... By LORNA SIGGINS, The Irish Times, 31 December 2008: A тАЬLEAP secondтАЭ added to clocks around the world, the longest total solar eclipse of the 21st century, and a Galway university professor dressed as Galileo Galilei тАУ these are some of the highlights of the International Year of Astronomy which starts across the world tomorrow. ... An Post is due to issue two stamps to mark the year. ... International Year of Astronomy, Ireland National Node . ...

... Status Report on CTE and Photometric Differences Between Long and Short Exposure Times . ... Data . ... LRF Data . ... The second is an apparent difference in the measured flux from stellar sources in short exposures (~200s) vs. that measured in long exposures (~1000s). ... While the CTE effect shows a strong dependence on row number, the magnitude offset in short vs. long exposures persists even at low row numbers, and results in faint targets being too faint by up to ~0.05 mag in short exposures. ...

... On Thursday, 11/12, Bill Boroski, Bob Nagel, Steve Bastian and John Davis continued to pursue the oscillation in the windscreen and lubricating the cone bearings. Bill was able to install the bar coder for the altitude drive. ... On Friday, 11/13, Charlie Briegel continues to work on motion controls. ... Bill has also installed the bar coder for the azimuth drive. And Steve along with Bob Nagel clean the bearings with mineral spirits in preparation for applying the new lubricant. ...

... Staff . Research staff . Technical, administrative & librarian staff . ... Staff in alphabetic order . Research . ... Galaxies, AGN, Cosmology . ... Infrared astronomy . Optical turbulence . ... Historical highlights . Historical research . ... At the Observatory, there are active experimental groups which develop technologies for the realization of the largest optical and infrared telescopes and of advanced optical instrumentation for visible wavelengths, infrared and radio. ...

ATNF Home . About ATNF . ... About ATNF overview . ... Governance overview . Australia Telescope Steering Committee . ... Australia Telescope User Committee . ... Our people overview . ... Staff list | Student list | Visitor list . ... Publications overview . ... Email discussion lists . ... Murchison Radio-astronomy Observatory . ... Australia Telescope Online Archive (ATOA) . ... Virtual Radio Interferometer . ... CSIRO ATNF Data Archives . ... b. international people to bring over . ...

... A new comet has brightened unexpectedly and is currently visible to unaided observers of southern skies. ... The Coma Cluster of Galaxies . ... Each of these galaxies houses billions of stars - just as our own Milky Way Galaxy does. ... Deep inside Centaurus A, the closest active galaxy to Earth, lies ... another galaxy! ... The result, shown above, is the most complete sky map of the most common visible light emitted from the most abundant element in our Galaxy: hydrogen. ... Earth Rise . ...

The balance Sheet was approved at the Annual Shareholders Meeting on March 28, 1998 (Protocol No 5). (in million roubles disregarding denomination). ... as on Jan. 1, . ... 1998 . ... Validity of the Balance Sheet is confirmed by auditor firm AUDITMASH; License No 012966 issued by the RF FM TSALAK on January 29, 1998 for a 2-year period. (in million roubles disregarding denomination) . ... Reported profit (3+4-5) . ... Balance Sheet 1998 | ... Official WEB-site of S.P.Korolev RSC Energia . ...

... Annual Report . ... 2011 Annual Report (pdf, 2 MB) . ... The ASP is pleased to provide a summary of our mission-based activities and events through the 2010 ASP Annual Report. ... 2009 Annual Report, screen resolution (pdf, 2.3 MB, best for viewing online) . 2009 Annual Report, print resolution (pdf, 4.5 MB, best for printing) . ... 2008 Annual Report, screen resolution (pdf, 3.4 MB, best for viewing online) . 2008 Annual Report, print resolution (pdf, 5.2 MB, best for printing) . ...

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XMM-Newton SAS Scientific Validation and Data . ... the level of accuracy associated with those products The outcome of the SAS science validation for each test dataset is summarized in a report, available along with the dataset. ... The Scientific Validation Report v2.1(.ps.gz) is available for the SAS v6.5 Scientific Validation SAS v6.5 Scientific Validation Preliminary Report . The Preliminary Report (.ps.gz) is still available for SAS v6.5 Scientific Validation SAS v6.0 Scientific Validation . ...

