... International English . ... Espa†‘ol (Chile) . ... ESO, the European Southern Observatory . ... Travel to Antofagasta . ... ESO Acronyms . ... During the Second International Seminar on Light Pollution held on 2тАУ4 August at the Atacama Desert Museum in Antofagasta, Chile, the mayor of Taltal, Guillermo Hidalgo, the ESO Representative in Chile, Massimo Tarenghi, and the mayor of Antofagasta, Marcela Hernando, participate in a demonstration of different technical solutions to avoid light pollution. ...

... Feeding the Monster: Gas Caught in its Death Spiral into a Massive Black Hole . ... Stromlo Professor Mike Dopita have used the Hubble Space Telescope to discover how a massive Black Hole in a nearby galaxy feeds itself. ... Earlier Hubble Telescope data obtained by another team member, Professor Holland Ford of Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland, had found a disk of gas rushing around the Black Hole at a speed of 500 kilometers a second. ...

... Armagh Observatory, 24th March 2009: The International Space Station ( ISS ) has recently become the second brightest object in the night sky тАФ even brighter than the planet Venus, and second only to the Moon. Evenings will provide the chance of a spectacular view, if the sky is clear, as for the next few days the orbit of the ISS around the Earth repeatedly takes it over Ireland. ... At its best, it is now the second brightest object in the night sky. ...

... Bad Astronomy . Misconceptions . ... Bad Astronomy : "We're light years more advanced than our competition!" ... Even the closest astronomical object, the Moon, is 400,000 kilometers away! ... A beam of light will travel 9,500,000,000,000 kilometers in one year. This distance is defined as a light year ; the distance light travels in a year. ... This is another example of Bad Astronomy; like a light year, a parsec is a unit of distance, not time (to be specific, it equals 3.26 light years) . ...

. XMM-Newton Science Analysis System . etimeget (especget-1.26) [xmmsas_20070708_1801-7.1.0] . Meta Index / Home Page / Time series binning / Examples . etimeget filestem=myagn srcexp="((DETX,DETY) IN circle(572,-635,800))" . table=P0129360201M1S004MIEVLI0000.FIT timebinstyle=parameter timebinwidth=10 . This command line produces the file myagn_srcrate.lc and myagn_bgdrate.lc . XMM-Newton SOC/SSC -- 2007-07-09

The aim of Ulyanovsk International School-Seminar ( UISS-97 ) is twofold. First, to bring together cosmologists from different countries to discuss the most exciting theoretical problems of the Universe with Russian gravitational and cosmological groups. ... Program of UISS-97 . ... Location of UISS-97 . ... Scientific Secretary of the School-Seminar : . ... 432700, Ulyanovsk, Russia . ... President of Russian Gravitational Society, Professor V.N. Melnikov . ... RUSSIAN GRAVITATIONAL SOCIETY . ...

... Welcome to GALAXY-"light", a project that is expected to produce a continuously growing atlas of "thumbnail" CCD galaxy images and that was specially conceived to be useful in amateur supernova surveys. ... All GALAXY-"light" images are obtained by ANTONIO JOSE CIDADAO, a Portuguese amateur living in Oeiras, member of APAA (Portuguese Association of Amateur Astronomers, one of the founders of the "Astro-Port" mailing list, and also subscriber of "AUDE", "MAPUG" and "SBIGUSER" mailing-lists. ...

Please enter the lightcurve file name and period search parameters: . Lightcurve file: . ... Apply the Heliocentric correction and convert all dates to Terrestrial Time (TT)? ... Also, the Heliocentric correction cannot be applied to such lightcurves. ... This period search service is also available at the mirror sites: Mirror 1 , Mirror 2 , Mirror 3 , Mirror 4 . You may download the latest source code distribution and install the period search service at your own web server. ...

Astronomy Picture of the Day . ... All the Colors of the Sun . ... It is still not known why the Sun's light is missing some colors. ... 3D Barringer Meteorite Crater . ... Baringer Meteorite Crater, near Winslow, Arizona, is one of the best known impact craters on planet Earth. View this color stereo anaglyph with red/blue glasses to get a dramatic sense of the crater's dimensions -- one mile wide, and up to 570 feet deep. ... Eris: More Massive than Pluto . ... Monitoring M2-9 . ...

... International Dark-Sky Association, 3225 North First Avenue, Tucson, AZ 85719; ida@darksky.org ; http://www.darksky.org . ... Several articles on light pollution in Sky & Telescope , Sept. ... Several dozen IDA Information Sheets, on almost every topic related to light pollution, are available from the International Dark-Sky Association (see address above) . ... International Dark-Sky Association: http://www.darksky.org . ... Light Pollution (Set of 20 Slides), ASP Catalog AS 294, $26.95 . ...

