... 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. ...

Milky Way X-ray background emission « »: , . ... RXTE , . ... Using near-infrared Galaxy intensity measured with COBE/DIRBE experiment and X-ray data from RXTE and INTEGRAL it was shown that X-ray brightness of the Galactic background emission closely follows its stellar density and can be explained by a cumulative emission of a large number of weak Galactic X-ray sources. ... Map of Galactic background emission in hard X-ray energy band obtained with INTEGRAL observatory. ... 2006, &, 452, 169 ., ...

J/AstL/vol/page SAI Open Clusters Catalog (Glushkova+, 2009) ================================================================================ Automated search for star clusters in large multiband surveys. ... Color excesses E(B-V), distance moduli and ages were determined for 141 new and 27 known, but poorly studied clusters. We present the Sternberg Astronomical Institute Open Clusters Catalog (SAI OCL Catalog) of coordinates, diameters and main physical parameters of these clusters. ...

... Report on Cosmic Call 1999 . ... Cosmic Call Sessions . ... This Report outlines methodology, hard- and software, which were developed to transmit first public Interstellar messages from Evpatoria Deep Space Center (EDSC), and describes four Cosmic Call Sessions, which were fulfilled in EDSC on May 24 and June 30 - July 1, 1999. ... Each Cosmic Call consists of two parts. ... Dutil Message, . ... The software for gathering all messages and creating the Cosmic Call stream, was written on C language. ...

Астрономическая картинка дня . Официальное зеркало Astronomy picture of the day на сервере NASA ?? ... 13 января 2002 . ... Гипатия Александрийская . Пояснение: Шестнадцать столетий назад Гипатия была одним из самых передовых ученых в области математики и астрономии. ... Гиппатии приписывается высказывание: "Сохраняй за собой право думать, даже неправильно ? это лучше, чем не думать совсем". ... Robert Nemiroff ( MTU ) и Jerry Bonnell ( USRA ) . ... А. Сергеев , оформление, 1999, 2000. ...

EVIDENCE FOR AGE DELAY BETWEEN THE FORMATION OF THE OLD HALO AND THE THICK DISK. ... The metallicity function of globular clusters of thick disk and old halo is shown on Fig.1Ю There are a two approximately the same normal distribution with well-defined gap between them with width [Fe/H] 0.2 dex. ... Metallicity function (left panel), and age distribution (right panel) for the old halo and thick disk globular clusters. ... Plots of V S against cos for the thick disk and the old halo samples. ...

Personal Pages of Astronomers . ... home | ... Jarle Aasland (Comet Hale-Bopp: Norwegian Images) . ... Howard C. Anderson (Astrophotography Images and Information) . ... Patrick J. Anway (Lookum Observatory) . ... Peter Armstrong (ScanCam Home Page) . ... Bill Arnett's Astronomy Page . ... Astro Nights home page ( Australia ) . ... Alex Michael Bonnici (Space Exploration) . ... Michael Boschat . ... Brendan's Astronomy Page ( Republic of Ireland ) . ... Steve's Astronomy and Astrophotography page . ...

... 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. ...

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Many foreigners say "England" and "English" when they mean "Britain", or "the UK", and "British". ... In Northwest England, there are many beautiful lakes with green, wooden or grassy shores and gray mountains all around. The Lake District is the central mountainous area of Cumbria in the Northwest and has some of England's most beautiful scenery. ... Nearly one quarter of the Lake District National Park is owned by the National Trust . ...

Shakht N.A., A.A.Afanas'eva, D.L. Gorshanov, E. V.Poliakow (Pulkovo Observatory, Russia): Title: Long-term photographic observations for selected objects of Pulkovo program: measurements and results. Abstract: The selected objects, observed at Pulkovo observatory during long time period have been of intense interest among astronomers, and now they are the most important aims for space investigations. ... Now we believe, that they also are interesting for observation during space mission Gaia. ...

The direct detection of gravitational waves is one of those events long-expected by physicists that are nevertheless a significant occurrence which excites the world scientific community as if something unexpected has happened. ... Many rumors leaked ahead of the conference, and the fact that something (that is, a signal corresponding to gravitational waves) was discovered by LIGO (Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory) was discussed on the sidelines. ... arXiv:1602.03868 . ...

... Like many other Western industrialized cities, London has experienced an absolute population decline in the central city, with people moving out to the suburbs. ... In 1988, for example, nearly 1 in 8 people were unemployed throughout London and the situation in the inner city was worst. ... More successful has been the government's attempt to encourage grwoth outside London without allowing the city to sprawl into umanageable suburban growth. ...

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... Отмеченная наградами АстроТоп-а . ... 1) К участию в конкурсе допускаются все российские сайты на тему астрономии и космонавтики, и все русскоязычные сайты за пределами России. ... II) Сайт года . ... Победитель: Астронет - http://www.astronet.ru/ : подано голосов экспертов - 109 (всего - 129) . ... 3-е место разделили: Астрономия и Телескопостроение - http://www.astronomer.ru/ и Лента новостей космонавтики от Железнякова - http://www.cosmoworld.ru/spaceencyclopedia/hotnews/ : подано по 37 голосов; ...

... 17.9 ATel #8181 4.1 (no VIZIER) 941 MASTER J080005.70+364436.4 2015 Oct 15 828 SN 17.4 ATel #8173 SA OG IIn 2.8 W,10.4 N PGC2086067,m-M=36.16 940 MASTER J203134.48+030423.4 2015 Oct 13.839 SN 16.3 ATel #8172 3.8 937 MASTER J001858.94-402211.9 2015 Oct 13.864 SN 17.0 ATel #8163 SA VS 9.7 W and 11 N PGC587150 (110Mpc) 929 MASTER J054404.79-314655.2 2015 Oct 11.046 SN 17.8 ... 02.691 PSN 18.9 ATel #4781 Kis VL SDSS r=20.3 in 4.5" 263 MASTER J131019.65+322825.0 2012 Dec. ...

... Master . Master net Homepage . ... MASTER . ... About Space Monitoring Laboratory, scientific directions, instruments, contacts . ... Russian Robotic Net MASTER of Lomonosov Moscow State University discovered the Most Powerfull Object in the Universe . ... Using the 40-cm (16-inch) f/2.5 reflectors equipped with 16-Mpix CCD cameras they have found the brightening of the poorly studied flat spectrum radio quasar CGRaBS J0809+5341 = FIRST J080941.7+534125 with the known redshift z=2.133. ...

ABSOLUTE PROPER MOTIONS OF 331 OPEN CLUSTERS . ... The proper motions of stars in the fields of 331 open clusters were taken from Four-Million Star Catalog (4M-catalog) of positions and proper motions (Volchkov et al. ... The absolute proper motions for 21 young open clusters have been derived by comparison of precise relative proper motions of individual stars and their corresponding absolute proper motions. ... Sign of proper motions in RA . ... 0.0001 arcsec/yr . ... rms error in RA proper motion . ...

I was born on April 12, 1958, in Moscow, USSR, and I have a Russian nationality. I graduated the Lomonosov Moscow State University in 1981, obtained there my Ph.D.degree in 1984 (the topic of the dissertation: "Stellar populations and evolution of galaxies") and a degree of Doctor of Physical-Mathematical Sciences in 1994 (the dissertation "Stellar population of galactic nuclei"). Since 1984 I hold a permanent position at the Sternberg Astronomical Institute (Moscow). ...