... Observing . ... Home Education Workshops at Adorama Astronomy Workshop: Observing Variable Stars from the City ? February 15, 2015 . ... 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 €аFor the Amateur Astronomers Association of New York . ... 2016 Amateur Astronomers Association of New York Designed by Press Customizr Powered by . ...

... 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 . ...

Peremennye Zvezdy ( Variable Stars ) 33 , No. ... I present the discovery of an eclipsing component in light variations of the known High-Amplitude Delta Scuti star GSC 1374-01131 based on the Catalina Surveys publicly available data. ... From a single night of their observations, the variable was classified as a HADS (High-Amplitude Delta Scuti) star, with the light elements: . ... The light curves of GSC 1374-01131 based on Catalina data, folded with periods of pulsations and eclipses. ...

FGS Instrument Handbook for Cycle 24 . ... Fine Guidance Sensor Instrument Handbook for Cycle 24 > Chapter 1: Introduction > 1.3 The FGS as a Science Instrument . ... The FGS as a Science Instrument . The FGS has two modes of operation: Position mode and Transfer mode. ... By sequentially observing other stars in a similar fashion, the relative angular positions of luminous objects are measured with a per-observation precision of about 1 mas over a magnitude range of 3.0 < V < 16.8. ...

The ESA/ESO Astronomy Exercise Series 2 . The Distance to Messier 100 as Determined by Cepheid Variable Stars . ... The small variations in distance to the individual Cepheid variable stars in the Cloud are negligible compared with the much larger distance to the SMC. ... In this way Cepheid variable stars can be used as one of the 'standard candles' in the Universe that act either as distance indicators themselves or can be used to calibrate (or set the zero point for) other distance indicators. ...

... astro-ph . ... Whitespace-separated words are treated as AND ed. Show 10 50 100 articles per page in Full Compact mode . ... Quasar Variability in the Framework of Poissonian Models . ... It is shown that in this very general framework the well established anti-correlation between variability amplitude and wavelength can only be understood as an effect of an underlying spectral component which remains stable on long time-scales, and is redder than the variable component. ...

... The HST uses an onboard model of its orbit to perform in real-time various control functions relating to spacecraft operations and observation support. ... New coefficients for the ephemeris are updated every other day, and are archived as FITS keywords for each HST observation data set. Using these coefficients,an observer can perform a variety of calibration and characterization calculations relating to the orbital position and velocity of the telescope. ...

CATS home ] [ Back to CATS list ] [ ftp ] . ... 363Landau+ Fifty-five variable radio sources have been observed at 90 GHz, 22 of them for first time. ... The variability of those sources previously observed is somewhat greater than observed by Owen et al. (1978); some sources exhibited the lowest flux densities ever recorded at 90 GHz. ... The adopted 90-GHz flux density of DR21 is 17.7 Jy and is based on a 90-GHz brightness temperature of 183.4+-3.4 K for Jupiter (Ulich 1978). ...

... The double star 54 Leonis, spiral galaxy NGC 3198, and emission nebula NGC 3199 . ... The double star Adhara, globular cluster NGC 2298, and Hubbleт??s Variable Nebula (NGC 2261) . January 30 February 6, 2014: The double star Adhara in Canis Major and globular cluster NGC 2298 in Puppis both offer small-telescope owners stunning views, while large-telescope owners can seek out Hubble's Variable Nebula (NGC 2261) in Monoceros. ... Small telescope : Globular cluster NGC 2298 . ...

lsst.tcc љ 1.2.2-3-g89ecb63 . ... Namespaces . ... ptCorrFromObs . ... tcc.axis.ptCorrFromObs Namespace Reference . ... Compute pointing correction position from observed coordinates. ... position of target in observed coordinates (a coordConv.PVTCoord) . ... targPtCorrXY: position of target in pointing correction coordinates (a tcc.base.ArrayPVT2) (deg) i.e. a position in rotator coordinates where X is the direction of increasing azimuth . ... list tcc.axis.ptCorrFromObs.__all__ = ["ptCorrFromObs"] . ...

