December 2007 Astronotes 1 2007 in pictures from ENVISAT By Wendy McCorry, Science Communicator These images were taken by ENVISAT, the European Space Agency's Earth Observation spacecraft ­ the largest of its kind ever built. ... Clockwise from top left: ENVISAT's Medium Resolution Imaging Spectrometer (MERIS) captured this image of tropical cyclone Gamede sweeping across the Indian Ocean on 23 February 2007. ... ENVISAT captured this image of the wildfires in Southern California on 22 October. ...

RADIOASTROPHYSICAL DEPARTMENT • INSTITUTE OF SOLAR-TERRESTRIAL PHYSICS RAS SB . General information Main characteristics of the Radio telescope Observing programs General view of the antenna array Main research areas Principle of generation of radio images Radio telescope 's beam Receiving systems Main characteristics of the base receiving-recording complex Calibrations Data archive and databases Publication SSRT - Siberian Solar Radio Telescope . ...

The basic characteristics of the instrument are set by the aperture, focal length and resolution of the image forming lens, the dispersion of the spectrometer, and the sensitivity of the detector. ... The lens is internally focused, and maintains acceptable focus (2 pixels in the detector plane) over a typical spectral coverage of one grating setting. ... along the spatial dimension of a 25mm square detector in the final spectral image plane the 400mm lens is 3.2њ. ... Diffraction grating . ...

NASA Press Release Text - June 24, 1996 GALILEO READY FOR CLOSE FLYBY OF JUPITER'S BIGGEST MOON Now residing in orbit around Jupiter, NASA's Galileo spacecraft is primed for its first close flyby of Jupiter's largest moon, Ganymede, at 2:29 a.m. EDT on June 27, 1996. ... In the days just before and after the Ganymede flyby, Galileo's other studies will include a search for auroral activity on Jupiter's nightside and observations of other Jovian moons: Io, Europa and Callisto. ...

... Satellite data ] . ... Data organization and access. ... The following data types are used for storage of information relevant to the project: . ... All data available within the Pavodok-96 project are copyright ї Space Monitoring Information Support laboratory (SMIS IKI RAN). Neither the data themselves nor any materials obtained with the use of these data can be used for commercial purposes and/or by any mass-media or public information system without prior writting permission from SMIS IKI RAN. ...

Past Maria and Eric Muhlmann Award recipients . ... The Maria and Eric Muhlmann Award of the ASP is given annually for recent significant observational results made possible by innovative advances in astronomical instrumentation, software, or observational infrastructure. ... Nominations . ... Letters of nomination must be received in the office of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific on or before 1 January of 2013 . ... The Award . ... Submitting Nominations . ... Maria and Eric Muhlmann Award . ...

... 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 . ...

... Exposure Time Calculator (ETC) . Survey processing . ... VISTA is a 4-m class wide field survey telescope for the southern hemisphere, equipped with a near infrared camera (1.65 degree diameter field of view at VISTA's nominal pixel size) containing 67 million pixels of mean size 0.34 arcsec and available broad band filters at Z,Y,J,H,K s and a narrow band filter at 1.18 micron. A wide field visible camera, if constructed, could also be used on VISTA. ... Tile . ... ESO VISTA Public Surveys . ...

ASTRONOMICAL YEARBOOK FOR 2005 (in Russian) . Preface . In the тАЬAstronomical YearbookтАЭ (AY) the ephemerides of the Sun, Moon, major planets and stars computed with the maximum precision in accordance with the resolutions approved by the International Astronomical Union (IAU) are published. ... N.I. Glebova; . ... The seasons values, the phases of the Moon, the planetary configurations, the data for the eclipses of the Sun and Moon (N.I. Glebova, M.V. Lukashova) are placed on a site . ...

... Members . ... The ATM's of Boston was founded in 1934 by a group of persons interested in assisting others in the art of optical polishing the craft of telescope making, and to learn together about the science of astronomy and the use of astronomical instruments. ... Mr. Jones introduced the club to Dr. Harlow Shapley at Harvard College Observatory. ... Regular shop activities resumed with the help of these "professional amateurs" and the club grew to 180 members. ... Club Newsletters . ...

