. My astronomical research interests center on galaxy structure and evolution. Current topics include: . Polar-ring and interacting galaxies (see also new catalogue ) . Galaxy warps: statistics, properties and origin . Spiral galaxies at z~1: radial and vertical structure of stellar disks, statistics of interactions . Surface photometry and kinematics, dynamical modeling . Observational cosmology . Joomla Counter since Sep 1997

... On­The­Fly Re­Calibration of HST Observations B. Pirenne and A. Micol Space Telescope -- European Coordinating Facility, ESO, Garching, D­85748 D. Durand and S. Gaudet Canadian Astronomy Data Centre, DAO, Victoria, BC Abstract. ... On­the­fly re­calibration data flow: from request submis­ sion to data delivery. ... On­the­fly re­calibration has another advantage for our archive sites: we only need to keep the raw data and calibration reference files on­line for the process to be automatic. ...

Lectures . ... Home Lectures Lecture Series 2011-2012 Lecture Series 2011-2012 ? тАЬThe Mystery of Beta Lyrae: Astronomical Spectroscopy for AmateursтАЭ ? Fred Chromey . ... Lecture Series 2011-2012 . ... Observing Resources for Amateur Astronomers - Part 1: Beginning Observers . ... A History of the First Forty Years of the Amateur Astronomers Association . ... Amateur Astronomers Medal . ... 2016 Amateur Astronomers Association of New York Designed by Press Customizr Powered by . ...

... The reduction system of observations FADPS (description in Russian) (Flexible Astronomical Data Processing System) for data of wide-band receivers of the first observation cabin of the radio telescope RATAN-600 had been created under the Unix-like operational system DEMOS for computers of the SM-1420-type (PDP/11) in 1987 for observation analysis and estimates of coordinates and flux densities of radio sources. ... FADPS: flexible astronomical data processing system at RATAN-600 in UNIX environment....

M obile A stronomical Sy stem of TE lescope- R obots MASTER-II Kislovodsk Lomonosov Moscow State University, Sternberg Astronomical Institute , Moscow Union "Optic" , Kislovodsk Solar Station Latitude = 43 o љ44'.767љN; Longitude = 42 o љ31'.417љE; Altitude = 2067љm MASTERљIIљ(8љsquareљdegress) + MASTERљVWF(VeryљWideљFieldљCameras (FOV=800 square degrees, Timeљresolutionљupљtoљ150љms, with unfiltered m_lim=14m on 5 sec. exposure, and ~10.5m with 0.15 sec) . ... 11h 38m 38.0s , -09d 59m 59s) . ...

Teaching courses . for student of the Department of Astrophysics and Stellar Astronomy . ... Geophysics and physics of the planets (Kurt, Panteleev) . ... Close Binary Stars . ... Solar Physics . ... This is introductory course for students of the third year of education which are familiar with elementary astronomy and general physics. ... The one-year course includes theory of radiation transfer, theory of internal stellar structure with account of binary systems with compact comapnions. ...

The AstroGuide . ... AstroGuide Listing . ... See many more Astronomy Listings by: Category or Alphabet . IPAC exists to carry out large, data-intensive processing tasks of critical importance to NASA's infrared astronomy program, and to provide scientific expertise on those projects to the astronomical community. ... Web Site . ... Web . ... Unless otherwise specified, web site content Copyright 1994-2016 John Huggins All Rights Reserved . dbHTML," "AstroGuide," "ASTRONOMY.NET" & "VA.NET" . ...

... Jitter imaging (also known as microscanning ) is probably one of the most efficient ways to perform astronomical observations in infrared. ... This paper discusses the various issues attached to each data processing step and offers several algorithms, having in mind an automatic data processing in pipeline mode (i.e. without user interaction) as intended for the VLT. ... Poisson offset generation . ... Frame offset detection . ... Peak detection algorithm . ... Header offsets . ... Linear average . ...

Andrey Kravtsov . ... Andrey Tatarnikov . Sternberg Astronomical Institute . ... Astronomical Institute (Ondrejov, Czech Republic) . ... Paris-Meudon-NanГay Observatory . NMSU Astronomy Department . Institute of Theoretical Astrophysics (Norway) . Big Bear Solar Observatory . ... SOHO - The Solar and Heliospheric Observatory . Ulysses Project - ESA page . ... Abstracts from Astronomy Astrophysics . ... Solar Astronomy . ... Astronomy astrophysics preprints abstracts . ...

