... Most of the time large telescopes are collecting light for a spectrograph, which spreads the light out into a rainbow. ... Atoms in the cool outer layers of a star absorb light coming from the hotter regions within, producing dark absorption lines across the spectrum. ... And astronomers do not actually use color film to take a color picture of the spectrum, for several reasons: . ... Color film does a very poor job of representing the continuous range of colors in a spectrum. ... Tutorial: Part 1 |...

... Phase light curves of binary model that consists of a primary component with mass M 1 and a secondary component with mass M 2 . ... The input parameters of the problem are the accretion rate onto the binary components ( ), the component mass ratio q = M 2 /M 1 , the orbital inclination to the line of sight , the eccentricity e, the rotation angle of the apsidal line relative to the observer , and the parameter c characterizing viscosity. ...

... 2 Columns At the present time, the REGION table is de ned for a two-dimensional space. ... ROTANG (rotation angle): for rotated elements; like X and Y, this column needs to contain vectors of suфcient length. ... Table 1: REGION Table SHAPEs SHAPE X Y R ROTANG Point X Y Circle Xcen Ycen R Ellipse Xcen Ycen Rmaj ; Rmin Angle Annulus Xcen Ycen Rin ; Rout Elliptannulus Xcen Ycen Rinmaj ; Rinmin ; Angin ; Routmaj ; Routmin Angout Box Xcen Ycen Xsize ; Ysize Rotbox Xcen ...

... S.P. KOROLEV ROCKET AND SPACE CORPORATION ENERGIA . ... OAO RSC "Energia" . ... Company's History . ... News . Science news . ... Russian logistics spacecraft Progress M-10M, after two days in free flight, docked with the International Space Station (ISS). ... All dynamic operations were performed under the supervision of the Technical Management (The Technical Manager is the President and Designer General of the S.P. Korolev RSC Energia V.A. Lopota). ... 2015 JSC "S.P. Korolev RSC "Energia" . ...

Galactic Wind Shells and High Redshift Radio Galaxies . ... M.Krause . Astronomy & Astrophysics, v.436, 845-851 . Very Light Jets II: Bipolar large scale simulations in King atmospheres [small version] . ... Simulations of Astrophysical Jets in Dense Environments . M.Krause, V.Gaibler & M.Camenzind . in: High Performance Computing in Science and Engeneering '05 eds.: E.Krause, W.J ger & M.Resch. ... M.Krause & M.Camenzind . ... Martin Krause & Paul Alexander . ... Martin Krause . ...

... Tadpole Emission Nebula and the Flaming Star Nebula . The constellation of Auriga harbors the cluster NGC 1893 which contains the Tadpole Nebula (IC 410). ... The Flaming Star Nebula, IC 405, is the magenta/purplish area and is the reflection portion of this nebulous region. 5nm Narrowband filters; H-alpha: O-III: S-II - 60: 60: 40 minutes x 600-second sub frames, Total= 2-hours 40-minutes, binned 1x1. ... Copyright (c) Amateur Telescope Makers of Boston, Inc. ...

I-GALFA View of a Galactic Tangent Region . ... Image featured in NAIC Newsletter #46 . I-GALFA image of hydrogen gas in a tangent region outside the Sagittarius arm. ... Because we are viewing this gas in a direction closely aligned with (tangent to) its orbital motion, it appears to be moving away from us (we are orbiting the Galactic center with a similar speed, but our own motion in a different direction). ... The gas near 60 degrees longitude is being viewed tangent to its orbital motion. ...

... The RAS Meteorite Collection: State on the 1 st of June, 1999 . ... About the laboratory . ... Chondrite . ... Fall 15 April 1857. One mass of about 3 kg . ... Turkmenia, Chardgou region . ... One mass of 71.6 g . ... One mass of 1912 g . ... One mass of 841.6 g . ... Fall 13 September 1937. 15 masses totaling more than 210 kg . ... One mass of 1540 g . ... One mass of 11.335 kg . ... One mass of 2904 g. 2853 g . ... One mass of 115 g . ... One mass of 2788 g . ... One mass of 135 kg . ...

... Volodymyr Kuzkov, Sergii Kuzkov, Zoran Sodnik - Direct measurements of laser light aberration from the ARTEMIS geostationary satellite through thin clouds // arXiv.org - New resalts to paper at Conference ICSOS-2014, Kobe, Japan, May 7-9 (2014), S4-4, [view pdf file] . ... Kuz'kov V., Volovyk D., Kuzkov S., Sodnik Z., Pukha S. - Realization of Laser Experiments with ESA'S Geostationary Satellite ARTEMIS. ... Preparation to Optical Communication Experiments With ARTEMIS Satellite. ... V.P. Kuz`kov. ...

