ATMoB "Open Cluster Observing Award " Guidelines Purpose: To promote observing among the membership of the Amateur Telescope Makers of Boston through participation in the Open Clusters Observing Awards program. Introduction: This awards program is oriented towards visually observing open clusters above magnitude 9.9. ... It turns out that a very unprejudiced and convenient method to dermine the limiting magnitude is to count the number of visible stars in certain areas on the sky. ...

. Please standby and you will be automatically connected to the new location of the unframed Supernova page. Or, click on the link above. If you have questions or problems, please email me at David Bishop dbishop@vhdl.org . Last modified: Mon Aug 27 12:40:15 EDT 2001

Winer Observatory P.O. Box 797, Sonoita, Arizona 85637-0797, USA . ... Fees . ... 2/3-m Telescope . ... Irvin M. Winer . ... Site . ... Telescope Aperture / Mount . ... 20,000 . ... Meade 20-inch MAX on MAX Mount . ... Housing in our automatic observatory at our site near Sonoita, Arizona . ... Telescope (you provide the telescope, mount, control computer, cables, etc.) ... Long distance telephone charges for calls initiated by your computer or staff on Winer telephones . ... 2013 Winer Observatory. ...

University Satellites and . Space Science Education . ... Practical Training for Students in Simulated Satellite Navigation and Attitude Determination for Universitetskiy-Tatyana Satellite - an Overview . ... The practical training has been developed to provide a basic introduction for students into satellite navigation, satellite motion in space, Kepler orbits, and computational techniques involved in dealing with problems of navigation. ...

... International Mathematics Olympiad - since 1959 (except 1980), as usual in July. International Physics Olympiad - since 1967 (except 1973, 1978, 1980), as usual in July. International Chemistry Olympiad - since 1968 (except 1971), as usual in July. ... Those who are interested to get further information about the Olympiads or add their Olympiads to the current list are welcome to contact the Coordinating Council of the International Astronomy Olympiad in English or Russian . ...

... Satellite data ] . ... PRICE of Software products for HRPT-NOAA data acquisition and processing (PC / Microsoft Windows) . ... free . ... Raw HRPT data processing: browsing, fragmentation, geo-location, storing to TDF format. ... 380 . ... XV_HRPT data acqusition . Software package for HRPT data acquisition. ... Source code template for development of XV-compatible image/data processing programs in MS-Windows. ... XV_HRPT data processing . Software package for processing of HRPT data. ...

... Catalog . ... 5.0 . ... ESO 368-11 . ... ESO 311-21 . ... ESO 312-03 . ... ESO 211-03 . ...

... S.P. Korolev RSC Energia, Korolev, Moscow Region . S.P.Korolev RSC Energia hosted training sessions under the crew-training program for Expedition Twenty to the International Space Station (ISS-20). The list of subjects covered by the Corporation specialists in the training sessions with Russian cosmonauts R.Romanenko and his backup D.Kondratiev included: . ... operating Zveno-B equipment, . ... Official WEB-site of S.P.Korolev RSC Energia . ...

In this gallery are many images of Low Surface Brightness Galaxies which have recently been discovered and analyzed. ... The central surface brightness of this galaxy is 24.28 . Malin 2 This galaxy is another huge disk galaxy with a scale length of 15 kpc and a redshift of 15000 km/a. The high surface brightness knot in one of its spiral arms actually has the same color, luminosity and H-alpha equivalent width as the entire Large Magellanic Cloud . ... Truly it is a Low Surface Brightness Galaxy. ...

TOOLS OF TEST GENERATION FOR SATELLITES CONTROL PROGRAMS Andrey Tyugashev, Ekaterina Myasnikova, Elena Sopchenko S.P. Korolyov Samara State Aerospace University (National Reseach University) The paper presents a research in the field of test automation for testing spacecraft control programs. ... Programmers or designers of spacecraft systems write tests manually. ... Tests are carried out by issuing the control actions on the spacecraft and condition monitoring systems parameters of the spacecraft. ...

GCVS Names for Interesting Young Variable Stars . Peremennye Zvezdy ( Variable Stars ) 31 , No. ... These stars will enter the 80th Name List of Variable Stars but are given GCVS names now in order to make it possible for investigators to use permanent names in their publications. Permanent designations in the system of the General Catalogue of Variable Stars (GCVS) are regularly announced in the so-called Name Lists of Variable Stars. ... Table 1: GCVS names for young variable stars . ...

There are six possible ways of object description: . a) by number(s) . ... d) by list . e) by orbital elements . ... They should be introduced as year, month, day with tenth (e.g. 20021104.1). d) Computations are performed for all objects listed in the file whose path and name should be introduced into assigned data field. ... On pressing Edit file button user has a possibility to look through the list of object elements or their coordinates and velocities to add or to change it. ...

THE 75th NAME-LIST OF VARIABLE STARS. ... The 75th Name-List consists of two tables. ... the literature, taken from positional catalogues, including USNO A1.0/A2.0 and GSC, or determined by the authors); the range of variability (sometimes the column Min gives, in parentheses, the amplitude of light variation; the symbol ( means that the star , in minimum light, becomes fainter, than the magnitude indicated); and the system of magnitudes used ( P are photographic ...

Scale-heights of the Galactic disk subsytems with different ages and metallicities . V.Marsakov & Yu. ... It is based on the fact, that all stars cross the disk plane several times during their Galactic orbital period. ... We have used our representative sample of nearby disk F2-G2 stars Marsakov & Shevelev (1995) in which fundamental stellar parameters was determined on the basis of published date on uvby-photometry, proper motion and radial velocities. ... Marsakov V.A., Shevelev Yu.G. Bull. ...

... astro-ph . ... Statistical Characterization of the Chandra Source Catalog . ... The first release of the Chandra Source Catalog (CSC) contains ~95,000 X-ray sources in a total area of ~0.75% of the entire sky, using data from ~3,900 separate ACIS observations of a multitude of different types of X-ray sources. ... In addition to these traditional catalog elements, for each X-ray source the CSC includes an extensive set of file-based data products that can be manipulated interactively. ...

New MASTER Transients list is here .

The starting page - The catalogues page - The list of the PUL2 fields - The list of the Pul-3(Pul-3SE) fields - The list of the PUL_ERS fields . please read short description of the access form controls . ... Right Ascension (ICRF/Tycho-2) J2000 at the central epoch of obs. (hours, minutes, seconds) (Obligatory parameter) . ... proper motion in RA (*cos(DE)) (ICRF/Tycho-2). (mas/yr) . ... Check the apropriate checkbox to output these data and radiobutton to select stars within interval. ...

... Recent Topics . ... MAO main . ... New Layout for Viewing IAU Membership . ... Тема: New Layout for Viewing IAU Membership . Dear National Members, . ... There is now a new way of listing members. ... Members listed in the Directory are those we have sufficient contact information (valid email address) on, and he/she is affiliated with at least one IAU Division. ... To experience the new layout for viewing Individual Members, please follow this link: iau.org/administration/membership/national/ . ...

Current Sheets . Ionosphere . Magnetosphere . Plasma physics theory . Solar_wind . Sun .

... Astronomy and Astrophotography - amateur tips and ideas from personal experience. ... CNES : CLEMENTINE data Server - Access to 1.8 million lunar images . ... Astrofili on the Web - Dr. Fabio Marino's CCD images and links. Astronomical Images - Deep-sky astronomical photographs. ... Astronomy Page - collection of amateur astrophotographs, along with observatory and Hubble images. ... Igor's Astronomy Page - with thumbnail links to images from observatories, including the Hubble Space Telescope. ...