Modeling the optical spectrum of Romano's star O LGA M A RY E VA Special Astrophysical Observatory of the Russian Academy of Science; olga.maryeva@gmail.com Using the radiative transfer code CMFGEN (J.D.Hillier), we determine the physical parameters of Romano`s star (GR290 or V532) ­ Luminous Blue Variable in M33 galaxy. ... V532 in maximum of brightness (V=17mag, Feb. 2005) lies on the LBV minimum instability strip in the Hertzsprung-Russell (HR) diagram. ... 2001; Polcaro et al., ...

Finding Himalia, The Fifth Brightest Moon Of Jupiter . Articles | ... Himalia is the only moon other than the Galilean moons of Jupiter that is visible in an amateur size telescope. ... I normally use “The Sky” from Software Bisque for planning my observing sessions and in helping me find objects, but it only has the Galilean moons for Jupiter so I used Red Shift (version 3 at the time) which I also had on my computer. ... www.astronomy.net . ... dbHTML," "AstroGuide," "ASTRONOMY.NET" & "VA.NET" . ...

... A star was observed at different zenith distances during one night at the Engelgardt's Astronomical Observatory in the program of atmospheric extinction study at blue. ... The determination of the star's brightness was performed with the method of photon counting. ... Variable star. ... The brightness of the variable star was measured occasionally during the other nights, and moments of maximal values of brightness (15.59m) were received on nights 2­5, the 2nd table. ... JD 2452805. ...

These observations are aimed at fully charactering FORS1 photometric system (UBVRI zero-points, color-terms and extinction coefficients) for the Tektronix 2048x2048 pixel CCD (24µm px) . To this aim, the two Landolt/Stetson photometric fields SA95 and SA101 will be observed on a number of epochs and at different airmasses during February and March 2007. ... SA101 . ... OBs for SA101 have to be observed during evenigh twilight (exceptions are expected for the second half of March) . ...

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... CEPHEID VARIABLE STARS: A Cepheid variable or Cepheid is a member of a particular class of very luminous, massive variable stars with pulsation periods of 1-70 days. ... The relationship is calibrated using data collected from Cepheids whose distances are determined by other means. ... Browse through the 68 CCD fits images he sent you, using ds9 and locate the Cepheid variable. ... Image credits: ESA - "http://sci.esa.int/science-e-media/img/20/cepheid-variables.jpg" . ...

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NATIONAL ASTRONOMY AND IONOSPHERE CENTER . ... Astronomy . ... Visitor Center . ... Comets . ... Observing conditions were favorable at Arecibo July 5-15 2001, and observing time for both spectroscopy of 18-cm OH lines and S-band radar observations were arranged. The comet nucleus was observed to split into two pieces on April 30. ... Because the comet passed within 0.25 AU of the Earth in early July, when it was visible from Arecibo Observatory, it was fairly well suited to radar observation. ...

... 2007 February 21 . Mira Over Germany . ... The star might appear new, but it's actually just the variable star Mira near its brightest. ... Pictured above a castle in Stuttgart , Germany , last week, red giant star Mira appeared near its maximum brightness of magnitude 2. ... Details of Mira's variability are still being researched , but the reason for Mira's pulsations are thought related to periodic changes in the thickness of parts of Mira's atmosphere. ... About APOD | ...

... A new bright LBV (Luminous Blue Variable) star was detected in M33 galaxy. LBV stars are the most massive stars in the final stages of evolution before exploding in of supernovae. ... The new LBV star (Fig.1) is the seventh in M33. ... It is one of the brightest LBV stars of the M33 galaxy. ... The brightest object is the core of the galaxy, - a compact star cluster comprising a supermassive black hole. The new LBV star N93351 is located down and to the left from the core. ...