ATMoB "Open Cluster Observing Award " Guidelines Purpose: To promote observing among the membership of the Amateur Telescope Makers of Boston through participation in the Open Clusters Observing Awards program. Introduction: This awards program is oriented towards visually observing open clusters above magnitude 9.9. ... It turns out that a very unprejudiced and convenient method to dermine the limiting magnitude is to count the number of visible stars in certain areas on the sky. ...

NASA JOHNSON SPACE CENTER ORAL HISTORY PROJECT BIOGRAPHICAL DATA SHEET NAME: James E. Mager O RAL H ISTORY: 23 January 2003 EDUCATIONAL BACKGROUND: B.S. in Electrical Engineering, Case Western Reserve University, June 1959 PRE- NASA EXPERIENCE: Field Technician, Singer-Link Corporation (dates unknown) Civil Servant, Point Mugu Naval Air Station, California (1961-1963) NASA INVOLVEMENT: NASA Manned Spacecraft Center / Johnson Space ... 1984) Chief, Ground Data Systems Division (Mar. ...

... 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...

New reduction of minor planets photographic plates obtained with Pulkovo Normal Astrograph A.A. Berezhnoy Pulkovo Observatory of RAS, Saint-Petersburg, Russia Minor Planet observations at Pulkovo Periodical observations of 14 bright asteroids named Selected Minor Planets (SMP) were performed at Pulkovo since 1948 within the international framework started by works of B.V. Numerov and D. Brouwer. ... 108 133 113 74 124 67 97 88 14 84 64 5 20 19 Epochs (YYYY.MM) 1200 Mean values of total obs. ...

Venus under the clouds. ... Venus is the second from the Sun and the nearest to the Earth planet of solar system. ... As for Venus, it has the densest atmosphere, the smallest rotation around the axis and the least eccentricity of the orbit Venus is the only planet whose own rotation is opposite it’s rotation around the Sun. ... The radiolocation survey of Venus by the soviet station "Venera - 15" and "Venera - 16" brought out in 1984 in the planets satellite`s orbit shoued the tarces of long walls. ...

... There is an additional zenith photometer channel for measurement of emissions formed heights more than 500 km to take into account the processes connected with solar activity and high layers of ionosphere. ... Photometer BP-1 . ... Photometers: BP-1 - to zenith, BP-2 - to nadir. Spectrometer: Limb channel at angle 18 deg to satellite velocity vector in the plane «velocity vector-nadir», scanning takes place within +5 - -30 deg to optic axis in the plane «velocity vector-nadir»; . ...

... Астрофорум - астрономический портал ? ... Астрономические наблюдения (Модераторы: LeMay , Александр Репной , Грудцын Алексей ) ? О визуальных наблюдениях . ... Ответ #60 : 26.08.2005 [12:11:09] ? ... Согласно последней редакции NGC для этой галактики: . B Magnitude: 12.9 . ... при визуальных наблюдениях ориентируемся на последнее число (визуальная зв. величина), при фотографических (ч/б) - на первое (зв. вел. в голубых лучах). ... Galaxy . ... NGC 7600 . ... NGC 7600 MCG -1-59- 19 . ...

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: . ...

... Sources of the quantum theory. ... Wave function and their physical interpretation. Schroedinger equation as a constraint on the physical state. Feynman’s formulation of the quantum mechanics (path integration) and classical limit. ... Quantum mechanics postulates. States and observables, measurable physical values. ... State vector. ... Time dependent Schroedinger equation. ... M.: Nauka, 1974. ... Iroshnikov G.S. Path integral and coherent states in quantum mechanics and field theory. ...

NAUTICAL ASTRONOMICAL YEARBOOK for 2017 (in Russian) . Foreword . ... NAY) is the daily visual geocentrical equatorial ephemerides of brightest navigational stars ? the Sun, the Moon, four major planets (Venus, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn) and of the 69 brightest stars, and the time of the rising and setting of the Sun and the Moon, the time of the beginning and the end of civil and navigational twilights, the azimuths of the upper limb of the Sun on rising and setting. ...

