Four Lasers over Mauna Kea . ... Credit Copyright: Jason Chu ( IfA Manoa) Explanation: Are lasers from giant telescopes being used to attack the Galactic center? ... Lasers shot from telescopes are now commonly used to help increase the accuracy of astronomical observations. ... In these cases, astronomers create an artificial star where they need it -- with a laser . ... NASA Web Site Statements, Warnings, and Disclaimers . NASA Official: Jay Norris. ... A service of: LHEA at NASA / GSFC . ...

... Normalised spectra of all central stars of planetary nebulae observed in the 075.D-0289 campaign ordered by increasing effective temperature from top to the bottom. ... The presence of a magnetic field in the central star may be the reason for this lack of symmetry, but observational works published in the literature have so far reported contradictory results. ... We determine the magnetic field from spectropolarimetric observations of ten central stars of planetary nebulae. ... Results. ...

Nowadays at the Department the experimental and theoretical investigations, including astronomical and ionospheric observations, active experiments with space vehicles are taking place. ... Solar Corona physics and erruptive phenomenae. ... Stellar astronomy. ... The Department has organized and put into practice more then 50 expeditions for observation of Solar ecllipces, aurorae polaris, comets, meteor streams, controlled space experiments, and also for investigations of geophysical characteristics. ...

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? ...

Cosmic ray intensities (left) compared with predictions (right) from IBEX. The similarity between these observations and predictions as evidenced by the similar color regions supports the local galactic magnetic field direction determined from IBEX observations made from particles at vastly lower energies than the cosmic ray observations shown here. The blue area represents regions of lower fluxes of cosmic rays. ...

... Henning, director of the Institute . ... Dr. U. Steinacker . Dr. S. Wolf . ... Henning Th., ... Astrophysical Journal , v.561, p.871-879. PDF file ] . Wolf S., Voshchinnikov N.V., Henning Th. ... Astronomy and Astrophysics , v.385, p.365-376. ... Jaeger C., Il'in V.B., Henning Th., Mutschke H., Fabian D., Semenov D.A., Voshchinnikov N.V. (2003) A database of optical constants of cosmic dust analogs. ... Steinacker, J., Henning, Th., ... Astronomy and Astrophysics , v.401, p.405-418. ...

Russian SHAREABLE DATA CENTER Institute of Solar-Terrestial Physics SB RAS . ... Since the Irkutsk IS radar is based on station "Dnepr", which was not intended for IS measurements, we made a serios effort to modernize this station in order to carry out ionospheric observations. Four main directions of the development of the radar experimental base: . modernization of the radar receiving system; . development of primary processing and measurement control methods; . ...

It is a matter of common knowledge that in processes of genesis and evolution of many solar phenomena participate magnetic fields of sunspots. ... As a basis for formation of the database we take data on magnetic fields, collected by set of observatories during many years of observations. ... Section "Magnetic field data" contains data of magnetic field observation for separate sunspots, presented in standard text format (ASCII). ... Description of structure of these files is presented here . ...

Journal of Atmospheric and Solar-Terrestrial Physics Manuscript Draft Manuscript Number: ATP1021 Title: comment on the paper by Dalin , Pertsev and Romejko Significance of lunar impact on noctilucent clouds ( revised version) Article Type: Research Paper Section/Category: Keywords: Noctilucent clouds moon influence mesosphere Manuscript Region of Origin: Abstract: a critical review of the paper by Dalin , ... Reference: Dalin, P.A., N.N. Pertsev, V.A. Romejko. ...

T O TH E EDITO R 247 DIMENSIONAL EFFECT IN A METAL IN MULTIPLES OF A CERTAIN MAGNETIC FIELD V. F. GANTMAKHE R Institute for Physics Problems, Academy of Sciences, U.S.S.R. Submitted to JETP editor May 18, 1962 J. Exptl. ... The thickness of the plate was 0.39 mm , the electron mean free path reached (1--3 ) x 10-1 cm at helium temperatures, and the skin-effec t depth was 10 - 4 cm at 1--5 MHz. ... 1 V. F. Gantmakher, JET P 42 , 1416 (1962), Soviet Phys. JET P 15, 982 (1962). ...