Four spacecraft: INTERBALL Tail probe (IB_TAIL), Auroral probe (IB_AUR), POLAR(NASA/ISAS), GEOTAIL (NASA) are considered. Click icons to make large pictures. ... FSP criteria | FSP ASCII file | Four spacecraft . in the FSP situations . ASCII file . ... Magnetic conjugations . ASCII files : . ... The mulisatellites conjugations : . ... The FSP polar diagram . Click hear for more detailed information about each of four orbits. ... IKI RAN | SSC IKI RAN | ...

... The bright supernova (hereafter SN) in the galaxy NGC 4527 was first sighted by S. Knight (USA) on April 13.17UT at magnitude ~14.0v. The report of the sighting was subsequently forwarded by phone to the AAVSO. ... SN 1991T. The galaxy NGC 4527 is an Sb(s)II type galaxy with an apparent Blue magnitude of 11.32 (Shapley-Ames, 1981). ... An analysis of this event utilizing visual observations by amateurs, plus a light curve is presented.. ... THE LIGHT CURVE: . ... ISN SN 1991T web page . ...

Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons in HII regions: correlation with metallicity . ... We have perfomed the aperture photometry of HII regions using infrared images from telescopes Spitzer and Herschel at passbands 3.6, 4.5, 5.8, 8.0, 24, 70 and 160 m. Emission of PAHs are observed at passbands 3.6 - 8.0 m, 24 m is emission likely of hot small particles and finally large particles are responsible for emission at 70 and 160 m. We determine abundances of PAHs using model of Draine Li (2007) . ...

... Spectrosc., 90 , 574-579. [ abstract (in English; ASCII file); paper (in Russian; PS file)] . ... Astronomy Letters, 26 , N 10, 679-690. [ abstract (ASCII file); paper (PDF file)] . ... 2001) . ... 72 , N 5, 607-612. [ abstract (ASCII file); paper (PS file)] . ... Scattering and polarization properties of the non-spherical particles. in: Smith W.L., Timofeyev Y.M. (eds.) IRS 2000: Current Problems in Atmospheric Radiation, A.Deepak Publ. (in press) [ abstract (ASCII file); paper (PS file)] . ...

... Bad Astronomy . ... Site Info . ... As part of the SINS project, many images of supernova 1987A have been made with the Hubble Space Telescope. This is an image of the supernova and surrounding nebulosity. ... This image shows the ring in [OIII] fading over a three year period. ... I was trying to bring out middle range brightness details in the ring around the supernova, and scaled the images so that bright and dark values both came out as black (technically, I used a sin 2 color lookup table). ...

Multicomponent Type II Radio Burst . in Eruptive Event of 12 April 2001 . ... GOES soft X-rays * some images GOES protons * SOHO/LASCO/C2 (running difference) . SOHO/LASCO/C3 (running difference) . ... re-formation of the coronal magnetic structures SOHO/EIT, 195 A (original) * SOHO/EIT 195 A (modified) SOHO/EIT 195 A (difference to 10:00 UT) SOHO/EIT 195 A: difference images to 10:00 UT * SOHO/EIT 195 A (running difference) * SOHO/EIT 195 A: running difference images * EUV dimming and CME . ...

... VOLKOV, SERGEY ALEXANDROVICH . ... SOYUZ TMA-M COMMANDER . ... INSTRUCTOR-test-cosmonaut OF yU.a. gagarin cosmonaut training center, russia . ... From September 2001 February 2003 Volkov completed training as a Soyuz commander and ISS pilot of the ISS 7 backup crew. ... From May 2006 to April 2008 Volkov trained as an ISS 17 prime crew commander and Soyuz TMA commander. From December 2009 he has been training as a Soyuz TMA-M commander and ISS flight engineer in the ISS-25/26 backup crew. ...

A computer controlled low light photometer for nightglow observations. Hardware units of portable photometer for low light measurements, especially night glow emission is described. ... Interface card contain three channels of 24 bit counter, 4 channels of 12 bit ADC and the buffer bus for the controlled motors of the altazimuthal fork mounting and filters wheel, the position encoders. ... Where N( ) is output signal photometer generated input light flux F( l ) . ... PMT # . 599 . ...

... 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. ...

RADIOASTROPHYSICAL DEPARTMENT • INSTITUTE OF SOLAR-TERRESTRIAL PHYSICS RAS SB . ... SSRT - Possibilities of observing . ... Investigations of the SSRT 5.7 GHz radio maps in conjunction with images obtained in other emission ranges, suggested the following conclsions: . ... Solar images obtained in line H a ;(on the left, 16:11 UT, Big Bear observatory) and in the microwave emission (on the right, 04:04 UT, SSRT) 4 march 1997 . ...

Statistics of sunspot activity . The sunspot indices . ... NGDC's observations . The solar regions . ... Average annual indices . ... April . ... April, 2013 . Visual indices of solar activity by National Geophysical Data Center . ... Average . ...