... The European HST Archive has been moved to ESA's European Space Astronomy Centre ( ESAC ), Spain, where most of ESA's Space Science Archives are located and operated from. ... The Space Telescope European Coordinating Facility (ST-ECF), jointly operated by ESA and the European Southern Observatory ( ESO ) was, until the end of 2010, the European HST science facility, supporting the European astronomy community in exploiting the research opportunities provided by the Hubble Space Telescope. ...

... Submitted by Al Takeda on 01/01/2015 18:28:32 . Comet Lovejoy (C/2014 Q2) in the constellation of Columba . It is the 5th comet discovered by the Australian amateur astronomer, Terry Lovejoy using an 8-inch telescope. This comet has a very long orbital period of 11,500 years. ... On January 1, 2015, Comet Lovejoy is in the constellation of Lepus and is visually a 5.6-magnitude glowing fuzz ball in moderately sized telescopes. ... Copyright (c) Amateur Telescope Makers of Boston, Inc. ...

The program "Pioneer" . Pioneer - 10", the first space vehicle started in March, 1972 to the Jove, has reached . ... This photo of the Jove was received December, 1, 1973 when space probe " pioneer - 10 " has come nearer to a planet on distance 2,5 million km. ... This photo was received by "Pioneer - 11" December, 6, 1974 from distance 1,1 million km from a planet. ... The picture is received in December, 12, 1974 when "Pioneer - 11" was on distance of 1207 thousand kms from the Jove. ...

... Home Education Workshops at Adorama Astro Imaging Workshop: Planetary Astro Imaging with a DSLR ? December 7, 2014 . ... Astro Answers . ... 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€а For the Amateur Astronomers Association of New York . ... 2016 Amateur Astronomers Association of New York Designed by Press Customizr Powered by . ...

... Go to This section of the glossary . ... APHELION : The point in a planet's orbit where it is farthest from the sun. ... It melts at 83.95 K, and boils at 87.45 K. Many people don't realize that argon makes up a full 1% of our atmosphere, while carbon dioxide is only a fraction of a percent of our atmosphere. ... COMET: An object moving about the sun in an eccentric orbit and composed of materials which, on warming up near the sun, form a "tail" which always points away from the sun. ...

In 2001, Westerbork observations of the disturbed galaxy named VV-29 (alias Arp-188, UGC-10214) showed that there is second smaller galaxy (named VV-29c) that appears behind the western side of the main body of the distorted galaxy. ... The galaxy was featured as the May 2, 2002 Astronomy Picture of the Day . ... When VV-29 had its 15 minutes of fame in May 2002, it appeared under the name "The Tadpole Galaxy," but based on the images above, we will always think of it as "The CHAINSAW"! ...

This service is intended as an aid to visually observing close-approaching asteroids. ... By clicking on the column headers for "Object Name", "Maximum Brightness", and "Maximum Angular Speed", you can sort the list by those fields. ... When This is the predicted time when the asteroid will be closest to the Earth. ... This field shows red if an asteroid comes as close as the moon. ... PHA (Potentially Hazardous Asteroid) This does NOT mean that this is going to hit the Earth. ...

... S.P. KOROLEV ROCKET AND SPACE CORPORATION ENERGIA . ... OAO RSC "Energia" . ... News . ... S.P. Korolev RSC Energia is the prime manned space flight organization in the Russian rocket and space industry, responsible for the development of the ISS Russian Segment, its integration into the Space Station and its operation, including development and operation of its principal modules (Zvezda, Pirs, Poisk, Rassvet, etc.), manufacturing, launch and operation of Soyuz TMA and Progress M spacecraft. ...

Seven months ago, on Mar 19, 2008, at 09:12 Moscow time, a new star appeared on the sky. The Sun had already risen over the Russia, but people of the Western hemisphere might be able to see by their eyes a faint starlet near one of Bootes constellation stars. This starlet appeared and faded by an order of magnitude in a minute. Astronomers named it GRB080319B or, informally, the Naked-Eye Burst, as it was twice as bright as human eye can see a star. ... Royal Astronomical Society . ...

. Mysterious Signal: December 1, 1999 . During activities a blinding light was perceived and mysterious markings appeared on the construction tarp. On closer inspection, it seemed to be a message of a personal nature.

MINUTES of the RadioAstron Teleconference on December 09, 2009 N. Kardashev chaired the teleconference. ... V. Andreyanov presented information about tests at LA. Integration tests of the flight SRT are being continued. ... SRT was tested together with the Flight model of the high data rate radio communication system (VIRK). ... S.Likhachev provided information on activities in development and tests of Russian data recorder and correlator. ... ASC software correlator was used for the corealtion. ...

