... Bad Astronomy . ... Bitesize Astronomy . ... Keep Bad Astronomy close to your heart, and help make me filthy rich. ... Last week, our tour outwards made a stop at our own home planet. Permit me to hold our tour a bit longer, to linger and gaze upon the Moon. ... Complex molecules floated in the water, but the concentration of these compounds wasn't high enough for them to get any further along than making amino acids and the like. ... 2008 Phil Plait. ... Subscribe to the Bad Astronomy Newsletter! ...

You Can Make Stellar Images Brighter . Articles | ... A few months ago I wrote an article titled "You Can’t Make Them Brighter". So why am I now writing that you can make them brighter. ... The image of a focused star is actually a small disk called the Airy disk, named after the 19 th century scientist Sir George Airy. ... For a given aperture, a smaller Airy disk means that the light is focused to a smaller disk and is therefore brighter. ... www.astronomy.net . About Astronomy Net | ...

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 . ...

IV International Astronomy Olympiad . ... Text of these problems is available also . ... To solve every problem you may use constants and well-known values you know by heart. ... The apparent diameter of the Moon, as seen from the Earth, is 31'. ... Can you observe a star with magnitude . ... Consider the stars as black bodies. ... Estimate the diameter of a black hole constructed using this patent from a ship with the mass of 5000 tn (1 tn = 1000 kg). ... What stars would you observe this nigth? ...

Russian . Main . News . ... Minutes of the Telecon on January 17, 2012. ... News of the RadioAstron mission on the Lavochkin Association site up to September 15, 2011 (in Russian). News of the RadioAstron mission up to September 3, 2011. News of the RadioAstron mission on the Lavochkin Association site (in Russian). News of the RadioAstron mission up to August 18, 2011. ... Second version of the RadioAstron Mission Operations Handbook ( in Russian )is placed on the project site . ...

... We have made observations of the Perseus cluster with the Westerbork Telescope at 610 MHz. ... Several newly detected sources are identified with cluster galaxies. ... No evidence is found for the existence of the previously reported ~ 65'x25' cluster halo, 3C 84B. Key words: radio galaxies - clusters - tailed radio sources buoyancy The Perseus Cluster of galaxies is one of the most fascinating systems accessible to extragalactic astronomers. ...

The apparent path of the Sun across the sky. ... The path of the Sun across the celestial sphere is very close to that of the planets and the moon. ... In one year, as the Earth completes a full circuit around the Sun (drawing above), the Earth-Sun line and its continuation past Earth sweep the entire plane. ... Since the Sun and Earth are in the plane of the ecliptic, the line is automatically in that plane too; if the moon is also on the same line, it must be in the plane of the ecliptic as well. ...

... GSAOI Home . ... Science . ... This project aims to probe the main sequence mass function and substellar limit in old metal-poor Galactic globular clusters. ... Deep JHK images reaching the end of the population-II main sequence are required for several globular clusters. ... Images of the old Galactic globular cluster NGC 6121 in the visible ( left panels ) and near-infrared ( right panels ) take from the ground ( top panels ) and with the Hubble Space Telescope ( bottom panels ). ...

THE SUBSYSTEMS OF THE MILKY WAY HALO. ... A catalogue of homogeneous fundamental astrophysical parameters for 145 globular clusters is composed on the base of the data of compilative catalogue by Harris (1997) and from another literature. ... In addition, it has large rotation velocity ( V rot =77?33 km/s), appreciable radial and vertical metallicity gradients equal by value, and has the oldest average age (subsystem of the old halo). ... Characteristic parameter of globular cluster subsystems. ...

... Photos . ... The annular eclipse . ...

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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! ...

... D. J. Burke and J. Patrick Henry . The Astrophysical Journal, submitted. ... S. Brough, W. J. Couch, C. A. Collins, T. Jarrett, D. J. Burke , R. G. Mann . ... D. A. Wake, C. A. Collins, R. C. Nichol, L. R. Jones, D. J. Burke . ... R. Sadat, A. Blanchard, S. C. Vauclair, D. H. Lumb, J. Bartlett, A. K. Romer, J.-P. Bernard, M. Boer, P. Marty, J. Nevalainen, D. J. Burke , C. A. Collins, R. C. Nichol, . ... S. Majerowicz, D. M. Neumann, A. K. Romer, R. C. Nichol, D. J. Burke , C. A. Collins . ...

