... Behemoth black hole found in an unlikely place . ... black holes . ... Observing springtime deep-sky objects with a large telescope . ... Could large numbers of black holes account for much of the "dark matter" estimated to exist in our universe? ... NASA, ESA, M.J. Jee and H. Ford (Johns Hopkins University) No, because the universe never had the raw material to grow enough black holes to account for current estimates of dark matter. Get instant access to subscriber content on Astronomy.com! ...

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. ...

... Planets . ... The planets were found using the HARPS instrument on the 3.6m telescope at ESOтАЩs La Silla Observatory. ... A planet in orbit around a star causes the star to regularly move towards and away from observers on Earth. ... One newly discovered planet, HD 85512 b, is best hope found so far for a habitable exoplanet. ... The HARPS team so far have found that about 40% of stars similar to own Sun have at least one planet smaller than Saturn (which is 95 times more massive than Earth). ...

... Co-ordinate systems description . Directories structure . The file names' construction . The file set description . ... The orbital information for each month is presented in the separate directory. The INTERBALL orbital data are located on the STDA server, for each month in the separate subdirectory, which name consists from the year (YYYY) and month (MM) numbers. The Parent Directory of the Tail Probe orbital data is http://www.iki.rssi.ru/da/interball/tail/orbit/ . ...

... **********************************************/ #include stdio.h #include stdlib.h /* ANSI Standard only */ int verbose = 0; /* verbose mode (default = false) */ char *out_file = print.out ; /* output filename */ char *program_ name ; /* name of the program (for errors) */ int line_max = 66; /* number of lines per page */ main(int argc , char * argv []) { void do_file ( char *); /* print a file */ ...

XPA access points are composed of two parts: a general class and a specific name. ... When clients communicate with XPA access points, they specify which access points to communicate with using an identifier of the form: class:name All registered XPA access points that match the specified identifier will be available for communication (subject to access control rules, etc.) ... These socket identifiers are displayed as the fourth argument in the xpans display of registered access points. ...

Next: Program use Up: Description of program searchdup Previous: Description of program searchdup . Parameter input is done with a graphic user interface. ... Input file: Name of the input catalog file. It has to be formatted, one record per source/observation, according to the format used in the Arcetri observations and source archives. ... Minimum number of observations per source Source with less than this number of independent observations are not included in the output file . ...

SIMPLE = T / file does conform to FITS standard BITPIX = -32 / number of bits per data pixel NAXIS = 2 / number of data axes NAXIS1 = 1138 / length of data axis 1 NAXIS2 = 1114 / length of data axis 2 TELESCOP= 'UT1 ' PI-COI = 'C. Cesarsky' / Name of PI and COI ORIGIN = 'ESO/EIS ' / Data processed by RA = 53.0917713808546 / RA (J2000) at start (deg). ... RADECSYS= 'FK5 ' / Coordinate reference frame. ... TOT-IMAG= 125 / Total number of images. ... MOSTILES= 21 / Total number of tiles in MOSAICID. ...

Numbering Procedures for APO 2.5m and 3.5m Drawings and Engineering/Drafting Documents . ... Document part numbers are to consist of a 7 character long "base numbe,r" which is coded to provide information about the part's intended first use. The part number becomes complete and unique only with the addition of a revision number. ... Example of a "base number": 25CSA01 . ... PART NUMBER CONVENTION . ... For Example: . ... R = "Revision" . ... Questions contact Larry Carey/University of Washington ...

The ultimate load . ... During next several days project “Send your name to Mars” ( http://spacekids.hq.nasa.gov/2003 ) will stop taking names. The last day will be on November 15, 2002. ... Step 1 . ... Write your name, mark time and click the button “add my name”. ... Please write down time and certificate number exacting it can be in its last days. ... Calculate the difference between End and Start time (in minutes), and the difference between your last and first Certificate’s Number. ...

Please fill in your PIN number and then your vote, by selecting buttons next to individuals names, and then click on the Submit button. What you fill in the little box should be your 4 digit PIN number. Please remember that you will only be allowed to vote once so you need to get it correct the first time. You register your vote by clicking on a button in front of each name. ... We are voting on the Personnel Committee: . ... Instructions: Please vote for 1 of the individuals listed below. ...

