... Click on an object in the solar system or choose from the list at left to learn more . The Arecibo Observatory planetary radar is the world's most powerful instrument for post-discovery characterization and orbital refinement of near-Earth objects. ... The Solar System Studies group is a department of the Arecibo Observatory, which is an NSF facility operated under cooperative agreement by SRI International, Universities Space Research Association (USRA), and la Universidad Metropolitana (UMET). ...

ARCSAT ID NUMBER: AS07 DESCRIPTIVE TITLE: Time Domain Studies of Transients and Variable Stars PI: Guy Stringfellow OBSERVER(S): Guy Stringfellow, CU undergrads TBD UNCERTIFIED ... CU undergrads COLLABORATORS: CONTACT INFORMATION: Guy.Stringfellow@colorado.edu 303-506-3160 cell NUMBER OF WEEKS REQUESTED: 3 TIME REQUESTED: Requires Dark time and time cadence ~monthly Run 1: July 13 (alternate: ... Based on our previous ARCSAT observations, we now have an 11-tile grid covering M31. ...

This report describes what an HST observer must do to activate a Target of Opportunity proposal and the steps taken by STScI after the request is received. ... In the request the PI identifies which visit (or visits) to activate and supplies all the information needed to implement and schedule the observation on-board HST. ... If the activation request is not approved, you may re-request it at a later time, until the end of the observing cycle when unexecuted ToO observations are withdrawn. ...

... Site Map . ... PhD Thesis Topics offered by ESO Faculty Members > Thesis Topic: Study of the stellar populations across the whole Milky Way bulge: age map and star formation history . ... Observing with ESO Telescopes . ... The project consists in deriving accurate age map of the stellar population across the bulge to be then combined with information on the stellar kinematics and metallicity, with the ultimate goal of reconstructing the star formation history (SFH) of the Milky Way bulge. ...

RadioAstron AO-1 prop osal Submission dead line: February 8, 23:59 UT. ... Team contact name and e-mail address: Ivan Petrov (e-mail: Ivan.Peterov@gmail.com ) Total observing time request: 100 hrs Number of independent observing segments and typical range of pro jected baselines required: 20 (3-30 Earth diameters) Specific dates and time intervals requested : If your experiment requires specific dates and UT ranges, please, indicate them: February 1, 2014: 08:00-16:00 UT -- M87 imaging ...

Next: NICMOS/HST H-band (F160W) Images Up: NICMOS Science Previous: HST NICMOS Observations of . ... Observations of P . ... The NICMOS team has devised a comprehensive program of observations of the Galactic Center. ... Data in hand give a first look at variability and a detailed look at the search for the tip of the main sequence will be discussed where NICMOS has demonstrated adequate sensitivity and photometric precision to identify likely O8-B1 stars at the Galactic Center. ...

Peremennye Zvezdy ( Variable Stars ) 32 , No. ... We report on our photometric analysis of the poorly studied cataclysmic variable in Ophiuchus, 1RXS J174320.1-042953 (DDE 11). ... The long-term behavior of J1743-0429 shows that it is a probable magnetic cataclysmic variable (polar), with a large difference between its low and high states. The orbital period obtained from our observations is 0 0866, or 2 08, close to the lower boundary of the period gap of cataclysmic variables. ... Fig. ...

... Calibration and analysis of this observation posed very interesting challenges for the authors, in particular dealing with an exciting new instrument whose on-orbit calibration was not yet well defined. ... Five mosaic positions were observed during five consecutive orbits as well as observations for dark and flat calibration. ... Darks and flats had to be created from contemporaneous reference observations and problems within the calibration process had to be resolved. ...

This home page belongs to small group of scientists working at . Sternberg Astronomical Institute which is a part of Moscow State University . ... Электронная библиотека научно-технической и художественной литературы (доступна только из ГАИШ) . ... Local staff . Dr. Edward Kononovich (konon -at- sai.msu.ru), Associate Professor . ... Dr. Sergey Ayukov (asv -at- sai.msu.ru), Research Fellow, Webmaster of the group . ... Joint seminar of Solar Studies Structure Group and Solar Photometry Group . ...

