From: TerryMosel@aol.com Date: Sun, 6 Jul 2003 13:52:47 EDT Subject: Dusty Mars, Sky at Night, IAA Solar Day Hi all, 1. MARS DUST STORM? Beginning on July 1st, Don Parker noticed a marked weakening, or lightening, of the conspicuous dark feature Syrtis Major in images taken with his 16-inch Newtonian reflector in Coral Gables, Florida. ... Parker also noticed some bright ochre spots rimming the Hellas impact basin and partially obscuring the Iapygia region (between Hellas and Syrtis Major). ...

National Aeronautics and Space Administration . ... JOHN E. BLAHA (COLONEL, USAF, RET.) NASA ASTRONAUT (FORMER) . ... EDUCATION: Graduated from Granby High School in Norfolk, Virginia, in 1960; received a bachelor of science in engineering science from the United States Air Force Academy in 1965 and a master of science in astronautical engineering from Purdue University in 1966. ... NASA EXPERIENCE: Selected as an astronaut in May 1980, Blaha has logged 161 days in space on 5 space missions. ...

... 1024 x 1024 pixels (13.3 mm) . ... APOGEE U-47UV 13 um pixel, back-illuminated, UV enhanced . Read-out time: . 1 sec for the whole field, 1x1 binning . Pixel Scale: . ... 1.25 e-/ADU (left, right) . Read-out noise, e: . ... 0.1 e-/sec at T ~ -30C . ... 4096 x 4096 pixels (36.9 mm) . ... Apogee U16M-HC, 9 um pixel, KAF-16803, front-illuminated . ... 24 sec, 1x1 binning . ... 1.4 e-/ADU . ... 0.01 e-/sec at CCD T ~ -40C . ... ADU saturation: . ...

... ISC Kosmotras . Top Management Founder of ISC Kosmotras - Dr. Vladimir A. Andreev News . ... Dr. Vladimir A. Andreev, Founder of ISC Kosmotras, Member of the Board . ... Peaceful and rational use of RS-20 ICBMs after their withdrawal from service with the Russian Ministry of Defense (MoD) has been in the main focus of Dr. Andreev s attention since early 1990s. Dr. Andreev is one of the founders of an international cooperation program and process called the Dnepr Program . ... Dnepr Program . ...

... Bad Astronomy . ... Bitesize Astronomy . ... Bad Astro Store . ... Site Info . ... It is from from Voyager 1 and shows a whopping big impact crater dominating the profile of the moon. Note that Mimas is about 400 kilometers across (about 250 miles). ... The wall around the crater is 5 kilometers high, and that central peak rises 6 kilometers above the surface (many impact craters have a large central peak which is caused by a pressure rebound from the impact). ... 2008 Phil Plait. ...

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Next: Calling Parameters Up: CAL_rgsGetDarkFrame Previous: CAL_rgsGetDarkFrame Contents . The dark frame map contains all non-uniformities across the CCD surface. It will be shifted additively by CAL_offsetCorrect with the offset available either from CCF ADUConv or as the output of rgsoffsetcalc . The dark frame will be stored in parameterized form in CCF DarkFrame on a per node basis. The functional form is . with parameters to and to that are available from CCF DarkFrame . ...

. Our publications September 2008 . February 2011 . Kniazev Alexei 1997 year. PhD thesis "The elaboration of methodics to search for Blue Compact Galaxies and detailed studies of some selected BCGs" . Short form (in Russian) . Full text (HTML format, in Russian) . Full text (in Russian, ps-file ~2.4Mbt) . Ugryumov Andrei 1997 year. PhD thesis "The Creation of the Samples of Blue Compact Galaxies and analysis of their spatial distribution" . Short form (in Russian) .

So the evidence for Dark Matter is fairly overwhelming. ... Theory: if the Universe is closed then all the luminous matter seen in galaxies contributes only 0.5% of the mass required to eventually halt the expansion . ... This means that galaxies are surrounded by dark matter halos which trapped baryonic gas (e.g. hydrogen) and turned it into stars. ... WIMPS - weakly interacting massive particles created in the extremely early universe . ... Theory 99% of the Universe is Dark Matter . ...

