Twilight observations with MASS/DIMM B. Safonov Sternberg Astronomical Institute Moscow State University Comprehensive Characterization of Astronomical Sites, 2010 B. Safonov (Moscow State University) Twilight observations with MASS/DIMM SITE 2010 1 / 17 Why observe in twilight with MASS/DIMM? ... ASM includes 3 devices sensitive to background: guider, DIMM and MASS. B. Safonov (Moscow State University) Twilight observations with MASS/DIMM SITE 2010 2 / 17 Background in guider. ...

... Telescopes . ... But regardless of where you observe from or whether or not you have a telescope, exploring the many aspects of astronomy can be an exciting hobby. It can be an activity shared with thousands of other amateurs all over the world. ... Or it might be pursued more actively by joining a local astronomy club like the Amateur Telescope Makers of Boston and learning by direct association with other amateurs. ... Copyright (c) Amateur Telescope Makers of Boston, Inc. ...

... Ciel Espace, le magazine qui vous guide toujours plus loin . ... des pages consacr†йes †а la publication de vos photos Mais c'est aussi une vraie communaut†й avec laquelle partager votre passion et nourrir votre curiosit†й. Accueil Mati†иre noire : une observation d†йfie les astronomes . ... A la une . ... En effet, selon les mod†иles th†йoriques, les concentrations de mati†иre noire sont les lieux o†µ naissent les galaxies. ... Une mati†иre noire au comportement ordinaire ? ... Etat du ciel . ...

Stellarium 0.12.3 . ... Classes . ... FileљStructure . ... StelObserver Class Reference . ... More... #include < StelObserver.hpp > . StelObserver (const StelLocation &loc) . ... virtual voidљ . ... getHomePlanet (void) const . ... Get the position of the home planet center in the heliocentric VSOP87 frame in AU. virtual const StelLocation & StelObserver::getCurrentLocation . ... Get the distance between observer and home planet center in AU. virtual StelObserver * StelObserver::getNextObserver . ...

... The source exhibits a mas-scale structure which, according to the USNO multi-epoch monitoring at 2.3 and 8.4 GHz over the period from 1994 July through 1998 April, undergoes considerable changes in the brightness distribution and positions of the major structural features. Our image is qualitatively consistent with the structural pattern of the source. ... We note a difference of ~90 in position angles of secondary components in our image and the 5 GHz VLBI image by Shen et al. 1998). ...

... 13, Moscow, 119992 Russia Received May 29, 2005 Abstract--The kinematics of the Sagittarius (R = 5.7 kpc), Carina (R = 6.5 kpc), Cygnus (R = 6.8 kpc), and Perseus (R = 8.2 kpc) arms suggests the existence of two spiral patterns in the Galaxy that rotate with different speeds. ... The Carina, Cygnus, and Perseus arms that represent the slow spiral pattern will then be located outside the OLR, while the Sagittarius arm that represents the fast spiral pattern will lie inside the OLR of the bar. ...

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) . ...

PHYSICAL REVIEW B VOLUME 54, NUMBER 18 1 NOVEMBER 1996-II Superconductivity enhancement in thin films of niobium in superconducting double-barrier structures P. V. Komissinski and G. A. Ovsyannikov Institute of Radio Engineering and Electronics Russian Academy of Sciences, Mokhovaya 11, Moscow 103907, Russia Received 7 March 1996; revised manuscript received 15 May 1996 We report the experimental results on the investigation of ... The suppression of the gap is not presented in Fig. ...

... This file table3 82 660 Observed wavelengths, laboratory values and identifications -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Byte-by-byte Description ... Format Units Label Explanations -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1- 3 I3 --- SpOrd Spectrum order 5- 12 F8.3 0.1nm SolLam Wavelength determination of all solar and telluric lines measurable on the ... Note (6): J: Junkes et al., ...

