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... The bright supernova (hereafter SN) in the galaxy NGC 4527 was first sighted by S. Knight (USA) on April 13.17UT at magnitude ~14.0v. The report of the sighting was subsequently forwarded by phone to the AAVSO. ... SN 1991T. The galaxy NGC 4527 is an Sb(s)II type galaxy with an apparent Blue magnitude of 11.32 (Shapley-Ames, 1981). ... An analysis of this event utilizing visual observations by amateurs, plus a light curve is presented.. ... THE LIGHT CURVE: . ... ISN SN 1991T web page . ...

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... Table 1:: CCD Statistics CCD P i x el S i ze P i x el s Imaging Area Gain Dark Current Readout Noise Readout Rate Cost E2V CCD231 15µm 4096 x 4112 61.4mm2 2.6e-/ADU 3e /pixel/hour 2-5 50KHz - 1MHz $114,000 STA4150 15µm 4096 x 4096 61.4mm2 NA 3e /pixel/hour 3-6 100KHz -1MHz $55,000 Fairchild CCD6161 15µm 4096 x 4097 61.44 x 61.455mm NA 0.6e /pixel/hour 10 Up to 1MHz NA Andor IKon 936 13.5µm 2048 x 2048 27.6mm2 NA 0.006e /pixel/hour 2.9 7.0 Up to 5MHz NA 2. ... E2V Coating Choices Fig. ...

Winer Observatory P.O. Box 797, Sonoita, Arizona 85637-0797, USA . ... Asteroid . ... Site . ... The evening of October 26, 2011, Mark Trueblood, Robert Crawford, and Larry Lebofsky used the Kitt Peak 2.1-m telescope to observe Near Earth Asteroid (NEA) 2008 QT3. ... single still jpeg frame . ... The National Optical Astronomy Observatory (NOAO) issued a press release concerning Morgan's work on Monday, November 21, 2011 and posted it on the home page of their web site . ... 2013 Winer Observatory. ...

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21.10 news 887 MH 19/10/04 2:15 pm Page 887 news Russians fear privatization of state labs Bryon MacWilliams, Moscow Senior officials in Moscow are attempting to reassure Russian scientists about details of a planned reform, under which many hundreds of the country's state research institutes could lose their government funding. ... We agree that Russian science does need reform," says Boris Stern, a particle physicist at the academy's Institute for Nuclear Research in Moscow. ...

International Workshop NAROO-GAIA "A new reduction of old observations in the Gaia era", Paris Observatory, June 20-22, 2012 Registration of participants of Workshop NAROO-GAIA Before the first meeting OPENING OF THE WORKSHOP The natural planetary satellites are observed since centuries in order to understand their dynamics and their evolution. ... Science results, reports, data mining. ... L. Beauvalet: Strong need of a new reduction of Pluto's old observations W.Thuillot: very important. ...

... 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. ...

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... Panoramic spectroscopy of the sample of 80 nearby lenticular galaxies is presented. ... By comparing the subsample of the S0s with the chemically distinct nuclei to the total sample of nearby S0s (Fig. 1), we have assured that the chemically distinct nuclei are always younger than the surrounding bulges: the mean age difference between the chemically distinct nuclei and their surrounding bulges is 2.8 Gyr while the age difference between the nuclei and the bulges for the whole sample is only 1 Gyr. ...

... Exposure Time Calculator (ETC) . Survey processing . ... VISTA is a 4-m class wide field survey telescope for the southern hemisphere, equipped with a near infrared camera (1.65 degree diameter field of view at VISTA's nominal pixel size) containing 67 million pixels of mean size 0.34 arcsec and available broad band filters at Z,Y,J,H,K s and a narrow band filter at 1.18 micron. A wide field visible camera, if constructed, could also be used on VISTA. ... Tile . ... ESO VISTA Public Surveys . ...

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RADIOASTROPHYSICAL DEPARTMENT • INSTITUTE OF SOLAR-TERRESTRIAL PHYSICS RAS SB . Radio telescope 's beam General information Main characteristics of the Radio telescope Observing programs General view of the antenna array Main research areas Principle of generation of radio images Receiving systems Main characteristics of the base receiving-recording complex Calibrations Data archive and databases Publication SSRT - Radio telescope's beam . ...

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THE 75th NAME-LIST OF VARIABLE STARS. ... The 75th Name-List consists of two tables. ... the literature, taken from positional catalogues, including USNO A1.0/A2.0 and GSC, or determined by the authors); the range of variability (sometimes the column Min gives, in parentheses, the amplitude of light variation; the symbol ( means that the star , in minimum light, becomes fainter, than the magnitude indicated); and the system of magnitudes used ( P are photographic ...

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... After all we cannot send a probe to the star Altair to confirm that it is 17 light years away. ... The "Bessel determined that the star 61 Cygni was about ten light years away" Earth goes around the Sun in one year, so in six month it is in the opposite position in its orbit. ... In 1838 Bessel determined that the star 61 Cygni had a parallax of 0.314 arcseconds and therefore the star was about ten light years away (today the distance is more precisely measured to be 11.4 light years). ...

ABSTRACTS 10-th International Gamow Summer School "Astronomy and beyond: Astrophysics, Cosmology and Gravitation, Cosmomicrophysics, Radio-astronomy and Astrobiology" (Ukraine, Odessa, Chernomorka, 23-28 August, 2010) MEMORIAL SESSION SERGEY ALEKSANDROVICH SNEGOV (1910-1994) ­ OUSTANDING PHYSICIST, COSMOLOGIST, ASTRONOMER AND WRITER ­ VISIONARY TO A 100-ANNIVERSARY FROM BIRTHDAY Pahomov A.G. PFUM, Moscow It is possible to judge a condition of an astronomical science on literary works of time. ...