Using a combination of instruments on ESO's Very Large Telescope, astronomers have discovered the most massive stars to date, some weighing at birth more than 300 times the mass of the Sun, or twice as much as the currently accepted limit of 150 solar masses. The most extreme of these stars was found in the cluster R136 in the Tarantula Nebula. Named R136a1, it is found to have a current mass of 265 times that of the Sun. ...

... In 1930, Trumpler noticed that linear diameters (LD) of open clusters increase with distance (D) from the Sun. ... Since that time, the interstellar absorption has become one of the best studied factor in astrophysics, and we may hope that current OCL distance scales are free from this LD-D correlation. To verify if this is the case we have chosen several modern OCL distance scales and test them with the same clusters and the same angular diameters that Trumpler had used back in 1930. ...

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FITShdr' package contains set of utilities, that allows to display or modify FITS-file headers (FITS MEF included). ... Both source tarball and i386 RPM are available for downloading: fitshdr-current.tar.gz size: 36379 MD5 checksum: 1e7222149ca36696797a6e0f4af41afc SHA1 checksum: 990bdf69f67d2b989d2d6e044deeaf9128d4470c fitshdr-1.0.6-1.i386.rpm size: 539101 MD5 checksum: 19e046da52b3ec8dd89aaed9e806bb5d SHA1 checksum: 07a4b4e2bd96a4c9fda7dc65127d0b80130c97e1 . ...

MOSCOW CENTER FOR CONTINUOUS MATHEMATICAL EDUCATION . INDEPENDENT UNIVERSITY OF MOSCOW . ... A MATHEMATICS PROGRAM IN ENGLISH . FOR UNDERGRADUATES AND GRADUATE STUDENTS . ... Students | IUM Library | ... About the IUM . ... Program features . ... Application: . ... Application procedure . Application form . ... Program: . ... Living in Moscow . ... Current semester info: . ... Alumni: . List of Alumni . Home Universities . ... University of California, Berkeley . ...

... 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. ...

... 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) . ...

Name Last modified Size Description . Parent Directory - Artemyev.ppt 03-Mar-2010 19:17 1.6M Frank_IKI-2010.ppt 03-Mar-2010 19:17 5.0M Lyahov.ppt 03-Mar-2010 19:17 1.5M Malova_OFN_2010a.ppt 03-Mar-2010 19:17 5.9M O_Ming_OFN_10.ppt 03-Mar-2010 19:17 14M Petrukovich.ppt 03-Mar-2010 19:17 3.7M Zelenyi_et_al_OFN-2010-v3.ppt 03-Mar-2010 19:17 1.8M .

MATSYM - symbolic matrix processor . ... To use the program you will need a MAT file (liked CIR file: "User manual for CIRSYM program") of your system. ... In first string of MAT file enter any text you want to be the title of your system. ... Starting from string 2 (if is not comments - "*") enter the system element name, incident row and column and, optionally, its value. ... To generate a solution, run MATSYM.exe and enter "system_file_name.CIR" or click on the "ENTER" (in "MAT" case). ...

... Bob Benoit Manager of the Optics Division L-3 IOS SSG . Thursday, Apr 9, 2009 at 8:00 PM . ... Bob will talk about the telescope, and also describe some of the results from the M3’s first few months in lunar orbit. ... Thursday, Apr 9, 2009 at 8:00 PM in Phillips Auditorium, Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics ( 60 Garden St, Cambridge, MA ). ... Apr . ... Copyright (c) Amateur Telescope Makers of Boston, Inc. ...

... This telescope is also able to be used in a non-assisted manner. ... Upon availability, the use of the Club's 10" dobsonian mount telescope. Upon availability, the use of the Club's 16" Meade LightBridge telescope. ... Use of the Club's Coronado Personal Solar Telescope and Cemax Eyepieces. Use of the Club's Video Eyepieces. ... Use of Club Binoculars. ... It's all part of being here and just one of many telescopes that are the benefit of being a member of the Richland Astronomical Society. ...

... FTP access the basic models is here . ... Below, we put short descriptions of the used SED models for the photometric redshifts providing by the current server . ... The uniqueness of this model consists in expanding to the near IR (NIR) of Rocca-Volmerange and Guiderdoni's (1988) atlas of synthetic spectra with a revised stellar library, which includes parameters of cool stars. ... Homepage of the GISSEL model). ... Another model used earlier is the model of synthetic spectra of Poggianti (1997). ...

... According to the current estimates, a few percent of Main Sequence B5-F5 stars reveal strong surface magnetic fields reaching the values of tens of kilogauss, which is an order of magnitude greater than the maximal magnetic field in sunspots. ... An important direction in the study of magnetic stars is the study of binary and multiple systems with magnetic components using the techniques of spectroscopy and high angular resolution interferometry. ...

NMW survey overview . Access image archive . ... The New Milky Way survey aims to detect bright (V<13.5) optical transients near the Galactic plane using an automated wide-field (8x6 deg.) system capable of surveying the whole Milky Way area visible from the observing site in one night. ... All images obtained during the transient search survey are available online (please use the image archive access form ). ... Images per field: . ... Images per night: . ... Milky Way imaging time: . ...

Kiselev A.A., Kiyaeva O.V., Izmailov I.S., Romanenko L.G., Shakht N.A., Kalinichenko O.A., Vasilkova O.O., Vasileva T.A., Poliakow E.V. (Pulkovo Observatory, Russia): Title: Results of reduction of photographic plates taken with 26-inch refractor in Pulkovo observatory Abstract: We present the results of narrow-field reduction for about 8000 photographic glass plates taken with the Pulkovo 26-inch refractor in the period from 1958 to 2007 years. ...

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The XV_VTDF is a viewer for TDF format files (extension to TIFF 6.0 format for storage of high-resolution satellite data). More information about TDF format and relevant topics, as well as satellite data in this format you may receive from Space Monitoring Information Support lab (Space Research Institute, Moscow, Russia) . ... XV_VTDF <filename> - load TDF file at startup (default size) . ... The XV_VTDF operates with fixed-size satellite images in TDF format. ... Back to SMIS Home Page . ...

... 9) Oknyanskij V.L. 1994, "Optical-radio time delays in Q0957+561", Odessa Astronomical Publ., ... 11) Oknyanskij V.L. 1994, "Connection between X-ray and optical variability in NGC4151", in Proceedings of Int. Conf. ... 1994. 12) Oknyanskij V.L. 1994, "Connection between X-ray and optical variability in NGC4151", Astrophys. and Space Science, 222, p.157. ... 14) Oknyanskij V.L., van Groningen E., 1997, "Optical spectral variability of NGC4151 in 1990", Astronomical and Astrophys. ...

... Beijing Global Information Center of Application and Exploitation, Beijing, China Introduction In the current list of satellites tracked by ILRS stations, the mission for GNSS include: one GPS satellites four GALILEO satellites six GLONASS satellites one QZSS satellite four COMPASS satellites COMPASS is the Chinese regional satellite navigation system, consisting of satellites with GEO, IGSO and MEO orbit and the orbital altitudes of 21500-36000km . ... M3 can be tracked by all ILRS stations. ...