... This year SSAU provides 1429 state-funded places for admission in all kinds and directions of educational programs. ... In addition, SSAU Admission Committee notes the substantial increase in interest from the foreign applicants this year. The number of applications from foreign countries has already surpassed last year's totals - 76 applications. Based on the experience of admission campaigns of previous years, SSAU expects summer 2014 to enrol about 150 foreign students in the university. ...

... A full set of flatfield frames was taken with the NICMOS arrays during the System Level Thermal Vacuum test, conducted on the ground in August 1996. ... Users are encouraged to recalibrate their data with on-orbit flatfields if the pipeline calibration used thermal vacuum flatfields. Preliminary results from SMOV indicate that variations in the large scale structure of the on-orbit flatfields relative to the thermal vacuum flatfields are of the order of 1-2% in Camera 2, and up to 5% in Camera 1. ...

This service contributes to the International Service of Geomagnetic Indices (ISGI) of the IAGA . ... The Kp numbers of the previous month are available in tabular format . ... There are available also historical and current Kp and derived indices per anonoymos FTP (see below). ... U.S.A. FTP server: ftp://ftp.ngdc.noaa.gov/STP/GEOMAGNETIC_DATA/INDICES/KP_AP/ . monthly update) . ... contains the monthly Kp / ap tables in a simple text format readable for both humans and computers (*.tab). ...

RELATIVE SUNSPOT NUMBERS Description of Data from SGD Explanation of Data Reports: Relative Sunspot Numbers -- The relative sunspot number is an index of the activity of the entire visible disk of the Sun. ... The provisional daily Zurich relative sunspot numbers, Rz, were based upon observations made at Zurich and its two branch stations in Arosa and Locarno and communicated by M. Waldmeier of the Swiss Federal Observatory. ... This indicates the uncertainty above and below the predicted number. ...

THE RELATIVE MONTHLY MEAN SUNSPOT NUMBER ON MARCH 2016 HAS MADE Wmarch = 32.9, 54.9 ( new ) THAT GIVES FOR 80 MONTHS (2015, SEPTEMBER) DEVELOPMENT CURRENT 24 CYCLE OF SOLAR ACTIVITY THE SMOOTHED MONTHLY MEAN SUNSPOT NUMBER W*sep. = 39.6; 66.0 - (in new system ); W*aug. = 39.8; 66.3 - (in new system ); - On July 1, 2015 Centre in Brussels moved to a new system of cal- culation the relative ... Almost all the work using smooth W* have to lead to a new system, if it remains. ...

... Begin ­ End Interval­Interval 01:35 ­ 04:05 09:30 ­ 12:05 16:00 ­ 16:50 17:00 ­ 22:10 Days Needed at This Interval 6 11 11 11 Time Constraints (Must Be Justified in the Prop osal Text) For J0251+26 (visible at LST 01:35 - 04:05): 6 x 0.75 h monthly sessions. For J1048+23 (visible at LST 09:30 - 12:05): 3 x 1 h daily sessions; 3 x 1 h weekly sessions starting 1 week after the last daily session; 5 x 1 h monthly sessions starting 1 month after the last weekly session. ...

... Insert date: . Day: . Month: . ... This CGI -script calculates a day of week of the given date, Julian date of Greenwich noon JD and extracts from the database indices of solar activity: Wolf number for the day W , monthly W m and yealy means W y of Wolf number for month and year of the date. The prediction of Wolf number (which was made in 1998 and, hence, lost actuality) is also presented. The database uses solar activity data got from server of National Geophysical Data Center . ...

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 . ...

... Final astrometric results. ... 2009MNRAS_394_1037E Informations. relative to: reference body is an occulted or eclipsed satellite . reference frame: astrometric centre of frame: topocenter for mutual occultation or heliocenter for mutual eclipse epoch of equinox: J2000 time scale: UTC reduction: from mutual occultations and eclipses coordinates: Position angle (topocentric for mutual occultation or heliocentric for mutual ... Hour of the astrometric data (UTC) 7. ...

... Armagh Observatory, College Hill, Armagh BT61 9DG, +44 (0)28 3752 2928 . This year's annual Geminid meteor shower is active during the period December 7 - 17, with the peak of activity occurring during the night of December 13th/14th. The Geminid shower is currently one of the best of the major annual meteor displays, usually having a high number of relatively bright, medium-speed (130,000 km per hour) shooting stars. ... Last Revised: 2009 December 7th . ...

