New England observer Lew Gramer, fresh back from his mid-November fish observing and meteor-catching expedition in South Florida, reports that December also promises to be a great month for celestial sky-sparks!" ... Other showers adding to the mix this month include several very minor showers, such as the Chi Orionids (3 Dec), Monocerotids (9 Dec) and Sigma Hydrids (12 Dec), which usually contribute no more than 2 or 3 meteors per hour during even post-midnight observing this month. ...

Lectures . ... Home Lectures Lecture Series 2010-2011 Lecture Series 2010-2011 ? Top Ten Discoveries of the Phoenix Misson to Mars? by Suzanne Young . ... Lecture Series 2010-2011 . ... Beyond New York City . ... Observing Resources for Amateur Astronomers - Part 1: Beginning Observers . ... A History of the First Forty Years of the Amateur Astronomers Association . ... Amateur Astronomers Medal . ... 2016 Amateur Astronomers Association of New York Designed by Press Customizr Powered by . ...

... The planets are still growing slowly as comets and meteoroids collide with them. ... In the 1950s, American astronomer Fred Whipple suggested that comets are dirty snowballs: clumps of ice mixed with interplanetary dust. ... For most of its orbit, a comet remains far from the Sun, little more than the dirty snowball that it is -- what is usually called a bare nucleus. ... As Comet Hyakutake approached the Sun, jets of dust erupted from the Sun-facing side of its nucleus. ...

XMM-Newton SAS Scientific Validation and Data . ... the level of accuracy associated with those products The outcome of the SAS science validation for each test dataset is summarized in a report, available along with the dataset. ... The Scientific Validation Report v2.1(.ps.gz) is available for the SAS v6.5 Scientific Validation SAS v6.5 Scientific Validation Preliminary Report . The Preliminary Report (.ps.gz) is still available for SAS v6.5 Scientific Validation SAS v6.0 Scientific Validation . ...

Astronotes Armagh Planetarium's Stellar Blog! ... As example you have only to look at the recent discovery of a supernova by Irish astronomer David Grennan . ... The last confirmed supernova in the Milky Way to be observed was in 1604 (known to history as Kepler ?s Star; it was bright enough to be seen in the daytime sky). €а Ever since then all supernovae examined by astronomers have been denizens of other galaxies. ... Tweets that mention Supernova spotted by Irish astronomer -- Topsy.com . ...

After a couple of visits by Steve Larson and Ed Beshore in late 2003 and early March 2004 to deal with various hardware issues and to install the new survey code, regular surveying commenced in mid-March 2004. ... However, the initial results are most satisfying and new objects have been found from the very first night. ... UA Media Release . ... Fellow Uppsala observer Rob McNaught was observing NEOs with the 1.0-m at Siding Spring as part of our regular program of follow-up observations. ...

... Liyong Liu (NAOC) . Site testing on seeing conditions of the astronomical observatories over China are briefly reviewed, including Xionglong station of NAOC, Gaomeigu station of Yunnan Observatory, Delingha station of Purple Mountain Observatory. ... PDF [3.0€аMB] October 8, 09:55 10:20 . ... In this paper, we will review the site survey activities in the past years, and present the site-testing results on the Oma site, including cloud cover, seeing, water vapor, transparency and sky brightness. ...

... About meteorites . ... Meteoritic data . ... About laboratory . ... The lake is like a round mirror 200 meters in diameter, surrounded by a ring wall 350-400 meters across. ... The ring wall, especially well preserved along the southeast shore of the lake, the steep banks and the great depth, all indicated that at one time there had been a powerful explosion here. ... It is possible that the depth may have been 40 meters before but that the slumping of the banks was helping to decrease the depth. ...

Next: P1724 Up: Specific Stars Previous: Specific Stars . ... They reported a 2.5 day rotation period for this star which they confirmed with their 1995 results (Bouvier et al . 1995). ... only averaged one measurement per night, they were not sensitive to periods of < 2 days. ... TAP 26 was monitored from MTSB on 15 nights. ... If one confines the period search range for the MTSB data to be greater than one day, the results are nearly identical to those for the data presented by Bouvier et al . ...

