... Astronomy news . ... NASA's Spitzer Images Out-of-This-World Galaxy . ... It is spiral-shaped like our Milky Way, with long, spindly arms of stars. The "eye" at the center of the galaxy is actually a monstrous black hole surrounded by a ring of stars. In this color-coded infrared view from Spitzer, the area around the invisible black hole is blue and the ring of stars, white. ... The ring around the black hole is bursting with new star formation. ...

... LINKS . ... SPECIAL TOPIC . CONTACT . ... ARTICLE: Venus Transit 2004 . ... AAL's Transit Observation Results . ... Divx video from the AAL observation site. ... a) Visual observation : Only with special eclipse shades ( do not use those ones you still have from the 1999's solar eclipse because it does no more protect you properly ) . ... 1. contact ( transit begins ) : 07:19 53 s with a solar altitude of 15.5 degrees . ... Venus Transit Links: . ... Venus Transit 2004: A Tremendous Success . ...

... Schedule IKI RAN Data Acquisition, Processing and Dissemination Center . SRC "Planeta" Data Acquisition, Processing and Dissemination Center . Sea Surface Temperature Adriatic Sea . Baltic Sea . Barents Sea . Black Sea . ... Composite Image of Cloudiness Russia . ... Regional Archive (only cloudless data) . ... Operative Regional Archive (all data for last 3 days) . ... NOAA Data on other Servers (about Russia) . For more information send a mail to: info@sputnik.infospace.ru . ...

Moscow Astronomical Plate Archives: . Contents, Digitization, Current and Possible Applications . ... We describe the astronomical plate archives in Moscow and Zvenigorod and the existing digitization projects. ... 2 The Plate Archive of the Sternberg Institute . The contents of the most important Moscow astronomical plate archive, that of the Sternberg Astronomical Institute, was briefly presented in Shugarov et al. [1] in 1999. ... THE MOSCOW PLATE COLLECTION (STERNBERG INSTITUTE) . ...

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Subsystemsof RR Lyrae Variable Stars in Our Galaxy . ... Field stars displaying more rapid motion and clusters with redderh orizontal branches constitute the spheroidal subsystem of the accreted outer halo, which is approximately a factor of three larger in size than the first two subsystems. ... Both the clusters and field stars belong to at least three Galactic subsystems: the thick disk and genetically related inner proto-disk halo, and the outer accreted halo. ...

... Астрофорум - астрономический портал ? ... Астрономические наблюдения (Модераторы: LeMay , Александр Репной , Грудцын Алексей ) ? C/2012 S1 (ISON) - первая комета обсерватории ISON-Кисловодск . ... Виталий Невский (Витебск, Беларусь) и Артем Новичонок (Кондопога, Россия) сообщают о своем открытии диффузного объекта с комой 8'' на четырех изображениях (100 секунд экспозиции на каждое), полученных 21.06 UT сентября 2012 года с 0.4-м f/3 рефлектором "Сантел" обсерватории ISON-Кисловодск (Россия). ...

... 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. ...

Download Izmccd (~2.7 MB). ... for 1-5 bytes is number of a numbered minor planet, . ... Positions 1-80 file "mpcreportiz.txt" are similar to positions of file "mpcreport.txt". 83-95 – errors of unit weight, . ... If this tag is " 1 0 " , this record contains results of measurements of an image of object (approximation by "PSF"),  . ... 57-66 – error in X (pixels), for first star in a multicentric image, for subsequent it is error in (distance between first star in the image and this), . ...