The Stone Age Observatory. It is well known that a lot of ancient constructions are oriented according to the cardinal points but not long ago scientists turned upon archeological monuments. ... The ancient monuments studied by archeoastronomy had been used for observing the sun and the moon. ... They are called megalits (from Greek "megas" - "great"; "litos" - "stone"). ... The Great Stonehang. ... Orby called it a Heel Stone because he had seen a small hole in it looked like a heel trace. ...

Weekly Bulletin on Solar and Geomagnetic Activity Highlights on 13 - 19.05.2013 , Forecast on 20 - 27.05.2013, Carrington Rotations 2136, 2137 (17,78.04; 15,02.05.2013) SUNSPOT-FORMING ACTIVITY OF THE SUN CHANGED FROM THE AVERAGE TO HIGH AND BACK TO THE AVERAGE LEVELS. ... NEXT WEEK THE LEVEL OF SUNSPOT ACTIVITY IS EXPECTED TO BE THE AVERAGE AND THE LOW. THE CALCULATED MOST LIKELY WEEKLY AVERAGE VALUE OF SUN- SPOT NUMBER IN THE INTERNATIONAL SYSTEM FOR THE NEXT WEEK IS EXPECTED W = 060+20/-20. ...

... Contact A Problem of an estimation of accuracy of the asteroid CCD observations . The Minor Planet Center supported by the Interntional Astronomical Union is the main office for keeping observational data of the small Solar System bodies and their investigations. ... At Pulkovo Observatory we are estimating an accuracy of the CCD asteroid observations obtained by amateurs and professional astronomers all over the World using the MPC database. ...

The CDK20 South Planewave Instruments 20-inch (0.5-meter) f/6.8 corrected Dall Kirkham telescope is shown here with its optical designer Joe Haberman at Mt. Kent Observatory in Queensland, Australia, at the time of its installation in 2006. ... The corrected Dall Kirkham optical system provides a unique, wide, diffraction-limited, flat field ideal for CCD imaging and photometry. The telescopes at Mt. ... Instrumentation available for remote operation of the telescopes includes . ...

... click image to view discuss) . ... Submitted by William Lee on 05/20/2007 15:07:16 . ... Okay, so it's not an observatory; it's just a pier. But, hey, I've got to name it something, and "Plum Pier" doesn't sound as good. ... Here's the sonotube for the pier waiting for the pour, which is scheduled to be done as an "extra" pour after pouring a slab for one of the houses being built. ... Copyright (c) Amateur Telescope Makers of Boston, Inc. ...

... Evolution of the coalescence rate of double neutron stars (NS) and neutron star - black hole (BH) binaries are computed for model galaxies with different star formation rates. Assuming gamma-ray bursts (GRB) to originate from NS+NS or NS+BH merging in distant galaxies, theoretical - distributions for gamma-ray bursts (GRB) are calculated for the first time taking the computed merging rates into account. ... Effect of sources evolution on - distribution and -test. ...

... Sun . ... The Solar Dynamics Observatory watches giant filament on the Sun . Filaments are clouds of solar material suspended above the Sun by powerful magnetic forces, and, though notoriously unstable, filaments can last for days or even weeks. ... NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO), which watches the Sun 24 hours a day, has observed this gigantic filament for several days as it rotated around with the Sun. ... Only registered members of Astronomy.com are allowed to comment on this article. ...

... More on 51 Peg: . The discovery of a Jupiter--mass planet in orbit around the solar--type star 51Peg has been reported by Michel Mayor and Didier Queloz (Geneva Observatory) on October 6th at the 9th Cambridge workshop on "cool stars, stellar systems, and the sun" held at Florence (Italy). ... Recall that the measurements of radial velocity only yield v sin i which in turn gives us M sin i. For most values of i, sin i will be greater than 0.5 and this gives a mass estimate of 0.5 Jupiter masses. ...

... We proposed that information retrieved from the local surface photometric behavior of the Moon could be used for guiding the remote sensing analyses of specific geological targets. ... The value of the difference of intensities mentioned above may be used as a photometric parameter I of the local surface roughness. ... 7] Apollo 11 Prelim. ... Figure 5 represents the diagram of relationship between photometric roughness parameter and local thorium content in different lunar regions. ...

SITE 2010 Comprehensive Characterization of Astronomical Sites Kislovodsk, Russia, 49 October 2010 Conference Summary Marc S. Sarazin*a a European Southern Observatory, Garching, Germany Abstract The main topics discussed during the Site 2010 conference are outlined and the outcome is described. Keywords: Astronomical Site testing, precipitable water vapor, atmospheric turbulence, cloudiness, seeing 1. ... Site surveys for National observatory projects in China, India, and Iran benefit from this. ...

