... LOCATION . ... The administrative centre, the library, scientific laboratories, computer center, hotel and apartment houses of an observatory are located in the settlement Nizhnij Arkhiz , which is situated in 25 kms to the south from a village Zelenchukskaya. ... It is desirable to come on conference by the following types of transport: . ... During the conference period it is supposed to conduct a public meeting of the section "Sun" with discussion of results of the researches made in 2005. ...

... java.lang.Object ij.macro.Interpreter . ... This is the recursive descent parser/interpreter for the ImageJ macro language. ... Interprets the specified string. public java.lang.String run (java.lang.String macro, java.lang.String arg) . ... Interprets the specified tokenized macro file starting at location 0. public void run (int location) . Runs an existing macro starting at the specified program counter location. public void runMacro ( Program pgm, int macroLoc, java.lang.String macroName) . ...

M83 has an angular size of 12 x 10 arcminutes and has very high surface brightness. ... The high surface brightness is due to a very high star formation rate. Galaxies which have high star formation rates generally have strong spiral structure and M83 is an excellent example of this. This is a blue band imaged acquired remotely by using the array controller (ARCON) and a Textronix 2048x2048 CCD device on the CTIO 1-m telescope. ... The image was acquired on the night of August 18th. ...

... ESO, the European Southern Observatory . ... ESO's Governing Bodies . ... Travel and Contacts . Travel to ESO Headquarters . ... ESO . ... Survey Telescopes . ... ESO 3.6-metre telescope . ... MPG/ESO 2.2-metre telescope . ... ESO 1-metre Schmidt telescope . ... The oddly shaped Pencil Nebula (NGC 2736) is pictured in this image from ESOтАЩs La Silla Observatory in Chile. This nebula is a small part of a huge remnant left over after a supernova explosion that took place about 11 000 years ago. ...

The Astronomy Net . ... The Moon is Earth's only natural satellite. It has no formal English name other than "the Moon", although it is occasionally called Luna (Latin: moon), or Selene (Greek: moon), to distinguish it from the generic term "moon" (referring to any of the various natural satellites of other planets). ... The first man-made object to impact the lunar surface was Luna 2 in 1959; the first photographs of the normally occluded far side of the Moon were made by Luna 3 in the same year. ...

... This Announcement contains detailed information on organizational items, scientific and cultural program of Odessa session GMIC-99. ... 8.00- 23.00 Registration of participants in the hall of Tour-complex "Odessa"(Arcadia region, GAGARIN plateau, 5). ... 8.00- 13.00 Registration of participants in the hall of Tour-complex "Odessa". 10.00-12.00 Program Committee session and press conference dedicated to GMIC-99 (Odessa Scientists' House). ... 9.00- 11.00 Plenary session. ... 13.00- 14.00 Lunch. ...

home publications > mercury . ... Astronomy Beat . ... Hitching a Ride on a Comet . Mercury, November/December 1996 Table of Contents . ... Late in the evening of Jan. 30, 1996 in Japan's Kyushu region, Yuji Hyakutake left his home in Kagoshima and drove to an observing site far from city lights. ... We bought our daughter a telescope to see the comet," she said, "and we can't see anything!" ... This helps us as we select the Guest Observer, and it helps readers to understand what you studied. ...

... This document and the attached postscript figure document an analysis that I did to determine the optimum midpoint and required ranges for both the rotator and azimuth for the 2.5 M telescope. ... I simulate a series of drift scans on the sky for tracks that cover the northern survey area. These tracks cover the range in survey latitude of -60 to +60 degrees, spaced by 10 degrees. ... Along each track the azimuth, elevation, and position angle of the CCD is computed at 1 minute intervals. ...

... Radiation mechanisms of astrophysical objects: classics today . ... The meeting will be held in the Conference Hall of the historical building of the Saint-Petersburg State University . It is located in the very center of the Saint-Petersburg city close to the most sights, including the Hermitage, the Peter and Paul fortress being the cradle of the city, and the famous Neva-embankment. ... Detailed information on the possible ways to reach the conference venue is given here . ...

