ACCURACY ASSESSMENT OF THE ERP PREDICTION METHOD BASED ON ANALYSIS OF 100-YEAR ERP SERIES Z.M. MALKIN1 , V.M. TISSEN2 1 Pulkovo Observatory, St. Petersburg, Russia e-mail: malkin@gao.spb.ru 2 Siberian Scientific Research Institute of Metrology (SNIIM), Novosibirsk, Russia e-mail: tissen@mail.ksn.ru ABSTRACT. ... CONCLUSIONS The method of ERP prediction developed at SNIIM has been tested by comparison with the USNO results using 671 UT1 predictions for 2006­2011 and 423 PM predictions for 2009­2011. ...

... Moon Phase below . ... ARTICLE: Why the moon always shows us the same face . ... Before you continue reading, you should know that this was not always the case, i.e. the Moon once was rotating with respect to the Earth, so that on every night a terrestrial observer (if there was one, because this was long, long before mankind appeared on our planet, and even before any major animals had appeared) saw another face of the Moon. ... Figure 1 (not to scale) shows how we can imagine the system Earth-Moon...

... 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. ...

... The ST-ECF consisted, until its closure in December 2010, of a small group of astronomers, software scientists and media specialists who support Hubble science in Europe and collaborate internationally on HST science, instrument, archive and outreach activities. provided detailed technical information about the HST and its science instruments, . supported European astronomers in the preparation of HST observing proposals . ... acted as a European centre for associated meetings and workshops, . ...

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... V838 Mon is a member of a new class of eruptive variables which appear as a peculiar novae having late K-M type spectra in their outburst. Before its outburst, it was a wide binary system of B3V type stars. ... The B3V companion was seen in the outburst in the UV spectrum taken with HST (Rauch et al., ... In the latest spectra, the light of B3V companion was predominating in the short-wave photometric bands. ... CCD blue frames of V838 Mon before the eclipse (left) and in the eclipse (right). ...

... The obtained results lead to the following conclusions: a) the heavy element enrichment had taken place in the Galaxy in a few bursts of its activity rether than in a continuons manner; b) these bursts occured during the callapse of the early Galaxy; c) the star formation had been inhibited in the time of the bursts; d) the metal enrichment did not proceed in the periods of star formation, between these bursts of activity. ...

ATMoB "Double Star Award " Guidelines Purpose: To promote observing among the membership of the Amateur Telescope Makers of Boston ­ in particular, double, triple, and multiple stars. Introduction: Double, triple, and multiple stars are the "Rodney Dangerfields" of the night sky. ... W hile they can be observed under a variety of sky conditions, double stars ­ especially close ones ­ are best viewed on nights when the seeing is steady. ... The direction from a star to Polaris is north. ...

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... Circumstellar disc of beta Pictoris: constraints on grain properties from polarization. To appear in the Astronomy & Astrophysics . abs , src , ps ] . ... Dust influx to Titan from Hyperion . ... abs ] . ... Characteristics of bulges and disks in interacting galaxies . ... Dust grains around Herbig Ae/Be stars: porous, cometary-like grains? ... To appear in the Astronomy & Astrophysics Supplement . ... Finally, Links may lead you to more options (e.g. via the LANL preprint system). ...

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... We present easy-to-use web applications and XML Web Services to search, plot and manage spectral energy distributions and filter profiles. We provide keyword search, advanced query forms and SQL interfaces to select spectra and band passes that may be retrieved in a variety of formats including XML, VOTable and ASCII. ... We built a relational database of SEDs and implemented effective search algorithms as well as common spectrum and bandpass manipulation functions in the form of XML Web Services. ...

Microsymposium 34, MS058, 2001 ANOMALIES OF THE MOON'S THERMAL EMISSION IN THE IR SPECTRAL RANGE (10.5 - 12.5 micron). ... Sternberg State Astronomical Institute, Moscow, 119899, Russia, pugach@sai.msu.ru Summary: New satellite measurements of the lunar-surface radiation temperature were used to construct the spatial angular function of thermal radiation of the Moon in the infrared (10.5-12.5 micron) spectral range. ... These thermal anomalies are observed only in the limited range of phase angles. ...

... In laboratory the design and a manufacturing techniques mirror aspherical optics are developed ("fokon", ellipsoid, aspherical mirror).Such optical elements are made of widespread aluminium alloys on the standard equipment without use diamond turning. ... Using: optical blocks of not image optical devices for transitions, collimation, focus (concentration) radiations in a wide spectral range from UV to IR. Focusing and collimation of light; . ... circle aperture/ring aperture; . ... Back Forward . ...

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ASTRONOMICAL YEARBOOK FOR 2005 (in Russian) . Preface . In the тАЬAstronomical YearbookтАЭ (AY) the ephemerides of the Sun, Moon, major planets and stars computed with the maximum precision in accordance with the resolutions approved by the International Astronomical Union (IAU) are published. ... N.I. Glebova; . ... The seasons values, the phases of the Moon, the planetary configurations, the data for the eclipses of the Sun and Moon (N.I. Glebova, M.V. Lukashova) are placed on a site . ...

Atmospheric influence on the different radio-engineering system functioning . ESTIMATION OF ATMOSPHERIC OPTICAL CHARACTERISTICS AND REMOTELY SANSED IMAGE CORRECTION . ... Direct transmittance estimation results for 12 channels of the spectrometer CHRIS. ... We have managed to develop a direct method of estimating the discrete Normalized Atmospheric Point Spread Function (NAPSF) from available images alone, not using any external sources of information about the atmosphere. ... IRE RAS 1996-20 11 ...