... Solar System . ... European astronomers have discovered a planet with about the mass of the Earth orbiting a star in the Alpha Centauri system тАФ the nearest to Earth. ... Alpha Centauri is one of the brightest stars in the southern skies and is the nearest stellar system to our Solar System тАФ only 4.3 light-years away. ... The European team detected the planet by picking up the tiny wobbles in the motion of the star Alpha Centauri B created by the gravitational pull of the orbiting planet [2] . ...

This page is devoted to information on Supernova 1998es in NGC 632 Basic information on this SN, including the last reported brightness, on this Supernova can be found on the main supernova page. Information on the original web pages for many of these images can be found on the Supernova links web page. ... M1 Supernova Search has a 1998es web page . ... AUDE has a SN 1998es web page with images and finder charts in French [ Translate ] . ... Lick Observatory Discovery image 11/14/98 . ...

... the total power and averaged spectra: (.ps) ( .pdf) . The dynamic spectra for the 13 files (2136 seconds) (.gif) : . ... Each file has 178 seconds of data. ... Input the file averaging the spectra to 1 second. ... Also compute an average spectra for each file. Create a dynamic spectra covering the 13 files with 1 second resolution: . ... The total power was computed over the 50 MHz bandwidth after averaging in time to 1 second. ... An average spectra for each file (178 seconds) was computed. ...

... Bogod V.M., Gel'freikh G.B.: Study of the solar atmosphere based on spectral and polarization observations on the RATAN-600. ... V.M. Bogod, C. Mercier, L. V. Yasnov: About the nature of long-term microflare energy release in the solar active regions, Paper accepted by JGR in 2000 (Manuscript Number: 20.4013). ... Bogod V.M., Garaimov V., Grebinskij A., Komar N., Opeikina L.: Solar active regions study based on wide wavelength range radio observations with RATAN-600, Abstract of JENAM-2000, p.115 . ...

You can list the contents of a directory on the remote host. ... You will need to give the path to the directory if it is not in your home directory on the remote host. For example: ftp> ls 200 PORT command successful. 150 Opening ASCII mode data connection for file list. public reports 226 Transfer complete. 17 bytes received in 0.26 seconds (0.064 Kbytes/s) ftp> ftp> dir reports/quarterly 200 PORT command successful. ...

... Virtual Reports . ... Bauman E., Dorofeyuk A. "Variational methods of classification data analysis." 15.02.2001 . ... 14.06.2000 . V.G. Petukhov, "Low-Thrust Trajectory Optimization." ... A.N.Sirotin, "Control Prolongation Operators by Annihilating Polynomials for Linear Discrete-Time Systems with Constraints and Its Application in Null-Controllable Problems. ... A.A.Sukhanov, "Modern Methods for Space Flight Dynamics and Their Applications" . ... 21.10.1999 . ...

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PRINCIPAL MAGNETIC STORMS (REPORTING GEOMAGNETIC OBSERVATORIES) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Geomagnetic Letter Location Geograph Coord Geomag Coord * Observatory Code or Country Lat Long Lat Long =============================================================================== Addis Ababa AAE Ethiopia N 9.0 E 38.8 N 5.2 E110.5 Alibag ABG India N18.4 E 72.5 N 9.4 E144.9 Amberley AML ...

... Bad Astronomy . Misconceptions . ... He wrote an article for the "Science and Technology Review" in which he claims that there is a "clear correlation" between transits of Venus and the flooding of the Yellow River! ... The news reports say he looked in historical records dating back 2187 years (the Chinese are known for keeping records a long time!), and found that the Yellow River flooded at the same time as the Venus transits. ... What could Venus do to cause such a flood? ... 2008 Phil Plait. ...

ASTR 3007 - STELLAR PULSATION COMPONENT P e ter W o o d Research School of Astronomy & Astrophysics TOPICS COVERED · Main types of variable stars · Linear adiabatic pulsation theory => periods of pulsation · Linear non-adiabatic pulsation theory => stability - will a star pulsate? ... Here we see Cepheids and long-period variables (LPVs) (movies from Hartman: http://cfa-www.harvard.edu/%7Ejhartman/) WHY STUDY VARIABLE STARS? ... What could cause the pulsation period to vary from star to star? ...