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IV International Astronomy Olympiad . ... Text of these problems is available also . ... To solve every problem you may use constants and well-known values you know by heart. ... The apparent diameter of the Moon, as seen from the Earth, is 31'. ... Can you observe a star with magnitude . ... Consider the stars as black bodies. ... Estimate the diameter of a black hole constructed using this patent from a ship with the mass of 5000 tn (1 tn = 1000 kg). ... What stars would you observe this nigth? ...

... Cross-shaped galaxy ZGC 2315+03 (Fig.1) has been described by Zwicky (1971) as ``post-eruptive or the result of the crossing of a compact galaxy through an edge-on spiral'' . This object was included in the Polar-Ring Catalog (C-71) by Whitmore et al. (1990) as a possible candidate for Polar-Ring Galaxies (PRG). ... One of them is galaxy 'disk' and the other is 'polar-ring'. ... The facts against the polar-ring nature of ZGC 2315+03 can be summarized as follows: . ...

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. ...

... ACQMODE Acquisition mode AIRMASS Air mass for current object observation BIASSEC OVERSCAN AREA BITPIX Number of bits per data pixel BSCALE Default scaling factor: REAL = TAPE*BSCALE + BZERO BZERO Offset data range to that of unsigned short CALIB Calibration CCD-TEMP CCD temperature at start of exposure in C COMMENT Comment text DATATYPE Data type DATE File creation date (YYYY-MM-DDThh:mm:ss UTC) DATE-OBS YYYY-MM-DD observation start date, UT DEC OBJECT DEC, deg:arcmin ...

Next: Case A: Up: No Title Previous: Introduction . Let us assume that two neutron stars with masses and are merging. The following state of the after-merging object is determined by the ratio of the resulting total mass and the Oppenheimer-Volkoff limit. ... Here and below we interpret the Oppenheimer-Volkoff limit not as the standard value derived for the cold equation of state of baryonic matter for a non-rotating neutron star, but as a modified one. ...

SIMPLE = T / file does conform to FITS standard BITPIX = -32 / number of bits per data pixel NAXIS = 2 / number of data axes NAXIS1 = 1138 / length of data axis 1 NAXIS2 = 1114 / length of data axis 2 TELESCOP= 'UT1 ' PI-COI = 'C. Cesarsky' / Name of PI and COI ORIGIN = 'ESO/EIS ' / Data processed by RA = 53.0917713808546 / RA (J2000) at start (deg). ... RADECSYS= 'FK5 ' / Coordinate reference frame. ... TOT-IMAG= 125 / Total number of images. ... MOSTILES= 21 / Total number of tiles in MOSAICID. ...

General Forum Message . Forums: . ... Deep Space Object Galaxy Near M13 . ... Can anyone tell me if there is a DSO (likely a galaxy) near M13? ... The reason it interests me is that I drew a sketch of M13 years and years ago while observing - and that object is one of the handful of 'stars' that I drew. ... www.astronomy.net . About Astronomy Net | ... Forum posts are Copyright their authors as specified in the heading above the post. "dbHTML," "AstroGuide," "ASTRONOMY.NET" & "VA.NET" . ...

System of astrometric databases of Pulkovo observatory. ... The purpose of these observations is the determination of precise coordinates of Solar system bodies, which is necessary for development and improvement of motion theories, and for studying the evolution of the Solar system. ... Accuracy of photographical observations is about 0.2-0.3 arcsec for equatorial coordinates and 0.1-0.3 for relative coordinates of planetary satellites, depending on object and observational conditions. ...

MPEC 2010-A35 : 2010 AL2 http://www.cfa.harvard.edu/mpec/K10/K10A35.html Printer-friendly version MPC Ope rations Status Processing (Info) ECS: Accessible Obse rv e r Se rv ice s (NEOs) NEO Services Overview NEO Confirmation NEO Confirmation (RA order) NEO Ratings NEO Page NEO Observation Planning Aid NEOChecker NEOCMT Checker Obse rv e r Se rv ice s Services Overview IAUMail Minor Planet & Comet Ephem. ... Orbital elements: 2010 AL2 Epoch 2010 Jan. ...

