Amateur Astronomers Association of Princeton Washington Crossing Observatory Guide First draft 1/2000 K. Alexander, revised 7/2000 W. J. Murray, revised 1/2001 R.A. Parker Keyholder Duties Along with the privilege of having full access to the AAAP's telescopes and observatory facilities, all keyholders must participate in the AAAP's public observing programs as outlined below, and are expected to contribute to occasional maintenance and work sessions at the observatory. ... Note dead batteries in log. ...

Determination of short-term proper motions of fast stars with Pulkovo Normal Astrograph. ... Khovritchev Laboratory of Astrometry and Stellar Astronomy of the Pulkovo Observatory, RAS, Saint-Petersburg Observations Normal Astrograph (D/F=33 cm/3.5m), CCD camera: S2C, FOV = 18x16 arcmin, Pixel size 900x900 mas Determination of the new proper motions of 413 LSPM stars 1 epoch : CCD-surveys and catalogs -- M2000, CMC14, 2MASS, SDSS DR7 2 epoch : CCD-observations with the ...

About V I spectral lines with overlay of Zeeman and hyperfine structure splitting in spectra of sunspot umbra S.G. Mozharovsky Ussuriysk Astrophysical Observatory of FEB RAS, Ussuriysk, Russia sw@newmail.ru Abstract. ... Overlay of components of the different types can allow obtain the parameters of the magnetic field by the ratio of the component intensities. ... The structure of Zeeman splitting which follows from the parameters of the line atomic levels can be seen in Figure 1. [pic] Figure 1. ...

GCVS Variability Types and Distribution Statistics of Designated Variable Stars According to their Types of Variability ======================================================================== I. GCVS Variability Types. ... Amplitudes usually do not exceed 0.1 mag. ... RR Variables of the RR Lyrae type, which are radially-pulsating giant A-F stars having amplitudes from 0.2 to 2 mag in V. Cases of variable light-curve shapes as well as variable periods are known. ... RV Variables of the RV Tauri type. ...

... Meade Instruments Corporation . ... How to Calculate Power . How to Calculate Power: The magnification, or power, at which a telescope is operating is a function of the focal length of the telescope's main (objective) lens (or primary mirror) and the focal length of the eyepiece employed. ... Example: The Meade DS-2070AT telescope has an objective lens focal length of 700mm; when this telescope is used with a 25mm eyepiece, a power of 700/25 = 28 power (written as "28x") results. ... about meade | ...

... Even though the DoD would ultimately select senior Air Force officials, US Navy oceanographers and Air Weather Service officers as shuttle payload specialists, MSEs would be the first personnel from an American military programme to go into space. ... One Air Force officer, Maj. ... Jacobson was concerned about shuttle launch delays and wanted the MSEs to understand that his mission, i.e., the launch of national security payloads, dwarfed their mission, flights in space by Air Force personnel. ...

... Space flight . Crew training . ... Space camp . ... The "Odyssey" project includes all the stages of preliminary selection and pre-flight training of the inter-planetary station crew, as well as simulates a 7-day "Earth-Moon-Earth" space mission. ... Training in crews on the "MIR" space station trainers and simulators under the interplanetary "Earth-Moon-Earth" mission program, . ... A commander (carries out a general onboard control and is responsible for the crew safety and vital activity. ...

... 365­368, ISSN 1055-6796, Photo copying p ermitted by license only, c Cambridge Scientific Publishers Distance scale calibration from kinematic analysis of an ensemble of the galactic planetary nebulae V.V. Akimkin1, I.I. Nikiforov2, A.F. Kholtygin 1 2 2 Astronomical Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Russia Sobolev Astronomical Institute of St. Petersburg State University, Russia Received 1 February, 2012 We study the kinematics of ensembles of planetary ...

... The accuracy of the RESIK measurements allows photospheric and coronal abundance sets, important for the free­bound continuum, to be discriminated. ... The FB emission depends on the set of abundances used in the calculations, a coronal set (Feldman 1992; Fludra & Schmelz 1999) giving rise to greater emission than a photospheric set (Grevesse et al. ... Right panel: continuum fluxes compared for coronal (Feldman 1992) and photospheric (Grevesse et al. 2007) abundances for Te = 15 MK. ...

M obile A stronomical Sy stem of TE lescope- R obots MASTER-II Kislovodsk Lomonosov Moscow State University, Sternberg Astronomical Institute , Moscow Union "Optic" , Kislovodsk Solar Station Latitude = 43 o љ44'.767љN; Longitude = 42 o љ31'.417љE; Altitude = 2067љm MASTERљIIљ(8љsquareљdegress) + MASTERљVWF(VeryљWideљFieldљCameras (FOV=800 square degrees, Timeљresolutionљupљtoљ150љms, with unfiltered m_lim=14m on 5 sec. exposure, and ~10.5m with 0.15 sec) . ... 11h 38m 38.0s , -09d 59m 59s) . ...