... Team . ... V.V.Sokolov "The gamma-ray bursts, core-collapse supernovae and global star forming rate at large redshifts" . ... I.V.Sokolov, A.S.Moskvitin, Eda Sonbas, O.V.Verkhodanov, O.P.Zhelenkova "A galaxy cluster in the GRB 021004 field" . ... The monitoring of GRB afterglows and the study of their host galaxies with the SAO RAS 6-m telescope from 1997". ... A.S.Moskvitin, T.A.Fatkhullin, V.V.Sokolov and V.N.Komarova, "Spectral and photometric monitoring of CCSNe at SAO RAS" . ...

... 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?. ...

... Samara State Aerospace University Staff Moiseev Mikhail Aleksandrovich . ... Byzov E.V. , Moiseev M.A. , Doscolovich L.L. Design method for automotive high-beam LED optics // Optical Systems Design 2015, 7 - 10 Сентября 2015, Йена, Германия, SPIE Proceedings, 2015, P. 1-7 . ... Moiseev M. A. , Doskolovich L.L. , Dmitriev A.Yu., ... Doskolovich L.L. , Kazanskiy N.L. , Moiseev M. A. Design of high-efficient free-form LED lens for road illumination // Proceedings SPIE, 2011.. 2011. ... M.A. Moiseev . ...

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... Today this year's largest group of sunspots will cross the Sun's central meridian. ... The next day, the number of spots in the group reached five, and the day after, on June 2nd, it was possible to count thirteen sunspots on solar disk, which had been clear prior to this. ... This year's two most powerful active areas, which passed across the solar disk at the beginning of May, 2009, are set to appear in the Sun's eastern sector in two days, on June 6th. ...

... About meteorites . ... Meteoritic data . Impact Crater Smerdyachee . ... Based on Smerdyachee's depth, near circularity, and its mounded wall, and analysis by N.A. Fillin of nearby Roshal, Russia, the Estonian scientists Yu.V. Krestlane and K.H. Mella proposed in 1987 that Smerdyachee Lake is a meteorite crater. ... In 2002, the Laboratory of Meteoritics of the Vernadsky Institute of Geochemistry and Analytical Chemistry of the Russian Academy of Sciences explored this mysterious lake. ...

Crater Gassendi . ... I made this drawing was made on the 26th of november 2001. If you compare this one with the previous drawing of Gassendi (below) the differences are clear. ... This drawing was made on the 28th of september 2001. After nearly a full month without observations I had a one hour gap between the thicker clouds. ... This drawing was made on the 29th of august 2001. ... This drawing was made on the 27th of august 2001. ... This drawing was made on the 25th of august 2001. ...

... Most Important Journals . Less Popular Astronomical Journals . Physics . Space, Selectial mechanics, .. Russian Journals . ... Astrophysics & Astronomy . ... Astronomical Journal . ... New Astronomy . ... Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific . ... STScI News . Space Telescope Insitute Newsletter . ... Journal of Astronomical Data . ... Journal of High-Energy Physics (mirror in CERN ) [astro, grav, hi-energy .. ... Journal of Experimental and Theoretical Physics . ...

... Mars is the fourth from the Sun big planet of the Solar system. ... Once a 15 - 17 years occures so-called the great opposition when the planets come nearer about 56 billions km. ... The new level of Mars investigation began in 1965 when the spaceships were used to fly round the Mars and from 1971 landed on the planet. ... The investigations of Mars showes the traces of vulcanization on this planet: the splits and rawins sometimes hundred kilometers long. ... Mars's atmosphere and the water. ...

... Exposure Time Calculator (ETC) . Survey processing . ... VISTA is a 4-m class wide field survey telescope for the southern hemisphere, equipped with a near infrared camera (1.65 degree diameter field of view at VISTA's nominal pixel size) containing 67 million pixels of mean size 0.34 arcsec and available broad band filters at Z,Y,J,H,K s and a narrow band filter at 1.18 micron. A wide field visible camera, if constructed, could also be used on VISTA. ... Tile . ... ESO VISTA Public Surveys . ...

vic@apink.com Assistant Director: John Miller (609) 252-1223 jmiller@princetonastronomy.org Volume 35 From the Director November 2006 Number 10 November 14 AAAP Meeting (8:00 PM, at Peyton Hall, Princeton Univ) ... For more info, please see Ken's article in this issue, and check out the AAAP website. ... Several members plan to get together in the late afternoon on Wed Nov 8 at Washington Crossing Park (check the AAAP website and look for e-mails) to observe the transit of Mercury. ...