... rotang, Date, RA, Dec, Time, accS, ast=ast, ha=ha, lst=lst, jd=jd, az=az, za=za, sep=sep, rotang=rotang, alfabeams=alfabeams . ... It is thus possible to specify, for instance: rotang, ... , ha=haHr, lst=lstHr, ast=astHr . ... alfa_angle - script to launch the GUI . alfa_ang.pro - the GUI: provides input to rotang and a graphical display of the results. rotang.pro - the main routine of the program: finds the required time, the other associated times, Az and ZA using ao_idl routines. ...

Russian version of HP . ... StarCalc is the fastest professional astronomy planetarium & star mapping program for Windows 9x/ME/NT/2000/XP (StarCalc version for PocketPC computers you can found here ). ... Extensibility : This program is based on common "Plugin StarCalc interface to catalogs and object groups", which allows program to add new modules as Plugins. ... Welcome to the Pocket StarCalc Home Page: . ... Some bugfixes in eclipses" and line" plugins - see the new versions in downloads page. ...

Lisnyky observatory of A&SPD is located in the village of Lisnyky in Kyiv region. AZT-8 (right) Diameter 0.7 m, Newton, Cassegren. ... Spiral jets of comet Hale-Bopp have been observing on the 3-rd of April, 1997 with 70-cm reflector and image intensifier, time of exposure: 1 second, field of vision: 1.5 minute of arc. This color image was obtained with Fuji color film (Super Plus 400) in focal plane of the 70-cm reflector (F = 27 m) at Lisniki Observatory by A.M.Evtushevsky. ...

... What are those " magnetic storms " which occasionally disturb the Earth's magnetic field? ... Earth's Core . ... The glow followed magnetic field lines (lines of force) and converged near the magnetic poles of the terrella. ... This suggested that somehow, during storms, a large electric current circled the Earth above its equator. ... In space such currents most easily flow along magnetic field lines, because the particles that carry them (mainly electrons) tend to stay attached to such lines. ...

The 2dF QSO Redshift Survey (2QZ) . ... Before jumping into all the finer details of teh survey, a brief non-astronomer's guide to redshift surveys is available. ... The primary scientific aims of the QSO survey are: (1) to obtain the primordial fluctuation power spectrum out to COBE scales, (2) to determine the rate of QSO clustering evolution in the non-linear and linear regimes and hence obtain new limits on the value of and the bias parameter, (3) to apply a powerful geometric method to measure . ...

... We report on the development of a Web agent which allows users to conveniently find information about specific objects or locations from astronomical resources on the World Wide Web. The HEASARC Astrobrowse agent takes a user-specified location and queries up to hundreds of resources on the Web to find information relevant to the given target or position. ... The types of resources the user can get include images, name resolution services, catalog queries or archive indices. ...

... What's New? Bad Astronomy . ... News . ... The questions was: "During a flight, I saw a round rainbow shaped like a doughnut. ... However, she said that all rainbows are actually circles, and that she could not find a name for this phenomenon. ... One is that rainbows really aren't full circles. ... Basically, rainbows are due to light getting bent ("refracted") inside of raindrops. ... It's called a "glory", and is formed in a somewhat different way than rainbows. ... 2008 Phil Plait. ...

... Historians have talked to hundreds of individuals in the Mercury, Gemini, Apollo, Skylab and Shuttle programs who shared their personal experiences ­ from historical contributions NASA/Stafford JSC2004E26268 to unique memories and stories. ... Roundup 12 Roundup 13 STS-114 CREW Return to Flight SHUTTLE PROCESSING A CTIVITIES at NASA's Kennedy Space Center, Fla., assumed a pre-launch rhythm after almost two years of innovative and intensive Agencywide effort to make the fleet safer. ...

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... 2004: . ... An increase in star brightness is followed by a decrease in asphericity and wind velocity to the point where stationary and even accreting fraction of the wind appears in extremely bright objects together with a flowing out fraction. ... Based on an analysis of observations obtained with BTA and on the published data it was found that degree of abnormality of energy distribution in continuum of magnetic chemically peculiar stars increases with an increase of their rotation period. ...

Next: RadioAstron Mission Element Overview . ... The aim of this document is to describe the interfaces among the various elements of the RadioAstron Mission. For each item exchanged by mission elements, this handbook details: . ... the how (the format and naming convention), . ... File formats, naming, and structure of FTP sites for operation elements used in VSOP are conserved, but new features, related to satellite control and orbit determination are introduced into the document. ...