The Astronomical Society of Australia has been asked by STANDARDS AUSTRALIA to compile a list of "designated" optical observatories that are valuable resources for (i) research, (ii) education and (iii) community use. The ASA is the final arbiter of whether any particular observatory is so designated. ... Upon receipt of your application form, your observatory will be entered on a list of "Pending Designated Observatories" on the ASA Home Page. ... It will be emailed for you. ... Email . ...

Astronomy Picture of the Day . APOD Turns 17 . ... 16.06.2012 . ... Credit Copyright: Judy Schmidt Explanation: The first APOD appeared seventeen years ago today, on 1995 June 16. ... We again thank our readers and NASA for their continued support, as well as the folks who created the great pictures -- many times with considerable effort -- that APOD has been fortunate enough to feature over the years. ... APOD Retrospectives: Anniversary day today and every day . ... APOD is 15 Years Old Today . ...

... 13th European VLBI Network Symposium . and Users Meeting . on September 20-23, 2016. ... 13th European VLBI Network Symposium and Users Meeting on September 20-23, 2016. ... Year book "Ephemerides of Minor Planets for 2016" on-line . ...

... Free Telescopes for Schools in Northern Ireland . ... The Society for Popular Astronomy is leading a project to give 1000 telescopes to secondary schools, with support from the Science and Technology Facilities Council and the Royal Astronomical Society, to encourage schools to celebrate the International Year of Astronomy. ... ТЗ School display on astronomy . ... Register with all Ireland astronomy schools competition 2009. ... International Year of Astronomy, Ireland National Node . ...

... Each day a different image or photograph of our fascinating universe is featured, along with a brief explanation written by a professional astronomer. 2015 March 10 . Aurora over Icelandic Glacier . ... These included a dark night, few clouds, an epic auroral display, and a body of water that was both calm enough and unfrozen enough to show reflected stars. ... Follow APOD on: Facebook , Google Plus , or Twitter . ... About APOD | ... NASA Official: Phillip Newman Specific rights apply . ...

... The Large Telescopes Program Committee of Russian AS . ... Executive Secretary, e-mail: request@sao.ru . Telescope RATAN-600 Time Request deadline: I half-year (Jan. ... Program title .. ... Principal investigator .. ... Request status .. ... Retarded applications and ones not conforming to form will not be accepted by the Committee. ... In some exceptional cases the Program Committee Secretary can accept a request after deadline with permission of the Chairman of Committee or director of SAO RAS. ...

... Bad Astronomy . ... Bitesize Astronomy . ... Last week's Snack talked about how black holes can affect the environment around them in such a way as to be very bright . ... It's a common misconception that black holes always have matter swirling into them. ... As this matter gets closer and closer to the black hole it piles up and a large, fairly flat disk forms. This is called the accretion disk , because matter from this disk accretes (that is, falls in) on the black hole. ... 2008 Phil Plait. ...

... ATNF Home . About ATNF . ... About ATNF overview . ... Australia Telescope Steering Committee . ... Australia Telescope User Committee . ... Astrophysics graduate student programs . ... 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 . ...

... Observatory . ... Science . ... Science Users Information > Science Publications > Science Announcements > Applications for ESO Studentships . ... The ESO research studentship programme provides an outstanding opportunity for Ph.D. students to experience the exciting scientific environment, at one of the world's leading observatories, for a period of up to two years. ESO's studentship positions are open to students enrolled in a university Ph.D. programme in astronomy or related fields. ...

Publications by members of the optical interferometry team relevant to the theory and practice of Adaptive Optics (AO) are listed below. ... SPIE require us to publish the following statement: . ... In D. Bonaccini Calia, B. L. Ellerbroek, and R. Ragazzoni, editors, Advancements in Adaptive Optics , volume 5490 of Proc. SPIE , pages 1315+. ... In D. Bonaccini Calia, B. L. Ellerbroek, and R. Ragazzoni, editors, Advancements in Adaptive Optics , volume 5490 of Proc. SPIE , pages 966+. ...

