... NASA , NSF Explanation: Is our Earth unique? In continuing efforts to answer this question, astronomers have now discovered an Earth-like planet orbiting a distant normal star. ... Slight, fast, but regular wobbles of nearby small M - dwarf star Gliese 876 showed evidence for a planet with a likely mass slightly higher than a minimum six times the mass of Earth. ... Publications with keywords: planets - Earth - Gliese 876 . Publications with words: planets - Earth - Gliese 876 . ...

home news . SEARCH ASP SITE: Match ALL words Match ANY word . ... Beginning in 2005, all conference proceedings published by the ASP Conference Series during 2004, and all future volumes, will include full text electronic access. ... Visit the e-Books site for select free preview volumes . ... Organizers of upcoming conferences who wish more information about publishing their proceedings through the ASP Conference Series should contact Interim Managing Editor J. Ward Moody at jmoody@byu.edu . ...

... Natalya V. Raguzova and Sergei B. Popov . ... We present a compilative catalogue of Be/X-ray binaries and candidates in the Galaxy and in the Large and Small Magellanic Clouds. This catalogue contains 160 sources and provides information on names and spectral types of optical components, distances, on spin characteristics of neutron stars, and on orbital and X-ray properties of binary systems. ... Be/X-Ray Binaries and candidates in the Galaxy . Galactic sources: comments to the Table 1 . ...

... Top Attractions of Russia . ... We sincerely hope the situation will improve and we are planning to include these regions as soon as it becomes possible. ... Southern Urals (including Bashkir State Reserve) . ... Eastern Sayan Mountains (including Tunka Range) . ... Altai Mountains (including Lake Teletskoe, Altai State Reserve, Katun Range) . ... Sub-Polar and North Urals and virgin forests of North of European Russia (including Yugyd-Va National Park and Pechora-Ilych National Reserve) . ...

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... Monitor and Command Language . Data Structures . ... Data Exchange Format . Fitting of Data . Command Summary . ... CCD Reductions . ... Crowded Field Photometry . Long-Slit and 1D Spectra . Echelle Spectra . ... Test Data . Multivariate Analysis Methods . ... Time Series Analysis . PEPSYS general photometry package . ... The Data Organizer . ... Echelle Reduction . ... IRSPEC REDUCTION . Reduction of Long Slit and 1D Spectra . ... File Formats Required for Photometry . ...

... The material in "From Stargazers to Starships" meets several important requirements of the national standards. Pages cited below are from National Science Education Standards National Academy Press, Washington 1995. ... For example: the sections on astronomy not only describe calendars and sundials (including their construction), but also the astronomy of the ancient Greeks, including two different ways in which ancient Greeks estimated the distance to the Moon. ...

... Tiny Tim has been used for generating Hubble Space Telescope ( HST ) point-spread functions (PSFs) for deconvolution, algorithm testing, proposal planning, and optical studies. ... Tiny Tim is a stand-alone program for simulating HST PSFs as viewed with the on-board imaging cameras (WF/PC-1, WFPC2, FOC, COSTAR/FOC). ... The measured aberrations for FOC f/96, WF/PC-1 PC6, WFPC2, and COSTAR/FOC are used by Tiny Tim . ... Figure: FOC f/96 observed and Tiny Tim model PSFs (pre-COSTAR) at 253 nm. ...

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Supernovae 2016adj in NGC 5128 . This page is devoted to information on Supernova 2016adj in NGC 5128 (= Centarus A). ... Discovered by Peter Marples and Greg Bock ( BOSS ) (Australia). ... TNS 2016adj . TNS 2016adj spectra . ... 2016/01/20.000 . ... 2016/01/21.360 . ... 2016/01/22.329 . ... 2016/01/29.277 . ... Prediscovery . ... Prediscovery Color, Wow without inset Black and White version . ... Peter Marples and Greg Bock . ... Peter Marples . ... Back to Bright Supernovae - 2016 . ...

... Solar Flare Observations Using the X-ray Telescope on Hinode . ... The satellite Hinode (Solar-B), Japanese for sunrise, was launched in September 2006 on a mission to study the Sun, specifically, sunspots which give rise to powerful flares and solar storms. The origin of solar flares is a mystery scientists hope Hinode will help unravel. ... What drives solar flares and creates the Sun’s magnetic fields? ... 2017 Total Solar Eclipse . Copyright (c) Amateur Telescope Makers of Boston, Inc. ...

As it proposed by the Statutes/Regulations of the International Astronomy Olympiad, the first part of preparing application to participate in the coming IAO is presenting of a short report of National Astronomy Olympiad of the current year for the Advisory Committee. ... Date of receiving report from the country . ... July 18 - August 7 . ... August 31 . ... Date of receiving draft report (or not full report) . ... Date of receiving official application . ... Done after receiving ANRAO application) . ...

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Russian Space Science Internet (RSSI) is a successful result of RSSI Project. ... space oriented organizations; . ... RSSI offers for its members : . ... videoconferences via MBONE Internet protocol (there are 2 tunnels available now through the general IP network: one to NASA Internet, and another to Moscow State University); . ... It is designed so that all organizations connected to the RSSI gain access to the resources of Russian computer networks as well as world wide Internet. ... nic@rssi.ru ...

. My astronomical research interests center on galaxy structure and evolution. Current topics include: . Polar-ring and interacting galaxies (see also new catalogue ) . Galaxy warps: statistics, properties and origin . Spiral galaxies at z~1: radial and vertical structure of stellar disks, statistics of interactions . Surface photometry and kinematics, dynamical modeling . Observational cosmology . Joomla Counter since Sep 1997

... Iowa Robotic Telescope | ... Talon is based on OCAAS, a software suite developed by software engineer Elwood Downey ( Clear Sky Institute ) for use at the University of Iowa ?s first remote facility (the ATF, or Automated Telescope Facility). ... XObservatory : Telescope Control Interface . ... This program calls upon and coordinates much of the interrelated portions of the Talon architecture, and forms the primary control panel for the telescope, dome, and peripheral systems when used locally. ...

It is the first scientific module included in OS. SPC Energy developed it. Module Kvant was launched on March 31, 1987 by LV Proton-K from the launching pad Baikonur. At the launch the module consisted of two docked units: module Kvant itself and transportation and energy module (after docking with the OS was separated and sank in the Pacific Ocean). ... The original mix of the scientific equipment was aimed at the astrophysics investigations. ...

Dr. Phil Plait , aka "The Bad Astronomer" . ... Invited Talks and Testimonials . ... Dr. Plait has given talks about Bad (and good!) ... Dr. Plait can also give talks on almost any topic in astronomy given a few weeks notice (for example, for a talk at a science museum he created a talk about current astronomical satellites and the work they are doing to further scientific knowledge -- this talk is updated as new observatories are launched), and will be happy to talk to you about your needs . ...

... Therefore, the observatory supports educational events, occured in the SAO, including astronomical and astrophysical schools, lectures and excursions at the SAO's telescopes. ... Thursday 9-00 Breakfast 9-30 Opening of the School and Astronomical Olimpiad 10-15 Photo of particapants (near the SAO entrance) 10-30 Lecture about Specail Astrophysical observatory. Chentsov E.L. 13-30 Lunch 14-00 Excursion to historical places of Nizhnij Arkhyz 18-00 Dinner 19-00 Acquaintance evening. ...