... 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. ...

... ALMA . ... ARC Staff at ESO . ... The European ALMA Regional Centre (ARC) provides the interface between the ALMA project and the European science community. ... Below you can read the latest Announcements from the European ARC Network.. ... The call for 1-mm Very Long Baseline Interferometry (VLBI) proposals to use phased ALMA at Band 6 in Cycle 4, in collaboration with the Event Horizon Telescope Consortium (EHTC), will be released to coincide with the ALMA Cycle 4 Call for Proposals in March 2016...

Peremennye Zvezdy ( Variable Stars ) 32 , No. ... Photometric CCD observations of the pre-main-sequence Herbig Ae star WW Vul on separate nights during 2007-2011 are presented. ... Relative magnitudes of WW Vul were measured with respect of the comparison star. ... From top to bottom: (a) one night of observations of WW Vul: differences variable - comparison star and comparison star - check star; (b) de-trended light curve; (c) phase curve for the season 2011 with the first frequency, 9.34 d . ...

Observational data on solar activity is a basement for investigation of processes that take place on the Sun and interplanetary space, with data of long-term observations being of special importance. ... Subsection "Sunspot groups" is the catalogue of all sunspot groups that were observed in the given year. ... For every day of observation of the group the area of the group, the area of the largest spot (both areas - in millionths of solar hemisphere) and number of spots in the group are presented. ...

Duty astronomers at the Compact Array are rostered from ATNF staff and students to provide support to observers at Narrabri for periods of one week at a time. The duty astronomers are required to assist observers prepare observing schedules, help set up the Compact Array at the start of an observing run, diagnose and attempt to solve problems that arise in the course of the observations and help observers with the initial analysis of their data. ... www.atnf.csiro.au/observers/tidbinbilla . ...

... Proposing for VLBI Time at Arecibo . ... Documentation (Field System, VLBA4 terminal, Mark 5 system) . ... In 2001, the Arecibo Observatory received its hybrid VLBA-MARK IV (VLBA4) data acquisition system, and currently NAIC commits Arecibo to support VLBI observing up to a maximum of 4% of the 305-m's observing time. ... Tracking Time (h:mm) . ... The inclusion of the 305-m Arecibo radio telescope can dramatically boost the sensitivity of VLBI observations, even with its limited source tracking...

Follow-up observations with the University of Washington 0.76 m telescope at Manastash Ridge Observatory (MRO) of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) cataclysmic variable (CV) SDSS J170053+400358 are presented. ... They estimate that the dimming amounted to about 0.028 mag (using two comparison stars that were each about 4 mag fainter than HD 209458). only UW affiliated authors have been listed, student researchers are marked with an ``*'' . ... XTE J1859+226" UW affiliated authors: *Kevin Krisciunas. ...

Weekly Bulletin on Solar and Geomagnetic Activity Highlights on 03 - 09.09.2012, Forecast on 10 - 17.09.2012, Carrington Rotations 2127, 2128 (15,04.08; 11,29.09.2012) SUNSPOT-FORMING ACTIVITY OF THE SUN ON SEPTEMBER 3 AND 4 WAS AT THE HIGH LEVEL ALSO DURING THE REMAINING DAYS ON THE AVERAGE LEVEL. ... NEXT WEEK THE LEVEL OF SUNSPOT ACTIVITY IS EXPECTED TO BE AVERAGE. ... BY DATA OF SOHO AND STEREO CORONOGRAPHS FOR THE PERIOD IT WAS OBSERVED 56 CME AMONG WHICH 3 WERE TYPE "PARTIAL HALO II". ...

Next: Publication Costs of Astronomical Research . ... Purple Mountain Observatory, Academia Sinica, Nanjing 210008, China, e-mail: library@nanjing.jspta.chinamail.sprint.com . This article includes a general overview of the Purple Mountain Observatory (PMO) followed by a description of the document resources held in the Observatory Library. ... The predecessor of the Observatory was the National Research Institute of Astronomy in the former Academia Sinica and its observing site, the PMO. ...

... Armagh Observatory, College Hill, Armagh BT61 9DG, +44 (0)28 3752 2928 . ... The folded light curve obtained from data taken during the quiescent interval MJD=55687.0 55714.0, ie between outbursts SO4 and LO4 (see Table 2). ... We present the results of an analysis of Kepler data covering 1.5 years of the dwarf nova V447 Lyr. ... We also detect five long outbursts and six short outbursts showing V447 Lyr is a U Gem type dwarf nova. ...

... SHTOL ' Special Astrophysical Observatory of the Russian AS, Nizhnij Arkhyz 357147, Russia The investigation of such a phenomenon as the magnetic field variability at long times (years - decennials) is very interesting. If the explanation of the magnetic field variability with rotation period by the oblique rotator model is evident, then the reason of the long-period variability is not clear yet, despite the existence of some assumptions on its nature. ... Fig.2. ... 213 Fig.3. ...