... The Science Operation Department is composed of Astronomers, Telescope Instruments Operators(TIOs) and Data Handling Administrators(DHAs). ... Astronomers have proposed several methods to quantitatively measure the amount of turbulence above the telescope, which the most common ones is Differential Image Motion Monitor (DIMM). In optical testing, the Hartmann test is the common method to test the quality of optical components. ... Hartmann mask consists of 48 lenses. ...

Statistics of sunspot activity . The sunspot indices . ... The solar regions . ... 2016 . ... February . ... February, 2016 . Visual indices of solar activity by author's observations . ... Average . ... 0.00 . ...

... Telescopes . ... The International Conference "Dark Ages and White Nights (Spectroscopy of the CMB)" (June 20-24, 2016) . ... The International Conference "Stars: from collapse to collapse" (October 3-7, 2016) . The traditional annual competition conference of scientific and scientific-engineering papers of the Observatory staff members . ... A session of the Dissertation Council (October 16, 2015) . ... International scientific conference "Large Optical Telescopes" (October, 10-13, 2011) . ...

... 2006 . ... Comparison of total ozone distribution in the high latitudes of both hemispheres SCAR XXIX Open Science Conference, 2006, 12-14 July, Hobart, Australia - Abstract Volume. ... Analyses of spectra, stability and eigenmode transverse small-scale oscillations in the inner Earth magnetosphere. 6th Open Conference of Space Projects Evpatoriya, September 2006, Abstracts . ... Ps6 pulsations in the Earth magnetosphere. 5th Open Conference of Space Projects Evpatoriya, September 2005, Abstracts . ...

... Visual Observing of Variable Stars - an Addict's Story . ... In Glenn’s words…I’ve been an avid amateur astronomer since the summer of 1963 when a high school friend showed me Saturn through his telescope. ... I’ve been a member of both the Amateur Telescope makers of Boston (currently Vice President) and the American Association of Variable Star Observers (AAVSO) since 1980. ... Copyright (c) Amateur Telescope Makers of Boston, Inc. ...

THE RELATIVE MONTHLY MEAN SUNSPOT NUMBER ON FEBRUARY 2016 HAS MADE Wfeb. = 34.3, 57.2 ( new ) THAT GIVES FOR 79 MONTHS (2015, AUGUST) DEVELOPMENT CURRENT 24 CYC- LE OF SOLAR ACTIVITY THE SMOOTHED MONTHLY MEAN SUNSPOT NUMBER W*aug. = 39.8; 66.3 - (in new system ); W*july = 41.0; 68.2 - (in new system ); - On July 1, 2015 Centre in Brussels moved to a new system of cal- culation the relative ... 103.6 THE MONTHLY MEAN OF GEOMAGNETIC Ap-index ON 2016, FEBRUARY Ap feb. ...

... joel created the event <b>ASRAS Board members meeting - monday May 9 @ Farash Center</b> . ... joel created the event <b>ASRAS MONTHLY MEMBERSHIP MEETING - Friday May 6 at Farash Center - Ionia NY</b> . ... joel created the event <b>ASRAS MONTHLY MEMBERSHIP MEETING - Friday April 1 at RIT</b> . ... joel created the event <b>ASRAS MONTHLY MEMBERSHIP MEETING - Friday Mar 4 at RIT</b> . ... 2 months ago . ... joel created the event <b>ASRAS General membership meeting - RIT - Friday FEB 5</b> . ...

... Seminar archive . ... Seminar archive 2013 6 September . ... Амстердам, 29-30 августа 2013) . ... Потерянная темная материя в Местной Вселенной . ... Липунов В. М. Download presentation . ... рассмотрены особенности распределения светлой (звездной) и темной материи . ... Средняя плотность материи в этом объеме, . ... б) местный объем Вселенной не является репрезентативным, будучи . ... в) основная доля материи во Вселенной не связана со скоплениями и . ... проблема потерянной темной материи. ...

... 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 . ...

