... ESO is building what will be the World's largest optical telescope array, The Very Large Telescope (VLT). The VLT Project organisation is responsible for the design and construction of the Unit Telescopes, including enclosures, optics, adapter-rotators and coating unit. ... Unit Telescopes Overview - This page is outdated, an update is in process. ... Secondary mirror (M2 Unit) - This page is outdated, an update is in process. ... Coating Unit - This page is outdated, an update is in process. ...

Sternberg Astronomical Institute, Moscow University, . Moscow, Russia . Supernovae make us brighter .. Search russian astronomical resources . Mirror of International Supernovae Network ( Original site ) . Catalogue of Supernovae Stars . HTTP access to SAI Catalogue of Supernovae Stars . SAI SN Light Curves Online . ... Sternberg Astronomical Institute ( in Russian ) . ... Astronet - Russian Astronomical Network . ... Russian Foundation for Basic Research . ...

... Today this year's largest group of sunspots will cross the Sun's central meridian. ... The next day, the number of spots in the group reached five, and the day after, on June 2nd, it was possible to count thirteen sunspots on solar disk, which had been clear prior to this. ... This year's two most powerful active areas, which passed across the solar disk at the beginning of May, 2009, are set to appear in the Sun's eastern sector in two days, on June 6th. ...

... Astrophysics Group . ... VSA . ... CAT . ... The Very Small Array is a custom-built radio telescope (operating between 26-36 GHz), designed expressly to make high resolution observations of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) radiation on angular scales around and below one degree. ... The VSA has been operated in ?compact array? and ?extended array? configurations (see the technical description below) and data collected to achieve high sensitivity in both regimes have been analysed. ... 1.75 GHz)...

... Credit Copyright: Juan Carlos Casado Explanation: Two unusually large sunspot groups are now crossing the face of the Sun . ... Sunspot group 10484 appears near the image center, while sunspot group 10486 is just coming over the left limb of the Sun. The active region associated with Sunspot 484 (the shorter nickname) has already jettisoned a large coronal mass ejection (CME) of particles out into the Solar System . ... Publications with keywords: sunspot - active Sun . ... Angry Sun Erupting . ...

Solar High Resolution Studies . ... Solar Group . ... High Resolution Studies . Small Scale Activity . ... High resolution observations at different heights in the solar atmosphere have emphasized that there is no such thing as a "quiet" Sun (e.g. Schrijver et al., ... This, and the temporal coincidence of other signatures, supports the idea that microflares are indeed just miniature flares, but that one needs a very high resolution in order to observe them (Cauzzi et al., 2003, in preparation) . ...

... These Frontier Fields will combine the power of HST with the natural gravitational telescopes of high-magnification clusters of galaxies. ... We are soliciting gravitational lensing maps for the last four Hubble Frontier Fields clusters (MACSJ0717.5+3745, MACSJ1149.5+2223, AbellS1063, and Abell 370) based upon the exceptionally deep HST FF imaging and other new ancillary data. ... For the full set of proposal instructions and requirements, see the FY16 Frontier Fields Lensing Map Call for Proposals....

... Arecibo L-Band Feed Array . ... AGES is a sub-group of the Extragalactic ALFA (EALFA) consortium. ... AGES is a compromise between the larger-scale, but much less sensitive ALFALFA (drift mapping) and the deeper AUDS (drift-and-chase) surveys. ... Modified 'Leapfrog' - Again, a variant of this mode will be used by the PALFA consortia (see a discussion of tiling modes here ). ... Current status of AGES: . ... Study by Spitzak Schneider (1998) using 'leapfrog' mode with Arecibo L-Band Wide receiver. ...

Sunspot groups data format 1-4 Year 6-7 Month 9-10 Day 12-18 The extended number of the group in format YYYYNNN, where YYYY is the year of the catalogue volume, NNN is the number of spot in the volume. 20-24 Heliographic longitude 26-30 Latitude 32-36 Second heliographic longitude (999.9=no data) 38-42 Second latitude (999.9=no data) 44-47 The group area, in millionths of solar hemisphere (9999=no data) 49-52 The area of the largest spot (9999=no data) 54-56 Number of spots in the group (999=no data)

... Home . ... Main . ... The pulsar group is part of the Australia Telescope National Facility , a division of the CSIRO . The ATNF operates the Parkes radio telescope where the majority of our observations are carried out. ... The ATNF Pulsar Educational Page gives a broad overview of pulsar properties, observations and current research projects. ... Our group developed the web-based ATNF Pulsar Catalogue , which provides comprehensive information on all published pulsars. ... Pulsar Catalogue . ...

