The Official Publication of the Amateur Astronomers Association of Princeton Director Ludy D'Angelo (609) 882-9336 Assistant Director Jeff Bernardis (609) 466-4238 jeffbernardis@gmail.com Treasurer Michael Mitrano (609)-737-6518 michael.mitrano@att.net Program Chairman John Church (609) 799-0723 j.church@mindspring.com Secretary Editors Larry Kane Bryan Hubbard and Michael Wright (609) ... At the last meeting of the year in June, we were gathered at the State Museum Planetarium in Trenton. ...

... A nasty dispute between the Strategic Defense Initiative Organization (SDIO) and the space-science community was narrowly averted early this year when SDI officials backed down on a planned launch of a satellite with a Russian-built nuclear reactor on board. ... Early Soviet space reactors orbited for two to three months, and two Soviet Topaz 1 experiments, one for six and one 12 months, created radiation belts that disrupted the operation of scientific satellites. ...

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... 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...

... Russian Institutions Eligible to Receive Full lnternet Access Via RSSI - NISN . ... Space Research Institute, RAS (IKI) . Moscow . ... Keldish Institute of Applied Math-LAN-1 . ... Aerospace (ASC) Lebedev Inst.Physics LAN . ... IKI LAN Dept 54 . ... IKI MAIN LAN . ... IKI LAN Lab 902 . ... IKI LAN- Terminal Server - DIAL-UP . ... Astronomical Institute . ... 255.255.255.0 . Babakin Research Engineering Center . ... Mission (Flight) Control Center . ... IRIS Moscow Data Analysis Center . ...

... ISC Kosmotras . ... Dnepr launch record 17 August 2011. ... Having been launched at 11:15 Moscow time from Baikonur Cosmodrome, the Dnepr LV (a converted SS-18 ICBM) successfully injected 5 RapidEye spacecraft into orbit. ... Dr. Vladimir A. Andreev, Director General of ISC Kosmotras, speaking on behalf of the Company, extended his congratulations on the successful launch to the launch customers, namely British SSTL, Canadian MDA and German RapidEye AG. ... Dnepr LV Performance . ... Launch Sites . ...

Crater Gassendi . ... I made this drawing was made on the 26th of november 2001. If you compare this one with the previous drawing of Gassendi (below) the differences are clear. ... This drawing was made on the 28th of september 2001. After nearly a full month without observations I had a one hour gap between the thicker clouds. ... This drawing was made on the 29th of august 2001. ... This drawing was made on the 27th of august 2001. ... This drawing was made on the 25th of august 2001. ...

... 33, No. 5, pp. 332­339. i Young Nuclei in Dwarf Elliptical Galaxies I. V. Chilingarian1, 1 2 2 ** , O. K. Sil'chenko1, V. L. Afanasiev2 , and Ph. ... In all three galaxies, the luminosity-weighted age of the nuclei (4 Gyr) is considerably younger than that of the population in the outer regions of the galaxies. ... Kinematically decoupled structures associated with a young metal-rich stellar population can be formed precisely through a dissipative merger of gas-rich galaxies several Gyr ago. ...

... Moon Phase below . ... ARTICLE: Why the moon always shows us the same face . ... Before you continue reading, you should know that this was not always the case, i.e. the Moon once was rotating with respect to the Earth, so that on every night a terrestrial observer (if there was one, because this was long, long before mankind appeared on our planet, and even before any major animals had appeared) saw another face of the Moon. ... Figure 1 (not to scale) shows how we can imagine the system Earth-Moon...

Statistics of sunspot activity . The sunspot indices . ... Visual indices of solar activity . ... n - number of spot groups . A - Waldmeier class of unipolar spot groups without penumbra . B - class of bipolar spot groups without penumbra . C - class of bipolar spot groups with one penumbra pole . D - class of small bipolar spot groups with two penumbra poles . E - class of middle bipolar spot groups with two penumbra poles . ... H - class of unipolar penumbrated spot groups . ...

... Printed in the U.S.A. doi:10.1088/0004-637X/691/2/1222 AUTOMATED LASCO CME CATALOG FOR SOLAR CYCLE 23: ARE CMEs SCALE INVARIANT? ... CME RATE DURING CYCLE 23 Figure 2 shows the daily CACTus CME rate for cycle 23 in red, with the International Sunspot Number (e.g., Vanlommel et al. 2004) superimposed in gray as solar cycle reference. ... The CACTus CME speeds Figure 12. ... A comparison of a sample of common events shows that on average the CDAW CME width is wider than the CACTus CME width. ...

... Director of the RAS ISR . RAS Academician . ... Astrophysics module Kvant of the orbital complex Mir launched in 1987 contains the largest on the station complex of the scientific equipment named the orbital observatory Roentgen. Observatory Roentgen consists of 4 X-ray telescopes, jointly exceeding the range of energies from 2 to 800 keV. ... Among the most significant results that were received in the observatory Roentgen are: . ... measurement of the periods of 9 X-ray pulsars; . ...

... 25 июля 2000 . ... Почему звезды мерцают . ... Как можно видеть невооруженным глазом , звезды находятся так далеко, что видны нам, как бесконечно малые точки. Однако земная атмосфера неоднородна и различные части воздуха делают различные изображения единичной точечноподобной звезды. Так как атмосфера всегда меняется и перемещается , то число и положение изображений также всегда изменяется и в результате звезда кажется мерцающей . ... А. Сергеев , оформление, 1999, 2000. ...

... 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 .. ...

The Second U.S. Naval Observatory CCD Astrograph Catalog ( UCAC2 ) Table of Contents 1) Introduction 2) Summary of the Project a) Observations and Instrumentation b) Reductions of UCAC Observations c) Computation of Proper Motions 3) Properties of the Catalog and Important Notes For the User a) Sky Coverage b) Completeness c) Positions, Proper Motions and Error Calculations d) UCAC2 Magnitudes e) 2MASS Photometry f) Non-stellar ... All stars in the UCAC2 have proper motions. ...

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