... The choice of which type of electricity is called "positive" and which "negative" was made around 1750 by Ben Franklin, early American scientist and man of many talents (the stamp on the left commemorates his role as first US postmaster--and colonial postmaster before that). ... Franklin knew of two types of electric charge, depending on the material one rubbed. ... Later, when electric batteries were discovered, scientists naturally assigned the direction of the flow of current to be from (+) to (-...

National Aeronautics and Space Administration . ... JOHN E. BLAHA (COLONEL, USAF, RET.) NASA ASTRONAUT (FORMER) . ... EDUCATION: Graduated from Granby High School in Norfolk, Virginia, in 1960; received a bachelor of science in engineering science from the United States Air Force Academy in 1965 and a master of science in astronautical engineering from Purdue University in 1966. ... NASA EXPERIENCE: Selected as an astronaut in May 1980, Blaha has logged 161 days in space on 5 space missions. ...

Peremennye Zvezdy", . ... GSC 4232-02515, NSVS 3147658, NSVS 3174760 . ... 14.2-14.9 (R, NSVS); . ... During observations of a secondary eclipse of GSC 04232-02830 (Goranskij et al., 2005) on August 8, 2007, we identified GSC 4232-02515 as a W UMa eclipsing binary. ... VAST software was used for aperture photometry. ... This method produces a light curve with an arbitrary zero point. ... Light Curve . Light curve of GSC 4232-02515 in NSVS magnitude scale. ... gsc423202515_kadar_nsvs.dat . ...

... International Astronomy Olympiad 2002 . ... The 7th International Astronomy Olympiad will be held on October 22-29, 2002 at the Special Astrophysical Observatory of Russian Academy of Sciences (SAO RAS) in North Caucasus. ... Authorized National Representative Astronomy Organizations (ANRAO) of the participating countries are authorized to form the teams of the Olympiad member-states. ... VII IAO . ... Information about the International Astronomy Olympiad 2003 will be known in the late 2002. ...

... Connecting the planned observations and the actual status of the Chandra X-ray Observatory is the observation interval determination pipeline ( OBIDET ). This collection of tools allows the Chandra X-Ray Center Data System automated processing to process the data through the necessary pipelines based on what was actually observed. ... In the case of the Chandra X-ray Observatory, the observation interval determination pipeline ( OBIDET ) is used for this task. ...

The AstroGuide . ... AstroGuide | ... AstroGuide Listing . ... See many more Astronomy Listings by: Category or Alphabet . The Grove Creek Observatory is a private observatory located in the Central West of New South Wales, Australia. ... Listed Since February 16, 1999 . ... Web Site . ... Posted by mccchurch, March 3rd, 2002 . ... Web . ... Unless otherwise specified, web site content Copyright 1994-2016 John Huggins All Rights Reserved . dbHTML," "AstroGuide," "ASTRONOMY.NET" & "VA.NET" . ...

SAI VO . ... SAI CAS . ... Web Services . Catalog Access Services . ... Astronomical Thesaurus . ... RVO . ... This site is about the Virtual Observatory project in the Sternberg Astronomical Institute, Moscow University ( SAI MSU ). We provide a public access to the growing set of astronomical services developed by the SAI RVO development team in accordance with the Virtual Observatory standards. ... At present SAI CAS provides ConeSearch, CrossMatch services and supports user uploaded data. ...

Winer Observatory P.O. Box 797, Sonoita, Arizona 85637-0797, USA . ... Winer Observatory) was incorporated in 1983 as a 501(c)(3) non-profit public charity to perform basic research in astronomy, provide educational outreach programs, and provide site and maintenance services for small telescopes through cooperative agreements with other astronomical institutions. ... The picture at the top left of this page is of our facility near Sonoita, Arizona, approximately 50 miles southeast of Tucson, Arizona. ...

Links on this page are to sites that hold information on the Sun , our nearest star . ... Big Bear Solar Observatory (BBSO) , California, USA. Mauna Loa Solar Observatory (MLSO) , Hawai'i, USA. ... Space Environment Center, Current Solar Images , Boulder, Colorado, USA. ... Solar Data Analysis Center, Latest Images , at GSFC, Maryland. ... NSSDC - National Space Science Data Center, Solar Physics (at GSFC). ... NSSDC - National Space Science Data Center, Space Physics (at GSFC). Back to Links ...

Optical Observatories . ... National Optical Astronomy Observatories . ... Adam Mickiewicz University - Astronomical Observatory . ... Astronomical Institute and National Observatory of Athens . ... Jagiellonian University Astronomical Observatory - Scientific research here comprises radio and extragalactic astronomy, solar radio emission, active galactic nuclei, interstellar matter, galaxies, cosmology, variable stars and comets. ... National Radio Astronomy Observatory Home Page . ...