16 June 2013 IAU Electronic Telegram No.3563 Central Bureau for Astronomical Telegrams INTERNATIONAL ASTRONOMICAL UNION CBAT Director: Daniel W. E. Green; Hoffman Lab 209; Harvard University ; 20 Oxford St.; Cambridge, MA 02138; U.S.A. e-mail: cbatiau@eps.harvard.edu (alternate cbat@iau.org) URL http://www.cbat.eps.harvard.edu/index.html Prepared using the Tamkin Foundation Computer Network SUPERNOVA 2013dj V. Lipunov, Sternberg ...

National Aeronautics and Space Administration . ... Robert L. Curbeam, Jr., ... Curbeam served as a spacecraft communicator (CAPCOM) responsible for relaying all voice communication between Mission Control and crews aboard the Space Shuttle and International Space Station, CAPCOM Branch Chief, and Payloads Group Lead, responsible for representing the crew office in the design, training and operation of on orbit experiments, and Safety Branch Chief for the astronaut office. ... DECEMBER 2007 ...

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... Euro/team . ... Euro/person . ... Euro . Observers: 800.– ... Small delays in reports or applications: the correspondent fees are 365 euro (830 euro for observers). ... The fee covers the board, lodging, transportation, excursions, sport, ceremonial, and general organization expenses since 12:00 September 22 th till 12:00 September 30 th . ... The fees are to be paid cash the first day of accommodation. Dr. Michael G. Gavrilov, Founding Chairman of the International Astronomy Olympiad, . ...

... The Galactic low-mass X-ray binary GS 2023+338 was discovered during the burst on May 22, 1989 with the Japanise satellite Ginga (aka Galaxy). The flux reached 17 crabs (this unit of flux measurement is an bright X-ray source, Crab Nebula) at 10-35 keV. ... No other radio telescope worldwide carried out multi-frequency measurements. ... Upon 14 days the radio flux fell below the detection level at the RATAN-600 in relation to the decrease of the X-ray flux. ...

... Bojan Nikolic web pages home . ... We have posted today three reports on ALMA phase correction performance when using the WVRGCAL program. ... Sarah F. Graves: WVRGCAL performance: early 2011 observations & smoothing, March 2012 . Marcel Clemens, The performance of wvrgcal тАФ The 4 quasar, band 9 experiment, uid A002 X2d1a7d X35b.ms , November 2011 . Marcel Clemens, The performance of wvrgcal тАФ The influence of self-cal, September 2011 . ... Copyright 2012, Bojan Nikolic feedback welcome ...

... We thank the Swift team for their rapid scheduling of this observation. ... 2455705.20851 V 14.15 0.03 2455707.83079 V 14.10 0.03 2455710.84028 V 13.53 0.02 2455713.64631 V 13.66 0.02 2455714.65479 V 14.11 0.03 2455714.71823 V 14.12 0.02 2455714.78596 V 14.20 0.02 2455717.39593 V 14.37 0.03 2455726.62861 V 14.83 0.04 2455727.16343 V 14.57 0.04 2455730.50586 V 14.57 0.03 2455730.57329 V 14.56 0.03 2455730.70360 V 14.66 0.04 2455738.32865 V 14.00 0.02 2455742.86146 V 14.21 ...

PRESS-RELEASE . ... At S.P.Korolev Rocket and Space Corporation Energia under the chairmanship of N.N. Sevastyanov, Corporation President, General Designer, took place the next session of the General Designer’s Review Board on the Russian Segment of the International Space Station (ISS). ... The Report on the status of Soyuz TMA-9 manned transport spacecraft launch processing (reporter: Yu.I.Grigoriev, RSC Energia Deputy General Designer, Director of Orbital Complex Programs); . ...

... Next: Object Detection Using Up: Object Detection and Previous: Automated Classification of . ... A status report of the The GSC Object Classifier (GOC) project is presented. ... The GSC contains multiple entries for some objects due to plate overlap. It classifies objects as stars, non-stars, galaxies, blends and potential artifacts; the latter three classifications are rare, and only exist in GSC version 1.1, to which they were added manually. ... star, . ... non-star, . ...

... 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. ...

Kholtygin A., Brown J., Fabrika S., Surkov A. Magnetic field connected fast line profile variability in spectra of bright O supergiants . ... Conference, held in the Special Astrophysical Observatory of the Russian AS, August 27-31, 2003, Eds.: Yu. ... Results of a study of fast line profile variability ( lpv ) in spectra of selected bright O-stars are reported. ... In the context of testing the MCWS model a program of searching for weak magnetic fields in bright O and early B stars is outlined. ...