Large sunspots were occasionally seen far in the past without any instruments, when the sun was dimmed by thick haze, but not much was remembered of those observations. ... Sunspot Cycle (1850 - 1975) . One who was greatly influenced by Schwabe's discovery was an English gentleman of independent means, Richard Christopher Carrington , who devoted himself to the study of sunspots. ... Carrington had seen a flare, of the rare variety that is visible in white light (only about 50 are known). ...

... They are concerned with Attitude Control System of the spacecraft, satellite visibility from tracking stations, limits on the satellite autonomous operations during the orbit, and needs for auxiliary operations with the spacecraft. ... Among the operational constraints the most important one is the number of programmed slews per orbit, which determines the maximum number of radio sources to be observed during one orbit. ... System temperature (K) . ... Progress of the RadioAstron Project in Pictures...

... ASRAS HOME . ... Mees Observatory . ... Site . ... Weather forecast will be correct for the Farash Center . ... Through gracious donations from Marion and Max Farash and the Louis S. Wolk Foundation, ASRAS has been able to acquire a large piece of land well away from the city lights. ... The Marian and Max Farash Center for Observational Astronomy consists of an education center, maintenance building and 6 working observatories on a 17 acre plot of land just off route 64 in the hamlet of Ionia, NY. ...

... The European HST Archive has been moved to ESA's European Space Astronomy Centre ( ESAC ), Spain, where most of ESA's Space Science Archives are located and operated from. ... The Space Telescope European Coordinating Facility (ST-ECF), jointly operated by ESA and the European Southern Observatory ( ESO ) was, until the end of 2010, the European HST science facility, supporting the European astronomy community in exploiting the research opportunities provided by the Hubble Space Telescope. ...

... DESCRIPTION General Catalog of Variable Stars (GCVS database) . ... Kholopov P.N., Samus N.N., Durlevich O.V., Kazarovets E.V., Kireeva N.N., Tsvetkova T.M., 1990, General Catalogue of Variable Stars, 4rd ed., vol.IV, Nauka, Moscow. Kholopov P.N., Samus N.N., Durlevich O.V., Kazarovets E.V., Kireeva N.N., Tsvetkova T.M., 1992, General Catalogue of Variable Stars, 4rd ed., vol.IV, Bull. ... Kazarovets E.V., Durlevich O.V. Editor-in-Chief Samus N.N., 1998, New Catalogue of Suspected Variable Stars. ...

NASA Press Release Text - June 24, 1996 GALILEO READY FOR CLOSE FLYBY OF JUPITER'S BIGGEST MOON Now residing in orbit around Jupiter, NASA's Galileo spacecraft is primed for its first close flyby of Jupiter's largest moon, Ganymede, at 2:29 a.m. EDT on June 27, 1996. ... In the days just before and after the Ganymede flyby, Galileo's other studies will include a search for auroral activity on Jupiter's nightside and observations of other Jovian moons: Io, Europa and Callisto. ...

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... Home Articles Observing Resources for Amateur Astronomers ? Part 1: Beginning Observers Observing Resources for Amateur Astronomers ? Part 3: Advanced Observers . ... Observing Resources for Amateur Astronomers - Part 1: Beginning Observers . Observing Resources for Amateur Astronomers - Part 2: Intermediate Observers . Observing Resources for Amateur Astronomers - Part 3: Advanced Observers . Observing Resources for Amateur Astronomers - Part 4: Magazines and Miscellany . ...

... An artificial comet holds secrets to Earths life . ... Astronomers recently discovered that Scholz's star passed close to the Sun 70,000 years ago. Wouldn't its gravity have sent Oort Cloud comets raining into the inner planets? ... COMETS | OORT CLOUD . Based on the number of long-period comets that enter the inner solar system, astronomers estimate there are probably trillions of them in the Oort Cloud. Get instant access to subscriber content on Astronomy.com! ... Discover | ...

