... 2015 - 2016 . ... Eugene Higgins Professor of Astrophysics, Princeton University . ... December 8, 2015 . ... November 10, 2015 . ... University of the Sciences in Philadelphia author . ... Amateur Astronomer . ... 2014 - 2015 . ... June 9, 2015 . ... Digital Planetarium and the 2012 Transit of Venus from Hawaii . 2013 - 2014 . ... International Occultation Timing Association . ... 2012 - 2013 . ... 2011 - 2012 . ... Princeton University . ... Amateur Astronomers Association of Princeton, Inc., ...

... Recent Topics . ... MAO main . ... September Issue: Einste . ... Тема: September Issue: Einstein ? ... To view this email as a web page, go here. links.email.scientificamerican.com/servl.. NzQyODY1NjExS0 =0 . ... 100 years of general relativity links.email.scientificamerican.com/ctt?k... ... Albert Einstein created his most famous theory amid personal strife, political tension and a scientific rivalry that almost cost him the glory of his discovery links.email.scientificamerican.com/ctt?k... ...

... Two new LBV stars have been discovered in the Andromeda Galaxy. ... In Figure 1 the spectral energy distributions for six stars are shown: upper row - the newly discovered LBV stars, middle row - two well-known LBV stars Var A-1 and AE And, the lower row - two new B[e]-supergiant stars in Andromeda. ... Infrared spectra of the stars in the Andromeda Galaxy: two classical LBVs Var A-1 and AE And, two new LBVs J004526.62 and J004051.59, and two new B[e]-supergiants J004417.10 and J004444.52. ...

Guest Editorial , July 2006 . Past ? Present ? Future . ... SETI, the quest for reasonable signals from Space, is aimed at the Past. ... From here on Earth, we can say with good reason that conducting both searches (SETI) and transmission (METI) of reasonable signals, we appear poised just halfway between the Past and the Future: namely, in the Present! ... This editorial was submitted in response to Their Past, Our Future , by SETI League executive director emeritus H. Paul Shuch. ...

... R. E. Jackson . ... H.-M. Adorf . ... D. C. Wells . ... AstroWeb is a World Wide Web (WWW) interface to a collection of Internet accessible resources aimed at the astronomical community. ... The goal of AstroWeb is to be the most complete, up to date, and useful listing of Internet accessible astronomical resources available anywhere. ... Jackson, Wells, and Adorf noticed that they and others had created largely overlapping lists of Astronomical resources. ...

ALBUM: UK Lyrics from U.K. "U.K." From lyric sheet; in "{ }" on left column denotes actual words sung, where they differ from what was written (some significant, some subtly different, some markedly different meanings) @SONG: In The Dead Of Night -------------------- Are you one of mine who can sleep with one eye open wide? ... SONG: Mental Medication ----------------- Mental medication Sweet music's conversation Play for all creation here Melody fair. ... Need your inspiration near. ...

Russian SHAREABLE DATA CENTER Institute of Solar-Terrestial Physics SB RAS . ... November 9, 10, 11, 12 and 13 . December 6, 7, 8 and 9 March 24, 25, 26, 27 and 28 . ... December 3, 4 and 5 February 13, 14 and 15 . ... December 10, 11, 12, 13 and 14 . Incoherent Scatter Radar ionospheric parameters measurements are carried out on coordinated days determined by the International Geophysical Calendar. ...

... Magnetic storms online . ... Geomagnetic activity forecast . ... September : 2015 . ... No magnetic storm is expected . From 2 September 2015 to 28 September 2015 the following magnetic storms and disturbances are expected: . September 12, 2015 geomagnetic disturbances . September 02, 2015 geomagnetic storm of level G1 (minor) . ... September 20, 2015 geomagnetic disturbances 2 September 2015 - 28 September 2015 . 01.09.2015 . ... Probability of a magnetic storm . ...

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... 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 . ...

SAI VO . ... SAI CAS . ... Access . ... We present the results of the development of Sternberg Astronomical Institute Catalog Access Services (SAI CAS) project - the first and the only project in Russia, which provides online access to the major astronomical catalogues and different services on top of them. ... SAI CAS is an open-source implementation of the general Catalogue access service (influenced by SDSS CAS CASjobs project), based on original algorithms and open-source software. ... SAI MSU | ...