... Membership . ... The name of this organization shall be Amateur Astronomers Association of Princeton, Incorporated (hereinafter abbreviated as AAAP). ... General membership shall be open to any person paying dues with the proviso that any member under the age of 18 must be accompanied by a responsible adult while at any AAAP meeting, other function, or observatory. ... A. Director The Director shall preside at all meetings of the Board of Trustees and at all general membership meetings. ...

... 13th European VLBI Network Symposium . and Users Meeting . on September 20-23, 2016. ... 13th European VLBI Network Symposium and Users Meeting on September 20-23, 2016. ... Year book "Ephemerides of Minor Planets for 2016" on-line . ...

... We thank the Swift team for their rapid scheduling of this observation. ... 2455705.20851 V 14.15 0.03 2455707.83079 V 14.10 0.03 2455710.84028 V 13.53 0.02 2455713.64631 V 13.66 0.02 2455714.65479 V 14.11 0.03 2455714.71823 V 14.12 0.02 2455714.78596 V 14.20 0.02 2455717.39593 V 14.37 0.03 2455726.62861 V 14.83 0.04 2455727.16343 V 14.57 0.04 2455730.50586 V 14.57 0.03 2455730.57329 V 14.56 0.03 2455730.70360 V 14.66 0.04 2455738.32865 V 14.00 0.02 2455742.86146 V 14.21 ...

The Youth Space Center of Bauman Moscow State Technical University conducts the workshop for space enthusiasts (only students) every year to provide participants with an opportunity to discuss the results of the year passed in space focusing on Russian and International programs, see and touch the real space hardware and meet people working on the front edge of space science and technology. ... You will go to Mission Control Center and see how the International Space Station is controlled. ...

RTT150 . ... This search system is designed for generating the necessary information on series of pointings (observations of each source consist of sets of exposures with different filters and sometimes with different exposure times) for observed sources. Search results appear at the separate page as a table with the following data: . DATE - real (not evening!) observations date (in YYYY-MM-DD format); . ... Bin - minimal CCD binning mode (may vary during the observations); . ...

... Regional planning meeting for the Balkan and Black Sea | ... Proposals for a web site of the Regional Network - Information on regional and global activities - Proceedings of this Meeting - Space Weather Alerts for the public - Form for submitting research and observational proposals - Database of scientific data publicly available - Greece provides solar telescope data - Romania provides data on active regions studied with helioseismis holography - Armenia provides access to...

STEP INTO THE BLUE - MEADE INSTRUMENTS PRODUCT GUIDE . ... Telescopes . LX850 Series . ... Superb optical performance coupled with time proven computerized pointing and tracking has made the LX200 ACF series a best-seller in the high-performance telescope class. ... Meade's revolutionary LS LightSwitchтДв series of telescopes use advanced technologies to do what no other consumer telescopes have done before: take all the hassle out of using a telescope. ... Coronado€о Solar . ... Spotting Scopes . ...

... Contacting and discussing with people sharing your interests, participating in night sky observations with telescopes as well as a large choice of astronomical books, magazines and video-tapes out of our club library. ... A reasonable compromise for observing both planets and brightest deep sky objects ( nebulae, galaxies) are either a 4 to 8 inch mirror telescope ( Newton, Schmidt-Cassegrain ) or a 3 to 4 inch refracting ( lens) telescope. ... Where can I buy a telescope in Luxembourg ? ...

... 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 . ...

The direct detection of gravitational waves is one of those events long-expected by physicists that are nevertheless a significant occurrence which excites the world scientific community as if something unexpected has happened. ... Many rumors leaked ahead of the conference, and the fact that something (that is, a signal corresponding to gravitational waves) was discovered by LIGO (Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory) was discussed on the sidelines. ... arXiv:1602.03868 . ...

Selected Geomagnetic and Solar Activity Indices Worldwide Indices The subscript p means planetary and designates a global magnetic activity index. ... Each activity level relates almost logarithmically to its corresponding disturbance amplitude. ... Records contain * Zurich number through December 31, 1980 * International Brussels number thereafter 66-70 f5.1 Ottawa 10.7 cm Solar Radio Flux adjusted to 1 AU - measured at 1700 UT daily and expressed in units of 10^-22 W/m^2/Hz. ...