... What's New? Bad Astronomy . ... News . ... The questions was: "During a flight, I saw a round rainbow shaped like a doughnut. ... However, she said that all rainbows are actually circles, and that she could not find a name for this phenomenon. ... One is that rainbows really aren't full circles. ... Basically, rainbows are due to light getting bent ("refracted") inside of raindrops. ... It's called a "glory", and is formed in a somewhat different way than rainbows. ... 2008 Phil Plait. ...

... The data for ~ 5500 F-G stars are used to study their kinematics, metal abundance and HR diagram in terms of uvby photometry. The age - metallicity, velocity - metallicity, and age - velocity relations are derived. ... 4) At a given metallicity the kinematics of F dwarfs is close to that of G giants and the kinematics of G dwarfs is close to that of K giants. ... 1) При [Fe/H] < 0 звезды данной металличности обнаруживают отчетливую точку поворота главной последовательности (ГП). ...

... The available observational data on masses and/or luminosities of binary components and the current models for different chemical compositions of Pop I stars were used to improve the mass-luminosity relation for stars of moderate masses. ... This technique was also applied to decompose the low-mass components of several stars suspected to be unresolved binaries. ... The method is based on the minimum determination technique applied to functions of several variables covering a limited range of values...

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... 18c. Work . ... The concept of Work is closely related to that of energy. ... Suppose we lift a weight A of mass m a distance h (for height) from the floor to the table (Figure 1). ... That, however, is just the potential energy added to the weight! ... Energy is always preserved but--as seen in an earlier section--not always in a usable form. ... Because the trains are linked, when one goes up, the other descends, and by giving up its potential energy, it helps pull the other one upwards. ...

The most up-to-date information related to atmos 3.0 are collected here due to constantly increasing interest to MASS/DIMM processing software... atmos 3.0 is still beta , so the latest version is 2.97.5 (there is also 2.98.x branch which absorbs new features) . ... M' line: . ... free seeing and its relative error . ... dimm seeing and its relative error (if dimm data are present, zeros otherwise) . ... dimm turbulence power and its relative error (if dimm data are present, zeros otherwise) . ...

Subject of Celestial Mechanics. ... Differential Absolute Coordinates Equations of the Problem. ... General Integral of Non-Perturbed Motion. ... General Equation of Non-Perturbed Orbit. ... Other Integration Methods of Non-Perturbed Motion Differential Equations; Bine Equation for Case of Non-Perturbed Motion. ... Ellipsical Motion, Kepler Equation. ... Motion Differential Equations in Absolute Coordinates. ... Equation of System of Bodies Motion in Barycentric Coordinates, in Relative Coordinates. ...

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Next: A Universal Diagram for Up: ``Ecology'' of Magnetic Rotators Previous: The Corotation Radius . The interaction of a magnetic rotator with the surrounding plasma to a large extent depends on the relation between the four characteristic radii: the stopping radius, , the gravitational capture radius,   , the light cylinder radius,   , and the corotation radius,   . ... Hence, the classification of the interaction regimes may well mean the classification of magnetic rotators. ...

... Ultraluminous X-ray sources (ULXs) are located in external galaxies, their X-ray luminosities (10 39 - 10 41 erg/s) are thousand times greater than those of brightest black holes in the Galaxy. ULXs may be supercritical accretion disks around black holes of stellar masses (~10 Solar masses) like that in SS433, or they may be a hypothetical intermediate-mass black holes (hundreds - thousands Solar masses) with standard accretion disks. ... 2) The ULX progenitors were ejected from the star clusters. ...

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... Editor's note: This activity is both on the Astrocappella web site and the CD-ROM featured in this article. ... Every student can demonstrate the Doppler effect! ... splash out' ball** . ... Twist the 'splash out' ball open. ... This effect can occur with both sound and light, because both sound and light reveal wave- like behavior. ... The number of waves reaching an observer in one second is called the frequency. ... What has the Doppler shift told astronomers about the expansion of the universe? ...

... 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). ...

... 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 . ...

... 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. ...

Physica B 284}288 (2000) 649 } 650 Superconductor}insulator transition in amorphous In}O lms V.F. Gantmakher*, M.V. Golubkov, V.T. Dolgopolov, G.E. Tsydynzhapov, A.A. Shashkin Institute of Solid State Physics RAS, 142432 Chernogolovka, Russia Abstract From experiments with amorphous InO lms, three conclusions are made: (i) The pattern of the superconducV tor}insulator transition (SIT) seen before for 2D ... Fig. ... Hence, in each "eld the bosons and the fermions coexist. ...