... Observing . ... Home Education Workshops at Adorama Astronomy Workshop: Observing Variable Stars from the City ? February 15, 2015 . ... Beyond New York City . ... Observing Resources for Amateur Astronomers - Part 1: Beginning Observers . ... A History of the First Forty Years of the Amateur Astronomers Association . ... Presented by€а Adorama €аFor the Amateur Astronomers Association of New York . ... 2016 Amateur Astronomers Association of New York Designed by Press Customizr Powered by . ...

... The new emission line galaxies are listed in Table 2 containing the following information: . column 1: The object's IAU-type name with the prefix HS. ... This was not corrected in the figure shown in Appendix A. HS1214+3801 : This is seemingly a supergiant H II -region at the very rim of the nearby edge-on disc galaxy (SA(s)cd) NGC 4244 (V hel = 224 kms -1 and B T =10.88). ... To check this option one needs a detailed map of the NGC 4244 velocity field including HS 1214+3801. ...

... Bojan Nikolic web pages (r. 329) . ALMA . ... LibAIR is the atmospheric inference library that is the main core of the algorithms for phase correction of ALMA data using water vapour radiometers that we are developing in Cambridge. ... The library and algorithms are documented in the series of memo?s which are being posted at page on inference of coefficients for use in phase correction. ... ALMA WVR phase correction algorithms and software . ... Introduction to phase correction for ALMA . ...

... A dynamo is created in a magnetic field by an electric circuit, part of which is moving relative to the rest (additional conditions must also be met). ... Furthermore, the plasma between them conducts electricity very well along its magnetic field lines, which act as if they were wires connecting Io and the planet (drawing). ... The drawing is not to scale. ... The Hubble Space Telescope , using its Wide Field and Planetary Camera 2, has been photographing auroras of the planet Jupiter. ...

... INSTRUMENT: SurveyCam FILTERS: Stromgren uvby, 2" square COMMENTS: remote observations are expected BRIEF SCIENCE JUSTIFICATION: Last decade numerous faint structures at the periphery of regular galaxies, as arcs, tails, or streams, have been discovered (see e.g. Martinez-Delgado et al., ... The broad-band photometry is used for observing the faint structures, but it does not allow to break the age-metallicity degeneracy efficiently. ... The standard Stromgren set is available at APO. ... 2014). ...

... the time of observation . ... Observing the Changing Position of the Sun To Establish Cardinal Directions . ... Observations of the Sun's apparent movement across the sky and its pattern of rising and setting in the east and west horizon helped to establish the cardinal directions. ... The final stage of the Sun's return was marked by the observation that the Sun had reached its highest altitude when the full width of your mitted hand could fill the gap between the Sun and the horizon. ...

Astronotes Armagh Planetarium's Stellar Blog! ... Space Flight . ... Posted on February 6, 2014 | 2 Comments While the winter sky may be the тАШAladdinтАЩs caveтАЩ for skywatchers, and we may already have plundered deeply one of its greatest celestial treasures, the constellation of Orion, we forge [ ] . Continue Reading.. Posted on January 22, 2014 | ... Posted on December 6, 2013 | ... Posted on November 6, 2013 | ... Posted on October 4, 2013 | ... Posted on September 9, 2013 | ...

RadioAstron AO-1 prop osal Submission dead line: February 8, 23:59 UT. ... Team contact name and e-mail address: Ivan Petrov (e-mail: Ivan.Peterov@gmail.com ) Total observing time request: 100 hrs Number of independent observing segments and typical range of pro jected baselines required: 20 (3-30 Earth diameters) Specific dates and time intervals requested : If your experiment requires specific dates and UT ranges, please, indicate them: February 1, 2014: 08:00-16:00 UT -- M87 imaging ...

... 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 . ...

