... Spherical aberration, coma, and astigmatism are also easily observed using the star test. ... Off-axis images are complex. ... Fig. ... Diffraction by a circular aperture as a function of defocus for no aberration Airy Disk 1 wave defocus Less than 1 wave defocus Fig. ... Diffraction by a circular aperture as a function of defocus for third-order spherical aberration Paraxial Focus Small distance inside paraxial focus Moderate distance from marginal focus Immediate neighborhood of marginal focus Fig...

The Solar spots - are the dark formations on the Sun's disk. ... The greatest observed spot is 100 thousand kilomiters. The spots are the places of the magnetic fields' getting out to the solar atmosphere. ... That's why they look so dark . ... The Solar convection zone is the layer with the thickness of 150 - 200 thousand kilomiters, situated under the photosphere; the substance of this layer being in convectional movement transformes the energy from inside the Sun's to its surface. ...

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... Dr. Rodrigues, M1 group, Spain, has pointed out the confusion in identification of SN 1998ar in NGC 2916. ... I have measured the locations of point-like sources around NGC 2916 with DSS-1 image and 5 GSC stars. ... The magnitude of this star is estimated as 15.5 mag or so on DSS1 image. ... Star C seems to be dimmer than Star B, and comparing GSC 14.8 mag star and fainter neighbouring stars, its magnitude is about 1.5 mag dimmer than GSC 14.8 mag star; which tells that SN was about 16.3 mag. ...

Physica C 1 PHYSICA C C ELSEVIER CONDUCTIVITY and Antiferromagnetism of CaCuO2 Thin Films Doped by Sr Gennady A. Ovsyannikova,b*, Viktor V. Demidovb, Yuli V. Kislinskib, Philippe V. Komissinskia,b, Dag Winklera a Chalmers ... revised date here; accepted date here Abstract The results of electrical and magnetic investigations of epitaxial CaxSr1-xCuO2 ( CSCO ) thin films grown by pulsed laser deposition are presented ... Temperature dependence EPR amplitude for two CSCO films with =0.15 ...

... Camera (cold) going up to observing level for insertion into Telescope using the handling tool (blue). July 2007 . image: VISTA_IR_Camera_to_Telescope_2.JPG . ... Camera being moved from its stand in the lower floor of the Enclosure below the Azimuth floor, using the handling tool (blue). image: remove camera from stand.jpg . ... Camera inside the upper part of the enclosure after being lifted up to the Azimuth floor on its handling tool (blue). image: camera reaches az floor.jpg . ...

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Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons in HII regions: correlation with metallicity . ... We have perfomed the aperture photometry of HII regions using infrared images from telescopes Spitzer and Herschel at passbands 3.6, 4.5, 5.8, 8.0, 24, 70 and 160 m. Emission of PAHs are observed at passbands 3.6 - 8.0 m, 24 m is emission likely of hot small particles and finally large particles are responsible for emission at 70 and 160 m. We determine abundances of PAHs using model of Draine Li (2007) . ...

-Existent Non-Existent Non-Existent Mag Alias/Notes (STAR) (STAR) Observed: Yes Object IC IC IC IC IC IC IC IC IC MAC NGC NGC NGC PGC PGC PGC PGC PGC PGC PGC PGC PGC PGC PGC PGC PGC PGC PGC PGC PGC PGC PGC PGC PGC PGC PGC ...

... Сегодня: 10 апреля 2016 г. Космический корабль, который работает на солнечной энергии, вскоре может начать свой полет по Солнечной системе. Группа американских и российских ученых готовится запустить зонд с гигантскими пластиковыми "парусами", которые могут ловить солнечный свет подобно тому, как паруса яхт ловят ветер, пишет The Observer (перевод на сайте Inopressa.ru). ... The Observer: российские и американские ученые создали космическую яхту с парусами из солнечных батарей . ...

... Recherche dans le site : . Ciel Espace, le magazine qui vous guide toujours plus loin . ... Ciel Espace, nouvelle formule, c'est . des actualit†йs . ... des pages consacr†йes †а la publication de vos photos Mais c'est aussi une vraie communaut†й avec laquelle partager votre passion et nourrir votre curiosit†й. Accueil Curiosity observe de nouvelles traces dтАЩeau . ... Sur Mars, Curiosity vient de mettre en †йvidence des veines de gypse, un min†йral hydrat†й, incrust†йes dans de la roche. ...

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 . ...

MINUTES of the RadioAstron Teleconference on December 13, 2011 Yu.Yu. ... IOC status update M. Popov informed the participants on the current IOC results. ... Kovalev added: we continue to observe pulsars and spectral line sources in radiointerferometer mode but only with spacecraft and we are also going to observing pulsars soon with space-ground baselines. ... Kovalev: It is fringe-fitting result. ... In RAFS05 we replace it with K-band observing (maser source Ori KL ­ spectral lines ~100000Jy). ...

GCVS Variability Types and Distribution Statistics of Designated Variable Stars According to their Types of Variability ======================================================================== I. GCVS Variability Types. ... Amplitudes usually do not exceed 0.1 mag. ... RR Variables of the RR Lyrae type, which are radially-pulsating giant A-F stars having amplitudes from 0.2 to 2 mag in V. Cases of variable light-curve shapes as well as variable periods are known. ... RV Variables of the RV Tauri type. ...

Russian version of HP . ... StarCalc is the fastest professional astronomy planetarium & star mapping program for Windows 9x/ME/NT/2000/XP (StarCalc version for PocketPC computers you can found here ). ... Extensibility : This program is based on common "Plugin StarCalc interface to catalogs and object groups", which allows program to add new modules as Plugins. ... Welcome to the Pocket StarCalc Home Page: . ... Some bugfixes in eclipses" and line" plugins - see the new versions in downloads page. ...

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... B.V. Somov . head of the department . ... room 80 . ... senior research felow . ... research felow . ... research fellow . ... Our department performes the following most perspective studies: . Special analytical and numerical experimental investigations of the solar plasma involved in the magnetic reconnection process at the Sun. ... Head of the seminar: Prof. B.V. Somov. ... 27 September 2013 The Solar Physics Department was visited by journalists of the leading Russian TV channel "Vesti-1". ...

Solar Physics (2006) 233: 89-106 DOI: 10.1007/s11207-006-2850-y C Springer 2006 ON THE POSSIBLE CONNECTION BETWEEN PHOTOSPHERIC 5-MIN OSCILLATION AND SOLAR FLARE MICROWAVE EMISSION A. G. KISLYAKOV and V. V. ZAITSEV Institute of Applied Physics, Nizhny Novgorod, Russia (e-mails: agkis@appl.sci-nnov.ru; za130 Dynamic spectra of low-frequency modulation of microwave emission from solar flares are obtained. ... PHOTOSPHERIC 5-MIN OSCILLATION AND SOLAR FLARE MICROWAVE EMISSION 93 Figure 2. ...

Winer Observatory P.O. Box 797, Sonoita, Arizona 85637-0797, USA . ... Asteroid . ... Site . ... Science . ... Since the early 1970's, Mark Trueblood has observed lunar occultations. He began observing minor planet occultations in the late 1970's. In late 2000, Mark began working with Robert Crawford of Tucson to observe minor planets to refine their orbits, concentrating on NEOs. A list of Minor Planet Electronic Circulars observed by Mark and Robert is available. ... 2013 Winer Observatory. ...