... Radio Astronomy . ... ASRAS Board Members . ... To see the most up to date news and events happening with ASRAS log in with your user name and password and then click on the Activities page. ... Messier Marathon (Member Observing) CANCELLED Saturday, April 9, 2016 9:00 PM Location:Farash Center Ionia NY . ... ASRAS Members meeting - Friday May 6 at Farash Center - Ionia NY . ... ASRAS Board members meeting - monday May 9 @ Farash Center Monday, May 9, 2016 7:00 PM Location:Farash Center Ionia NY . ...

... Events . ... Pre-university education . ... Web of Science database ( http://webofknowledge.com ) is available since 2 October. This database is the most competent analytic and citation database of journal articles, including 3 bases: Science/Social Sciences/Arts&Humanities Citation Index. To rate citation index, impact-factor, Hirsch index scientists and specialists of all subject areas are recommended to use Web of Science database since it is the most important one for the researchers. ...

Proceedings of Turbulent Shear Flows XI , 1997. NASA Technical Paper # 3555 , 1997. Proceedings of European Turbulence Conference VI , 1996. ESPRI Research Report # 104, 117-143 (1996) . ... Proceedings of Turbulent Shear Flows X , 1995. ASME Paper 95-GT-437 , 1995. ... Invited AIAA Paper 94-2281 presented at the 1994 AIAA Fluid Dynamics Conference, Colorado Springs, CO. AIAA Paper 94-2323, presented at the 1994 AIAA Fluid Dynamics Conference, Colorado Springs, CO. ...

... Advises . Contact Advises . As an advise for amateurs we would like to underline: if it's possible, try to observe 3 asteroid positions per night and do not neglect to observe the Numbered Minor Planets in your telescope field of view as a "by product" of your observational programs. ... We think such estimations ought to be produced every morning after CCD observations of the moving celestial objects by observer himself. ...

Taking the opportunity of the Gaia reference star catalogue for observing the Solar system in the past D. Hestroffer , J.-E. Arlot , V. Lainey , V. Robert 1 1 1 1,2 1 - IMCCE ... Institut Polytechnique des Sciences AvancИes (IPSA), 7-9 rue Maurice Grandcoing, F-94200 Ivry-s/-Seine, France Abstract The Gaia astrometric catalogue of reference stars will provide proper motions of stars until mag 18 with an accuracy better than 6 mas over one century ...

... SESDA Program Manager . ... Received Bachelors in Science degrees in Physics and in Mathematics from the University of Texas at Austin, and Masters in Science and Doctorate in Physics from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. ... In 2000 joined Science Systems and Applications, Inc. as Deputy Program Manager for the Space and Earth Sciences Data Analysis contract, leading over 330 professionals providing space and Earth sciences, engineering and IT services to GSFC. ... 73 , 514, 1994. ...

... F. Rodionova and E. A. Kozlova . ... Sternberg State Astronomical Institute, 119899, Moscow, Russia; jeanna@sai.msu ru. ... Brown University - Vernadsky Institute Microsymposium 34, October 8-9, 2001, Moscow, Russia . ... Brown University - Vernadsky Institute Microsymposium 38, October 27-29, 2003, Moscow, Russia . ... Brown University - Vernadsky Institute Microsymposium 40, 2004, Moscow, Russia . ... 1 Sternberg State Astronomical Institute Lomonosov Moscow University, Russia; marss8@mail.ru . ...

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? ...

... Bad Astronomy . ... Bitesize Astronomy . ... Bad Astro Store . ... Slacker Astronomy . ... Keep Bad Astronomy close to your heart, and help make me filthy rich. ... Life Under the Moon . ... Seeing Jupiter's Moons . ... Time Zones and the Spherical Earth . A Companion to the Earth? ... December 19, 1999) . ... Big Moon, Little Moon . ... How Big is the Moon? ... 14, 2000) . ... 2008 Phil Plait. ... Subscribe to the Bad Astronomy Newsletter! Talk about Bad Astronomy on the BA Bulletin Board! ...

... The Military Aspects of the Soviet Cosmonautics : A Side View . This book is the first effort in an unclassified Soviet publications to provide a comprehensive overview of the Soviet military space program. Presented here are the classification of the military space systems by functions performed (Chapter 1), the analysis of the organizational evolution of the Soviet space program (Chapter 2) and the description of all observable satellite systems of military or double destination (Chapter 3). ...

