... Bad Astronomy . ... Mad Science . ... Universe Today . ... Keep Bad Astronomy close to your heart, and help make me filthy rich. ... type 1a supernovae seem most useful . ... This is a bright, massive star that explodes after fusing all the light elements in its core. ... That means we can calculate how far away it is. ... This is exactly what we are trying to do with these supernovae; look far enough away that any deviations from flatness of the Universe can be seen. ... Phil Plait . ...
... NASA Integrated Services Network (NISN) . ... Russian Space Science Internet (RSSI) . ... In the Fall of 1993, NASA Science lnternet (NSI) and the Russian Space Science lnternet (RSSI) began a cooperative effort to provide lnternet communications to selected Russian institutions in order to promote sponsored scientific cooperation between the two countries. ... This change, limiting full lnternet access via NISN for NASA selected Russian institutions, will take place no later than July 1998. ...
... Spacecraft that will search for planetary systems around 40 million stars and observe the largest explosions in the universe have been chosen as the next two missions in NASA's medium-class Explorer (MIDEX) program. ... The first mission, to be launched in 2003, is the Swift Gamma Ray Burst Explorer, a three-telescope space observatory for studying gamma ray bursts. ... During its three-year mission, Swift will also survey the sky for new black holes and other sources of cosmic gamma rays. ...
... 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. ...
Contact with possible Extraterrestrial Life . Recommendation for the human Contact Team to Interact with Unknown Life Forms . Contact teams meeting an Unknown Life Form must be prepared for severe psychological impact. Extreme anxiety response will almost certainly occur. The personality traits of individuals who can withstand extreme anxiety must be determined and such individuals selected to comprise the team. ... Contact team report. ... Our Contact team continue investigation. ...
. Russian version of HP . About StarCalc . News . Samples of images . Downloads . StarCalc Home Page - Samples of images . The program window with large part of sky image (quick view) . Selected object and information window (quick view) . Pleiades and nearby sky area (quick view) . Partial solar eclipse, 2003 (detailed view) . Moon in Pleiades, 2007 (detailed view) . The Pluto path, 2002 (detailed view)
The new view on the population of Galactic open clusters A.E.Piskunov1, N.V.Kharchenko2, S.RЖser3, E.Schilbach3, R.-D.Scholz4 1 2 3 4 Institute of Astronomy, Moscow, Russia Main Astronomical ... Observatory, Kiev, Ukraine Astronomisches Rechen-Institut, Heidelberg, Germany Astrophysikalisches Institut Potsdam, Germany What are open clusters and what do they teach us Groups of Population I ... Cluster complexes: OCC-1 = Gould's Belt cluster complex? ...
... For the past years I have been working on the problem of synthesis of light curves of close binary systems, consisting of a normal star and a compact object (point object with fixed X-ray luminosity). ... Possible existence of a bright spot on the disk's lateral surface is taken into account. ... The last of then will be published in Gordon and Breach Publishers ( Cherepashchuk A.M., Katysheva N.A., Khruzina T.S., Shugarov S.Yu. ... Cherepashchuk A.M., Katysheva N.A., Khruzina T.S., Shugarov S.Yu. ...
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: . ...
Download Izmccd (~2.7 MB). ... a) a choice of the best mode of measurements of stars and objects ("Properties/Measurement"), . b) a choice of reference stars. ... 1) necessity of presence on an image of a plenty of stars (we recommend to apply this mode, if on the frame of reference stars is more 100) . ... Sx and Sy depend from residuals at all reference stars (reference stars are marked by blue color). ... These residuals are the image of the star a minus function of a profile for each pixel. ...
... Structure of Data . ... Catalog . ... In SAI OCL Catalog, we introduce our work on investigation of the Milky Way system of open star clusters. The main goal of our study is a search for new clusters using huge surveys. 168 new clusters have been already discovered by us using J,H,Ks data from 2MASS point source catalog. ... For 141 new clusters, we found their physical parameters using J,H,Ks data from 2MASS catalog and, for a number of clusters, our UBVRI CCD observational magnitudes. ...
. Yu.A.Shokin . Accurate positions of variable stars in the western part of the Large Magellanic Cloud bar . (published in IBVS and SAI Proceedings ) . B.S.Vozdvijenski, N.P.Gorbatko, V.A.Yeliseev, G.V.Romanova . The results of the observations of the selected minor planets in Sternberg State Astronomical institute . (published in SAI Proceedings ) .
... 2 Measurement of PMTs counting characteristics and selection of op erating p oint To select the operating point of the PMT, that is the optimal values of the high voltage supply and pulse discrimination threshold, the command run counting=hv value is provided in the program mass. ... Starting with the minimum voltage (say 550 V) run command run counting=550 for the measurement execution. ... It is recommended to take measurements for the set of values of 0.4, 0.6, 0.8, 1.0. ...
The Galaxy Disk in Cosmological Context Proceedings IAU Symposium No. ... The presence of exponential bulges and anti-truncated disks has been noticed in many lenticular galaxies. ... Among our findings in unbarred spiral galaxies, only one galaxy, NGC 5533, has a LSB outer disk (Sil'chenko et al. ... In the frame of this model, the Exponential bulges and antitruncated disks 5 inner disk must be more bright and compact than the usual large-scale stellar disks of spiral galaxies are. ...