... SEARCH ASP SITE: Match ALL words Match ANY word . ... Astronomy . ... Hubble Space Telescope Images: http://hubblesite.org/newscenter/newsdesk/archive/releases/image_category/ . ... The Chandra x-ray telescope (in orbit around Earth) has been sending back a wide range of images of what deep space objects would look like if seen with "x-ray sensitive" eyes. ... Web Sites for Asking Astronomy Questions . ... Ask an Astronomer for Kids: http://coolcosmos.ipac.caltech.edu/cosmic_kids/AskKids/index.shtml...

Optical Observatories . ... National Optical Astronomy Observatories . ... Adam Mickiewicz University - Astronomical Observatory . ... Astronomical Institute and National Observatory of Athens . ... Jagiellonian University Astronomical Observatory - Scientific research here comprises radio and extragalactic astronomy, solar radio emission, active galactic nuclei, interstellar matter, galaxies, cosmology, variable stars and comets. ... National Radio Astronomy Observatory Home Page . ...

... Director of the RAS ISR . RAS Academician . ... Astrophysics module Kvant of the orbital complex Mir launched in 1987 contains the largest on the station complex of the scientific equipment named the orbital observatory Roentgen. Observatory Roentgen consists of 4 X-ray telescopes, jointly exceeding the range of energies from 2 to 800 keV. ... Among the most significant results that were received in the observatory Roentgen are: . ... measurement of the periods of 9 X-ray pulsars; . ...

Participant 5 (P5) ================== Dr. V.P. Tishkovets - Astronomical Observatory, Kharkov University, UA Dr. N.N. Kiselev - Astronomical Observatory, Kharkov University, UA P.V. Litvinov - 26 years old; Astronomical Observatory, Kharkov University, UA S.A. Beletsky - 28 years old; Astronomical Observatory, Kharkov University, UA The head of the team, Dr. Tishkovets, and Mr. Litvinov made many investigations of light scattering by clusters of particles - analogues of interplanetary dust grains. ...

GRANAT is the Russian x-ray sattelite launched to the high apogee orbit (200,000 km) and operated almost for 10 years (1989 -1999) , carrying out four major instruments: French SIGMA coded-mask hard x-ray telescope (30-1000 keV), Soviet ART-P coded-mask telescope (2??-60?? keV), all-sky monitor WATCH (6-150 keV), and a gamma-burst detector PHEBUS . ... Since September 1994, GRANAT is in the survey mode. ... Explore pages devoted to individual GRANAT instruments (including main scientific results): . ...

... The polygons of different observatory . ... geographical (Greenwich geocentric) . coordinates of the polygon's corners, . or by the geographical coordinates . ... GGLat (deg) . GGLong (deg) . ... Polygon's corners . geographical coordinates . Back to the top . Polygon's corners geographical coordinates . ... The central point geographical . coordinates and extensions . ... GGLat extension (deg) . ... GGLong extension (deg) . ...

... The European HST Archive has been moved to ESA's European Space Astronomy Centre ( ESAC ), Spain, where most of ESA's Space Science Archives are located and operated from. ... The Space Telescope European Coordinating Facility (ST-ECF), jointly operated by ESA and the European Southern Observatory ( ESO ) was, until the end of 2010, the European HST science facility, supporting the European astronomy community in exploiting the research opportunities provided by the Hubble Space Telescope. ...

... Structure of Data . ... Catalog . ... The SAI OCL Catalog site provides several VO-enabled modes of operation: . VO-enabled catalog data analysis from a browser . ... Endpoint URL is http://ocl.sai.msu.ru/catalog/conesearch/ . ... VO-enabled catalog analysis from a browser . Presently, this recipe works with Firefox (Windows, MacOS, Linux), Internet Explorer (Windows) and Opera (Windows) browsers with Java plugin 1.6 installed. ... Main TOPCAT window with SAI OCL catalog loaded will appear. ...

. WIN-1251 . Agafonov B.I. major electronic engineer . Aleshkov V.M. major electronic engineer . Grigoriev V.A. electronic engineer . Zavorin A.V . head of observafory . Kraschuk P.A. electronic engineer . Lytkevich V.V. major electronic engineer . Pasechnik L.A. electronic engineer . Prihodjko N.A. major electronic engineer . Shenhorov N.D. electronic engineer . Mail: rp@iszf.irk.ru . WIN-1251

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