First light from the Superconducting Integrated Receiver on board Terahertz limb sounder TELIS P. Yagoubova, G. de Langea, R. Hoogeveena, A. de Langea and V. Kosheletsb a Netherlands Institute for Space Research, SRON, the Netherlands b Institute of Radio Engineering and Electronics, IREE, Russia Abstract-- We present the flight configuration and performance of the Superconducting Integrated Receiver (SIR) channel on the TELIS instrument (Terahertz and Submm Limb Sounder). ...

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Date: Thu, 12 Apr 2007 18:15:45 +0200 (MEST) From: Alessandro Marconi <marconi@arcetri.astro.it> To: boch@sai.msu.ru Subject: Summer school on AGNs and VLTI Dear Colleague, here is the first announcement and call for applications for a VLTI summer school on "Active Galactic Nuclei at the highest angular resolution: theory and   observations". ... It is supported by 15 EU member states, including new member states, and thus integrates the entire European optical interferometry community. ...

... After hearing and discussing Rocket-Space Corporation Energy General Designer U.P.Semevov's report on the fulfilling the flight program of the orbital complex Mir and proposals on its further exploitation, the Council draws attention to: . ... According to the Russian Government Resolution No. 76 of January 21, 1999 a large amount of work to find and attract Russian and foreign investments to provide the further exploitation of the orbital station Mir was carried out. ...

... The value of tile-size, NW , may be thought of as a sixth coordinate axis in the chirplet transform parameter space - TF-area. Including this sixth coordinate axis provides us with a hierarchical (multi-resolution) CCT. ... Various 2- D slices through the multiresolution CCT may correspond to useful tilings of the TF plane with true parallelograms (true to the extent that the DPSS define a truly rectangular region in the TF plane). ...

RELATIVE SUNSPOT NUMBERS Description of Data from SGD Explanation of Data Reports: Relative Sunspot Numbers -- The relative sunspot number is an index of the activity of the entire visible disk of the Sun. ... The provisional daily Zurich relative sunspot numbers, Rz, were based upon observations made at Zurich and its two branch stations in Arosa and Locarno and communicated by M. Waldmeier of the Swiss Federal Observatory. ... This indicates the uncertainty above and below the predicted number. ...

We present the results of our observations of the white-light corona in polarized light performed at Criciuma eclipse, Brazil. During the observation of 3.11.94 we have made five couple of pictures of the solar corona in polarization light. ... Koutchmy S., Molodensky M., Starkova L., Ershov A., Matsuura O .: ... Molodensky M., Starkova L., Koutchmy S., Ershov A .: ... Koutchmy S., Molodensky M.M., Starkova L.I . ... Koutchmy S., Molodensky M.M., Starkova L.I. Koutvitsky V. and Ershov A . ...

... A model for the chemical evolution of a disk galaxy is presented. The model reproduces all the basic . ... investigations of the star formation history. ... the galaxyЫand incorporating a delay in the onset of star formation make it possible to model different scenar- . ios for the evolution of a galaxy's luminosity. ... evolution of massive galaxies. ... of reconstructing the star-formation history and galactic luminosity from observations of galaxies at different . ...

Russian SHAREABLE DATA CENTER Institute of Solar-Terrestial Physics SB RAS . ... The instruments engineer and technical support subdivision consists of the engineer support group: 4 senior engineers, 5 engineers and 14 staff members of service personnel. Head: Zavorin A. V. The main subdivision's instrument is the Incoherent Scatter Radar . The instruments engineer and technical support subdivision's main task is technical support of Irkutsk IS radar experiments. ...

SAO is Russia's main centre for ground-based space research. ... The basic instruments of the Observatory are the optical telescope BTA (Big Alt-azimuth Telescope) with a main mirror diameter of 6 m and the radio telescope RATAN-600 with the antenna diameter 600 m. Study of the Universe as a whole, analysis of non-stationary energy release in galactic and extragalactic objects of various types, investigation of evolution and chemical composition of our Galaxy and the nature of solar activity. ...