... About meteorites . ... Meteoritic data . Impact Crater Smerdyachee . ... Based on Smerdyachee's depth, near circularity, and its mounded wall, and analysis by N.A. Fillin of nearby Roshal, Russia, the Estonian scientists Yu.V. Krestlane and K.H. Mella proposed in 1987 that Smerdyachee Lake is a meteorite crater. ... In 2002, the Laboratory of Meteoritics of the Vernadsky Institute of Geochemistry and Analytical Chemistry of the Russian Academy of Sciences explored this mysterious lake. ...

Hubble Family Homes . ... New Albany . ... New Albany High School . ... During the summer Edwin translated Spanish documents for an import company, and that fall he was hired to teach Spanish, physics, and mathematics, and to coach basketball, at New Albany High School. ... Gale E. Christianson has written an authoritative biography -- Edwin Hubble, Mariner of the Nebulae (Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, New York, 1995) -- that documents Hubble's career and describes the year he spent in Louisville. ...

Электронная библиотека астронома-любителя. ... Ru.Space.News: . Апрель 1998 . ... FOR RELEASE: 9:00 a.m. (EDT) April 9, 1998 CONTACT: Ray Villard Space Telescope Science Institute, Baltimore, MD (Phone: 410-338-4514) PRESS RELEASE NO.: ... Дата: 13 апреля 1998 (1998-04-13) От: Alexander Bondugin Тема: Full Data Sets From Galileo's First Six Orbits Now Available Привет всем! ... Дата: 13 апреля 1998 (1998-04-13) От: Alexander Bondugin Тема: Sky Telescope News Bulletin - April 10, 1998 Привет всем! ...

... We have compared visualized fields of GSC and USNO A1.0 catalog with unpublished photographic finding charts that were sent by L. Plaut to the compilers of the GCVS. ... 7-15 A9 --- GCVS GCVS or NSV name 17-25 F9.4 --- GSC GSC number 26 A1 --- NoteFlag *Nonstar (GSC) flag 28-29 I2 h RA2000GSC.h Hours RA (GSC), equinox 2000.0 31-32 I2 min RA2000GSC.m Minutes RA (GSC), equinox 2000.0 34-38 F5.2 s RA2000GSC.s Seconds RA (GSC), equinox 2000.0 40 A1 --- DE2000GSC.- ... Plaut, L., 1966, Bull. ...

... arfgen (arfgen-1.66.4) [xmmsas_20050815_1803-6.5.0] . ... Generates an OGIP-compliant ([ 4 ]) ancillary response file (ARF). The ARF contains a table listing area values (the column SPECRESP ) for a number of different energy ranges (the columns ENERG_LO and ENERG_HI ). The ARF can be used in conjunction with the response matrix file (RMF, generated by rmfgen ) to allow fitting of particular spectral models against the observed spectral data. ... Implemented . ... Bad pixel correction . ...

We note, with deep sorrow, that Dr. Valentin Alexandrovich Lipovetsky, a senior astronomer and the leader of the Laboratory of Galaxy Studies of the Special Asrtrophysical Observatory, passed away at the age of 51 on September 22, 1996, after a several year battle with melanoma. Valentin Lipovetsky was an outstanding astronomer in many areas of extragalactic research and an internationally acknowledged leader in objective prism surveys and studies of AGN and star-forming galaxies. ...

... In Memoriam Maxim Tarasenko . Russian page . ... 04 May 2002 . M. Tarasenko "The Military Aspects of the Soviet Cosmonautics" . 15 April 2000 . The works of Maxim Tarasenko . ... Russian Military Space Activity" . ... MAXIM TARASENKO (1962-1999) - Russian Space Analist . 18 March 2002 . The Maxim Tarasenko Award The Journal "Space Polic" has created a new award for essays in space policy open to graduate students. The Institute of Space Policy (Russia) . ...

... Laboratory . ... webmaster@izmiran.ru . ... Institute of Terrestrial Magnetism, Ionosphere, and Radiowave Propagation, Russian Academy of Sciences, Troitsk, Moscow region, 142190 Russia . e-mail: karp@izmiran.ru . ... Since the MIT shape strongly depends on magnetic activity, quiet conditions (1 <= Kp <= 3) were selected to study the MIT shape diurnal variations; i.e., very quiet and slightly disturbed conditions were not considered. ... DEPENDENCE OF THE MIT SHAPE ON MAGNETIC ACTIVITY . ...