For Peer Instruction to succeed, students need to be able to focus quickly on the concept in an interactive way that highlights the most common misconceptions. ConcepTests are multiple choice questions which the students pose to each other in small groups, during class. ... We have begun to compile a library of ConcepTests for introductory astronomy. ... ConcepTest questions should be short, conceptual, multiple choice tests that can be presented without elaborate diagrams. ...

More about Handling Difficult Questions (and Difficult People) . ... Role-playing exercises can be an excellent way for you and your club members to share effective ways to interact with the public in difficult situations. ... Plan to allow 20 minutes for each scenario -- 5 minutes for the role-playing and 15 minutes for a discussion. ... Sharing the Universe is based upon work supported by the Informal Education Division of the National Science Foundation under Grant no DRL-0638873. ...

... We have measured this "redshift" for the pink black holes, and allowed for it in our calculations. ... We see this effect in the emission from gas around these pink black holes, but it is far too small an effect to account for the pinkness. Thus the swirling motions of gas around or into the black holes cannot produc the colour. ... At first we thought that these things were normal blue black holes hidden behind clouds of interstellar dust, that absorbed the blue light and made them appear pink. ...

... ATNF Home . ... About ATNF overview . ... Australia Telescope Steering Committee . ... Australian Square Kilometre Array Pathfinder . Murchison Radio-astronomy Observatory . ... Parkes radio telescope . Australia Telescope Compact Array . Mopra radio telescope . ... Visiting Parkes radio telescope . Visiting Australia Telescope Compact Array . ... Parkes radio telescope webcam . ... Star A has peak emission at a wavelength of 550 nm whilst star B has peak emission at 480 nm. ...

... Head of the seminar: Prof. B.V. Somov, . ... The seminar considers the questions related to generation of magnetic fields in astrophysical plasmas, effect of the magnetic reconnection and particle acceleration in strong magnetic fields, the origin and propagation of cosmic rays, the flares and other non-stationary phenomena in the solar atmosphere and solar wind, Sun Earth connections and physical processes in the heliosphere. ... On the Topological Models and Topological Trigger of the Solar Flares...

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... Search . ... Astrophysics Group . Research . ... Research and Instrumentation . ... While this seems an extraordinary endeavour, in light of what we have learnt about Solar System planets, only a handful of key ingredients are required to start characterising an exoplanet. ... The NGTS project is a partnership between the University of Cambridge, Queen?s University Belfast, University of Warwick, University of Leicester, Observatoire de Geneve, DLR (Berlin) and Universidad Catolica de Chile. ...

Colors are given essentially in the UBV system. They are : . total asymptotic colors ubt for (U-B)T . total asymptotic colors bvt for (B-V)T . effective colors ube for ((U-B)e (colors within the effective aperture in which half the total B-flux is emitted) . effective colors bve for ((B-V)e (same as for ube) Total assymptotic colors bvtc and ubtc are corrected for galactic extinction, inclination and redshift effect (see e.g. btc documentation) . HyperLeda . Questions: prugniel@obs.univ-lyon1.fr

. Departement of Quantum Astrophysics . Head: Kurt V.G. , Prof. ultraviolet spectroscopy of planetary upper atmospheres and interplanetary/interstellar medium; . observations of gamma-bursts and optical identification of their sources; . long-base optical interferometry. Staff: .

... Questions relevant to "The Great Magnet, the Earth" will be answered, to the extent time allows. If a question seems to be worthy of broader interest, it and its answer (suitably edited) may be added to the list appearing in "The Great Magnet." ... Please do observe the following: . ... Asking about matters which are far beyond the scope of "The Great Magnet." ... Posing a question without first checking if it was answered in the main files of "The Great Magnet" or in the question-and-answer list. ...

Subject, Object and Problems of Astrophysics. Practical and Theoretical Astrophysics. ... Visual Telescope; Problems Which Are Solved with the Its Help. ... Resolution of Telescopes. ... Effectiveness of Telescope in Respect of Resolution. ... Optical Power of Telescopes for Star-like and Extensive Objects. Boundary Magnitude. Reasons of Light Dissipation in Telescopes. ... Spectral Instruments in Astrophysics. ... Basic Photometrical Ideas, Magnitudes and Their Measurement. ...

Questions relevant to "Exploration of the Earth's Magnetosphere" will be answered, to the extent time allows. If a question seems to be worthy of broader interest, it and its answer (suitably edited) may be added to the list appearing in "Exploration." ... Please do observe the following: . ... Asking about matters which are far beyond the scope of "Exploration." ... Posing a question without first checking if it was answered in the main files of "Exploration" or in the question-and-answer list. ...

Next: The Browne & March? Up: THE DEEP X-RAY RADIO Previous: BL Lacs . Several effects may bias samples of blazars, causing them to miss objects which fall within their survey area and flux limits. ... It is safe to say that there is probably no survey which is completely immune from selection effects. The impact of selection effects upon most previous surveys is not known, but must be understood to make progress towards better understanding the AGN phenomenon. ... The Browne & March? ...

Next: J.E. Chambers, Research Astronomer Up: Research Previous: Research Contents . ... Solar Variability and Climate . Other Activities . ... Applied to data of flares on Gliese866 he was able to estimate the area of hydrogen emitting flare regions as 1-13% of the stellar surface. ... As partners in the project, Armagh Observatory has been asked to contribute to the selection process in exchange for priority access to the data which will eventually flow from the satellite. ...

... The department was founded in late sixties by Prof. D.Ya.Martynov, who for many years was also the director of Sternberg Astronomical Institute. At present time, the head of the department is Prof. A.M.Cherepashchuk, a pupil of D.Ya.Martynov and his successor as the director of SAI. Since Prof. Martynov, the scientific activity of the department was primarily related to binary stars. ... The department consists of 15 members most of which have Ph.D. in Astrophysics. ...

This module allows "anonymous" user access to authenticated areas. ... Source File: mod_auth_anon.c . ... This module does access control in a manner similar to anonymous-ftp sites; i.e. have a 'magic' user id 'anonymous' and the email address as a password. ... Anonymous_VerifyEmail The example below (when combined with the Auth directives of a htpasswd-file based (or GDM, mSQL etc. ) base access control system allows users in as 'guests' with the following properties: . ... Default: none . ...

... You can work in group sizes as large as 5. Each individual in that group could be assigned a particular question which would allow the group to complete the assignment in a more efficient manner. ... Off in the corner of the store was a small black box with a big sign that read . ... As the century turned, Africa began to emerge from a Dark Age stretching as far back as life on earth, into all the years that lay ahead - years of Renaissance, Enlightenment, Industry, and, if you will, Anxiety. ...

... In spite of the good potential possibilities, some of the station "Dnepr" design characteristics did not allow us to apply the usual special IS radar measurement methods. ... Thus for IS signal measurements at the "Dnepr" station, we have developed special methods for recording and processing IS signals in order to determine plasma ionospheric parameters. ... Equations (4-5) from the basis for data post processing to obtain ionosphere parameters. ...

... We present a computer program for modelling energy flux distribution and light curves of eclipsing binaries from far ultraviolet to infrared regions. The Roche model is assumed. Proximity effects of components (reflection of radiation and surface gravity darkening) are taken into account. ... Figure 1: The surface temperature distribution for Algol A-B system before (upper plot) and after (lower plot) correction for temperature due to the irradiation effect. ...