... For the past years I have been working on the problem of synthesis of light curves of close binary systems, consisting of a normal star and a compact object (point object with fixed X-ray luminosity). ... Possible existence of a bright spot on the disk's lateral surface is taken into account. ... The last of then will be published in Gordon and Breach Publishers ( Cherepashchuk A.M., Katysheva N.A., Khruzina T.S., Shugarov S.Yu. ... Cherepashchuk A.M., Katysheva N.A., Khruzina T.S., Shugarov S.Yu. ...

... A classic test of the standard orientation-dependent unified schemes has been the assessment of the quasar fraction in complete radio samples. Using a sample of giant radiosources (projected size ) out to redshifts of , I demonstrate that the fraction of broad line objects is smaller than that obtained by comparison of quasars and galaxies in the 3CR sample. ... The sample . ... Giant radio sources ( ) have traditionally been of great interest for several reasons. ...

... Iowa Robotic Telescope | ... Talon is based on OCAAS, a software suite developed by software engineer Elwood Downey ( Clear Sky Institute ) for use at the University of Iowa ?s first remote facility (the ATF, or Automated Telescope Facility). ... XObservatory : Telescope Control Interface . ... This program calls upon and coordinates much of the interrelated portions of the Talon architecture, and forms the primary control panel for the telescope, dome, and peripheral systems when used locally. ...

acsdoc.zip 12221 info about generic WPS method access object assist11.zip 689805 WPS extension for WARP 3/4 audiocdcreator_039.zip 414750 folder classes, CDRecord/2 front end blckh3.zip 35382 Black Hole WPS object bubpd102.zip 142897 Launchpad replacement class classman.zip 19153 WPS class (de)registration utility cmdfld12.zip 45658 WPFolder subclass cmdrun12.zip 34043 extension to WPFolder ...

... About StarCalc . News . ... StarCalc Home Page . Short description of changes, implemented in the StarCalc, . ... CHANGES OF PROGRAM CORE FUNCTIONS. CHANGES OF PROGRAM INTERFACE. CHANGES OF OBJECT INTERFACES. ... New "Output console". ... Information, which is generated by StarCalc, is added into the console - for example, ephemeris tables. ... In the StarCalc state file can be saved autorotation parameters, object selection, object locking mode, auto start and stop autorotation mode. ...

... The first column shows the kinematical diagrams, where is the angle between the line of sight on the object and the vector of rotation about Z -axis, and V S is objects line-of-sight velocity relative to an observer at rest at the position of the Sun. The straight lines are regression fits, whose slopes yield the subsystem’s rotation rate. The second column shows the relations between metallicity and distance from the Galactic plane. ... privious figure | next figure . ...

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... They are known: active quantum frequency standards on the ammonia molecules beams (molecular generator) on the hydrogen generator (hydrogen generator) passive quantum frequency standards on the Cs atoms’ beam (cerium atomic beam tube); active and passive quantum frequency standards with an optical pumping of Cs or Rb steams. The stability of atomic beam quantum frequency standard achieves 10^ - 14. ...

Open Systems Handbook: A Guide to Building Open Systems . ... This book is designed to provide interested individuals and organizations with an overview of open systems and the work being done to achieve them. ... This section is organized using a descriptive model of an open systems environment developed by the IEEE PI 003.0 Working Group, which is developing the Guide to POSIX-based Open System Architecture. ... Standards for open systems 13 . Chapter 3: The open systems environment (OSE) 15 . ...

As of 1.3, the Apache source directories have been re-organised. This re-organisation is designed to simplify the directory structure, make it easier to add additional modules, and to give module authors a way of specifying compile time options or distribute binary modules. ... The non-module source files have moved from src into src/main . ... Configure . ... For example, say it is called mod_demo.c. The archive for this module should consist of two files, in a suitable directory name. ...