... The study of extra solar planets will be one of the most important areas of research in astronomy in this century. ... The first planets outside the solar system were found in 1992 around the millisecond pulsar PSR B1257+12 by Alex Wolszczan at the Arecibo Observatory . ... Three space missions based on this principle (MOST, COROT and Kepler ) have already been launched or approved, and have the last one at least has the potential to find Earth-sized planets. ... SIM ( NASA ) is one of such missions...

... The Russian TESIS (FIAN) Solar Observatory has transmitted observations back to Earth of the solar eclipse made on July 22nd, 2009. ... On the first occasion, the satellite passed through the eclipse area at 04:30 Moscow time, making it the first on our planet to see the shadow of the Moon, which was still in space and was only approaching the Earth ( film 1.2 MB, wmv format ). ... The first Moon passage over the solar disk (00:30 UT) (Movie wmv; 1.2 MB) . ...

The AstroGuide . ... AstroGuide | ... AstroGuide Listing . ... See many more Astronomy Listings by: Category or Alphabet . Voyages to Darkness - cruises to intercept totality at sea with Ted Pedas the pioneer of solar eclipse cruises. ... Listed Since October 26, 2004 . ... Web Site . ... Web . www.astronomy.net . About Astronomy Net | Advertise on Astronomy Net | ... dbHTML," "AstroGuide," "ASTRONOMY.NET" & "VA.NET" . ...

This section describes the calculation by which Aristarchus used the duration of a total lunar eclipse to deduce the distance of the Moon. ... This lesson plan supplements: "How Distant is the Moon--1", section #8c: on disk Shipprc2.htm , on the web . ... The shadow of the Earth at the Moon's distance is narrower than the Earth, because the Sun is seen not as a point but as a disk 0.5 degrees wide. ... An eclipse of the Moon is the passage of the Moon through the shadow of the Earth. ...

... Planet Peril in Prague: What Happened To Pluto . Dr. Owen Gingerich, Harvard University . ... This month’s meeting will feature Dr. Owen Gingerich, Professor Emeritus of Astronomy and of the History of Science, at Harvard University and a senior astronomer emeritus at the Harvard-Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory. This past summer, Professor Gingerich chaired the International Astronomical Union’s planet definition committee. ... Copyright (c) Amateur Telescope Makers of Boston, Inc. ...

. 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

... ARTICLE: The Adventurous Search For The Astronomical Unit . ... Kepler himself had suggested to use the rare occasions of Venus transiting (crossing) the solar disk to measure our distance to the planet. ... Due to the orbital inclination of Venus against the ecliptic of 3.5°, a Venus transit is so rare that it happens only at intervals of 121.5 years, 8 years, 105.5 years, 8 years and so on. ... Crabtree witnessing the transit of Venus 1639 . ... Transits of Venus - The Quest for the Solar Parallax...

... The ESO Conference "Towards Other Earths: DARWIN/TPF and the Search for Extrasolar Terrestrial Planets" (Germany, Hidelberg, 2003), V.P.Grinin, L.V.Tambovtseva,"Dusty disk winds in the young binary systems with the low-mass secondary components" . ... Barsunova, V.P. Grinin, S.G. Sergeev, "Unusual eclipsing system KH 15D: new photometric data", oral . ... Barsunova, V.P. Grinin, S.G. Sergeev, L.V. Tambovtseva, "Photometric activity of the peculiar young stars", oral . ... V.P. Grinin, N.Ya. ...

... Our scientific interest is an accuracy of asteroid CCD observations obtained by amateurs and professional astronomers all over in the World. ... These data help us to analyse an accuracy of real CCD positions in the MPC Database. ... Do you test your observations of the small Solar System bodies permanently before sending them to the International Minor Planets' Center? ... Do you know a real accuracy of your positional CCD-observations in comparison with the other observatories' one ? ...

... Ciel Espace, le magazine qui vous guide toujours plus loin . ... des reportages . ... les plus belles images de l'Univers d–їcrypt–їes pour vous . ... Accueil Eclipse partielle de Soleil –Љ lвАЩhorizon . ... C'est ce qu'on appelle une –їclipse de Soleil . ... Pour avoir tous les horaires pr–їcis et la portion de Soleil –їclips–їe en fonction de la ville dans laquelle vous vous trouvez, vous pouvez consulter l'article d' Emmanuel Beaudoin consacr–ї –Љ l'–їv–їnement dans Ciel et Espace de janvier 2011...

... The Chandra ACIS Survey of M33 - . Refereed Publications . T llmann, R.; Gaetz, T. J.; Plucinsky, P. P.; Kuntz, K. D.; Williams, B.; Pietsch, W.; Haberl, F.; Long, K. S.; Blair, W. P.; Sasaki, M.; Winkler, F. P.; Challis, P.; Pannuti, T. G.; Edgar, R. J.; Helfand, D. J.; Hughes, J. P.; Kirshner, R. P.; Mazeh, T.; and Shporer, A. The Chandra ACIS Survey of M33 (ChASeM33): The final Source Catalog . ... T llmann, R.; Plucinsky, P. P.; Gaetz, T. J.; Long, K. S.; et al. ...

