... The ancient chronical said about the colour rings around the Sun and the Moon, about three suns in the sky, light columns, bright lightning, different "comets" rushing to the Earth, moving among the stars or round the Earth with the sky. All these occurrences may be divided into three categories: one that occur in the near or far space, processes going on in the Earth atmosphere under the influence of cosmic factors and at last the occurrences connected with the Earth atmosphere. ... Rainbow . ...

... BOM2 and the basic block of solar limbograph including pointing and control systems ? ... Fine tracking platform (FTP) for Sun tracking by the sight axis of the limbograph; . ... Tracking system frequency ? ... Controller of the control system and solar fine tracking of the sight axis of the limbograph; . ... The basic relative construction of the elements and instrumental blocks of the "Astrometria" space experiment is shown on the block diagram of units within the complex of SL-200 solar...

... Using a simple 2-D Gaussian Point Spread Function (PSF) on a constant (flat) sky background, I derive a theoretical photometric and astrometric performance model for analytical and digital PSF-fitting stellar photometry. ... The photometric performance is maximized when either the effective background area or the effective-background-level measurement error is minimized. ... An important, but frequently ignored, noise source is the uncertainty of the measurement of the effective background level ( )...

NMW survey overview . Access image archive . ... The New Milky Way survey aims to detect bright (V<13.5) optical transients near the Galactic plane using an automated wide-field (8x6 deg.) system capable of surveying the whole Milky Way area visible from the observing site in one night. ... All images obtained during the transient search survey are available online (please use the image archive access form ). ... Images per field: . ... Images per night: . ... Milky Way imaging time: . ...

You know you're a Deep Sky Observer when.. ... You consider Jupiter 'light pollution'. ... You refuse to use the ladder with your 20" f/6 at the Winter Star Party stating, "If I use that, the objects are too far north." ... You spend most of your time looking at or for objects you can barely see. Your favorite objects are objects you can barely see. ... You view a major earthquake as an opportunity for a close-in dark-sky star party. ... You believe M13 ruined your dark adaptation. ...

... Spectrosc., 90 , 574-579. [ abstract (in English; ASCII file); paper (in Russian; PS file)] . ... Astronomy Letters, 26 , N 10, 679-690. [ abstract (ASCII file); paper (PDF file)] . ... 2001) . ... 72 , N 5, 607-612. [ abstract (ASCII file); paper (PS file)] . ... Scattering and polarization properties of the non-spherical particles. in: Smith W.L., Timofeyev Y.M. (eds.) IRS 2000: Current Problems in Atmospheric Radiation, A.Deepak Publ. (in press) [ abstract (ASCII file); paper (PS file)] . ...

... 2004: . ... An increase in star brightness is followed by a decrease in asphericity and wind velocity to the point where stationary and even accreting fraction of the wind appears in extremely bright objects together with a flowing out fraction. ... Based on an analysis of observations obtained with BTA and on the published data it was found that degree of abnormality of energy distribution in continuum of magnetic chemically peculiar stars increases with an increase of their rotation period. ...

The Official Publication of the Amateur Astronomers Association of Princeton Director John Miller (609) 252-1223 jmiller@princetonastronomy.org Assistant Director John Church (609) 799-0723 j.church@mindspring.com Treasurer Program Chairman Michael Mitrano Ludy D'Angelo 609-737-6518 (609) 882-9336 ... Remember to mark each Friday starting April 4th as our Simpson Observatory Open House event. ... John Miller asked if Jeff could send out the call for event participants to the entire membership. ...

... S.P. KOROLEV ROCKET AND SPACE CORPORATION ENERGIA . ... OAO RSC "Energia" . ... Company's History . ... ISS Russian Segment . ... Missions Archive . ... Russian logistics spacecraft Progress M-19M, after having been inserted into a parking orbit on April 24, continues its free flight towards the International Space Station (ISS). ... Contribution of RSC Energia to the Russian Rocket-Space Technology . ... RSC Energia: Progress MS-02 docked with the ISS.' ... 2015 JSC "S.P. Korolev RSC "Energia" . ...

