... Master . ... About Space Monitoring Laboratory, scientific directions, instruments, contacts . ... 20.06.2012 . ... 27 Apr 2012: GRB 120427A: MASTER follow up observations GCN13274 . ... 29 Mar 2012: MASTER OT 123412-632503 detection during Swift trigger 518853 ATel4007 . 26 Mar 2012: GRB 120323A: MASTER follow up observations GCN13116 . ... 29 Jan 2012: GRB 120129A: MASTER optical observations GCN12907 . 06 Jan 2012: GRB 120106A: MASTER Early OT marginally detection GCN12818, GCN12811 . ...

... Director of the RAS ISR . RAS Academician . ... Astrophysics module Kvant of the orbital complex Mir launched in 1987 contains the largest on the station complex of the scientific equipment named the orbital observatory Roentgen. Observatory Roentgen consists of 4 X-ray telescopes, jointly exceeding the range of energies from 2 to 800 keV. ... Among the most significant results that were received in the observatory Roentgen are: . ... measurement of the periods of 9 X-ray pulsars; . ...

Once students get the hang of it, they can find and measure the brightness of Delta Cephei in a few minutes. ... of Delta Cephei . ... Oct. ... The following table lists the measurements of Delta Cephei made by one amateur astronomer in autumn 1990. ... 4.0 . ... This activity is a simplified version of one that appeared in Hands-On Astrophysics, a series of activities prepared by the American Association of Variable Star Observers with support from the National Science Foundation. << previous page | ...

... MARX includes models of the AXAF mirrors, the low- and high-energy transmission grating assemblies (LETG and HETG), and the HRC and ACIS focal plane detectors. We discuss the role of MARX within the ASC Data System and present sample simulated images and spectra for two typical cosmic X-ray sources. ... A continuous emission measure model was constructed based on the published EUVE data (Dupree 1996); the peak emission occurred near 10 7 K. Simulations were run for both the HETG and LETG . ...

... A2383 Date Received: 2008-Feb-01 07:48:25 Technical Page Proposal Type: General Category: Sub-Category: Observation Category: Total Time Requested: Minimum Useful Time: Prop osal Title: ABSTRACT: Regular Astronomy Spectroscopy Extragalactic 42 Hours 1.75 hours Monitoring a water megamaser in the early universe We have recently detected a water megamaser in the gravitationally lensed quasar MG0414+0534 at a redshift of z=2.64. This is the most distant water maser known so far. ...

In this gallery are many images of Low Surface Brightness Galaxies which have recently been discovered and analyzed. ... The central surface brightness of this galaxy is 24.28 . Malin 2 This galaxy is another huge disk galaxy with a scale length of 15 kpc and a redshift of 15000 km/a. The high surface brightness knot in one of its spiral arms actually has the same color, luminosity and H-alpha equivalent width as the entire Large Magellanic Cloud . ... Truly it is a Low Surface Brightness Galaxy. ...

... One striking feature is a small source of almost pure H 2 line emission, which is located near one of the compact sources in Orion reported by O'Dell and collaborators (HST-18 = 203-504). ... H-H objects, Proplyds, Orion Bar, H 2 . ... We obtained a series of images across the bright rim of the Orion Bar near the peaks of mm-wave molecular line emission with NICMOS cameras 1-3 (NIC1, NIC2, NIC3) in several filters on 1998 February 18. ... The suggestion of an H-H object does not seem compelling. ...

Left: An image in the near infrared (1.65 ЮМm) around RY Tauri, using a special mode of the Subaru HiCIAO coronagraph, the polarized intensity image. This type of observation is preferred for faint emissions associated with scattered light around planet-forming disks, as there is less light from the much brighter star. ... A white ellipse shows the position of the midplane of the disk, which is observed at millimeter wavelengths. ... Right: Schematic view of the observed infrared light. ...

National Aeronautics and Space Administration . ... Bruce McCandless II (Captain, USN, Ret.) NASA Astronaut (former) . ... He was a member of the astronaut support crew for the Apollo 14 mission and was backup pilot for the first manned Skylab mission (SL-1/SL-2). ... A veteran of two space flights, McCandless has logged over 312 hours in space, including 4 hours of MMU flight time. ... With the completion of this flight McCandless logged 191 hours in space (including 4 hours of MMU flight time). ...

SUMMARY OF SWIFT OBSERVATIONS OF GAMMA RAY BURSTS N. Gehrels, on behalf of the Swift Team Code 661, NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD 20771, USA, E-mail: gehrels@milkyway.gsfc.nasa.gov ABSTRACT Swift is a NASA MIDEX mission with primary objective to study gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) and use them as probes of conditions in the high-redshift Universe. ... SHORT GRBS At Swift's launch, the greatest mystery of GRB astronomy was the nature of short-duration, hard-spectrum bursts. ...

