... NOTE TO EDITORS: GALAXY FLY-THROUGH AVAILABLE ONLINE . HUGE GALAXY STRING CHALLENGES SPACE THEORY . An enormous string of galaxies 300 million light-years long has been discovered in the remote Universe, challenging existing theories about how the Universe evolved. ... ANU astronomer Dr Paul Francis, who coordinated the international research team, said the galaxy string lay 10,800 million light-years away. ... The research was funded by NASA and the Australian National University. ...

Supernova 2009js in NGC 918 . This page is devoted to information on Supernova 2009js in NGC 918 . Basic information on this SN, including the last reported brightness, on this Supernova can be found on the main page . Information on the original web pages for many of these images can be found on the updates and links web pages. Discovered independently by Lick Observatory Supernova Search (USA) and Koichi Itagaki (Japan). ... 2009/10/11.44 . 17.2 . ... Joseph Brimacombe . ...

XMM­Newton CCF Release Note XMM­CCF­REL­55 OM Astrometry R. Much December 11, 2000 1 CCF components Name of CCF VALDATE List of Blocks changed CAL VERSION XSCS flag OM ASTROMET 0008 2000­01­01T00:00:00 FILTER­U Yes FILTER­B Yes FILTER­UVW1 Yes FILTER­UVW2 Yes FILTER­UVM2 Yes FILTER­WHITE Yes FILTER­MAGNI Yes FILTER­GRISM1 Yes FILTER­GRISM2 Yes POLYNOM MAP No 2 Changes Compared to the previous version the distortion maps of the U­, B­ and the three UV­filters have been updated. ... UVW2­positions). ...

... MASTER Net is 56 square degrees per 1 exposition . ... 06 Dec 2015: GRB 151205B: MASTER-NET early optical observations GCN18665 . ... 18 Nov 2015: GRB 151118A: MASTER-NET optical observations GCN18613 . ... 12 Nov 2015: GRB 151112A: MASTER-NET optical limit GCN18591 . ... 07 Nov 2015: GRB 151107A: MASTER-NET optical observations GCN18565 . ... 31 Oct 2015: Five OTs detected by Global Robotic MASTER Net ATel8232 . ... 02 Oct 2015: GRB 151001B: MASTER-NET early optical observations GCN18380 . ...

The Special Astrophysical Observatory of Russian Academy of Sciences is one of the leading center of stellar magnetism study. ... Our observatory every 3-5 years holds an International Conference "Magnetic Stars" during past 30 years. ... The conference proceedings were published in book "Stellar Magnetism", Editors-in-chief Yu.V. Glagolevskij and I.I. Romanyuk (Saint Petersburg, Nauka, 1992), 270 pages. ... Conferences . History . ... Laboratory for the Stellar Magnetism Study of SAO of the RAS . ...

Johann Kepler - a Legislator of the Sky. The laws of the planets movements put by Johann Kepler destroyed the thousand year old dogmas about the circles and spheres and opened the way to scientific understanding of celestial occurrences. ... The best object for observation was Mars - its orbit unlike the Earth's one has a noticeable eccentricity, the rotation period in comparison with Jupiter and Saturn is not too long and observation conditions are better than for Mercury and Venus. ...

... It was designed to observe the solar wind approaching Earth, from a position near the Lagrangian point L1, and it is part of the International Solar-Terrestrial Physics (ISTP) Initiative . ... The original plan called for "Wind" to approach its final station over two years, undergoing two close encounters with the Moon to boost its speed. ... If however the object is moving , the encounter is not symmetric, and in the end the spacecraft may have gained or lost speed, depending on its trajectory. ...

Independent University of Moscow: vice-president for research, . ... 1971 Graduated from a mathematics oriented highschool in Moscow . ... 1976 Master of sciences summa cum laude in Mathematics, Moscow State University (Lomonosov) . ... 2001 Editor-in-chief of the "Moscow Mathematical Journal" . ... 2005 Director of Poncelet Russian-French laboratory (LIFR-MI2P) of CNRS and the Independent University of Moscow . ... Mathematics seminar of the Independent University of Moscow, vol. ... Moscow Math. ...

FITS format . ... This short introduction to the FITS format is written for the astronomers not accustomed to use FITS files. ... A FITS file is composed by one or several Header Data Unit (HDU), each being an independent data structure: image or table. ... The beginning of the header must contains the following keywords: SIMPLE to tell it is a FITS file (or XTENSION if it is not the first HDU) BITPIX to give the format of the data (eg. 16 for short integer, or -32 for floating point values). ...

