So what is "Code Blue" and what does it mean? It's no great secret that several years ago we had the mirror re-coated on the 31" Blue Beast at Warren Rupp Observatory, and within a few short weeks, portions of the coating began to fail. ... These are the fellows that showed up at the Observatory on February 20th to help with the gargantuan and nail-biting task of getting mirror out of the telescope safely, out of the cell safely, into the box safely, and put into the truck safely. ...

... Stellar Evolution is driven entirely by the never ending battle between Pressure and Gravity . As imbalances are reached, the star is driven to find a new Energy source. ... Pressure and gravitational forces are equal, the star is stable and its core is sufficiently hot to fuse Hydrogen into Helium More about main sequence stars . ... The luminosity generated by the core fusion of Helium into Carbon is far greater than the shell luminosity associated with the fusion of Hydrogen into Helium. ...

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. ...

... 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 . ...

Download Izmccd (~2.7 MB). ... for 1-5 bytes is number of a numbered minor planet, . ... Positions 1-80 file "mpcreportiz.txt" are similar to positions of file "mpcreport.txt". 83-95 – errors of unit weight, . ... If this tag is " 1 0 " , this record contains results of measurements of an image of object (approximation by "PSF"),  . ... 57-66 – error in X (pixels), for first star in a multicentric image, for subsequent it is error in (distance between first star in the image and this), . ...

... Liyong Liu (NAOC) . Site testing on seeing conditions of the astronomical observatories over China are briefly reviewed, including Xionglong station of NAOC, Gaomeigu station of Yunnan Observatory, Delingha station of Purple Mountain Observatory. ... PDF [3.0€аMB] October 8, 09:55 10:20 . ... In this paper, we will review the site survey activities in the past years, and present the site-testing results on the Oma site, including cloud cover, seeing, water vapor, transparency and sky brightness. ...

... Master . Master net Homepage . ... Ten years ago it was realized that robotic observatories boost the capabilities of astronomical observations of non-stationary and short-lived phenomena in the Universe. ... The first Russian robot-telescope MASTER was developed in 2002 and installed nearby Moscow. ... OAO MO "Optica" has mastered the production of such systems. The workshop is devoted to the results achieved by MASTER-net, that recently stretch over the globe from Blagoveshensk to Argentina. ...

... The experience of determination of the link between radio sources and dynamical reference frames is presented. To obtain this connection we used a series of very long baseline interferometry (VLBI) observations of the spacecraft Phobos-2 and angularly nearby quasars. ... The dynamical reference frame is determined by equator and equinox of these ephemerides. ... References . ... The relative orientation of the radio and dynamical reference frames can be described by a sequence of three rotations . ...

... ASRAS HOME . Radio Astronomy . ... About ASRAS . ... Our Observing Site . ... 2015 Mees Tour Guides . ... We're offering Regular Tours (a presentation on astronomy geared to a general audience, followed by a tour of the observatory and (hopefully!) observing of several objects, which may include the Moon, planets, nebulae, star clusters and perhaps galaxies), and Kids' Tours (a more interactive presentation specially aimed at youngsters plus the observatory tour and observing) as in prior years. ...

... We have compared visualized fields of GSC and USNO A1.0 catalog with unpublished photographic finding charts that were sent by L. Plaut to the compilers of the GCVS. ... 7-15 A9 --- GCVS GCVS or NSV name 17-25 F9.4 --- GSC GSC number 26 A1 --- NoteFlag *Nonstar (GSC) flag 28-29 I2 h RA2000GSC.h Hours RA (GSC), equinox 2000.0 31-32 I2 min RA2000GSC.m Minutes RA (GSC), equinox 2000.0 34-38 F5.2 s RA2000GSC.s Seconds RA (GSC), equinox 2000.0 40 A1 --- DE2000GSC.- ... Plaut, L., 1966, Bull. ...

ADC CATALOG HOLDINGS SHORT TITLE LIST March 29, 2002 (adapted from ftp://adc.gsfc.nasa.gov/pub/adc/archives/catalogs/key) Category 1: Astrometric and Positional Data - March 29, 2002 1090 Positions of 502 Stars in Pleiades Region (Eichhorn+ 1970) 1107A Washington Cat Visual Double Stars 1984.0 (Worley, Douglass 1984) 1131A SAO Star ...

