... He was born in Cholmogory - a village where one generation before him saw the first Russian observatory and Lomonosov was able to use the angle gaude. ... But the atmosphere of Venus was so "rich" that no only during four last years of Lomonosov's life, but even two centuries after his death the astronomers didn't go far away from his investigations. 200 years exactly after "the star year" of Lomonosov in 1961 the Soviet spaceship - the first in the world went to Venus. ...

... Today this year's largest group of sunspots will cross the Sun's central meridian. ... The next day, the number of spots in the group reached five, and the day after, on June 2nd, it was possible to count thirteen sunspots on solar disk, which had been clear prior to this. ... This year's two most powerful active areas, which passed across the solar disk at the beginning of May, 2009, are set to appear in the Sun's eastern sector in two days, on June 6th. ...

... The use of the parameters for the source and background extraction areas requires some care. ... In order to avoid these variations and to obtain a uniform combined light curve, it is better to use a fixed radius for the source extraction area for all the exposures in the ODF. ... Changing srcradius parameter one should also properly esablish the background extraction area setting bkginner and bkgouter parameters (see description of the parameters). ...

Seven months ago, on Mar 19, 2008, at 09:12 Moscow time, a new star appeared on the sky. The Sun had already risen over the Russia, but people of the Western hemisphere might be able to see by their eyes a faint starlet near one of Bootes constellation stars. This starlet appeared and faded by an order of magnitude in a minute. Astronomers named it GRB080319B or, informally, the Naked-Eye Burst, as it was twice as bright as human eye can see a star. ... Royal Astronomical Society . ...

Solar Large-Scale Chains: Some Events . ... The chains appear to light up separators or quasi-separatrix layers between different interacting large-scale magnetic flux systems in the global solar magnetosphere and, in particular, to outline large-scale coronal structures involved in the CME process. ... Some features of the chains and their relations to CMEs are illustrated for a number of halo CME-associated events. 23 events of 1997-2000 . ... Halo-CME-associated events of November 1997 . ...

... For spectra a transformation from wavelength to frequency is used to identify spectral regions which follow a power law. This transformation is given by . ... Whereas the transforms mentioned above only perform a non--linear rebinning of the data, the Fourier transform converts a spatial image into the frequency domain. ... As an example of using Fourier transforms to extract information from a frame, an azimuthal intensity profile of the spiral galaxy A0526--16 is shown in Figure . ...

... part 1 | ... The Basic Stages in Earth's Pre-geological Development . ... After fragments of the Vortex sleeves separated, whirlwinds of second and third orders ("NC" - new micro-vortex) were generated- future planet cores and their satellites - all of them developing independently, governed by the common laws of development of cosmogenic vortexes. ... Our planet's core today is comprised of considerably deteriorated cosmogenic vortex; consequently, the Earth has a moderated magnetic field. ...

Next: Gravitational Wave Background from Previous: Galactic Gravitational Wave Background . ... It is intuitively clear that at frequencies above the critical ones for our Galaxy, one will detect rare bright jerks produced by coalescing white dwarfs   (at a rate of 1 per 100 year) and NS (at a rate of 1 per - year) in our Galaxy, against a background of the extragalactic stochastic GW. ... Firstly we consider GWB from close individual galaxies, and then will discuss overall extragalactic GWB. ...

User has a possibility to add new string (row) with observed data to the table, to insert string between existing ones, to edit observed data or to delete some strings. To add string select task item in menu bar ( O – C , Identification, Plates, or Observatories ) and then Add String in drop-down menu. ... Marked strings will disappear. ... To select a place for inserting just mark some string, select Paste item in drop-down menu, and block copy appears above this string. ...

Star Party Reports There were so many good reports of star parties this month supplement. ... As can be seen fro m school children really do appreciate our Morey School Star Party Over 100 school children, grades 1st thru 4th, enjoyed the the fifth annual Morey School Star Party on Tuesday, February 15th. ... Jack Drobot Butler Middle School Star Party We finally got a break with the weather to participate at the Butler Middle School Star Party on Wednesday, March 30th. ...

The TSpec SlitViewer window controls the TripleSpec slitviewer. Most of the controls are standard guiding controls . ... Bkgnd Sub status and control of automatic background subtraction: . The first field shows the current state (Off or On). Off turns off background subtraction. On / New turns on background subtraction (if off) or takes a new background image (if on). X cancels the current Off, On or New command. ... This field is only visible when background subtraction is on. ...

... Circumstellar disc of beta Pictoris: constraints on grain properties from polarization. To appear in the Astronomy & Astrophysics . abs , src , ps ] . ... Dust influx to Titan from Hyperion . ... abs ] . ... Characteristics of bulges and disks in interacting galaxies . ... Dust grains around Herbig Ae/Be stars: porous, cometary-like grains? ... To appear in the Astronomy & Astrophysics Supplement . ... Finally, Links may lead you to more options (e.g. via the LANL preprint system). ...

... Future seminars . ... The flows and pools on Mars" . L.V. Ksanfomaliti (IKI) . ... Proofs appear that the nature of extended dark formation on crater’s slopes and hills of Mars is connected with now existing sources of fluid water, disposed on declivities, and produced by its flows, rather then with moving the greater masses of dry sand (dust) or with rolling stones. ... Presence of greater spares of permafrost on Mars and conditions for its local melting to fluid phase is well known. ...