... Liyong Liu (NAOC) . Site testing on seeing conditions of the astronomical observatories over China are briefly reviewed, including Xionglong station of NAOC, Gaomeigu station of Yunnan Observatory, Delingha station of Purple Mountain Observatory. ... PDF [3.0€аMB] October 8, 09:55 10:20 . ... In this paper, we will review the site survey activities in the past years, and present the site-testing results on the Oma site, including cloud cover, seeing, water vapor, transparency and sky brightness. ...

... astro-ph . ... We present the goals and preliminary results of an unbiased, near-infrared, narrow-band imaging survey of the First Galactic Quadrant (10deg<l<65deg ; -1.3deg<b<+1.3deg). ... We publish 16 Doppler imaging temperature maps for the years 1994-2002 of the active RS CVn star II Peg. ... Through Doppler imaging we want to study the spot evolution of the star and in particular compare this with previous results showing a cyclic spot behaviour and persistent active longitudes. ...

... I. Mean Surface Brightnesses and Integral Color Indices for Bars Gusev A.S. ================================================================================ Abstract: UBVRIJHK surface brightnesses and color indices of bars of galaxies are determined using surface photometry data for 100 barred galaxies (table1.dat). ... J0 Mean surface J0 brightness 46 A1 --- CI- CI sign 47 -50 F1.2 magn/sq.arcsec. U-B)0 (U-B)0 color index 52 -55 F1.2 magn/sq.arcsec. ...

. [ Go back to Comet WWW site ] . Andrew A. Martis . martis @ sai.msu.ru .

National Aeronautics and Space Administration . ... JOHN E. BLAHA (COLONEL, USAF, RET.) NASA ASTRONAUT (FORMER) . ... EDUCATION: Graduated from Granby High School in Norfolk, Virginia, in 1960; received a bachelor of science in engineering science from the United States Air Force Academy in 1965 and a master of science in astronautical engineering from Purdue University in 1966. ... NASA EXPERIENCE: Selected as an astronaut in May 1980, Blaha has logged 161 days in space on 5 space missions. ...

... Научная панорама ? arxiv:1411.6009 Множественные изображения сверхновой, значительно усиленной линз . ... arxiv:1411.6009 Множественные изображения сверхновой, значительно усиленной линзированием на галактике раннего типа в скоплении (Multiple Images of a Highly Magnified Supernova Formed by an Early-Type Cluster Galaxy Lens) . ... Впервые поймали множественное изображение сверхновой, сформированное гравитационной линзой. ... Появилось новое изображение сверхновой Рефсдала! . ...

... Director of the RAS ISR . RAS Academician . ... Astrophysics module Kvant of the orbital complex Mir launched in 1987 contains the largest on the station complex of the scientific equipment named the orbital observatory Roentgen. Observatory Roentgen consists of 4 X-ray telescopes, jointly exceeding the range of energies from 2 to 800 keV. ... Among the most significant results that were received in the observatory Roentgen are: . ... measurement of the periods of 9 X-ray pulsars; . ...

The 2dF QSO Redshift Survey (2QZ) . ... Before jumping into all the finer details of teh survey, a brief non-astronomer's guide to redshift surveys is available. ... The primary scientific aims of the QSO survey are: (1) to obtain the primordial fluctuation power spectrum out to COBE scales, (2) to determine the rate of QSO clustering evolution in the non-linear and linear regimes and hence obtain new limits on the value of and the bias parameter, (3) to apply a powerful geometric method to measure . ...

... 1st Announcement IAU Symposium 312 Star Clusters and Black Holes Across Cosmic Time, Beijing, China, Aug. 25-29, 2014 . ... SUBJECT: 1st Announcement IAU Symposium 312 Star Clusters and Black Holes Across Cosmic Time, Beijing, China, Aug. 25-29, 2014 . ... which will be held in Beijing, P.R. China, from August 25-29, 2014, hosted by Chinese Academy of Sciences . ... China), . ... 1st Announcement IAU Symposium 312 Star Clusters and Black Holes Across Cosmic Time, Beijing, China, Aug. ...

... StarCalc Home Page - Downloads . ... File . StarCalc (English version) . ... With minimal configuration, version 5.72 of StarCalc includes the next interfaces: "Horizon", "Horizontal coordinategrid", "Equatorial coordinate grid", "Constellation boundaries", "Constellation lines", "Constellation names", "Star proper names", "Bright Star Catalog", "Deep-sky objects", "Sun", "Moon" and "Planets and satellites" . Plugins for StarCalc . ... Interface to NGC 2000 (plugin + catalog file) . ...

... About meteorites . ... Meteorite Encyclopedia . ... About laboratory . ... On the night of September 24-25, in the north of Irkutsk Oblast, local residents saw a brightly glowing space object draw a line across the sky and fall into the taiga. ... But scientists learned of the heavenly visitor only on October 3, when a fax arrived at the Institute of Sun And Earth Physics from Bodaibo. ... The first thing we did was to interview residents of villages located along the meteor's flight path. ...

... SB, Porb = 55.9212d. V0745 Cas| ... Component B of the double system observed brighter than in the Hipparcos Input Catalogue. ... The variability may be due to the fainter component. ... Type ELL: is also possible. pi Cas| ... Variability type and spectral type (F2/F3Ib/II) do not agree. ... Variability type and spectral type (F3/F5II) do not agree. ... Variability may be due to component B. VZ Pic| ... Variability may be due to component B. V1377 Ori| ... SB, Porb = 9.073d. V0421 Cep|105091| ...

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: . ...

... 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. ...