The Sun is our nearest star and the source of energy for life on Earth. ... For centuries astronomers wondered whether they were clouds floating in the Sun's atmosphere, but we now know that they really are huge regions of magnetic field, about as intense as the field at the poles of an iron magnet. ... Such abrupt events were named solar flares , and what made them especially interesting was that occasionally, after a prominent flare, a magnetic storm would erupt on Earth. ...

... There are several explanations for these X--ray quiet PMS stars. To examine the explanations, it is proper to divide the PMS stars into three groups: those bluer than R - I = 0.7, those redder than the X--ray sources (R - I > 1.25) and those with colors similar to the X--ray sources. ... A total of 26 of the non--X--ray detected PMS candidates had spectra taken. ... Between V=14 and V=16, I find 25 stars which are X--ray sources and estimate 19 non--X--ray PMS stars. ...

... 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. ...

Supernova 2000dx in UGC 1775 . This page is devoted to information on Supernova 2000dx in UGC 1775 Basic information on this SN, including the last reported brightness, on this Supernova can be found on the main page . Information on the original web pages for many of these images can be found on the Supernova links web page. ... AUDE has a 2000dx page in French [ Translate ] . ... 15.3 . ... vsnet-alert 5375 ] SN 2000dx (Ewa) brighter! ... vsnet-campaign-sn 110 ] SN 2000dx bright: update . ...

... Star Atlas . ... stars . ... Globular cluster NGC 2808, elliptical galaxy NGC 2986, and the Sextans Dwarf . ... Proxima Centauri is a red dwarf star, so would it appear red from the surface of an Earth-like planet in that star's habitable zone? ... Astronomers haven t found planets around our Sun s nearest neighbor, the red dwarf Proxima Centauri. ... Most exoplanets orbit red dwarfs the most common and longest-lived type of star. ... Get instant access to subscriber content on Astronomy.com! ...

... On the morning of Thursday, 26 February, amid the Gal pagos Islands, the Sun will fade from view. Not the culmination of ancient prophecy, but none less mystical, Earth's small Moon will be executing a slow slide past the enormous Sun. ... And anyone living in southern North America, Central America, northern South America, or on islands and cruise ships in the Caribbean Sea will, weather permitting, have the opportunity to experience the wonder of a solar eclipse. ...

... This paper describes the main algorithms used by the Einstein Level One processing to create the exposure masks and the background maps for Einstein IPC images, and how these algorithms were recreated in the IRAF environment. Our goal was to recreate the algorithms used by the Level One Processing to create exposure masks and background maps for Einstein Image Proportional Counter (IPC) data (cf. sections 2.5 and 2.7 of Harnden et al. ...

. The XMM-Newton website has moved to the following location: . http://www.cosmos.esa.int/web/xmm-newton

To appear in "Fourth Workshop on Robotic Autonomous Observatories (2015)"RevMexAA(SC) METEOR OBSERVATIONS WITH MINI-MEGATORTORA WIDE-FIELD MONITORING SYSTEM S. Karpov, 1, 3 N. Orekhova2 G. Beskin, 1, 3 A. Biryukov3,4 S. Bondar,2 E. Ivanov,2 E. Katkova,2 A. Perkov, and V. Sasyuk3 RESUMEN 2 Favor de prop orcionar un resumen en espanol. ... The faintest detected meteors has the peak brightness about 10 mag, while the ma jority - from 4 to 8 mag. ... 2010; Karpov et al. 2013; Beskin et al. ...

... 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. ...

The Special Astrophysical Observatory of Russian Academy of Sciences is one of the leading center of stellar magnetism study. ... Our observatory every 3-5 years holds an International Conference "Magnetic Stars" during past 30 years. ... The conference proceedings were published in book "Stellar Magnetism", Editors-in-chief Yu.V. Glagolevskij and I.I. Romanyuk (Saint Petersburg, Nauka, 1992), 270 pages. ... Conferences . History . ... Laboratory for the Stellar Magnetism Study of SAO of the RAS . ...

Domes Forum Message . ... Discussion Forums | Domes and Observatories Discussion | ... Self-constructed AstrodomeS - leonis - December 14, 2001 - 17:45 UTC . ... geometric domes - goemetric domes - October 18, 2000 - 23:50 UTC . ... Welcome to the Domes Discussion Forum - Astronomy Net Editor - March 15, 2000 - 14:00 UTC . RE: Welcome to the Domes Discussion Forum - Jim - April 4, 2000 - 14:50 UTC . ... Re: Welcome to the Domes Discussion Forum - louielouie - November 6, 2000 - 18:24 UTC . ...

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. ...

... 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. ...

... Energy . ... Solar Wind . ... Field . ... The Sun is our nearest star and the source of energy for life on Earth. ... For centuries astronomers wondered whether they were clouds floating in the Sun's atmosphere, but we now know that they really are huge regions of magnetic field, about as intense as the field at the poles of an iron magnet. For some reason the field slows down the flow of heat from the Sun's interior and keeps sunspots slightly cooler than their surroundings. ... Solar Eclipses . ...

... Copyrightї1997 Bob Yen (byen@ix.netcom.com) (http://www.comet-track.com/hb/hb.html) . ... Information on Comet Hale-Bopp for the Non-Astronomer Hale-Bopp rotates about twice a day (3/14/97) . ... The Comet Observation Home Page was been selected to receive the Griffith Observatory Star Award for the week of February 2 - 8, 1997 for excellence in promoting astronomy to the public through the World Wide Web. ... Typically, about 1,000 individual users/computers access this page every day. ...

SPECTRAL FEATURES OF THE AVALANCHE DEPOSITS IN LUNAR CRATER REINER. ... Crater Reiner. ... 5 Immature soils (coded in green, box 3) occupy most areas of the inner wall slopes of the crater. ... Distribution of the immature soils shown in Fig. 5 correlates with distribution of the bright materials on the wall slope of the crater as it is seen in Fig. ... The presence of very immature soils on the inner wall slopes and on the central peak of the crater Reiner suggests recent intensive slope processes. ...

... He was born in Cholmogory - a village where one generation before him saw the first Russian observatory and Lomonosov was able to use the angle gaude. ... But the atmosphere of Venus was so "rich" that no only during four last years of Lomonosov's life, but even two centuries after his death the astronomers didn't go far away from his investigations. 200 years exactly after "the star year" of Lomonosov in 1961 the Soviet spaceship - the first in the world went to Venus. ...

... After removal of foreground radio sources brighter than 10 mJy, using the Ryle Telescope, the resulting map shows evidence for residual structure on a scale of approximately half a degree with rms variation of 18 mJy. Multi-frequency measurements will be used in the future to discriminate between Galactic and cosmic microwave background radiation (CMBR) components of this anisotropy. ... The COBE satellite has already detected anisotropies at a level of on an angular scale of about Smoot et al. ...

RADIOASTROPHYSICAL DEPARTMENT • INSTITUTE OF SOLAR-TERRESTRIAL PHYSICS RAS SB . ... SSRT - Receiving systems . The SSRT has two independent receiving systems for recording solar observational data, and several ancillary receivers for checking, setting up and adjusting the instrument. The base receiving systen is a multichannel filter receiver for a simultaneous recording in 180 channels with the 500 kHz band each, adjusted at steps of about 600 kHz. ... Channel's band . ...