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. ...

... 1b. Pole Star . ... Two bright constellations occupy opposite sides of the pole star--the Big Dipper and Cassiopeia . ... The Big Dipper consists of 7 bright stars, forming a dipper, a small pot with a long handle. ... It shows the 7 stars of the Big Dipper and Polaris, the north star. ... Ursa Minor , the "Small Bear" or "Little Dipper" is a constellation somewhat resembling the Big Dipper, and Polaris is the last star in its tail. ... Questions from Users: About the stars of the Big Dipper . ...

Here is a description of the Filter/Driver Pack Plus release from Aldus. ... The Macintosh Filter/Driver Pack Plus includes several new and updated filters, including import filters for Microsoft Works 3.0 and MacWrite Pro files, as well as the most recent LaserWriter driver, version 8.1.1. ... The Filter/Driver Pack Plus also includes a patcher utility which will update PageMaker 5.0 to version 5.0a. This patcher corrects a handful of reported customer problems. ...

... Tonight's Sky . ... Star Atlas . ... stars . ... The double star 54 Leonis, spiral galaxy NGC 3198, and emission nebula NGC 3199 . ... Pulsating star mystery solved . Rare alignment of the orbits of two stars in a double star system allows measurement of Cepheid mass with unprecedented accuracy. ... By discovering the first double star where a pulsating Cepheid variable and another star pass in front of one another, an international team of astronomers has solved a decades-old mystery. ...

... It is found that the correlation coefficients between these two parameters calculated separately inside and outside the sunspot formation zone ?30 have cyclic variation and occur in anti-phase. This suggests different mechanisms of formation of the corona in the fields of small, medium, and large scales. ... The relationship between the coronal green line brightness (CGLB) and the magnetic field strength (MFS) has been investigated by constructing the corresponding synoptic maps for the 1977-2001. ...

T Ant [A/H] = -0.0. P var, nonlinear elements: Max = 2436120.756 T Ant + 5.897915d*E + 4.80d*10^{-8}E^2 [00027]. ... 00000]. ... Brightness variations with AG Ant the orbital period probably due to variations of circumstellar AG Ant extinction. ... R Ara Min II 6.2. ... The data in [00002] reveal RR Tel current V-band variations with a small amplitude and nearly RR Tel the same period [00000]. ... V0340 Tel The data from [00002] do not confirm the tabulated period V0340 Tel [00000]. ...

Cosmic Ray laboratory of . ... Neutron Monitor (Cosmic Ray Observations) . is situated in Irkutsk (Russia) . ... Height - location above sea level . ... Height: . ... For recording the CR (Cosmic Rays) neutron component at Irkutsk, . neutron monitor NM-64 is used, which is an installation with 18 two-meter proportional counters filled with BF 3 (boron trifluoride gas) in which the B 10 90 per cent of the total boron. ... The neutron monitor is located at 475m above sea level. ...

... Here we present and discuss Vela Jr. properties revealed by these multiwavelength observations, and confront them with the SNR model expectations. ... Multiple observations of Vela Jr. in the radio band confirmed the shell-like structure and supported the identification of RX J0852.0-4622 as a SNR [8,11,12,13,14,16,46]. ... The X-ray emission line feature at 4.2 keV found by ASCA [48] in the NW rim spectrum of RX J0852.0-4622 was confirmed by XMM-Newton data (Fig. 4, 5, and [22]), and by Chandra [4]...

... The analysis shows, that asteroid ґ rubble pile loses its fast fragments in no time but the retaining fragments forms a compact structure immersed in dust ґ gas atmosphere, created by interaction of interplanetary medium with dispersed product of collisional evolution of asteroid. By interaction of an asteroid ґ rubble pile with interplanetary medium structures asteroid can increase its brightness on account of blowed up dust simulating phenomenon of distant comet's brightening. ...

