Next: Transparency of the Stochastic Up: Model of the Galaxy Previous: Frequency distribution of galactic . ... The parameters of the model resulted from a numerical fitting of various data, such as the observed distribution of the young star population and neutral hydrogen, the density of population II stars in the vicinity of the Sun, the galactic rotation curve and the dynamics and distribution of globular clusters   and dwarf irregular satellites of the Galaxy. ...

Astronomy Picture of the Day . ... In this false-color picture, light blue regions are extremely hot - over 1 million degrees, while dark blue regions are slightly cooler. ... On the left is a normal star field containing the constellation Orion. ... A Star Where Photons Orbit . ... A Wolf-Rayet Star Blows Bubbles . ... Wolf-Rayet stars can blow bubbles. ... Wolf-Rayet stars generate bubbles because they continually eject their outer atmosphere as a stellar wind. ... Dark Bok Globules in IC 2944 . ...

M. ( / DIAS, Ireland), A. (ISDC, Switzerland) 1 - Key Question Only 3 binary systems regularly observed in TeV: PSR B1259-63 (young pulsar +Be star, P=3.4 y) LSI +61 303 (comp. source + Be star, P=26.42 d) LS 5039 (comp. source + O star, P=3.9 d) Origin of the high-energy emission? ... 2006; Neronov &Chernyakova 2007 4 3.4 years orbital period. e~0.87 Correlated variability with a sharp rise ( "two bumps structure" ) is seen in radio, X-ray (and TeV?) bands. ...

... We can help students grasp the significance of Hubble's extremely keen eye, and learn a bit about angles and math in the process, with the following in-class activity. ... Looking through binoculars or telescopes allows us to magnify a small section of the sky. To measure sizes or distances in that small section, astronomers divide a degree into 60 smaller pieces called arcminutes, and further subdivide minutes into 60 smaller sections called arcseconds. ... 30 feet = . ... 36 seconds . ...

Astro Space Center RadioAstron Newsletter Number 17 October 26, 2012 ====================== The process to select projects for the open RadioAstron observing time within the AO-1 period (July 2013 - June 2014) has started From the middle of 2013 RadioAstron will move to the open sky phase of its science operations. Any scientist in the world can apply for the RadioAstron observing time. ... An initial Letter of Intent (LoI) should have been directed to the Mission by 17 October 2012. ...

Astronomy Discussion Forums . Forums: . Atm ћ Astrophotography ћ Blackholes ћ Blackholes2 ћ CCD ћ Celestron ћ Domes ћ Education . ... Observe Every Photon's Size Experiment . ... Post Message | ... Observe every photon's size experiment . 1.The slow process of the formation of the light diffraction pattern experiment . ... www.astronomy.net . ... Forum posts are Copyright their authors as specified in the heading above the post. "dbHTML," "AstroGuide," "ASTRONOMY.NET" & "VA.NET" . ...

Microsymposium 38, MS082, 2003 (A4 format) EVALUATING THE STRUCTURE OF THE SURFACE LAYER OF MERCURY. ... Photometric Analysis of the Lunar Surface Analogue. ... The phase function obtained directly on some segments of the lunar surface: 1- phase function of the Moon, 2 - phase function of Mercury, 3 - phase function of segments, converted to the lunar phase function system (correlation 0.8), 4 - phase function of segments, converted to the Mercurian phase function (correlation 0.9). ...

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: . ...

... Space flight . ... Simulators . ... Space camp . Space Hotel . ... Virtual reality-based stand for ISS crew training is used for cosmonauts pre-training preparation at different stages of training for the space flight. ... At present cosmonauts and astronauts can work both with the SM and FGB images independently and having them in mated state. ... Info: Industry news On-line Data Company ATLAS news Events We in press Contact . Copyright 2000-2016 ATLAS Aerospace . ...

WPLTN-2012 Technical Workshop Research and Experiment of Lunar Laser ranging Yaoheng Xiong, Zhulian Li, Yuqiang Li, Honglin Fu, Xiangming Zheng, Dongsheng Zhai, Yuncheng Zhang Yunnan Observatory Chinese Academy of Sciences St. Petersburg , Sep24-28 2012 LLR researchs & experiments in Kunming Overview Key problems of LLR Very long distance ranging, sub-single photon detection,.. ... St. Petersburg , Sep24-28 2012 LLR Experiments in Kunming Station Thank you ...

