... The damage to NIFS has freed up the RSAA instrumentation team to concentrate on the timely delivery of the Gemini South Adaptic Optics Imager (GSAOI). ... GSAOI is the second instrument that ANU is building for Gemini. ... GSAOI Website: http://www.mso.anu.edu.au/gsaoi/ NIFS Website: http://www.mso.anu.edu.au/nifs/ RSAA Website: http://www.mso.anu.edu.au/ Australian Gemini Project Office Website: http://www.ausgo.unsw.edu.au/ Gemini Public Information Website: http://www.gemini.anu.edu.au/public/ . ...

Neutron Monitors ] [ Solar Neutrons ] [ Muon Telescopes ] [ Base Potchefstroom University ] [ Magnetometers ] [ GPS systems ] [ Ionosphere ] [ Related Data ] [ Space Weather ] . ... All Cosmic Ray Stations + InterPlanetary Data: WorldNet . Alma-AtaB (Mt.Tien Shan) DataBase of Kazakhstan Spectrograph Alma-AtaB (Mt.Tien Shan) new . ... Nagoya Muon Telescope and DATA or mail . ... Belgrade Muon Telescopes and DATA or ">mail . ... Real-Time database for Cosmic Ray Anisotropy (DB10) . ...

... the data are described accurately enough to allow an unambiguous interpretation of the data, as well as a comprehension of the context in which the data were acquired and/or processed; a single ascii file, named ReadMe , is designed for this role. the data are in a format which allows their usage by tools currently in usage in our discipline -- normally flat ascii files ; other formats can be accepted, but are converted into flat files. ... How to prepare the Data files . ... How to deposit the data...

... Bad Astronomy . ... Bitesize Astronomy . ... Last week's Snack talked about how black holes can affect the environment around them in such a way as to be very bright . ... It's a common misconception that black holes always have matter swirling into them. ... As this matter gets closer and closer to the black hole it piles up and a large, fairly flat disk forms. This is called the accretion disk , because matter from this disk accretes (that is, falls in) on the black hole. ... 2008 Phil Plait. ...

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... Schaaff, A. 2003, in ASP Conf. ... Started at CDS in 2002, the work around Web Services is in a full exploitation phase. ... A portal is available to publish all information about how to use CDS XML Webservices and also hints on how to start to use XML Web Services (tutorial, links, etc.) ... Figure: The CDS Web Service Portal at http://cdsweb.u-strasbg.fr/cdsws.gml . ... Note that it is not necessary to deal with the contents of a SOAP file to have client access to the CDS XML Web Services. ...

... University history . ... V.љN. Karazin . ... July, 2016 . New Program: BS in International Relations and Regional Studies . V. N. Karazin Kharkiv National University is pleased to invite future students to apply for a new speciality: BS in International Relations, Social Communication and Regional Studies (educational program International Relations and Regional Studies ) offered by the School of International Economic Relations and Travel Business. ... up until April 2016 . ... 2016?: ...

Планета Земля и Луна . ... Космическая защита . Луна . Фотографии . ... Строение Луны . ... Страница: Начало одиссеи , Экспедиции , Море Кризисов , "Аполлон-8" , "Аполлон-9" , "Аполлон-10" , "Аполлон - 11" , E-8 "Луноход" , Испытания Л-1 , Луноход - 1,2 , КА "Луна 1-24" , КА "Луна-9" , Луна от КА СССР ; . Луна - наш космический спутник . ... Снимки Луны от аппаратов серии Луна и Зонд (СССР) . Фотографии космических аппаратов серии "Луна" (также Луноходы) и "Зонд" - СССР . ... Зонд 3 . ...

... AO-4 . The space VLBI Mission RadioAstron, led by the Astro Space Center (ASC) of Lebedev Physical Institute, provides a range of specific and unique capabilities for detecting and imaging sources of cosmic radio emission at the highest angular resolution. ... AO-4 observations will be performed between July 2016 and June 2017 inclusive. ... The RadioAstron Announcement of Opportunity - 4; . The RadioAstron User's Handbook ; . ... RadioAstron observations status summary . ...

... Comets and Asteroids . ... Space Flight . ... By admin October 14, 2010 Posted in: Comets and Asteroids . ... No one on Earth noticed this cataclysm until January 2010, almost a year later, when the LINEAR survey discovered something odd , initially thought to be a comet. ... For details of observations at this time, see Crash of the Asteroids by Sinead McNicholl in the March 2010 issue of Astronotes . Colliding asteroid P/2010 A2 as seen by Rosetta (Image credit: ESA) . ...

