The Official Publication of the Amateur Astronomers Association of Princeton Director Ludy D'Angelo 609-882-9336 ludy@princetonastronomy.org Assistant Director Jeff Bernardis ... .com Editor Michael Wright (609) 371-5668 editors@princetonastronomy.org Also online at princetonastronomy.wordpress.com Volume 40 April 2011 Number 4 From the Director What does it mean to do astronomy ... It takes time. ... This second installment covers the telescope itself and its maker, Henry Fitz. ...

The Third International Symposium UNIVERSAT- 2009 : UNIVERSITY SATELLITES in SPACE SCIENCES EDUCATION 28 September ­ 1 October, 2009 and The Sixth HANDS-ON SPACE SCHOOL FOR UNIVERSITY STUDENTS AND TUTORS 2 ­ 4 October, 2009 Skobeltsyn Institute of Nuclear Physics, Lomonosov Moscow State University , Moscow , ... UNIVERSAT-2009 is a satellite symposium of the Space 2009) announced by Space Research Institute of Russian (Moscow, Russia). ... Projects of Future University Missions, 3. ...

... На снимках, полученных с помощью камеры High Resolution Stereo Camera (HRSC) европейской межпланетной станции Mars Express, запечатлена долина Нанеди. Снимки демонстрируют область долины Нанеди, которая протянулась с юго-запада на северо-восток на 800 км и находится в Земле Ксанфа (Xanthe Terra) с координатами 6,0оN и 312оЕ к юго-западу от равнины Хриза (Chryse Planitia). ... На цветном снимке видно, что долина Нанеди имеет извилистую форму, на севере два ее ответвления сливаются. ... Статьи: . ...

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... 2014 . ... MAGNETIC FIELDS IN SOLAR ACTIVE REGIONS V.G.Lozitsky Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv, Astronomical Observatory lozitsky@observ.univ.kiev.ua, lozitsky_v@ukr.net Magnetic field measurements in solar active regions carry out on a base of the Zeeman effect. ... TRACKING OF RADIO BURST SOURCES IN SOLAR CORONA BY HELIOGRAPHIC MEANS Koval A.A. 1, Stanislavsky A.A. 1,2, Konovalenko A.A. 1 Institute of Radio Astronomy of NAS of Ukraine 2 V.N. Karazin Kharkiv National University 1 .. ...

The low aspect ratio, or spherical tokamak Globus-M [1] has recently been built in a support of international spherical tokamak plasma investigation program. ... The survey to determine the work scope in diagnostic design for Globus-M is given in the paper. ... The next one is an advanced diagnostic set intended to supply the data on basic plasma parameters: electron temperature and density profiles, ion temperature, plasma composition, radiation profile, Zeffective. ... Magnetic Diagnostics. ...

... 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). ...

... Like many other Western industrialized cities, London has experienced an absolute population decline in the central city, with people moving out to the suburbs. ... In 1988, for example, nearly 1 in 8 people were unemployed throughout London and the situation in the inner city was worst. ... More successful has been the government's attempt to encourage grwoth outside London without allowing the city to sprawl into umanageable suburban growth. ...

. -!> download . Left: Consequtive explosion of 20 supernovae during 30 Myr. Right: Single hypernova (GRB) explosion with the total energy equivalent to 20 supernovae. The simulation was performed using a 2D Eulerian hydro code. The animation was done using IDL. -!>

Lunar and Planetary Science XXXIV (2003) 1575.pdf MAJOR AND TRACE ELEMENT CHEMISTRY AND Ar-Ar AGE OF THE NWA E.V. Korotchantseva1,2, M.A. Ivanova1, C.A. Lorenz1, A.I. Bouikine1,2, M. Trieloff2, Promprated3, M. Anand3, and L.A. Taylor3 : ... Universitфt Heidelberg, Germany; 3Planetary Geosciences Institute, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, T Introduction: Northwest Africa ( NWA ) 011 was originally described as a non-cumulate eucrite with an anomalous Fe/Mn ratio [1] ... REEs of NWA 011. ...

... Официальное зеркало Astronomy picture of the day на сервере NASA ?? ... написанным профессиональным астрономом . ... Слухи о странной Вселенной . ... Во-первых, энергия, связанная с лямбда-членом, очень непохожа на другие известные составляющие Вселенной, во-вторых, наблюдения накладывают жесткие ограничения на возможные значения космологической постоянной , и, наконец, для объяснения ранее полученных данных вполне успешно применялись гораздо менее странные космологические модели без лямбда-члена. ...

... Printed in the U.S.A. doi:10.1088/0004-637X/691/2/1222 AUTOMATED LASCO CME CATALOG FOR SOLAR CYCLE 23: ARE CMEs SCALE INVARIANT? ... CME RATE DURING CYCLE 23 Figure 2 shows the daily CACTus CME rate for cycle 23 in red, with the International Sunspot Number (e.g., Vanlommel et al. 2004) superimposed in gray as solar cycle reference. ... The CACTus CME speeds Figure 12. ... A comparison of a sample of common events shows that on average the CDAW CME width is wider than the CACTus CME width. ...

... On the basis of hypothesis about Solar s ystem formating from endo-Galactic Vortex, stated by е.л. Trunaev, who have acquainted the author of the present work with his manuscript in 1991 during personal contact , the results of attempt to apply its main rules to some calculations at the Solar system actually and at planets satellite systems are below stated. ... orbit in . ... All satellite systems of planets, as well as the Solar system, are formed from two- branch pre-planetary (pre-Solar)...

... Objectives of the study . To survey and evaluate the technical and economical feasibility of European initiatives by start-up companies, for privately-funded crew vehicles for commercial human space flight. ... New commercial markets, among them space tourism, have a great potential to become major drivers in space technology development. This study aims at the assessment of the feasibility of European initiatives to address these new markets through the development of crewed space vehicles. ...

The Archeops experiment aimed at measuring the cosmic background emitted just after the Big Bang. The study of this radiation is essential to obtain precise information on the evolution of the Universe: density, Hubble constant, age of the Universe.. To achieve this goal, measurements have been done with devices cooled down at 100mK temperature placed at the focus of a warm telescope. ... 28960 visitors . ...