Astronotes Armagh Planetarium's Stellar Blog! ... Stars . ... Space Flight . ... Some 13.7 billion years ago, a mere millionth of a second after the Big Bang, the first hydrogen and helium nuclei condensed out of a hot, dense soup of quarks and gluons. ... In the very last few kilometres some of the light was scattered by a myriad of water droplets (containing hydrogen nuclei which had existed almost since the Big Bang) slowly descending through the air following a rainshower. ...

Russian page . The 6th International Astronomy Olympiad will be organized on September 26 - October 3, 2001 in the scientific town of Nauchnyj, Republic of Crimea. ... Weather in Crimea . ... Those who were interested to get further information about the VI International Astronomy Olympiad (including official invitations for teams and observers: Ukrainian visa and visa support was necessary for citizens of some countries!) were welcome to contact Coordinating Council in English or Russian . ...

... A tussle in the distant Universe. This Hubble Space Telescope image shows evidence for a merger between a quasar and a companion galaxy. The quasar is the bright object just beneath the image center, and the wisps of material around it are remains of a galaxy disrupted by the interaction between it and the quasar. ... Galactic Nuclei: Old Quasars? Quasars as Probes of the Distant Universe . ... Quasars. ... The name quasar is made up with parts of the words "quasi-stellar radio." ...

... Melted remains of Cassegrain spectrograph areтАж . Sidebar Left . Sidebar Top . No Sidebar . Sidebar Bottom . ... Title: Melted remains of Cassegrain spectrograph are on the remains of the observing carriage . Description: Newtonian platform has collapsed, gears for platform rest on the dome track . ... Melted remains of Cassegrain spectrograph are on the remains of the observing carriage Newtonian platform has collapsed, gears for platform rest on the dome track . ...

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... If some entries are missing, which might turn out later, add them in a way that the library remains downward compatible. (13aug97) XAW3D 3D widget library 1.3 . ... ASCII Art library 1.2 (by Hung-Chi Chu , aa.dll for XFree86, aa.dll.noX for non-X environments) . ... MPEG library 1.2.1 (by Hung-Chi Chu , DLL only ) . PNG library 1.0.2 (by Hung-Chi Chu , requires zlib , DLL only ) . TIFF library 3.4beta037 (by Hung-Chi Chu , requires zlib and jpeg , DLL only ) . ... Xpm 3.4k (by Hung-Chi Chu ) . ...

... Team . ... GRB mini-workshop 2006 . ... On April 8, 2005, an optical afterglow of the GRB 050408 was discovered with the SAO's telescopes (the 1-meter telescope Zeiss and 6-meter telescope BTA) within the framework of a joint BTA request (SAO RAS + IAA CSIC, Granada, Spain) on optical identification of gamma-ray bursts. We first detected a variable object only by our own data in the localization error-box reported by the space observatory HETE and then it was confirmed by our observations in SAO. ...

... SAO RAS . ... In 2016, a leading center of the Russian ground-based observational astronomy, Special Astrophysical Observatory of the Russian Academy of Sciences, is celebrating its 50th anniversary. The Observatory organizes an international conference "Multi-spin galaxies 2016", as a part of the festivities. ... Afanasiev Victor (SAO RAS, Russia) . ... Mapelli Michela (INAF - Padova, Italy) . Moiseev Alexei (SAO RAS, Russia) - chair . ... Karachentsev Igor (SAO RAS, Russia) . ... Russia), . ...

... Exposure Time Calculator (ETC) . ... ESO - Public Surveys . ... the recommended values to use for DIT, . ... Detector on-chip integration (DIT): seconds. to your chosen value - a separate page gives recommended values to use for DIT - for modes 1 and 2 below you may wish to start with the maximum recommended values as these will minimize the effect of read noise (a total object exposure of Y secs with DIT=X secs will produce Y/X lots of read noise) and give you a lower limit on the time needed. ...

Next: Presentation of the results Up: World Wide Web version Previous: WWW access . On the main page, a very short description of the program may be found. ... The first link brings the user to a very friendly interface of the main code, where all parameters can be set and the calculations can be started. The second lonk provides a list of papers containing the results of the Scenario Machine calculations beginning from 1983 untill 1996 and a short description of the code. ...

SITE 2010 Comprehensive Characterization of Astronomical Sites Kislovodsk, Russia, 49 October 2010 Conference Summary Marc S. Sarazin*a a European Southern Observatory, Garching, Germany Abstract The main topics discussed during the Site 2010 conference are outlined and the outcome is described. Keywords: Astronomical Site testing, precipitable water vapor, atmospheric turbulence, cloudiness, seeing 1. ... Site surveys for National observatory projects in China, India, and Iran benefit from this. ...

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... Geomagnetic activity can be divided into two main categories, storms and substorms . Storms, the main contributors to space weather , are initiated when enhanced energy transfer from the solar wind/IMF into the magnetosphere leads into intensification of ring current . The ring current development can be monitored with the Dst index . ... Iyemori, T., and D. R. K. Rao, Decay of the Dst field of geomagnetic disturbances after substorm onset and its implication to storm-substorm relation, Ann. ...

... In order to successfully graduate from the University and receive a diploma, a student must pass exams in all required courses and in some elective courses, and then must write and defend a thesis. ... In order to become a student at the IUM, one had to take a written mathematical entrance exam in the end of June or in the beginning of September. ... Non-matriculated students who successfully complete the exams for the first semester become official students of the University. ...

Russian SHAREABLE DATA CENTER Institute of Solar-Terrestial Physics SB RAS . ... To improve the quality of ionograms and to carry out on automatic ionogram processing we have developed a special software, which can be arbitraly devided into the following main parts: . ... Ionogram processing software on the basis of image processing; . Interactive ionogram processing software. ... Here we present ionogram samples for different kinds of chirp sounding . ... Capabilities and samples | ...

... Main . ... The RadioAstron is an international space VLBI project led by the Astro Space Center of Lebedev Physical Institute in Moscow, Russia. ... List of organizations which were taken part in developing of the project and now support the RadioAstron mission is presented here . The RadioAstron Newsletter # 29 , July 18, 2015. RadioAstron Announcement of Opportunity - 4 for observations from July 2016 to June 2017 inclusive. ... 2.7, December 17, 2015 : English version. ... Main ASC . ...

Main . ... About meteorites . ... What to do if you found a meteorite! ... About the laboratory . ... You may have a question: what to do if you found a stone which looks like meteorite. ... According to the Meteorite Nomenclature Committee, in order for a meteorite to be officially registered in the International Meteorite Catalog, 20% by weight of the main mass of the identification sample must be contributed to a qualified scientific organization. ... The Staff of the Laboratory of Meteoritics. ...

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! ...