ATMoB "Galaxy Observing Award " Guidelines Purpose: To promote observing among the membership of the Amateur Telescope Makers of Boston through participation in the Galaxy Observing Awards program. ... Examples of elliptical galaxies: M49, M59, M60, M87, NGC 4125. Limiting Magnitude Assessment: Spirals: A spiral galaxy consists of a flattened disk, with stars forming a (usually two-armed) spiral structure, and a central concentration of stars known as the bulge. ...

RELATIVE SUNSPOT NUMBERS Description of Data from SGD Explanation of Data Reports: Relative Sunspot Numbers -- The relative sunspot number is an index of the activity of the entire visible disk of the Sun. ... The provisional daily Zurich relative sunspot numbers, Rz, were based upon observations made at Zurich and its two branch stations in Arosa and Locarno and communicated by M. Waldmeier of the Swiss Federal Observatory. ... This indicates the uncertainty above and below the predicted number. ...

Preface The necessity of the preparation and edition of such intricate publication, that is the printed version offered to the reader, of geoinformation system including the chronological catalogue and evolutionary database of the global tropical cyclogenesis is dictated, in opinion of the authors, whole number of objective circumstances. ... It derivates the serious dissensions in the initial ('raw') information as well as in databases and archives of regional cyclogenesises. ...

... Determination of the Permissible Solutions Area by Image Reconstruction from a few Projections: Method 2­CLEAN DSA Michail I. Agafonov Radiophysical Research Institute (NIRFI), 25 B.Pecherskaya st., Nizhny Novgorod, 603600, Russia, E­mail: agfn@nirfi.nnov.su Abstract. ... Application The problem requires the solution of the equation G = H # F (+noise) , (1) where F (x, y) is the object brightness distribution, H(x, y) is the fan (dirty) beam, and G(x, y) is the dirty (summary) image. ...

Statistics of sunspot activity . The sunspot indices . ... Visual indices of solar activity . ... n - number of spot groups . A - Waldmeier class of unipolar spot groups without penumbra . B - class of bipolar spot groups without penumbra . C - class of bipolar spot groups with one penumbra pole . D - class of small bipolar spot groups with two penumbra poles . E - class of middle bipolar spot groups with two penumbra poles . ... H - class of unipolar penumbrated spot groups . ...

... March 25, 2006: Version 3.0.0 New control panel with an observing queue and a log Pointing to apparent position including proper motion precession and nutation to epoch of ... declination axis to polar axis non-orthogonality optical axis skew altitude- and azimuth-dependent mechanical effects encoder reference Control of telescope hardware August 20, 2006 Version 3.0.4 Modifications from Dan Azari adding features suported by the RC Optical Systems ...

JSC scientists have their names in the stars By Cathy Watson and Kendra Ceule M arilyn Lindstrom is #5281, David McKay is #6111 and Mike Zolensky is #6030. ... Several past and present Johnson Space Center employees have been among those people honored with asteroid names, including the following: Don Bogard: asteroid name `Bogard,' #4794 Bogard, Chief Scientist for Research on Astromaterials for the Astromaterials Research and Exploration Science (ARES) office, has worked at JSC since 1968. ...

... The extraordinary solar activity of October--November 2003 manifested itself in many powerful eruptive events, including large CMEs and extremely powerful flares. ... We study large-scale post-eruptive activity manifestations on the Sun associated with CMEs, i.e., dimmings and coronal waves, observed in extreme ultraviolet with the EIT telescope on SOHO and SPIRIT telescope on the CORONAS-F satellite. ...

. Full screen versions . Number - magnitude counts . Number - redshift counts . | Front page | . | << - Redshift wedge | Completeness estimates - >> | . Robert J. Smith, ">rsmith@mso.anu.edu.au Last modified: Fri Sep 24 11:39:02 EST 1999 .

... Exposure Time Calculator (ETC) . Survey processing . ... VISTA is a 4-m class wide field survey telescope for the southern hemisphere, equipped with a near infrared camera (1.65 degree diameter field of view at VISTA's nominal pixel size) containing 67 million pixels of mean size 0.34 arcsec and available broad band filters at Z,Y,J,H,K s and a narrow band filter at 1.18 micron. A wide field visible camera, if constructed, could also be used on VISTA. ... Tile . ... ESO VISTA Public Surveys . ...