OptInt PmWiki : Pm Wiki / Basic Variables . ... Defaults to 'AsSpaced'. ... Defaults to 'Profiles'. ... If {$FullName} is "Group.Page-Draft" then {$BaseName} is "Group.Page" $BaseNamePatterns['/-Draft$/'] = ''; # If {$FullName} is "Comments-Group.Page" then {$BaseName} is "Group.Page" $BaseNamePatterns['/^Comments-/'] = ''; . ... WikiGroup used by default (on startup) when no group is specified in the URL, as in "Main". ... Can be used to override the default date format used by the "ftime" function. ...

... First Name: Middle: Last Name: . ... Contact Email: . ... Each year, we publish our membership list with the name, city, email and home phone number of each opt-in member and distribute the list to the club membership. ... Display your name in the club list: . ... Display your phone number in the club list: . ... Display your email in the club list: . ... Display your city in the club list: . ... Sky Telescope Magazine ($32.95 for one year) . ... Copyright (c) Amateur Telescope Makers of Boston, Inc...

Общая Астрономическая Конференция > Практика > Астрономические наблюдения > Новые веяния в МРС . ... Просмотр полной версии : Новые веяния в МРС . ... 30 (MPC 43801-43802), . ... While the naming of minor planets has great popular appeal, it is clear . ... Returning to the matter of MPC funding, one MPML contributor remarked that . the MPC should make a competitive proposal for funding at a national level in . ... funding should be used to pay for the services the MPC supplies to amateur . ...

Stellarium 0.12.3 . ... Classes . ... FileљStructure . ... StelLocation Class Reference . Store the informations for a location on a planet. More... #include < StelLocation.hpp > . QStringљ . ... Output the location as a string ready to be stored in the user_location file. ... createFromLine (const QString &line) . ... Definition at line 26 of file StelLocation.hpp . ... line . ... Output the location as a string ready to be stored in the user_location file. int StelLocation::altitude . ...

XPA version: 2.1.15 exposure: exposure on/off [time] file: file basename filter: filter number instrument: instrument name interrupt: interrupt mode: mode single/focus/multi multicount: multicount number number: image number process: process on/off region: region on/off [ds9/clear/select x y w h] relay: relay mask time status: on/off target: target name telescope: telescope name temperature: temperature setpoint type: type light/dark/bias/flat

... All angular values are expressed in degrees. ... But those who have the facilities for high-speed photometry could try to observe these phenomena. h m ° ° ° ° 2016 April 1 18 51.0 84.9 57.4 345 20 168378 1997 ET30; 17.8 ; 1.7 km; 7.2; 0.47s 18 58.0 67.3 45.6 325 26 U2 027489793 ; 10.6;14h06m06.171s;-12°01'21.53 19 05.0 49.6 38.1 307 22 2016 April 10 22 10.4 106.6 -31.2 311 75 297274 1996 SK; 20.3; 1.7 km; ...

... Irreducible and full set of independent orthogonal dimensionless parameters in the `velocity normalised basis' Symbol M Ma Name Mach number Magnetic Mach ( Mach ­ AlfvИn) Strouhal Trieste numbers ( set ) Velocity-emission Formula / Definition Signifiance Temperature Governing MHD equations with dissipation and radiation v v c s S V vt x Magnetic ... DOI: 10.1016/j.asr.2005.03.084 ...

... Our scientific interest is an accuracy of asteroid CCD observations obtained by amateurs and professional astronomers all over in the World. ... These data help us to analyse an accuracy of real CCD positions in the MPC Database. ... Do you test your observations of the small Solar System bodies permanently before sending them to the International Minor Planets' Center? ... Do you know a real accuracy of your positional CCD-observations in comparison with the other observatories' one ? ...

JSC scientists have their names in the stars By Cathy Watson and Kendra Ceule M arilyn Lindstrom is #5281, David McKay is #6111 and Mike Zolensky is #6030. ... Several past and present Johnson Space Center employees have been among those people honored with asteroid names, including the following: Don Bogard: asteroid name `Bogard,' #4794 Bogard, Chief Scientist for Research on Astromaterials for the Astromaterials Research and Exploration Science (ARES) office, has worked at JSC since 1968. ...