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ATMoB "Open Cluster Observing Award " Guidelines Purpose: To promote observing among the membership of the Amateur Telescope Makers of Boston through participation in the Open Clusters Observing Awards program. Introduction: This awards program is oriented towards visually observing open clusters above magnitude 9.9. ... It turns out that a very unprejudiced and convenient method to dermine the limiting magnitude is to count the number of visible stars in certain areas on the sky. ...

... Science Users Information > Observing with ESO Telescopes > Phase 2 Preparation > Observing conditions . ... Service Mode Philosophy . ... The following definitions of the observing conditions are common between Phase 1 preparation and Phase 2 preparation, as well as between Service Mode and Visitor Mode observations. ... There are additional Service Mode Policies and Service Mode Guidelines regarding the observing conditions. ... Seeing (Phase 1) and Image quality (Phase2) constraints . ... Moon . ...

Finding Himalia, The Fifth Brightest Moon Of Jupiter . Articles | ... Himalia is the only moon other than the Galilean moons of Jupiter that is visible in an amateur size telescope. ... I normally use “The Sky” from Software Bisque for planning my observing sessions and in helping me find objects, but it only has the Galilean moons for Jupiter so I used Red Shift (version 3 at the time) which I also had on my computer. ... www.astronomy.net . ... dbHTML," "AstroGuide," "ASTRONOMY.NET" & "VA.NET" . ...

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... GCN 8471 | ... TITLE: GCN CIRCULAR NUMBER: 8516 SUBJECT: GRB 081102: MASTER refind and final results DATE: 08/11/11 15:50:10 GMT FROM: Vladimir Lipunov at Moscow State U/Krylov Obs E. Gorbovskoy, V. Lipunov, V.Kornilov, A.Belinski, N.Shatskiy, N.Tyurina, D.Kuvshinov, P.Balanutsa Sternberg Astronomical Institute, Moscow State University A. Tlatov, A.Parkhomenko Kislovodsk Solar Station of the Pulkovo Observatory V.Krushinski, I.Zalognikh Ural State GCN Circ 8470, Lipunov et al., ...

Two major reasons: the number of stars isn't really seven (it's many more), and they all have different brightnesses, so that you see more or fewer of them depending on viewing conditions. The brightness of stars is measured on the magnitude scale, where the most prominent stars in the sky are around 1st magnitude, and the faintest you can see with your eye are about 6th. ... I think this makes it quite likely that the list will be truncated at Taygeta, giving six visible stars. ...

NMW survey overview . Access image archive . ... The New Milky Way survey aims to detect bright (V<13.5) optical transients near the Galactic plane using an automated wide-field (8x6 deg.) system capable of surveying the whole Milky Way area visible from the observing site in one night. ... All images obtained during the transient search survey are available online (please use the image archive access form ). ... Images per field: . ... Images per night: . ... Milky Way imaging time: . ...

... Strategy is essenDal to any observing program. ... Observe 20 pulsars every ~two weeks in three bands to achieve 100 ns Dming precision. ... Parkes basics #1 · Sources locaDon: Right Ascension (RA) and declinaDon (DEC) · Local Sidereal Time (LST): Tells you what is visible when RA=LST sources are highest on sky ­ Sources with RA LST are in the west (se]ng) ­ Sources with RA LST are in the east (rising) · Generally we observe GalacDc plane from rise to set · ...

... Date: 16 August 2013 21:56:25 BST . ... See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nova . ... Also see: http://www.space.com/22389-nova-star-explosion-delphinus-discovery.html . ... See: http://www.space.com/22389-nova-star-explosion-delphinus-discovery.html?cmpid=532476 . ... IAA member Dr KATE RUSSO's AWARD. ... http://www.space.com/22253-alien-planet-eclipse-x-ray-light.html?cmpid=532475 . http://www.space.com/22282-amazing-perseid-meteor-shower-photos-2013.html?cmpid=532475 б  (Some of these seem odd. ...

