Contents and Select Excerpts . ... Spring 2008 . This page contains the table of contents and select excerpts only and is not a complete reproduction of this issue. Complete content for online Mercury is available to ASP members and institutional subscribers . ... Sharing Astronomy with the World, Mike Simmons . Astronomy connects us in a way no other science can. ... GLAST: Exploring the Extreme Universe, Robert Naeye and David J. Thompson . ... Editorial, Paul Deans . ...

... Beautiful Nebula discovered between the Balance [Libra] the Serpent [Serpens] ..." begins the description of the 5th entry in 18th century astronomer Charles Messier's famous catalog of nebulae and star clusters. ... South Pole Star Trails . ... The Milky Way Over Monument Valley . ... Curiosity Before Mars: Seven Minutes of Terror . ... In the center of star-forming region 30 Doradus lies a huge cluster of the largest, hottest, most massive stars known. ... Pink Aurora Over Crater Lake . ...

... The procedure of radiometer signal integration can be considered as a sort of reducing dimension of the initial sampling space, where the samples are the result of analog-to-digital conversion. ... The probability distribution of the signal and spikes is completely known. ... The quality of the considered algorithm could be also illustrated by Figure 2 . ... One could see the considered adaptive algorithm is preferable even by low degree of compression, because all spikes have been depressed. ...

For calculating model spectra of early-type helium stars in LTE, we maintain a database of atomic data for, mostly, blue-visual absorption lines of light elements. The data is sorted with one file for each ion. ... III = ++ . ... It will work on both complete linelists (including the atomic data at the start and references at the end) or raw ion files (such as Ni2.d). ... A Fortran utility to convert linelists downloaded from the Vienna Atomic Line Database into the new QUB format. synspec_qub . ...

Description and Technical Details . In 1980s two medium-size horizontal solar telescopes 50/35000 cm with large spectrographs Czerny-Turner made by Carl Zeiss Jena were installed in the Ondњejov observatory. The Czerny-Turner-spectrographs in the Ondњejov observatory called HSFA1 and HSFA2 according to the German name Horizontal-Sonnen-Forschungs-Anlage ("horizontal device for solar research") have been explored for more than two decades. ... Diffraction grating - Richardson, Spectra-Physics . ...

Nickolai Copernic: "making the Sun stop, pushing the Earth". ... The aim of Copernic's investigations is improving the calculating schemes. ... In heliocentric system appeared an opportunity of calculating real proportions of Solar system using the radius of the Earth's orbits as an astronomical unit. Copernic's book "About Rotation of Celestial Bodies" contains a discription of astronomical devices as well as a new more exact catalogue of stable stars. ...

This Directory contains mean hour values of geomagnetic field components at observatories in Russia and other repub- lic of Former Soviet Union (FSU). The List of these observatories has indication of Data Years. ... Files are prepared in the DOS format. The Format for mean values follows after this list of the geomagnetic observatories. ... 21-116 24I4 24 4-digit hourly mean values for the day. ... If any of the hourly mean values for the day are missing 9999 will appear as the daily mean. ...

... FTP access the basic models is here . ... Below, we put short descriptions of the used SED models for the photometric redshifts providing by the current server . ... The uniqueness of this model consists in expanding to the near IR (NIR) of Rocca-Volmerange and Guiderdoni's (1988) atlas of synthetic spectra with a revised stellar library, which includes parameters of cool stars. ... Homepage of the GISSEL model). ... Another model used earlier is the model of synthetic spectra of Poggianti (1997). ...

... R. E. Jackson . ... H.-M. Adorf . ... D. C. Wells . ... AstroWeb is a World Wide Web (WWW) interface to a collection of Internet accessible resources aimed at the astronomical community. ... The goal of AstroWeb is to be the most complete, up to date, and useful listing of Internet accessible astronomical resources available anywhere. ... Jackson, Wells, and Adorf noticed that they and others had created largely overlapping lists of Astronomical resources. ...

