... 8, ``Celestial Mechanics'', 2002 EPM2002 and EPM2002C -- two versions of high accuracy numerical planetary ephemerides constructed for TDB and TCB time scales E. V. Pitjeva Institute of Applied Astronomy, St. Petersburg, Russia To be consistent with IAU resolutions ICRS should be treated as four-- dimensional reference frame with TCB time scale in which planetary ephemerides should be constructed. ... 2001, 80, 249-- 271. ... Standish E. M. JPL Planetary and Lunar Ephemerides, DE405/LE405. ...

... Field of interest: data analysis and interpretation of X-ray observations of BHC and NS systems, astrophysics of compact objects and related phenomena: X-ray , optical and radio observations , shocks and stellar winds, emission mechanism, the spectral and timing analysis of the X-ray emission from microquasars ( signature of accreting BH), atoll- and Z-sources ( signature of accreting NS), modeling of INTEGRAL images % . ...

... Bad Astronomy . ... Bitesize Astronomy . ... Last week's Snack talked about how black holes can affect the environment around them in such a way as to be very bright . ... It's a common misconception that black holes always have matter swirling into them. ... As this matter gets closer and closer to the black hole it piles up and a large, fairly flat disk forms. This is called the accretion disk , because matter from this disk accretes (that is, falls in) on the black hole. ... 2008 Phil Plait. ...

THE PHOTOMETRIC RESEARCHS OF THE MERCURY'S SURFACE BY MEANS OF DIGITAL MODELS. ... The surface brightness of Mercury was measured Danjon (1933, 1949, 1953) and Harris (1961) in phase angle 3o-123o. The analysis of the various data of the integral photometric gives the results of determination of the main photometric constants for Mercury. ... THE PHOTOMETRIC RESEARCHS OF THE MERCURY'S SURFACE: S.G. Pugacheva The surface brightness of the Mercurian images was established on the geologic map Mercury. ...

. This 3-D image clearly shows the spherical shape of Mars. (To see the 3-D effect, use a pair of left-eye red, right-eye blue color glasses.) Although Rosetta's direction relative to Mars was relatively constant during the approach, the surface view changed due to rotation. This made possible the production of an anaglyph, or stereoscopic image, by combining images taken by OSIRIS at different times. ESA

... 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. ...

... Pre-university education . ... Samara region . ... A small spacecraft Aist-2D , developed by the scientists of Samara State Aerospace University (SSAU) and the experts of the Rocket and Space Centre Progress will see from outer space what is hidden under the thick top of trees and below the Earth's surface. The radar equipment was installed on Aist-2D , which was delivered to the space launcher complex Vostochniy on January 22. ... Tomography of the Earth's ionosphere will also be carried out. ...

Crater Gassendi . ... I made this drawing was made on the 26th of november 2001. If you compare this one with the previous drawing of Gassendi (below) the differences are clear. ... This drawing was made on the 28th of september 2001. After nearly a full month without observations I had a one hour gap between the thicker clouds. ... This drawing was made on the 29th of august 2001. ... This drawing was made on the 27th of august 2001. ... This drawing was made on the 25th of august 2001. ...

... Some people have asked why Venus appears in "different places" in these photos. ... Dave Wallace . ... It was taken from Brookline, NH using my Celestron 5" SCT through a Tutill Solar Skreen filter using Fuji Superia Reala color print film. ... Marblehead Middle School Fifth Grade Students viewed the 2004 Transit of Venus from Riverhead Beach on Marblehead Harbor when the Sun broke through the clouds at about 6:45 a.m. Eyepiece projection with my 8" Meade SCT and Televue 32mm Plossl worked well. ...

... 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. ...

... SIXA FM ACCEPTANCE TESTS . ... In accordance to plan of the Acceptance Tests for Flight Models which was agreed in March 2000 in Moscow, the Acceptance Test of SIXA FM was carried out between 28 August and 2 September at VTT Automation, Finland. ... GOUCH for electronics box of SIXA-FM, Remark: not updated after changes made in 1994. ... Ground Test Program of SIXA-FM. ... Integration Test of SIXA FM, BIUS, ISS, DSS, and MPMI . ... Test data were written to MPMI, DSS-F, DSS-S and GSE SIXA-FM, . ...

