The HCN (1-0), HCO + (1-0), and HNC (1-0) spectra displayed below have been observed in July 2001 with the one baseline (CA03-CA04: 30m, 2 pol) 3mm prototype system of the Australia Telescope Compact Array . The HCN (1-0), HCO + (1-0) and HNC (1-0) rest frequencies are 88.6304157, 89.188518 and 90.663543 GHz, respectively. On July 11, 2001, we observed HCO + (1-0) and HCN (1-0) simultaneously using two IFs with 64 MHz bandwidth each, divided into 128 channels (config ant234ac_64_128_2p-2f). ...

... Armagh Observatory, College Hill, Armagh BT61 9DG, +44 (0)28 3752 2928 . The Geminid meteor shower is the last, and one of the best, major meteor showers of the year. ... Shower meteors appear to come from a point in the sky known as the radiant. ... The number of meteors that may potentially be observed during the maximum of the shower on the evening of the 13/14 December, and from a clear, dark site with no light pollution and little moonlight, can range up to as many as 100 or more per hour. ...

Astronotes Armagh Planetarium's Stellar Blog! ... Stars . ... Space Flight . ... Monthly Sky Notes . December . ... Would anyone turn down a good firework show in December? ... The Geminids meteor shower should then emerge in all its glory in the east in the constellation GeminiтАЩs patch of sky on the evening of the 13 th and early morning of the 14 th of December, with the last shooting stars visible up until the 18 th December and approximately one meteor per hour on display at that stage. ...

... We have developed a suite of analysis tools and an on-line database for both the primary ChaMPlane X-ray data (source catalogs) as well as the optical counterpart data. ... The ChaMPlane VO provides access to our deep Mosaic optical (V,R,I,Halpha) images, catalogs of their optical photometry, Chandra images with exposure-map correction, X-ray source data and details of X-ray sources with identified optical counterparts. ... Chandra sources are displayed (right) in a smoothed Chandra X-ray . ...

Detected Supernovae . The search have produced till now the detections of 4 SNe. ... This result highlights the power of infrared monitoring in detecting Obscured SNe and indicates that optical surveys are probably missing a significant fraction of SNe, especially in obscured systems such as starburst galaxies. ... In Fig. we show the archival SOFI image of NGC3256 (left) and the first image obtained in 2001 (right) where SN2001db has been detected. ...

... Home Education Workshops at Adorama Astro Imaging Workshop: Planetary Astro Imaging with a DSLR ? December 7, 2014 . ... Astro Answers . ... Beyond New York City . ... Observing Resources for Amateur Astronomers - Part 1: Beginning Observers . ... A History of the First Forty Years of the Amateur Astronomers Association . ... Presented by€а Adorama€а For the Amateur Astronomers Association of New York . ... 2016 Amateur Astronomers Association of New York Designed by Press Customizr Powered by . ...

... Missouri's Green Ribbon Sky . ... Instead, even casual sky critics are remarking on November's stunning auroral displays, visible with surprising intensities well beyond the confines of high latitudes where auroral activity is normally observed. Pastel Planet, Triple Eclipse . ... Leo A: Nearby Dwarf Irregular Galaxy . ... A Full Sky Multi Colored Auroral Corona . ... The Galactic Center in Infrared . ... In visible light, much of the Galactic Center is obscured by opaque dust. ...

MINUTES of the RadioAstron Teleconference on December 13, 2011 Yu.Yu. ... IOC status update M. Popov informed the participants on the current IOC results. ... Kovalev added: we continue to observe pulsars and spectral line sources in radiointerferometer mode but only with spacecraft and we are also going to observing pulsars soon with space-ground baselines. ... Kovalev: It is fringe-fitting result. ... In RAFS05 we replace it with K-band observing (maser source Ori KL ­ spectral lines ~100000Jy). ...

... Up: Real-Time Systems . ... The Rossi X-ray Timing Explorer ( RXTE ) spacecraft contains a large Proportional Counter Array (PCA) experiment which produces high count rates for many X-ray sources. ... This allows opportunity for some serious real time interpretation and decision making by the experiment controller, duty scientist, and Guest Observer (GO), if present. ... This paper briefly describes the available Science Monitoring subsystem display options. ...

New England observer Lew Gramer, fresh back from his mid-November fish observing and meteor-catching expedition in South Florida, reports that December also promises to be a great month for celestial sky-sparks!" ... Other showers adding to the mix this month include several very minor showers, such as the Chi Orionids (3 Dec), Monocerotids (9 Dec) and Sigma Hydrids (12 Dec), which usually contribute no more than 2 or 3 meteors per hour during even post-midnight observing this month. ...

... Tonight's Sky . ... The Magazine . ... Observing . ... 50 Greatest Mysteries . ... The double star 54 Leonis, spiral galaxy NGC 3198, and emission nebula NGC 3199 . ... Astronomy for Kids . ... Observing springtime deep-sky objects with a large telescope . ... Mercury's great display before dawn . ... Get instant access to subscriber content on Astronomy.com! ... Receive news, sky-event information, observing tips, and more from Astronomy's weekly email newsletter. ... Astronomy Magazine . ...

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Statistics of sunspot activity . The sunspot indices . My observations . NGDC's observations . The solar regions . ... 2015 . ... December . ... December, 2015 . Visual indices of solar activity by author's observations . ... Average . ...

... The highlight of the month is the total eclipse of the Moon during the night of December 20/21. ... Listed below are some of the key events, and the times they will occur, during December's total lunar eclipse. ... The eclipse is also visible in its entirety from Alaska (local time is UT тАУ 9 hours) and Hawaii (UT тАУ 10 hours), but be aware that most of the eclipse occurs on the 20th in these two regions. ... Penumbral Eclipse Begins . ... Partial Eclipse Begins . ... Total Eclipse Begins . ...

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... ARC 3.5m | Weather Closure Conditions . The enclosure will be closed by the Observing Specialist under the following conditions. ... This policy will be consulted whenever there are questions or disagreements concerning closure of the APO 3.5-meter telescope due to hazardous conditions or situations, at times when telescope operations are being overseen by an APO Observing Specialist. ... the on-duty Observing Specialist has full responsibility, and sole authority, to make this decision. ...

... Iowa Robotic Telescope | ... Talon is based on OCAAS, a software suite developed by software engineer Elwood Downey ( Clear Sky Institute ) for use at the University of Iowa ?s first remote facility (the ATF, or Automated Telescope Facility). ... XObservatory : Telescope Control Interface . ... This program calls upon and coordinates much of the interrelated portions of the Talon architecture, and forms the primary control panel for the telescope, dome, and peripheral systems when used locally. ...

To appear in "Fourth Workshop on Robotic Autonomous Observatories (2015)"RevMexAA(SC) METEOR OBSERVATIONS WITH MINI-MEGATORTORA WIDE-FIELD MONITORING SYSTEM S. Karpov, 1, 3 N. Orekhova2 G. Beskin, 1, 3 A. Biryukov3,4 S. Bondar,2 E. Ivanov,2 E. Katkova,2 A. Perkov, and V. Sasyuk3 RESUMEN 2 Favor de prop orcionar un resumen en espanol. ... The faintest detected meteors has the peak brightness about 10 mag, while the ma jority - from 4 to 8 mag. ... 2010; Karpov et al. 2013; Beskin et al. ...

... 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. ...