Pulkovo NEO Page . Central Astronomical Observatory at Pulkovo . ... Control of Observations . ... NEA Accuracy Estimation . ACCURACY OF THE WORLD NEA OBSERVATIONS . Pulkovo method of accuracy estimation was applied to NEA observations. ... 2005 . 2006 . ...

These include satellites which monitor the weather, such as the GOES series (one of which is shown on the right) of the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). ... To this class also belong "spy satellites" which observe the ground from low circular orbits. ... The Canadian satellite Alouette in 1962 bounced radio signals off the top of the ionosphere, and UARS (Upper Atmosphere Research Satellite) is currently studying the Earth atmosphere. ...

... 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. ...

... Spectrum-RG is joint project of Russian Federal Space Agency (Roscosmos) and German Space Agency (DLR) of X-ray astrophysical observatory. Its main aim is to make all-sky survey in the X-ray (0.5-11 keV) band in order to find all massive clusters of galaxies in the Universe, millions of active galactic nuclei, including obscured ones and hundreds of thousands of Galactic X-ray sources. ... eRosita (Germany) X-ray grazing-incident mirror telescope, consisting of 432 mirrors combined in 7 modules. ...

System of astrometric databases of Pulkovo observatory. ... The purpose of these observations is the determination of precise coordinates of Solar system bodies, which is necessary for development and improvement of motion theories, and for studying the evolution of the Solar system. ... Accuracy of photographical observations is about 0.2-0.3 arcsec for equatorial coordinates and 0.1-0.3 for relative coordinates of planetary satellites, depending on object and observational conditions. ...

... 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 ? ...

Preliminary results of astroclimate parameters measurements at the Sternberg 2.5m telescope installation site V.Kornilov, N.Shatsky, S.Potanin, O.Voziakova, B.Safonov Moscow, 2008 Acknowledgements A.Belinskiy M.Kornilov A.Tokovinin M.Kuznetsov P.Kortunov E.Gorbovskoy SAI administration some SAI students Pulkovo solar station (KHSS) staff RFBR support MAVEG Gmbh Why to study optical turbulence and some other relevant ... Mean seeing by DIMM data for this night is 1''5. ...

... Proposals will be accepted until 1 May 1997 and should be sent to: Mary A. Cragg Mount Wilson Institute 740 Holladay Road, Pasadena, CA 91106 USA e-mail: mwi@mtwilson.edu Haystack Observatory Call for Proposals ---------------------------------------- Haystack Observatory invites proposals for the use of the 37-m radio telescope for observations in the following wavelength bands: 3-mm (85-115 GHz ) 7-mm (35-49 GHz ) 1.3 cm (21-25 ...

Our School Observatory: . N56.2/E94.6 deg. and ~200m above sea level) . Our small observatory is located near Zelenogorsk (Siberia), in 170 kms to east from Krasnoyarsk - our regional main city. It includes a tower with a rotary dome (D=3.5m) on a roof of one of buildings. ... Our basic instrument is homemade D=150mm & F=695mm Newtonian reflector. Despite of its small size, we have learned to receive rather detailed views of heavens. ... HOME (Eng) | HOME (Rus) ...

To see a Russian version of this page, click here . ... Graduated from Moscow State University (MSU), Faculty of Physics in 1976. Ph.D. degree - 1988, MSU. Main field of scientific activities: photometric investigations of various stars, close binary stellar systems and other astronomical objects, including research with use of fast photoelectric photometry with a high time resolution till 1 millisecond. ... New portable photometer . ... Send your mail to: tem@sai.msu.ru ...

... Classes . ... TelescopeTCP Class Reference . This TelescopeClient class can controll a telescope by communicating to a server process ("telescope server") via the "Stellarium telescope control protocol" over TCP/IP. ... TelescopeTCP (const QString &name, const QString &params, Equinox eq=EquinoxJ2000) . ... getInfoString (const StelCore *core, const InfoStringGroup &flags) const . ... getEquinoxEquatorialPos (const StelCore *core) const . ... getJ2000GalacticPos (const StelCore *core) const . ...

