... Data acquisition and related software ( some results ). Local WWW . ... An innovative data acquisition system ( FASTI ) for astronomical IR array and Fast L3CCD optical AO detectors., Skysoft The new Astronomical Software Directory. Galileo IR camera ( NICS ), . Galileo second generation instrument Giano - [ Suggestions? GTC IR High-resolution spectrometer NAHUAL , ( local site ), . ... baffa at arcetri.astro.it . ... 39) 055 5609713 . ... My Astronomical image collection . ...

Winer Observatory P.O. Box 797, Sonoita, Arizona 85637-0797, USA . ... 2/3-m Telescope . ... Science . ... Winer . ... Contact Us . ... The Ohio State University uses the KELT telescope to survey the sky photometrically for extrasolar planets. ... Ohio State also uses a 20-inch Meade telescope called DEMONEX telescope to verify exoplanet candidates identified by surveys such as KELT. ... For more information, visit www.tenagraobservatories.com or to see the invidual discovery images, click here . ...

... The USNO CCD Astrograph Catalog (UCAC) project is a high precision, astrometric survey. Observations started in January 1998 at Cerro Tololo (CTIO). ... The USNO CCD Astrograph Catalog (UCAC) project is a high precision, astrometric survey for the 7 16 magnitude range (in the 610/60 nm band), aiming at an accuracy of 20 mas for stars (Gauss et al. ... Table 1. ... A comparison of UCAC data with other catalogs (Figure 2) shows the large improvement in accuracy it the high star density region. ...

... The molecular lines group at Arecibo Observatory consists of Chris Salter, Tapasi Ghosh and Robert Minchin. ... The molecular line group at Arecibo Observatory started in 2006 with a proposal to carry out a spectral census of the star-burst galaxy Arp 220 . ... However, the most interesting discovery came from the observations of the polar ring galaxy, NGC 660. ... Molecular Lines in NGC 660 Arias de Saavedra Benitez et al., ... A cm-Wavelength Search for Pre-Biotic Molecules in Starburst Galaxies. ...

... CEPHEID VARIABLE STARS: A Cepheid variable or Cepheid is a member of a particular class of very luminous, massive variable stars with pulsation periods of 1-70 days. ... The relationship is calibrated using data collected from Cepheids whose distances are determined by other means. ... Browse through the 68 CCD fits images he sent you, using ds9 and locate the Cepheid variable. ... Image credits: ESA - "http://sci.esa.int/science-e-media/img/20/cepheid-variables.jpg" . ...

... The numbers of three types of compact binaries containing accreting NSs and BHs, which are most interesting from the point of view of their observational appearances, have been calculated as a function of time: i) X-ray transient source containing a NS in an eccentric orbit around a main sequence Be-star (the observed prototype: A0535+26), ii) BH The evolution of the selected types of X-ray binaries during the first 10 million years after the starburst onset is presented in Fig. ...

... Trapped Motion . ... The trapping of particles by magnetic fields was first studied by Kristian Birkeland in Norway, starting around 1895. ... Perhaps the most interesting story of that era concerns Nicholas Christofilos , a Greek elevator engineer whose avocation was the study of particle motion in magnetic fields. ... Atomic bombs produce large numbers of energetic electrons, and Christofilos hoped that such electrons would become trapped in the magnetic field as an artificial radiation belt. ...

... News . ... New Forecast . ... 10/04/2016 02:09 MSK . ... THE RELATIVE MONTHLY MEAN SUNSPOT NUMBER ON MARCH 2016 HAS MADE Wmarch = 32.9, 54.9 ( new ) THAT GIVES FOR 80 MONTHS (2015, SEPTEMBER) DEVELOPMENT CURRENT 24 CYCLE OF SOLAR ACTIVITY THE SMOOTHED MONTHLY MEAN SUNSPOT NUMBER W*sep. = 39.6; 66.0 - (in new system ); W*aug. = 39.8; 66.3 - (in new system ); - On July 1, 2015 Centre in Brussels moved to a new system of cal- culation the relative ...

If you select Select item, the Data retrieval from observatory list dialog box will appear. Click on one of two radio buttons to the left of data fields intended for observatory code or name and introduce the required data. In case of observatory name it is possible to introduce its fragment. ... If it is necessary to enter new observatory into the list, mark one of the entries with missing data and select Edit in drop-down menu. ... In this case Landscape mode should be selected. ...

README for XFree86 on OS/2 : Adding Variables to CONFIG.SYS . ... ETC . Set to an ETC directory. Normally, this is already set to the ETC directory of the TCP/IP code, such as SET ETC=C:\TCPIP\ETC For Warp 4 and later, this may point to the \MPTN\ directory. ... Normally you will set this variable to the same value as the HOSTNAME variable and simply add a :0.0 after it, such as SET DISPLAY=myhost:0.0 Read the X11 man page on the exact meaning of these postfixes and other options. ...

