... Karpachev A.T., IZMIRAN, e-mail: karp@izmiran.ru . ... The empirical median model of the shape and position of the MIT (Main Ionospheric Trough) in the Northern and Southern Hemispheres is presented. ... Geomagnetism and aeronomy, v.26, ? ... Karpachev A.T., Afonin V.V. Dependence of the ionospheric trough occurrence probability on the season, local time, longitude, and level of magnetic activity Geomagnetism and aeronomy, v.38, ? ... Karpachev A.T. Characteristics of a Ring Ionospheric Trough. ...

Extended time series of Solar Activity Indices (ESAI) is database including observational, synthetic and simulated sets to study Solar magnetic field variations and their influence on the Earth. ESAI extend the ordinary lengths of some traditional indices of solar activity: sunspot areas, Wolf numbers (equatorial component of magnetic field of the Sun), polar faculae numbers (polar component), mean latitudes, N-S asymmetry of hemispheres (location of activity). Series . ...

During routine astrometry with the 1.0-m to improve the orbit of the Apollo asteroid 2004 CB, the 'asteroid' was found on March 30 to have a short tail! ... it was renamed periodic comet P/2004 CB (LINEAR). ... Back to Previous News . Siding Spring Survey Main Page . ... Follow-up Astrometry with the 1.0-m at SSO . Previous News Items . Anglo-Australian Near Earth Asteroid Survey 1990-96 . ...

Statistics of sunspot activity . The sunspot indices . ... Visual indices of solar activity . ... n - number of spot groups . A - Waldmeier class of unipolar spot groups without penumbra . B - class of bipolar spot groups without penumbra . C - class of bipolar spot groups with one penumbra pole . D - class of small bipolar spot groups with two penumbra poles . E - class of middle bipolar spot groups with two penumbra poles . ... H - class of unipolar penumbrated spot groups . ...

... The Sun has come all of one day away from breaking its record for the longest period of inactivity for the last decade - reaching a mid-summer low and falling into yet another state of "hibernation". Yesterday, on the first day of autumn, new sunspots appeared on the surface of the Sun following an absence of almost 50 days. ... The first low lasted 51 days, from 21 July until 11 September last year. ... Now, almost a year later, it seems the Sun has hit a new low almost as "deep" as the first. ...

home education > activities . ... Astronomy . ... In this collaborative group activity, teams of students use the internet to find moon myths in a number of cultures and then try to discern the astronomy behind each myth. There is a section on researching moon missions that just seems tacked on to curry favor with NASA. [e,m] . ... A field test version with good activities and background information about the Saturn system and the Cassini mission, which is scheduled to enter Saturn orbit in 2004. ...