... About ATMoB . ... The Observing Committee is starting an Observing Awards Program to promote observing among the membership of the Amateur Telescope Makers of Boston. ... Participant must be a current member of the Amateur Telescope Makers of Boston . ... To qualify for your Observing Award Certificate, turn in your worksheet and drawings to an ATMoB Observing Committee member or observing@atmob.org . ... This Excel sheet has useful macros. ... Copyright (c) Amateur Telescope Makers of Boston, Inc. ...

... One of this year's largest mass ejections from the Sun's atmosphere was recorded last Sunday by TESIS telescopes aboard the CORONAS-PHOTON satellite ( video - wmv 4.3 MB ). ... Over the course of a week, two gigantic solar prominences were simultaneously ejected from the surface of the Sun. ... Earth will not feel the Sun's influence either. ... The TESIS observatory ї TESIS: www.tesis.lebedev.ru . ... One of this year's largest mass ejections from the Sun's atmosphere (movie WMV, 4.3 MB) . ...

... In planets astronomy: . the relativist theory of the planets movement was found. ... the planets system of other stars were opened. ... In galaxy and out of galaxy astronomy: . It's found out the general constrution of the Galaxy and its main observed solids; . ... the methods of measuring the distances to the most remote objects in the Universe are found out; . ... it is found out that the galaxy accumulations are not haotic, but form the largescale celling structure of the Universe. ...

... Spherical aberration, coma, and astigmatism are also easily observed using the star test. ... Off-axis images are complex. ... Fig. ... Diffraction by a circular aperture as a function of defocus for no aberration Airy Disk 1 wave defocus Less than 1 wave defocus Fig. ... Diffraction by a circular aperture as a function of defocus for third-order spherical aberration Paraxial Focus Small distance inside paraxial focus Moderate distance from marginal focus Immediate neighborhood of marginal focus Fig...

... Program of the Course of Radio Astronomy . Moscow State University , Physics Department , Astronomy Division , 4 th year, 60 hours in total) . ... Molecular maser emission. ... The emission of the interstellar neutral hydrogen. ... Pacholczyk, A. G. Radio Astrophysics, W. H. Freeman & Co., ... Frontiers of Astrophysics, Avrett, E. H., ed., Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Mass., ... Kaplan, S. A., Pikelner, S. B. The Interstellar Medium, Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Mass., ...

Общая Астрономическая Конференция > Товары для астрономов > Полезное для астрономии . Supernovae: and How to Observe Them (Astronomers' Observing Guides) . ... Поиск . ... Созвездия (поиск и описание) .. Созвездия южного неба (поиск и описание) .. Осенние созвездия (поиск и описание) .. Летние созвездия (поиск и описание) .. Околополюсные созвездия (поиск и описание) .. Весенние созвездия (поиск и описание).. Зимние созвездия (поиск и описание) .. ...

... Imaging of the core of the OMC-1 region using NICMOS camera 2 through the F212N and F215N filters shows a wide variety of interesting structure on scales of 0.2" at a very high dynamic range (Stolovy et al. ... The application of image restoration techniques, including multi-channel variants of the Richardson-Lucy technique, offers the chance to enhance structure on the finest scales and also to suppress the prominent and richly structured point-spread functions of the many bright stars in the...

... This applet generates an observing list based on an observer's location and time. ... To use this program, enter in your location, and the local times at which you wish to begin and end observing. The date you enter should correspond to the calendar day at the time at which you begin observing. For example, if you wish to observe from 9:37 PM October 23, 2007 until 3:21 AM October 24, 2007, you would enter 21:37 for the starting time, 03:21 for the finish time, and 10/23/2007 for the date. ...

Home About Meade Product Information Dealer Locator Customer Support Investor Relations Dealer Support Employment Opportunities Site Map . Meade Instruments Corporation . ... Meade Pictor XT-Series CCD Autoguider/Imagers . Section 13: Viewing and Processing Images . ... The software can read most images in these formats, and convert between them using the File, Save As command. ... This is done by placing the information in a .txt file with the same name as the image file). ... Merge Images: . ...

This document explains some of the directives provided by the core server which are used to configure the basic operations of the server. ... Process Creation . Network Configuration . ... User . ... A single control process is responsible for launching child processes which listen for connections and serve them when they arrive. ... The User and Group directives are used to set the privileges of the Apache child processes. ... The child process creates multiple threads to serve requests. ...