... 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 . ... Kevin Schindler, Lowell Observatory . ... Receive news, sky-event information, observing tips, and more from Astronomy's weekly email newsletter. ...

... After secondary technical school I studied Physics at the University of Florence getting the "Italian Doctor Degree" (Laurea) in 1977, discussing a thesis of laboratory astrophysics (Absorption Cross Section of Ionized Elements in the XUV region) . ... At the end of 1982, when I came back to Arcetri Observatory, after a short period doing Solar Physics, I moved to new research field: Cometary Physics that is still my principal research activity . ...

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Multi-Wavelength investigations of the Sun and modern problems of solar activity . SAO RAS . ... Section "Physics of solar plasma" under the Council "Sun – Earth" . ... Bogod V.M., Dr.Sci (SPb Branch of SAO RAS) deputy chairman . ... SAO RAS) - chairman . Bogod V.M. (SPb Branch of SAO RAS) - deputy chairman . Mingaliev M.G. (SAO RAS) - deputy chairman . Kostjuk I.P. (SAO RAS) scientific secretary . ... Vitkovskij V.V. (SAO RAS) . Kaltman T.I. (SPb Branch of SAO RAS) . ... RAS | ...

... BigStarCatalogExtension::StarWrapper< Star > Class Template Reference . StarWrapper (const SpecialZoneArray < Star > *a, const SpecialZoneData < Star > *z, const Star *s) . ... getJ2000EquatorialPos (const StelCore *core) const . ... getVMagnitude (const StelCore *core, bool withExtinction=false) const . ... getSelectPriority (const StelCore *core) const . ... getInfoString (const StelCore *core, const InfoStringGroup &flags) const . ... getEquinoxEquatorialPos (const StelCore *core) const . ...

... Cavendish Astrophysics . Cavendish OptInt: . Optical Interferometry . ... Format Spec. ... This is the webpage of the Working Group on Optical Interferometry Data Standards, part of IAU Commission 54 (Optical Interferometry). The near-term goal of the working group is to develop enhancements to the OIFITS data exchange standard, in particular: . ... John Young (MROI) . ... The Cavendish optical interferometry web pages are maintained by John Young <jsy1001 (at) cam.ac.uk> . ...

. VLBI Laboratory . VLBI topics: . AGN . Quasars . polarisation mapping . maser sources (OH, H 2 O, SiO) . interstellar scattering . radio supernova remnants in extragalaxies . intraday variability . space VLBI . Other fields: . methods and equipment of VLBI . interferometry observations . Pushchino VLBI station : . coordinates: . telescope RT-22(in Russian) . technical data . site of RT22(in Russian) . Webmaster Subaev I.A. Last update 23.Jule.2002.

Large sunspots were occasionally seen far in the past without any instruments, when the sun was dimmed by thick haze, but not much was remembered of those observations. ... Sunspot Cycle (1850 - 1975) . One who was greatly influenced by Schwabe's discovery was an English gentleman of independent means, Richard Christopher Carrington , who devoted himself to the study of sunspots. ... Carrington had seen a flare, of the rare variety that is visible in white light (only about 50 are known). ...

. The University of Louisville has an active chapter of the Society of Physics Students. Summertime picnics at Moore Observatory are becoming a tradition. If you're a U of L SPS member, you might want to look through the pictures below and download any that you like. If you aren't already a member, think about joining up, the picnics and other activities are a lot of fun. http://owl.astro.louisville.edu/moore1.html . pam@moondog.astro.louisville.edu . Back to Moore Observatory Homepage

Statistics of sunspot activity . The sunspot indices . ... Visual indices of solar activity . ... n - number of spot groups . A - Waldmeier class of unipolar spot groups without penumbra . B - class of bipolar spot groups without penumbra . C - class of bipolar spot groups with one penumbra pole . D - class of small bipolar spot groups with two penumbra poles . E - class of middle bipolar spot groups with two penumbra poles . ... H - class of unipolar penumbrated spot groups . ...

