... After delivery of all engineering models and SRT test sets to LA main ASC activities were moved to LA as well. ... Special attention was paid to the problem of tests on the electromagnetic compatibility between service and scientific on-board payload. ... The SRT was attached to special supporting frame, and LNA cooling system (NSOTR) was installed on the Focal Container. ... FC Focal Container - hermetic package with the scientific payload; it contains receivers, . ... TVT Thermo-Vacuum Tests . ...

... Bad Astronomy . ... Bitesize Astronomy . ... Last week's Snack talked about how black holes can affect the environment around them in such a way as to be very bright . ... It's a common misconception that black holes always have matter swirling into them. ... As this matter gets closer and closer to the black hole it piles up and a large, fairly flat disk forms. This is called the accretion disk , because matter from this disk accretes (that is, falls in) on the black hole. ... 2008 Phil Plait. ...

HUBBLE SPACE TELESCOPE DAILY REPORT #997 PERIOD COVERED: 0800 EST Daily Status Report as of 293/1200Z. 1.0 ACTIVITIES SCHEDULED AND ACCOMPLISHED: 1.1 Completed Two Sets of GHRS/2 5251 (WF/PC Shutter Control AP Test) The High Resolution Spectrograph was used to make observations of standard star BD+75D325 as part of a shutter control test. ... 1.7 Completed PC 5014 (WF/PC Cycle 3 Calibration: PC Flats Narrow. ... The observations were executed as scheduled, and no problems were reported. ...

... Active Region 1002 on an Unusually Quiet Sun . ... Our Sun has shown few active regions -- that house even fewer associated sunspots -- for over a year now, and such a period of relative calm is quite unusual. What is well known is that our Sun is in a transitional period between solar cycles called a Solar Minimum , where solar activity has historically been reduced. ... Publications with keywords: active region - solar cycle - sunspot . ... A Sunspot in the New Solar Cycle . ... Solar Moss . ...

... 2007 December 3 . A Complete Solar Cycle from SOHO . ... A solar cycle is caused by the changing magnetic field of the Sun, and varies from solar maximum , when sunspot , coronal mass ejection , and flare phenomena are most frequent, to solar minimum, when such activity is relatively infrequent. ... This picture is composed of a SOHO image of the Sun in extreme ultraviolet light for each year of the last solar cycle , with images picked to illustrate the relative activity of the Sun. ...

This page contains the table of contents and select excerpts only and is not a complete reproduction of this issue. Complete content for online Mercury is available to ASP members and institutional subscribers . ... As Indiana University astronomer John Salzer well knows, not all of them are easy to classify, and a few even appear to be relics from a bygone age. ... But at the same time, Johannes Kepler made a fundamental contribution to astronomy. ... A Messenger to Mercury , Paul Deans . ...

... This chapter documents all the JavaScript objects, along with their methods and properties. ... Full entries for each object appear in alphabetical order; properties and functions not associated with any object appear in Chapter 2, "Top-Level Properties and Functions." ... Tables included in the description of each object summarize the object's methods and properties. Full entries for an object's methods and properties appear in alphabetical order after the object's entry. ...

... There are several explanations for these X--ray quiet PMS stars. To examine the explanations, it is proper to divide the PMS stars into three groups: those bluer than R - I = 0.7, those redder than the X--ray sources (R - I > 1.25) and those with colors similar to the X--ray sources. ... A total of 26 of the non--X--ray detected PMS candidates had spectra taken. ... Between V=14 and V=16, I find 25 stars which are X--ray sources and estimate 19 non--X--ray PMS stars. ...

... A child widget can then be added to this EventBox: gtk_container_add (GTK_CONTAINER (event_box), child_widget); . ... Resizing the window reveals varying amounts of the label . #include stdlib.h #include gtk / gtk .h int main( int argc, char *argv[] ) { GtkWidget * window ; GtkWidget * event_box ; GtkWidget * label ; gtk _init ( argc, argv); window = gtk _ window _new ( GTK _ WINDOW _TOPLEVEL); gtk _ window _set_title ( GTK _ WINDOW ( window ), Event Box ); g_signal_connect (G_OBJECT...

REPORT ON THE PIERRE DELIGNE FELLOWSHIP, 2011 SERGEY OBLEZIN During 2011 I have been working on developing a representation theory approach to mirror symmetry and quantum cohomology of homogeneous spaces, associated with Lie groups of classical type. According to Givental the glN -Whittaker functions, being solutions to the quantum cohomology D-module QH (FlN ) of the complete flag variety FlN = GLN (C)/B , describe the corresponding equivariant Gromov-Witten invariants of FlN . ...

