I-GALFA View of a Galactic Tangent Region . ... Image featured in NAIC Newsletter #46 . I-GALFA image of hydrogen gas in a tangent region outside the Sagittarius arm. ... Because we are viewing this gas in a direction closely aligned with (tangent to) its orbital motion, it appears to be moving away from us (we are orbiting the Galactic center with a similar speed, but our own motion in a different direction). ... The gas near 60 degrees longitude is being viewed tangent to its orbital motion. ...

... 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! ...

... Here some data observed on the 6m telescope with IFP installed in the OLD focal reducer are presented. ... Mkn 3: velocity field . ... NGC 5252: [OIII] image . ... NGC 5252 was observed 23 Feb. 1998 in the [OIII]5007 emission line with CCD TK1024 as detector. ... We observed the ionized gas velocity fields of the spiral galaxies with two purpose. ... Restored velocity field of NGC 157 in the reference frame rotating with the pattern speed overlaid on the Ha image of the galaxy . ... NGC 4100 . ...

... rgsregions defines and constructs the various RGS event-selection regions, and adds them to the source list (see rgssources ). ... Image regions and the background region refer to the plane of dispersion versus cross-dispersion ( image plane ) and select events based on their spatial coordinates. ... The order regions refer to the plane of dispersion versus calibrated pulse-height ( energy plane ) and select events from a specific astrophysical source within a particular reflection order. ...

... PhD Yale University, Astronomy, 2015 . ... MS, MPhil Yale University, Astronomy, 2011 . ... Plunkett, Adele L. ; Arce, H��ctor G.; Corder, Stuartt A.; Dunham, Michael M.; Mardones, Diego; Garay, Guido 2014, ApJ, 803, 22, ������Assessing molecular outflows and turbulence in the protostellar cluster Serpens South��� . ... Department of Astronomy Seminar, Universidad de Chile, Santiago, Chile April 2013 . ... Yale-University of Chile Meeting, New Haven, CT December 2011 . ...

Statistics of sunspot activity . The sunspot indices . ... NGDC's observations . The solar regions . ... Average annual indices . ... October . ... October, 2013 . Visual indices of solar activity by National Geophysical Data Center . ... Average . ...

... Sea Surface Temperature, restored from NOAA satellite data . You may use Java applet to view temperature maps in more detail. Using the applet, you can build "accumulated" temperature maps from selected data, get temperature values in any point and save the resulting image to your local disk. Date and time of the data . ... 14:25 (GMT) . 3.04.2016 . ... For information send a mail to: info@sputnik.infospace.ru . ...

Astronomy Discussion Forums . ... Atm � Astrophotography � Blackholes � Blackholes2 � CCD � Celestron � Domes � Education . ... New model: How do the Sun and Moon appear to move across the sky - mito111 - September 15, 2011 - 04:22 UTC . ... Note the change - rick_crockett - April 19, 2007 - 09:38 UTC . ... A Question Regarding Photons and Absolute Zero - inalitalllane - December 25, 2004 - 22:06 UTC . ... Virtual Space Agency - dupagepilot - November 18, 2003 - 12:03 UTC . ... www.astronomy.net . ...

Variations of total ozone content and lower ozone stratosphere temperature in Antarctic Region during winter-spring period A.V. Grytsai National Taras Shevchenko University of Kyiv Astronomy and Space Physics Department assen@univ.kiev.ua Data, used in the work work Total ozone: Total Ozone Mapping Spectrometer (TOMS) measurements during 1979 - 2005 and Ozone Monitoring Instrument (OMI) ones for 2006, for http://toms.gsfc.nasa.gov/ftpdata.html. ... A long-term TOC decrease is significant. ...

Supernova 2009js in NGC 918 . This page is devoted to information on Supernova 2009js in NGC 918 . 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 updates and links web pages. Discovered independently by Lick Observatory Supernova Search (USA) and Koichi Itagaki (Japan). ... 2009/10/11.44 . 17.2 . ... Joseph Brimacombe . ...

... Place of birth: Province (city/town), state, country . ... Passport data: 8.1.( ... Name of *.jpg file of photocopy of two main pages (double-page scan) of the passport (to be enclosed with the application) 9. ... 10.6. (for students) In what previous IAOs or APAOs participated (write years and Diploma, like: IAO-2003, 2nd Diploma) 11. ... GUVD 611, city Alma-Ata, Kazakhstan . ... Dr. Michael G. Gavrilov, Founding Chairman and Coordinator of the International Astronomy Olympiad (IAO) . ...

