... The department was founded in late sixties by Prof. D.Ya.Martynov, who for many years was also the director of Sternberg Astronomical Institute. At present time, the head of the department is Prof. A.M.Cherepashchuk, a pupil of D.Ya.Martynov and his successor as the director of SAI. Since Prof. Martynov, the scientific activity of the department was primarily related to binary stars. ... The department consists of 15 members most of which have Ph.D. in Astrophysics. ...

... BDR FAX: (303) 497-6513 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- SELECTED GEOMAGNETIC AND SOLAR ACTIVITY INDICES ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- WORLDWIDE INDICES -------------------------------------------------------------- The subscript p means planetary and designates a global magnetic activity in- dex ... 13-14 I2 Kp or PLANETARY 3-HOUR RANGE INDEX for 0000 - 0300 UT. ...

... A correlation between metal abundance and orbital elements (the eccentricity and angular momentum) has been found for three semples of disk stars of our Galaxy with abundance derived from detailed analysis. The correlation indicates that metal abundance in the Galaxy kept increasing after the birth of old disk stars and that the Galaxy kept collapsing during the formation of its disk subsystems. ...

... Its apparent diameter of 18.0 arc minutes corresponds to a linear extension of about 180 light years; Kenneth Glyn Jones mentions an estimate of even 20 arc minutes from deep photographic plates, corresponding to about 200 light years linear diameter. It appears somewhat smaller in amateur instruments, perhaps about 10 minutes of arc. ... Red: 20x3 minute subs, totaling 1 hour . Green: 20x3 minute subs, totaling 1 hour . ... Copyright (c) Amateur Telescope Makers of Boston, Inc. ...

... Planets . ... Stars . Exoplanets . ... Most exoplanets so far discovered fall into the category of тАШhot JupitersтАЩ, these are giant planets orbiting very close to their parent star. ... Note that we have discovered so many hot Jupiters because they are the easiest type of planet to find, they are not necessarily particularly common in the galaxy. ... Subsequently several similar hot and€а fuzzy worlds have been discovered the same way, proving this that this planet is not a one-off oddball. ...

... 2014: . Discovery of two isolated lethargic dwarf galaxies in the Local Group neighborhood . We determined the distances for two dwarf galaxies, KK258 (M B =-10.3) and KKs3 (M B =-10.8), as 2.23 and 2.12Mpc, respectively, with an accuracy better than 4%. ... Catalogue of extragalactic distances . We have compiled a catalogue of estimates of extragalactic distances to galaxies, obtained independently of the redshift. ... The catalogue of extragalactic distances 2014, A , 570, A13 . ...

Russian SHAREABLE DATA CENTER Institute of Solar-Terrestial Physics SB RAS . ... Although their determination is based on the scattering process model, independent check-ups by rocket experiments have shown their correctness in experimental applications. ... Ionospheric data analysis, especially during strong disturbances, cannot be without some other kinds of diagnostic tools. ... The lack of data has always been a challange in this case. ...

... ---------- FileName Lrecl Records Explanations -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- catalog .dat 269 36020 Revised NLTT Catalogue and 1st Supplement Description of catalog columns (see Paper II for details): -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Summary Information 1) NLTT number (drawn consecutively from 1 to 58,845) 2) binary component 3) RA ( 2000 ), epoch 2000 ( ...

... Sternberg Astronomical Institute , Moscow University . ... Present edition unites two parts of Catalogue of interacting galaxies by B.A.Vorontsov-Velyaminov: the first part (Part 1) containing 355 systems was published in 1959 [1] and the second one (Part 2) with 497 objects - in 1976 [2].Thus two published parts of Catalogue include 852 interacting systems. ... All new of them (1162 by number) were taken from the comments to the galaxies in Morphological catalogue by Vorontsov-Velyaminov et al.[ ...

... The Science Operation Department is composed of Astronomers, Telescope Instruments Operators(TIOs) and Data Handling Administrators(DHAs). ... Astronomers have proposed several methods to quantitatively measure the amount of turbulence above the telescope, which the most common ones is Differential Image Motion Monitor (DIMM). In optical testing, the Hartmann test is the common method to test the quality of optical components. ... Hartmann mask consists of 48 lenses. ...

... 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. ...