Previous Editions of the M111: . ... OutReach Training and Program . September Public Night . Welcome all ye weary travelers to a new type of M111 "On Line". ... Back to top.. ... When I logged our last outreach programs I couldn't help but notice that Warren Rupp Observatory is NUMBER FIVE in the worldwide standings in public outreach programs! ... If you'd like to train in astronomy outreach, just contact any of our members and we'll be happy to train you to do public outreach! ...

... 8-10.10.2001. ... Корепанов В.Е., Ивченко В.Н., Лизунов Г.В., Дудкин Ф.Л. "Космический научный эксперимент "ВАРИАНТ" на борту ИСЗ "С?ч-1М" " // - / - С. 51-58. ... 2002. ... Plasma Processes in the near-earth space: Interball and beyond. ... С. Кривдик В.Г. "Електромагн?тне випром?нювання в?д колапсуючих з?рок" // - / - С. Lozitsky V.G., Lozitsky V.V. "Magnetic field diagnostics in the solar flare of 29 March 2001" // 9th Open Young Scientist's Conference on Astronomy and Space Physics. ...

... LP-Moon.pdf - 26KB . ... A. A. Berezhnoy1,2, N. Hasebe1, M. Kobayashi1, G. Michael3 and N. Yamashita1 1Advanced Research Institute for Science and Engineering, Waseda University, Tokyo, Japan 2Sternberg Astronomical Institute, Moscow, Russia 3German Aerospace Center, Institute for planetary research, Berlin, Germany . Brown University - Vernadsky Institute Microsymposium 40, 2004, Moscow, Russia . ... 3Now at: Sternberg Astronomical Institute, Moscow University, Moscow, Russia . ...

... The apparent path of the Sun across the sky. ... Like the planets, the Sun, too, moves around the zodiac, making one complete circuit each year. ... In one year, as the Earth completes a full circuit around the Sun (drawing above), the Earth-Sun line and its continuation past Earth sweep the entire plane. ... Since the Sun and Earth are in the plane of the ecliptic, the line is automatically in that plane too; if the moon is also on the same line, it must be in the plane of the ecliptic as well. ...

... Samara State Aerospace University Staff Efimova Ekaterina Andreevna . ... May 2015 - Co-organiser of Regional Student Contest 'Management' (Samara, Samara State Aerospace University); . ... December 2014 - Chair Organizing Committee, Inter-regional Student Contest "Change Management and Organizational Development in the Business" (Samara, Samara State Aerospace University); . April 2014 - Co-organiser of University Student Contest 'Management' (Samara, Samara State Aerospace University); . ...

... 0.01 10 Prob./0.01 -1 a) -1 b) 10 10 -2 10 -2 10 -3 10 -3 10 -4 10 -4 10 -5 10 -5 10 -6 0.4 0.6 0.8 1 1.2 1.4 ER/Ebeam 10 -6 0.4 0.6 0.8 1 1.2 1.4 EL/Ebeam Snowmass 05 3 23 August 05 ­ David Strom ­ UO · Use very tight acollinearity cut for energy tune-up OPAL Prob. ... 0.01 1 10 10 10 10 10 10 -1 -2 -3 -4 -5 -6 0 0.2 0.4 0.6 0.8 1 1.2 EL / Ebeam 8.75 < R < 11.75 Snowmass 05 4 23 August 05 ­ David Strom ­ UO · Make detector uniform so that no fiducial cuts in etc will b e needed. ...

... Structure of Data . ... Catalog . ... In SAI OCL Catalog, we introduce our work on investigation of the Milky Way system of open star clusters. The main goal of our study is a search for new clusters using huge surveys. 168 new clusters have been already discovered by us using J,H,Ks data from 2MASS point source catalog. ... For 141 new clusters, we found their physical parameters using J,H,Ks data from 2MASS catalog and, for a number of clusters, our UBVRI CCD observational magnitudes. ...