... 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 . ...

December 2007 Astronotes 1 2007 in pictures from ENVISAT By Wendy McCorry, Science Communicator These images were taken by ENVISAT, the European Space Agency's Earth Observation spacecraft ­ the largest of its kind ever built. ... Clockwise from top left: ENVISAT's Medium Resolution Imaging Spectrometer (MERIS) captured this image of tropical cyclone Gamede sweeping across the Indian Ocean on 23 February 2007. ... ENVISAT captured this image of the wildfires in Southern California on 22 October. ...

... Up: Instrument-Specific Software . ... This contribution revolves about computer models of astronomical instruments and their application in advanced calibration strategies and observation model based data analysis. ... The success of physical models in the analysis of observational data with strong instrumental signatures is shown, and a concept for model based calibration developed. ... The complete physical model of an instrument, in principle, incorporates many of those capabilities. ...

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THE RELATIVE MONTHLY MEAN SUNSPOT NUMBER ON FEBRUARY 2014 HAS MADE W feb.= 102.8, THAT GIVES FOR 61 MONTH (2013, JULY) DEVELOPMENT CURRENT 24 CYC- LES OF SOLAR ACTIVITY THE SMOOTHED MONTHLY MEAN SUNSPOT NUMBER W*june = 69.0 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.2013 - I 2014 THE MOST PROBABLE HEIGHT OF THE MAXIMUM - Wmax = 68 - 75. ... 170.3 THE MONTHLY MEAN OF GEOMAGNETIC Ap-index ON 2014, FEBRUARY Ap feb.= ...

... S.P. KOROLEV ROCKET AND SPACE CORPORATION ENERGIA . ... OAO RSC "Energia" . ... Company's History . ... ISS Russian Segment . ... News . ... S.P. Korolev RSC Energia, Korolev, Moscow region. ... S.P. Korolev RSC Energia - MCC-M, Korolev, Moscow region. ... S.P. Korolev RSC Energia hosted training sessions under the crew-training program for Expeditions to the International Space Station. ... Baikonur launch site, branch office of S.P. Korolev RSC Energia. ... 2015 JSC "S.P. Korolev RSC "Energia" . ...

... Telescopes . ... On February 4, 2016, the Jubilee conference dedicated to the 40th anniversary of the first observations on the 6-m BTA telescope took place at SAO RAS. ... Afterwards, Igor D.Karachentsev shared his memories of the first observations at the BTA. ... One of the first SAO RAS astronomers Eugene L.Chentsov outlined the first steps of stellar spectroscopy at BTA and Vladimir E.Panchuk in detail described the instruments and stellar spectroscopy technique at the 6-m telescope. ...

XMM -Newton TTD Meeting Status of EPICs operations 7th of February 2001 StИphane Rives XMM 1 Status of EPICs operations - Introduction 1) Current situation since last TTD meeting (October 2000) 2) Recent implementations applicable after next database release (7th of February) 3) Foreseen tasks and improvements VILSPA : 31st January 2001 XMM 2 Status of EPICs operations - Part 1 1) Slew exposures 2) Bright Pixel Tables 3) ... VILSPA : 31st January 2001 · · · · XMM 21 ...

... Dept. for Physics of Planetary Systems . ... Laser station . ... Built a network of laser stations (LLS), radio (GNSS) satellites and observation radiointerferometrychnyh observations of quasars (VLBI) ( YA.S. Yatskiv, Medvedsky MM, AA Pace, EE Volvach, YL Kokurin in collaboration with workers in other entities) . ... БЂў Laser station observation satellites is the global network of service stations of the International Earth rotation and conducts active surveillance for international programs. ...

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... Team . ... The main goal of observations of GRB host galaxies is accumulation of statistics of their spectroscopic and photometric properties. ... The Hubble diagram for 22 GRB host galaxies with known magnitudes and redshifts (GRB 970228, GRB 970508, GRB 970828, GRB 971214, GRB 980613, GRB 980703, GRB 990123, GRB 990510, GRB 990712, GRB 9912008, GRB 991216, GRB 000131, GRB 000210, GRB 000301C, GRB 000418, GRB 000911, GRB 000926, GRB 001109, GRB 010222, GRB 010921, GRB 011121 and GRB011211). ... 600...