... 1 XMM-Newton CCF Release XMM- CCF -REL-109 Page: 2 100 200 300 0.00 0.01 0.02 0.03 0.04 CCD1 ( 4.5e­05+/­3.2e­07)*day+0.00067+/­0.00013 adc /tr 100 200 300 0.00 0.01 0.02 0.03 0.04 CCD2 ( 4.9e­05+/­4.1e­07)*day+­0.0013+/­0.00015 adc /tr 100 200 300 0.00 0.01 0.02 0.03 0.04 CCD3 ( 4.8e­05+/­3.7e­07)*day+­0.0012+/­0.00014 adc /tr 100 200 300 0.00 0.01 0.02 0.03 0.04 CCD4 ( 4.1e­05+/­3.5e­07)*day+ 0.0023+/­0.00013 adc /tr 100 200 ... The degradation rate has also been adjusted per CCD. ...

Тема : Хвостатые гостьи V (информация для наблюдения комет) .. Показать сообщение отдельно . ... Хвостатые гостьи .. ... после того, как ISON приплыл мимо нас, земля находится на орбитальной траектории, которая пройдет через след частицы кометы (тот, который ISON оставил позади, когда это приближалось к солнцу и это случайно встретит или вокруг 12 января - 15, 2014 . ... лучшее время наблюдения 22:00 LDT (Northern hemisphere 45њ North) .. - радиант расположен вблизи Al'dzhabkhakh (30-Eta Leonis, ? ...

... Bad Astronomy . ... On Thursday, February 15th 2001 (and replayed on March 19), the Fox TV network aired a program called ``Conspiracy Theory: Did We Land on the Moon?'', hosted by X-Files actor Mitch Pileggi. ... Dust around the lander . ... However, it appeals to our common sense: when the sky is black here on Earth, we see stars. ... Bad: The program claims that when the top half of the lander took off from the Moon to bring the astronauts back into orbit, there was no flame from the rocket. ...

... The Galactic low-mass X-ray binary GS 2023+338 was discovered during the burst on May 22, 1989 with the Japanise satellite Ginga (aka Galaxy). The flux reached 17 crabs (this unit of flux measurement is an bright X-ray source, Crab Nebula) at 10-35 keV. ... No other radio telescope worldwide carried out multi-frequency measurements. ... Upon 14 days the radio flux fell below the detection level at the RATAN-600 in relation to the decrease of the X-ray flux. ...

This page is devoted to information on supernova 1999ee and 1999ex in IC 5179 Basic information on this SN, including the last reported brightness, on this Supernova can be found on the main supernova page. Information on the original web pages for many of these images can be found on the Supernova links web page. ... Use this 1999ee VSNet data query and this 1999ex VSNet data query to see what information has been reported so far. ... vsnet-alert 3714 ] SNe 1999ex and 1999ee in IC 5179 . ...

The direct detection of gravitational waves is one of those events long-expected by physicists that are nevertheless a significant occurrence which excites the world scientific community as if something unexpected has happened. ... Many rumors leaked ahead of the conference, and the fact that something (that is, a signal corresponding to gravitational waves) was discovered by LIGO (Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory) was discussed on the sidelines. ... arXiv:1602.03868 . ...

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... We compare our results with the GRANAT X-ray observations of the Galactic center (Churazov et al. ... It is instructive to compare our results for the Galactic center starburst with what might be expected for a continuous star formation, with the average rate characteristic for the whole Galaxy. For this continuous star formation model, we would expect to observe in the region of around the Galactic center about 10% of the total number of X-ray sources in the Galaxy. ...

RELATIVE SUNSPOT NUMBERS Description of Data from SGD Explanation of Data Reports: Relative Sunspot Numbers -- The relative sunspot number is an index of the activity of the entire visible disk of the Sun. ... The provisional daily Zurich relative sunspot numbers, Rz, were based upon observations made at Zurich and its two branch stations in Arosa and Locarno and communicated by M. Waldmeier of the Swiss Federal Observatory. ... This indicates the uncertainty above and below the predicted number. ...

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... Evgueni Il'ichev , Doctor of Sciences, IPHT, Jena, Germany . ... In the case of d -wave, due to the sign change of the order parameter associated with this symmetry, strong deviations from the standard sinusoidal dependence have been predicted for the current-phase relations of various configurations of Josephson junctions employing such unconventional superconductors. ... The idea of " p -contact" is connected with unconventional order parameter symmetry for high-T c superconductors. ...