... However, because ALFA was built to enable very large-scale sky surveys, NAIC seeks to encourage the formation of research teams, consortia, to take on the task of conducting ambitious sky surveys with the primary goal of creating legacy archival databases for public use. The legacy sky surveys are done as a partnership between NAIC and the research consortia, the policies and guidelines for which are summarized here. ... NAIC will archive the raw data at the Arecibo Observatory. ...

Russian page . The 6th International Astronomy Olympiad will be organized on September 26 - October 3, 2001 in the scientific town of Nauchnyj, Republic of Crimea. ... Weather in Crimea . ... Those who were interested to get further information about the VI International Astronomy Olympiad (including official invitations for teams and observers: Ukrainian visa and visa support was necessary for citizens of some countries!) were welcome to contact Coordinating Council in English or Russian . ...

... изданиями Американского астрономического общества публикуем краткие выдержки из электронного бюллетеня Объявления N 35 за январь 1997 года и издания JOB REGISTER ... From: Judy Johnson Date: Wed, 8 Jan 97 16:42:57 EST ______________________________________________________ AAS Electronic Notification Service - Announcement #35 1/97 [Mailed from aas.org at 4:55PM 8 JAN 1997] ______________________________________________________ 3. ... New Jobs This Month No. ...

... Routines for accessing I/O ports are in /usr/include/asm/io.h (or linux/include/asm-i386/io.h in the kernel source distribution). ... Before you access any ports, you must give your program permission to do so. This is done by calling the ioperm() function (declared in unistd.h , and defined in the kernel) somewhere near the start of your program (before any I/O port accesses). ... For example, ioperm(0x300, 5, 1) would give access to ports 0x300 through 0x304 (a total of 5 ports). ...

. My astronomical research interests center on galaxy structure and evolution. Current topics include: . Polar-ring and interacting galaxies (see also new catalogue ) . Galaxy warps: statistics, properties and origin . Spiral galaxies at z~1: radial and vertical structure of stellar disks, statistics of interactions . Surface photometry and kinematics, dynamical modeling . Observational cosmology . Joomla Counter since Sep 1997

You are welcome to walk the grounds of APO during daylight hours (7am - 5pm), 7-days a week. ... Guided tours of the 3.5m and 2.5m telescopes at APO may be available for astronomical organizations, school groups, and higher education research groups. ... Please submit your tour request at least two weeks in advance. ... APO has displays and souvenirs at the Sunspot Astronomy and Visitor Center , located 2 miles from our site at the National Solar Observatory . ...

PROLOGUE Computer networking is one of the amazing feats of engineering of the late 20th century. ... 3) Network News. ... Any user can read this news, and many users can post a news article to the closest participating computer, which in turn mails copies of the article to other computers. ... In the summer of 1992, the newsgroup <rec.music.compose> was proposed by Joshua Barinstein, as a forum for the discussion of all kinds of musical composition. ...

THE NAUTICAL ASTRONOMICAL ALMANAC for 2015-2016 (in Russian-English) . Preface . The Institute of Applied Astronomy of the RAS (IAA RAS) submits the next issue of ?The Nautical Astronomical Almanac for the years 2015-2016? biennial (NAA-2). ... Calculations of ephemerides in NAA-2 for 2015-2016 have been executed by the following researchers of Laboratory of Astronomical Yearbooks of IAA RAS: . ... The Explanation for NAA-2 (2015-2016) is revised by M.V.Lukashova, M.L.Sveshnikov. ...

The Astronomical Society of Australia has been asked by STANDARDS AUSTRALIA to compile a list of "designated" optical observatories that are valuable resources for (i) research, (ii) education and (iii) community use. The ASA is the final arbiter of whether any particular observatory is so designated. ... Upon receipt of your application form, your observatory will be entered on a list of "Pending Designated Observatories" on the ASA Home Page. ... It will be emailed for you. ... Email . ...

... Published by the Bureau of Astronomical Communications . ... TITLE OF THE ARTICLE IN RUSSIAN . ... This text contains Instructions for our Authors; at the same time, it shows the general layout of a contribution to the Astronomicheskii Tsirkulyar as it will appear published in the electronic form or printed on paper. ... The text of your article starts here. We accept articles in all branches of astronomy. ... 1543-1548, Information for Authors), text taped and figures drawn on paper. ...

