... Mars: Just The Fiction . ... Like a distant mirror of Earth dwellers' hopes and fears for the future, Mars, the fourth planet from the sun, has inspired profound works of fiction as well. Moonrise, Planet Earth . ... During the Astro-1 astronomy mission of December, 1990, Space Shuttle astronauts photographed this stunning view of the full moon rising above the Earth's limb. ... Saturn's Rings Seen Sideways . ... Shells in the Egg Nebula . ... The Egg Nebula is taking a beating. ... December . ...

... Gladysz, S., Redfern, M., & Jones, B. W. 2003, in ASP Conf. ... We present the results of comparison between characteristics of highly atypical shadow bands recorded during total solar eclipse of 4 December 2002 in Botswana and theory of Codona. ... application of a FFT algorithm to a single image in order to find the shape of power spectral density function, psd(k), defined by Kay and Marple (1981), as predicted by Codona, and search for shadow bands' characteristic spatial frequencies. ...

The "ring of fire" seen by satellite cameras around the polar caps (picture below) is probably created by electrons leaking from the tail's plasma sheet, whose magnetic field lines form a somewhat imperfect trap. ... One possible explanation involves the close association between auroral arcs and electric currents which flow along field lines between the ionosphere and distant space ( Birkeland currents ). ... That produces an extra resistance to the flow of current. ...

ARCSAT ID NUMBER: AS08 DESCRIPTIVE TITLE: Short Term Variability for Stars of Similar Temperatures but Different Luminosities PI: Tiffany Pewett OBSERVER(S): Tiffany Pewett (GSU), Michele Silverstein (GSU), Todd Henry (GSU) UNCERTIFIED/UNTRAINED OBSERVERS: COLLABORATORS: Wei-Chun Jao (GSU) CONTACT INFORMATION: Tiffany Pewett, pewett@astro.gsu.edu, 419-460-0072 TIME REQUESTED: 1. ... December 15 - December 21 One week is requested to observe ~14 stars for photometric variability. ...

This annotated example walks a user through a PINTofALE session using predominantly .par files where available. ... read in line and continuum emissivity databases, . compute a theoretical spectrum, . spectral browsing using SHOW_LINE . ... Carole Jordan type" plot!) in_flx=fitlines_fstr.flx @potem_tool.par ; plot the output EM curves @plotem.par ;NOTE: ; the emission measures are in the IDL save file !ARDB+'example_5.save' ;save,file=!ARDB+'example_5.save',out_LOGT,out_EM,out_multid . ...

Russian . ... text in Russian) . ... The Behaviour of the Bz Component of the Magnetic Field in Coronal Mass Ejections . ... Cooperation of IZMIRAN and Sternberg Astronomical Institute in the Study of the Sublimational Component of the Solar Coronal Radiation . ... Solar Wind and Magnetic Storms in the 24th Solar Activity Cycle . ... text in English) . ... The Solar Corona in the Light of TRACE Observations . ... Expeditions of Irkutsk Astronomers to Total Solar Eclipses in 1981--2012 . ...

MINUTES of the RadioAstron Teleconference on December 13, 2011 Yu.Yu. ... IOC status update M. Popov informed the participants on the current IOC results. ... Kovalev added: we continue to observe pulsars and spectral line sources in radiointerferometer mode but only with spacecraft and we are also going to observing pulsars soon with space-ground baselines. ... Kovalev: It is fringe-fitting result. ... In RAFS05 we replace it with K-band observing (maser source Ori KL ­ spectral lines ~100000Jy). ...

... Fitting the observed dependence includes calculations of the polarization cross-sections averaged over particles orientation and size distribution, their normalization and the comparison of obtained dependencies with Serkowski's curve representing observational data for a chosen star. ... Variations of the polarization factors with wavelength are shown in Fig. 16 for homogeneous spheroidal particles with PF orientation. ... The distinction between prolate and oblate spheroids is also clearly seen. ...

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The accommodation fees for the X APAO : . ... Team fee: 395.- Euro/team . ... Euro/person . ... Team fee: 445.- ... Team fee: 495.- ... Euro/person/day . ... The fees are to be paid cash the first day of accommodation (or in very special cases in advance by bank transfer). National Astronomy Olympic Committees and interested organizations are welcome to ask more about the X APAO. ... Dr. Michael G. Gavrilov, Founding Chairman and Coordinator of the Asian-Pacific Astronomy Olympiad (APAO) . ...

