... Bad Astronomy . ... Bitesize Astronomy . ... Keep Bad Astronomy close to your heart, and help make me filthy rich. ... Brains on Vacation Archive . ... I'm always amazed at the dumb advertising cosmetic products will use to convince you their stuff is better than someone else's. I remember years ago one skin lotion had a big sticker on it said that it contained uric acid. ... Case in point: Neaclear , makers of "liquid oxygen skin care products". ... Clorox liquid contains oxygen. ... 2008 Phil...

... The ancient chronical said about the colour rings around the Sun and the Moon, about three suns in the sky, light columns, bright lightning, different "comets" rushing to the Earth, moving among the stars or round the Earth with the sky. All these occurrences may be divided into three categories: one that occur in the near or far space, processes going on in the Earth atmosphere under the influence of cosmic factors and at last the occurrences connected with the Earth atmosphere. ... Rainbow . ...

... astro-ph . ... Statistical Characterization of the Chandra Source Catalog . ... The first release of the Chandra Source Catalog (CSC) contains ~95,000 X-ray sources in a total area of ~0.75% of the entire sky, using data from ~3,900 separate ACIS observations of a multitude of different types of X-ray sources. ... In addition to these traditional catalog elements, for each X-ray source the CSC includes an extensive set of file-based data products that can be manipulated interactively. ...

THE SUBSYSTEMS OF THE MILKY WAY HALO. ... A catalogue of homogeneous fundamental astrophysical parameters for 145 globular clusters is composed on the base of the data of compilative catalogue by Harris (1997) and from another literature. ... In addition, it has large rotation velocity ( V rot =77?33 km/s), appreciable radial and vertical metallicity gradients equal by value, and has the oldest average age (subsystem of the old halo). ... Characteristic parameter of globular cluster subsystems. ...

Электронная библиотека астронома-любителя. ... архив RSN . ... Ru.Space.News: . Апрель 1998 . ... Дата: 28 апреля 1998 (1998-04-28) От: Alexander Bondugin Тема: Cassini Update - April 26, 1998 Привет всем! ... The web site also contains some audio files, including a recording of the Mode-S beacon which plays for 20 seconds. ... During the period 1998-Mar-21 to 1998-Apr-15, excellent signals have once again been received from the 145.826 MHz beacon. ... The 435.025 MHz beacon is normally off. ...

Sternberg astronomical institute activities on site testing programs review Victor Kornilov comprehensive/characterization/of/astronomical/sites > kislovodsk/russia/2010/october/4-9 > Introduction This presentation responds on our activity in 5 last years only, inspite of that in SAI site testing researches have been started many years ago. ... More detailed discussion is devoted to MASS and DIMM measurements processing, some additional effects which were taken in account in last year. ...

So what is "Code Blue" and what does it mean? It's no great secret that several years ago we had the mirror re-coated on the 31" Blue Beast at Warren Rupp Observatory, and within a few short weeks, portions of the coating began to fail. ... These are the fellows that showed up at the Observatory on February 20th to help with the gargantuan and nail-biting task of getting mirror out of the telescope safely, out of the cell safely, into the box safely, and put into the truck safely. ...

... The storm began quite unexpectedly. The strongest geomagnetic storm for the last seven months began on Earth almost precisely at the same time as the solar eclipse reached its maximal stage, the culmination of which occurred at GMT 02:35 (06:35 Moscow time). ... Oscillations of such amplitude in the magnetic field have not been observed since October, 11th of last year, which is more than seven months ago. ... We can only add that the magnetic storm lasted approximately 9 hours. ...

MPEC 2010-A35 : 2010 AL2 http://www.cfa.harvard.edu/mpec/K10/K10A35.html Printer-friendly version MPC Ope rations Status Processing (Info) ECS: Accessible Obse rv e r Se rv ice s (NEOs) NEO Services Overview NEO Confirmation NEO Confirmation (RA order) NEO Ratings NEO Page NEO Observation Planning Aid NEOChecker NEOCMT Checker Obse rv e r Se rv ice s Services Overview IAUMail Minor Planet & Comet Ephem. ... Orbital elements: 2010 AL2 Epoch 2010 Jan. ...

Fred Ewalt image: . I revisted my series of 5 raw images on SN1999gp. The attached UGC 1993 field image is the summation of five co-aligned and added one minute raw exposures (vice averaged, which was used for the processed image I submitted yesterday). ... The probable Foreground Star, SN1999gp and the Nucleus of UGC 1993 are all apparent in this field image. The second "Inset - A image", I blew up and normalized to the same pixel count as the field image. ... Back to 1999gp . ...

... Ciel Espace, le magazine qui vous guide toujours plus loin . ... Ciel Espace, nouvelle formule, c'est . des actualit–їs . ... Accueil Suivez en direct la fin du cargo spatial "Albert Einstein" . ... Le cargo spatial europ–їen ATV-4, baptis–ї "Albert Einstein", doit s'ab–?mer vers 13h05 au-dessus du Pacifique Sud ce 2 novembre. ... Suivez l'–їv–Rnement en direct . ... 14/03/2016 - Suivez en direct le lancement de la sonde Exomars . ... 20/01/2014 - Suivez en direct le r–їveil de Rosetta . ...

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: . ...

STEP INTO THE BLUE - MEADE INSTRUMENTS PRODUCT GUIDE . ... Telescopes . ... Superb optical performance coupled with time proven computerized pointing and tracking has made the LX200 ACF series a best-seller in the high-performance telescope class. ... LX70 Series . ... Meade LX70 Polar Scope Operating Instructions (Size: 203.8 KB) . ... Threaded into the polar axis of the Meade LX70 German Equatorial mount this handy accessory allows the user to quickly and precisely polar align their telescope. ...

... You must have the frames with a dark current and flat field for preliminary processing of the images. ... The flat field is necessary for the account of the variations in the sensitivity of pixels. ... 1) Open the frame with a flat field by . ... In the dialogue choose a frame with a dark current. There will be a subtraction of the dark frame from the flat field. ... 3) Apply the flat field by . Note  If several files are open, a dark current and flat field will apply for all. ...

... B.V. Somov . head of the department . ... room 80 . ... senior research felow . ... research felow . ... research fellow . ... Our department performes the following most perspective studies: . Special analytical and numerical experimental investigations of the solar plasma involved in the magnetic reconnection process at the Sun. ... Head of the seminar: Prof. B.V. Somov. ... 27 September 2013 The Solar Physics Department was visited by journalists of the leading Russian TV channel "Vesti-1". ...

... 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. ...