... Sternberg State Astronomical Institute, Moscow, Russia . ... The Sc galaxy NGC 6181 was observed at the 6m telescope of SAO RAS with the scanning Perot-Fabry interferometer in the H-alpha emission line and at the 1m telescope of SAO RAS in BVRI broadband filters with CCD. ... Sil'chenko, O. K. Sternberg State Astronomical Institute, Moscow, Russia . ... COMPLEX FORMATION HISTORY OF LENTICULAR GALAXIES WITH STELLAR COUNTERROTATION: NGC 4138 AND NGC 4550 . ... YOUNG NUCLEI IN DWARF ELLIPTICAL GALAXIES...

... This oral history with Jack Funk is being conducted for the Johnson Space Center Oral History Project in Houston, Texas. ... But we have to put them in order, and they don?t always select what we say is the best one, either one. ... So I sat down and I said, ?I?m going to run all the inputs here one at a time, putting them in one at a time, until I find the minimum number of inputs that makes a program run,? because if you can?t run it, you can?t debug it. ... Funk: Yes. ... Funk: The Skylab Program...

... Hazy skies usually mean steady skies, and steady air is just what the doctor ordered for observing planets and double stars. Mars is well past opposition and becoming less an item of interest as it shrinks in size, but Jupiter and Saturn are well placed in the early morning August sky. ... Their magnitudes are 4.2 and 6.0. ... It has an easily observed 10.6 magnitude central star. ... Cygnus is also host to a lot of small open star clusters that stand up to inspection under hazy skies. ...

EYEPIECE Journal of the Amateur Astronomers Association of New York February 2009 Volume 57, Number 2, ISSN 0146-7662 `100 Hours of Astronomy' Effort Is Ready to Roll By Jason Kendall On January 6 in Long Beach, Calif., the American Astronomical Society kicked off the beginning of the International Year of Astronomy 2009 with a big celebration attended by hundreds of professional and amateur astronomers. ... On April 2-5 there is a global star party. ... February 22 Moon lies near Mercury and Jupiter. ...