... Bad Astronomy . Misconceptions . ... Bad Astronomy : "That's as remote as the dark side of the Moon!" ... As the tired, hackneyed refrains went on, one in particular caught my ear: " Fly me away to the bright side of the moon, and meet me on the other side." ... As the Moon orbits the Earth, different parts of it get illuminated by the Sun. ... Bad Addendum : At the end of the album "Dark Side of the Moon" by Pink Floyd, there is a voiceover that actually says "There is no dark side of the moon. ...

Space debris ranging observations with Irbene RT-32 telescope . I. Shmeld, M. Abele, D. Bezrukov, V. Bezrukov, N. Jekabsons, M. Nechaeva, G. Ozolins . Ventspils International Radio Astronomy Center, Ventspils, Latvia Abstract: . Since 2007 VLBI Space Debris ranging is one of on-going activities in Ventspils International Radioastronomy Centre (VIRAC). ... space debris, radio position, ranging observations. ...

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... International Interdisciplinary Conference Language and Culture in Building of International Relations . We are pleased to invite you to participate in IX International Interdisciplinary Conference Language and Culture in Building of International Relations to be held on December 1-2, 2014 in Che?m (Poland). ... The conference materials will be published in the first issue of the annual international journal of language, culture, and politics (J?zyk, Kultura, Polityka studium mi?dzynarodowe). ...

... Changed format option parsing routine in bp-p-options. added opt_reverseauthor to bp-refer, and added options parsing. 0.1.1 perl5/ad425.ref->ad425.bib in 25.3 seconds perl5/timetest.pl 2.31s total, 1.03, 1.01, 3.52 Added p-output.pl. ... No noticible change in running time, which means the debugging statements aren't slowing us down enough to worry about dropping them. 0.0.11 perl5/ad425.ref->ad425.bib in 22.7 seconds perl5/timetest.pl 1.98 total, 1.02, 1.01, 3.39 Added format registration. ...

... MASTER Net is 56 square degrees per 1 exposition . ... 06 Dec 2015: GRB 151205B: MASTER-NET early optical observations GCN18665 . ... 18 Nov 2015: GRB 151118A: MASTER-NET optical observations GCN18613 . ... 12 Nov 2015: GRB 151112A: MASTER-NET optical limit GCN18591 . ... 07 Nov 2015: GRB 151107A: MASTER-NET optical observations GCN18565 . ... 31 Oct 2015: Five OTs detected by Global Robotic MASTER Net ATel8232 . ... 02 Oct 2015: GRB 151001B: MASTER-NET early optical observations GCN18380 . ...

The small solids. Asteroids or the small planetes . ... The comets. ... Ceneca the Young.Procuring about the nature.63 y. The comet is a celestial body of a great size, but a rare one... transparent. Sometimes there seen a core and the medium forms a kind of a tail, beard or dishevelled looks. ... The core is an ice body - conglomeration of frosted gas and dust. ... The comet state is variable: ones have the con tails, others the dust tails, and the third have both. ... Meteors and meteorites. ...

. This image from the joint NASA-Japan Aerospace Exploration AgencyтАЩs Hinode mission shows the lower regions of the SunтАЩs atmosphere, the interface region, which a new mission called the Interface Region Imaging Spectrograph (IRIS) will study in exquisite detail. // NASA JAXA/Hinode

SAI VO . ... Web Services . Catalog Access Services . ... SAI Web Services . ... This service aims to automatically match stars in FITS image provided with catalogue and add the correct WCS keywords to its FITS header. ... Service Web Interface . ... The service is available here To use it, you has to provide the image as a Base64-encoded string, along with the rough information on image field of view size and center (the latter may be deduced from FITS header keywords like 'RA' and 'DEC'). ...

... CEPHEID VARIABLE STARS: A Cepheid variable or Cepheid is a member of a particular class of very luminous, massive variable stars with pulsation periods of 1-70 days. ... The relationship is calibrated using data collected from Cepheids whose distances are determined by other means. ... Browse through the 68 CCD fits images he sent you, using ds9 and locate the Cepheid variable. ... Image credits: ESA - "http://sci.esa.int/science-e-media/img/20/cepheid-variables.jpg" . ...

... Observing . ... Home Education Workshops at Adorama Astronomy Workshop: Observing Variable Stars from the City ? February 15, 2015 . ... Beyond New York City . ... Observing Resources for Amateur Astronomers - Part 1: Beginning Observers . ... A History of the First Forty Years of the Amateur Astronomers Association . ... Presented by€а Adorama €аFor the Amateur Astronomers Association of New York . ... 2016 Amateur Astronomers Association of New York Designed by Press Customizr Powered by . ...

