AMATEUR ASTRONOMY } Fighting light pollution is not a hopeless task, but it requires backyard astronomers to get active politically /// BY MICHAEL E . ... MICHAEL E. BAKICH The bright night sky Satellite imagery of the nighttime Earth lets scientists construct a global light pollution map. ... It's good for everyone As fervent as we are in attempting to preserve (or return to) a dark night sky, it's important to remind people that light pollution is bad for more than just the astronomical community. ...

Physics of Solar corona, physics of aurorae, Solar-Terrestrial connections, lithosphere-ionosphere connections. Practical Astrophysics . General Astrophysics . ... N.I.Dzubenko. Heating of the upper atmosphere during auroral and auroral . ... N.I.Dzubenko, V.M.Ivchenko, G.P.Milinevsky. ... N.I.Dzubenko, A.P.Zhilinsky, I.A.Zhulin et. al. ... solar activity cycle by photometric data. ... Kyiv, 1994. 240p. N.I.Dzubenko. The response of aurora to sharp variations of the state of . ...

... This thread contains a step-by-step recipe to extract MOS spectra of a point-like source observed in Imaging mode and to create associated response matrices, starting from a calibrated, concatenated event list (either produced with emproc or available as PPS product; here it has the assumed file name MOS.fits ). ... The users should note that the SAS metatask xmmselect allows them to interactively define source and background regions (via ds9) and to run backscale on the fly. ...

The IAA RAS . ... View details . ... Observatories 'Svetloe' and 'Zelenchukskaya' participate in frequent VLBI-observation sessions organized by the International VLBI Service for Geodesy and Astrometry . ... As part of collaboration with the U. S. Naval observatory in the areas of EOP determination and analysis the USNO uses IAA RAS daily EOP data obtained from SLR and VLBI. ... The IAA RAS and the Centre National d'Etudes Spatiales carry out joint DORIS observations on the Badary observatory. ...

... Moscow , 119017 Russia . Phone: (7-495)-951-3980 . Fax: (7-495)-951-5557 . ... Associated editor of the scientific journal "Astronomicheskij Vestnik" of the Russian Academy of Sciencies . ... Last updated on April 1, 2010. ...

... The department was founded in late sixties by Prof. D.Ya.Martynov, who for many years was also the director of Sternberg Astronomical Institute. At present time, the head of the department is Prof. A.M.Cherepashchuk, a pupil of D.Ya.Martynov and his successor as the director of SAI. Since Prof. Martynov, the scientific activity of the department was primarily related to binary stars. ... The department consists of 15 members most of which have Ph.D. in Astrophysics. ...

IC 348 1 IC 348 IC 348 Hubble image of IC 348 and its surroundings.[ ... References External links · Amateur photography ( http ://www.photonhunter.at/IC348.html) Article Sources and Contributors 2 Article Sources and Contributors IC 348 Source: http ://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=549545123 Contributors : Jmencisom, PatrickHochleitner, RJHall Image Sources , Licenses and Contributors File:Hubble image of LRLL 54361 and its surroundings.tif Source: ...

... 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 . ...

... l - the mean galactic longitude; . ... mul - the median proper motion along galactic longitude of the stars of the OB-association, in units of 0.001 arcsec year -1 ; . dml - the estimation of mul dispersion in the OB-association, in 0.001 arcsec year -1 ; . mub - the median proper motion along galactic latitude of the stars of the OB-association, in units of 0.001 arcsec year -1 ; . dmb - the estimation of mub dispersion in the OB-association, in 0.001 arcsec year -1 ; . ...

... In particular, members of the project regularly organize events dedicated to various interesting astronomical phenomena and events - solar and lunar eclipses, transit of Venus, etc. On November 3rd a team of astronomers will venture deep into Turkana National Park, Kenya and attempt to broadcast the magic of a total solar eclipse to the world. ... Solar eclipse . A solar eclipse occurs when the Moon passes between the Sun and Earth, and the Moon fully or partially blocks the Sun from our view. ...

... Radio Astronomy . ... ASRAS Board Members . ... To see the most up to date news and events happening with ASRAS log in with your user name and password and then click on the Activities page. ... Messier Marathon (Member Observing) CANCELLED Saturday, April 9, 2016 9:00 PM Location:Farash Center Ionia NY . ... ASRAS Members meeting - Friday May 6 at Farash Center - Ionia NY . ... ASRAS Board members meeting - monday May 9 @ Farash Center Monday, May 9, 2016 7:00 PM Location:Farash Center Ionia NY . ...

... Today this year's largest group of sunspots will cross the Sun's central meridian. ... The next day, the number of spots in the group reached five, and the day after, on June 2nd, it was possible to count thirteen sunspots on solar disk, which had been clear prior to this. ... This year's two most powerful active areas, which passed across the solar disk at the beginning of May, 2009, are set to appear in the Sun's eastern sector in two days, on June 6th. ...