... Using the CFBDSIR wide field survey for brown dwarfs, we identified CFBDSIRJ214947.2-040308.9, a late T dwarf with atypically red J-Ks colour. ... SN 2009ip in NGC 7259 Electronic Telegram No. ... 7.09, [19.0; 2009 Aug. ... Accepted for publication in MNRAS Subjects: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE) The jet opening angle theta_jet and the bulk Lorentz factor Gamma_0 are crucial parameters for the computation of the energetics of Gamma Ray Bursts (GRBs). ...

... Bad Astronomy . ... Bitesize Astronomy . ... If you thought our tour of the solar system ended with Neptune and Pluto, you are setting your sights way too low. The planets of the solar system mark time relatively close to the Sun compared to interstellar space. Pluto orbits the Sun at an average distance 40 times that of the Earth, yet the nearest star (the Alpha Centauri system) to the solar system is a mind-numbing 260,000 times the distance of the Earth to the Sun. ... 2008 Phil Plait. ...

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. ...

... Advises . Contact Advises . As an advise for amateurs we would like to underline: if it's possible, try to observe 3 asteroid positions per night and do not neglect to observe the Numbered Minor Planets in your telescope field of view as a "by product" of your observational programs. ... We think such estimations ought to be produced every morning after CCD observations of the moving celestial objects by observer himself. ...

Aristarch is Copernic of Classic World. ... First Aristarch determined the fact for how many times the Sun was father then the Moon and then he compared the Sun and the Moon with the Earth. ... Only the Moon rotates around the Earth. ... Gipparch suggested that the Sun turned around the Earth steady and in circumference but the Earth is displaced according its centre. ... The orbit point in which the Sun is nearer to the Earth Gipparch called perigee and the most remote one he called apogee . ...

Электронная библиотека астронома-любителя. ... библиотека . архив RSN . ... Ru.Space.News: . Февраль 1998 . ... Дата: 14 февраля 1998 (1998-02-14) От: Alexander Bondugin Тема: Overview of Comet Hale-Bopp meeting at Tenerife, Feb. 2-5, 1998 [1/3] Привет всем! ... Moreover, the Comet was visible in the sky for an extremely long period. ... Дата: 14 февраля 1998 (1998-02-14) От: Alexander Bondugin Тема: Sky Telescope News Bulletin - February 13, 1998 Привет всем! ... Clear skies! ...

... Imaging GRIN Rod Lens (HAG's) | Relay Rod Lens (LAG's) | ... The Refractive Index Distributions (RID) in GRIN lens preforms are made by multi-stage optimized ion-exchange diffusion between silicate mineral glasses and salt melts. ... In the LAG lenses - L ow A perture GRIN the nature of the changing of refractive index in glass via ion-exchange lies mainly in molecular volume increase. ... LAG lenses are specially treated to create the dark anti-flick surface coating (Fig.2). ...

... SUPER RATIO . ... On this page I will present the most important (on my opinion) idea on Intellegence Life in the Universe . ... On the problem of the Super Ratio in astrophysics" . ... As a matter of fact, this is the main problem of the modern natural science. ... Here I shall try to speak about the most important problem of the modern natural science, the problem which is undoubtedly, of more importance than discovery of Blacks Holes, creation of Grand Unification Theory or Artificial...

... Local and Regional Coordinators, and OBSERVERS are needed for Friday night's spectacular Aldebaran Occultation and Graze Aldebaran is the brightest star, other than the Sun, that can be occulted by the Moon. ... Use your camcorder (or a borrowed camcorder) to record a strong local television station. ... Encourage other amateur astronomers, and other friends and relatives in the region of visibility to record the occultation with camcorders. ... This event is called an "occultation" by astronomers. ...

... The space station Mir is the most complex and unique vehicle of the twentieth century. ... It is in proposing to UNESCO the procedure of giving to the space station Mir a status of the object of the World cultural heritage of the mankind as a very valuable unique object of the technical culture of the 20th century, and realization of the special project of its preservation. ... Proactive organization work to get in UNESCO the status of the object of the World cultural heritage for the station Mir; ....

