... Advises . Contact Advises . As an advise for amateurs we would like to underline: if it's possible, try to observe 3 asteroid positions per night and do not neglect to observe the Numbered Minor Planets in your telescope field of view as a "by product" of your observational programs. ... We think such estimations ought to be produced every morning after CCD observations of the moving celestial objects by observer himself. ...

... The Science Operation Department is composed of Astronomers, Telescope Instruments Operators(TIOs) and Data Handling Administrators(DHAs). ... Astronomers have proposed several methods to quantitatively measure the amount of turbulence above the telescope, which the most common ones is Differential Image Motion Monitor (DIMM). In optical testing, the Hartmann test is the common method to test the quality of optical components. ... Hartmann mask consists of 48 lenses. ...

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... BDR FAX: (303) 497-6513 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- SELECTED GEOMAGNETIC AND SOLAR ACTIVITY INDICES ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- WORLDWIDE INDICES -------------------------------------------------------------- The subscript p means planetary and designates a global magnetic activity in- dex ... 13-14 I2 Kp or PLANETARY 3-HOUR RANGE INDEX for 0000 - 0300 UT. ...

... English astronomer and mathematician. ... American astronomer. ... Bond, William Cranch 1789-1859 . ... At the observatory, he studied Saturn and (with William Lassell ) discovered its moon Hyperion . ... Polish astronomer who advanced the heliocentric theory that the earth and other planets revolve around the Sun. ... Galileo Galilei 1564-1642 . ... Van Allen discovered the Earth's radiation belts, which now bear his name, with an instrument aboard the first successful American satellite, Explorer...

... English astronomer and mathematician. ... American astronomer. ... Bond, William Cranch 1789-1859 . ... At the observatory, he studied Saturn and (with William Lassell ) discovered its moon Hyperion . ... Polish astronomer who advanced the heliocentric theory that the earth and other planets revolve around the Sun. ... Galileo Galilei 1564-1642 . ... Van Allen discovered the Earth's radiation belts, which now bear his name, with an instrument aboard the first successful American satellite, Explorer...

... Starting in the 1400s astronomers erected large instruments here to enable them to measure star and planet positions with increasing accuracy. ... A new star, likely the brightest supernova in recorded human history, appeared in planet Earth's sky in the year 1006 AD. ... Alpha Centauri: The Closest Star System . ... The closest star system to the Sun is the Alpha Centauri system. Of the three stars in the system, the dimmest -- called Proxima Centauri -- is actually the nearest star. ...

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. ...

Weaving together Astronomy+Statistics+Computer Science+Engineering+Intrumentation, far beyond the growing borders . ... Archives . ... A postdoc job announcement from Prof. Joshua Bloom of UC Berkeley: . ... The starting salary will be commensurate with experience, and competitive with other postdoctoral positions. ... Tags: AstroStat , computer science , job announcement , job market , time series , UC Berkeley . ... Joseph Hilbe on [Jobs] postdoc position at UC Berkeley . ... Chandra Blog . ...

New reduction of minor planets photographic plates obtained with Pulkovo Normal Astrograph A.A. Berezhnoy Pulkovo Observatory of RAS, Saint-Petersburg, Russia Minor Planet observations at Pulkovo Periodical observations of 14 bright asteroids named Selected Minor Planets (SMP) were performed at Pulkovo since 1948 within the international framework started by works of B.V. Numerov and D. Brouwer. ... 108 133 113 74 124 67 97 88 14 84 64 5 20 19 Epochs (YYYY.MM) 1200 Mean values of total obs. ...

... 2000 October 19 . The Farthest Explosion Yet Measured . ... What is known is that satellites across our Solar System reported on 2000 January 31 a tremendous explosion of gamma rays had occurred towards some previously uninteresting direction. ... The VLT not only recorded an optical counterpart , shown above , but also was able to estimate that the cosmologically-induced redshift was an astonishing 4.5 -- placing GRB000131 farther across the universe than any explosion so measured. ...

Astronomy Terms - To Help You Study The Universe . Articles | ... Learning about the universe, or the study of astronomy, can be fun for the individual or for the whole family. ... Learning a few simple terms will help you with this fascinating study. ... You will use a telescope or binoculars for your observation of the sky at night. ... Celestial Terms . ... Meteor or a shooting star – the light caused when a meteoroid burns up in Earth's . ... www.astronomy.net . About Astronomy Net | ...

... Polarizer efficiency is defined as , where and are the respective measured signals for a polarizer oriented parallel and perpendicular to the axis of a fully polarized beam... angle 12.2 . Polarizer position angle as measured from the NICMOS Aperture Offset Angle of , about the aperture center toward the +U3 axis.. IDL 14.1 . IDL (Interactive Data Language) is an interactive analysis and visualization program written by Research Systems, Inc.... resolution. ...

... New Mexico State University is seeking a technical and computer-oriented person as a Support Astronomer for nighttime astronomical observing at Apache Point Observatory (APO) with the Astrophysical Research Consortium (ARC) 3.5m Telescope. б  . ... Paper/email documents will not be accepted. ... TELESCOPE OPERATIONS SPECIALIST . ... Responsibilities include nightly operation of the 3.5m telescope and instruments, Quality monitoring the data streams and system performance and observing efficiency. ...

Observation of the Sunyaev-Zel'dovich E ect toward CL0016+16 at 43 GHz M. Tsuboi et al. Ibaraki University, Japan We performed a mapping observation of the Sunyaev-Zel'dovich e ect toward a distant cluster of galaxies, CL0016+16, at 43 GHz using a newly developed 6-beam SIS receiver installed in the Nobeyama 45-m telescope. The temperature decrement of the cosmic microwave background radiation was measured to be
T  A = 0:490:05 mK at the central position of the cluster. ...

... Time calculated from Fermi GBM Trigger Time = 14:12:08.67 ( Connaughton, GCN 9230 ). 1% coincident with our start zero image time. 3x3 degrees around Swift XRT position . ... SUBJECT: GRB 090424 : MASTER-Net prompt optical limit DATE: 09/04/25 20:29:42 GMT FROM: Vladimir Lipunov at Moscow State U/Krylov Obs E. Gorbovskoy, V. Lipunov, V.Kornilov, A.Belinski ... Our observations results: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Fermi GRB Trigg.* ...

... Here comes the SKA. ... HI Gas and Star Formation neutral atomic hydrogen gas cloud (HI) molecular gas cloud (H2) star formation Redshift, Observing the Past The Expanding Universe Hubble`s Law redshift velocity related to distance ... (due to light travel time) Hubble`s Law redshift velocity related to distance distance related to age (due to light travel time) Atmospheric Transmission optical gamma rays, X-rays ultravio let infrared radio ...

DSS input form . The SuperCOSMOS Sky Survey . ... Pi of the Sky . The Sloan Digital Sky Survey . ... Extragalactic DataBase . ... SIMBAD Astronomical Database . ... Query form . ... The Two Micron All Sky Survey. ... The NRAO VLA Sky Survey . ... NIST Atomic Spectra Database (Lines Form) . ... The UVES Paranal Observatory Project . ... Rochester Astronomy . ... European Southern Observatory . European Astronomical Society . ... Astronomical Society of the Pacific . ... Sat24 BTA on line . ...

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