr LV mission failure. ... The conclusions made by the Committee were delivered to the State Committees of Russia and Kazakhstan established with the aim to investigate the Dnepr launch failure consequences. ... Mission profile . ...

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Comment on the International Jubilee Symposium . ... The usefulness of the Internet as a method of holding international meetings without the expense of travel is also clear, but this new medium is not yet well established in this role. ... How can we move on with international cooperation in the World Wide Web era? I would like to suggest that NASA's Planetary Data System is a good model. ... At the same time, much might be done with older images, by scanning prints to create new digital files. ...

Альтернативный форум . Scientific.ru Все форумы . ... Time (@) - 13.04.2007 09:15 . Re: Anisotropy in the Hubble constant as observed in the HST Extragalactic Distance Scale Key Project results . x203a; x203a; x203a; в ответ на: Anisotropy in the Hubble constant as observed in the HST Extragalactic Distance Scale Key Project results Котофеич . ... Re: Anisotropy in the Hubble constant as observed in the HST Extragalactic Distance Scale Key Project results Котофеич, 13.04.2007 13:37 . ...

. This is a new popup window - close it when you are done . Submitted by Bernie Volz on 11/23/2014 13:45:01 . Mauna Kea Visitor Center - Solar Observing . Solar observing at the Mauna Kea Visitor Center in Hawaii. Pictures taken by Bernie Volz using Nikon D5100 with Nikon DX AF-S Nikkor 18-200mm 1:3.5-5.6 G ED lens. Logon to post a follow-up comment or review comments from others . Copyright (c) Amateur Telescope Makers of Boston, Inc. About Us Contact Us

. An example of ULF electromagnetic fields detection by the IESP-2M instrument. The figure presented is the dynamic spectrogram. E and B components are measured in satellite coordinates. Observations were made in the auroral region. Electromagnetic turbulence, which was observed mostly in electric components, is typical for this phenomenon. Fig.1 .

Observatory, 125, 23­24, 2005 NEGATIVE REPORT OF OCCULTATION BY THE D-TYPE ASTEROID (773) IRMINTRAUD By Apostolos Christou and Mark Bailey Armagh Observatory An unusual negative observation is reported of the predicted occultation of the star HIP 186 by (773) Irmintraud on the morning of 21 July 2004. ... This provides a constraint on the asteroid's position at the time of the event. ... References (1) R. L. Millis, D. W. Dunham, "Precise measurements of asteroid sizes and shapes from occultations". ...

... Recent Topics . ... MAO main . ... Fw: ASTRONET: Task 5.4 - observing schools . ... Subject: Re: ASTRONET: Task 5.4 - observing schools . ... second half of September, and which will be funded by the training and . ... www.iap.fr/opticon/neon_schools/2014/index.html . ... intended for master and starting PhD students. ... actions on observing schools, providing access for students, Master . ... observing schools for master students. ... in form of observing schools for pre-PhD students. ... MAO NASU...

Contents. planet: 5 - Jupiter satellites: J1 - Io : 81, J2 - Europa : 24, J3 - Ganymede :129, J4 - Callisto : 36 total number: 270 type: relative dates: 1996-1997 observatory: see observatories list in the comments Reference. Emelianov N. V., Vashkovjak S. N. (2009) Astrometric results of the observations of the mutual occultations and eclipses of the Galilean satellites of Jupiter in 1997. ... X coordinate in arcseconds (topocentric for mutual occultation or heliocentric for mutual eclipse) 10. ...

ON THE IMPACT OF THE GALACTIC ABERRATION ON VLBI-DERIVED PRECESSION MODEL Z.M. MALKIN Pulkovo Observatory Pulkovskoe Ch. ... Corrections to adopted precession rate are usually computed from the linear trends in long-term time series of celestial pole offset (CPO), which are the differences between the measured and the theoretical coordinates of the celestial pole. ... CONCLUSIONS We have estimated the impact of GA on parameters of precession-nutation model derived from VLBI observations. ...