... Robert Naeye, Editor in Chief of Sky Telescope Magazine . ... NASA's Gamma-Ray Large Area Space Telescope (GLAST), recently renamed FERMI Gamma Ray Space Telescope, is a powerful space observatory that will open a wide window on the universe. ... He was recently the Senior Science Writer in the Astrophysics Science Division at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland. ... Copyright (c) Amateur Telescope Makers of Boston, Inc. ...

User has a possibility to add new string (row) with observed data to the table, to insert string between existing ones, to edit observed data or to delete some strings. To add string select task item in menu bar ( O – C , Identification, Plates, or Observatories ) and then Add String in drop-down menu. ... Marked strings will disappear. ... To select a place for inserting just mark some string, select Paste item in drop-down menu, and block copy appears above this string. ...

... We have compared visualized fields of GSC and USNO A1.0 catalog with unpublished photographic finding charts that were sent by L. Plaut to the compilers of the GCVS. ... 7-15 A9 --- GCVS GCVS or NSV name 17-25 F9.4 --- GSC GSC number 26 A1 --- NoteFlag *Nonstar (GSC) flag 28-29 I2 h RA2000GSC.h Hours RA (GSC), equinox 2000.0 31-32 I2 min RA2000GSC.m Minutes RA (GSC), equinox 2000.0 34-38 F5.2 s RA2000GSC.s Seconds RA (GSC), equinox 2000.0 40 A1 --- DE2000GSC.- ... Plaut, L., 1966, Bull. ...

Astronomy Articles . Articles | ... Moon | ... Astronomy Binoculars - The Skies The Limit - by Scott Gray, September 2006 . ... Astronomy Terms - To Help You Study The Universe - by Scott Gray, October 2006 . ... Himalia is the only moon other than Europa, Ganymeade, Callisto and IO visible with small telescopes. ... The Harvest Moon refers to the Full Moon that comes closest to the autumnal equinox, or the first day of autumn. ... Think the study of stars is best left to professional astronomers? ...

... Astronomers have taken the best photos ever of a star that has lost most of its material to a vampire star! This picture shows the positions of a large star (shown in red) and the vampire star (shown in blue) in photos taken about 1.5 months apart, as they orbit around a common point. ... The new observations show that the larger star is a bit smaller than astronomers had previously thought. ... The smaller companion star then just eats whatever comes its way like a friendly vampire! ...

... Ira Polans, & Michael Wright (609) 273-1456 (908) 859-1670 and (609) 448-8644 kane@princetonastronomy.org editors@princetonastronomy.org Volume 40 From the Director January 2011 Number 1 Happy New Year! To everyone in AAAP, I am wishing you a grand new year and clear skies! ... Opportunity Rover Snaps Gorgeous Panoramas of Santa Maria Crater and Intrepid Crater The Opportunity rover is sending back a multitude of awesome views of Santa Maria Crater since arriving at the western edge on Dec. ...

The vi editor (pronounced "vee eye") is available on all UNIX systems: other editors are not. Being able to use vi ensures that you will always have an editor available to you. ... About vi commands . Using UNIX commands . Starting vi and opening files . Saving files and exiting vi . Viewing a file . Entering text . Cutting and pasting text . Moving around the text . Moving around the screen . Deleting text . Searching for text . Replacing text . ...

... S.P. KOROLEV ROCKET AND SPACE CORPORATION ENERGIA . ... OAO RSC "Energia" . ... Company's History . ... Brief History of Rocket and Space Technology . ... ISS Russian Segment . ... Sea Launch . ... News . ... OAO RSC Energia is a leading enterprise of rocket-space industry, the prime organization for manned space systems. ... Contribution of RSC Energia to the Russian Rocket-Space Technology . ... RSC Energia: Progress MS-02 docked with the ISS.' ... 2015 JSC "S.P. Korolev RSC "Energia" . ...

To see a Russian version of this page, click here . ... Bochkarev Nikolai Gennadievich . astrophysics researcher: . born: Moscow, May 19, 1947; . ... Jr. researcher Sternberg Astronomical Inst., ... Soviet (Russian) Working Group on Interstellar Matter, Moscow , 1979-; . ... Madison, 1991. ... ALocal Interstellar Matter, 1990, . Basic Physics of the Interstellar Matter, 1992; co-author: . ... Physics of Interstellar Matter, 1979; . ... All-Union Astronom. Geodesical Soc., ... Astronom. ...

Russian version of HP . ... StarCalc is the fastest professional astronomy planetarium & star mapping program for Windows 9x/ME/NT/2000/XP (StarCalc version for PocketPC computers you can found here ). ... Extensibility : This program is based on common "Plugin StarCalc interface to catalogs and object groups", which allows program to add new modules as Plugins. ... Welcome to the Pocket StarCalc Home Page: . ... Some bugfixes in eclipses" and line" plugins - see the new versions in downloads page. ...

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