... The AAAP had a busy booth at this year's Super Science Weekend, hosted by the New Jersey State Museum in Trenton. ... AAAP astronomers received a steady stream of curious "customers" who looked at our nearest star, and were wowed by photos, magazines and other astronomy information on the table. ... To get you in the contemplative mood, I've added one of Bill Murray's first astro images produced at his new home observatory. ... The next new moon Friday is June 6th which is too soon to plan. ...

... For the past years I have been working on the problem of synthesis of light curves of close binary systems, consisting of a normal star and a compact object (point object with fixed X-ray luminosity). ... Possible existence of a bright spot on the disk's lateral surface is taken into account. ... The last of then will be published in Gordon and Breach Publishers ( Cherepashchuk A.M., Katysheva N.A., Khruzina T.S., Shugarov S.Yu. ... Cherepashchuk A.M., Katysheva N.A., Khruzina T.S., Shugarov S.Yu. ...

VISTA Data Flow System: Status Jim Emerson*a, Mike Irwinb, Nigel Hamblyc b a Astronomy Unit, Queen Mary Universit y o f London, Mile End Road, London E1 4NS, UK Inst itute of Astronomy, Universit y of Cambridge, Madingley Road, Cambridge CB3 0HA, UK, c Inst itute for Astronomy, School of Phys ics, Universit y of Edinburgh, Edinburgh EH9 3HJ, UK ABSTRACT Data from two IR survey cameras UKIRT's WFCAM and ESO's VISTA can arrive at rates approaching 1.4 TB/night for of order 10 years. ...

... Буран" . версии 3.50 . The Buran Multimedia Encyclopedia" . Release 3.50 . ... CD-ROM "Буран" целиком посвящена со ветском у многоразовом у орбитальном у корабл ю (ОК) "Буран" и является сам ым полн ым русскоязычн ым собрание м информации по авиационно-космическим транспортным системам . ... 04 .200 4 ) на трех дисках, можно уверенно сказать: " Сайт www.buran.ru создан на основе CD-ROM версии с использованием очень незначительного объема материалов !" ... and much more: . ...

THE 75th NAME-LIST OF VARIABLE STARS. ... The 75th Name-List consists of two tables. ... the literature, taken from positional catalogues, including USNO A1.0/A2.0 and GSC, or determined by the authors); the range of variability (sometimes the column Min gives, in parentheses, the amplitude of light variation; the symbol ( means that the star , in minimum light, becomes fainter, than the magnitude indicated); and the system of magnitudes used ( P are photographic ...

Ioffe Physical Technical Institute . Department of Theoretical Astrophysics . Neutron Star Group . Last updated on Jul 29, 2013, by Yuri Shibanov .

... Orienting Mir and modules . ... one on top, one on the left side) . ... Solar arrays can help to differ top from bottom - upper side is blue and flat, lower is light and ribbed. ... There are 4 long and 2 short radiators (pointed with yellow arrow on this photo ) on each module. ... So, if you see short radiators between long ones - you see module side. ... Top of each module is marked by 2 small antennas (pointed with green arrow on the photo ) in the middle of its length near ends of long...

NMW survey overview . Access image archive . ... The New Milky Way survey aims to detect bright (V<13.5) optical transients near the Galactic plane using an automated wide-field (8x6 deg.) system capable of surveying the whole Milky Way area visible from the observing site in one night. ... All images obtained during the transient search survey are available online (please use the image archive access form ). ... Images per field: . ... Images per night: . ... Milky Way imaging time: . ...