Automatic Detection of NEOs in CCD Frames . ... CCD frames obtained with modern telescopes with robotic operation allow carrying out standard observation programs for detection of peculiar objects on stellar backgrounds, as is the case of Near Earth Objects (NEOs). ... In this paper, we present original algorithms for automatically detecting dim NEO images in telescope frames, considering both sidereal and differential tracking [2]. ...

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 . ...

... Enhanced HST Pointing and Calibration Accuracy: Generating HST Jitter Files at ST­ECF M. Dolensky, A. Micol, B. Pirenne and M. Rosa Space Telescope ­ European Coordinating Facility, Karl­Schwarzschild­Str. ... The Pipeline In order to generate the missing jitter files a pipeline was set up (Figures 1 and 2). ... Both the Mission Schedule and the AEDP subset files are retrieved from the Data Archive and Distribution System (DADS) at STScI. ... 94 STScI started producing obs logs on a regular basis. ...

. 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

The AstroGuide . ... AstroGuide | ... AstroGuide Listing . ... See many more Astronomy Listings by: Category or Alphabet . Cyprus Astronomical Society was established in 1990 by a group of professional and amateur astronomers living in Cyprus. Last Update August 28, 2005 . Listed Since August 21, 2005 . ... Cyprus . Web Site . ... Unless otherwise specified, web site content Copyright 1994-2016 John Huggins All Rights Reserved . dbHTML," "AstroGuide," "ASTRONOMY.NET" & "VA.NET" . ...

... ARTICLE: The Adventurous Search For The Astronomical Unit . ... Kepler himself had suggested to use the rare occasions of Venus transiting (crossing) the solar disk to measure our distance to the planet. ... Due to the orbital inclination of Venus against the ecliptic of 3.5°, a Venus transit is so rare that it happens only at intervals of 121.5 years, 8 years, 105.5 years, 8 years and so on. ... Crabtree witnessing the transit of Venus 1639 . ... Transits of Venus - The Quest for the Solar Parallax...

... Our scientific interest is an accuracy of asteroid CCD observations obtained by amateurs and professional astronomers all over in the World. ... These data help us to analyse an accuracy of real CCD positions in the MPC Database. ... Do you test your observations of the small Solar System bodies permanently before sending them to the International Minor Planets' Center? ... Do you know a real accuracy of your positional CCD-observations in comparison with the other observatories' one ? ...

... NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has detected a long-sought population of comets dwelling at the icy fringe of the solar system . The observation, which is the astronomical equivalent to finding the proverbial needle-in-a-haystack, bolsters proof for a primordial comet reservoir just beyond Neptune , currently the farthest planet from the Sun . ... The comet-disk lies just beyond Neptune and might stretch 500 times farther from the Sun than Earth . ... Comet Introduction Kuiper Belt Objects . ...

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 . ...

Date: Thu, 12 Apr 2007 18:15:45 +0200 (MEST) From: Alessandro Marconi <marconi@arcetri.astro.it> To: boch@sai.msu.ru Subject: Summer school on AGNs and VLTI Dear Colleague, here is the first announcement and call for applications for a VLTI summer school on "Active Galactic Nuclei at the highest angular resolution: theory and   observations". ... It is supported by 15 EU member states, including new member states, and thus integrates the entire European optical interferometry community. ...

EURO­ASIAN ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY R o u n d G r o u p lang lang uage uage Obs XX XX International Astronomy Olympiad , , 15 ­ 23. X. 2015 Kazan, Tatarstan, Russia English Code of participant Draw number . ... 10.1. ... Recently, astronomers have discovered a new open cluster. ... Draw configuration of the «stars». Answer 10.2. ... One of astronomers recognized familiar constellation in the outlines of the cluster. Write the standard threeletter designation of that constellation. ...