... Other Planned Activities Include Solar Observing Astrophotography Presentations and CCD Demo's Field Trip to AAAP Observatory at Jenny Jump Workshop: Learning to Use Your New Telescope Plus Swimming (life guards provided), Fishing, Volleyball, Basketball, Hiking, Game room Kayaking/canoeing (bring your own) on two lakes and nearby Pequest and Paulins Kill Rivers Registration Fees Camping and RV -- $35.00 per person ($45 after June 9) Bunkhouse -- $45.00 per ...

NMW survey overview . Access image archive . ... The New Milky Way survey aims to detect bright (V<13.5) optical transients near the Galactic plane using an automated wide-field (8x6 deg.) system capable of surveying the whole Milky Way area visible from the observing site in one night. ... All images obtained during the transient search survey are available online (please use the image archive access form ). ... Images per field: . ... Images per night: . ... Milky Way imaging time: . ...

20-23 September 2016, St.Petersburg, Russia . ... Registration to the Symposium will be held in the main building of the Institute of Applied Astronomy of the Russian Academy of Sciences on Monday 19th September, from 18:00 to 21:00 . ... Registration will also be available on Tuesday September 20th from 8:00 to 9:00 at the conference venue. ... Conference dinner will take place in the Palace of Grand duke Vladimir (Academics House) on Wednesday 21th September, from 19:00 to 22:00 . ...

... Bad Astronomy . ... Mad Science . ... Site Info . ... Public Talks . ... Keep Bad Astronomy close to your heart, and help make me filthy rich. ... Who is this guy who calls himself "The Bad Astronomer?" ... First, yes, I am a real live astronomer (when people ask me what astronomers do, I tell them "They astronom !" ... These are emitted by powerful objects like black holes, exploding stars, and super-dense neutrons stars. ... Finally, am I really a bad astronomer? ... 2008 Phil Plait. ...

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... Sky surveys and deep fields of ground-based and space telescopes History · William Herschel (1738-1822) was the first to formulate the problem of global sky surveys to study the structure and evolution of the world outside the solar system. ... The VVDS (VIMOS-VLT Deep Survey) is a photometric and spectroscopic survey of 100,000 galaxies within several deep fields covering 16 sq. deg. with the VIsible Multi-Object Spectrograph (VIMOS) on the ESO VLT telescope. ...

... binocular telescope with digital video camera Sony DCR-TRV9E . ... Flash cards . ... Determine possibilities to obtain on-line documented information during crew visual-instrument observations by using hand optical devices in a long-duration space flight from the Russian Segment of the International Space Station to assess ecological effects of the industrial activities on the territory of the RF and foreign countries. ... Mini-DV video tapes with a video imagery of experiment objects and voice data...

William Gershel (1738 - 1807). ... Gershel twice widened the Solar system and "turned" the Sun, proving its motion in the Universe. ... The Solar system became twice more. Besides he opened two satellites of Uranus (1789) with the reverse motion (1797) and two new Saturn satellites (1789). ... In 1783 Gershel discovered the Sun's motion in the Space and its direction. ... The 20 feet telescope of Gershel opened the nature of the mysterious "milky nebulas" which turned to be the star congestions. ...

To appear in "Fourth Workshop on Robotic Autonomous Observatories (2015)"RevMexAA(SC) METEOR OBSERVATIONS WITH MINI-MEGATORTORA WIDE-FIELD MONITORING SYSTEM S. Karpov, 1, 3 N. Orekhova2 G. Beskin, 1, 3 A. Biryukov3,4 S. Bondar,2 E. Ivanov,2 E. Katkova,2 A. Perkov, and V. Sasyuk3 RESUMEN 2 Favor de prop orcionar un resumen en espanol. ... The faintest detected meteors has the peak brightness about 10 mag, while the ma jority - from 4 to 8 mag. ... 2010; Karpov et al. 2013; Beskin et al. ...