Frob enius endomorphisms of linear spaces Alexander E. Guterman My research interests are in ring theory, linear algebra and combinatorics. In particular, I investigate transformations on matrices over different algebraic structures, preserving some matrix properties, sets or invariants. ... I was investigating monotone matrix transformations and developed method of matrix deformations and chain method in order to classify monotone linear and additive transformations on matrices. ...

grdvolume - Calculating volume under a surface within a contour grdvolume grdfile [ -C cval or -C low / high / delta ] [ -L base ] [ -R west / east / south / north [ r ] ] [ -S [ k ] ] [ -T ] [ -V [ l ] ] [ -Z fact [/ delta ] ] grdvolume reads a 2-D binary grd file and calculates the volume contained between the surface and the plane specified by the given contour (or zero if not given). ... Alternatively, search using all contours from low to high in steps of delta . ... Default is no scaling]. ...

Polarization of L-Narrow . ... A memo written by Carl Heiles, et.al (and available here ) gives a complete description of the Mueller matrices used and the results. On this page a summary of the L-Narrow results are given. The LBN system uses a turnstile for its orthomode transducer, which is a relatively narrow-band device; it is tuned to give good dual circular near 1420 MHz, but as one departs from this frequency the polarization becomes dual elliptical. ... Figure 1. ...

Data Processing . S2 or VLBA tapes containing the astronomical data recorded at tracking stations and ground radio telescopes must be sent to correlation center chosen by the principal investigator (PI). ... There are four correlators, which will be able to process RadioAstron data: DRAO S2-correlators in Canada, NRAO VLBA-correlator in USA, and Mitaka correlator in Japan. ... Data and Phase Links . Ground Support of the RadioAstron . ... Progress of the RadioAstron Project in Pictures . ...

... Comments, Opinions Publications Dnepr Program . Dnepr launch record 17 August 2011. Cluster Launch of Dnepr LV 22 August 2013 KOMPSAT-5 Launch 21 November 2013. Dnepr Cluster Mission 2013 19 June 2014. Dnepr Cluster Mission 2014 6 November 2014. ... Mission profile SHM configuration Reliability Dnepr LV Performance Launch Sites . Baikonur Cosmodrome Yasny launch base Downloads . ... Preparations for the Dnepr-DubaiSat-1 launch are well progressing at Baikonur Cosmodrome. ...

... Behemoth black hole found in an unlikely place . ... black holes . ... Distance measurement is key to producing first "complete description" of a black hole . ... For the first time, astronomers have produced a complete description of a black hole, a concentration of mass so dense that not even light can escape its powerful gravitational pull. ... That movement, the scientists said, is too slow for the black hole to have been produced by a supernova explosion. ...

... ADC_Keywords: Galaxy catalogs ; Nonstellar objects Description: NGC 2000.0 is a modern compilation of the New General Catalogue of Nebulae and Clusters of Stars (NGC), the Index Catalogue (IC), and the Second Index Catalogue compiled by J. L. E. Dreyer (1888, 1895, 1908). ... The order of the new catalog is strictly by right ascension, the NGC and IC objects being merged into one machine-readable file. ... The book also contains a table of right ascensions for NGC and IC objects. ...

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... 8, ``Celestial Mechanics'', 2002 Canon of solar eclipses in Russia for the interval 1000--2050 M. V. Lukashova, L. I. Rumjantseva Institute of Applied Astronomy, St. Petersburg, Russia Solar eclipses are quite rare events. ... The Canon contains the basic data about the solar eclipses observed in ter­ ritory of the former USSR (in boundaries of 1990) from 1000 to 2050 with the magnitude of phase exceeding 0.1. ... Beginning from 1887 several canons of solar eclipses were published. ...

... About meteorites . ... Meteorite Shirokovsky . ... The meteorite fell on the frozen Shirokovsky reservoir situated on the Kosva River near the village of Shirokovsky and the cities of Ugle-Uralsk and Kizel. ... Two slices were transferred to the Vernadsky Institute for study and research. ... M.A. Nazarov, Vernadsky Inst. ... Furthermore, the Shirokovsky samples do not contain typical accessory phases of stony-iron meteorites, and the accessory phases are completely atypical for all meteorites. ...

I/199 Lick Northern Proper Motion Program: NPM1 Catalog (Klemola+ 1987) =============================================================================== = Lick Northern Proper Motion Program: NPM1 Catalog Klemola A.R., Hanson R.B., Jones B.F. <Astron. ... Positions are given for equinox B1950 and computed epoch 1950. ... Other data given for each star are: the original mean epoch, a stellar class code, the number of NPM fields measured, and discrepancy flags for position, proper motion, and photometry. ...