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

... Phase Correction Algorithms | ... R. Bolton, B. Nikolic, J. Richer, The Power Spectrum of Atmospheric Path Fluctuations at the ALMA Site from Water Vapour Radiometer Observations , ALMA Memo 592, PDF , ALMA Memo series entry . Emily I. Curtis, Bojan Nikolic, John S. Richer and Juan R. Pardo, Atmospheric dispersion and the implications for phase calibration , ALMA Memo 590. ... B. Nikolic, ALMA Phase Calibration/Correction , Presented at Algorithms 2008 Workshop, Oxford, December 2008. pdf . ...

National Aeronautics and Space Administration . Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center . ... SHANNON W. LUCID (Ph.D.) . nasa astronaut (former) . ... She is qualified for assignment as a mission specialist on Space Shuttle flight crews. ... A veteran of five space flights, Dr. Lucid has logged 5,354 hours (223 days) in space. ... Dr. Lucid retired from NASA in January 2012. ... In completing this flight, Dr. Lucid logged 838 hours and 54 minutes in space. ... FEBRUARY 2012 ...

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. ...

... What's New? Bad Astronomy . ... Keep Bad Astronomy close to your heart, and help make me filthy rich. ... August 8, 2006 . ... A Twofer: two Bad news articles in one day! ... Not-so-sly Fox December 28, 2000 . ... Chevron Corporation's (minor) Bad Astronomy March 23, 2000 . ... Vacuuming Out the Cobwebs September 16, 1999 . ... Through Hubble's Lens October 9, 1998 . ... Sixth Rock from the Sun October 16, 1997 . ... More Bad News related to the Hubble images May 14, 1997 . ... 2008 Phil Plait. ...

ECLIPSES, TRANSITS OF MERCURY AND VENUS . Year 1999 . Year 2000 . Year 2001 . Year 2002 . Year 2003 . Year 2004 . Year 2005 . ... Total solar eclipse . ... Transit of Mercury across the solar disk . ... Total lunar eclipse . ... Partial solar eclipse . ... Partial lunar eclipse . ... Annular solar eclipse . ... Penumbral lunar eclipse . ... big map . ... Transit of Venus across the solar disk . ... Annular-total solar eclipse . ... Non-central annular solar eclipse . ...

... The Pleiades star cluster, also known as the Seven Sisters and Messier 45, is a conspicuous object in the night sky with a prominent place in ancient mythology . ... The stars in the Pleiades are thought to have formed together around 100 million years ago, making them 1/50th the age of our sun, and they lie some 130 parsecs (425 light years ) away. ... Data for these stars are listed in a table below. ... Yes . ... WEBDA Pleiades cluster data . ... M45: The Pleiades Star Cluster (2007 November 18) ...

TIME EVENT # EVENT DATE DATE START - END (UT) 001 28 February 1942 420228 002 07 March 1942 420307 003 25 July 1946 460725 004 19 November 1949 491119 005 23 February 1956 560223 020000 - 030000 006 31 August 1956 560831 110000 - 120000 007 17 July 1959 590716 220000 - 240000 008 04 May 1960 600504 090000 - 100000 009 03 September 1960 600902 230000 - 240000 010 12 November 1960 601112 120000 - 130000 011 15 November 1960 601115 010000 - ...

Positions of the carriage and focus, 2013. ... South . ... South+Flat reflector . ... Focus . ... 910 . ... 890 . March . ... Feed cabin N2. 02/2013: carriage 1131000 - old position; 2861000 - new location (when the adjusting device close to the center). ... found 18.02.2013 . ... 12516 from 7r (19.04) . ... 2863000 carriage . ... Positions of the carriage and focus, 2012. ... beginning of March - 898 mm . ...

... Home Lectures Lecture Series 2015-2016 . ... Lecture Series 2014-2015 . ... Beyond New York City . ... The Amateur Astronomers Association is proud to present an astronomy lecture series from October through May each year for our members and the public. ... Amateur Astronomer Association is pleased to announce we will be offering select, limited reserved seating for current AAA members for the Friday, January 8, 2015 AAA Lecture entitled Robert Nemiroff ?2015 Astronomy Picture of the Day?. ...

