General Information . ... The conference is organized by the Sternberg Astronomical Institute (SAI) of Moscow University and the IAU Working group "Site-testing Instruments" . ... Use of site data in telescope operation and adaptive optics. ... Recent conferences on this subject (2007, 2008) demonstrated great interest of the community, hence the need for a new meeting. ... Unlike previous recent conferences, this meeting will cover all aspects of site monitoring for optical/IR astronomy. ...

... Clubs . ... PUBLIC Telescopic observing is conducted at the Wheaton College Observatory every clear Friday (call for times) when college is in session. ... The College has a 12.5 " Newtonian/cassegrain telescope. ... For more information see the North Shore Amateur Astronomy Club page. ... For more information see the North Shore Amateur Astronomy Club page and the college's page . ... Aldrich Astronomical Society Paxton, MA . ... Copyright (c) Amateur Telescope Makers of Boston, Inc. ...

The most up-to-date information related to atmos 3.0 are collected here due to constantly increasing interest to MASS/DIMM processing software... atmos 3.0 is still beta , so the latest version is 2.97.5 (there is also 2.98.x branch which absorbs new features) . ... M' line: . ... free seeing and its relative error . ... dimm seeing and its relative error (if dimm data are present, zeros otherwise) . ... dimm turbulence power and its relative error (if dimm data are present, zeros otherwise) . ...

Central Astronomical Observatory at Pulkovo of Russian Academy of Sciences PUL Analysis Center Pulkovo IVS Analysis Center (PUL) 2009 Annual Rep ort Zinovy Malkin, Natalia Miller, Elena Popova Abstract This report briefly presents the PUL IVS Analysis Center activities during 2009 and plans for the coming year. The main topics of the investigations of PUL staff in that period were ICRF related studies, computation and analysis of EOP series, and VLBI2010 related issues. ...

... The data for ~ 5500 F-G stars are used to study their kinematics, metal abundance and HR diagram in terms of uvby photometry. The age - metallicity, velocity - metallicity, and age - velocity relations are derived. ... 4) At a given metallicity the kinematics of F dwarfs is close to that of G giants and the kinematics of G dwarfs is close to that of K giants. ... 1) При [Fe/H] < 0 звезды данной металличности обнаруживают отчетливую точку поворота главной последовательности (ГП). ...

It is a great honour and pleasure for me to talk from this tribune. ... This year I was lucky to present a Soros lecture on the reginal conference in Tyumen in the frame of the programm "Professional contacts". ... When people want to make something new it is a great thing to colloborate, to communicate with other people. ... The ideas of free creation live in Russia, and I hope we can try to build an Open society, the society without ksenophobia, without fear of new ideas, without fear of the future. ...

The points are analogous to ones for the 4 th , 5 th , 6 th and 7 th Asian-Pacific Astronomy Olympiads . ... National Astronomy Olympic Committees and interested organizations are welcome to ask more about the 8 th APAO and in 2012 may form the teams for the 17 th IAO as well as for the 8 th APAO. The official APAO e-mail is a p a o [a] l i s t . ... Dr. Michael G. Gavrilov, Founding Chairman and Coordinator of the Asian-Pacific Astronomy Olympiad (APAO) . ... e-mail: gavrilov@issp.ac.ru . ...

... The European HST Archive has been moved to ESA's European Space Astronomy Centre ( ESAC ), Spain, where most of ESA's Space Science Archives are located and operated from. ... The Space Telescope European Coordinating Facility (ST-ECF), jointly operated by ESA and the European Southern Observatory ( ESO ) was, until the end of 2010, the European HST science facility, supporting the European astronomy community in exploiting the research opportunities provided by the Hubble Space Telescope. ...

Swirl distribution on the lunar surface: locations antipodal to the young basins? ... THERE ARE TWO MAIN CLASSES OF HYPOTHESISES OF THE SWIRL ORIGIN: FORMATION OF THE SWIRLS IN THE REGIONS ANTIPODAL TO LARGE IMPACT BASINS (1), AND FORMATION OF THE SWIRLS IN RESULT OF COMETARY IMPACTS (2). ... THEY HAVE NEARLY THE SAME AGE. [pic]FIG. ... On the other hand, there are two cases of absence of correlation between swirl areas and regions antipodal to impact basins (for small swirl formations). ...

... SOLAR WEB RESOURCES AND RESEARCH SITES LINKS . ... http :// solar .nro.nao.ac.jp/ - The Nobeyama Radioheliograph : daily solar images at 17 GHz. http ://umbra.nascom.nasa.gov/batse/batse_years.html - CGRO BATSE solar flare database at the SDAC. http ://umbra.nascom.nasa.gov/yohkoh_archive.html - The Yohkoh Archive. ftp://140.252.1.21/kpvt/ daily - U.S. National Solar Observatory at Kitt Peak anonymous ftp directories. http ://www.bbso.njit.edu - Big Bear Solar ...

... University history . ... V.љN. Karazin . ... July, 2016 . New Program: BS in International Relations and Regional Studies . V. N. Karazin Kharkiv National University is pleased to invite future students to apply for a new speciality: BS in International Relations, Social Communication and Regional Studies (educational program International Relations and Regional Studies ) offered by the School of International Economic Relations and Travel Business. ... up until April 2016 . ... 2016?: ...

... VaST is a software tool for finding variable objects on a series of astronomical images. ... VaST performs object detection and aperture photometry using SExtractor on each image, cross-matches lists of detected stars, performs magnitude calibration with respect to the first (reference) image and constructs a lightcurve for each object. ... VaST FITS image viewer ./pgfv . ... Part I" PZP, vol. ... K. V. Sokolovsky, S. A. Korotkiy; "New Variable Stars Discovered by the NMW Survey" PZP, vol. ...