... Jay Apt (Ph.D.) . NASA Astronaut (Former) . ... PUBLICATIONS: Dr. Apt shared his images and knowledge in the publication Earth in Orbit : NASA Astronauts Photograph the Earth , written in conjunction with NASA scientists Michael Helfert and Justin Wilkinson and published by the National Geographic Society. ... From 1976 to 1980 he was a staff member of the Center for Earth & Planetary Physics, Harvard University, supporting NASA s Pioneer Venus Mission by making temperature maps of Venus from Mt. ...

... Sun images . ... Sun flares . ... Active areas . April : 2014 . ... The following regions with sunspots can be now observed on the Sun's surface . Group number . Sunspots Location on the Sun . The number of spots in the group . ... Beta . ... 242 . Beta-Gamma . ... Coordinates and other characteristics of active regions are issued for April 16, 2014 00:31 UT No H-alpha plages without spots can be currently observed on the Sun's surface . Last updated: April 17, 2014 00:00 UT . ...

... The European HST Archive has been moved to ESA's European Space Astronomy Centre ( ESAC ), Spain, where most of ESA's Space Science Archives are located and operated from. ... The Space Telescope European Coordinating Facility (ST-ECF), jointly operated by ESA and the European Southern Observatory ( ESO ) was, until the end of 2010, the European HST science facility, supporting the European astronomy community in exploiting the research opportunities provided by the Hubble Space Telescope. ...

The AstroGuide . ... AstroGuide | ... AstroGuide Listing . Login . See many more Astronomy Listings by: Category or Alphabet . Southern Oregon Astronomy Club. ... Listed Since April 17, 2003 . ... Web Site . ... However, you must Login to submit a comment. ... Web . www.astronomy.net . ... Unless otherwise specified, web site content Copyright 1994-2016 John Huggins All Rights Reserved . dbHTML," "AstroGuide," "ASTRONOMY.NET" & "VA.NET" . are trademarks of John Huggins ...

... A language centre has helped move a group of Russian academics a step closer to realising their ambition of studying for a prestigious research degree in the UK. The scholars from Samara State Aerospace University lacked the English language skills needed to study at Glynd?r University for a PhD, one of the highest academic qualifications. ... This has seen Glynd?r University Professor Richard Day, Professor of Composites, visit Russia to deliver guest lectures to students at Samara. ...

... 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. ...

... Home . OOF . ALMA . ... Interacting galaxies . ... OOF Index . ... Low redshift close pairs . This pages illustrates some of the galaxies with close pairs which we identified in our study of star formation in interacting galaxies selected from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (Nikolic et al 2004, see the publication list ). ... The pixel scale in approximately 0.4 arcseconds and colour is approximately true-colour. Images and data courtesy of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey . ...

... G.K.Strukova, D.V.Shovkun, V.N.Zverev, I.E.Batov, S.A.Zver'kov and S.S.Khasanov. ... Conductivity of YBa 2 Cu 3 O 7 - x single crystals with reduced oxygen content: anisotropy of resistivity and metal - insulator transition. ... A.M. Neminsky and D.V. Shovkun. ... Pis'ma v ZhETF, v. 65 , pp.834-839 (1997) (in english) . ... Phys. - JETP Lett., v. 65 , pp.870-876 (1997). Abstract Full Text: [ PDF (102 kB) GZipped PS (143 kB) ] . ... An English translation in : JETP Lett., v. 65 , pp.332-337 (1998). ...

... History of the SAO RAS (in Russian) . ... The Special Astrophysical Observatory of the Russian Academy of Sciences (SAO RAS) was founded in 1966. ... The main instruments of the Observatory are the Big Telescope Alt-azimuthal (BTA) , an optical reflector with the primary mirror 6 metres in diameter and the radio telescope RATAN-600 (abbreviated from the RAdio Telescope of the Academy of Sciences) with a 600 metre multielement ring antenna. ... The Astrophysical Bulletin journal in Russian and...

GCVS Research Group: . Recent publications . Kazarovets E.V., Samus N.N., Durlevich O.V., Kireeva N.N., Pastukhova E.N., The 81st Name-List of Variable Stars. ... Kazarovets E.V., Samus N.N., Durlevich O.V., Kireeva N.N., Pastukhova E.N., The 80th Name-List of Variable Stars. ... Samus N.N., Kazarovets E.V., Kireeva N.N., Pastukhova E.N., Durlevich O.V. General Catalogue of Variable Stars: Current status and new Name-lists Odessa Astronomical Publications, 2010, V. 23, p. 102-105. ...

