... Local and Regional Coordinators, and OBSERVERS are needed for Friday night's spectacular Aldebaran Occultation and Graze Aldebaran is the brightest star, other than the Sun, that can be occulted by the Moon. ... Use your camcorder (or a borrowed camcorder) to record a strong local television station. ... Encourage other amateur astronomers, and other friends and relatives in the region of visibility to record the occultation with camcorders. ... This event is called an "occultation" by astronomers. ...

... The mount is also adjustable so you can orient the axis of rotation to make it parallel with the Earth's axis of rotation (see the section on Polar Alignment). ... Locate the opening in the equatorial mount on the DEC axis. ... To mount the telescope tube: 1. ... ADJUSTING THE MOUNT FOR POLAR ALIGNMENT In order for the clock drive to track accurately, the telescope's axis of rotation must be parallel to the Earth's axis of rotation, a process known as polar alignment. ... R.A. & DEC axis ! ...

The possibility of recovery of the vertical distribution of the magnetic field in umbrae by line width differences S.G. Mozharovsky Ussuriysk Astrophysical Observatory of FEB RAS, Ussuriysk, Russia sw@newmail.ru Abstract. This article studies the possibility of recovery of the vertical distribution of the magnetic field in the photospheric layers of sunspot umbra by the Difference of the Line profile Absolute Widths of neutral zirconium ? ... 2) Line profiles for cold models have extended wings. ...

... The VSOP Symposium proceedings, "Astrophysical Phenomena Revealed by Space VLBI" have been published and have been distributed to participants. ... Following the successful launch of the VLBI Space Observatory Programme (VSOP) satellite HALCA in February 1997 there have been many exciting results from space VLBI observations. ... Also, check the newly revised getting to ISAS page which has links to pictorial "Getting to ISAS from Fuchinobe" and "Getting to the Dai-Ichi Hotel from Fuchinobe" pages! ...

The Database of Close Binary Systems . ... Team . ... This web-based interactive database is being developed and maintained by a team at the Sternberg Astronomical Institute of the Moscow State University . The project is an on-line extension of our catalogue on "Highly Evolved Close Binary Stars" (volumes I, II) published by Gordon and Breach in 1996. As of September 2009, the database (both the software and the content) is in its development/testing phase. ...

... 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 .. ...

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The paper presents the 'Neptune-ME' information display system (IDS) as a spaceman console (SC) of the descent module of the 'Soyuz -TMA' piloted transport spaceship, and the integrated console (IC) of manual control loop for module equipment in the Russian segment of the 'Alpha' international space station. ... to control spaceship systems; . ... An integrated control console (ICC) which is hardware and software compatible with a IBM PC, is suggested as a basic console for the manual control loop. ...

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Neutron Star Group . Analytical Representations of Equations of State of Neutron Star Matter . These analytical representations are designed for older equations of state FPS and SLy4. For newer equations of state BSk19-20-21, see this http URL . ... Description of EOS subroutines . ... Alexander Potekhin ( Department of Theoretical Astrophysics of the Ioffe Institute ): palex@astro.ioffe.ru . ... Page created on April 5, 2004 , last updated on May 20, 2007 by Alexander Potekhin . ...