... In this activity, students will observe that the faintest stars which they can see in the sky are affected by many things: the adaptation of their eyes to the dark, the presence of clouds or haze, the time of year, and the presence of light pollution. General Information . ... After completing this activity, students should have a better understanding of the practical processes for dealing with the light pollution problem and with other environmental and societal issues. << previous page | ...

... Home Lectures Lecture Series 2015-2016 . ... Lecture Series 2014-2015 . ... Beyond New York City . ... The Amateur Astronomers Association is proud to present an astronomy lecture series from October through May each year for our members and the public. ... Amateur Astronomer Association is pleased to announce we will be offering select, limited reserved seating for current AAA members for the Friday, January 8, 2015 AAA Lecture entitled Robert Nemiroff ?2015 Astronomy Picture of the Day?. ...

... 28.11.1998 . ... Twisting Meteor Train . ... Blazing through the sky at 70 kilometers per second, 100 kilometers or so above planet Earth, many bright Leonid meteors left behind a persistent, smoke-like trail of glowing, hot, ionized gas. ... The 1998 Leonid Meteor Shower featured many bright events. ... Observers there reported a peak rate for the 1998 Leonid Meteor Shower of about 600 meteors per hour. ... Rich in bright and awesome fireballs, the Leonid Meteor Shower came early this year. ...

... The program will propose reasonable default choices, and will provide some approximate estimates of the magnitudes where photon noise becomes excessive, and where photon and scintillation noise are comparable. ... Table shows what a typical crossover table looks like. ... We would generally prefer to have the extinction measurements limited only by scintillation noise, so the initial faint limit for extinction stars is set 1.5 magnitudes brighter than the brightest of the crossover values. ...

... Moore Observatory is a research and advanced teaching facility of the University of Louisville. ... The 24-inch Ritchie Chretien (RC24) telescope is a research instrument used by faculty and graduate students involved in studies of exoplanets, optical properties of the atmosphere, and the development of imaging and spectroscopic technology. ... Kent (CDK20S) are collaboratively operated by the University of Louisville and the University of Southern Queensland for both research and education. ...

On April 27 the large sunspot in Active Region 8970 was observed using the Adaptive Optics system at the Swedish Vacuum Solar Telescope at La Palma. ... It showed to give a significant improvement of the image quality under less favorable conditions. Click on the image to get a high resolution version. ... The data cube is cut in three pieces to get manageable file sizes, you can glue them together to restore the whole 108 images cube. gband_ao.01_36.cube.fits 36.5 Mb: image 1 - 36 . ...

Общая Астрономическая Конференция > Практика > Астрономические наблюдения . Оценим наше небо! ... Поиск . ... The Bortle Dark-Sky Scale . ... How dark is your sky? ... Thus, upon finding a semirural observing site where stars of magnitude 6.0 to 6.3 are marginally apparent to the unaided eye, they believe they have located an observing Nirvana! ... To the unaided eye the limiting magnitude is 7.6 to 8.0 (with effort); the presence of Jupiter or Venus in the sky seems to degrade dark adaptation. ...

... They are concerned with Attitude Control System of the spacecraft, satellite visibility from tracking stations, limits on the satellite autonomous operations during the orbit, and needs for auxiliary operations with the spacecraft. ... Among the operational constraints the most important one is the number of programmed slews per orbit, which determines the maximum number of radio sources to be observed during one orbit. ... System temperature (K) . ... Progress of the RadioAstron Project in Pictures...

... The Galactic low-mass X-ray binary GS 2023+338 was discovered during the burst on May 22, 1989 with the Japanise satellite Ginga (aka Galaxy). The flux reached 17 crabs (this unit of flux measurement is an bright X-ray source, Crab Nebula) at 10-35 keV. ... No other radio telescope worldwide carried out multi-frequency measurements. ... Upon 14 days the radio flux fell below the detection level at the RATAN-600 in relation to the decrease of the X-ray flux. ...