... Globules in the Running Chicken Nebula . ... The eggs from this chicken may form into stars. ... Sun and Prominence . ... Such was the case last week as a large prominence, visible above, highlighted a highly active recent Sun. ... NGC 7331 and Beyond . ... About 50 million light-years distant in the northern constellation Pegasus, NGC 7331 was recognized early on as a spiral nebula and is actually one of the brighter galaxies not included in Charles Messier's famous 18th century catalog. ...

Astronomical Data Analysis Software and Systems VII ASP Conference Series, Vol. ... A Wavelet Parallel Code for Structure Detection A. Pagliaro Istituto di Astronomia dell'Universit‘a di Catania U. Becciani, V.Antonuccio and M.Gambera Osservatorio Astrofisico di Catania Abstract. We describe a parallel code for 3­D structure detection and morphological analysis. The method is based on a multiscale technique, the wavelet transform and on segmentation analysis. ... Segmentation analysis. ...

... SHORT TERM PREDICTION OF POWER SOLAR FLARES FROM SSRT DATA . The algorithm for short term prediction of powerful solar flares, based on SSRT data, includes microwave emission characteristics in total and polarized flux, the structure of active region (AR) magnetic field at the photospheric level, and H a patrol data. ... During this period, 7 AR's crossed the solar disk, in which 20 flares of importance ? ... Data on AR's and magnetic fields were received from the Sayan observatory by teletype. ...

As conditional or control statements you have IF in many variants (but essentially not changed from Fortran 77), DO (with some new variants) and the completely new statement CASE . The DO- loop should now be ended with the statement END DO and we no longer need any statement number. In addition, we can use the statement EXIT to jump out of the DO -loop and CYCLE in order to go to the next iteration of the present DO -loop. ... all negative numbers WRITE (*,*) 'Negative number' CASE (0) ! ...

... Observing . ... Solar Observing . ... April 3 (SUN) - Solar Observing, Central Park , Manhattan . ... APRIL'S SKY . ... Lecture Series at the American Museum of Natural History The Amateur Astronomers Association is proud to present an astronomy lecture series from October through May each year for our members and the .. ... The€аAmateur Astronomers Association of New York€аwas organized in 1927 to promote the study of Astronomy, emphasizing its cultural and inspirational value. ...

. This mosaic of WFPC-2 images shows the evolution of the G impact site on Jupiter (the 21 comet fragments of Shoemaker-Levy 9 were each assigned a corresponding letter to identify the impact site; G represents the 7th fragment to strike the planet. It was also the largest impact.) // R. Evans/J. Trauger/H. Hammel/and the HST Comet Science Team

... Space-time distribution of matter at the epoch Z=0.4--3.5 by analysis of absorbtion systems in QSO spectra" . A statistical analysis of distributions of C IV and Mg II absorption-line systems observed in QSO spectra within the cosmological redshift interval Z abs =0.2-3.2 is presented. ... The isotropy (or anisotropy) of the distribution is verified by comparing of independent distributions of the absorption systems in opposite hemispheres with their various orientations. ...

Once students get the hang of it, they can find and measure the brightness of Delta Cephei in a few minutes. ... of Delta Cephei . ... Oct. ... The following table lists the measurements of Delta Cephei made by one amateur astronomer in autumn 1990. ... 4.0 . ... This activity is a simplified version of one that appeared in Hands-On Astrophysics, a series of activities prepared by the American Association of Variable Star Observers with support from the National Science Foundation. << previous page | ...

... The areas between the contours were measured automatically. The results of the measurement are represented on fig.1 The graphic shows the distribution of the height levels against their areas. ... USGS, USA Fig.1 The dependence of the distribution of the heights levels versus the area occupied Fig.2 The distribution of the areas of heights levels in the northern and southern hemispheres Fig.3 The distributions of the areas heights levels in eastern and western hemispheres of Mars ...