Instrument . ... Scanning TV-sensor with on-board data recording system for global coverage mode . ... recording, direct transmission . ... IR-radiometer for global coverage and direct data transmission modes . ... The scientific instrument package onboard the Meteor-3 spacecraft provides for regular instant acquisition of images of cloudiness and Earth surface in visible and infra-red bands, data on air temperature and humidity, sea surface temperature and clouds temperature. ...

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 Sun Stellar Evolution of Low and High Mass Stars Deaths of Stars Class 4 Galaxies Galaxy Classification Formation of Galaxies Galactic Evolution Large-Scale Structure of the Universe Big Bang Cosmology Why is Pluto no longer a planet? ...

... An Electronic Version of Volume I of the General Catalogue of Variable Stars with Improved Coordinates N. N. Samus'1,2 , * , V. P. Goranskii2 , O. V. Durlevich2 , A. V. Zharova2 , E. V. Kazarovets1 , E. N. Pastukhova1, M. L. Hazen3 , and T. M. Tsvetkova Institute of Astronomy, Russian Academy of Sciences, ul. ... Subsequently, we are planning to publish new versions of the GCVS Volumes II and III, as well as of the catalog of suspected variable stars (the NSV catalog). ... Stars, No. ... Stars Obs. ...

Russian Space Science Internet (RSSI) is a successful result of RSSI Project. ... space oriented organizations; . ... RSSI offers for its members : . ... videoconferences via MBONE Internet protocol (there are 2 tunnels available now through the general IP network: one to NASA Internet, and another to Moscow State University); . ... It is designed so that all organizations connected to the RSSI gain access to the resources of Russian computer networks as well as world wide Internet. ... nic@rssi.ru ...

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? ...

АСТРОНОМИЧЕСКИЕ АДРЕСАТЫ INTERNET Subject: Introduction to sci.astro Sender: jl26@cornell.edu (Verified) Distribution: world sci.astro is a newsgroup for the discussion of astronomical topics. ... There are six groups in the sci.astro hierarchy: sci.astro Astronomy discussions and information. sci.astro.amateur Amateur astronomy equipment, techniques, info, etc. sci.astro.fits Issues related to the Flexible Image Transport System. sci.astro.hubble Processing Hubble Space Telescope data. ...

Russian . ... Very Early Universe: inflation, generation of primordial perturbations, preheating . Very Early Universe: inflation, generation of initial perturbations, preheating . Cosmic Microwave Background Radiation: anisotropy and polarization . ... Dark Energy and Dark Matter models . High Energy Astrophysics: accretion discs, cosmic rays, gamma-ray bursts . ... Astrophysics of black holes and wormholes . ...

... The source exhibits a mas-scale structure which, according to the USNO multi-epoch monitoring at 2.3 and 8.4 GHz over the period from 1994 July through 1998 April, undergoes considerable changes in the brightness distribution and positions of the major structural features. Our image is qualitatively consistent with the structural pattern of the source. ... We note a difference of ~90 in position angles of secondary components in our image and the 5 GHz VLBI image by Shen et al. 1998). ...

... Nova M81 2009-11d? unannounced discovered 2009/11/27.098 by Kamil Hornoch . Found in M81 at R.A. = 09h56m38s.35, Decl. ... Nova M31 2009-10b images sub-page . ... Nova NGC 2403 2009-03a , ATEL 1984 discovered 2009/03/15.147 by P60-Fast Transients In Nearby Galaxies (PDF) at R.A. = 07h36m35s.00, Decl. 65 40'20".8 Mag 20.6, Type Extragalactic Nova (offset 101.0W 252.0N) (host NGC 2403) ( Kamil Hornoch image ) 3 supernovae ATEL 1967 discovered by Coma and Virgo Exploration for Transients . ...

... 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. ...