STEP INTO THE BLUE - MEADE INSTRUMENTS PRODUCT GUIDE . ... Superb optical performance coupled with time proven computerized pointing and tracking has made the LX200 ACF series a best-seller in the high-performance telescope class. ... Weather Stations . Professional Series . ... Professional Weather Station #TE827W. This full function Weather Station displays temperature, humidity, wind speed, wind chill, wind direction, rainfall, Moon phase, records and charts 24 hour barometric pressure history. ...

... A radio galaxy is a galaxy that emits an unusually big amount of energy at radio wavelengths. ... Inside of each galaxy with an active nucleus (radio galaxies are among them) there must be a system of a "central machine" responsible for the colossal amount of the emitted energy from radio to gamma ranges. ... Sometimes a radio source in an active galaxy may flare again if the needed conditions appear (a new portion of matter would fall into the furnace of the "central machine"). ...

... Armagh Observatory, College Hill, Armagh BT61 9DG, +44 (0)28 3752 2928 . ... Lightcurve of HW Vir from images obtained using the Faulkes Telescope South, operated by Las Cumbres Observatory . The blue triangles show the difference between two stars whose brightness is constant. ... This shows the value of the Faulkes Telescopes in the follow-up observations of eclipsing binaries with the aim to detect and characterise additional circumbinary companions. ...

... The Raw Images . Table 1: List of Viking Orbiter Images of the "Face on Mars" . ... Processing the Face Images . ... In July, 1976, Viking Orbiter 1 was acquiring images of the Cydonia region of Mars as part of the search for potential landing sites for Viking Lander 2. ... Using the height field, it is also possible to view the "Face" from different look directions, by mapping the Viking Orbiter image directly on the the topography and then placing the "viewer" at different locations. ... Mars . ...

... NASA's newest Great Observatory, the Chandra X-Ray Observatory (CXO) -- formally known as the Advanced X-Ray Astrophysics Facility (AXAF) -- launched on July 23, 1999 and represents such an advance. ... Hughes Danbury Optical Systems (HDOS), now Raytheon Optical Systems Incorporated, figured and polished the x-ray optics; Optical Coating Laboratory Incorporated (OCLI) coated the polished optics with iridium; and Eastman Kodak Company (EKC) mounted and aligned the optics and provided the optical...

... Exposure Time Calculator (ETC) . ... ESO - Public Surveys . ... the recommended values to use for DIT, . ... Detector on-chip integration (DIT): seconds. to your chosen value - a separate page gives recommended values to use for DIT - for modes 1 and 2 below you may wish to start with the maximum recommended values as these will minimize the effect of read noise (a total object exposure of Y secs with DIT=X secs will produce Y/X lots of read noise) and give you a lower limit on the time needed. ...

A computer controlled low light photometer for nightglow observations. Hardware units of portable photometer for low light measurements, especially night glow emission is described. ... Interface card contain three channels of 24 bit counter, 4 channels of 12 bit ADC and the buffer bus for the controlled motors of the altazimuthal fork mounting and filters wheel, the position encoders. ... Where N( ) is output signal photometer generated input light flux F( l ) . ... PMT # . 599 . ...

... BTA and RATAN-600 are largest optical and radio telescopes in Russia. ... Antenna of RATAN radio telescope consist of 576-m circle of 895 elements (2 x 11.5 m), which could use as four independent sectors (225 elements) of that reflector (named: North, South, West and East). Four different feed-cabines (N1,2,3,5) with secondary mirrors could simulteniously collect radio emission from these four sectors and be used in programs of Continuum , Spectral and Solar observations. ...

... Old World First Asteroid Radar Echo. ... It testifies that 4179 Toutatis is a double object like asteroid 4769 Castalia. ... Interference of Radar Echo from the Binary Asteroid 4179 Toutatis. ... An analysis of the 6-cm radar data revealed quasi-harmonic oscillation of the echo’s “central” Doppler frequency with a period of about 14 sec and a deviation of about (0.7*B) Hz, where B is the echo bandwidth, which for 4179 Toutatis was equal to 2.1 Hz and 1.9 Hz for 1992 Dec 8 and 9, respectively. ...

Astronomy Discussion Forums . ... Total Lunar Eclipse May 15-16 . ... Post Message | ... A total Lunar Eclipse. On the night of May 15-16 the Earth will come between the Sun and the Moon casting a shadow that will slowly cover the Moon. ... The last total Eclipse was on a day where it snowed 10? all day. ... www.astronomy.net . About Astronomy Net | ... Forum posts are Copyright their authors as specified in the heading above the post. "dbHTML," "AstroGuide," "ASTRONOMY.NET" & "VA.NET" . ...