The art of banknotes is unique in each state. ... Some of our banknotes you can see in this listing. ... October 1st, 1926 . May 2nd, 1929 . October 1st, 1929 . ... February 24th, 1942 . October 24th, 1942 . February 24th, 1944 . ... 50 Kc of 1993 . ... 200 Kc of 1993 . ...

... PRIME CREW . ... On February 14, 1995 he was assigned to the second crew (PC-20) under the EuroMir-95 program and from February 20 to August 1995 he passed training as a flight engineer, together with G. Manakov and from April 1– with C.Fuglesang (ESA, Sweden). ... On February 3, 1999 by decision of RSA Board he was removed from the ISS crews and assigned as a flight engineer of the back-up crew (PC-28) and the prime crew (PC-29) for the Mir Orbital Station, together with S. Sharipov. ...

Space Research Institute (IKI) Russian Academy of Sciences . ... This Home Page maintains the Situation Analysis of the multisatellite INTERBALL mission and its coordination with other simultaniouse Space Physics missions. The INTERBALL project includes two satellites with its subsatellites: TAIL PROBE launched at 3 August 1995 and AURORAL PROBE launched at 29 August 1996. ... 27 October 2000) . INTERBALL Tail probe . ... INTERBALL Tail probe Magion 5 . ... INTERBALL Auroral Tail probes . ...

... SSAU History . SSAU roadmap . ... Engineers of SSAU laboratory of additive technologies started to carry out experiments in the field of 3D-printing of metal parts, components and assemblies. The research of Samara scientists will allow producing highly complex and non-standard elements of spatial forms required for design and creation of advanced aviation and space technology. ... SSAU Laboratory of Additive Technologies is established in 2011. ... e-mail: ssau@ssau.ru . ...

... Telescope . ... 2002B , 2003A , 2003B , 2004A , 2004B , 2005A , 2005B , 2006A , 2006B , 2007A , 2007B , 2008A , 2008B , 2009A , 2009B , 2010A , 2010B , 2011A , 2011B , 2012A , 2012B , 2013A , 2013B , 2014A , 2014B 2015A . ... 2003B . ... IKI . ... High Energy Astrophysics Department 2016 IKI RAN ...

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... Classical nova V2362 Cyg (N Cyg 2006, 21:11:32.34, +44:48:03.9, 2000 [position in ATel 928 is incorrect!] ) undergoes gradual increase of its brightness since middle of August, 2006 from the level of V = 11.9. ... Full width of Halpha line is 5900 km/s, and that one of Hbeta is 5300 km/s. We identified the strongest emission features as CIII+NIII blend centered on 4652A, [OIII]+NII blend on 5010A, NII+[NII] blend on 5708A, NaI+OI blend on 5920A. Absence of HeI lines at 6678 and 7065A is surprising. ...

... ISC Kosmotras . ... Comments, Opinions Publications Dnepr Program . Dnepr launch record 17 August 2011. ... The success of PICARD launch re enforces our high level of appreciation of the quality of the DNEPR launcher and of the professionalism and efficiency of ISC Kosmotras. ... The distinguishing feature of the THEOS launch by a converted SS-18 ICBM (Dnepr LV) is that it was the first ISC Kosmotras mission from the Yasny launch site that headed southward to its Sun-synchronous target orbit. ...

MAIN PAGE . ... Nova Cygni August 1975! ... 1975/76: Comet West! ... Dr. Richard West (4th from left) & AAL members visiting SES Betzdorf on occasion of our club's 25th anniversary - October 1996 . Comet West Information . ... It was the brightest comet visible from Earth since Comet West in 1976. ... 1997: Comet Hale-Bopp! ... Thus Comet Hale-Bopp never got closer to Earth than Earth gets to the Sun. ... Comet Hale-Bopp JPL Page . ... 1999: Total solar eclipse over Luxembourg! ...