... 11 Yellow-Green (78% transmission): Contrasts well with the red and blue characteristics of surface features on Jupiter and Saturn. ... 82A Light Blue (73% transmission): Useful on the Moon, Mars, Jupiter, and Saturn, this subtle pale blue filter enhances areas of low contrast while avoiding significant reduction of overall image brightness. ... Meade Series 4000 Photo-Visual Color Filters may be ordered individually or in the following sets: . ... Meade Series 4000 Broadband Nebular Filters . ...

... Today this year's largest group of sunspots will cross the Sun's central meridian. ... The next day, the number of spots in the group reached five, and the day after, on June 2nd, it was possible to count thirteen sunspots on solar disk, which had been clear prior to this. ... This year's two most powerful active areas, which passed across the solar disk at the beginning of May, 2009, are set to appear in the Sun's eastern sector in two days, on June 6th. ...

... Jay Apt (Ph.D.) . NASA Astronaut (Former) . ... PUBLICATIONS: Dr. Apt shared his images and knowledge in the publication Earth in Orbit : NASA Astronauts Photograph the Earth , written in conjunction with NASA scientists Michael Helfert and Justin Wilkinson and published by the National Geographic Society. ... From 1976 to 1980 he was a staff member of the Center for Earth & Planetary Physics, Harvard University, supporting NASA s Pioneer Venus Mission by making temperature maps of Venus from Mt. ...

... 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. ...

... Master . Master net Homepage . ... MASTER . ... About Space Monitoring Laboratory, scientific directions, instruments, contacts . ... Russian Robotic Net MASTER of Lomonosov Moscow State University discovered the Most Powerfull Object in the Universe . ... Using the 40-cm (16-inch) f/2.5 reflectors equipped with 16-Mpix CCD cameras they have found the brightening of the poorly studied flat spectrum radio quasar CGRaBS J0809+5341 = FIRST J080941.7+534125 with the known redshift z=2.133. ...

RTT150 . ... The primary mirror 1 reflects light to the secondary mirror 2 which sends the converging beam of light to the system of four flat mirrors 3, 4, 5 and 6. That allows the beam of light to leave the telescope strictly along its polar axis and be collected in Coude focus. ... That's why at any tube position (for any rotation along the declination axis) beam of light parallel to the principal axis after reflection on mirror 3 follows the direction of declination axis. ...

... Image Quality of the VLT . Total Optical Control . First light for the ESO VLT unit telescope 1 occurred during the workshop. ... The image shown (Figure 1 ) here was obtained with the VLT on May 16, 1998, in red light (R band), i.e. while the mirror was still uncoated. ... In this diagram (FIgure 2), the measured image quality of the VLT UT1 astronomical images is plotted versus the ``seeing", as measured by the Seeing Monitor, a small telescope also located on top of the Paranal Mountain. ...

... Exoplanet Atmosphere and TTV Science , K. Collins at NASA Goddard, August 2011 . ... MAGPI , April 14, 2011 . The Southern Skies Digital Science Partnership , B. Carter, C. Brown, R. Hart, D. Foster, J. Kielkopf, and R. Moore (Astronomical Society of Australia, July 2007) . ... Kent Observatory , B. Carter, C. Brown, R. Duncan, D. Foster, R. Hart, J. Kielkopf, P. Martin, M. Mengel, R. Moore, S. Sinclair, K. Treschman, and I. Waite (Astronomical Society of Australia, July 2006) . ...

... These Facts and Questions pages mainly tell you how to use the Aberrator-interface and also explain the nature of the aberrations. ... Airy disc: the brightest spot of light when you look at a star in focus. This disc can contain a maximum of 84% of all the light that arrives from a star (perfect refractor telescope). MCT : Maksutov-Cassegrain telescope. A closed-tube mirror-telescope with a secondary obstruction. Less common than the SCT, this telescope uses a corrector (real glass). ...

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. ...

... Baikonur Cosmodrome Yasny launch base Downloads . ... Town of Baikonur residential area of the Cosmodrome . ... For receipt, temporary storage and standalone processing of payloads (including, if necessary, filling with propellant and compressed gases), as well as for preparation, integration and encapsulation of the Space Head Module (SHM), ISC Kosmotras offers an Assembly, Integration and Test Building (AITB), Fueling Station and office premises located at Site 31 of the Baikonur Cosmodrome. ...