... October 8, 15:00 15:40 . ... PDF [7.2б MB] October 8, 15:40 16:10 . ... The sky brightness, atmospheric extinction, cloud coverage and auroral appearance are obtained from these images. ... Aurorae are identified by comparing the observed sky brightness to the sky brightness expected from this model. ... The identification of few potential sites for future's larger facility require several instruments, measuring various site characterizing parameters. ...

T he Nine Planets is a collection of information about our Solar System intended for a general audience with little technical background. ... T his document consists of about 90 WWW "pages", one page for each major body in the Solar System. ... if the object has satellites then its page has a table of data on them and links to their pages, . ... To visit the next body in an ordered traversal of the solar system choose the link immediately to the right of the name of the current page. ...

NMW survey overview . Access image archive . ... The New Milky Way survey aims to detect bright (V<13.5) optical transients near the Galactic plane using an automated wide-field (8x6 deg.) system capable of surveying the whole Milky Way area visible from the observing site in one night. ... All images obtained during the transient search survey are available online (please use the image archive access form ). ... Images per field: . ... Images per night: . ... Milky Way imaging time: . ...

. Please enter the lightcurve file name: . Lightcurve file: . A similar FITS-to-ASCII lightcurve converter is available for INTEGRAL/OMC data. If you have questions, bug reports or suggestions how to improve this service, please fell free to contact the author (Kirill Sokolovsky) via e-mail: kirx[at]scan.sai.msu.ru .

... Tonight's Sky . ... The Magazine . ... Observing . ... Astronomy for Kids . ... Astronomy accepting entries for 2011 outreach award . ... Astronomy magazine will present its 2011 Out-of-this-world Award to a club or organization that has shown excellence in astronomy outreach activities. ... A full list of rules and the entry form for Astronomy 's 2011 Out-of-this-world Award are available at www.Astronomy.com/award . ... Only registered members of Astronomy.com are allowed to comment on this...

... Therefore, the observatory supports educational events, occured in the SAO, including astronomical and astrophysical schools, lectures and excursions at the SAO's telescopes. ... Thursday 9-00 Breakfast 9-30 Opening of the School and Astronomical Olimpiad 10-15 Photo of particapants (near the SAO entrance) 10-30 Lecture about Specail Astrophysical observatory. Chentsov E.L. 13-30 Lunch 14-00 Excursion to historical places of Nizhnij Arkhyz 18-00 Dinner 19-00 Acquaintance evening. ...

... LINKS . ... SPECIAL TOPIC . CONTACT . ... ARTICLE: Venus Transit 2004 . ... AAL's Transit Observation Results . ... Divx video from the AAL observation site. ... a) Visual observation : Only with special eclipse shades ( do not use those ones you still have from the 1999's solar eclipse because it does no more protect you properly ) . ... 1. contact ( transit begins ) : 07:19 53 s with a solar altitude of 15.5 degrees . ... Venus Transit Links: . ... Venus Transit 2004: A Tremendous Success . ...

Databases (NSDC) of the Natural Planetary Satellites. ... NSDC: Database of astrometric observations of Natural Planetary Satellites . ... They are thoroughly looking for observations in different sources, creating their owndatabases which are then mostly inaccessible to other researchers. ... In the file "content" with explications, the reference is given to the data source as well as the bibliographic reference. ... Data sources. ... Why a specific bibliographic database for Natural satellites? ...

This module provides for user authentication using Berkeley DB files. ... AuthDBGroupFile . ... The AuthDBGroupFile directive sets the name of a DB file containing the list of user groups for user authentication. ... Combining Group and Password DB files: In some cases it is easier to manage a single database which contains both the password and group details for each user. ... The AuthDBUserFile directive sets the name of a DB file containing the list of users and passwords for user authentication. ...

Let K be a global field. ... The real number $\gamma_K = c_0/c_{-1}$ is called the Euler-Kronecker constant of the field $K$. In the article of Yasutaka Ihara "On the Euler-Kronecker constants of global fields and primes with small norms" the lower bound $\gamma_K\ge-\log\sqrt{|d|}$ is obtained, where $d$ is the discriminant of the field $K$. In my talk I will prove the lower bound $\gamma_K\ge -\left(1-\frac{\sqrt{5}}{5}\right) \log\sqrt{|d|}$. ...