By Bruce Scodova .. ... Inspired by Mike Allen’s ‘Within 10 degrees from the pole ’ I began an observing program to observe all the circumpolar NGC and IC objects. ... As Mike points out in his article, equatorial mounts naturally have a tough ti me observing around the pole, which is why dobsonians are much easier to use than equatorials when observing objects at high declinations. ... You will find the Webb Society Anonymous Galaxies observing project on my Astronomical Observations page. ... NGC . ...

General Information . ... We'd like to announce the forthcoming IAU Conference: . ... A conference organized by Sternberg Astronomical institute (Moscow, Russia) and Working group "Site-testing Instruments" of the International Astronomical Union on various aspects of site-testing techniques, approaches and results. RUSSIA, Kislovodsk (Caucasus Mineral Waters region), 4-9 October 2010. ... Victor Kornilov, Sternberg Astronomical Institute . ... 3-4 October: Registration and accommodation . ...

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. ...

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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. ...