... Club By-laws . ... Other Club Activities . ... Public Nights . ... Dr. James Green, NASA, Director Planetary Science will be our esteemed speaker on Tuesday, April 12, 2016 at 7:30 PM in Peyton Hall on the Princeton University campus. ... Our astronomers setup telescopes for public use at Communiversity in Princeton, Super Science Saturday at the NJ State Museum in Trenton and at various public events around Mercer County. ... Amateur Astronomers Association of Princeton, Inc., ...

... The most precisely determined characteristic for accreting neutron stars (NS's) is their period. ... Period changes show fluctuations. ... Some applications of stochastic processes in astrophysics especially in accreting systems were discussed in Lipunov (1987),Hoshino Takeshima (1993) and Lipunov (1992).In Hoshino Takeshima (1993) the authors, using simple models of MHD turbulence, try to explain aperiodic changes in X-ray luminosity of X-ray pulsars. ... Here, -constant angular momentum. ...

... ALMA] . ... We present a framework for modelling atmospheric phase errors and their correction by both the fast-switching and water vapour radiometeric techniques. Notable features are simulating three dimensional turbulent volumes instead of flat phase screens, considering three representative configurations of ALMA and parametrisation in terms of phase fluctuations on a 300m baseline, allowing referencing to the site-testing interferometer data. ... ALMA Shared Simulator . ...

... Solar Data: f.e. X-ray . Night Sky Live . ... Heavens-Above: Sky chart, Satellites, Iridiums and astronomical objects For Moscow For SAO Baksan . ... ESO-MIDAS page . ... Tutorials for Astronomy . ... Asteroid and Comet Hazard . ... Observable Comets: This page lists links to orbital elements and ephemerides of (potentially) observable comets. ... Leonid page - a lot of information for years Comets and Meteor Showers . The American Meteor Society . ... North American Meteor Network Home Page . ...

... 16-mm/2.8 Fish-eye . ... I set up my Edixa Prismaflex TTL on a tripod outside the dome at Zeiss 50" and opened the camera for several hours. The 2.6 m Shain reflector is visible at center. The time exposure of about 5 hours duration showing circumpolar stars. The dome can be seen to blur slightly due to their motion during the exposure. Back to Astronomical Images Home Page . ...

... ASTROPHYSICS 105 113 114 116 121 126 132 135 137 141 147 150 THE KINEMATICS PARAMETERS OF THE GALAXY USING DATA OF MODERN ASTROMETRIC CATALOGUES Akhmetov V.S., Fedorov P.N., Velichko A.B., Shulga V.M. .. ... Subsection "VIRTUAL OBSERVATORIES AND INTENSIVE DATA" 166 168 171 175 181 186 COMPARISON OF ZERO ZONE CATALOGUES OF THE FON PROGRAM BASED ON THE KYIV AND KITAB OBSERVATIONS Andruk V.M., Relke H., Protsyuk Yu.I., Muminov M.M., Ehgamberdiev Sh.A., Yuldoshev Q.X., Golovnia V.V. .. ...

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. ...

INTEGRAL SOURCE RESULTS PAGES AND ACCESS TO INTEGRAL DATA THROUGH VIRTUAL OBSERVATORY: SCIENTIFIC MOTIVATION AND RECENT STATUS Д Д Petr Kubanek1,2 and Rene Hudec 1 2 2 INTEGRAL Science Data Center, Chemin d'Ecogia 16, Versoix, Switzerland Astronomicky ustav Akademie ved Ceske republiky, Ondrejov, Czech Republic ДД Д ABSTRACT In its current status, the Virtual Observatory (VO) is an international effort to handle distributed databases of all data taken from the sky. ... The INTEGRAL Burst Alert System. ...

... We compared droughts, cold-spells, epidemics, epizootics and famines with solar activity data (sunspots visible to the naked eye). ... For very cold winters the correlation with solar activity was not so pronounced. ... KEY WORDS Chronicle data, climate, cold, drought, famine, solar activity 1 INTRODUCTION The question of whether variations in solar activity exert any effect on climate has been under investigation since long ago. ... The same study was carried out for very cold winters. ...

... ON THE ROLE OF LARGE-SCALE PLASMA IRREGULARITIES AT THE FINAL STAGE OF ANOMALOUS ABSOPTION DEVELOPING UNDER HF HEATING OF THE IONOSPHERE . ... Fig. ... With the aid of numerical statistical modeling based on multiple ray tracing it is shown that in presence of large-scale irregularities the reflected signal amplitude mean value is increased significantly. ... Dependence of the mean amplitude of the reflected from the ionosphere signal on the large-scale (10-50 km) electron density irregularity level...

... Master . Master net Homepage . ... Ten years ago it was realized that robotic observatories boost the capabilities of astronomical observations of non-stationary and short-lived phenomena in the Universe. ... The first Russian robot-telescope MASTER was developed in 2002 and installed nearby Moscow. ... OAO MO "Optica" has mastered the production of such systems. The workshop is devoted to the results achieved by MASTER-net, that recently stretch over the globe from Blagoveshensk to Argentina. ...

... 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 . ...

... 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. ...

... Satellite data ] . ... SMIS IKI RAN has developed the software package which may be used both by owners of acquisition stations and individual users of satellite information. ... AVHRR instrument data processing. ... This enables the users who are not yet qualified in computer methods of satellite data processing, to get a quick start with the software. ... The basic software package enables a user to solve a wide range of tasks (in our server You can find the data processing samples ). ...

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: . ...

... VaST is a software tool for finding variable objects on a series of astronomical images. ... VaST performs object detection and aperture photometry using SExtractor on each image, cross-matches lists of detected stars, performs magnitude calibration with respect to the first (reference) image and constructs a lightcurve for each object. ... VaST FITS image viewer ./pgfv . ... Part I" PZP, vol. ... K. V. Sokolovsky, S. A. Korotkiy; "New Variable Stars Discovered by the NMW Survey" PZP, vol. ...