This workshop on Deep Field Imaging is organised by Cavendish Astrophysics and is part of the Marie Curie Conferences and Training Courses on the Square Kilometre Array Design Studies (MCCT SKADS.) The aim of the EU MCCT programme is to promote, discuss and disseminate SKA and SKADS ideas to young researchers in order to provide the next generation of European astronomers with basic and advanced scientific and technology knowledge. ... Challenges for reducing deep imaging observations . ...

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NAUTICAL ASTRONOMICAL ALMANAC for 2005-2006 (in Russian) . ... The Institute of Applied Astronomy of the Russian Academy of Sciences submits the next issue of тАЬThe Nautical Astronomical Almanac for the years 2005-2006тАЭ (NAA-2) biennial. NAA-2 is based on тАЬ The Nautical Astronomical Yearbook тАЭ (NAY) also prepared by IAA RAS. ... The structure of тАЬThe Nautical Astronomical Almanac for the years 2005-2006тАЭ has not undergone essential changes in comparison with the previous issue of NAA-2. ...

RADIOASTROPHYSICAL DEPARTMENT  INSTITUTE OF SOLAR-TERRESTRIAL PHYSICS RAS SB . ... Radioastrophysical Department , Institute of Solar-Terrestrial Physics, Siberian Division, Russian Academy of Science. ... Head of Laboratory dr. Gubin A.V. LABORATORY of INFORMATION SUPPLY and METHODOLOGY of RESEARCH . ... Head of Observatory Kitsanov S.V. SIBERIAN SOLAR RADIO TELESCOPE . Siberian solar radio telescope data at 5.7 GHz in I SOHO EIT 171 SOHO EIT 195 SOHO EIT 304 MDI Continuum MDI Magnetogram . ...

... Tonight's Sky . ... News . Observing . ... Supernova showered Earth with radioactive debris . ... The double star 54 Leonis, spiral galaxy NGC 3198, and emission nebula NGC 3199 . ... Astronomy for Kids . ... Observing springtime deep-sky objects with a large telescope . ... Supernova simulations reveal new processes . ... Get instant access to subscriber content on Astronomy.com! ... Receive news, sky-event information, observing tips, and more from Astronomy's weekly email newsletter. ...

. PAGES IN RUSSIAN . PAGES IN ENGLISH . Euro-Asian Astronomical Society . European Association for Astronomy Education . Astronomy and Astronautics Bulletins . Selected sites . for young . astronomers . for further informations, . please, write to: . Dr. Michael G. Gavrilov . ISSP of Russ. Acad. Sci. Institute avenue 15 . 142432 Chernogolovka . Moscow Region, Russia. fax: + 7-(096-52)-49-701 . or send an e-mail to: . gavrilov@issp.ac.ru .

Astronotes Armagh Planetarium's Stellar Blog! ... Apple have recently made it possible for you to БЂњgiftБЂќ one of their applications to someone as a present, and how amazing would it be for you astronomy loving friend to be able to use their ipod or ipad as a personal star chart to identify everything you see in the sky at any given time? ... If you love the idea of this for yourself, but are feeling the pinch with Christmas coming, there are also theб  free apps Pocket Sky and Space Brains . ...

Basics of magnetosphere satellite experiment. Main steps of data processing. Modern conception of Earth magnetosphere. ... Empirical models of the bow shock, magnetopause and neutral current sheet positions. Main principles of construction of empirical magnetospheric magnetic field models. ... Current systems in the Earth magnetosphere. Chapman- Ferraro current. ... Tsyganenko 1996 model and its application to satellite data processing. ... Basics of statistical data analysis. ...

9th European and 5-th Euro-Asian Astronomical Society Meeting . 29 May - 3 June 2000, Moscow, Russia . EUROPEAN ASTRONOMY AT THE TURN OF THE MILLENIUM . The 9th Meeting of the European Astronomical Society (EAS) will be held in Moscow, Russia, jointly with the 5th Conference of the Euro-Asian Astronomical Society (EAAS). ... Invited reviews of outstanding problems of modern astronomy are expected to be given at plenary sessions. ... December 20, 1999: Pre-registration form deadline . ...

... The Science Operation Department is composed of Astronomers, Telescope Instruments Operators(TIOs) and Data Handling Administrators(DHAs). ... Astronomers have proposed several methods to quantitatively measure the amount of turbulence above the telescope, which the most common ones is Differential Image Motion Monitor (DIMM). In optical testing, the Hartmann test is the common method to test the quality of optical components. ... Hartmann mask consists of 48 lenses. ...

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