... 248, 2007 W. J. Jin, I. Platais & M. A. C. Perryman, eds. c 2008 Intern atio nal A stro nom ical U nion doi:10.1017/S1743921308018838 A compiled catalogue of reference stars around the selected ERS in the northern sky V. P. Ryl'kov1 , N. Narizhna ja1 , A. Dement'eva1 , N. Maigurova2 , G. I. Pinigin2 and Y. I. Protsyuk2 1 Main Astronomical Observatory of RuAS, MAO RuAS, Russia email: vryl@gao.spb.ru; 2 Nikolaev Astronomical Observatory, NAO, Ukraine email: pinigin@mao.nikolaev.ua Abstract. ... Pul...

... While "First Light" was achieved at the second 8.2-m VLT Unit Telescope (UT2) ahead of schedule, UT1 produced its sharpest image so far. ... It had long been ESO's intention to provide "real" names to the four VLT Unit Telescopes, to replace the current, somewhat dry and technical designations as UT1 to UT4. ... The participants were left with the impression of mounting expectations, just four weeks before the first VLT Unit Telescope, Antu (UT1), will receive the first visiting astronomers. ...

This is an artist's concept of a red dwarf star undergoing a powerful eruption, called a stellar flare. ... Studying the light from 215,000 older red dwarfs collected in observations by NASA's Hubble Space Telescope, astronomers found 100 stellar flares popping off over the course of a week. ...

Follow-up astrometry and recoveries are made with the ANU 40 inch (1.0-m) f/8 reflector at Siding Spring Observatory (IAU code 413). ... A routine follow-up of 2003 WY153 on 2003 Dec 15 became much more than routine when a faint object with unusual motion vector was found close to the target asteroid. ... During routine astrometry with the 1.0-m to improve the orbit of the Apollo asteroid 2004 CB, the asteroid was found on March 30 to have a short tail! ... Siding Spring Survey Main Page . ...

THE MAIN FIELDS OF MY INTEREST ARE RELATIVISTIC GRAVITATION AND COSMOLOGY . ... The first one is cosmology more precisely the anisotropy of the CMBR (Cosmic Microwave Background Radiation) . In the last paper devoted to the mapping of the CMBR and search for anisotropy we announced the observation of the signal (Strukov et al., ... We discuss the opportunity of explanation of the current observational data in the framework of this hypothesis. ... Some of my papers I devoted to the phenomena. ...

... V.N. Obridko . ... Local fields . ... Large Scale Magnetic Fields . Solar cycle . ... Solar magnetic fields . ... On the energy release by magnetic field dissipation in the solar atmosphere . Solar Physics, 1968, 5, 354-358 . ... Proc. 9th European Meeting on Solar Physics "Magnetic Fields and Solar Processes", Florence, Italy, 12-18 September 1999 (ESA SP-448, December 1999), pp. ... Some fractal properties of solar magnetic fields . ... Some structural properties of solar magnetic fields . ...

Restoration of the vector velocity field of NGC 157 are based on the observations at 6-m telescope of Special Astrophysical Observatory RAS in 1995. ... The data reductions (phase recalibration, flatfielding, velocity calculations etc.) were made by using software ADHOC developed in the Marseille Observatory. ... This figure is produced with the help of software VORTEX developed in the Institute of Astronomy of the Russian Academy of Sciences. ...