... Files with sunspot magnetic fields data ============================================== Column Format Description ______________________________________________ 1-2 I2 Day of month 3-4 I2 Month (numerical) 5-8 I4 Year 9 A1 Blank 10-13 I4 UT in hhmm 14 A1 Blank 15-19 A5 Sc - atmospheric flutter in arc sec 20 A1 Blank 21-25 A5 S - quality of the Sun image 26-27 A2 Blank 28-31 A4 Number of sunspots (numbering from unit every day ) 32 A1 ...

... Characteristic parameters of subsystems RR Lyrae field stars and globular clusters . ... RR Lyrae . ... 0.05 . ... lim R max , kpc . ... Z o , kpc . ... grad R [Fe/H], kpc -1 . ...

Moscow Astronomical Plate Archives: . Contents, Digitization, Current and Possible Applications . ... We describe the astronomical plate archives in Moscow and Zvenigorod and the existing digitization projects. ... 2 The Plate Archive of the Sternberg Institute . The contents of the most important Moscow astronomical plate archive, that of the Sternberg Astronomical Institute, was briefly presented in Shugarov et al. [1] in 1999. ... THE MOSCOW PLATE COLLECTION (STERNBERG INSTITUTE) . ...

... In 1998, the Presidium of the Russian Academy of Sciences (RAS) formed a special Commission for the struggle against falsification of scientific research. ... Misconception #1: G.I.Shipov has succeeded in generalizing Einstein’s General Relativity Theory. ... A.E.Akimov and G.I.Shipov do not have any of these degrees. ... The point is that these are two different Academies; and frauds-sciolists A.E.Akimov and G.I.Shipov are nowise connected with the Russian Academy of Sciences (RAS). Russian) . ...

... This is a partial list of the Extragalactic Novae discovered in 2002. Current Novae can be found on the main page . Nova NGC 2403 2002 , ATEL 1638 , discovered 2002/12/30.124 by K. Hornoch . Found in NGC 2403 at R.A. = 07h37m38s.36, Decl. ... Nova M31 2002 6 , IAUC 7970 discovered 2002/08/04.13 by K. Hornoch . ... Nova M31 2002 5 , IAUC 7937 discovered 2002/07/22.5 by LOTOSS . ... Nova M31 2002 4 , IAUC 7937 discovered 2002/07/20.5 by LOTOSS ; Observatory G. Colombo . ...

... Behemoth black hole found in an unlikely place . ... black holes . ... Observing springtime deep-sky objects with a large telescope . ... Could large numbers of black holes account for much of the "dark matter" estimated to exist in our universe? ... NASA, ESA, M.J. Jee and H. Ford (Johns Hopkins University) No, because the universe never had the raw material to grow enough black holes to account for current estimates of dark matter. Get instant access to subscriber content on Astronomy.com! ...

Principial publication: Dement'eva A.A. and Ryl'kov V.P. The Fields of Reference Stars for Optical Positional Observations of Astrometric Extragalactic Radio Sources. ... V.9.P.127-138. to the end of the list . The starting page - The catalogues page - The list of the PUL2 fields - The list of the Pul-3(Pul-3SE) fields . Number of field . ... 0116+319 . ... 0153+744 . ... 1993.34 . ... 09 27 03.0138 . ... 73 58 01.550 . ... to the top of the list ...

... There has been a heated public discussion in the past few years about whether our ninth planet is really deserving of the name. Since Pluto orbits a star, and is much less luminous, it certainly satisfies the definition we have above. The problem is actually not with Pluto, but with a very large number of other bodies in our Solar System which also satisfy this definition, but which are not called planets. Perhaps the most notable of these is Ceres, the largest asteroid. ... Planet . ...

IDENTIFICATION OF INTEGRAL SOURCES WITH ASTRONOMICAL ARCHIVAL PLATES (1,2) (1,2) RenИ Hudec (1) , Filip Munz , Petr KubАnek( 1,2) Astronomical Institute, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, CZ-251 65 Ond ejov, Czech Republic E-mail:rhudec@asu.cas.cz (2) INTEGRAL ISDC, Versoix, Switzerland ABSTRACT The ESA INTEGRAL satellite (International Gamma Ray Laboratory) launched in October 2002 continues to deliver valuable data about the gamma-ray sky. ... LEIDEN/JOHANNESBURG F.A. PLATES 8. ...

Next: Calling Parameters Up: CAL_omGetFrameParameters Previous: CAL_omGetFrameParameters Contents . The routine access the PhottoNat CCF file and reads the parameters in the field PARAM00 and DPARM00 of the PHOTTONAT extension, which characterise the OM CCD. ... PARAM00(1) . ... Number of horizontal pixels . ... Number of vertical pixels in store . ... Vertical transfer time . ... Number of vertical pixels in image . ... Vertical to horizontal switch time . ... Horizontal to vertical switch time . ...