Astronotes Armagh Planetarium's Stellar Blog! ... Colin Johnston . ... Space Flight . ... By admin January 28, 2011 Posted in: Colin Johnston . ... I wasnтАЩt watching the television but looked up when a newsflash interrupted the gameshow Countdown. тАЬThe space shuttle Challenger has explodedтАЭ were the chilling first words from the solemn newsreader, followed by footage of the terrible yet eerily beautiful fireball which ended seven lives. ... The disaster also ended an age of innocence. ...

... Package . Class . ... Deprecated . ... PREV PACKAGE NEXT PACKAGE . FRAMES NO FRAMES All Classes . ... Class Summary . Calibration . Calibration objects contain an image's spatial and density calibration data. ... Curve fitting class based on the Simplex method described in the article "Fitting Curves to Data" in the May 1984 issue of Byte magazine, pages 340-362. ... This class fits a spline function to a set of points. ...

... Meade Instruments Corporation . ... Autostar Computer Controllers . 497 Autostar . ... One of the most important advances in telescope control in the past 25 years, the Meade #497 Autostar Computer Controller turns the ETX into an automatic celestial object locating system. ... The #497 Autostar Computer Controller plugs into the control panel of ETX-90EC, ETX-105EC, and ETX-125EC telescopes and enables automatic location of more than 30,000 celestial objects. ... about meade | ... Meade 4M | ...

... Проф. А.Д.Чернин (ГАИШ, МГУ, Москва): ЭНЕРГЕТИЧЕСКИЙ СОСТАВ ВСЕЛЕННОЙ: НОВАЯ СИММЕТРИЯ 13.00-15.00. ... Проф. Л.И.Мирошниченко (ИЗМИРАН, Троицк, Россия): СОЛНЕЧНОЗЕМНЫЕ СВЯЗИ В 23-ЕМ ЦИКЛЕ СОЛНЕЧНОЙ АКТИВНОСТИ Лекция 9 10.50-11.30. ... М.И.Рябов, А.Л.Сухарев (Одесская обсерватория Радиоастрономического института НАНУ) : О ПРОЯ ВЛЕНИИ ИЗМЕНЕНИЙ СТРУКТУРЫ ПЕРЕМЕННО СТИ ПОТОКОВ ВНЕГАЛАКТИЧЕСКИХ РАДИОИСТОЧНИКОВ 3С120, OJ287, 3С273, 3С279, 3С454.3 НА РАЗЛИЧНЫХ ФАЗАХ АКТИВНОСТИ 4. ... РИ НАНУ Гравиметр. ...

The Amateur Astronomers Association of Princeton invites its members to learn astro imaging! ... Well, here's your chance to kindle the motivation with like-minded AAAP members. ... Or you just want to learn more about astrophotography but you didn’t know where to turn. ... AAAP member and astrophotographer Brian Van Liew is preparing to host a AAAP SIG ( Special Interest Group ) covering digital astrophotography. ... Types of imaging equipment . ... All images on this page created by Brian Van Liew. ...

... The main task of this Working Group has been to review the state-of-theart knowledge of the Milky Way galaxy, to identify the future challenges, and to propose which tools (in terms of facilities, infrastructures, instruments, science policies) would be needed to successfully tackle and solve the remaining open questions. ... This Working Group has made recommendations that would allow dissecting our backyard laboratory, the Galaxy, even further. ...

... Research . ... Past and present projects and other research activities . ... These projects range from: the end-to-end systems modelling, design and commissioning of an optical to near-infra-red stellar coronagraph at the William Herschel Telescope, a European Space Agency design study into fold-out large aperture space telescopes, prototyping 'Smart' X-ray mirrors for next generation X-ray telescopes and R into future adaptive optics. ... OSCA - an Optimised Stellar Coronagraph for Adaptive optics ...

... Contacting and discussing with people sharing your interests, participating in night sky observations with telescopes as well as a large choice of astronomical books, magazines and video-tapes out of our club library. ... A reasonable compromise for observing both planets and brightest deep sky objects ( nebulae, galaxies) are either a 4 to 8 inch mirror telescope ( Newton, Schmidt-Cassegrain ) or a 3 to 4 inch refracting ( lens) telescope. ... Where can I buy a telescope in Luxembourg ? ...

Space Agencies and Centres . Space research . ... BNSC - British National Space Centre . ... CNES - Centre National d' tudes Spatiales, France . ... NASDA - National Space Development Agency (Earth Observation Center), Japan . ... NASA Spacelink , includes information about the Mir station . ... John F. Kennedy Astronomy Observatory , contains rich list of astronomy sites . ... LIFE Magazine Space Links . ... Copyright RSSI 1993-1997, Space Research Institute RAS Network Information Centre ...

Winer Observatory P.O. Box 797, Sonoita, Arizona 85637-0797, USA . ... Winer . ... Mark Trueblood was born in Cincinnati, Ohio in 1948. ... It was Andy, with the encouragement of Irv Winer, who got Mark interested in telescope building and astronomy again. ... Society for Astronomical Sciences (Robert Crawford lead author) . ... Trueblood, Mark, "The Space Telescope Payload Operations Control Center" in Genet and Genet, eds., Microcomputers in Astronomy - II, Fairborn Observatory (Fairborn: 1984), 11. ...

Many injuries each year result from the improper use or maintenance of tools, especially portable power tools. It is therefore important users of portable power tools be trained in their use and all tools be maintained in a safe condition. ... All portable power tools and their attachments or accessories will be used in accordance with the manufacturer?s instructions. ... Adequate ventilation will be provided when fuel powered tools are used indoors or in insufficiently ventilated areas. ...

Discussion Forum Calibration Targets -------------------------------------------- Keith Jahoda sumarised the'Cal targets' group. Group generated a list of CAL targets, with their uses. ... Energy scale and line width at high energies, especially for Con-X. No obvious celestial targets. ... Not easy to cover 0.1->100 keV. ... RM - temp profile of cluster problem. XMM and Chandra give different answers - Chandra give higher temp by upto 1.5 keV for hig htemp clusters. ...