... Comments, Opinions Publications Dnepr Program . ... During 1992-2003 timeframe, a team of Russian and Ukrainian companies together with the Russian Ministry of Defense (MoD) were involved in developing a commercial space launch system based on the technology of the SS-18 ICBMs being withdrawn from service. ... ISC Kosmotras was assigned the role of a team leader to build and commercially operate this SS-18 ICBM based space launch system and the entire program was given the name Dnepr . ... Dnepr LV ...

Crater Gassendi . ... I made this drawing was made on the 26th of november 2001. If you compare this one with the previous drawing of Gassendi (below) the differences are clear. ... This drawing was made on the 28th of september 2001. After nearly a full month without observations I had a one hour gap between the thicker clouds. ... This drawing was made on the 29th of august 2001. ... This drawing was made on the 27th of august 2001. ... This drawing was made on the 25th of august 2001. ...

To appear in "Fourth Workshop on Robotic Autonomous Observatories (2015)"RevMexAA(SC) MINI-MEGATORTORA WIDE-FIELD MONITORING SYSTEM WITH SUB-SECOND TEMPORAL RESOLUTION: FIRST YEAR OF OPERATION S. Karpov, 1, 3 G . Be s k i n , 1, 3 A. Biryukov4 S. Bondar,2 E. Ivanov,2 E. Katkova,2 A. Perkov,2 and V. Sasyuk RESUMEN 3 Favor de prop orcionar un resumen en espanol. ... The real-time system data analysis pipeline performs automatic detection of rapid transient events, both near-Earth and extragalactic. ...

Winer Observatory P.O. Box 797, Sonoita, Arizona 85637-0797, USA . ... Winer . ... Mark Trueblood was born in Cincinnati, Ohio in 1948. ... It was Andy, with the encouragement of Irv Winer, who got Mark interested in telescope building and astronomy again. ... Society for Astronomical Sciences (Robert Crawford lead author) . ... Trueblood, Mark, "The Space Telescope Payload Operations Control Center" in Genet and Genet, eds., Microcomputers in Astronomy - II, Fairborn Observatory (Fairborn: 1984), 11. ...

A year is a time interval approximately equal to the period of the Earth's rotation around the Sun. ... 2) a tropical year is a time interval between the Sun's two centre successive passing through the medium point of the vernal equinox (365,2422 days); . 3) anomalistic year is a time interval between the Sun's two centre successive passing through the perihelion of its visible heliocentric orbit (365,2596 days); . ... 6) lunar year includes 12 lunar synodic months (about 354, 367 days); . ...

The purpose of the space-physics lab exercises is to introduce the students to the methods of the measurements, to the modern conception of near-Earth space structure and the physical processes and phenomena occured in it. ... At present the reasearches and the teachers of the University and of other institutes participating in the project continue development of the the special space-physics lab exercises, and they are interested in your ideas concerning the future exercises. ...

The Second U.S. Naval Observatory CCD Astrograph Catalog ( UCAC2 ) Table of Contents 1) Introduction 2) Summary of the Project a) Observations and Instrumentation b) Reductions of UCAC Observations c) Computation of Proper Motions 3) Properties of the Catalog and Important Notes For the User a) Sky Coverage b) Completeness c) Positions, Proper Motions and Error Calculations d) UCAC2 Magnitudes e) 2MASS Photometry f) Non-stellar ... All stars in the UCAC2 have proper motions. ...

... history, facts, technology, space ships . Россия по праву является одной из ведущих держав в исследовании и освоении космического пространства. Работы многих русских и советских ученых еще в конце XIX в. и начале XX в. были посвящены вопросам теории космонавтики и реактивного движения. ... Большое количество государственных и научных организаций участвовало в решении проблем развития ракетостроения и космонавтики.љ ... Introduction . Russian Astronauts . ... Russian Space Ships . ...

... 337, 275­292 (2002) The correlation of line strength with luminosity and redshift from composite quasi-stellar object spectra S. M. Croom,1 K. Rhook,1 E. A. Corbett,1 B. J. Boyle,1 H. Netzer,2 N. S. Loaring,3 L ... We measure highly significant Baldwin effects for most broad emission lines (C IV 1549, C III] 1909, Mg II 2798, H ,H ) and show that they are predominantly caused by correlations with luminosity, not redshift. ... The correlations of log W with log(1 + z ) for each line. ...

Class 1 Introduction, Background History of Modern Astronomy The Night Sky, Eclipses and the Seasons Kepler's Laws Newtonian Gravity General Relativity Matter and Light Telescopes Class 2 Solar System Characteristics Formation Exosolar Planets Class 3 Stars The S un Stellar Evolution of Low and High Mass Stars Deaths of Stars Exotic Stars Class 4 Galaxies Galaxy Classification Formation of Galaxies Galactic ... Low mass stars live and die differently than high mass stars. ...