... Staff . Research staff . ... Star formation . ... Historical highlights . Historical research . ... GIANO opens a new window on stellar and planetary astrophysics . ... During its commissioning in July 2012, spectra of the sky and of luminous stars have been taken with GIANO. ... The results are published on Astronomy & Astrophysics 2013 (in press): " GIANO-TNG spectroscopy of red supergiants in the young star cluster RSGC2 " led by Livia Origlia (Principal Investigator) and 21 co-authots. ...

... 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. ...

... Механизмы излучения космических объектов: классика и современность . ... Studies of radiation mechanisms and processes of spectra formation in astrophysical objects are among the fundamental tasks of modern astrophysics. ... On this occasion the Saint-Petersburg State University organizes an international conference Radiation mechanisms of astrophysical objects: classics today , which will be held in St. Petersburg from September, 21 to September, 25, 2015. ... radiative transfer theory, . ...

Astronomy Picture of the Day . Open Cluster NGC 6520 from CFHT . ... For the open cluster of stars NGC 6520, every day is like this. On the left of the above picture are many of NGC 6520's bright blue stars. Nearby Spiral Galaxy NGC 4945 . ... For such a close galaxy, NGC 4945 is easy to miss. ... Sunspot Region 30 . ... Looking at the star forming region RCW38 will not normally reveal most of the stars in this cluster. ... Proxima Centauri: The Closest Star . ...

... Meade Instruments Corporation . ... Section 3: File Menu . ... Displays the dialog to open an existing image: . ... Saves the current image as a new file name or new file type, or both. ... This can be useful to prevent having 20 or more images open at once, and saves having to close them manually. ... This is done by creating a text file with the same name as the image file. ... Note that Image Information is saved within the FITS file, so there will not be a text file to accompany these files. ...

... Archives . ... Discontinuation of weekly [arXiv] series . ... For a discipline that relies so heavily on images, it is rather surprising how little use astronomy makes of the vast body of work on image analysis carried out by mathematicians and computer scientists. ... images. ... Images may be Opened and Closed with different structure elements. ... Tags: close , dilate , EotW , Equation , Equation of the Week , erode , Morphological operator , open , set theory . Category: Imaging , Jargon | ...

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). ...

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The Olympiad participants are not supposed to study at any institutions of higher education (university or school which can be considered technical colleges). ... Only students did not participated at the IAO or APAO of the current educating year may participate in SiberiaOpen (that is, during an educating year - since autumn till spring - a student may participate in IAO or in APAO or in "Siberia Open", not in any two of these Olympiads). ... m - those who finish school later than in 3 years; . ...

Warren Rupp Observatory and the Richland Astronomical Society loves it when our members have talents! In the case of Bob Kocar, he's more than just a great observer and outreach worker.. He does astrophotography, too! ... Warren Rupp Observatory is proud to be associated with these fine groups and endorse these resources.. ... The WRO/RAS was designed and donated by Tammy Plotner - Copyright 2008-2010; Original Content - Tammy Plotner - Copyright 2008-2010; All rights reserved. ...

Welcome to the AAAP Simpson Observatory 2016 season information page. The Simpson Observatory is located in Washington Crossing State Park, [on the NJ side] several miles south of Pennington, NJ. The observatory is a slide-roof design, allowing for optimal viewing of the sky in any direction. http://www.princetonastronomy.org/directions.html . ... THE OBSERVATORY WILL BE OPEN TO THE PUBLIC . ... Enter Washington Crossing State Park (NJ side) off of Bear Tavern Road . ...

... Bad Astronomy . Misconceptions . ... Bad Astronomy : "That's as remote as the dark side of the Moon!" ... As the tired, hackneyed refrains went on, one in particular caught my ear: " Fly me away to the bright side of the moon, and meet me on the other side." ... As the Moon orbits the Earth, different parts of it get illuminated by the Sun. ... Bad Addendum : At the end of the album "Dark Side of the Moon" by Pink Floyd, there is a voiceover that actually says "There is no dark side of the moon. ...

Phoebe ("FEE bee") is the outermost of Saturn 's known satellites. Phoebe is almost 4 times more distant from Saturn than its nearest neighbor ( Iapetus ). orbit : 12,952,000 km from Saturn diameter : 220 km mass : 4.0e18 kg . ... Most of Saturn's moons are bright but Phoebe's albedo is very low (.05), as dark as lampblack. ... Phoebe is also unusual in that it does not rotate synchronously as do all the other moons of Saturn except Hyperion . ... first images from Cassini: . Battered Moon . ...

... Recent Topics . ... MAO main . ... Fw: ASTRONET: Task 5.4 - observing schools . ... Subject: Re: ASTRONET: Task 5.4 - observing schools . ... second half of September, and which will be funded by the training and . ... www.iap.fr/opticon/neon_schools/2014/index.html . ... intended for master and starting PhD students. ... actions on observing schools, providing access for students, Master . ... observing schools for master students. ... in form of observing schools for pre-PhD students. ... MAO NASU...

... Fiona Harrison (Caltech), New Results from the NuSTAR: The High Energy X-ray Sky In Focus 09:30 10:00 10:30 11:00 11:30-12:00 Coffee break Cosmological simulations Avishai Dekel (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem), Feeding Galaxies by Cosmic-Web Streams and Pancakes Debora Sijacki (Cambridge), Resolving the flows around black holes in cosmological simulations Tom Abel (Stanford), Dark Matter Dynamics 12:00 12:30 13:00 13:30-15:00 LUNCH and poster session Cosmological ...

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International Workshop NAROO-GAIA "A new reduction of old observations in the Gaia era", Paris Observatory, June 20-22, 2012 Registration of participants of Workshop NAROO-GAIA Before the first meeting OPENING OF THE WORKSHOP The natural planetary satellites are observed since centuries in order to understand their dynamics and their evolution. ... Science results, reports, data mining. ... L. Beauvalet: Strong need of a new reduction of Pluto's old observations W.Thuillot: very important. ...

... Structure of Data . ... Catalog . ... The SAI OCL Catalog site provides several VO-enabled modes of operation: . VO-enabled catalog data analysis from a browser . ... Endpoint URL is http://ocl.sai.msu.ru/catalog/conesearch/ . ... VO-enabled catalog analysis from a browser . Presently, this recipe works with Firefox (Windows, MacOS, Linux), Internet Explorer (Windows) and Opera (Windows) browsers with Java plugin 1.6 installed. ... Main TOPCAT window with SAI OCL catalog loaded will appear. ...

... Spacecraft . 29a. Satellite looking up . ... 29e. Explorers of distant space . Space Index . ... Many "down-looking" satellites also carry out local observations, among them Polar, Viking, Freja and satellites of the GOES and DMSP series. ... Other explorers of the distant magnetosphere have included the three ISEE spacecraft (International Sun-Earth Explorers), Polar in an elliptical polar orbit with cameras observing the polar aurora, and Image observing energetic neutral atoms. ...

. Pulkovo Observatory of Russian Academy of Sciences is situated . near Saint-Petersburg. It was founded in 1839. 196140, Saint-Petersburg, Pulkovskoye chaussee 65/1 . English version . Russian version . This page has been accessed times since May 1, 1999.