... This is a partial list of the Extragalactic Novae discovered in 1999. ... Nova SMC 1999 4 , IAUC 7308 discovered 1999/08/03.667 by MACHO . ... Nova SMC 1999 3 , IAUC 7286 discovered 1999/09/17.1 by EROS . ... Nova M31 1999 5 , IAUC 7272 , discovered 1999/10/02.2 by Lick Observatory Supernova Search . ... Nova M31 1999 4 , IAUC 7249 discovered 1999/08/30.3 by Lick Observatory Supernova Search . ... Nova M31 1999 3 , IAUC 7236 discovered 1999/08/10.4 by Lick Observatory Supernova Search . ...

... Tonight's Sky . ... Observing . ... Sky this Month . ... Gravitational wave search provides insights into galaxy evolution and mergers . ... The double star 54 Leonis, spiral galaxy NGC 3198, and emission nebula NGC 3199 . ... Open cluster NGC 2818, spiral galaxy NGC 2964, and spiral galaxy NGC 2976 . ... Observing Podcasts . ... Astronomy for Kids . ... Gemini Observatory, Hilo, Hawaii . ... Receive news, sky-event information, observing tips, and more from Astronomy's weekly email newsletter. ...

... Structure of Data . ... Catalog . ... The SAI OCL Catalog site provides several VO-enabled modes of operation: . VO-enabled catalog data analysis from a browser . ... Endpoint URL is http://ocl.sai.msu.ru/catalog/conesearch/ . ... VO-enabled catalog analysis from a browser . Presently, this recipe works with Firefox (Windows, MacOS, Linux), Internet Explorer (Windows) and Opera (Windows) browsers with Java plugin 1.6 installed. ... Main TOPCAT window with SAI OCL catalog loaded will appear. ...

... The VSOP Symposium proceedings, "Astrophysical Phenomena Revealed by Space VLBI" have been published and have been distributed to participants. ... Following the successful launch of the VLBI Space Observatory Programme (VSOP) satellite HALCA in February 1997 there have been many exciting results from space VLBI observations. ... Also, check the newly revised getting to ISAS page which has links to pictorial "Getting to ISAS from Fuchinobe" and "Getting to the Dai-Ichi Hotel from Fuchinobe" pages! ...

... Normative references . ... Available at http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-CSS1-961217 . ... Available at http://ds.internic.net/rfc/rfc1700.txt . ... For more information, consult http://www.iso.ch/cate/d4766.html . See also http://www.sil.org/sgml/iso639a.html . ... Available at http://ds.internic.net/rfc/rfc1555.txt . ... Available at http://ds.internic.net/rfc/rfc1556.txt . ... Available at http://ds.internic.net/rfc/rfc1738.txt . ... Available at http://ds.internic.net/rfc/rfc1766.txt . ...

. Next: Acknowledgements Up: No Title Previous: Science with CXO . The Chandra X-Ray Observatory will have a profound influence on astronomy and astrophysics. The Observatory is open to use by scientists throughout the world who successfully propose specific investigations. Data will be available through the Chandra X-ray Center (CXC), directed by Dr. H. Tananbaum, and located at the SAO. Sergei B. Popov . Tue Dec 7 18:45:32 MSK 1999

... Clubs . ... PUBLIC Telescopic observing is conducted at the Wheaton College Observatory every clear Friday (call for times) when college is in session. ... The College has a 12.5 " Newtonian/cassegrain telescope. ... For more information see the North Shore Amateur Astronomy Club page. ... For more information see the North Shore Amateur Astronomy Club page and the college's page . ... Aldrich Astronomical Society Paxton, MA . ... Copyright (c) Amateur Telescope Makers of Boston, Inc. ...

Lisnyky observatory of A&SPD is located in the village of Lisnyky in Kyiv region. AZT-8 (right) Diameter 0.7 m, Newton, Cassegren. ... Spiral jets of comet Hale-Bopp have been observing on the 3-rd of April, 1997 with 70-cm reflector and image intensifier, time of exposure: 1 second, field of vision: 1.5 minute of arc. This color image was obtained with Fuji color film (Super Plus 400) in focal plane of the 70-cm reflector (F = 27 m) at Lisniki Observatory by A.M.Evtushevsky. ...

University Satellites and . Space Science Education . General information Date and Location Objectives of the meeting Sponsoring Organizations International Advisory Committee Local Organizing Committee Deadlines Addresses Hotels & Accommodation Venue Visas Social Programme . First circular . Second circular . ... Abstract Submission List of submitted abstracts . ... The first circular is available. Skobeltsyn Institute of Nuclear Physics, Moscow State University, 2005-2006 . ...

... Exposure Time Calculator (ETC) . Survey processing . ... VISTA is a 4-m class wide field survey telescope for the southern hemisphere, equipped with a near infrared camera (1.65 degree diameter field of view at VISTA's nominal pixel size) containing 67 million pixels of mean size 0.34 arcsec and available broad band filters at Z,Y,J,H,K s and a narrow band filter at 1.18 micron. A wide field visible camera, if constructed, could also be used on VISTA. ... Tile . ... ESO VISTA Public Surveys . ...