Atmospheric transparency in the optical and near IR range above the Shatdzhatmaz summit O.Voziakova (Sternberg Astronomical Institute, Russia) Atmospheric extinction in the MASS spectral band Atmospheric transparency in near IR range Example of a good photometric night. ... Distribution of atmospheric extinction in MASS Median = 0.23 mag 1-st quartile = 0.20 3-d quartile = 0.27 mag Vertical green line represents theoretical Rayleigh extinction for Shatdzhatmaz (0.16 mag). ...

RECREATIONAL TELESCOPES . ... ASTRONOMICAL TELESCOPES . ... Home Products Telescopes Astronomical Telescopes ASTELE™ 102MN . ... Whatever eyepiece you're using at the time is your finder eyepiece. ... 102MN is 5.5, so, unlike telescopes with much longer ?-ratios, you're able to use low magnification (22.4 X, 2.3° with the 25 mm PlЖssl eyepiece) which produces bright images and wide fields of view for those dim galaxies, nebulae, and very large star clusters, but the ASTELE? ... BK7 optical glass . ...

... I will touch upon the following points: ­ fast evolution of the sizes of quiescent (elliptical) galaxies between z = 2 and z = 1; ­ prolonged star formation histories of dwarf spheroidal galaxies in the Local Group; ­ apparent lack of external sources of cold gas accretion for the nearby spiral galaxies; ­ old stellar ages and magnesium overabundance of the large-scale disks of nearby lenticular galaxies. ... This discovery has challenged the recognized scenarios of elliptical galaxy evolution. ...

... Any of you who are new to the AAAP should take time to chat with one of the officers or other members of the club to find out more about our remote observatory up in the Jenny Jump State Park near Hope, New Jersey. ... What a night at Jenny. ... If you want to catch a few more glimpses there is a nice set of images on the Sky and Telescope web site under Aurora Delights. ... Another service is provided by Sky and Telescope at http://skyandtelescope.com/observing/ proamcollab/astroalert/default.asp. ...

Introduction to PLASMA ASTROPHYSICS (Selected 10 lectures) Boris V. Somov Astronomical Institute and Faculty of Physics Moscow State University Pushino-na-Oke, 2008 Contents Ab out These Lectures 1 Particles and Fields: Exact Self-Consistent Description 1.1 Liouville's theorem . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1.1.1 Continuity in phase space . . . . . . . . . 1.1.2 The character of particle interactions 1.1.3 The Lorentz force, gravity . . . . . . . . . 1.1.4 Collisional friction . . . . . . . . . . . .