... The data from the X-ray spectrometer RESIK, gamma spectrometer HELICON, flare spectrometer IRIS, amplitude­temporal spectrometer AVS-F, and X-ray spectrometer RPS-1 have been used to analyze the X- and gamma-ray emission from solar flares and for diagnostics of the flaring plasma. The absolute and relative content of various elements (such as potassium, argon, and sulfur) of solar plasma in flares has been determined for the first time with the X-ray spectrometer RESIK. ... V.D. Kuznetsov et al. ...

Running Apache on a heavily loaded web server, one often encounters problems related to the machine and OS configuration. ... Quick and detailed performance tuning hints for BSD-derived systems. ... Depending on the syntactic form of the TZ environment variable, these systems have several different algorithms to determine the local time zone (presumably compatible with something). ... This form delegates the knowledge of the time zone information to an external compiled zoneinfo file ( la BSD). ...

... Time calculated from Fermi GBM Trigger Time = 14:12:08.67 ( Connaughton, GCN 9230 ). 1% coincident with our start zero image time. 3x3 degrees around Swift XRT position . ... SUBJECT: GRB 090424 : MASTER-Net prompt optical limit DATE: 09/04/25 20:29:42 GMT FROM: Vladimir Lipunov at Moscow State U/Krylov Obs E. Gorbovskoy, V. Lipunov, V.Kornilov, A.Belinski ... Our observations results: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Fermi GRB Trigg.* ...

ON-LINE STATIC EIT RECONSTRUCTION SERVER . ... Static image reconstruction from the data measured in vivo is still intriguing problem in EIT. ... dipole (adjacent) current injection and voltage measurements on pairs of adjacent electrodes (like in Sheffield systems) . ... You can view examples of the text files for polar , dipole and trigonometric injection, use them for testing the server and find more details on HOW TO PREPARE INPUT FILE FOR THE ON-LINE EIT RECONSTRUCTION SERVER page. ...

Date: Thu, 12 Apr 2007 18:15:45 +0200 (MEST) From: Alessandro Marconi <marconi@arcetri.astro.it> To: boch@sai.msu.ru Subject: Summer school on AGNs and VLTI Dear Colleague, here is the first announcement and call for applications for a VLTI summer school on "Active Galactic Nuclei at the highest angular resolution: theory and   observations". ... It is supported by 15 EU member states, including new member states, and thus integrates the entire European optical interferometry community. ...

C C C C C C lass lass lass lass lass lass 1 2 3 4 5 6 Introduction, Background Solar System Stars Galaxies Cosmology Special Topics Class 1 Introduction, Background History of Modern Astronomy The Night Sky, Eclipses and the Seasons Kepler's Laws Newtonian Gravity General Relativity Matter and Light T lescopes e 1. ... Kirchoff's Laws trum Emission Line Spectrum 2. A low-density, hot gas emits light whose spectrum consists of a series of bright emission lines. ... Absorption Spectrum 3. ...

ПУБЛИКАЦИИ - 1995 год . ... Atmospheric and Terrestrial Physics, - 1995, - v. 57, - v. 3, - pp. ... Observations of solar microwave spikes with high spatial resolution at the SSRT: first results. ... 1995. ... Уралов А.М. , Сыч Р.А. , Лубышев Б.И. , Нефедьев В.П., Головко А.А., Коробова З.В., Алиссандракис К.Е., Смарт Р.Н., Цанг Нонги. ... Тезисы докладов XXVI Радиоастрономической конференции (18-22 сент. 1995 г.), Санкт-Петербург, 1995, с.181-182. ... А.М. Уралов , В.М. Мишин. ...

The low aspect ratio, or spherical tokamak Globus-M [1] has recently been built in a support of international spherical tokamak plasma investigation program. ... The survey to determine the work scope in diagnostic design for Globus-M is given in the paper. ... The next one is an advanced diagnostic set intended to supply the data on basic plasma parameters: electron temperature and density profiles, ion temperature, plasma composition, radiation profile, Zeffective. ... Magnetic Diagnostics. ...

The most up-to-date information related to atmos 3.0 are collected here due to constantly increasing interest to MASS/DIMM processing software... atmos 3.0 is still beta , so the latest version is 2.97.5 (there is also 2.98.x branch which absorbs new features) . ... M' line: . ... free seeing and its relative error . ... dimm seeing and its relative error (if dimm data are present, zeros otherwise) . ... dimm turbulence power and its relative error (if dimm data are present, zeros otherwise) . ...