... For immediate release . ... Brown Dwarfs (BDs) play a special role in this context. ... Recent observations with the ESO Very Large Telescope (VLT) of a "young" Brown Dwarf in a multiple stellar system are taking on a particular importance in this connection. ... This small object is known as TWA-5 B and with a mass of only 15 - 40 times that of Jupiter, it is near the borderline between planets and Brown Dwarfs, cf. the explanatory Appendix to this Press Release. ... ESO PR Photo 17a/00 . ...

... V838 Mon is a member of a new class of eruptive variables which appear as a peculiar novae having late K-M type spectra in their outburst. Before its outburst, it was a wide binary system of B3V type stars. ... The B3V companion was seen in the outburst in the UV spectrum taken with HST (Rauch et al., ... In the latest spectra, the light of B3V companion was predominating in the short-wave photometric bands. ... CCD blue frames of V838 Mon before the eclipse (left) and in the eclipse (right). ...

... Credit Copyright: NASA , JPL-Caltech , UCLA , MPS/DLR/IDA Explanation: Now at Ceres, Dawn's camera recorded this closer view of the dwarf planet's northern hemisphere and one of its mysterious bright spots on May 4. ... Imaged by Hubble in 2004 and then by Dawn as it approached Ceres in 2015, the bright spot itself is revealed to be made up of smaller spots of reflective material that could be exposed ice glinting in the sunlight. ... Dwarf Planet Ceres . The Brightest Spot on Ceres . ...

... See the exerpt below from AAVSO circular, courtesy of Martin McKenna. ... The attached map shows the approximate position, as seen from Cork, at 06.00 on 18 Feb. ... Discovered Independently by: - Yuji Nakamura, Kameyama, Mie, Japan (reported by H. Yamaoka, Kyushu University, IAU Circular 8803); - Yukio Sakurai, Mito, Ibaraki-ken, Japan (reported by S. Nakano, Sumoto, Japan, IAU Circular 8803) Discovery Date: - Nakamura: Feb. 4.8624 UT - Sakurai: Feb. ... Clear skies, Terry Moseley . ...

... The Galactic low-mass X-ray binary GS 2023+338 was discovered during the burst on May 22, 1989 with the Japanise satellite Ginga (aka Galaxy). The flux reached 17 crabs (this unit of flux measurement is an bright X-ray source, Crab Nebula) at 10-35 keV. ... No other radio telescope worldwide carried out multi-frequency measurements. ... Upon 14 days the radio flux fell below the detection level at the RATAN-600 in relation to the decrease of the X-ray flux. ...

... For more distant stars we must use other techniques. ... Hence if we see a distant galaxy and can pick out any cepheids lying within it, we can calculate its distance. ... Here then is another method to gauge the size of the Universe and there are yet more. volume at high enough temperature a nuclear fusion reaction sweeps across the white dwarf's surface and eventually we will see a spectacularly bright new star (hence nova) in our skies. ... Why is this relevant to the size of the Universe? ...

... Tonight's Sky . ... Star Atlas . ... stars . ... Imaging Basics . ... Images reveal cloudy weather on failed star twins . ... A team of University of Hawaii, California Institute of Technology (Caltech) and Massachusetts Institute of Technology astronomers using one of the Keck telescopes on Mauna Kea found evidence for cloudy weather on failed stars. ... Both failed stars are "brown dwarfs," objects whose mass is between that of large gaseous planets, such as Jupiter, and ordinary stars. ...

... Since the bulk of the data for rotational modulation were taken during short ( < 11 night) runs, there is a great deal of variation in the sensitivity to periods, depending on the length of the period. The searches are much more sensitive to short periods than to longer ones. ... For the simulation, the input data was a pure sine wave. ... The strength is that in all cases, even down to signal to noise levels of one, a large percentage of the power can be found in the correct period. ...

Psycho Holiday ============================= Empty and sweating Head lying in your hands Shaking in the corner Done too much alcohol Gotta get away from it all 'Cause it feels my blood is freezing My self insanity has taken its toll Frustration has taken its control Now I'm far from home Spending time alone It's time to set my demons free Been put to the test My mind laid to rest I'm on a psycho ...

... 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. ...

... Next: MEM Task for Up: Image Restoration and Previous: RegisteringPSF-Matching and . ... In gyro-hold tracking mode, HST is stabilized only with its gyros, and the Fine Guidance Sensors are not used to maintain pointing. ... Experiments have been done on WFPC 2 images of NGC 330 and NGC 422 (having exposure times of 80 and 100 s in gyro-hold mode) with complete success. ... An NGC 422 WFPC 2 WC2 image and an NGC 330 WFPC 2 PC1 image were taken in mode FSGLOCK = GYROS in 1994 January. ...