... at the IITP. 1993-1995: researcher at Moscow International Mathematical Institut. a) Mathematics: Theory of Probability, Random Processes , Mathematical Physics, Theory of Interacted Particle Systems. b) Queueing Theory: Queueing Networks , application of the Theory of Markov Processes with Local Interactions to Networks with a large number of queues, Asymptotical Properties of Queueing ... A.N.Rybko, "Stationary Distributions of Markov Processes Modelling Queueing Networks". ...

... ISC Kosmotras . ... Dnepr launch record 17 August 2011. ... Following the completion of the launch campaign at Baikonur Cosmodrome, in the course of which European Space Agency s CryoSat-2 satellite was successfully injected into the target orbit on 8 April 2010, ISC Kosmotras has commenced another two launch campaigns: at Yasny launch base and at Baikonur. ... As the launch day draws closer, ISC Kosmotras will keep on publishing information about the progress of the launch campaign at Baikonur. ...

... Observing . ... Solar Observing . ... April 3 (SUN) - Solar Observing, Central Park , Manhattan . ... APRIL'S SKY . ... Lecture Series at the American Museum of Natural History The Amateur Astronomers Association is proud to present an astronomy lecture series from October through May each year for our members and the .. ... The€аAmateur Astronomers Association of New York€аwas organized in 1927 to promote the study of Astronomy, emphasizing its cultural and inspirational value. ...

EPIC-pn Burst Mode X-ray loading and rate-dependent CTI calibration Jan-Uwe Ness ESAC 09 April 2015 XRL / RDCTI corrections in burst mode JU Ness ESAC , April 9 2015 Energy offsets caused by X-ray loading In 2010, significant effects from X-ray loading ( XRL ) were discovered in the timing mode and burst ... Thus the values of a0, a1, a2 control the rate dependent correction and are determined empirically. ...

... RJMCMC Similar to Richardson Green 1997 Knowledge of the PSF makes things easier Insensitive to e.g. posterior for ten sources with = 3: Number of Components 9 10 11 12 0.141 0.222 0.220 0.157 0.022 0.029 0.027 0.021 Mean SD 7 0.029 0.018 8 0.058 0.019 13 0.082 0.014 Simulated Data Source region (2 SD) is about 28% of the area and contains about 41% of the observations Positions (-2, 0), (0, 1), (1.5, 0) with intensities ... Approximate the number of sources (2 in this case) 2. ...

March 27, 2003 (Thursday) Linear Collider Seminar . ... Winter 2003 . ... This is the second seminar. 1:00 pm, 412 Willamette Hall . ... return to top . ... I will describe how the BaBar experiment provides a copious source of low energy B mesons ideal for these searches and give the latest results. 4:00 pm, 472 Willamette Hall . ... A second physics run occurred in fall 2002 and a final physics run will occur in summer 2003. 4:00 pm, 472 Willamette Hall . ... 1:00 pm, 472 Willamette Hall . ...

A closer look at the pole star and the neighboring . constellations, especially the Big Dipper and Cassiopeia . ... This lesson plan supplements: "Finding the Pole Star," section #1a: on disk Spolaris.htm , on the web . ... Know the constellations of the Big Dipper and Cassiopeia, and their use in finding the Pole Star. ... Why do you think Alaska chose the pole star and the Big Dipper to be on its flag? ... You will probably never see there the pole star and rarely see the Big Dipper.) ...

... Acknowledging SDSS III: Non-Commercial Use . Non-commercial scientific and technical publications using SDSS-III and SDSS-IV data should include the specific acknowledgments for each: SDSS-III and SDSS-IV (see bottom of web page for SDSS-IV) . ... Acknowledging SDSS: Commercial Use . Data from the SDSS public archive may not be used for any commercial publication or other commercial purpose except with explicit written approval by the Astrophysical Research Consortium (ARC). ...

... 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. ...

... 2 April 1999 . The Nobeyama Radioheliograph data show that in the microwave range, besides large-scale trans-equatorial chains (see, e.g., the May 11-15, 1993 and November 1-4, 1993 events), there are also many examples displaying large and strongly evolving "longitudinal" or "internal" chains connecting remote active regions inside an active zone in one (northern or southern) hemisphere (the August 20-September 3, 1998 event). ... Last update: 2 April 1999 . ...