features and problems with our standard observation plotting tool · The following images show no significant effects caused by cooling Calibration Meeting Tubingen 3 - 6 Feb 2003 MOS1 focal plane image Precool Postcool Calibration Meeting Tubingen 3 - 6 Feb 2003 MOS2 focal plane image Precool Postcool Calibration Meeting Tubingen 3 - 6 Feb 2003 ...

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... Then we went on to explain more in detail how to build an interaction matrix in MCAO. ... Complete lab experiments are under way at: - UVic - Durham - Lund They all want to demonstrate the feasability of MCAO, with DMs, WFSs and phase screens. ... Miska has done an experiment in the lab with SLM phase screens (liquid crystal). ... Parallelization could be desirable for ELT simulations - Collaborations possible on realization of phase screens for experiments / AO systems: - Palomar (?) ...

OptInt PmWiki : MROI Fast Tip Tilt / Tech Meet 9 . Nasmyth Optical Table . ... XS analysis: Attach:FTT_mount_analysis_05.pdf . DFB analysis: see below . ... How to locate and support optics . ... Assume that the table is supported by a vertical support (representing the side of the telescope) and a diagonal support running from the telescope to the end of the table furthest from the table. ... Printable View of http://www.mrao.cam.ac.uk/projects/OAS/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/MROIFastTipTilt/TechMeet9) ...

STATUS REPORTS 1. Observatory Status MOSES status reports: -PCS - Nominal - Gyro biases continue to be monitored. The first STIS acquisition was monitored closely in case of any acquisition problems. ... A DECON is scheduled for tonight. ... There is also a 5:30 pm (EST) meeting today to discuss the NICMOS SAA Contours Test, scheduled farther downstream in SMOV. ... STIS Status - Engineering Status - Nominal - The MAMA LVPSs remain off indefinitely, pending further investigation by BASD. ...

... SEARCH ASP SITE: Match ALL words Match ANY word . Annual Meeting . ... Registration . ... Online pre-registration for Astronomical Society of the Pacific Annual Meeting is closed. Those wishing to attend the conference proper on Sep. 13-16 can register on-site at the Westin SFO, the conference hotel, at the ASP conference registration table. ... Registration for the meeting includes automatic general membership (at the $55 rate) with the ASP and the new ASP Conference Series publication. ...

... Next: Object Detection Using Up: Object Detection and Previous: Automated Classification of . ... A status report of the The GSC Object Classifier (GOC) project is presented. ... The GSC contains multiple entries for some objects due to plate overlap. It classifies objects as stars, non-stars, galaxies, blends and potential artifacts; the latter three classifications are rare, and only exist in GSC version 1.1, to which they were added manually. ... star, . ... non-star, . ...

... Users . ... The first thing to note is that Twitter does not guarantee to return all matching Tweets, whatever method is used (unless you have direct access to their "fire hose", which I don't). ... Note that case does not matter, that I am not actually searching on the hash tags, and having the middle term means that I would select a tweet saying "The 225th meeting of the AAS was awesome!" ... As with the AAS 223 meeting , my primary analysis was based on a search using the Twitter Streaming API . ...

... Comet Meets Ring Nebula: Part I . ... Credit: Stefan Seip and Steffen Bruckner Explanation: As dawn approached on May 8, astronomer Stefan Seip carefully watched Fragment C of broken comet 73P/Schwassmann-Wachmann 3 approach M57 - the Ring Nebula, and faint spiral galaxy IC 1296 . ... At a distance of 200 million light-years, IC 1296 (between comet and ring) is beyond even the Milky Way's boundaries. ... Publications with keywords: comet - M57 . ... Comet Holmes Over Hungary . ...

... 2006 October 19 . SWAN Meets Galaxy . ... Explanation: This cosmic portrait recorded October 9th features the lovely blue-green coma of Comet SWAN posing with spiral galaxy NGC 5005 in the northern constellation Canes Venatici . At the time the comet (center) was in the close foreground, a mere 9 light-minutes from planet Earth, with the galaxy a more substantial 60 million light-years distant. ... About APOD | ... NASA Web Site Statements, Warnings, and Disclaimers . ...

... Using the DRAO Synthesis Telescope (Landecker et al. 2000), the Canadian Galactic Plane Survey ( CGPS ; Taylor et al. 2002) has captured a multitude of HISA features, the majority of which are invisible in prior surveys at lower resolution. ... Since the HISA gas temperature must be less than the background brightness temperature, all the H I shown in this poster has T ~ 100 K. Figure 1 provides panoramic views of the cold H I visible as HISA in the CGPS. ... GIFs: HISA + CO | HISA only | ...