... INTERNATIONAL SPACE STATION . VIDEOARCHIVE . THE SECOND PRIME MISSION . TO THE INTERNATIONAL SPACE STATION . 04/30/2001. ... Being launched from Baikonur cosmodrome on April 28, 2001, the Russian Soyuz TM-32 transport spacecraft has been docked with the International Space Station (ISS) following a 2-day free flight in near-earth orbit and upon completion of all the required rendezvous and berthing operations in an automated mode with respect to the Orbital Complex. ... SEA LAUNCH | ...

... The International Conference "Mode Conversion, Coherent Structures and Turbulence" will be held in the Space Research Institute of RAS during the period from 23 up to 25 November 2009. ... The international conference MSS-09 is organized by Space Research Institute with participation of the Russian Academy of Sciences, the Dynasty Foundation, the Russian foundation of fundamental researches, the European Geosciences Union, the Education and the Scientific Council on Nonlinear Dynamics of RAS. ...

The design of IAO-Diploma has academic (conservative) style. ... The first row consists of three cells. ... Second cell - logo of EAAS - Galaxy, negative image. ... The second row consists of one cell, two lines. ... Second line - words 'International Astronomy Olympiad'. ... There should be a text in English with the name of the awarded student, his or her team, explanation of awarding including the degree of Diploma and the Number of the International Astronomy Olympiad like: Adam Kohl . ...

... total pwr in range vs ipp images . ... pol1 is the pol we started with. ... I was trying to write these times down as they happened. looking at some of the total power plots, it looks like some of the times were recorded were not correct (signal appears when hf off). ... To see when things happened, i made images of total pwr (in rang) vs time for each data file . ... The title of each image contains the start time (ast) as well as the state of hf xmiter when the file started. 5 sigma images . ...

... Farafonov V.G., Loskutov A.A. The field of vertical dipole in the presence of a perfectly conducting body with the axial symmetry. (oral; abstract - ASCII file ) . Voshchinnikov N.V., Farafonov V.G., Prokopjeva M.S., Zinov'eva T.V. Light scattering by dielectric and absorbing spheroids: comparison of exact and approximate methods. (oral) . ... poster or oral?) ... Voshchinnikov N.V., Farafonov V.G. Numerical treatment of spheroidal wave functions. (poster/oral) . ... Voshchinnikov N.V. tbg . ...

The Second International Meeting on WARNING Mission . Kyiv, Ukraine on April 15-17, 1998. ... PROTOCOL OF THE INTERNATIONAL MEETING ON "WARNING" MISSION . ... Tel/fax . ... 380 44 2262167 +380 44 4443420 Fax : +380 44 4441020 . ... National Space Agency of Ukraine . ... 380 572 451009 and 441127; Fax: +380 572 476506, Telex 311-039 SPACE UA . ... 380 572 448462 Fax: +380 572 476506, Telex 311-039 SPACE UA . ... 380 572 322016 and (home) 306125 fax: +380 572 322293 Telex: 311039 SPACE SU, . ...

... While "First Light" was achieved at the second 8.2-m VLT Unit Telescope (UT2) ahead of schedule, UT1 produced its sharpest image so far. ... It had long been ESO's intention to provide "real" names to the four VLT Unit Telescopes, to replace the current, somewhat dry and technical designations as UT1 to UT4. ... The participants were left with the impression of mounting expectations, just four weeks before the first VLT Unit Telescope, Antu (UT1), will receive the first visiting astronomers. ...

... The eleven years cycle of Sun's activity is approaching its maximum! From August 24th to 29th a team of astronomers, engineers and astro-photographers will travel to southern Greenland to observe the Northern Lights (Aurora Borealis), a phenomenon expected to be particularly spectacular during this period. ... Auroras . The wonderful celestial spectacle of the aurora occurs when very energetic particles from the Sun reach the Earth's atmosphere via the solar wind. ... About GLORIA . ...

... This task computes the average or folded light curve for a single cycle of known period. input file: rp90_sect2_sti.qp . ... xt> fold input source timing file: rp90_sect2 input background timing file (none): <cr> root name for outfile [root_fld.tab]: rp90_part2 # chosen so name of output # file different from that of Section 8.9. fold period in seconds: 100.14 # this value chosen by user. number of bins: 10 The folded light curve may be displayed with the task fldplot . ...

... Tonight's Sky . ... Astronomy for Kids . ... Year of Pluto . ... Chandra celebrates the International Year of Light . ... New images are being released to celebrate the International Year of Light 2015. ... This composite image combines data collected at X-ray wavelengths by Chandra (purple), ultraviolet by the galaxy Evolution Explorer (GALEX, blue), visible light by Hubble (green), and infrared by Spitzer (red). ... Only registered members of Astronomy.com are allowed to comment on this article. ...