... SUNSPOTS: The surface of the Sun, called the photosphere, is at a temperature of 5800 degrees Kelvin. Sunspots are cooler features (3800 degrees Kelvin) wandering across the disk of the Sun that have been observed since ancient times. ... Solar activity is directly related to the frequency of sunspots. ... ROTATION: The sun does not rotate as a rigid body. ... The next task is to download a complete time series of images that illustrate how your sunspot is moving due to the sun's rotation. ...

... Artist's impression of the "Great Lake" on Jupiter's moon Europa. Scientists speculate many more exist throughout the shallow regions of the moon's icy shell. ... Many more such lakes exist throughout the shallow regions of Europa's shell, the researchers predict in an online article for the journal Nature. ... If you enjoyed this excerpt from a feature article and would like to receive our quarterly Mercury magazine, we invite you to join the ASP and receive 4 issues a year. ...

General Information . ... Local Information . ... The city represents great cultural value because in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, Kislovodsk as a fashionable spa attracted many musicians, artists, and members of the Russian aristocracy. ... Double room with full pension (breakfast, lunch, dinner) - 2620 rubles per person per night. solnechniy . ... Citizens of most countries need visa to enter the Russian Federation. ... Victor Kornilov, Sternberg Astronomical Institute (chair) . ...

... We had a unique diagnostic tool for determining whether or not the secondary was fractured during the dark run in that we had 3 sets of focus sweep data for the imaging camera taken on the nights of 05 October 1999, 11 October 1999, and 14 October 1999. ... Figure: 05 October 1999, CCD g1 . ... Surface plot. ... Figure 32 plots the same data but for CCD g3. ... Figure: Comparison of normalised brighness for the out-of-focus doughnuts for the nights of 05, 11, and 14 October 1999 for CCD g1. ...

The Earth. ... The middle raiding of the Earth is 6371,032 km, the pole 6356,777 km equatorial - 6378,160 km. The Earth surface area is 510,2 mln km^2, 70,8% of which is the World ocean. ... According to the modern cosmogonical views the Earth was formed 4,6 - 4,7 billions years ago from the protoplanet cloud captured by the Sun. ... The Earth is conditionally divided into 3 parts: a bark a cloak and a core (in the centre). The external layer - the bark is 35 km thick. ... Above the Earth. ...

... Educational programs (Russian) . ... Pre-university education . ... Samara State Aerospace University About us Samara region . ... Samara . Samara (����?��), called Kuybyshev (��?������) from 1935 to 1990, is one of the largest cities in Russia. ... The 20th -century Russian writer Alexey Tolstoy lived in Samara, and there is a museum dedicated to his life and literary work. ... Among them is Samara State Aerospace University (SSAU), one of Russia s leading engineering and technical institutions. ...

... Astrophysics Group . ... COAST . COAST Astronomical Results . Surface Imaging of Betelgeuse . ... Betelgeuse is a nearby red supergiant star, about 500 times larger than the Sun. ... Each image was taken through a different colour filter. From left to right, the images show how Betelgeuse appears in red (a wavelength of 700 nanometres), very near-infrared (905 nm), and near-infrared (1290 nm) light. To show this, we have coloured the images different shades of orange and red. 700 nm . ...

... We report on our ongoing project ``Infrared Study of HII Regions Associated with Small Clouds.' ... These IR data, combined with optical imaging (which will be obtained from the IAC-80 telescope), IRAS survey maps, and existing CO observations of the associated clouds, will allow us to undertake a detailed investigation of the gas-to-dust mass ratio, initial mass function and the star-formation efficiency in these complexes. ... CHECKPSF: check the PSF (Point Spread Function) model, . ...

State Research Center of Genetics and Selection of Industrial Microorganisms, GosNIIGenetika, Moscow , Russia Some questions of interpretation of results for DNA-protein binding on tiling arrays October 9, 2008 3rd workshop on algorithms in Molecular Biology , Moscow , 2008 ChIP-chip technology From: http://www.tigr.org October 9, 2008 3rd workshop on algorithms in Molecular ...