The small solids. Asteroids or the small planetes . ... The comets. ... Ceneca the Young.Procuring about the nature.63 y. The comet is a celestial body of a great size, but a rare one... transparent. Sometimes there seen a core and the medium forms a kind of a tail, beard or dishevelled looks. ... The core is an ice body - conglomeration of frosted gas and dust. ... The comet state is variable: ones have the con tails, others the dust tails, and the third have both. ... Meteors and meteorites. ...

... SuperCOSMOS Sky Survey . ... Extragalactic DataBase . ... SIMBAD Astronomical Database . ... The UVES Paranal Observatory Project . ... Sternberg Astronomical Institute (Rus.) ... European Southern Observatory . European Astronomical Society . ... Astronomical Society of the Pacific . ... National Astronomical Observatory of Japan . ... Astrophysical Journal . Astronomical Journal . ... Astronomy and Astrophysics . Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society . ... Sat24 BTA on line . ...

... OOF . ALMA . ... Links . ... OOF Index . ... GBT example . ... OOF software . ... Astronomical articles . Astronomical data . ... GBT Weather . Charlottesville Weather . ... My blog with various Emacs and related tips. Bojan's non-astronomy site, including various programming, emacs, etc stuff. Also Bojan's blog -like page. ... Unisys Weather . GBT local forecast : link . Ron Maddalena's ground weather predictions (for predictions of PWV, wind speed etc). ...

... Астрофест 2014 . ... Юпитер. Весна 2015г, съемка камерой QHY5L-II. ... Противостояние Марса весной 2014г, съемка камерой DВK-21. ... Юпитер 2012г, съемка камерой DВK-21, ЛЗОС APO175. ... Юпитер, ноябрь 2011г. съемка камерой QHY5T. 15.11.2011 . ... Съемка камерой QHY5T, телескоп Ньютон 200мм . ... Сатурн, 21.12.2008г. Первая попытка планетной съемки камерой QHY5, телескоп Ньютон 200мм на монтировке MT-3S-2D. Суммирование 450 кадров из 1000 в Registax3. ... 2004-2015г. Андрей Олешко ...

... mag . ... arcsec . ... deg . ... 2015-04-06 23:14:05 . ... Observation . ... Pulkovo . ... mag(j2)-mag(j1), too close to planet . ... Izmailov I.S. processed by . Izmailov I.S. ...

... Shevchenko Vladislav Vladimirovich . ... Position: Head of Department of Lunar and Planetary Research, Sternberg State Astronomical Institute, Moscow University, Doctor of Physics and Mathematics. ... L. Johnson Space Center - Lunar and Planetary Institute. ... Sternberg State Astronomical Institute, Moscow University, Universitetsky 13, Moscow, 119899 , Russia, . ... V.I.Chikmachev, S.G.Pugacheva and V.V.Shevchenko, Sternberg State Astronomical Institute, Moscow University, Moscow, chik@sai.msu.ru ...

... Cloud" CALDWELL 14 MESSIER 34 MESSIER 45 CALDWELL 41 DEEPSKY "Large Mag. Cloud MESSIER 79 MESSIER 38 MESSIER 42 MESSIER 36 MESSIER 37 MESSIER 35 SAO 234480 MESSIER 41 MESSIER 44 CALDWELL 53 CALDWELL 92 NGC 3377 CALDWELL 91 NGC 4261 MESSIER 68 CONSTELLATION Coma Berenices CALDWELL 99 CALDWELL 94 CALDWELL 77 CALDWELL 80 MESSIER 51 MESSIER 04 MESSIER 13 MESSIER 92 MESSIER 06 MESSIER 07 MESSIER 08 ... This is" "short for 'Quasi stellar objects.' ...

... PUBLIC LECTURE - APRIL 12, 2016 . New Discoveries in the Outer Solar System: Ceres, Pluto and Planet X . ... Dr. Green will talk about "New Discoveries in the Outer Solar System: Ceres, Pluto, and Planet X". ... Beginning in 1992 planetary astronomers began to find Pluto like objects beyond the orbit of Neptune showing us that Pluto was a member of an entirely new family of objects we now call the Kuiper Belt. ... Amateur Astronomers Association of Princeton, Inc., ...

... CONTACT . ... Planned space experiments promise a considerable increase in the detections and statistical knowledge arising especially from transit and astrometric measurements over the years 2005­15, with some hundreds of terrestrial-type planets expected from transit measurements, and many thousands of Jupiter-mass planets expected from astrometric measurements. ... To request a printed copy, please contact Britt Sjoeberg (bsjoeber@eso.org) . ...