ATMoB "Galaxy Observing Award " Guidelines Purpose: To promote observing among the membership of the Amateur Telescope Makers of Boston through participation in the Galaxy Observing Awards program. ... Examples of elliptical galaxies: M49, M59, M60, M87, NGC 4125. Limiting Magnitude Assessment: Spirals: A spiral galaxy consists of a flattened disk, with stars forming a (usually two-armed) spiral structure, and a central concentration of stars known as the bulge. ...

Data and Phase Links . The maximum scientific data rate of downlink is 128 Mbit/s (total rate 144 Mbit/s). Data transmission is being done by VIRK communicationsystem through the high gain antenna at frequency 15.000 GHz. The downlink data stream is divided into frames each being 20 000 bytes long. ... Ground Support of the RadioAstron . ... Data Processing . ... Progress of the RadioAstron Project in Pictures . ...

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... astro-ph/0303500 . ... В Архиве электронных препринтов появилась интересная и важная обзорная работа с юбилейным номером 0303500. Космический телескоп им. Хаббла . ... Благодаря столь широкому охвату читатель может узнать о множестве открытий последнего десятилетия в астрономии. Существенно и то, что Ливио не просто перечисляет открытия, он много рассказывает о физике явлений. ... Список ссылок занимает 15 страниц. ... Галактики на больших красных смещениях глазами Космического телескопа . ...

MATSYM - symbolic matrix processor . ... To use the program you will need a MAT file (liked CIR file: "User manual for CIRSYM program") of your system. ... In first string of MAT file enter any text you want to be the title of your system. ... Starting from string 2 (if is not comments - "*") enter the system element name, incident row and column and, optionally, its value. ... To generate a solution, run MATSYM.exe and enter "system_file_name.CIR" or click on the "ENTER" (in "MAT" case). ...

... According to the estimations of the RSC Energia it will take at least 10 years and 500-600 million $ (cost of adjustment, preparation, equipment's launching and accompaniment of carrying out of the experiments is included) to build up a similar experimental complex. ... It was carried out successfully. ... Radiation researches on the station Mir, carrying out by Moscow State University, gave rise to the construction of the dynamic picture of radiation zones' changes during the sun activity cycle. ...

... Bad Astronomy . ... I think I will break from my usual format of Bad Astronomy/ Good Astronomy by saying that the way we define seasons currently is not strictly bad, but I feel (in my opinion!) that it could be better. The definition of when the seasons begin is at the moment of solstice or equinox; that is, winter (in the north) starts on December 22 nd and summer starts on June 22 nd . ... Now imagine breaking up the Sun's 46 degree up-and-down yearly swing into 1 day intervals. ...

... Yerga Expedition . ... Novaya Yerga Expedition . ... I n 1662 a meteorite shower fell near the village of Novaya Yerga. ... In 2002, the Meteoritics Laboratory of the Vernadsky Institute of Geochemistry And Analytical Chemistry of the Russian Academy of Sciences (GEOKHI) organized an expedition to search for the location and any traces of the Novaya Yerga meteorite shower. ... After visiting the town of Kirillov, the expedition returned to Novaya Yerga, i.e. to near the village of Nekrasovo. ...

... Direct data transmission rate (Mbps) . ... the density of electron fluexs with energies in four bands from 0.04 MeV to 1.7 MeV; . ... sensor (TV, IR) data and heliogeophisical information (HGI) transmission to data receiving and processing centers at a rate of up to 2.56 Mbps; . ... 1.76 GHz - TV- and heliogeophysical information and DCLI's data transmission to data receiving and processing centers; . 7.5 GHz - TV- and heliogeophisical data transmission to data receiving and processing centers; . ...

Astronotes Armagh Planetarium's Stellar Blog! ... Science Fiction . UFOs and Fringe Science . ... Let those who worship evil?s might, beware my power, Green Lantern?s light! Green Lantern Corps oath. ... When It was suggested that I write an article looking at the upcoming movie The Green Lantern, and its encompassing concepts I jumped at the chance! ... Just so you know, there are NO SPOILERS in this article. ... Green Lanterns have a range of superpowers, granted to them by a Power Ring. ...

Электронная библиотека астронома-любителя. ... библиотека . архив RSN . ... Ru.Space.News: . Февраль 1998 . ... Дата: 02 февраля 1998 (1998-02-02) От: Alexander Bondugin Тема: Lunar Prospector Update - January 29, 1998 Привет всем! ... Lunar Prospector Mission Status Report #16 January 29, 1998 7 p.m. EST (4:00 p.m. PST) The Lunar Prospector spacecraft continues to operate well according to Mission Control at NASA_s Ames Research Center. ...

Super Rocket Targets . NPO MOLNIYA has been designing rockets-targets for over 30 years using the great experience in crea-ting anti-aircraft guided rockets (AGR) for C-25M. On the basis of B-300 anti-aircraft rockets which expired their service life, there were designed, tested and put into the serial production the following types of the rocket - ... The analogue of this system successfully passed the state tests with the ZVEZDA-4 rocket-target. ...

... Reports on progress and error are always recorded in the log file of the program. ... UT date of the measurement finish in YYYY-MM-DD format UT time of the measurement finish in hh:mm:ss format Average flux in A aperture Average flux in B aperture Average flux in C aperture Average flux in D aperture Normalized variance of flux in A aperture Normalized variance of flux in B aperture Normalized variance of flux in C aperture Normalized variance of flux in D ...

... 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. ...

... 1.7 GSC 084 Pulkovo Obs., 0.33 15 x 15' 1.0" 7 34 0.179 0.307 Normal Asgr. 3.0 UCAC 118 Slovakia, 0.57 14 x 10' 1.7" 3 12 0.090 0.145 Modra 3.3 USNO 127 Germany, 0.19 30 x 20' 2.4" 3 15 0.151 0.087 Bornheim 0.8 GSC 168 34 200 0.282 0.315 291 USA,Kitt Peak, 1.8 390 x 30' 1.0" 1 5 0.143 0.144 Spacewatch II 4.7 USNO 300 Japan, 0.5 78 x 78' 2.3" 7 36 0.420 0.447 Bisei Center 1.3 ACT 461 Hungary, JATE 0.60 28 x 19' 1.1" 6 22 0.124 0.153 Asteroid Surv. ... Polynesia 1.0 UCAC F85 Tiki Obs., ...

... 53, Moscow, 119991 Russia 2 Moscow Physicotechnical Institute, Dolgoprudnyi, Moscow oblast, 141700 Russia Received May 26, 2008 ° Abstract--The relative intensities of Fe XI­Fe XIII lines in the range 176­207 A have been measured for various plasma structures of the solar corona using data from the XUV spectroheliograph of the SPIRIT instrumentation onboard the CORONAS-F satellite with an improved spectral sensitivity calibration. ... 2005, 2007). ... Density measurement based on Fe XIII lines. ...

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... 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. ...