... 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. ...

RELATIVE SUNSPOT NUMBERS Description of Data from SGD Explanation of Data Reports: Relative Sunspot Numbers -- The relative sunspot number is an index of the activity of the entire visible disk of the Sun. ... The provisional daily Zurich relative sunspot numbers, Rz, were based upon observations made at Zurich and its two branch stations in Arosa and Locarno and communicated by M. Waldmeier of the Swiss Federal Observatory. ... This indicates the uncertainty above and below the predicted number. ...

Results of analysis . Publications and presentations . What is SLR? Links to the SLR World . IAA EOP Service . ... Earth Orientation Parameters (EOP) . EOP series are regularly submitted to the IERS, and also are available at the IAA EOP Service page. ... List of publications and presentations of the IAA VLBI Analysis Center staff can be found at the web pages of Labs involved in the AC activity. ... NERC Satellite Laser Ranging Group . NASDA SLR Group . GA SLR Group . ...

Title: A New Model of the Gravitational Lens 0957+561 and a Limit on the Hubble Constant . Authors: Norman A. Grogin , Ramesh Narayan (Harvard Univ.) ... Title: ROSAT/PSPC observation of the distant cluster CL0939+472 . ... Title: Interaction in the Bimodal Galaxy Cluster A3528 . ... Title: Cosmological Implications of Galaxy Cluster Evolution . ... Title: Galaxy Cluster Virial Masses and Omega . ... Matches 201 to 222 from a total of 222 matches for the search pattern galaxy cluster . ...

ASTRONOTES . Astronotes 2010 . ... Armagh Planetarium's monthly newsletter 'Astronotes' is now available to download. This exciting publication is packed with space and astronomy stories and will tell you what is happening at Armagh Planetarium. Astronotes is written by the staff at Armagh Planetarium and is edited by Colin Johnston. Astronotes is free to download but please contact the Planetarium if you wish to reproduce any part of its contents. ... Astronotes Back Issues 2010 . ...

... Field of interest: data analysis and interpretation of X-ray observations of BHC and NS systems, astrophysics of compact objects and related phenomena: X-ray , optical and radio observations , shocks and stellar winds, emission mechanism, the spectral and timing analysis of the X-ray emission from microquasars ( signature of accreting BH), atoll- and Z-sources ( signature of accreting NS), modeling of INTEGRAL images % . ...

Previous Editions of the M111: . ... OutReach Training and Program . September Public Night . Welcome all ye weary travelers to a new type of M111 "On Line". ... Back to top.. ... When I logged our last outreach programs I couldn't help but notice that Warren Rupp Observatory is NUMBER FIVE in the worldwide standings in public outreach programs! ... If you'd like to train in astronomy outreach, just contact any of our members and we'll be happy to train you to do public outreach! ...

... On 18 April 2002 the Russian Aviation and Space Agency, S.P. Korolev Rocket and Space Corporation Energia and European Space Agency (ESA), Belgian Federal Office for Scientific, Technical and Cultural Affairs (OSTC) concluded a contract to fly Belgian astronaut Frank de Winne, member of European astronauts team as Soyuz TMA-1 flight engineer as the visiting crew VC-4 member to the International Space Station (ISS) and perform the Odessia Project scientific program. ... ODISSEA Project Experiments . ...

... This class is designed to be an up to date summary of the last 10-20 years of observations relevant to Cosmology. ... Theory today is bombarded by a vast array of observational data but there remains no clear and preferred model for the origin and evolution of structure in the Universe. ... The inflationary paradigm and the nature of the Dark Matter - Inflation solves a lot of problems that are inherent in the standard Big Bang Model. ... Kinds of Dark Matter and Observational Constraints . ...

Bizyaev D., "The Argument Against Long Extragagalactic Distance Scale", Astron. ... Soviet Astronomy) 1997. ... Zasov A., Bizyaev D., "An Estimate of the Hubble Constant using a Criterion for Gravitational Stability of Gaseous Discs", Pis'ma v Astron. ... 1996. ... D.Bizyaev, "Types of galaxies", 1996, Zvezdochet, No 11, p.22 (in Russian) . D.Bizyaev, "The Hubble Constant", 1996, Zvezdochet, No 2, p.20 (in Russian) . D.Bizyaev, "Magellanic Clouds", 1995, Zvezdochet, No 6, p.12. (in Russian) . ...