This Directory contains mean hour values of geomagnetic field components at observatories in Russia and other repub- lic of Former Soviet Union (FSU). The List of these observatories has indication of Data Years. ... Files are prepared in the DOS format. The Format for mean values follows after this list of the geomagnetic observatories. ... 21-116 24I4 24 4-digit hourly mean values for the day. ... If any of the hourly mean values for the day are missing 9999 will appear as the daily mean. ...

... PmWiki . ... PmWiki FAQ . ... pmwiki.org . ... Go to new wiki . ... PmWiki supports internationalization (internationalisation) of web pages, allowing accented characters to appear in page names and almost complete customization of PmWiki 's prompts. ... Pages for many languages such as French, German, Dutch, and Spanish have already been created and maintained at the pmichaud.com site. ... php if (!defined('PmWiki')) exit(); ##change to French language XLPage('fr','PmWikiFr.XLPage'); . ...

... The Sun has come all of one day away from breaking its record for the longest period of inactivity for the last decade - reaching a mid-summer low and falling into yet another state of "hibernation". Yesterday, on the first day of autumn, new sunspots appeared on the surface of the Sun following an absence of almost 50 days. ... The first low lasted 51 days, from 21 July until 11 September last year. ... Now, almost a year later, it seems the Sun has hit a new low almost as "deep" as the first. ...

... Baikonur launch site, branch office of S.P.Korolev RSC Energia . At Baikonur launch site the preparations continue for the launch of Progress M-66 cargo vehicle under the International Space Station program. Designers inspection of the Progress M-66 transport cargo vehicle was completed. ... Orbital module of the Soyuz-U launch vehicle, containing Progress M-66 spacecraft was transported from the spacecraft processing facility for the general integration with LV. ...

... The association log contains a list of calibration products used to process a raw file (or a set of raw files). ... The header of the association log contains the name of the association block , a data type tag, a setup tag, and the flag COMPLETE or INCOMPLETE (in case of missing calibrations). ... FLAG: not relevant here (always REAL) . ... OK MCALIB REAL GI_PFEE_071012A_Medusa1_L543.1nm_o3.fits FF_EXTERRORS 0.458 OK MCALIB REAL GI_PDIS_071012A_Medusa1_L543.1nm_o3.fits DISPERSION_SOLUTION 0.462 . ...

... Observing . ... Solar Observing . ... April 3 (SUN) - Solar Observing, Central Park , Manhattan . ... APRIL'S SKY . ... Lecture Series at the American Museum of Natural History The Amateur Astronomers Association is proud to present an astronomy lecture series from October through May each year for our members and the .. ... The€аAmateur Astronomers Association of New York€аwas organized in 1927 to promote the study of Astronomy, emphasizing its cultural and inspirational value. ...

... Divide into 4 Groups and 8 Teams per Group. Each Team selects a Team Leader Complete Initial Questionnaire Mark Bailey ( Armagh Observatory ) Welcome and Opening Remarks Robert Walsh (University of Central Lancashire) Living with a Star Questions All Groups ( Planets , Galaxies , Astronomers , Spacecraft) leave Reid Hall, collect refreshments, and cross road to Observatory / Planetarium site Planets and Galaxies Groups go to ... Each Team must nominate a `Team Leader'. ...

Welcome to the 10C Survey website! ... The first 10C Survey results from an area of 27 sq. degrees complete to 1 mJy and 12 sq. degrees complete to 0.5 mJy have now been released. ... The first results from the survey, which is the deepest extragalactic radio source survey of any significant extent (> 0.2 sq. degrees) above 1.4 GHz, including the deep 15.7-GHz source count are contained in AMI Consortium: Davies et al. ... For each field, deep and shallow areas have been defined. ...

Электронная библиотека астронома-любителя. ... библиотека . архив RSN . ... Ru.Space.News: . Ноябрь 1998 . ... Дата: 05 ноября 1998 (1998-11-05) От: Alexander Bondugin Тема: Mars Surveyor 98 Update - November 3, 1998 Привет всем! ... Дата: 05 ноября 1998 (1998-11-05) От: Alexander Bondugin Тема: Deep Space 1 Update - November 4, 1998 Привет всем! ... Дата: 05 ноября 1998 (1998-11-05) От: Alexander Bondugin Тема: APOLLO: An Eyewitness Account Привет всем! ...

I-GALFA View of a Galactic Tangent Region . ... Image featured in NAIC Newsletter #46 . I-GALFA image of hydrogen gas in a tangent region outside the Sagittarius arm. ... Because we are viewing this gas in a direction closely aligned with (tangent to) its orbital motion, it appears to be moving away from us (we are orbiting the Galactic center with a similar speed, but our own motion in a different direction). ... The gas near 60 degrees longitude is being viewed tangent to its orbital motion. ...