... VaST is a software tool for finding variable objects on a series of astronomical images. ... VaST performs object detection and aperture photometry using SExtractor on each image, cross-matches lists of detected stars, performs magnitude calibration with respect to the first (reference) image and constructs a lightcurve for each object. ... VaST FITS image viewer ./pgfv . ... Part I" PZP, vol. ... K. V. Sokolovsky, S. A. Korotkiy; "New Variable Stars Discovered by the NMW Survey" PZP, vol. ...

... In the first measurement of the third moment S3 Reulet et al. [3] used a low impedance tunnel junction (Rs ' 50 ) as a noise source, with a parallel 50 load impedance Rl of the cable used to feed the voltage to an external amplifier. ... The amplified voltage Va was sampled with an A/D convertor during 5 ns intervals about 1010 times at each bias current value. ... FIG. ... 3] B. Reulet, J. Senzier, and D. E. Prober, Phys. Rev. Lett. 91, 196601 (2003); for the first version, see cond-mat/ 0302084. ...

... I.A.Dynnikov, Three-page approach to knot theory. ... Universal semigroup, Funktsional'nyi Analiz I Prilozhenija, 34 (2000), no.1, 29-40 (Russian); English translation in Functional Analysis and Its Appl. 34 (2000), no.1, 24-32. I.A.Dynnikov, Finitely presented groups and semigroups in knot theory. ... Math. 2000, no. ... English translation: Russian Math. ... A.Vershik, Numerical invariants of exponential groups, and a locally free approximation of braid groups (in Russian), Zapiski Nauchn. ...

... Bad Astronomy . ... Every few months, one of a series of questions comes up on the USENET group sci.astro involving tides, or the rotation of the Moon, or the recession of the Moon from the Earth. ... Why the Moon's rotation period is the same as the length of time it takes to orbit the Earth (same as number 1, but phrased differently). ... But when this happens, the time it takes for the Earth to rotate once will be slowed to exactly the same time it takes for the Moon to go around the Earth once! ...

I/146 Positions and Proper Motions (Roeser+ 1988) ================================================================================ Catalogue of Positions and Proper Motions Roeser S., Bastian U. =1988A .. ... 449R ================================================================================ ADC_Keywords: Positional data; Proper motions Description: PPM North gives J2000 positions and proper motions of 181,731 stars north of -2.5 degrees declination. ... The mean epoch is near 1931. ...

I/199 Lick Northern Proper Motion Program: NPM1 Catalog (Klemola+ 1987) =============================================================================== = Lick Northern Proper Motion Program: NPM1 Catalog Klemola A.R., Hanson R.B., Jones B.F. <Astron. ... Positions are given for equinox B1950 and computed epoch 1950. ... Other data given for each star are: the original mean epoch, a stellar class code, the number of NPM fields measured, and discrepancy flags for position, proper motion, and photometry. ...

M obile A stronomical Sy stem of TE lescope- R obots MASTER-II Kislovodsk Lomonosov Moscow State University, Sternberg Astronomical Institute , Moscow Union "Optic" , Kislovodsk Solar Station Latitude = 43 o љ44'.767љN; Longitude = 42 o љ31'.417љE; Altitude = 2067љm MASTERљIIљ(8љsquareљdegress) + MASTERљVWF(VeryљWideљFieldљCameras (FOV=800 square degrees, Timeљresolutionљupљtoљ150љms, with unfiltered m_lim=14m on 5 sec. exposure, and ~10.5m with 0.15 sec) . ... 11h 38m 38.0s , -09d 59m 59s) . ...