General Information . ... The conference is organized by the Sternberg Astronomical Institute (SAI) of Moscow University and the IAU Working group "Site-testing Instruments" . ... Use of site data in telescope operation and adaptive optics. ... Recent conferences on this subject (2007, 2008) demonstrated great interest of the community, hence the need for a new meeting. ... Unlike previous recent conferences, this meeting will cover all aspects of site monitoring for optical/IR astronomy. ...

Astronotes Armagh Planetarium's Stellar Blog! ... Armagh Planetarium . ... Our Galaxy . ... Stars . ... Other Galaxies . ... Space Flight . ... Battling galaxies: This image of a remarkable galactic dynamic duo is based on data selected by Igor Chekalin for ESOтАЩs Hidden Treasures 2010 astrophotography competition. Image credit: ESO) . ... Instead galaxies career across cosmos, sometimes colliding or sometimes passing and tearing other apart, spilling stars into the intergalactic wastes. ...

МОСКОВСКИЙ ЦЕНТР НЕПРЕРЫВНОГО МАТЕМАТИЧЕСКОГО ОБРАЗОВАНИЯ . Уже несколько лет в начале января Независимый Московский Университет проводит встречи Пьера Делиня с победителями конкурса молодых математиков фонда Дмитрия Зимина "Династия". ... Программа встреч и Тезисы докладов . ... Дмитрию Фроленкову . Илье Вьюгину . ... Илье Щурову . ... Дмитрию Талалаеву . ...

Members of AVEC, the Armagh Visitor Education Committee , recently joined forces for a Disaster Planning and Prevention workshop at the Armagh Observatory on 28 September 2005. ... In this case the partner bodies within AVEC were focusing particularly on the individual specialist requirements of the small public bodies of Armagh, each of which have items of significant historical interest within their libraries, archives and museum collections. ...

... APT Activities and Science Results 3. ... APT Secretary Philip Edwards (ISAS) reviewed the aims of the APT (http://www.vsop.isas.ac.jp/apt/DefinitionAndAims.html). ... The Australia Telescope Compact Array, and Ceduna, Hartebeesthoek, Kashima, Mopra, Parkes, and Shanghai telescopes of the Asia-Pacific Telescope participated in these observations. ... In the absence of Tetsuo Sasao, Philip Edwards briefly described results of the APT 22 GHz observations conducted from October 1st to 5th, 1997. ...

... The European HST Archive has been moved to ESA's European Space Astronomy Centre ( ESAC ), Spain, where most of ESA's Space Science Archives are located and operated from. ... The Space Telescope European Coordinating Facility (ST-ECF), jointly operated by ESA and the European Southern Observatory ( ESO ) was, until the end of 2010, the European HST science facility, supporting the European astronomy community in exploiting the research opportunities provided by the Hubble Space Telescope. ...

... Jets from Black Holes in Active Galactic Nuclei . Dr. Alan Marscher, Boston University . ... He is the leader of the Blazar Research Group (http:/www.bu.edu/blazars) in the Institute for Astrophysical Research (http:/www.bu.edu/iar) at Boston U. Dr. Marscher composes folk/pop songs in both English and Russian. ... Please join us for a pre-meeting dinner discussion at Changsho, 1712 Mass Ave, Cambridge, MA at 6:00pm before the meeting. ... Copyright (c) Amateur Telescope Makers of Boston, Inc. ...

... VLBA+Italy survey (to contact the schedulers) (closed) E.Fomalont and J.Romney: To provide some review of problems happened with fringe search in VSOP project. (closed) M.Popov : To compose a tentative time -table of possible observations , and inform the observatories on the specific time slots that might be requested for fringe search program in October-November. (continued) C. Gwinn: to try to compile FAKERAT software on modern platforms. (closed) GBT and ...

... Impact of Covariance Information on the Orientation Parameters Between Radio Source Position Catalogs, IVS 2012 General Meeting Proceedings, p.339­341 http://ivscc.gsfc.nasa.gov/publications/gm2012/sokolova.pdf Impact of Covariance Information on the Orientation Parameters Between Radio Source ... IVS Analysis Centers provide these catalogs in a standard IERS format, where together with radio source positions and other relevant information, RA/DE correlations are reported. ...