The properties of the midplanes of planet-forming protostellar disks remain largely unprobed by observations due to the high optical depth of dust and commonly observed molecules. However, rotational emission lines from rare molecules may have optical depths near unity in the vertical direction, so that the lines are strong enough to be detected, yet remain transparent enough to trace the disk midplane. In this talk, I will present a chemical evolution model of an MRI-active T-Tauri disk. ...

... THE BEGINNING OF 24 SOLAR CYCLE - I 2009 with W*=1.8; (2.2) THE TIME OF THE CURRENT CYCLE MAXIMUM-IV 2014, - Wmax = 82;(116.4) THE END OF 24 SOLAR CYCLE (THE POINT OF MINIMUM) - IV - VI 2020; THE INTERNATIONAL DAILY VALUE OF RELATIVE SUNSPOT NUMBER FOR 2015, DECEMBER ACCORDING DATA OF 77 SOLAR OBSERVATORIES HAS MADE: 1.. 32 6.. 54 11.. 81 16.. 63 21.. 18m 26.. ... 35 THE MONTHLY MEAN OF OBSERVED RADIO FLUX OF THE 10 cm (2800 MHz ON 2015, DECEMBER Fdec. ... A-active geomagnetic condition. ...

... Future seminars . ... Relativistic magneto-active laser plasmas " . ... Generation of super-strong magnetic fields. ... This method is based on the observation of resonance interaction between the Landau levels in magnetic field and energy levels of plasma ions. ... The important peculiarity of the energy distribution of fast ions is their slow decreasing up to the energy of 1.4 MeV at the laser intensity of 2 10 18 W/cm 2 ; the effective temperature of fast ions is of the order of 350 keV. ...

... 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. ...

Next: NICMOS/HST H-band (F160W) Images Up: NICMOS Science Previous: HST NICMOS Observations of . ... Observations of P . ... The NICMOS team has devised a comprehensive program of observations of the Galactic Center. ... Data in hand give a first look at variability and a detailed look at the search for the tip of the main sequence will be discussed where NICMOS has demonstrated adequate sensitivity and photometric precision to identify likely O8-B1 stars at the Galactic Center. ...

... Under certain conditions, like those in the nucleus of a QSO, all atoms can be made to emit light at particular wavelengths. ... If that source is approaching the observer, the wave is squashed up onto itself making the wavelength shorter. ... This is redshift. ... You can see how the section of the QSO spectrum which we observe changes with redshift. ... We then see how far we had to slide the observed spectrum along the scale to make it match and that is the objects redshift. ... The 2QZ team . ...

... Submitted by Al Takeda on 12/27/2012 17:02:33 . ... This comet is passing through the Ursa Major constellation (December 2012) and is shining at about 7th magnitude. While not viewable with the naked eye, it has been observed by ATMoB members at the Clubhouse with 80mm binoculars and in telescopes as small as 4.25-inches. 30 images x 30-second subframes, Total= 15 minutes. ... ATMoB Clubhouse, Westford, MA, 23 December 2012. ... Copyright (c) Amateur Telescope Makers of Boston, Inc. ...

... Dr. Rodrigues, M1 group, Spain, has pointed out the confusion in identification of SN 1998ar in NGC 2916. ... I have measured the locations of point-like sources around NGC 2916 with DSS-1 image and 5 GSC stars. ... The magnitude of this star is estimated as 15.5 mag or so on DSS1 image. ... Star C seems to be dimmer than Star B, and comparing GSC 14.8 mag star and fainter neighbouring stars, its magnitude is about 1.5 mag dimmer than GSC 14.8 mag star; which tells that SN was about 16.3 mag. ...

... Galaxies 99 Cosmic background with model of cloudy interstellar medium Yu. ... Figure 1: Averaged spectrum of the cosmic background I f in frequency range 0.25 200 MHz for the Galactic poles. ... First interpretation of the cosmic noise background spectrum at broad band frequency range 0.25 200 MHz with a model of the cloudy interstellar medium ISM is presented here. ... Synthesized background spectra I f for regions of the Galactic poles at the frequency range 0.25 200 MHz is presented in Fig. ...

A Brief History of the Discovery of Cosmic Gamma-Ray Bursts - draft april 17, 1995 - J.Bonnell In October of 1963 the US Air Force launched the first in a series of satellites inspired by a recently signed nuclear test ban treaty. ... The event appeared to be a cosmic gamma-ray burst but at the time the constellation of satellites did not have sufficient timing resolution at the trigger to make a good determination of direction to the burst source. ...