... Next, the screen displays "Press 0 to align or Mode for Menu." Press "0" if you wish to begin Automatic alignment (or Easy Align, depending on your telescope model), or press Mode if you wish to choose a manual alignment method ("Automatic Alignment" displays, and you can press MODE to go through the menu to find other alignments). ... Note: If you press the "?" key while "Ctr Brightest Star" displays, the alignment star that AutoStar has chosen will display. ... Alignment successful" displays. ...

... Tidal influence on each of the galaxies in our sample is quantified by identifying and measuring the distance to the nearest companion, using a photometric technique with good completeness characteristics. ... Massnormalised starformation rates were derived using galaxy stellar masses estimated from zband luminosities Nearest companions were identified using the algorithm illustrated in Figure 1. ... Some of the lowredshift galaxies in our sample with close companions are illustrated in Figure 3. ...

. Computer Ephemeris. Elements of osculating planetary orbits. Explanations. Each row contains at 0h of Time Dynamical Terrestrial of specified date in system of mean equator and ecliptic J2000.0 the ecliptic osculating elements of heliocentric orbit: inclination of orbital plane (degrees), longitude of ascending node (degrees), argument of perigelion (degrees), semimajor axis (astronomical units), mean motion (degrees per day), eccentricity (dimensionless), mean anomaly (degrees).

THE RELATIVE MONTHLY MEAN SUNSPOT NUMBER ON DECEMBER 2013 HAS MADE Wdec.= 61.4, THAT GIVES FOR 42 MONTH (2012, JUNE) DEVELOPMENT CURRENT 24 CYCLES OF SOLAR ACTIVITY THE SMOOTHED MONTHLY MEAN SUNSPOT NUMBER W*june= 61.7 THE BEGINNING 24 CYCLES OF SOLAR ACTIVITY - I 2009 with W*=1.8 THE MOST PROBABLE TIME OF THE MAXIMUM OF THE CURRENT CYCLE- XI.2012 - III 2013 THE MOST PROBABLE HEIGHT OF THE MAXIMUM - Wmax = 66 - 75. ... NEXT WEEK THE LEVEL OF SUNSPOT ACTIVITY IS EXPECTED TO BE THE HIGH AND AVERAGE. ...

August 26, 2006, . ... The 2 nd Asian-Pacific Astronomy Olympiad to be held in Vladivostok and Ussurijsk (Far East of Russian Federation). Preliminary dates for the 2 nd Asian-Pacific Astronomy Olympiad are December 4-11 (a couple weeks later than the 11 th IAO in Bombay ). ... For the teams which ask for Russian visa - together with the personal data for visas (or before). E-mails for sending the applications . ... The Asian-Pacific Astronomy Olympiad 2006 - last information . ...

... The discovery of this radiopulsar is potentially important not only for confirming the theory of evolution of NS, but also for understanding processes occurring in stellar winds   from normal stars. After all, a radiopulsar orbiting in the semi-transparent stellar wind of a normal star is a sort of probe scanning an inhomogeneous plasma by pulsed radiation (Lipunov and Prokhorov, 1984)[ 110 ]. ... 1) absorption of radio waves (light curve); . ... This object is a radiopulsar orbiting a Be-star. ...

Databases (NSDC) of the Natural Planetary Satellites. ... NSDC: Database of astrometric observations of Natural Planetary Satellites . ... They are thoroughly looking for observations in different sources, creating their owndatabases which are then mostly inaccessible to other researchers. ... In the file "content" with explications, the reference is given to the data source as well as the bibliographic reference. ... Data sources. ... Why a specific bibliographic database for Natural satellites? ...

Электронная библиотека астронома-любителя. ... архив RSN . ... Апрель 1998 . ... Дата: 10 апреля 1998 (1998-04-10) От: Alexander Bondugin Тема: Galileo Update - April 9, 1998 Привет всем! ... Дата: 10 апреля 1998 (1998-04-10) От: Alexander Bondugin Тема: Mars Global Surveyor Update - April 9, 1998 Привет всем! ... The feature known as the "Face on Mars" in the Cydonia region was imaged quite successfully on April 5th and its image was released in raw form and in an enhanced form on April 6th. ...

. Pulkovo NEO Page . Central Astronomical Observatory at Pulkovo . of Russian Academy of Sciences, St.-Petersburg, Russia . Apparent Close Approaches of Near-Earth Asteroids to the Stars for April 2016 . By these observations it is possible to obtain the positions of asteroids with higher accuracy. This page includes the ephemerides of such phenomena for some observatories, namely: . Pulkovo . CrAO . Kourovskaya . Majdanak . Pulkovo Obs. Mountain Station . Mondy .