... Director's Page . ... Current . ... Application Deadline: Thursday, November 6, 2014 . Reference Letter Deadline: Thursday, November 13, 2014 . ... The deadline for application is THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 6, 2014 . Application materials received by this date will receive full consideration. All application materials must be submitted via the Giacconi Fellowship Application form to STScI. Incomplete applications and/or applications received after November 6, 2014, will not be considered. ...

O ptimal transport : T heory and A pplications . ... Names of participants of the OTARIE project are underlined . ... That code was never made public. ... WANN (Weighted Approximate Nearest Neighbors) is a library of C++ classes for weighted nearest neighbor search: given the set P of points p 1 , p 2 , , p N endowed with weights w 1 , w 2 , , w N and a query point q , find p k such that | ... WANN is part of a multipurpose library for numerical transport optimization developed in the OTARIE project. ...

... Recent Topics . ... MAO main . ... Call for applications to the PhD program of the API/GRAPPA, Amsterdam . ... Тема: Call for applications to the PhD program of the API/GRAPPA, Amsterdam . ... We are now advertising the Call for Applications to the PhD Program of the Anton Pannekoek Institute for Astronomy (API) and the Gravitation and Astroparticle Physics Amsterdam (GRAPPA) Centre, at the University of Amsterdam. ... Applications need to be submitted on or before December 11th, 2014. ...

... September 9, 1999 . Comet Hale-Bopp Over the Superstition Mountains . ... Explanation: Four years ago, Comet Hale-Bopp was discovered out near Jupiter falling toward the inner Solar System . ... Above, Comet Hale-Bopp was photographed in 1997 behind the Superstition Mountains in Arizona . Clearly visible are the comets white dust tail that shines by reflected sunlight, and the blue ion tail that shines by glowing gas. ... About APOD > . ...

The 2016 Project ASTRO introductory workshop will take place September 16-17, 2016 (Friday and Saturday). Participating teachers and astronomers are required to attend. ... Home Phone: . ... Relevant teaching experiences: Please include professional development activities, curriculum development, in-service activities, and collaborative projects. Grades and subjects you will be teaching next year. ... yes . ... When during the year do you plan to teach astronomy (approximate months)? ...

JSC Celebrates 40 Years of Human Space Flight . ... JSC Turns 40 Home | ... The Lunar Samples Office, a Planetary and Earth Sciences Division and a separate Earth Observations Aircraft Program Office sprung up across the center. ... From the first moon rocks of the late 1960s to today's Martian meteorites, JSC scientists have led the way in the study of fascinating rocks to better understand how our solar system, and perhaps life itself, came into being. ... Curator: JSC Web Team | ...

Our publications in 2005 year S.A. Pustilnik (SAO), A.Y. Kniazev (ESO, SAO), A.G. Pramskij (SAO) . Astronomy and Astrophysics, Volume 443, Issue 1, November III 2005, pp.91-102 (11/2005) . ... Kniazev, Alexei Y.; Grebel, Eva K.; Pustilnik, Simon A.; Pramskij, A.G.; Zucker, D.B. The Astronomical Journal, Volume 130, Issue 4, pp. ... 10/2005) . Pustilnik, S. A. Astron. ... Kniazev, A.Y.; Pustilnik, S.A.; Grebel, E.K.; Lee, H.; Pramskij, A.G. VizieR On-line Data Catalog: J/ApJS/153/429. ...

The Olympiad participants are not supposed to study at any institutions of higher education (university or school which can be considered technical colleges). ... Only students did not participated at the IAO or APAO of the current educating year may participate in SiberiaOpen (that is, during an educating year - since autumn till spring - a student may participate in IAO or in APAO or in "Siberia Open", not in any two of these Olympiads). ... m - those who finish school later than in 3 years; . ...

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... Previous: Astronomical Information Discovery and Access: Design and Implementation of the ADS Bibliographic Services . ... We use the NASA Astrophysics Data System database of astronomical abstracts in seven major astronomy journals to study trends in astronomical publication over the last twenty years. ... The sociology of astronomical publication has traditionally been performed by looking for publication trends using every paper published in a few selected journals within a few selected years. ...