XmTel ----- XmTel is a Motif-based telescope control program based on INDI, the Instrument-Neutral Distributed Interface. ... See the files LICENSE and COPYRIGHT for the details. ... About Epoch ----------- XmTel assumes that the telescope is set to "Epoch of Date", which means that it is using ideal celestial coordinates precisely aligned today. ... XmTel assumes that target coordinates entered from the keyboard are in the Epoch that the telescope coordinates are currently displayed in. ...

... Classes . ... Nebula Class Reference . ... getInfoString (const StelCore *core, const InfoStringGroup &flags) const . ... getCloseViewFov (const StelCore *core=NULL) const . ... getVMagnitude (const StelCore *core, bool withExtinction=false) const . ... getSelectPriority (const StelCore *core) const . ... getEquinoxEquatorialPos (const StelCore *core) const . ... getJ2000GalacticPos (const StelCore *core) const . ... getPositionInfoString (const StelCore *core, const InfoStringGroup &flags) const . ...

Astronotes Armagh Planetarium's Stellar Blog! ... By admin March 6, 2013 Posted in: Comets and Asteroids . ... Comet PANSTARRS reaches perihelion, its closest approach to the Sun on 10 March, after this it will start to move away from the Sun and to be visible in the twilight sky to observers in the northern hemisphere. ... It was a very faint and delicate white ?feather? against a deep golden sky.€а It took quite some effort to find even with binoculars and I could not see it at all without them. ...

... NGC 1530 is one of the largest barred spiral galaxies in the northern sky, with bright CO emission. ... To trace molecular gas, we observed the line, with the IRAM Interferometer. ... Properties of NGC 1530 and observational results . ... Then in a frame rotating with the potential, the periodic orbits are ellipses either parallel to the bar ( ) or perpendicular ( ), depending on the radius of the orbit. ... We observed the molecular gas in the bar of NGC 1530, a barred SBb spiral in the line. ...

... In this report the measurement results are presented of the ACE Benchmark Suite, run on a variety of UNIX based systems, ranging from personal computers, through workstations, to multi-processor superminis. ... This 1988 edition of the report "Benchmarking UNIX Systems" contains the results for many new systems, besides some which were already present in the previous, September 1987 issue. ... 3.6 From the Philips Set 16 . ... Hewlett & Packard 152 . 14.1 The Hewlett & Packard HP 9000/319 152 . ...

General Information . ... The conference is organized by the Sternberg Astronomical Institute (SAI) of Moscow University and the IAU Working group "Site-testing Instruments" . ... Use of site data in telescope operation and adaptive optics. ... Recent conferences on this subject (2007, 2008) demonstrated great interest of the community, hence the need for a new meeting. ... Unlike previous recent conferences, this meeting will cover all aspects of site monitoring for optical/IR astronomy. ...

The original files with the data were in different formats. ... Such files were named "standard data files" and linked to the database. They can be easily transformed to any desirable format by a code. Here we present two simple computer programs of this kind. ... When running the code, you can specify columns in the output file: wavelength, energy (eV) or wavenumber (cm -1 ) as the first column, and complex refractive index or dielectric function as the second and third columns. ...

... The package AMPLE (Adaptable Minor Planet Ephemerides) is dedicated to solving a number of problems concerning minor planets with the aid of IBM-type personal computer. ... Obtaining selection of orbital elements and/ or photometric parameters of minor planets in conformity with imposed restrictions. ... The orbital elements of all minor planets used in AMPLE for 2015 have been determined in IAA on the ground of available observations in the catalogue of observations of the Minor Planet Center. ...

... Instrument Description . Software: Version 4.0 . Version 3.0:Complete Documentation . ... ИОНОЗОНД ПАРУС, разработанный в ИЗМИРАН, предназначен для диагностики ионосферы и оперативного прогноза КВ связи. ... Общая структура ИОНОЗОНДА ПАРУС, Технические Характеристики , Конструктивные параметры на настоящий момент соответствуют модификации Комплекса: ВЕРСИЯ 3.0 . ... Там же находится полное описание Комплекса ИОНОЗОНД ПАРУС: ВЕРСИЯ 3.0 . ... 2004 IONOSONDE PARUS ...

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