INNER POLAR RINGS REGULAR LENTICULAR GALAXIES 1 K. Sil'chenko 2 Sternberg Astronomical Institute, 119992 Moscow, Russia; Isaac Newton Institute Chile, Moscow Branch; olga@sai.msu.su Afanasiev Special Astrophysical Observatory, 369167 Nizhnij Arkhyz, Russia; vafan@sao.ru Received 2003 December accepted February 4 ABSTRACT have investigated a sample of galaxies, mostly with circumnuclear dust lanes orthogonal their major axes, chosen from Hubble Space Telescope Wide Field Planetary Camera 2 images. ...

... Local and Regional Coordinators, and OBSERVERS are needed for Friday night's spectacular Aldebaran Occultation and Graze Aldebaran is the brightest star, other than the Sun, that can be occulted by the Moon. ... Use your camcorder (or a borrowed camcorder) to record a strong local television station. ... Encourage other amateur astronomers, and other friends and relatives in the region of visibility to record the occultation with camcorders. ... This event is called an "occultation" by astronomers. ...

... This applet generates an observing list based on an observer's location and time. ... To use this program, enter in your location, and the local times at which you wish to begin and end observing. The date you enter should correspond to the calendar day at the time at which you begin observing. For example, if you wish to observe from 9:37 PM October 23, 2007 until 3:21 AM October 24, 2007, you would enter 21:37 for the starting time, 03:21 for the finish time, and 10/23/2007 for the date. ...

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. ...

... 18941904; Bespalov P.A. Effective saturation of absorption in a plasma magnetospheric maser. In book: Nonlinear Space Plasma Physics, R.Z. Sagdeev -Editor-in-Chief, American Institute of Physics, 1993, p.339-346]. Magnetospheric plasma maser [Bespalov P.A, Trakhtengerts V.Yu., ... In a magnetospheric plasma maser (MPM) the relatively dense magnetised plasma and the conjugate ends of a magnetic trap form a quasioptical resonator for electromagnetic waves. ...

Winer Observatory P.O. Box 797, Sonoita, Arizona 85637-0797, USA . ... Asteroid . ... Site . ... Science . ... Since the early 1970's, Mark Trueblood has observed lunar occultations. He began observing minor planet occultations in the late 1970's. In late 2000, Mark began working with Robert Crawford of Tucson to observe minor planets to refine their orbits, concentrating on NEOs. A list of Minor Planet Electronic Circulars observed by Mark and Robert is available. ... 2013 Winer Observatory. ...

Электронная библиотека астронома-любителя. ... библиотека . архив RSN . ... Ru.Space.News: . Февраль 1998 . ... Дата: 14 февраля 1998 (1998-02-14) От: Alexander Bondugin Тема: Overview of Comet Hale-Bopp meeting at Tenerife, Feb. 2-5, 1998 [1/3] Привет всем! ... Moreover, the Comet was visible in the sky for an extremely long period. ... Дата: 14 февраля 1998 (1998-02-14) От: Alexander Bondugin Тема: Sky Telescope News Bulletin - February 13, 1998 Привет всем! ... Clear skies! ...

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. ...

... The main field of my investigations is stellar spectrophotometry. As a result of scientific activity of our group spectrophotometric catalog was created including energy distribution data on 900 stars in the range 3200-7600AA and 250 stars in the range 6000-10800AA (Voloshina et al., Spectrophotometry of Bright Stars, ed. I.N.Glushneva, 1982, Moscow, Nauka, in Russian). ...

Statistics of sunspot activity . ... The solar regions . ... The small bipolar group was noticed at the 24th parallel of the Northern hemisphere since 18.09 to 22.09 near the Western limb. ... The fine bipolar sunspots were observed at the middle latitudes of the Northern hemisphere since 24.09 to 30.09 to the West from the central meridian. ... The small bipolar sunspots were observed at the 11th parallel of the Southern hemisphere since 4.10 to 12.10 in the Western part of the Sun disc. ...

Instrument . ... Scanning TV-sensor with on-board data recording system for global coverage mode . ... recording, direct transmission . ... IR-radiometer for global coverage and direct data transmission modes . ... The scientific instrument package onboard the Meteor-3 spacecraft provides for regular instant acquisition of images of cloudiness and Earth surface in visible and infra-red bands, data on air temperature and humidity, sea surface temperature and clouds temperature. ...