Dynamic Routing; Configuration of Overloaded Interacting Servers N.D. Vvedenskaya, Moscow, I ITP We consider a symmetrical network with k servers and l Poisson input flows. The proto col uses dynamic routing: each flow is assigned to a subgroup of m servers, up on its arrival a message is directed to the least busy of these servers. ... 6 One server. ... Therefore it is sufficient to consider the equal overload of m , k m m servers caused by the equal overheat of several flows. ...

... In the light curve depicting their observations, definite trends are noted, here is a "thumb-nail" analysis of the the magnitude estimations of the bright SN (1989B) in the galaxy NGC 3627 (M66). ... 10 (IAUC # 4742) 2/25 13.3 16 j 2/27 13.5(*) 18 lc 2/28 13.8 19 p 3/1 13.2 20 w 3/2 13.5 21 a 3/4 13.8 23 p 3/6 13.3 25 c 3/7 13.3 26 c 3/8 14.1 27 m 3/8 13.3 27 r 3/9 13.4 28 c 3/9 14.1 28 m 3/10 13.6 29 j 3/10 14.0 29 a 3/11 13.6 30 c 3/11 13.5 30 r 3/11 13.7 30 s 3/13 [13.69 CCD 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. ...

The revision of the MASS/DIMM star catalogue N. Shatsky, V. Kornilov March 16, 2008 Abstract The compilation of the (updated) version of the MASS (MASS/DIMM) device target catalogue is described. ... Then the list was cleaned according to following criteria: I. Remove stars too faint for a MASS device. ... Here the color equation of the Sternb erg device was taken: M AS S mag = V mag + 0.45 (B - V ); stars with M AS S mag > 3.2 were removed. ... This was made based on the GCVS4.2 catalogue data. ...

There are six possible ways of object description: . a) by number(s) . ... d) by list . e) by orbital elements . ... They should be introduced as year, month, day with tenth (e.g. 20021104.1). d) Computations are performed for all objects listed in the file whose path and name should be introduced into assigned data field. ... On pressing Edit file button user has a possibility to look through the list of object elements or their coordinates and velocities to add or to change it. ...

NMW survey overview . Access image archive . ... The New Milky Way survey aims to detect bright (V<13.5) optical transients near the Galactic plane using an automated wide-field (8x6 deg.) system capable of surveying the whole Milky Way area visible from the observing site in one night. ... All images obtained during the transient search survey are available online (please use the image archive access form ). ... Images per field: . ... Images per night: . ... Milky Way imaging time: . ...

... The main field of my investigations is stellar spectrophotometry. As a result of scientific activity of our group spectrophotometric catalog was created including energy distribution data on 900 stars in the range 3200-7600AA and 250 stars in the range 6000-10800AA (Voloshina et al., Spectrophotometry of Bright Stars, ed. I.N.Glushneva, 1982, Moscow, Nauka, in Russian). ...

... 2004: . ... An increase in star brightness is followed by a decrease in asphericity and wind velocity to the point where stationary and even accreting fraction of the wind appears in extremely bright objects together with a flowing out fraction. ... Based on an analysis of observations obtained with BTA and on the published data it was found that degree of abnormality of energy distribution in continuum of magnetic chemically peculiar stars increases with an increase of their rotation period. ...

Variations of total ozone content and lower ozone stratosphere temperature in Antarctic Region during winter-spring period A.V. Grytsai National Taras Shevchenko University of Kyiv Astronomy and Space Physics Department assen@univ.kiev.ua Data, used in the work work Total ozone: Total Ozone Mapping Spectrometer (TOMS) measurements during 1979 - 2005 and Ozone Monitoring Instrument (OMI) ones for 2006, for http://toms.gsfc.nasa.gov/ftpdata.html. ... A long-term TOC decrease is significant. ...

To read standard input into a shell script use the read command. For example: echo "Please enter your name:" read name echo "Welcome to Edinburgh $name" . This prompts the user for input, assigns this to the variable name and then displays the value of this variable to standard output . ... For example: echo "Please enter your surname\n" echo "followed by your first name: \c" read name1 name2 echo "Welcome to Glasgow $name2 $name1" . ...

... 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. ...