Pulkovo NEO Page . ... Instrumentation and Observations . ... This Windows application serves for determination of spherical coordinates and magnitudes of the objects. ... The objects coordinates are referred to the system of chosen star catalog. ... 2. choice of reference stars with mouse, . 3. measurement of rectangular frame coordinates of objects and reference stars taking account of predefined background parameters, . 4. calculation of the spherical coordinates of objects. ...

Lab . Main page News People . ASA . Master . Master net Homepage . ... Lomonosov Moscow State University Sternberg Astronomical Institute . ... MASTER . ... Lomonosov (ShOK) . ... About Space Monitoring Laboratory, scientific directions, instruments, contacts . People, who work in lab . Latest news and news archive . ... All news ...

... Telephone: 81 3 5620 9429 International Travel Division Facsimile: 81 3 5620 9400 Convention Center (CD100993-543) 5-5-2, Kiba, Koto-ku, Tokyo135, Japan SCIENTIFIC PROGRAMME: OVERVIEW Invited Discourses JD 1 The Hubble Deep Field R.E.Williams JG 2 The Cataclysmic Variable Stars B.Warner JD 3 Black Holes in the Universe I.D.Novikov Symposia S 183 Cosmological Parameters and the Evolution pf the Universe S ... The dates for this workshop are 3 - 5 March, 1997. ... March 3-5, 1997: Workshop. ...

The artist's rendering depicts the multiple planet systems discovered by NASA's Kepler mission. Out of hundreds of candidate planetary systems, scientists had previously verified six systems with multiple transiting planets (denoted here in red). Now, Kepler observations have verified planets (shown here in green) in 11 new planetary systems. Many of these systems contain additional planet candidates that are yet to be verified (shown here in dark purple). ...

... ISC Kosmotras . ... Dnepr launch record 17 August 2011. ... On 9 September 2009, a contract was signed between ISC Kosmotras and SSTL for the launch of Nigeria-2 and NigeriaSat- у satellites on Dnepr rocket as part of 2010 cluster launch from Yasny Launch Base. According to information provided by SSTL the NigeriaSat-2 satellite is being built for the Nigerian government (NASRDA) as a follow-on to the NigeriaSat-1 satellite that was launched in 2003. ... E-mail: info@kosmotras.ru . ...

Follow-up astrometry and recoveries are made with the ANU 40 inch (1.0-m) f/8 reflector at Siding Spring Observatory (IAU code 413). ... A routine follow-up of 2003 WY153 on 2003 Dec 15 became much more than routine when a faint object with unusual motion vector was found close to the target asteroid. ... During routine astrometry with the 1.0-m to improve the orbit of the Apollo asteroid 2004 CB, the asteroid was found on March 30 to have a short tail! ... Siding Spring Survey Main Page . ...

... Pre-university education . ... Samara region . SSAU History . SSAU roadmap . ... Samara State Aerospace University (SSAU) will take an active part in the work of space activities of the United Nations organization (UNO). ... The road map shape on inclusion of Samara University into implementation of the UN Program on Space Applications was outlined at the roundtable discussion with the University teachers and specialists and at the meeting with SSAU Rector Yevgeniy Shakhmatov. ...

... kupry@sai.msu.ru also kupry@asu.cas.cz . ... Solar expeditions. Astronomical Institute Czech Republic Examples IDL procedures Evpatoria Space Image Evpatoria Winter 2012 European Solar Physics Meeting Digital Images Album IDL Lib Karlovy Vary, 2008 List of publications Masha MAX MILLENNIUM PROGRAM My family (new) HSFA-2, 2005 Ondrejov (brezen 2005 ) Ondrejov webcam Photo Ondrejov observatory Praha SatTV Seznam SOHO Solar eclipse 31 July 1981 Software IDL programmes ...

Appendix: COODINATES OF OBSERVATORIES . This list is the extension of Marsden's list of observatories published in тАЬMinor Planet CirculariesтАЭ. ... тАЬThe Astronomical Year-Book for the year 1942тАЭ, 1941, p.355-360, in Russian . ... The numbers 0-999 were taken in according to Marsden (Ref.1), the numbers from 1000 were appropriated by us. ... For observatories with numbers 0-999 and code of reference 1* the heights were taken by maps . ... For numbers 0-999 the code equals 1 usually. ...

... GAMMA RAY BURSTS . with guest Dr. Dale Frail from National Radio Astronomy Observatory . ... Gamma-Ray Bursts . A Collection of Resources to Get Behind the Headlines . Andrew Fraknoi (Foothill College & ASP) . ... This is a fine introduction to violent events in the universe by a noted astronomer, with a good section on gamma-ray bursts. ... On the Swift mission and what it is teaching astronomers about gamma-ray bursts. ... http://imagine.gsfc.nasa.gov/docs/science/know_l1/bursts.html . ...