1,2 - Modifyted Richter-Slefogt Camera (355mm, 200 mm) The system was designed by V.Yu.Terebizh in 2001 (terebizh@crao.crimea.ua), and then has been made by Gennadiy Borisov . ... Very Wide Field Camera near Kislovodsk: MASTER WFC-Kislovodsk . Up to 1200 square degrees up to 13 m. Very Wide Field Camera near Moscow (40 x 60 square degree) (CCD 1392 x 1040 pix, Sony). ... This system can discover and measure satellites and space refuse parameters to within 0.1 ang.sec. precision. ...

... kupry@sai.msu.ru also kupry@asu.cas.cz . ... Solar expeditions. Astronomical Institute Czech Republic Examples IDL procedures Evpatoria Space Image Evpatoria Winter 2012 European Solar Physics Meeting Digital Images Album IDL Lib Karlovy Vary, 2008 List of publications Masha MAX MILLENNIUM PROGRAM My family (new) HSFA-2, 2005 Ondrejov (brezen 2005 ) Ondrejov webcam Photo Ondrejov observatory Praha SatTV Seznam SOHO Solar eclipse 31 July 1981 Software IDL programmes ...

... Executive scientist on object Ratan-600, Academician of RAS Parijski Y.N. Deputy director of SAO RAS on radiotelescope Ratan-600 Mingaliev M.G. Radio astronomy department . Radio astrophysics laboratory . Group for study of galaxies and cosmology . ... Laboratory of continuum radiometers . ... Group of continuum observations . Group of the Sun study . ... Laboratory of the Sun study . ... Feed cabin N1 . ... Schedule archive (Russian) . ... Observation data archive of RATAN-600 . ...

... English astronomer and mathematician. ... American astronomer. ... Bond, William Cranch 1789-1859 . ... At the observatory, he studied Saturn and (with William Lassell ) discovered its moon Hyperion . ... Polish astronomer who advanced the heliocentric theory that the earth and other planets revolve around the Sun. ... Galileo Galilei 1564-1642 . ... Van Allen discovered the Earth's radiation belts, which now bear his name, with an instrument aboard the first successful American satellite, Explorer...

... Russian . The Astronomical Circular (Astronomicheskii Tsirkulyar) is published online by the Eurasian Astronomical Society and Sternberg Astronomical Institute, Moscow State University. ... All papers are refereed. All published papers are indexed in the SAO/NASA Astrophysics Data System . ... See this directory for sample files (template for a paper in English and in Russian , style file , sample figure and sample PDF file for a paper in English and in Russian ). ...

For Astronomers : Finding a Partner Teacher . ... About amateur astronomers . Because Project ASTRO encourages both amateur and professional astronomers to visit schools, there are several avenues to pursue to find a partner astronomer. ... Contact local astronomy clubs . Many amateur astronomers belong to local astronomy clubs. ... To find amateur astronomy clubs in your area, contact your local planetarium, community college astronomy department, or a local telescope store. ...

RUSSIAN . The Centre for Astronomical Data (CAD) of the Institute of Astronomy (INASAN) of the Russian Academy of Sciences was established in 1980 as a branch regional center of the Centre de Donnes Stellaire (CDS) with the purpose of astronomical data dissemination among Soviet and Eastern Europe astronomers and for providing the CDS with Soviet machine readable astronomical catalogues. The CAD archive is based on astronomical catalogues received from Strasbourg since 1980. ...

. This image combines Hubble observations of M106 with additional information captured by amateur astronomers Robert Gendler and Jay GaBany. Gendler combined Hubble data with his own observations to produce this stunning color image. // NASA, ESA, the Hubble Heritage Team (STScI/AURA), and R. Gendler (for the Hubble Heritage Team). Acknowledgment: J. GaBany

... Observations . Objects . ... Canis Major . ... Canis Minor . ... Leo . ... Leo Minor . ... Ursa Major . ... Ursa Minor . ... Herschel 2500 . ... Herschel 400 (I) . ... Globular Clusters . ... AL Globular Club . ... AL Planetary Club . ...