Check out the new images (Jan 18-25) and (Jan 26-Feb 05) of the comet by Rob McNaught. ... Every few years a comet becomes bright enough to be easily seen with the naked eye but only every decade or so are these comparable with comets like Halley. ... Before Jan 13, the comet is not visible in the Australian sky after sunset. ... SOHO images . ... On Jan 12 at approximately 09:00 UT (8pm NSW time), comet C/2006 P1 McNaught appears at the 11 o'clock position in the images. ... STEREO images . ...

Next: Gravitational Wave Background from Previous: Galactic Gravitational Wave Background . ... It is intuitively clear that at frequencies above the critical ones for our Galaxy, one will detect rare bright jerks produced by coalescing white dwarfs   (at a rate of 1 per 100 year) and NS (at a rate of 1 per - year) in our Galaxy, against a background of the extragalactic stochastic GW. ... Firstly we consider GWB from close individual galaxies, and then will discuss overall extragalactic GWB. ...

... The department was founded in late sixties by Prof. D.Ya.Martynov, who for many years was also the director of Sternberg Astronomical Institute. At present time, the head of the department is Prof. A.M.Cherepashchuk, a pupil of D.Ya.Martynov and his successor as the director of SAI. Since Prof. Martynov, the scientific activity of the department was primarily related to binary stars. ... The department consists of 15 members most of which have Ph.D. in Astrophysics. ...

Comment on J0627-3529 . We have detected the core of an FR-I object and early-type galaxy (Venturi et al. 1995). The core is 0.54 Jy at 2.3 GHz on the Parkes-Tidbinbilla baseline (Morganti et al. 1997) and 0.6 Jy at 5 GHz (VLA data, Ekers et al. (1989) and Morganti, Killeen & Tadhunter (1993)). The VLBA image at 2.3 GHz with the resolution of 15x9 mas shows a "core-jet" structure, with the core brightness of 494 mJy/beam (Venturi et al. ...

The Nuclear Structure of 3C 84 with Space VLBI (RadioAstron) Observations PoS(EVN 2014)021 Gabriele Giovannini1,2 , Monica Orienti2 , Tuomas Savolainen3,4 , Hiroshi Nagai5 , Marcello Giroletti2 , Kazuhiro Hada2,5 , Gabriele Bruni4 , Jeffrey Hodgson4 , Mareki Honma5 , Motoki Kino6 , Yuri Y. Kovalev7 , Thomas Krichbaum4 , Sang-Sung Lee6 , Andrei Lobanov4 , Bong Won Sohn6 , Kirill Sokolovsky7 , Peter Voitsik7 , J. Anton Zensus4 . ... 2014, Tavecchio and Ghisellini 2014). PoS(EVN 2014)021 2. ...

... northern O and early B stars whose spectra could be obtained with the parameters required to look for variability at the using the CEGS echelle spectrograph, maintained at the coude focus of the 1-m Northern Caucasus Special Astrophysical Observatory (SAO) telescope (Musaev 1996). The list of the program stars includes 29 obiects. When choosing appropriate dates of observations, the program stars can be observed for almost the entire night. ...

... V.N. Obridko . ... Solar cycle . Coronal holes . ... webmaster@izmiran.ru . ... On the polarization of the solar coronal emission lines . Solar Physics 33 (1973) 169-175. O.G.Badalyan, V.N.Obridko, J.Sykora . ... O.G. Badalyan, V.N. Obridko, J. Ryb k and J. S kora . ... J. S kora, O.G. Badalyan, V.N. Obridko . ... O.G. Badalyan, V.N. Obridko . ... December 2005, ESA Publication Division, ESTEC, P.O. Dox 299, 2200 AG Noordwijk, The Netherlands, Ed. D.Danesy, S.Poeds, A. De Groof, J. Andres. ...

Winer Observatory P.O. Box 797, Sonoita, Arizona 85637-0797, USA . ... Asteroid . ... Site . ... The evening of October 26, 2011, Mark Trueblood, Robert Crawford, and Larry Lebofsky used the Kitt Peak 2.1-m telescope to observe Near Earth Asteroid (NEA) 2008 QT3. ... single still jpeg frame . ... The National Optical Astronomy Observatory (NOAO) issued a press release concerning Morgan's work on Monday, November 21, 2011 and posted it on the home page of their web site . ... 2013 Winer Observatory. ...

... Bad Astronomy . ... Bad Astronomy: The North Star, Polaris, is a very bright star. Good Astronomy: Polaris is a middling-bright star, easily missed. ... He said it was close to Polaris, the North Star, but he also said it was in the East. ... It's natural, I suppose, to think that such an important star should be bright, but really, that's a conceit, like thinking that the Earth is at the center of the Universe. If more people knew just why Polaris is the North Star, this Bad Idea would stop. ...

Microsymposium 38, MS083, 2003 (A4 format) MERCURY: LOCAL VARIATIONS OF THE PHOTOMETRIC RELIEF. ... Because of trajectory and pointing angle constraints the planet could be observed from Mariner 10 only over a small range of phase angles between about 75o and 110o. Therefore the photometric investigations are restricted to measuring the distribution of brightness on the Mercurian disk. ... Raw versions of real-time processing pictures FDS 0000984 and FDS 0000986 were used (images 196 and 202). ...