Star Name . ... Crux) . ... Canis Major) . ... Centaurus) . ... Ursa Major) . ... Ursa Minor) . ... Orion) . ... Carina) . ... Canis Minor) . ...

... These Facts and Questions pages mainly tell you how to use the Aberrator-interface and also explain the nature of the aberrations. ... Airy disc: the brightest spot of light when you look at a star in focus. This disc can contain a maximum of 84% of all the light that arrives from a star (perfect refractor telescope). MCT : Maksutov-Cassegrain telescope. A closed-tube mirror-telescope with a secondary obstruction. Less common than the SCT, this telescope uses a corrector (real glass). ...

... Подписка на рассылку обзоров astro-ph на Subscribe.Ru . ... Обзоры УФН . ... Результаты WMAP . Изучение центра нашей Галактики . ... Разрыв Вселенной" . ... звезды , . ... Короткое эссе об электронных препринтах . ... Самые интересные препринты astro-ph января 2003 года по материалам обзоров Архива на сайте Scientiic.Ru " . ... Authors: A. M. Ghez et al. astro-ph/0306220 Геометрическое определение расстояния до центра Галактики (A Geometric Determination of the Distance to the Galactic Center) . ...

RADIOASTROPHYSICAL DEPARTMENT • INSTITUTE OF SOLAR-TERRESTRIAL PHYSICS RAS SB . ... SSRT - Receiving systems . The SSRT has two independent receiving systems for recording solar observational data, and several ancillary receivers for checking, setting up and adjusting the instrument. The base receiving systen is a multichannel filter receiver for a simultaneous recording in 180 channels with the 500 kHz band each, adjusted at steps of about 600 kHz. ... Channel's band . ...

... A non-linear relationship is observed between the sky brightness on clear and overcast nights, with a change in behavior near the rural to urban landuse transition. ... The great variation in skyglow radiance observed from site-to-site and with changing meteorological conditions underlines the need for a long-term international monitoring program. he introduction of artificial light has caused an unprecedented disruption to the nighttime environment over large areas of the Earth. ... Data processing...

... Небольшое созвездие Волосы Вероники включает в себя сразу 8 из 109 объектов каталога Шарля Мессье . ... M98=NGC 4192 : bright, very large, very much extended 152deg, magnitude 10.1m, angular diameter 9.9' x 2.2'. Right ascension: 12h13m48.18s, Declination: +14 53' 42.7", Hubble class: Sb . Alternate names: MESS 98, NGC 4192, UGC 7231, MCG 3-31- 79, CGCG 98-108, IRAS12112+1510, VCC 92 . ... Right ascension: 12h18m49.35s, Declination: +14 25' 06.9", Hubble class: Sc . ...

Электронная библиотека астронома-любителя. ... Июль 1998 . ... Дата: 20 июля 1998 (1998-07-20) От: Alexander Bondugin Тема: Sky Telescope News Bulletin - July 17, 1998 Привет всем! ... SKY TELESCOPE'S NEWS BULLETIN JULY 17, 1998 CLOSE-UPS OF GANYMEDE On July 15th, the Jet Propulsion Laboratory released a bevy of new images of Jupiter's largest moon Ganymede taken by the Galileo spacecraft. ... Дата: 20 июля 1998 (1998-07-20) От: Alexander Bondugin Тема: Galileo - Countdown To Europa Привет всем! ...

... 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; . ...

Image analysis of the VLBI experiment INTAS99.4 . PI: I. Molotov (GAO, Russia) . Analyst: A. Pushkarev (GAO, Russia; CrAO, Ukraine) . ... Frequency: 1.66 GHz . ... Antennas and their characteristics at 1.66 GHz . ... Bear Lakes (Russia) . ... Svetloe (Russia) . ... Pushchino (Russia) . ... CALIBRATION . Amplitude Calibration . Phase Calibration . ... 0420-014 . ... Quasar . ... 0420-014.gif . ... 0420+022 . ... 0420+022.gif . ... 0552+398 . ... 1308+326 . ... 1345+125 . ... 1803+784 . ...

... 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) . ...