... In this activity, students will observe that the faintest stars which they can see in the sky are affected by many things: the adaptation of their eyes to the dark, the presence of clouds or haze, the time of year, and the presence of light pollution. General Information . ... After completing this activity, students should have a better understanding of the practical processes for dealing with the light pollution problem and with other environmental and societal issues. << previous page | ...

The 14 th International Astronomy Olympiad has been held successfully in Hangzhou (China) on November 8-16, 2009. ... There were 17 teams participated and 1 team observed in the XIV IAO: . ... Sunday, November 8 - Day of arrival . ... Thursday, November 12 - Day of excursions . ... M. G. Gavrilov (IAO Chairman) - Chairman, . J. Zhu (Beijing, XIV IAO-2009 and X IAO-2005 LOC Chairman), . ... Dr. Michael G. Gavrilov, Founding Chairman and Coordinator of the International Astronomy Olympiad (IAO) . ...

Next: Emission-line galaxies Up: The Hamburg/SAO Survey for Previous: Data reduction . In total 217 candidates were observed during the January - June, 1995, of which 34 objects were observed with the 6m telescope, 183 objects with the Calar Alto 2.2m telescope, and 4 with both instruments. ... For 11 of the known ELGs we measure emission line ratios and make quantitative classification. ... Emission-line galaxies . ... Objects without emission lines . Absorption-line galaxies . ...

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... For each observed position the table contains designation of object as in file of observations, the time of observation, the number and name/ preliminary designation of minor planet supposedly identical with observed object, the values of O – C (observed position minus computed one) in right ascension and declination expressed in arcsec, the difference O – C between observed magnitude and computed one, the code of observatory in the Observatory list (see Observatories section). ...

... Authors: Spyros Basilakos (Imperial College London) . ... Title: Populating a cluster of galaxies - I. Results at z=0 . ... Title: The Merger Rate to Redshift One from Kinematic Pairs: Caltech Faint Galaxy Redshift Survey XI . ... Title: Multi-wavelength observations of an evolved galaxy group: An endpoint of galaxy merging? ... 23 matches for the search pattern galaxy merging . The URL for this page is: http://xxx.itep.ru/find/astro-ph/1/galaxy+merging/0/1/0/past,all/0/0 www-admin@xxx.lanl.gov ...

NMW survey overview . Access image archive . ... The New Milky Way survey aims to detect bright (V<13.5) optical transients near the Galactic plane using an automated wide-field (8x6 deg.) system capable of surveying the whole Milky Way area visible from the observing site in one night. ... All images obtained during the transient search survey are available online (please use the image archive access form ). ... Images per field: . ... Images per night: . ... Milky Way imaging time: . ...

... Liyong Liu (NAOC) . Site testing on seeing conditions of the astronomical observatories over China are briefly reviewed, including Xionglong station of NAOC, Gaomeigu station of Yunnan Observatory, Delingha station of Purple Mountain Observatory. ... PDF [3.0€аMB] October 8, 09:55 10:20 . ... In this paper, we will review the site survey activities in the past years, and present the site-testing results on the Oma site, including cloud cover, seeing, water vapor, transparency and sky brightness. ...

... Have you wondered which search method is best suited to discover supernovae? Supernova hunter Michael Schwartz, from Oregon, USA, has made some number crunching on recent SN discoveries. Some of his statistics and comments are in these and following pages. ... The following are some simple statistics describing three different type of search: . ... For each method we show two statistics. They show the number of supernovae discovered by galaxy magnitude and by supernovae magnitude. ...

Peremennye Zvezdy", . ... Min . ... 2MASS J16480306-6715178 . ... The variable star catalogued as ASAS 164802 6715.2 by Pojmanski (2002) was found to display two types of eclipsing variability by Pilecki and Szczygiel (2007). ... The comparison stars (identified in the finding chart) used were: . ... The data for Star A and B has been obtained using Comp Star 2 between HJD 2455709.956 and 2455710.089 and between 2455718.005 and 2455718.096. All other data was obtained using Comp Star 1. ...

... ISC Kosmotras . ... Dnepr launch record 17 August 2011. ... A Ministerial Committee (hereinafter the Committee) chaired by a member of the Russian Academy of Sciences Nikolay A. Anfimov has been set up by the state authorities of Russia to investigate the cause of the Dnepr LV mission failure. ... The conclusions made by the Committee were delivered to the State Committees of Russia and Kazakhstan established with the aim to investigate the Dnepr launch failure consequences. ... Mission profile . ...

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