Seven months ago, on Mar 19, 2008, at 09:12 Moscow time, a new star appeared on the sky. The Sun had already risen over the Russia, but people of the Western hemisphere might be able to see by their eyes a faint starlet near one of Bootes constellation stars. This starlet appeared and faded by an order of magnitude in a minute. Astronomers named it GRB080319B or, informally, the Naked-Eye Burst, as it was twice as bright as human eye can see a star. ... Royal Astronomical Society . ...

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... The use of the parameters for the source and background extraction areas requires some care. ... In order to avoid these variations and to obtain a uniform combined light curve, it is better to use a fixed radius for the source extraction area for all the exposures in the ODF. ... Changing srcradius parameter one should also properly esablish the background extraction area setting bkginner and bkgouter parameters (see description of the parameters). ...

... Today this year's largest group of sunspots will cross the Sun's central meridian. ... The next day, the number of spots in the group reached five, and the day after, on June 2nd, it was possible to count thirteen sunspots on solar disk, which had been clear prior to this. ... This year's two most powerful active areas, which passed across the solar disk at the beginning of May, 2009, are set to appear in the Sun's eastern sector in two days, on June 6th. ...

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. ...

... Comet Animation . ... Comet structures are diverse and very dynamic, but they all develop a surrounding cloud of diffuse material, called a coma, that usually grows in size and brightness as the comet approaches the Sun. ... As comets approach the Sun they develop enormous tails of luminous material that extend for millions of kilometers from the head, away from the Sun. ... The evaporated molecules boil off and carry small solid particles with them, forming the comet's coma of gas and dust. ...

... For spectra a transformation from wavelength to frequency is used to identify spectral regions which follow a power law. This transformation is given by . ... Whereas the transforms mentioned above only perform a non--linear rebinning of the data, the Fourier transform converts a spatial image into the frequency domain. ... As an example of using Fourier transforms to extract information from a frame, an azimuthal intensity profile of the spiral galaxy A0526--16 is shown in Figure . ...

The TSpec SlitViewer window controls the TripleSpec slitviewer. Most of the controls are standard guiding controls . ... Bkgnd Sub status and control of automatic background subtraction: . The first field shows the current state (Off or On). Off turns off background subtraction. On / New turns on background subtraction (if off) or takes a new background image (if on). X cancels the current Off, On or New command. ... This field is only visible when background subtraction is on. ...

... Circumstellar disc of beta Pictoris: constraints on grain properties from polarization. To appear in the Astronomy & Astrophysics . abs , src , ps ] . ... Dust influx to Titan from Hyperion . ... abs ] . ... Characteristics of bulges and disks in interacting galaxies . ... Dust grains around Herbig Ae/Be stars: porous, cometary-like grains? ... To appear in the Astronomy & Astrophysics Supplement . ... Finally, Links may lead you to more options (e.g. via the LANL preprint system). ...

Physicists have been honored by having their picture on currency in many countries around the world. ... Marie and Pierre Curie (Marie: 1867-1934, Pierre: 1859-1906) appear on the French 500 franc note. ... The greatest physicist of this century, Einstein not only invented the theories of special relativity (behavior of rapidly moving object) and general relativity (theory of gravitation), but made fundamental contributions to the beginnings of quantum theory. ... For a bio, click here . ... 100 K) . ...

... Given the functions (sin a , cos a , sin b and cos b ), we seek formulas that express sin( a+b ) and cos( a+b ). ... As shown in the drawing, to derive the formula we combine two right-angled triangles . ... AB = AC cos a = R cos b cos a The triangle ADF is right-angled and has the angle ( a+b ). ... Each of them is one of the two sharp ("acute") angles in its own right-angled triangle. ... In the right-angled triangle CED DE = DC cos a = R sin b cos a . ... cos ( a+b ) = cos a cos b - sin a sin b ....

To construct frequency distribution (histogram) of minor planets according to value of some element/ parameter/ function user should first select Elements item in menu bar and then Histogram in drop-down menu. ... User has possibility to save histogram or to print it using standard means. To save the file select File item in menu bar and then Save As... in drop-down menu. ... To print histogram select File item in menu bar and then take advantage of options Print Preview , Print Setup , Print . ...

... V838 Mon is a member of a new class of eruptive variables which appear as a peculiar novae having late K-M type spectra in their outburst. Before its outburst, it was a wide binary system of B3V type stars. ... The B3V companion was seen in the outburst in the UV spectrum taken with HST (Rauch et al., ... In the latest spectra, the light of B3V companion was predominating in the short-wave photometric bands. ... CCD blue frames of V838 Mon before the eclipse (left) and in the eclipse (right). ...

. Fig. The SOHO/EIT 171 image (a) illustrating a pronounced transequatorial inverted V-shaped chain 1-2-3-4 which appears to outline the large soft X-ray CH observed with the Yohkoh/SXT (b) on March 1-2, 1999. The BBSO H-alpha (c) and MLSO/HAO He I 10830 (d) heliograms are shown to demonstrate relation of this and some other EUV chains to other large-scale structures such as H-alpha filaments and He I 10830 features. Back to paper .

... Best Targets for Astrophotography and What They Reveal About Our Universe . ... Ruben Kier's photos, articles, and letters have appeared regularly in Astronomy and Sky Telescope magazines. ... This year, Ruben summarized a decade of experience with CCD imaging in his new book, The 100 Best Astrophotography Targets: A Monthly Guide for CCD Imaging with Amateur Telescopes. ... Copyright (c) Amateur Telescope Makers of Boston, Inc. ...