Class 1 Introduction, Background History of Modern Astronomy The Night Sky, Eclipses and the Seasons Kepler's Laws Newtonian Gravity General Relativity Matter and Light Telescopes Class 2 Solar System Characteristics Formation Exosolar Planets Class 3 Stars The Sun Stellar Evolution of Low and High Mass Stars Deaths of Stars Class 4 Galaxies Galaxy Classification Formation of Galaxies Galactic Evolution Large-Scale Structure of the Universe Big Bang Cosmology Why is Pluto no longer a planet? ...

... Bad Astronomy . ... On Thursday, February 15th 2001 (and replayed on March 19), the Fox TV network aired a program called ``Conspiracy Theory: Did We Land on the Moon?'', hosted by X-Files actor Mitch Pileggi. ... Dust around the lander . ... However, it appeals to our common sense: when the sky is black here on Earth, we see stars. ... Bad: The program claims that when the top half of the lander took off from the Moon to bring the astronauts back into orbit, there was no flame from the rocket. ...

... 11 Yellow-Green (78% transmission): Contrasts well with the red and blue characteristics of surface features on Jupiter and Saturn. ... 82A Light Blue (73% transmission): Useful on the Moon, Mars, Jupiter, and Saturn, this subtle pale blue filter enhances areas of low contrast while avoiding significant reduction of overall image brightness. ... Meade Series 4000 Photo-Visual Color Filters may be ordered individually or in the following sets: . ... Meade Series 4000 Broadband Nebular Filters . ...

Apr 13 2015 Sagitta - The Arrow IC 4997 12mmT4 17mmT4 Planetary Neb 1 PB,PS,R,CENTRAL REGION BRT ,W/OIII,HELPS MUCH,BM,FHALO DET AROUND MIDDLE,R=G VB,MS,BNUC,HISB,W/OIII,BRIGHT BLUE, BRT CENTRAL DISC WITH FAINT HALO,ALMOST *,R=G Jul 05 2008 31 Sep 10 2004 31 NGC 6838 M71 Globular CL,VL,VRI,PMC,*11.16 Mar 22 2004 12.5 12mmT4 25mm Sep 23 2003 31 25mm Aug 20 2003 31 Jul 30 1981 12.5 ...

... The Volga Region Centre of Aerospace Education (VRCAE) (PoTsAKO) invites students and teachers to take part in the summer aerospace School that is carried through within the programme "The development of aerospace education in Russia as a new direction of complementary education". The organizers of the School are the Ministry of general and professional education of Russia, the Russia Youth Aerospace Society "Soyuz", the Administration of Nizhny Novgorod Region and PoTsAKO. ...

... Date : 26/07/2009 . Lieu : Soria, Spain . MatУ?riel de prise de vue : GSO Reflector 200mm f/4, Canon 350D, 21x300s@800iso . Commentaires : The Trifid Nebula (also known as Messier 20 and NGC6514) is an H II region with a remarkable collection of open cluster, emission nebula (the lower, red portion), reflection nebula (the upper, blue portion) and dark nebula (the septation within the emission nebula causing the trifid appearance, also designated Barnard 85). www.astronomica.es . ...

... ---------- 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 ( ...

... Field of interest: data analysis and interpretation of X-ray observations of BHC and NS systems, astrophysics of compact objects and related phenomena: X-ray , optical and radio observations , shocks and stellar winds, emission mechanism, the spectral and timing analysis of the X-ray emission from microquasars ( signature of accreting BH), atoll- and Z-sources ( signature of accreting NS), modeling of INTEGRAL images % . ...

Aurora and Nightglow Laboratory . Head Dr. Valery Alexeyev . Phone: +7(4112) 39-04-60 . Fax: +7(4112) 39-04-50 . ... Dr. Peter Ammosov . Dr. Galina Gavrileva . Dr. Igor Ievenko . ... Dr. Semen Nikolashkin . Electronics engineer Nikolay Alexeyev . Post-graduate Igor Koltovskoy . Post-graduate Stanislav Parnikov . Post-graduate Galina Timofeeva . Post-graduate Semen Titov . ...

General Information . ... We'd like to announce the forthcoming IAU Conference: . ... A conference organized by Sternberg Astronomical institute (Moscow, Russia) and Working group "Site-testing Instruments" of the International Astronomical Union on various aspects of site-testing techniques, approaches and results. RUSSIA, Kislovodsk (Caucasus Mineral Waters region), 4-9 October 2010. ... Victor Kornilov, Sternberg Astronomical Institute . ... 3-4 October: Registration and accommodation . ...

