... Bad Astronomy . ... I think I will break from my usual format of Bad Astronomy/ Good Astronomy by saying that the way we define seasons currently is not strictly bad, but I feel (in my opinion!) that it could be better. The definition of when the seasons begin is at the moment of solstice or equinox; that is, winter (in the north) starts on December 22 nd and summer starts on June 22 nd . ... Now imagine breaking up the Sun's 46 degree up-and-down yearly swing into 1 day intervals. ...

... Contents of the Tycho Catalogue Over view of the Tycho Catalogue: The Tycho Catalogue provides astrometr y (positions, parallaxes and proper motions) and two-colour photometr y (in B T and VT ) for more than one million stars brighter than VT = 11.5 mag. ... Stars in ver y dense clusters and other dense fields thus leaving the resulting Tycho Catalogue incomplete in such regions `R' in Field T42). ... The number of non-Hipparcos stars with Tycho Catalogue parallaxes larger than 40 + 4 mas is 1245. ...

Structure of the supersmall satellites . Scientific equipment . Supersmall satellite "Universitetskiy" is manufactured by Production Corporation "Polyot" (Omsk, Russia) in the interests of Lomonosov Moscow State University. Supersmall satellite "Kompas-2" is a pilot project of multi-satellite system which is intended for prediction and motnitoring of natural and technologenical disasters. ... Composition of the scientific equipment of the "Universitetskiy" satellite. ...

ATMoB "Galaxy Observing Award " Guidelines Purpose: To promote observing among the membership of the Amateur Telescope Makers of Boston through participation in the Galaxy Observing Awards program. ... Examples of elliptical galaxies: M49, M59, M60, M87, NGC 4125. Limiting Magnitude Assessment: Spirals: A spiral galaxy consists of a flattened disk, with stars forming a (usually two-armed) spiral structure, and a central concentration of stars known as the bulge. ...

Lutsenko Olena L. (PhD, Psychology, Associate Professor) Filonenko Anna (Master, Psychology, Lecturer) School of Psychology V. N.Karazin Kharkiv National University COURSE DESCRIPTIONS ­ PSYCHOLOGY OF LEADERSHIP Title and N of module 1­ Leadership Theories Themes 1. ... Ethical leadership. ... Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, 95 , 140-155. ... Socializing the newcomer: The mediating role of leader-member exchange.Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, 119, 114-125. ...

The Mass Function of Dark Halos in Sup erclusters and Voids E. P. Kurbatov1 1 ,* Institute of Astronomy of the Russian Academy of Sciences A mo dification of the Press­Schechter theory allowing for presence of a background large-scale structure (LSS) ­ a sup ercluster or a void is prop osed. The LSS is accounted as the statistical constraints in form of linear functionals of the random overdensity field. ... Variance as a function of mass for different sets of constraints. ...

... SUPER RATIO . ... On this page I will present the most important (on my opinion) idea on Intellegence Life in the Universe . ... On the problem of the Super Ratio in astrophysics" . ... As a matter of fact, this is the main problem of the modern natural science. ... Here I shall try to speak about the most important problem of the modern natural science, the problem which is undoubtedly, of more importance than discovery of Blacks Holes, creation of Grand Unification Theory or Artificial...

... 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. ...

... Reports on progress and error are always recorded in the log file of the program. ... UT date of the measurement finish in YYYY-MM-DD format UT time of the measurement finish in hh:mm:ss format Average flux in A aperture Average flux in B aperture Average flux in C aperture Average flux in D aperture Normalized variance of flux in A aperture Normalized variance of flux in B aperture Normalized variance of flux in C aperture Normalized variance of flux in D ...

... The described algorithm is suitable for measurements of complex images of stars. ... a) the zero-based number of stars in the complex (multicentric) image, . b) set of preliminary coordinates - x i , y i , for all stars, index i is number of a star, . ... i - index of a star in the complex image; . ... These parameters are calculated by a nonlinear method of a least squares.The main output parameters of this algorithm are x i , y i ; where the index i is number of a star in the multicentric image. ...

... We have compiled the Catalogue of extragalactic supernovae using the GCVS card catalogue. ... Doubtful (?), or rejected (-) SN 8 A1 --- RemFlag [*] The '*' indicates a remark in sn_rem.dat 10- 19 A10 --- Gal Parent galaxy designation 21- 22 I2 h RAh Right Ascension 1950 of Parent galaxy 23- 24 I2 min RAm Right Ascension 1950 (minutes) 25- 28 F4.1 s RAs Right Ascension 1950 (seconds) 29 A1 --- DE- Declination 1950 (sign) 30- 31 I2 deg DEd Declination 1950 of Parent ...

RELATIVE SUNSPOT NUMBERS Description of Data from SGD Explanation of Data Reports: Relative Sunspot Numbers -- The relative sunspot number is an index of the activity of the entire visible disk of the Sun. ... The provisional daily Zurich relative sunspot numbers, Rz, were based upon observations made at Zurich and its two branch stations in Arosa and Locarno and communicated by M. Waldmeier of the Swiss Federal Observatory. ... This indicates the uncertainty above and below the predicted number. ...

... FEATURES OF OBTAINED IMAGES All images obtained by the TESIS have a number of artifacts, i.e., the dark current, flat field, blurring (related to the feature of input shutters and CCD matrices of the equipment), and frame damage caused by the entry of cosmic particles. In addition, poor accuracy of the spacecraft stabilization leads to the fact that separately taken images of the Sun have a ran dom displacement and rotation relative to the CCD matrix. ... Methods of image recording of the TESIS. ...

Russian SHAREABLE DATA CENTER Institute of Solar-Terrestial Physics SB RAS . ... The real-time radiosignals characteristics calculation algorithm from current VS data is carried out according to the following scheme (V.P.Grozov ,G.V.Kotovitch,V.E.Nosov,S.N.Ponomartvhuk, S.V.Pushkarev,L.P.Sergeeva,V.V.Khakhinov. Real time decameters radio systems characteristics calculation by ionosphere vertical sounding data. ... ionogram and calculation results display on monitor; . ...

... April 1992 The MD5 Message-Digest Algorithm Status of this Memo This memo provides information for the Internet community. ... combination): -sstring - digests string -t - runs time trial -x - runs test script filename - digests file (none) - digests standard input */ int main (argc, argv) int argc; Rivest [Page 17] RFC 1321 MD5 Message-Digest Algorithm April 1992 char *argv[]; { int i; if (argc 1) for (i = 1; i argc; i++) if (argv[i][0] == '-' argv[i][1] == 's') MDString (argv ...