... Calibration and analysis of this observation posed very interesting challenges for the authors, in particular dealing with an exciting new instrument whose on-orbit calibration was not yet well defined. ... Five mosaic positions were observed during five consecutive orbits as well as observations for dark and flat calibration. ... Darks and flats had to be created from contemporaneous reference observations and problems within the calibration process had to be resolved. ...

... 2002 February 4 . Comet LINEAR (WM1) Shines in the South . ... Explanation: A new comet has brightened unexpectedly and is currently visible to unaided observers of southern skies. Comet C/2000 WM1 (LINEAR) is now reported by some observers to be at third magnitude , making it brighter -- although more diffuse -- than most visible stars. ... Pictured above is the center of Comet LINEAR (WM1) taken the morning of February 1 from 300 km north of Sydney, Australia . ... About APOD | ...

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ARCSAT ID NUMBER: AS04 DESCRIPTIVE TITLE: Stellar Environments of the Nearest Red Dwarfs PI: Michele Silverstein (GSU) OBSERVER(S): Michele Silverstein (GSU), Todd Henry (GSU) and Tiffany Pewett (GSU) UNCERTIFIED/UNTRAINED OBSERVERS: COLLABORATORS: Wei-Chun Jao (GSU) and Jen Winters (GSU) CONTACT INFORMATION: (PI/OBSERVER email/phone) silverstein@astro.gsu.edu (404-413-6024), thenry@astro.gsu.edu (404-413-6054) TIME REQUESTED: 1. NOVEMBER 10 - NOVEMBER 16 2. ...

Astronomy Picture of the Day . ... In February 1987, light reached Earth from a star which exploded in the nearby Large Magellanic Cloud galaxy. ... Galaxy Cluster A2199 . ... In fact, it is a close, large cluster of galaxies, containing several thousands of galaxies centered around a central dominant galaxy. ... Black Hole Signature From Advective Disks . ... If alone, a black hole would indeed appear quite black, but many black hole candidates are part of binary star systems. ...

... In order to compare the number of different evolutionary stages obtained and X-ray luminosity of the chosen X-ray sources with the observed galactic values we use the sum of C/O+O/C , where C and O are the calculated and observed values of a given binary type, respectively. If we make comparison for a number of different binary species (for example, we compare the number of CV, number of X-ray pulsars,   total X-ray luminosity of LMXB, etc.), we write this criterion in the form: . ...

Twilight observations with MASS/DIMM B. Safonov Sternberg Astronomical Institute Moscow State University Comprehensive Characterization of Astronomical Sites, 2010 B. Safonov (Moscow State University) Twilight observations with MASS/DIMM SITE 2010 1 / 17 Why observe in twilight with MASS/DIMM? ... ASM includes 3 devices sensitive to background: guider, DIMM and MASS. B. Safonov (Moscow State University) Twilight observations with MASS/DIMM SITE 2010 2 / 17 Background in guider. ...

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... Currently, there is very little information on comets which are active beyond the orbit of Jupiter. ... Previous observations conducted by our team with the SAO RAS 6-m telescope showed that some of these comets have extended tails dissimilar to the tails of comets forming at close heliocentric distances. ... We for the first time measured the linear polarization of scattered emission for the two distant comets C/2010 S1 (LINEAR) and C/2010 R1 (LINEAR) at heliocentric distances of 5.9-7.0 au. ...

THE RELATIVE MONTHLY MEAN SUNSPOT NUMBER ON FEBRUARY 2014 HAS MADE W feb.= 102.8, THAT GIVES FOR 61 MONTH (2013, JULY) DEVELOPMENT CURRENT 24 CYC- LES OF SOLAR ACTIVITY THE SMOOTHED MONTHLY MEAN SUNSPOT NUMBER W*june = 69.0 THE BEGINNING 24 CYCLES OF SOLAR ACTIVITY - I 2009 with W*=1.8 THE MOST PROBABLE TIME OF THE MAXIMUM OF THE CURRENT CYCLE- XI.2013 - I 2014 THE MOST PROBABLE HEIGHT OF THE MAXIMUM - Wmax = 68 - 75. ... 170.3 THE MONTHLY MEAN OF GEOMAGNETIC Ap-index ON 2014, FEBRUARY Ap feb.= ...

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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): . ...

The Wind spacecraft. ... It was designed to observe the solar wind approaching Earth, from a position near the Lagrangian point L1, and it is part of the International Solar-Terrestrial Physics (ISTP) Initiative . ... The original plan called for "Wind" to approach its final station over two years, undergoing two close encounters with the Moon to boost its speed. ... For additional details and updates, see the home page of the "Wind" mission. Exploration" home page (index) Glossary . ...

Verkhoglyadova O.P., V.N. Ivchenko, K. Kudela, M. Slivka, V.N. Lutsenko, S.A. Romanov "Approach to identification of the tail plasma regimes using INTERBALL-1 data" // Czech. ... Yermolaev "Observation of vortical motions and compressional waves in the dawn low-latitude sheet" // Journal of Technical Physics, 1999, v.XL, No 1, p.325-328. ... Martiushov V. "A point explosion inside a cavity with power-law density distribution" // 6 th Open Young Scientists' Conference on Astronomy and Space Physics. ...

... Modern aspects of statistical physics and its applications. The seminar welcomes survey talks by senior researchers for the student audience and, more importantly, talks by students of undergraduate and graduate level on their research in progress. ... Olga STETIUKHINA, MSU Math. ... Anna BODROVA, MSU Physics Dept : Size distribution of particles in the rings of Saturn . ... Misha TAMM, MSU Physics Dept : A queue model (continued) . ... Misha TAMM, MSU Physics Dept : A queue model . ...

This section of AMPLE provides a means for identification of minor planets. ... Due to special organization of the package, AMPLE permits the identification to be reliable fulfilled THROUGHOUT the TITLE YEAR. ... In such cases the result of identification depends on where the nearest opposition of inspected planet is situated, within basic interval lasted from November of preceding year to February of subsequent one or without it. ...