More about Handling Difficult Questions (and Difficult People) . ... The claim: Humans have never landed on the Moon, the Apollo landings were faked by NASA. ... The claim: Astrology is the same as Astronomy. The reasons: Many people confuse astronomy with astrology and may ask you specific questions that relate to astrology. ... The reasons: There is often not much proof with these claims. ... The claim: Origins of the universe, Earth, and life by other means than what scientific evidence shows. ...

... 8, ``Celestial Mechanics'', 2002 Canon of solar eclipses in Russia for the interval 1000--2050 M. V. Lukashova, L. I. Rumjantseva Institute of Applied Astronomy, St. Petersburg, Russia Solar eclipses are quite rare events. ... The Canon contains the basic data about the solar eclipses observed in ter­ ritory of the former USSR (in boundaries of 1990) from 1000 to 2050 with the magnitude of phase exceeding 0.1. ... Beginning from 1887 several canons of solar eclipses were published. ...

... ISC Kosmotras . ... Comments, Opinions Publications Dnepr Program . Dnepr launch record 17 August 2011. ... Dnepr Cluster Mission 2013 19 June 2014. Dnepr Cluster Mission 2014 6 November 2014. ... On June 28, 2007, a converted SS-18 rocket commercially known as Dnepr successfully launched Genesis-2 satellite into its target 550 km orbit inclined 64.5 degrees. ... Dnepr Program operations are under control of the Federal Space Agency of Russia and National Space Agency of the Ukraine. ...

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... In addition, IZMIRAN comprises the St.Petersburg branch and magnetic ionospheric observatory in Kaliningrad. The history of IZMIRAN is largely that of investigating magnetic storms and sub-storms on the Earth surface, in circum-terrestrial and interplanetary space, initially by means of a network of ground stations of the Soviet Union (1930s - 1940s) and the nonmagnetic skunner "Zarja", then through the extensive use of magnetic measurements on artificial Earth satellites and automatic stations. ...

The points are analogous to ones for the 4 th , 5 th , 6 th and 7 th Asian-Pacific Astronomy Olympiads . ... National Astronomy Olympic Committees and interested organizations are welcome to ask more about the 8 th APAO and in 2012 may form the teams for the 17 th IAO as well as for the 8 th APAO. The official APAO e-mail is a p a o [a] l i s t . ... Dr. Michael G. Gavrilov, Founding Chairman and Coordinator of the Asian-Pacific Astronomy Olympiad (APAO) . ... e-mail: gavrilov@issp.ac.ru . ...

... Sun images . ... September : 2015 . ... Image of Sun's photosphere obtained 09.09.2015 at 23:36 UT with HMI instrument on board SDO spacecraft . ... Image of Sun's magnetic field obtained 09.09.2015 at 23:54 UT with HMI instrument on board SDO spacecraft . ... Image of Sun's transition region obtained 09.09.2015 at 23:36 UT with AIA instrument on board SDO spacecraft . Image of Sun's corona . Image of Sun's corona obtained 09.09.2015 at 23:36 UT with AIA instrument on board SDO spacecraft . ...

The "21-inch" (0.52 meter) Moore reflector celebrated its 50th year in 2005, just prior to retirement from its role as our primary research instrument. ... The primary telescope and its mounting were designed and constructed by the Louisville Astronomical Society between 1935 to 1955. The telescope is named for Walter L. Moore, who was responsible for coordinating its construction, and who tested and figured its primary mirror. ... It is presently stored at Moore Observatory. ...

Evolution of the double neutron star merging rate and the cosmological origin of Gamma-ray burst sources " , Astroph.J., 1995, v.454, 593-596 (Lipunov, V.M. Postnov, K.A. and Prokhorov M.E.) . Evolution of SupernovaЃExplosion Rates in theЃ Universe (Jorgensen H., Lipunov.M., Panchenko I.E., Postnov K.A., Prokhorov M.E.) ApJ, 1997, v.486,p.110 . ... Formation of a Gravitationally Bound Object after Binary Neutron Star Merging and GRB phenomena " (G.V.Lipunova, V.M.Lipunov). ...

... Clubs . ... PUBLIC Telescopic observing is conducted at the Wheaton College Observatory every clear Friday (call for times) when college is in session. ... The College has a 12.5 " Newtonian/cassegrain telescope. ... For more information see the North Shore Amateur Astronomy Club page. ... For more information see the North Shore Amateur Astronomy Club page and the college's page . ... Aldrich Astronomical Society Paxton, MA . ... Copyright (c) Amateur Telescope Makers of Boston, Inc. ...