... 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 . ...

Lab . Main page News People . ASA . Master . Master net Homepage . ... Lomonosov Moscow State University Sternberg Astronomical Institute . ... MASTER . ... Lomonosov (ShOK) . ... About Space Monitoring Laboratory, scientific directions, instruments, contacts . People, who work in lab . Latest news and news archive . ... All news ...

... B.V. Somov . head of the department . ... room 80 . ... senior research felow . ... research felow . ... research fellow . ... Our department performes the following most perspective studies: . Special analytical and numerical experimental investigations of the solar plasma involved in the magnetic reconnection process at the Sun. ... Head of the seminar: Prof. B.V. Somov. ... 27 September 2013 The Solar Physics Department was visited by journalists of the leading Russian TV channel "Vesti-1". ...

ATMoB "Double Star Award " Guidelines Purpose: To promote observing among the membership of the Amateur Telescope Makers of Boston ґ in particular, double, triple, and multiple stars. Introduction: Double, triple, and multiple stars are the "Rodney Dangerfields" of the night sky. ... W hile they can be observed under a variety of sky conditions, double stars ґ especially close ones ґ are best viewed on nights when the seeing is steady. ... The direction from a star to Polaris is north. ...

... The Mosaic Data Capture Agent (DCA) plays a central role in connecting the raw data stream from the NOAO CCD Mosaic controller system to the rest of the data handling system (DHS). ... The major subsystems of the DCA at present are the message bus interface, an event loop and event handlers for processing message requests, a distributed shared object implementation, a keyword database system, the TCL interpreter, and a TCLґbased keyword translation module. ...

... V.N. Obridko . ... Large Scale Magnetic Fields . Solar cycle . ... Solar Corona . Solar magnetic fields . ... webmaster@izmiran.ru . Some comments on the Connection between the Variation of the Large-Scale Solar Magnetic Field and Terrestrial Climate . ... M.G.Deminov, E.V.Nepomnyashchaya, V.N.Obridko, B.D.Shelting, V.N. Shubin, and V.A. Chizhenkov. ... I.V.Dmitrieva, V.N.Obridko, and E.P.Zaborova. ... Journal of Atmospheric and Solar-Terrestrial Physics 61 (1999) 799-808 . ...

... Contact A Problem of an estimation of accuracy of the asteroid CCD observations . The Minor Planet Center supported by the Interntional Astronomical Union is the main office for keeping observational data of the small Solar System bodies and their investigations. ... At Pulkovo Observatory we are estimating an accuracy of the CCD asteroid observations obtained by amateurs and professional astronomers all over the World using the MPC database. ...

National Aeronautics and Space Administration . ... Bruce McCandless II (Captain, USN, Ret.) NASA Astronaut (former) . ... He was a member of the astronaut support crew for the Apollo 14 mission and was backup pilot for the first manned Skylab mission (SL-1/SL-2). ... A veteran of two space flights, McCandless has logged over 312 hours in space, including 4 hours of MMU flight time. ... With the completion of this flight McCandless logged 191 hours in space (including 4 hours of MMU flight time). ...

... VaST is a software tool for finding variable objects on a series of astronomical images. ... VaST performs object detection and aperture photometry using SExtractor on each image, cross-matches lists of detected stars, performs magnitude calibration with respect to the first (reference) image and constructs a lightcurve for each object. ... VaST FITS image viewer ./pgfv . ... Part I" PZP, vol. ... K. V. Sokolovsky, S. A. Korotkiy; "New Variable Stars Discovered by the NMW Survey" PZP, vol. ...

. To see a Russian version of this page click here . (Senior Researcher. Graduated from Moscow State University (MSU) in 1982, Ph.D. 1986, MSU) . A member of EAS and IAU. Fields of interest: hot massive stars, close binary systems: optical photometric and spectral observations, X-ray observations; ill-posed problems, X-ray astrophysics. My publications (ADS link) . Linux on CLEVO 8750 (old stuff) . Phones/addresses of my university mates graduated in 1982. E-mail: igor@sai.msu.ru .