Coined by Horace Walpole (1754) from the Sri Lanka fairytale, "The Three Princes of Serendip. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ http://serendip.brynmawr.edu/serendip/about.html "--- you don't reach Serendib by plotting a course for it. ... Perhaps the word itself came to him by serendipity. Walpole formed the world on an old name for Sri Lanka, Serendip. ... SERENDIPITY (from the Oxford English Dictionary) f. Serendip, a former name for Sri Lanka + -ity. ...

... The following charts/text are intended as tools for monitoring the Type Ia supernovae ( SNe ) event visually or photographically (utilizing telescope equipped CCD equipment).The files include: A replication of The Type Ia SNe , V- magnitude (with data point checks from other cited references)and color index (B-V) templete (to indicate a general color-related trend of the type Ia ... I believe this might help alleviate some of the problems involving the making of acceptable amateur light curves...

. [ Go back to Comet WWW site ] . Andrew A. Martis . martis @ sai.msu.ru .

... Field of interest: data analysis and interpretation of X-ray observations of BHC and NS systems, astrophysics of compact objects and related phenomena: X-ray , optical and radio observations , shocks and stellar winds, emission mechanism, the spectral and timing analysis of the X-ray emission from microquasars ( signature of accreting BH), atoll- and Z-sources ( signature of accreting NS), modeling of INTEGRAL images % . ...

... Old World First Asteroid Radar Echo. ... It testifies that 4179 Toutatis is a double object like asteroid 4769 Castalia. ... Interference of Radar Echo from the Binary Asteroid 4179 Toutatis. ... An analysis of the 6-cm radar data revealed quasi-harmonic oscillation of the echo’s “central” Doppler frequency with a period of about 14 sec and a deviation of about (0.7*B) Hz, where B is the echo bandwidth, which for 4179 Toutatis was equal to 2.1 Hz and 1.9 Hz for 1992 Dec 8 and 9, respectively. ...

Lutsenko Olena L. (PhD, Psychology, Associate Professor) Filonenko Anna (Master, Psychology, Lecturer) School of Psychology V. N.Karazin Kharkiv National University COURSE DESCRIPTIONS ­ PSYCHOLOGY OF LEADERSHIP Title and N of module 1­ Leadership Theories Themes 1. ... Ethical leadership. ... Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, 95 , 140-155. ... Socializing the newcomer: The mediating role of leader-member exchange.Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, 119, 114-125. ...

Winer Observatory P.O. Box 797, Sonoita, Arizona 85637-0797, USA . ... Asteroid . ... Site . ... The evening of October 26, 2011, Mark Trueblood, Robert Crawford, and Larry Lebofsky used the Kitt Peak 2.1-m telescope to observe Near Earth Asteroid (NEA) 2008 QT3. ... single still jpeg frame . ... The National Optical Astronomy Observatory (NOAO) issued a press release concerning Morgan's work on Monday, November 21, 2011 and posted it on the home page of their web site . ... 2013 Winer Observatory. ...

To appear in "Fourth Workshop on Robotic Autonomous Observatories (2015)"RevMexAA(SC) MASSIVE PHOTOMETRY OF LOW-ALTITUDE ARTIFICIAL SATELLITES ON MINI-MEGATORTORA S. Karpov, 1, 3 E. Katkova,2 G. Beskin, 1, 3 A. Biryukov3,4 S. Bondar,2 E. Davydov5 E. Ivanov,2 A. Perkov,2 V. Sasyuk3 RESUMEN Favor de prop orcionar un resumen en espanol. ... The nine-channel Mini-MegaTORTORA (MMT-9) optical widefield monitoring system with high temporal resolution system is in operation since June 2014. ...

Astronomy Discussion Forums . ... Observation Report On Mars And .. ... Post Message | ... Despite the bad conditions we had yesterday, we couldn?t resist the Mars? ?attraction? and here it is the report. ... We disassembled the LPR filter to preserve its colour balance and we prepared a set of Ultima series eyepieces and filters. ... www.astronomy.net . ... Forum posts are Copyright their authors as specified in the heading above the post. "dbHTML," "AstroGuide," "ASTRONOMY.NET" & "VA.NET" . ...

... Titles are given only for confirmed posters. ... 10 years observations of GRBs in the Russian-American KONUS-WIND experiment: results and perspectives. talk . ... Mass evolution of binary neutron stars. poster C2 . ... Relic Gravitational Waves and Cosmology . ... The High-Resolution Optical Spectroscopy As A Method Of X-RAY Binary CYG X-1 Investigation. ... INTEGRAL observations of high mass X-ray binaries in the inner parts of the Galaxy. talk . ... High Energy Astrophysics Department at IKI ,...