... Also the help file was renamed the manual, formated for LaTeX and html, and to a large degree, rewritten. ... Increase maximum number of setup files to 50. ... 1995 July) . ... Also, only put pointing request in VLBA control files if this is not a DAR-only station (1995 October 4) . ... Allow in-line setup files much like the source and station catalogs. ... Allow specification of schedule input file name from main input. ... Adding SUMITEM input to allow specification of what is in the summary file...

... Sun images . ... Sun flares . ... Active areas . September : 2015 . ... The following regions with sunspots can be now observed on the Sun's surface . Group number . ... Group length (in degrees) . ... Coordinates and other characteristics of active regions are issued for September 09, 2015 00:31 UT The following H-alpha plages without spots can be currently observed on the Sun's surface . ... Coordinates and other characteristics of active regions are issued for September 09, 2015 00:31 UT . ...

ARCSAT ID NUMBER: AS07 DESCRIPTIVE TITLE: Time Domain Studies of Transients and Variable Stars PI: Guy Stringfellow OBSERVER(S): Guy Stringfellow, CU undergrads TBD UNCERTIFIED ... CU undergrads COLLABORATORS: CONTACT INFORMATION: Guy.Stringfellow@colorado.edu 303-506-3160 cell NUMBER OF WEEKS REQUESTED: 3 TIME REQUESTED: Requires Dark time and time cadence ~monthly Run 1: July 13 (alternate: ... Based on our previous ARCSAT observations, we now have an 11-tile grid covering M31. ...

Astronotes Armagh Planetarium's Stellar Blog! ... Monthly Sky Notes . ... Image credit: Julie Thompson / Armagh Planetarium) . ... These seven entrants and their class have won a free trip to the Planetarium.€а All entries are on display in our Exhibition Area.€а A number have been included in a special Christmas trailer running before all shows in our Digital Theatre throughout December so why not check out the works by the countryтАЩs budding new artists this Christmas break at Armagh Planetarium? ...

... To save time, I will only provide ephemerides in 2000 coordinates. ... Note: most the orbital elements used to create these ephemerides were obtained from the International Astronomical Union Circulars (IAUCs), Minor Planet Circulars (MPCs) or the ICQ Comet Handbook. ... The following 1-day ephemeris (March 1, 1997 - October 1, 1997) is from Donald Yeomans of JPL and is based on Reference Orbit #55 (March 4, 1997). 2000 coordinates (March - September, 1997) [3/4/97] . ... Epoch: 1997 Feb. 1.0 . ...

... Summarizing the results of the Hamburg/SAO survey presented in Papers I through V, we discovered altogether from the 1-st priority candidates 433 new emission-line objects (25 of them are QSOs), and for 85 known ELGs we got quantitative data for their emission lines. ... To estimate the total number of BCGs in the HSS zone we should count new BCGs expected from the remaining candidates and those selected in the HSS, but not observed by us since they already were known from other surveys. ...

... The numbers of three types of compact binaries containing accreting NSs and BHs, which are most interesting from the point of view of their observational appearances, have been calculated as a function of time: i) X-ray transient source containing a NS in an eccentric orbit around a main sequence Be-star (the observed prototype: A0535+26), ii) BH The evolution of the selected types of X-ray binaries during the first 10 million years after the starburst onset is presented in Fig. ...

Winer Observatory P.O. Box 797, Sonoita, Arizona 85637-0797, USA . ... Site . Weather . Roof Status . ... Average Max. ... 0.0 . ... In 2004, the roof was operated manually, while in 2005 through 2007, it was operated automatically by computer, but was not closed by weather sensors. ... The "Closed" column includes those nights outside the Monsoon season when the Observatory was closed due to weather (the usual cause), equipment failures, or vacation by the Winer staff in 2004 through 2006. ...

... GCR and SCR are primary cosmic rays. 10-15 years after the discovery of cosmic radiation (1919) there emerged two main avenues of investigation in the physics of cosmic rays (CR): 1) nuclear - elucidation of the origin of elementary particles and nuclear interactions; and 2) astrophysical (space physics) - solution of the problem related to the origin and variations (changes in intensity) of CR. ... Besides, the CR flux in interplanetary space is, strictly speaking, not isotropic. ...

The Infrared Supernova Rate . To derive the number of SNe expected in our ground-based data and calculate the IR supernova rate , we have to derive a relation between the luminosity of the galaxies and their Star Formation Rate (SFR) and the shape of the "mean" K-band light curve for a core-collapse SN. ... Rates are generally normalized to the luminosity of the parent galaxy, either the B luminosity of L(FIR). ... For comments please contact: gcresci@arcetri.astro.it . ...