... ARTICLE: The Adventurous Search For The Astronomical Unit . ... Kepler himself had suggested to use the rare occasions of Venus transiting (crossing) the solar disk to measure our distance to the planet. ... Due to the orbital inclination of Venus against the ecliptic of 3.5°, a Venus transit is so rare that it happens only at intervals of 121.5 years, 8 years, 105.5 years, 8 years and so on. ... Crabtree witnessing the transit of Venus 1639 . ... Transits of Venus - The Quest for the Solar Parallax...

... Practical 1 / 8 Ebony Violin Peg Instrument Accessory . Size: SIZE 1 / 8 . ... Type: Violin Peg . For: Violin . Material: Ebony . ... Product size (L x W x H): 6 x 1.8 x 0.7 cm / 2.36 x 0.71 x 0.28 inches . Package size (L x W x H) : 7 x 3 x 2 cm / 2.75 x 1.18 x 0.79 inches . Musical Instruments . ... Package Contents: 1 x Violin Peg . ... Повседневные (casual) платья . ...

... MASTER Net is 56 square degrees per 1 exposition . ... 06 Dec 2015: GRB 151205B: MASTER-NET early optical observations GCN18665 . ... 18 Nov 2015: GRB 151118A: MASTER-NET optical observations GCN18613 . ... 12 Nov 2015: GRB 151112A: MASTER-NET optical limit GCN18591 . ... 07 Nov 2015: GRB 151107A: MASTER-NET optical observations GCN18565 . ... 31 Oct 2015: Five OTs detected by Global Robotic MASTER Net ATel8232 . ... 02 Oct 2015: GRB 151001B: MASTER-NET early optical observations GCN18380 . ...

... Iowa Robotic Telescope | ... Talon is based on OCAAS, a software suite developed by software engineer Elwood Downey ( Clear Sky Institute ) for use at the University of Iowa ?s first remote facility (the ATF, or Automated Telescope Facility). ... XObservatory : Telescope Control Interface . ... This program calls upon and coordinates much of the interrelated portions of the Talon architecture, and forms the primary control panel for the telescope, dome, and peripheral systems when used locally. ...

Preliminary results of astroclimate parameters measurements at the Sternberg 2.5m telescope installation site V.Kornilov, N.Shatsky, S.Potanin, O.Voziakova, B.Safonov Moscow, 2008 Acknowledgements A.Belinskiy M.Kornilov A.Tokovinin M.Kuznetsov P.Kortunov E.Gorbovskoy SAI administration some SAI students Pulkovo solar station (KHSS) staff RFBR support MAVEG Gmbh Why to study optical turbulence and some other relevant ... Mean seeing by DIMM data for this night is 1''5. ...

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. ...

... Introduction On the features of taking planetary reflectance spectra Spectral-frequency method Study of the asteroid 21 Lutetia by the spectral-frequency method Color spots on the surface of the asteroid 4 Vesta Conclusions References 637 638 640 641 644 646 647 Abstract. ... As a development, joining the method of reflectance spectrophotometry with the frequency analysis of observational data series is proposed. ... The data convolutions were constructed for each the frequency found. ...

Mercury Spring 2010 Table of Contents . This artist s impression shows the transiting exoplanet Corot-9b. Credit: ESO / L. Cal ada. First Temperate Exoplanet . ... Combining observations from the CoRoT satellite and the ESO HARPS instrument, astronomers have discovered the first . ... Designated Corot-9b, the . ... If you enjoyed this excerpt from a feature article and would like to receive our quarterly Mercury magazine, we invite you to join the ASP and receive 4 issues a year. ...

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... Members . ... The ATM's of Boston was founded in 1934 by a group of persons interested in assisting others in the art of optical polishing the craft of telescope making, and to learn together about the science of astronomy and the use of astronomical instruments. ... Mr. Jones introduced the club to Dr. Harlow Shapley at Harvard College Observatory. ... Regular shop activities resumed with the help of these "professional amateurs" and the club grew to 180 members. ... Club Newsletters . ...

. To see a Russian version of this page click here . (Senior Researcher. Graduated from Moscow State University (MSU) in 1982, Ph.D. 1986, MSU) . A member of EAS and IAU. Fields of interest: hot massive stars, close binary systems: optical photometric and spectral observations, X-ray observations; ill-posed problems, X-ray astrophysics. My publications (ADS link) . Linux on CLEVO 8750 (old stuff) . Phones/addresses of my university mates graduated in 1982. E-mail: igor@sai.msu.ru .

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M. S. Raghunathan Tata Institute of Fundamental Research Mumbai, India msr@math.tifr.res.in On the first Betti numb er of compact lo cally symmetric spaces This talk is a survey about the first Betti number of a compact locally symmetric space X . ... Y. Matsushima studied first the case when all factors of X have rank (=dimension of a maximal totally geodesic flat sub manifold) 2. ... This expectation has proved to be correct in a large number of cases, the first results being due to Kazhdan. ...

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