Next: Meteors in Planetary Atmospheres Up: A. Christou Previous: A. Christou Contents . Following creation of a CONDOR PC mini-cluster for the Observatory, early in 2004, it became possible to pursue new projects involving very large-scale numerical simulations that had previously been beyond the reach of a single work-station. ... Groups of newly discovered Jovian irregular satellites appear to be less compact than theory predicts. ...

This home page belongs to small group of scientists working at . Sternberg Astronomical Institute which is a part of Moscow State University . ... Электронная библиотека научно-технической и художественной литературы (доступна только из ГАИШ) . ... Local staff . Dr. Edward Kononovich (konon -at- sai.msu.ru), Associate Professor . ... Dr. Sergey Ayukov (asv -at- sai.msu.ru), Research Fellow, Webmaster of the group . ... Joint seminar of Solar Studies Structure Group and Solar Photometry Group . ...

Last time we saw that flat rotation curves for galaxies, when measured in galaxies with extended gas distributions, provides unambiguous data that shows the mass distribution is dominated by an unseen, spherical halo. ... Perhaps only galaxies with extended dark matter halos are capable of retaining large gaseous extents? . ... Clusters of Galaxies: . ... The case of the Cancer cluster: . ... Below is the velocity distribution of galaxies in the Cancer cluster: . ... What's going on in Cancer? ...

... RATAN-600 data for the BL Lacertae objects (multi-frequency catalogue, Version 1.0) . GPS radio sources . ... BL Lacertae objects . ... The difference between these objects is the peak frequency of the synchrotron component of their spectral energy distribution (HBLs: high-energy peak, LBLs: low-energy peak, IBLs: intermediate). ... The observations were carried out with the RATAN-600 radio telescope during 2006-2011 at six frequencies: 1.1, 2.3, 4.8, 7.7, 11.2 and 21.7 GHz. ...

K.-H. Hofmann, T. Bl cker, G. Weigelt, and Y. Balega: . ... Annual Scientific Meeting of the Astronomische Gesellschaft at the Joint European and National Meeting JENAM 2001 of the European Astronomical Society and the Astronomische Gesellschaft, Sep 10-15, 2001, Munich, Germany . ... CIT 3 (= WX Psc = IRC +10 011 = IRAS 01037+1219), an oxygen-rich long-period variable evolving along the Asymptotic Giant Branch (AGB), is one of the most extreme infrared AGB objects. ... Back to Group Home Page ...

... Previous: Multi-threaded Query Agent and Engine for a Very Large Astronomical Database . ... Dedicated tools have been developed at CDS in order to face the challenge of fast on-line access to very large astronomical catalogues. ... When a query to such a large catalogue is submitted to VizieR , the CDS database of catalogues and tables (Ochsenbein et al. 2000), a dedicated program handles the request, extracts and decodes the matching data, and sends its output back to VizieR. ... 1990, Russel et...

... Tonight's Sky . ... The Magazine . News . Observing . ... Star Atlas . ... Gravitational wave search provides insights into galaxy evolution and mergers . ... The double star 54 Leonis, spiral galaxy NGC 3198, and emission nebula NGC 3199 . ... Open cluster NGC 2818, spiral galaxy NGC 2964, and spiral galaxy NGC 2976 . ... Astronomy for Kids . ... Local Group . ... Receive news, sky-event information, observing tips, and more from Astronomy's weekly email newsletter. ... Astronomy Magazine . ...

... The largest number of channel groups in a row . The largest number of channel elements in a row above threshold . Create empty output table header and structure. Create a linked list (GROUP_LIST) to store groups of contiguous elements . ... Foreach element in row . ... Else push GROUP onto GROUP_LIST, and create a new instance of the GROUP structure for the next group of contiguous elements. End element loop . ... Create a new instance of GROUP_LIST for the next row. end row loop . ...

... Е.П.Вдовин, ?Максимальные порядки абелевых подгрупп в конечных простых группах? ... Перевод E.P.Vdovin ?Maximal Orders of Abelian Subgroups in Finite Simple Groups?, Algebra and Logic, v. 38 (1999), 2, 67 83. ... Перевод E.P.Vdovin, ?Large normal nilpotent subgroups of nite groups?, ... Перевод E.P.Vdovin, ?Large nilpotent subgroups of nite simple groups?, Algebra and Logic, v. 39 (2000), 5, 301312. ... Перевод E.P.Vdovin, ?Maximal orders of abelian subgroups of nite Chevalley groups? ...

... Our recent observations with the Hubble Space Telescope (August 29, 2014) led to revealing a highly isolated dwarf spheroidal galaxy KKs 3 situated at a distance of 2.12 0.07 Mpc from the Milky Way. The dSph galaxy locates on the southern sky (RA=02 h 24 m 44.4 s , Dec.= ... Over the last decade, about 30 dSph galaxies have been discovered inside the Local Group through systematic search in the vicinity of M31 and more that a dozen dSphs were discovered in the nearby group around M81. ...