... Visible and Infrared Survey Telescope for Astronomy: Progress Report" . ... The VISTA Project: a review of its progress and lessons learned developing the current programme , McPherson, Emerson, Born & Sutherland, in Ground-based Telescopes, eds Oschmann & Tarenghi, Proc of SPIE, 5489, 638, 2004 . Visible and Infrared Survey Telescope for Astronomy: overview Emerson and Sutherland, in Survey and Other Telescope technologies and Discoveries, eds Tyson & Wolff, Proc of SPIE, 4836, 35, 2003 . ...

... ASRAS HOME . ... For our educational outreach event, we hosted a Boy Scout troop in Ionia (Pix_1), for a sleep over this last spring and were able to make our Portable Radio Telescope (PBT - itty bitty radio telescope ) operational. ... The Solar Radio Telescope project is coming together nicely. ... You may have seen or heard of articles about the ongoing Solar RT project which is a Solar RF Spectrograph to study sunspots, presently being built for the ASRAS astronomy club (site in Ionia, NY). ...

Parameters of selectable CCD area array. CCD . ... Pixel size /Photo area HxV . ... QE max . ... e - /mkJ/cm 2 . ... 3 CDS out, TI . ... 30 IRf . 25 typ . ... Typ 27 /21 . ... max 5-6mV . ... 1024 x 512 . ... max 5mV . ... 15 V/mkJ/cm 2 (760 nm) . ... MPP/0 . ... 27 typ IRf . ... 0.4 typ/ CDS/45 . ... 12 typ IRf 640nm . ... 3.8-4-4.2 min-typ-max values . ... 2 TE cooler –U=12V, I=1.5 (max 2) A, T CCD =-45 …-35 typ, Heat sink power load =19 (26 max) W. 3 D T=60 , U=2.5 V, I=0.7 A, P 2.5 W . ...

... Julie Payette . Astronaut, Canadian Space Agency . ... HONORARY DEGREES: Queen's University (1999); University of Ottawa (1999); Simon Fraser University (2000); Universit Laval (2000); University of Regina (2001); Royal Roads University (2001); University of Toronto (2001); University of Victoria (2002); Nipissing University (2002); McGill University (2003); Mount Saint Vincent University (2004); McMaster University (2004); University of Lethbridge (2005); Mount Allison ...

... Глава 4. ... Торможение небесных тел . ... Это относится и к небесным телам Солнечной системы. ... На основании этого можно сделать вывод, что торможению подвергаются и все небесные тела Солнечной системы, как и других звездно-планетных систем, при наступлении галактических зим, когда Солнечная система проходит в своем обращении вокруг центра Галактики через спиральные рукава, а также через плоскость Галактики между рукавами или через газово-пылевые облака, встретившиеся на периферии Галактики. ...

... What's New? Bad Astronomy . ... News . ... The ABC website science section has a pop quiz today that asks an interesting multiple choice question: ``How much mass does the Sun convert in to energy each second?' ... 9 pounds . ... Even though 5 million tons sounds like a lot, it's chicken feed compared to the mass of the Sun, which is 2 thousand million million million million tons! So the Sun converts only 0.0000000000000000000025 of its mass into energy every second. ... 2008 Phil Plait. ...

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... A non-linear relationship is observed between the sky brightness on clear and overcast nights, with a change in behavior near the rural to urban landuse transition. ... The great variation in skyglow radiance observed from site-to-site and with changing meteorological conditions underlines the need for a long-term international monitoring program. he introduction of artificial light has caused an unprecedented disruption to the nighttime environment over large areas of the Earth. ... Data processing...