... MASTER Net is 56 square degrees per 1 exposition . ... 06 Dec 2015: GRB 151205B: MASTER-NET early optical observations GCN18665 . ... 18 Nov 2015: GRB 151118A: MASTER-NET optical observations GCN18613 . ... 12 Nov 2015: GRB 151112A: MASTER-NET optical limit GCN18591 . ... 07 Nov 2015: GRB 151107A: MASTER-NET optical observations GCN18565 . ... 31 Oct 2015: Five OTs detected by Global Robotic MASTER Net ATel8232 . ... 02 Oct 2015: GRB 151001B: MASTER-NET early optical observations GCN18380 . ...

On April 14, 2000 UT a series of Shack-Hartmann measurements were made at varying altitudes. ... The tilts and sags shown are those given by the normal Shack-Hartmann analysis. ... Without this feedback, off-telescope tests showed positioning errors on the order of 10 arcseconds in the secondary mirror position. ... Tilt M2 Bk by X" . ... The coefficients m1 through m3 need to be added to those that are currently in the TCC to correct for the secondary translation with respect to the primary. ...

astro-ph/0301243 . ... Authors:H. Quaintrell et al. astro-ph/0301282 . LSR0602+3910 - самый яркий коричневый карлик? ... Authors: Samir Salim et al. astro-ph/0301328 . ... Открытие ультрахолодного субкарлика: LSR1425+7102 - первая звезда спектрального класса sdM8.0 (Discovery of an ultra-cool subdwarf: LSR1425+7102, first star with spectral type sdM8.0) . ... Тор вокруг PSR J0538+2817 и происхождение скоростей пульсаров (The PWN torus of PSR J0538+2817 and the Origin of Pulsar Velocities) . ...

... Развивающая игрушка Лягушка Bright Starts привлечет ребенка красочным видом, подарит новые ощущения и вскоре станет любимой игрушкой, приятной и веселой. ... Цвет: розовый . ... Цвет: Коричневый . ... Цвет: натуральный . ... Кружка имеет силиконовую крышку оранжевого цвета с прорезью для питья. ... Цвет: синий . ...

Target: Various bright stars Date: Night of 2011-01-03 - 2011-01-04 Time: See Unix timestamp in file name Telescope: CDK125 Camera: Nikon D3s Filters: None Exposure time: Various - see file name Observer: John Kielkopf Processing: John Kielkopf Images are jpgs from the camera rotated in Gimp to put N up and W to the right. If the exact time for an image is needed, extract it from the timestamp in the file name. ...

The revision of the MASS/DIMM star catalogue N. Shatsky, V. Kornilov March 16, 2008 Abstract The compilation of the (updated) version of the MASS (MASS/DIMM) device target catalogue is described. ... Then the list was cleaned according to following criteria: I. Remove stars too faint for a MASS device. ... Here the color equation of the Sternb erg device was taken: M AS S mag = V mag + 0.45 (B - V ); stars with M AS S mag > 3.2 were removed. ... This was made based on the GCVS4.2 catalogue data. ...

Measurement of Sky Brightness at the Iranian National Observatory Davoud Afshari1 and Sadollah Nasiri1,2 1Physics Department, Zanjan University, Zanjan 45195-313, Iran; Institute for Advanced studies in Basic Science (IASBS), Zanjan 45195-1159, Iran; Measurement of light pollution 2 Introduction Among 34 candidate sites at the central part of the country, 5 sites namely Garkesh (in Kashan ), Kolahbarfi(in Kashan ), Deynava (in ... One of these is light pollution. ...

... Астрософт (Модератор: tlgleonid ) > . UCAC2 Bright Star Supplement для Cartes du Ciel . ... Астрософт . ... Cartes du Ciel - Sky Charts . ... 08 Август 2008, 14:04:19 ? Также готов каталог I/294 The UCAC2 Bright Star Supplement (Urban+, 2004), являющийся северным дополнением к каталогу I/289 The UCAC2 Catalogue(Zacharias+ 2003). ... Ответ #1 : 08 Август 2008, 14:41:20 ? ... Самая слабая звезда в каталоге UCAC2 Bright Star Supplement - это 2UCA 50406212 Vmag: 15.19 в Малой Медведице. ...

Microsymposium 38, MS083, 2003 (A4 format) MERCURY: LOCAL VARIATIONS OF THE PHOTOMETRIC RELIEF. ... Because of trajectory and pointing angle constraints the planet could be observed from Mariner 10 only over a small range of phase angles between about 75o and 110o. Therefore the photometric investigations are restricted to measuring the distribution of brightness on the Mercurian disk. ... Raw versions of real-time processing pictures FDS 0000984 and FDS 0000986 were used (images 196 and 202). ...