... During the analysis of the surveys carried out on RATAN-600, it was found that almost one fifth of the detected sources shows significant radio flux variations. ... We used the data from "Cold" radio surveys carried out with RATAN-600 in 1980-1994 to search for radio sources with significant flux variability. ... On possibility of detection of variable sources using the data of Cold surveys carried out on RATAN-600. ... Detection of Variable Sources Using the Data of "Cold" Surveys. ...

... With the stars gamma Can and delta Can , it forms another asterisms called " the Asses and the Manger ". ... Formed by the stars delta Ori, epsilon Ori and zeta Ori ; in Latin America it is called the " Three Marys ". ... Built by the four stars alpha UMa, beta UMa, gamma UMa and delta UMa . ... Formed by the four stars alpha Del , beta Del , gamma Del and delta Del . ... Also on Orion; the belt stars ( delta Ori , epsilon Ori and zeta Ori ), the sword and eta Ori build up this asterism. ...

... Iowa Robotic Telescope | ... Talon is based on OCAAS, a software suite developed by software engineer Elwood Downey ( Clear Sky Institute ) for use at the University of Iowa ?s first remote facility (the ATF, or Automated Telescope Facility). ... XObservatory : Telescope Control Interface . ... This program calls upon and coordinates much of the interrelated portions of the Talon architecture, and forms the primary control panel for the telescope, dome, and peripheral systems when used locally. ...

Catalogue of eclipsing variables (CEV) is the world's principal database of eclipsing binary systems with available classification. CEV contains identifications, classifications, photometry, periods, eclipses data, spectral types, references and notes for 7179 systems. Format of the current CEV . CEV main table (~1.0MB) . ... List of systems, erroneously classified as eclipsing binaries in GCVS (they are not included in the CEV main table) Download all files as a single archive (~0.6MB) . ...

... 2. (a) Metallicity function and relations between (b) metallicity and radial velocity, (c) metallicity and maximum distance from the Galactic plane,and (d)metallicity and variability period for RR Lyrae variables in the initial sample.The curve in the first graph is the maximum-likelihood approximation of the distribution using a sum of two normal curves with the indicated means,dispersions,and total numbers. ... next figure | privious figure . ...

... Редуктор фокуса CCD f/3.3/Field Flattener and Variable T-Adapter . ... Редуктор фокуса устанавливается на выходе оптической системы и применяется для уменьшения эквивалентного фокуса телескопа, при этом увеличивая общую светосилу. ... Данный редуктор используется при фотосъемке для уменьшения общей экспозиции на 80%. ... Зеркальные цифровые фотоаппараты PENTAX . ... Бинокли PENTAX и зрительные трубы PENTAX . ... Pentax.ru . ... Copyright PENTAR ї2004-2016. (бинокли, цифровые фотоаппараты, телескопы)...

... M. G. GAVRILOV . Olympiads on Astronomy and Space Physics . Collection of astronomical problems with answers, solutions and explanations . ... Olympiads NSC 1998-.. ... BBK 22.6 G 12 UDK 37:[52+53] (076.1) G 12 Gavrilov M.G. / Zviozdnyj Mir: Sbornik zadach po astronomii i kosmicheskoj fizike. ... Competitions for young amateur astronomers, called "Olympiads", are carried out in Russia for many years. ... Here is volume V – problems of the Olympiads of Scientific Centres since autumn 1998. ...

... More information on books, telescopes, clubs, etc. is available in the Getting Started section. ... For more information call 617-495-7461. Boston University Astronomy Department - Public telescopic observing is held every clear Wednesday night. ... Boston Museum of Science - For more information and admission prices call 617-723-2500. ... For information and admission prices call 508-929-2700. ... Springfield Telescope Makers , VT. ... Copyright (c) Amateur Telescope Makers of Boston, Inc. ...

... Next Routine] [List of Routines] NAME: ADD_HEADER PURPOSE: addition information from FITS-headers MPFS-frames DESCRIPTION: The function computes the total exposure, mean value zenit distance and modified FITS header CALLING SEQUENCE: Result =ADD_HEADER( headers ) CATEGORY: reduction MPFS-data INPUTS: Headers = String array FITS-headers from the MPFS data OUTPUTS: Header = String array containing the header from the FITS file. ... OPTIONAL INPUT KEYWORD PARAMETERS: BEFORE = Keyword string name. ...