... The Science Operation Department is composed of Astronomers, Telescope Instruments Operators(TIOs) and Data Handling Administrators(DHAs). ... Astronomers have proposed several methods to quantitatively measure the amount of turbulence above the telescope, which the most common ones is Differential Image Motion Monitor (DIMM). In optical testing, the Hartmann test is the common method to test the quality of optical components. ... Hartmann mask consists of 48 lenses. ...

GRANAT is the Russian x-ray sattelite launched to the high apogee orbit (200,000 km) and operated almost for 10 years (1989 -1999) , carrying out four major instruments: French SIGMA coded-mask hard x-ray telescope (30-1000 keV), Soviet ART-P coded-mask telescope (2??-60?? keV), all-sky monitor WATCH (6-150 keV), and a gamma-burst detector PHEBUS . ... Since September 1994, GRANAT is in the survey mode. ... Explore pages devoted to individual GRANAT instruments (including main scientific results): . ...

... Astrophysics Group . ... FIRST . ... This site is an initiative by MRAO Cambridge to provide improved access for the UK to the images being produced from the FIRST survey. ... Note that a small image returned by this server will have different gridding and orientation from an image of corresponding position and size returned by the FIRST CUTOUT server at the main site. ... This site may evolve to provide more of the facilities available at the FIRST main site in due course. ...

Quasar VLBI network observatories as co-location sites A. Ipatov, I. Gayazov, S. Smolentsev Institute of Applied Astronomy, Saint Petersburg, Russia ... supposes: 1. installation of different observational techniques at sites (co-location) 2. combined processing of different types of observations (collocation) IAA activity in space geodesy · Quasar VLBI network : ­ VLBI observations ­ GPS /GLONASS observations ­ DORIS ( ...

Maidanak Laboratory is a part of Sternberg Astronomical Institute of Moscow State University. ... Observations are conducted with 1.5 meter RC telescope AZT-22 of Maidanak Observatory (Uzbekistan). rus . ... maidanak lab home page . ... at Sternberg Astronomical Institute . ... 2000). ... Because of technical reasons, we had to use three different CCD cameras in our observations, Pictor-416 camera in 1995, Pictor-416 and TI 800 x 800 cameras in 1997 and 1998, and ST-7 camera in 1999 and 2000. ...

... Table of instrument observation dates: . Instrument Exposure time Date Julian Date XTE Master There are 47 observations from this instrument, ranging from 1997-02-08б 14:15:15.6 (2450488.093 UTC) to 2005-05-14б 12:03:56.7 (2453505.002 UTC) and all above 10,000 seconds exposure time (from 10046 sec to 54910 sec). ... Blue arrows designate X-ray observation times. Red arrows designate HST observation times. ... Table of instrument observation dates and integration times: . ...

SAO is Russia's main centre for ground-based space research. ... The basic instruments of the Observatory are the optical telescope BTA (Big Alt-azimuth Telescope) with a main mirror diameter of 6 m and the radio telescope RATAN-600 with the antenna diameter 600 m. Study of the Universe as a whole, analysis of non-stationary energy release in galactic and extragalactic objects of various types, investigation of evolution and chemical composition of our Galaxy and the nature of solar activity. ...

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... Leonid CHEKHOV (Steklov Institute and Poncelet lab, Moscow) . ... Ivan DYNNIKOV (MSU, Moscow) . ... Oleg KARPENKOV (Poncelet lab, Moscow) . ... Gleb KOSHEVOY (CEMI and Poncelet lab, Moscow) . Serguei LANDO (Poncelet lab, Moscow) . ... 16:00-16:50 S. Natanzon: Klein topological field theories . ... 16:00-16:50 G. Duchamp: On some interactions between Combinatorics, Computer Science and Physics . ... evening Conference dinner . ... 14:45-15:30 O. Karpenkov: Energies of knots and of certain graphs . ...