... Rationale . ... Optical image of Centaurus A taken with the MPG/ESO 2.2-m telescope. ... Centaurus A (NGC 5128) is a spectacular giant radio galaxy. It is by far the closest galaxy in the Universe with an active, supermassive black hole, and it was the first extragalactic radio source to be identified (by CSIRO radiophysics astronomers Bolton, Stanley and Slee using cliff-top interferometry at Dover Heights ). ... X-ray image of Centaurus A taken with Chandra. ...

Margaret by the Silos, from _Cuba_ Margaret goes to bed around 8 I got to bed around 1 Margaret gets up at 6 I get up at 6 -- chorus Four days a week and you're a family four days a week fortunes oh Margaret! ...

... Outreach . ... Upcoming Events . ... 7:30pm on 19 August 2008 . The primary school students hosted by Brad, Emma and Adi, saw 3D movies and due to heavy cloud cover, were given a naked eye tour of the night sky. It is always amazing to see the kinds of questions are asked by the kids. Unlike adults they don't hold back and often their questions are often the very question astronomers are trying to solve today. ... Volunteers: Adi, Brad & Emma . Copyright 2007 Emma Kirby. ...

... Telescopes ћ Binoculars ћ Microscopes . Binoculars Instruction Manual . ... Regardless of your application bird watching, nature studies, spectator sports or sightseeing you will appreciate the superior optics and durable construction that make Meade binoculars an excellent investment. ... FOCUS LOCK SYSTEM . Meade Safari Pro binoculars include a Focus Lock feature (see diagram), permitting the locking of the Center Focus Knob to maintain precise focus of an object at a specified distance. ...

... Conference abstracts (PDF, 92k) . 09:30-10:30 . ... Translation flows on Z d covers of compact translation surfaces . ... Coffee . ... Volume entropy for surface groups . ... Ergodicity of infinite translation surfaces . ... Stationary measures on homogeneous spaces . ... Dynamics of SL (2, R ) on Prym eigenforms . ... Symbolic dynamics of a traffic map . ... Ergodic flows and some problems in analysis . ... Connected components of the strata of the moduli space of meromorphic differentials . ...

Revolution: 2527 . POS_2527_130925_195_00_0002.XMM . ... 2013-09-25 | ... PSF version: 2527_03.PSF . ... SOPS_CLOSE . ... ACTIVE_CLOSE . ... Slew: 6196 secs . ... Obs_dur: 12000 secs . ... 004: 10986 sec . ... 005: 10981 sec . ... 001: 10881 sec . ... 002: 10852 sec . ... 003: 9509 sec . ... CLOSED . ... Slew: 1107 secs . ... Obs_dur: 13000 secs . ... 004: 11986 sec . ... 005: 11981 sec . ... 001: 11881 sec . ... 002: 11852 sec . ... 003: 10509 sec . ... Slew: 3069 secs . ... 003: 2744 sec . ...

General Information . ... The conference is organized by the Sternberg Astronomical Institute (SAI) of Moscow University and the IAU Working group "Site-testing Instruments" . ... Use of site data in telescope operation and adaptive optics. ... Recent conferences on this subject (2007, 2008) demonstrated great interest of the community, hence the need for a new meeting. ... Unlike previous recent conferences, this meeting will cover all aspects of site monitoring for optical/IR astronomy. ...

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... Home Observing UACNJ-Jenny Jump State Park . ... Clear Sky Chart . ... Beyond New York City . ... Observing Resources for Amateur Astronomers - Part 1: Beginning Observers . ... A History of the First Forty Years of the Amateur Astronomers Association . ... Amateur Astronomers Medal . ... UACNJ has an excellent facility in Jenny Jump State Park in northwestern New Jersey that is available to the member clubs. ... 2016 Amateur Astronomers Association of New York Designed by Press Customizr Powered by...

Microsymposium 38, MS082, 2003 (A4 format) EVALUATING THE STRUCTURE OF THE SURFACE LAYER OF MERCURY. ... Photometric Analysis of the Lunar Surface Analogue. ... The phase function obtained directly on some segments of the lunar surface: 1- phase function of the Moon, 2 - phase function of Mercury, 3 - phase function of segments, converted to the lunar phase function system (correlation 0.8), 4 - phase function of segments, converted to the Mercurian phase function (correlation 0.9). ...

... Engineering experiments aimed at testing and developing engineering solutions for a future interplanetary vehicle were a prominent activity during missions of Salyut and Mir space stations. ... In October 1998, cosmonauts placed on the outside surface of Mir space station some samples of film-type solar array, which constitutes a key element of the Martian vehicle, in order to study how they are affected by actual space environments. ... Official WEB-site of S.P.Korolev RSC Energia . ...

Электронная библиотека астронома-любителя. ... архив RSN . ... Апрель 1998 . ... Дата: 10 апреля 1998 (1998-04-10) От: Alexander Bondugin Тема: Galileo Update - April 9, 1998 Привет всем! ... Дата: 10 апреля 1998 (1998-04-10) От: Alexander Bondugin Тема: Mars Global Surveyor Update - April 9, 1998 Привет всем! ... The feature known as the "Face on Mars" in the Cydonia region was imaged quite successfully on April 5th and its image was released in raw form and in an enhanced form on April 6th. ...

... The ST-ECF consisted, until its closure in December 2010, of a small group of astronomers, software scientists and media specialists who support Hubble science in Europe and collaborate internationally on HST science, instrument, archive and outreach activities. provided detailed technical information about the HST and its science instruments, . supported European astronomers in the preparation of HST observing proposals . ... acted as a European centre for associated meetings and workshops, . ...

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. 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

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... For the past years I have been working on the problem of synthesis of light curves of close binary systems, consisting of a normal star and a compact object (point object with fixed X-ray luminosity). ... Possible existence of a bright spot on the disk's lateral surface is taken into account. ... The last of then will be published in Gordon and Breach Publishers ( Cherepashchuk A.M., Katysheva N.A., Khruzina T.S., Shugarov S.Yu. ... Cherepashchuk A.M., Katysheva N.A., Khruzina T.S., Shugarov S.Yu. ...

Cosmology, Religion & Kansas . ... Cosmology is the study of the origin, current state, and future of our Universe. ... My cosmology tutorial is an attempt to summarize these discoveries. ... These measurements of very small CMB temperature fluctuations over 1% of the sky with a beam size 40 times smaller than COBE's 7 o beam confirm earlier work by a group at Penn & Princeton and data from BOOMERanG's test flight, but provide 3 to 4 times more accuracy. ... Ned Wright's Home Page . ...

... Astronomy news . ... Saturnian Moon Shows Evidence Of Ammonia . Data collected during two close flybys of Saturn's moon Enceladus by NASA's Cassini spacecraft add more fuel to the fire about the Saturnian ice world containing sub-surface liquid water. ... In space, the presence of ammonia provides strong evidence for the existence of at least some liquid water. How could ammonia equate to liquid water inside an ice-covered moon in one of the chillier neighborhoods of our solar system? ...

... Projects . ... Space Projects . ... Closed . ... Complex Orbital Magneto-plasma Autonomous Small Satellite . ... 1991-1999) . ... Complex Orbital Near-Earth Solar Observations (1994-2001) . ... Active Plasma Experiments (1991-1999) . INTERCOSMOS 19 : launched February 27, 1979 . ... Интеркосмос-25 (АПЭКС) (1991-1999) . ... Интеркосмос-19 (1979-1982) . Интеркосмос-18 (1979) . Цикада (1979) . ... Марс-3 (17.05.1971) . ... Электрон-4 (1964-1965) . ... Космос-49 (1964) . ... 1962) . ...