... April, 2010: APOLLO detects lost Soviet reflector . October, 2009: LCROSS event. May, 2009: APO featured on PBS film 400 Years of the Telescope . April 3, 2009: For the International Year of Astronomy , APO is featured in a 20-minute segment during a 100-hour webcast. ARC 3.5m | ... Instrument News: Current Status . Instrument Summary . ... ARCES (Echelle) . ... Current Weather . Weather Status . ... Weather Plots . ... APO Password Access . 3.5m Nightlogs . ...

THE AMATEUR ASTRONOMERS ASSOCIATION OF PRINCETON PRESENTS THE 23nd ANNUAL JERSEY STARQUEST Held at the Hope Conference and Renewal Center , Hope , NJ Beginning at 3 PM Friday, September 6, 2013 and running through 12 PM Sunday, September 8th 2013 Featuring Stargazing at a star ... available: Fishing, Hiking, Kayaking/canoeing (bring your own equipment) on two lakes and nearby Pequest and Paulins Kill Rivers Registration Fees Camping and RV -- $35.00 ... TOTAL NUMBER OF CHILDREN (Ages 6 ­ 12)? ...

Asteroid 2055 YU55 passes close by Earth; how close did it get? ... As Elizabeth Flock reported: An asteroid the size of an aircraft carrier missed Earth by only 200,000 miles as it flew by Tuesday night the closest an asteroid has been to Earth in 200 years Asteroid 2005 YU55, as it has been dubbed, streaked by at about 30,000 mph, but some scientists and lucky amateur astronomers caught a glimpse in their telescopes, where they saw strange structures on the asteroid\u2019s dark-colored surface. ...

Электронная библиотека астронома-любителя. ... библиотека . архив RSN . ... Ru.Space.News: . Ноябрь 2003 . ... I recently read an article that I found initially disturbing, but after reading the information on this site regarding the sun, I feel much more calm. ... A few people have requested more information about the temperature of the sun. The temperature at the center of the sun is about 16 million degrees Kelvin (27 million degrees Fahrenheit), as stated in the article. ...

... 1.7 GSC 084 Pulkovo Obs., 0.33 15 x 15' 1.0" 7 34 0.179 0.307 Normal Asgr. 3.0 UCAC 118 Slovakia, 0.57 14 x 10' 1.7" 3 12 0.090 0.145 Modra 3.3 USNO 127 Germany, 0.19 30 x 20' 2.4" 3 15 0.151 0.087 Bornheim 0.8 GSC 168 34 200 0.282 0.315 291 USA,Kitt Peak, 1.8 390 x 30' 1.0" 1 5 0.143 0.144 Spacewatch II 4.7 USNO 300 Japan, 0.5 78 x 78' 2.3" 7 36 0.420 0.447 Bisei Center 1.3 ACT 461 Hungary, JATE 0.60 28 x 19' 1.1" 6 22 0.124 0.153 Asteroid Surv. ... Polynesia 1.0 UCAC F85 Tiki Obs., ...

Central Bodies Masses of Selected Globular Clusters N.A.Shakht, A.A.Kiselev, Yu.N.Gnedin and E.A.Grosheva. The Main Astronomical (Pulkovo) Observatory RAS 47 Tuc ­NGC 104 RA 00 24 .1 Dec -72° 04 .9 Size = 30.9 mvis + 4. 0 m D from = 12,1 kpc, h m Cen - NGC 5139 NGC 6397 (Ara) RA 17 h40.m7 Dec -53o 40'.4 Size = 31',0 mvis + 5,3m D from =2.3 kpc RA 13h 26m .8 Dec -47° 28 6 Size = 36.3 m vis +3. 7 m D from =15.8 ±1.1 kpc, 12109 years, Age: 10109 years, (13.4 ± 0.8)109 years. ...

Astronomes Amateurs du Luxembourg a.s.b.l. " We bring the Universe to you ! Founded in 1971 by a group of enthusiasts and star aficionados, our association is now counting more than 130 members.As a national association we attract hobby astronomers from the whole country to our regular night-sky observations and to the meetings in our club at Dudelange. ... by topic : PDF File Download (360KB) . ... Article about AAL in "Le Quotidien" newspaper of Juli 21 2005 - PDF File Download (132KB) . ...

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Astro Space Center RadioAstron Newsletter Number 16 October 9, 2012 ====================== One year has passed since the birth of the Spektr-R 10-meter orbiting radio telescope About one year ago, on September 27, 2011, the space radio telescope Spektr-R has registered the first light from the supernova remnant Cassiopeia A. Congratulations to all involved! ... First RadioAstron-EVN image of the active galaxy 0716+714! ... The image is reconstructed with a 0.5 mas circular beam. ...

HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014, YEAR OF SOLAR ACTIVITY MAXIMUM FOR SOLAR CYCLE XXIV 24! ... Weekly Bulletin on Solar and Geomagnetic Activity Highlights on 23 - 29.12.2013, Forecast on 30.12.2013 - 05.01.2014 , Carrington Rotation 2145 (19,05.12.2013) SUNSPOT-FORMING ACTIVITY OF THE SUN REMAINED AT THE AVERAGE LEVEL. ... NEXT WEEK IS EXPECTED THE AVERAGE LEVEL OF SUNSPOT ACTIVITY. ... FLARE ACTIVITY WAS AT THE AVERAGE LEVEL 23 AND 29.12 AND LOW LEVEL IN OTHER DAYS. ...

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... Практическая астрономия ? Астрономия и компьютеры (Модераторы: Deimos , Ed_Vazhorov ) ? ... double JD (int year, int month, int day, double hour) . ... Result = -0.5 + static_cast<double>((4712 + year)*365 + (4712 + year)/4 + DaysInMonths + (day - 1)) + static_cast<double>(hour)/24.0; . ... if (static_cast<double>(year)*10000.0 + static_cast<double>(month)*100 + static_cast<double>(day) <= 15821004.0) . ... Цитата: hoarfrost от 09.07.2005 [19:45:08] - при исчислении дат используется нулевой год ! ...

To appear in "Fourth Workshop on Robotic Autonomous Observatories (2015)"RevMexAA(SC) METEOR OBSERVATIONS WITH MINI-MEGATORTORA WIDE-FIELD MONITORING SYSTEM S. Karpov, 1, 3 N. Orekhova2 G. Beskin, 1, 3 A. Biryukov3,4 S. Bondar,2 E. Ivanov,2 E. Katkova,2 A. Perkov, and V. Sasyuk3 RESUMEN 2 Favor de prop orcionar un resumen en espanol. ... The faintest detected meteors has the peak brightness about 10 mag, while the ma jority - from 4 to 8 mag. ... 2010; Karpov et al. 2013; Beskin et al. ...

SITE 2010 Comprehensive Characterization of Astronomical Sites Kislovodsk, Russia, 49 October 2010 Conference Summary Marc S. Sarazin*a a European Southern Observatory, Garching, Germany Abstract The main topics discussed during the Site 2010 conference are outlined and the outcome is described. Keywords: Astronomical Site testing, precipitable water vapor, atmospheric turbulence, cloudiness, seeing 1. ... Site surveys for National observatory projects in China, India, and Iran benefit from this. ...