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... Armagh Observatory, College Hill, Armagh BT61 9DG, +44 (0)28 3752 2928 . ... The explosive event in IRIS 1330 slit-jaw images (in reversed colour). ... The arrows on the image at 18:42:08 UT mark the three bright cores discussed in the text, and the dotted-line square outlines the region from which the lightcurves in Fig. 11 are produced. ... Magnetic convergence or emergence followed by cancellation at a rate of 5 †Ч 10 14 Mx s тИТ1 is associated with the EE region. ...

... ATNF Home . ... About ATNF overview . ... Australia Telescope Steering Committee . ... Murchison Radio-astronomy Observatory . ... Parkes radio telescope . ... Mopra radio telescope . ... We present the preliminary results of our 5-configuration, 20-pointing mosaic with the Australia Telescope Compact Array of the neutral hydrogen in the nearby spiral galaxy NGCТљ6744. ... Keywords: galaxies: individual (NGC 6744) -- galaxies: interactions -- galaxies: kinematics and dynamics -- galaxies: spiral . ...

System of astrometric databases of Pulkovo observatory. ... The purpose of these observations is the determination of precise coordinates of Solar system bodies, which is necessary for development and improvement of motion theories, and for studying the evolution of the Solar system. ... Accuracy of photographical observations is about 0.2-0.3 arcsec for equatorial coordinates and 0.1-0.3 for relative coordinates of planetary satellites, depending on object and observational conditions. ...

... Archives . ... I?ve copied below the text of an ISBA announcement for the first workshop in a new series addressing Bayesian methods for machine learning. It builds on the model of the earlier well-known ?Bayesian case studies? workshops, where just a few applications are featured at each workshop, with the format tailored to produce a lot of back-and-forth between application scientists and statisticians. ... Workshop on Case Studies in Bayesian Statistics and Machine Learning . ...

... High-resolution Near-infrared Study of the Deeply Embedded Young Stellar Object S140 IRS 3 . ... P22P We explore the structures immediately surrounding the high-mass young stellar object S140 IRS 3 within the L1204 molecular cloud. ... The S-shaped structure of this feature can be well reproduced by a model assuming a precessing outflow from IRS 3a. Furthermore, we find several elongated features pointing away from IRS 3 in a southern direction. ...

Solar High Resolution Studies . ... Solar Group . ... High quality observations obtained in recent years have highlighted the fact that the solar atmosphere is extremely dynamic, and wholly permeated and shaped by magnetic fields at very small spatial scales. ... The Solar Group in Arcetri is initiating a project to study some of the topics and techniques that will be brought to the forefront of solar physics as this new physical regime is explored. ... Small Scale Activity . ...

Observational Stellar Astronomy . Articles | ... We are made of star stuff" . ... TEMPERATURE OF A STAR: . ... The temperature of a star can be found out easily by simple observations. ... STAR . ... SPECTRAL CLASS: . All the stars in this universe are divided in to spectral classes based on their spectral lines. ... The spectral class of a star and the temperature of a star are related. So the spectral class can be found for a star since we know its temperature. ... www.astronomy.net . ...

... Currently, there is very little information on comets which are active beyond the orbit of Jupiter. ... Previous observations conducted by our team with the SAO RAS 6-m telescope showed that some of these comets have extended tails dissimilar to the tails of comets forming at close heliocentric distances. ... We for the first time measured the linear polarization of scattered emission for the two distant comets C/2010 S1 (LINEAR) and C/2010 R1 (LINEAR) at heliocentric distances of 5.9-7.0 au. ...

... Files in red?history) . ... The Sun . ... Large sunspots may be occasionally seen by the unaided eye, with the sun near the horizon and dimmed by thick haze. ... Year after year, beginning in 1826, on every clear day, Schwabe would scan the sun and record its spots, until 17 years later he began to suspect a regular variation . ... Some, led by Rudolf Wolf, examined old records to reconstruct earlier sunspot cycles, while Edward Sabine in England in 1852 found a similar periodicity in magnetic...

... Polar Magnetic Storms . ... Birkeland studied them in 1902-1903 using a network of four stations--in Norway and on Iceland, Spitzbergen (Svalbard), and Novaya Zemlya [ Birkeland, 1908, 1913; Bostr?m 1968]--and concluded that there existed a distinct type of magnetic storm, the "elementary polar magnetic storm" with a typical time scale of less than an hour, associated with the aurora and with electric currents which descended along auroral field lines and flowed horizontally along auroral arcs. ...