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... Meade Instruments Corporation . Telescopes · Binoculars · Microscopes . ... Asteroids can be observed, and their paths plotted in motion among the stars, through all Meade telescope models. ... Larger telescopes, including Meade DS-2000 series, LXD55 series, 8LX90 and LX200GPS, permit the observation of hundreds of variable stars throughout the sky. ... Larger telescopes such as the Meade LXD55 series, allow the observation of dozens of additional stars embedded in the nebula. ... about meade | ...

Abstract -- The strengths of magnetic fields in interstellar gas clouds are obtained through observations of the circular polarization of spectral line radiation. ... To infer information about these irregularities from the observational data, we develop statistical relationships between the rms values of the irregular component of the magnetic field and spatial variations in the circular polarization of the spectral line radiation. ...

... Bad Astronomy . ... Bad Astronomy: The North Star, Polaris, is a very bright star. Good Astronomy: Polaris is a middling-bright star, easily missed. ... He said it was close to Polaris, the North Star, but he also said it was in the East. ... It's natural, I suppose, to think that such an important star should be bright, but really, that's a conceit, like thinking that the Earth is at the center of the Universe. If more people knew just why Polaris is the North Star, this Bad Idea would stop. ...

... The main field of my investigations is stellar spectrophotometry. As a result of scientific activity of our group spectrophotometric catalog was created including energy distribution data on 900 stars in the range 3200-7600AA and 250 stars in the range 6000-10800AA (Voloshina et al., Spectrophotometry of Bright Stars, ed. I.N.Glushneva, 1982, Moscow, Nauka, in Russian). ...

fluxes are measured in mJy . ... Source, Images & Lens . ... VLA (8.5-43 GHz), MERLIN, VLBI . ... availavle maps: VLBA (1.7 GHz and 5 GHz) . ... 1] "A gravitationally lensed quasar with an unusual radiomorphology", Winn et al., astro-ph/0107435 . ... 104(+-3) Total flux at 5 GHz: 1209 mJy . ... 4] "MERLIN/VLA imaging of the gravitational lens system B0218+357", Biggs et al., astro-ph/0011142 . ... 58 Total flux at 5 GHz: 997 mJy (see CASTLES) . ... Total flux at 5 GHz: 316 mJy; 1.4 GHz: 576 mJy . ...

... Dept. for Physics of Minor Celestial Bodies . Dept. for Physics of Planetary Systems . Dept. for Solar Physics . ... Achievements . ... The theory of radiative transfer in inhomogeneous atmospheres was developed ( Yanovytskij E.G. ) . ... Calculations shown that the vertical movement of gas and aerosol in the atmosphere of giant planets with velocity w = (0.1-0.5) m/s determines the capacity of visible clouds and therefore affects their brightness characteristics (A. P. Vidmachenko). ...

MAIN PAGE . ... Nova Cygni August 1975! ... 1975/76: Comet West! ... Dr. Richard West (4th from left) & AAL members visiting SES Betzdorf on occasion of our club's 25th anniversary - October 1996 . Comet West Information . ... It was the brightest comet visible from Earth since Comet West in 1976. ... 1997: Comet Hale-Bopp! ... Thus Comet Hale-Bopp never got closer to Earth than Earth gets to the Sun. ... Comet Hale-Bopp JPL Page . ... 1999: Total solar eclipse over Luxembourg! ...

INNER POLAR RINGS REGULAR LENTICULAR GALAXIES 1 K. Sil'chenko 2 Sternberg Astronomical Institute, 119992 Moscow, Russia; Isaac Newton Institute Chile, Moscow Branch; olga@sai.msu.su Afanasiev Special Astrophysical Observatory, 369167 Nizhnij Arkhyz, Russia; vafan@sao.ru Received 2003 December accepted February 4 ABSTRACT have investigated a sample of galaxies, mostly with circumnuclear dust lanes orthogonal their major axes, chosen from Hubble Space Telescope Wide Field Planetary Camera 2 images. ...

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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 . ...