... July 22, 2009 - The X-ray Solar Eclipse . The Russian TESIS (FIAN) Solar Observatory has transmitted observations back to Earth of the solar eclipse made on July 22nd, 2009. ... And 4 hours later, when almost all the inhabitants of the Earth had already said goodbye to the eclipse, TESIS telescopes captured images of the second deepest transit of the Moon across the Sun ( film 1.2 MB, wmv format ). ... July 20, 2009 - The TESIS Observatory will observe two solar eclipses from space . ...

University Satellites and . Space Science Education . ... Aerospace and remote sensing education in the Geography schools of Moscow and Cambridge universities . ... The two well-known universities under comparison, namely the Lomonosov Moscow State University, and the University of Cambridge, UK have well established traditions of geographical remote sensing. ... Skobeltsyn Institute of Nuclear Physics, Moscow State University, 2005-2006 . ...

Astronotes Armagh Planetarium's Stellar Blog! ... Armagh Planetarium . ... Stars . ... Space Flight . ... Monthly Sky Notes . ... NGC 6357's inner star forming region glows with the emission of ionized hydrogen gas. Image credit: ESO/VVV Survey/D. Minniti. ... Located around 8000 light years away in the constellation of Scorpius , NGC 6357 (sometimes called the Lobster Nebula ) is a typical stellar nursery, filled with vast clouds of gas and tendrils of dark dust. ... Subscribe to Astronotes . ...

... 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.] ...

... Wang, Y. M.; Ye, P. Z.; Wang, S.; Zhou, G. P.; Wang, J. X. A statistical study on the geoeffectiveness of Earth-directed coronal mass ejections from March 1997 to December 2000, // J. Geophys. Res. ... Gosling J. T. , The solar flare myth// J.Geophys.Res., ... Lindsay G.M., Luhmann J.G., Russell C.T., Gosling J.T. Relationship between coronal mass ejection speeds from coronagraph images and interplanetary characteristics of associated interplanetary coronal mass ejections// J.Geophys.Res. ...

Microsymposium 38, MS085, 2003 (A4 format) REMOTE DETERMINATION OF LUNAR SOIL MATURITY. ... Shevchenko et al. [6, 7], and Pinet et al. [8] developed the method to determine the maturity of lunar soil by using spectropolarimetric ratio Pmax(B)/Pmax(R) for blue (B) and red (R) spectral regions. On the basis of known laboratory results and telescopic data, it was found that ratio Pmax(419nm)/Pmax(641nm) could be used as a remote sensing parameter of lunar soil maturity. ...

... Allows webmasters to configure the response of Apache to some error or problem. Customizable responses can be defined to be activated in the event of a server detected error or problem. e.g. if a script crashes and produces a "500 Server Error" response, then this response can be replaced with either some friendlier text or by a redirection to another URL (local or external). ... New behavior . ... redirect to a local URL, or . ... Each new variable will have the prefix REDIRECT_ . ...

... Several frames taken and best selected saturn _0p15s_g_205d.fits TARGET = ' Saturn ' / target EXPTIME = 0.15 / exposure time ( seconds ) FILTER = ' (1) g (400-530) ' / filter DATE-OBS = ' 2010-03-31T04 :31:09' / date of observation (UT) saturn _0p15s_g_crop_205d.fits TARGET = ' Saturn ' / target EXPTIME = 0.15 / exposure time ( seconds ) FILTER = ' (1) g (400-530) ' / ...

В рамках подготовки программы по возобновлению пилотируемых полетов на Луну и создания на ее поверхности постоянной базы в период с 2008 по 2016 год НАСА планирует провести дополнительное исследование Луны с помощью различных автоматических станций. Первыми стартовали сразу два космических аппарата: большой орбитальный зонд Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) и небольшой аппарат для исследования поверхности ударным методом Lunar Crater Observation and Sensing Satellite (LCROSS). ... орбиту Луны . ...

... Reshetnikov V.P., Moiseev A.V., Sotnikova N.Ya. Astron. Astrophys. ... Colour behaviour of the blazar PKS 0735+178 in 1994-2004" Takalo L.O., HagenThorn V.A., Hagen-Thorn E.I., Ciprini S., Sillanpaa A. Astron. ... Flaring behavior of the quasar 3C 454.3 across the electromagnetic spectrum" Jorstad S.G., Marscher A.P., Larionov V.M. et al. ... BL Lac: photometric and polarization variability" Blinov D., Hagen-Thorn V.A., Hagen-Thorn E.I., Larionov V.M. Astron. ... NOVEMBER. ...