Lectures . ... Home Lectures Lecture Series 2011-2012 Lecture Series 2011-2012 ? тАЬThe Mystery of Beta Lyrae: Astronomical Spectroscopy for AmateursтАЭ ? Fred Chromey . ... Lecture Series 2011-2012 . ... Observing Resources for Amateur Astronomers - Part 1: Beginning Observers . ... A History of the First Forty Years of the Amateur Astronomers Association . ... Amateur Astronomers Medal . ... 2016 Amateur Astronomers Association of New York Designed by Press Customizr Powered by . ...

SPECTRAL FEATURES OF THE AVALANCHE DEPOSITS IN LUNAR CRATER REINER. ... Crater Reiner. ... 5 Immature soils (coded in green, box 3) occupy most areas of the inner wall slopes of the crater. ... Distribution of the immature soils shown in Fig. 5 correlates with distribution of the bright materials on the wall slope of the crater as it is seen in Fig. ... The presence of very immature soils on the inner wall slopes and on the central peak of the crater Reiner suggests recent intensive slope processes. ...

... American Astronomical Society . AstroWeb: Astronomy/Astrophysics on the Internet . ... NASA Astrophysics Data System: Abstract Service . ... Astronomy Astrophysics: Preprints Abstracts . ... Local archive of IAU Circulars. ... Germany, list of all Astronomical Institutes . ... Poland, Warsaw University Astronomical Observatory . Russia, Sternberg Astronomical Institute . ... Russia, Institute of Astronomy, Russian Academy of Sciences . ... USA, Astronomy and Space Science Group at GMU . ...

... Observatory has four telescopes: . ... Zeiss-300 (D=300mm F=4500mm), visual . AVR-1 (D=200mm F=3000mm), visual . ... AZT-7 (D=200mm F=900mm), photometer . ... Zhujko Sergey V. Burlak Alexander N. Volod'ko Dmitry G. Pakhomov Yuriy V. Objects of research: . ... Variable stars . ... Moon . Covers stars by Moon . Field of research: . ... Questions and comments please mail to pakhomov@sai.msu.su . Yury V. Pakhomov . pakhomov@sai.msu.su . ...

Astronotes Armagh Planetarium's Stellar Blog! ... Alien Life . ... Johan Ludvig Emil Dreyer, later changed to John Louis Emil Dreyer, was born on 13 February 1852 in Copenhagen, Denmark.€а There was a tradition of military careers in his family but he chose a different life path becoming an astronomer of international repute. ... The seed of his future career was sown when, at 14 years, he got his hands on a book about Tycho Brahe (1546 тАУ 1601) who seems to have led a very interesting life . ...

E.T. MATVEYEVA, R.V.Shchepetnov Сatalogue of geomagnetic pulsations of Pc1 type on observation data at the Antarctic Observatory Mirny Geophysical Observatory Borok, Institute of Physics of the Earth RAS, Russia The catalogue is based on the analysis of long-term and continuous observations of pulsations such as Pс1 on the Antarctic Observatory Mirny( ? ... C?- traces of Pc1. ... The period of Pc1 in seconds (Ts) is determinated as averaged prevailing in the given time interval. ...

... Киевский клуб любителей астрономии "Астрополис" > . ... Запорожский клуб АЛЬТАИР > . SUN: Apparent Geocentric Positions, astronomical script . ... Жизнь клуба . ... 05 Май 2006, 03:02:20 ? ... SUN Apparent Geocentric Positions . ... 2006 May 05 00h00m00s 2h 47m 38.744s +16* 09' 09.47" . 2006 May 06 00h00m00s 2h 51m 30.299s +16* 26' 14.04" . 2006 May 07 00h00m00s 2h 55m 22.396s +16* 43' 02.11" . ... 2006 May 05 00h00m00s 2h 47m 38.729s +16* 09' 09.43" . ...

... Equinox of object coordinates BJ = 18.87 / bJ magnitude UMBJ = -0.69 / u - bJ colour BJMR = 0.22 / bJ - r colour NOBS = 1 / Number of 2dF observations available IS_ BEST = 'TRUE ' / TRUE if this file contains the best 2dF observa DATEBEST= '24/09/00' / Date of best 2dF observation (DD/MM/YY) ID_ BEST = 'QSO ' / ID from best 2dF observation QUALBEST= 11 / Data quality flag from best 2dF observation Z_ ...

IV International Astronomy Olympiad . ... Text of these problems is available also . ... To solve every problem you may use constants and well-known values you know by heart. ... The apparent diameter of the Moon, as seen from the Earth, is 31'. ... Can you observe a star with magnitude . ... Consider the stars as black bodies. ... Estimate the diameter of a black hole constructed using this patent from a ship with the mass of 5000 tn (1 tn = 1000 kg). ... What stars would you observe this nigth? ...