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. ...

Prague, August 16, 2006 . The main GCVS problem is that it is no longer a GENERAL catalogue of variable stars (in fact, it even never was). The GCVS always was a catalogue of galactic variables, with a minor number of extragalactic stars that were included mainly by misunderstandings. ... Recently, many thousands of new variable stars were discovered in automatic survey projects (for example, some 30000 non-GCVS stars solely in the ASAS-3 project). ...

... A clock is a tool for the time counting. The stable repeating processes are used in clocks. ... The first timepieces were sand glasses; in the 2nd thousand years B.C. there occured water clocks; the first mentions about mechanical timepieces related to the end of the 6th century; the modern mechanical timepieces are created by H. Huigens in 1657; in 70th years of the 20th century there were widespread the electronic quartz watches with numeric indication, for example on the liquid chips. ...

... The perceptron structure, on the basis of which the database is built, is defined by a number of the input and output parameters and a required accuracy. ... The output perceptron data are the expansion coefficients of the scattering matrix elements in series of the generalized spherical functions. ... As the cluster structure depends on the generation conditions the expansion coefficients were averaged over 5--7 realizations of the clusters (for N . ... is the coefficient number. ...

FOURTEENTH CREW REQUIRED RESOURCES ELEVENTH RUSSIAN VISITING CREW IMAGE . ... EXPEDITION FOURTEEN (ISS-14) . ... During ISS-14, 266 sessions of 41 experiments are to be implemented. ... Allocation of Experiments and Number of Sessions by Research Areas. Research Area . Experiment Name . Totally . ... Research of space rays . ... Ascent to ISS RS: by Soyuz TMA-9 . ... ISS-14 Crew Commander Lopez-Alegria (USA) . ... RECORDING AND TRANSFER OF SCIENTIFIC DATA TO PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATORS . ...

AAL Guestbook . Please Sign Our Guestbook . ... Previous Page | ... Signed on Thursday, March 17, 2005 at 15:11:05 CET . ... There's a great new astrobiology blog, run by newspaper editor Rob Bignell, at http://alienlifeblog.blogspot.com/. ... Signed on Saturday, December 25, 2004 at 02:46:35 CET . ... auch auf diesen Seiten . ... You have great designs on your site! ... Signed on Wednesday, December 22, 2004 at 17:38:52 CET . ... Signed on Thursday, October 28, 2004 at 19:39:53 CET . ...

... The Sun has come all of one day away from breaking its record for the longest period of inactivity for the last decade - reaching a mid-summer low and falling into yet another state of "hibernation". Yesterday, on the first day of autumn, new sunspots appeared on the surface of the Sun following an absence of almost 50 days. ... The first low lasted 51 days, from 21 July until 11 September last year. ... Now, almost a year later, it seems the Sun has hit a new low almost as "deep" as the first. ...

... Our tours this year include: Yuri Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center at Star City, Bauman Moscow State Technical University Orevo Laboratory, Russian Mission Control Center (TsUP), Rocket and Space Corporation Energia, Lavochkin Scientific and Industrial Association, Energomash Scientific and Industrial Association, Scientific and Industrial Association "Zvezda", Khrunichev State Research & Production Space Center, Monino Air Force Museum. Bauman Moscow State Technical University . Moscow) . ...

IACETH Institute for Atmospheric and Climate Science Road traffic emissions in ff Switzerland: Results from the Results Gubrist tunnel Institute for Atmospheric and Climate Science (IACETH), Swiss Federal Institute of Technology ZЭrich (ETHZ) UniversitДtstrasse 16 CH-8092 ZЭrich, Switzerland email: Johannes.Staehelin@env.ethz.ch Johannes Staehelin 1. ... Road traffic emission models and Road emission tunnel measurements 3. ... Measurements of the Gubrist tunnel Measurements of 5. ...

Russian Military Space Activity . r The experts in space and rocketry field as well as ones interested in the Russian cosmonautics know quite a well The Military Aspects of the Soviet Cosmonautics book by Maxim Tarasenko published in 1992. This book still is an unique independent Russian research in the military space programs' field. ... Instead, as a result of the author's many years efforts, The Russian Military Space Activities book manuscript was practically finished early in 1999. ...