... Viking 253 1.173. VNREDSat-1 253 1.174. WIRE (Wire Field Infrared Explorer) 253 1.175. ...

... 2004. ... Astrophys. J. 1999. ... Fan Y., Fisher G.H., McClymont A.N. Dynamics of emerging active region flux loops // Astrophys. ... Howard R.F. Axial tilt angles of sunspot groups // Solar Phys. 1991. ... Langcope D.W., Fisher G.H. The effect of convection zone turbulence on the tilt angles of magnetic bipoles // Astrophys. ... Axial tilt angles of sunspot groups // Solar Phys. 1999. ... 10, 60 120 . ... 2005 . ... SS433. ... 2 I - - 4 II 8 III 11 IV 8 2005 . ... SS433 23.05.2005 . ...

. Comment on J0957+5522 . A 5 GHz MERLIN image (Xu et al. 1995) shows a 200 mas jet pointing to the W, and indicates that the core is elongated to the SW. Our map of the core region indicates a bending jet from mas to arcsecond angular scales. VLBApls home page . Last modified: 16 Oct 2000

... Field of research: Extragalactic astronomy. ... NASA Astrophysics Data System (ADS) Abstract Service . ... CADC Home Page . ... CCD Images of Galaxies . ... RUSSIAN LINKS . ... UA Astronomy Personal Home Page - Bill Keel . ... The Shape of the Rotation Curves of Edge-on Galaxies, by A.V.Zasov and A.V.Khoperskov, 2003. ... A Thickness of Stellar Discs, by A.V.Zasov, and D.V.Bizyaev, 2003 . Minimum Velocity Dispersion in Stable Stellar Disks, by A.V.Khoperskov, A.V.Zasov, and N.V.Tyurina, 2003 . ...

... 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 . ...

... A Chemically Decoupled Nucleus and Inner Polar Ring of the SBb Galaxy NGC 4548 O. K. Sil'chenko* Sternberg Astronomical Institute, Universitetskii pr. ... This nucleus, a probable circumnuclear disk coplanar with the global galactic disk, is embedded in the bulge whose stars are generally also young, T 4 Gyr, although they are a factor of 2.5 more metalpoor. ... O. K. Sil'chenko, Pis'ma Astron. ... It remains to assume that the gas at the center of NGC 4548 rotates in an inclined plane. ...

... Dear teachers and guests of our site, if you are interested in the work of our teachers (foreign language teachers in particular) you may contact us through Internet. ... The teachers not only use computers for presentation of the new material, but also organize the system of checking students' knowledge. ... Every grade organizes a firm, chooses the activity, approves of the staff of the firm. ... The students also plan expenditure on scientific and research activities and advertisement. ...

... ISC Kosmotras . Top Management Founder of ISC Kosmotras - Dr. Vladimir A. Andreev News . ... Dr. Vladimir A. Andreev, Founder of ISC Kosmotras, Member of the Board . ... Peaceful and rational use of RS-20 ICBMs after their withdrawal from service with the Russian Ministry of Defense (MoD) has been in the main focus of Dr. Andreev s attention since early 1990s. Dr. Andreev is one of the founders of an international cooperation program and process called the Dnepr Program . ... Dnepr Program . ...

... Piotrovich Main Astronomical Observatory, Pulkovo, St. Petersburg, Russia Received May 24, 2006; in final form, July 7, 2006 Abstract--We have used two astrometric methods developed at the Main Astronomical Observatory of the Russian Academy of Sciences--the method of apparent-motion parameters (AMP) and a direct geometrical method (DGM)--to derive the orbit of the star S2 around the Galactic center, and thereby the mass of the supermassive black hole at the Galactic center. ... Relative positions. ...

... 2014 . ... MAGNETIC FIELDS IN SOLAR ACTIVE REGIONS V.G.Lozitsky Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv, Astronomical Observatory lozitsky@observ.univ.kiev.ua, lozitsky_v@ukr.net Magnetic field measurements in solar active regions carry out on a base of the Zeeman effect. ... TRACKING OF RADIO BURST SOURCES IN SOLAR CORONA BY HELIOGRAPHIC MEANS Koval A.A. 1, Stanislavsky A.A. 1,2, Konovalenko A.A. 1 Institute of Radio Astronomy of NAS of Ukraine 2 V.N. Karazin Kharkiv National University 1 .. ...