... Moon Phase below . ... ARTICLE: Why the moon always shows us the same face . ... Before you continue reading, you should know that this was not always the case, i.e. the Moon once was rotating with respect to the Earth, so that on every night a terrestrial observer (if there was one, because this was long, long before mankind appeared on our planet, and even before any major animals had appeared) saw another face of the Moon. ... Figure 1 (not to scale) shows how we can imagine the system Earth-Moon...

Общая Астрономическая Конференция > Форумы общей направленности > Любые вопросы от новичков > Помогите найти . ... Просмотр полной версии : Помогите найти . ... A total of 373 objects was found which yielded a surface density of 8.6 UVX/deg/sup 2/ with B< or approx.^=20 mag.^ ... The surface density in this region is 7.2 UVX/deg/sup 2/ at Bapprox.19 mag and approximately a factor of 2 larger than the one found by Savage and Bolton (1979) in two 25-deg/sup 2/ fields near the SGP.^ ...

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? ...

... We are a group of students from different schools of the town Zelenogorsk who come to the Center of Education to participate in the international educational project: "Beautiful places - open hearts". ... For a population of seventy thousand people Zelenogorsk offers two cinema halls and a Palace of Culture, two libraries, ecological and historical museums, art galerry, two sports centres, chess club, one downhill skiing course and two cross country tracks wich are illuminated. ...

... Contact A Problem of an estimation of accuracy of the asteroid CCD observations . The Minor Planet Center supported by the Interntional Astronomical Union is the main office for keeping observational data of the small Solar System bodies and their investigations. ... At Pulkovo Observatory we are estimating an accuracy of the CCD asteroid observations obtained by amateurs and professional astronomers all over the World using the MPC database. ...

... The ancient chronical said about the colour rings around the Sun and the Moon, about three suns in the sky, light columns, bright lightning, different "comets" rushing to the Earth, moving among the stars or round the Earth with the sky. All these occurrences may be divided into three categories: one that occur in the near or far space, processes going on in the Earth atmosphere under the influence of cosmic factors and at last the occurrences connected with the Earth atmosphere. ... Rainbow . ...

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) . ...

Nova in M31 2000 3 . ... From Giovanni Sostero (Remanzacco Observatory): at the end we have found a good Nova candidate in the course of our monitoring program in M31. ... Remanzacco Observatory Light curve This is a preliminary lightcurve of Nova M31-3 from the images we collected and those provided by others. ... vsnet-alert 5346 ] [FWD] Suspected Nova in M 31 . ... vsnet-alert 5349 ] (fwd) M31 possible nova . ... vsnet-alert 5355 ] [FWD] New image of the possible Nova in M31 (GSo) . ...

Please enter the lightcurve file name and period search parameters: . Lightcurve file: . ... Apply the Heliocentric correction and convert all dates to Terrestrial Time (TT)? ... Phase range for plots: -0.5 to 1.0 0.0 to 2.0 0.0 to 1.0 . ... Also, the Heliocentric correction cannot be applied to such lightcurves. ... Two period search methods are currently implemented. ... This period search service is also available at the mirror sites: Mirror 1 , Mirror 2 , Mirror 3 , Mirror 4 . ...