... Jay Apt (Ph.D.) . NASA Astronaut (Former) . ... PUBLICATIONS: Dr. Apt shared his images and knowledge in the publication Earth in Orbit : NASA Astronauts Photograph the Earth , written in conjunction with NASA scientists Michael Helfert and Justin Wilkinson and published by the National Geographic Society. ... From 1976 to 1980 he was a staff member of the Center for Earth & Planetary Physics, Harvard University, supporting NASA s Pioneer Venus Mission by making temperature maps of Venus from Mt. ...

... APT Activities and Science Results 3. ... APT Secretary Philip Edwards (ISAS) reviewed the aims of the APT (http://www.vsop.isas.ac.jp/apt/DefinitionAndAims.html). ... The Australia Telescope Compact Array, and Ceduna, Hartebeesthoek, Kashima, Mopra, Parkes, and Shanghai telescopes of the Asia-Pacific Telescope participated in these observations. ... In the absence of Tetsuo Sasao, Philip Edwards briefly described results of the APT 22 GHz observations conducted from October 1st to 5th, 1997. ...

Winer Observatory P.O. Box 797, Sonoita, Arizona 85637-0797, USA . ... Outreach . Projects . ... Science . ... Participating in Project ASTRO, a national program to assist teachers in grades 4 through 12 in teaching astronomy . ... June, 1990: National Optical Astronomy Observatory, Friday Science Lunch Talks: "Engineering Big Science Projects" . ... May 4, 2007: National Optical Astronomy Observatory, Friday Science Lunch Talks: "The Ohio State University KELT Telescope -- Early Results" . ...

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... Roger Brissenden . ... All Science Groups . ... 2011 Member, SOFIA Operations Optimization Review Team . 2011 Member, NSF Committee of Visitors (COV) for the Division of Astronomical Sciences . ... 2008 Member, North American ALMA Science Center Manager search committee . ... 2007 Member, Science Working Group, NASA Ares 5 Heavy Lift Capability Assessment . ... 2006-2008 Member, SOFIA Science Management and Operations Review Board . ... 2002-2003 Member, CfA Computation Committee Review Team . ...

Next: Observing Control at the UKIRT . ... A World Wide Web interface to the NOAO observing proposal form is now available. Proposal information is provided by users through a set of HTML forms and submitted to the NOAO server where it is processed by a Perl CGI script. Netscape users may optionally attach locally prepared PostScript figures or ASCII text files for inclusion in their proposals using that browser's file upload feature. ... Figure 1: A sample NOAO proposal Web form . ...

... Contacting and discussing with people sharing your interests, participating in night sky observations with telescopes as well as a large choice of astronomical books, magazines and video-tapes out of our club library. ... The seasons, the seeing ( a clear sky is not always associated to calm , stable air ) and most important how dark your observation site is. ... Therefore a dark site for observing is at least as important for deep sky observation as the diameter of your scope. ...

To see a Russian version of this page, click here . ... Graduated from Moscow State University (MSU), Faculty of Physics in 1976. Ph.D. degree - 1988, MSU. Main field of scientific activities: photometric investigations of various stars, close binary stellar systems and other astronomical objects, including research with use of fast photoelectric photometry with a high time resolution till 1 millisecond. ... New portable photometer . ... Send your mail to: tem@sai.msu.ru ...

Google doc v5.1 RadioAstron International Science Council Tsargrad Hotel (Boyarsky room) Breakfast starts at 8am Monday, June 18 ( Tsargrad hotel) 10:00 N. Kardashev: Welcome 10:15 K. Kellermann: Goals of meeting and approval of agenda 10:30 Introductions of members and guests 10:45 RISC Terms of Reference Supporting documents: RISC ToR draft 11:30 Break 12:00 M. Popov: SRT in-orbit tests and basic parameters 12:30 Y. Kovalev: Fringe Search: ...