... Next-generation adaptive optics brings remarkable details to light in stellar nursery . Gemini Observatoryт??s most advanced adaptive optics system will help astronomers study the universe with an unprecedented level of clarity and detail by removing distortions due to Earthт??s atmosphere. ... The wakes span much greater distances than the bullets, measuring as much as a fifth of a light-year in length. ... Only registered members of Astronomy.com are allowed to comment on this article. ...

Last updated 21 August 2003 by JMD . Last link checked 21 August 2003 by JMD . These line plots were made by placing an Ar discharge lamp and power supply about 8 inches away from GRIM's entrance window. ... For most purposes, we advise that observers request a setup similar to the one used here for getting Ar lamp wavecals. ... postscript . jpeg . ... The low resolution of GRIM yields broad lines that make it difficult to distinguish blends, so these are the best guesses. ...

CFITSIO Interface Library CFITSIO is a library of ANSI C routines for reading and writing FITS format data files. ... The CFITSIO library is built on Unix systems by typing: > ./configure [--prefix=/target/installation/path] > make (or 'make shared') > make install (this step is optional) at the operating system prompt. The configure command customizes the Makefile for the particular system, then the `make' command compiles the source files and builds the library. ...

VSOP: The VLBI Space Observatory Programme . Released data. VSOP Survey Publications . ... The VSOP Survey Data Reduction Handbook. ... Data reduction in Difmap in postscript (447 kb) or gzipped postscript (77 kb). ... Template Checklist and Worksheet for reduction and analysis of Survey data. ... Changes to Difmap for VSOP data analysis. ... Difmap macros needed for the processing of survey data. ... VSOP Survey Working Group Data Reduction Meeting , July 10, 12, 13 1999 . ...

As of Version 1.3, the Apache HTTP Server includes a port to (non-ASCII) mainframe machines which use the EBCDIC character set as their native codeset. ... On an EBCDIC based system, HTML files and other text files are usually saved encoded in the native EBCDIC code set, while image files and other binary data are stored with identical encoding as on ASCII based machines. ... In the case of text files of course, provisions must be made so that EBCDIC documents are always served in ASCII) . ...

NASA JOHNSON SPACE CENTER ORAL HISTORY PROJECT ORAL HISTORY 2 TRANSCRIPT J AMES KIRBY HINSON AND SHIRLEY HUNT HINSON INTERVIEWED BY REBECCA WRIGHT LOUISBURG, NORTH CAROLINA ­ 2 MAY 2000 WRIG HT : Today is May 2, 2000. ... J. KIRBY HINS ON : Thank you for those good wishes. ... We met one week later? ... 2 May 2000 12 Johnson Space Center Oral History Project James K. and Shirley H. Hinson J. KIRBY HINS ON: She came back from one of these Christmas trips, and I was hunting deer at the time, off and on. ...

... О проекте . Об авторе . ... Библиотека . ... Ультразвуковой термояд: критический анализ . ... Описание эксперимента по обнаружению ультразвукового термояда . ... Основные элементы установки: цилиндрическая емкость с жидкостью, излучаемая по периметру установки ультразвуковая волна, импульсный источник нейтронов, сцинтиллятор, фотоэлектронный умножитель. ... Если уж авторы решаются на использование нейтронов, то пусть они приводят доскональный анализ того, что происходит с нейтронами в веществе. ...

... One thing I did do was to give a star party at my church as a fundraiser. ... Amateur Astronomers Association of Princeton Space Shuttle Discovery Blasts off On Final Flight In a truly dramatic finale to her very last launch, Space Shuttle Discovery blasted off to space at 4:53 p.m., Thursday, Feb. 24, with just two seconds to spare after an unexpected last minute computer glitch with Air Force tracking computers threatened to delay the liftoff yet again despite otherwise perfect launch conditions. ...

... Sternberg State Astronomical Institute, Moscow, Russia . ... The Sc galaxy NGC 6181 was observed at the 6m telescope of SAO RAS with the scanning Perot-Fabry interferometer in the H-alpha emission line and at the 1m telescope of SAO RAS in BVRI broadband filters with CCD. ... Sil'chenko, O. K. Sternberg State Astronomical Institute, Moscow, Russia . ... COMPLEX FORMATION HISTORY OF LENTICULAR GALAXIES WITH STELLAR COUNTERROTATION: NGC 4138 AND NGC 4550 . ... YOUNG NUCLEI IN DWARF ELLIPTICAL GALAXIES...

Journal of the Amateur Astrono mers Association of New York April 2011 Volume 59 Number 4 ISSN 0146-7662 EYEPIECE than 1,200 "active planetary candidates." ... Of the dwarf stars, about 19% of them have planets, with orbital periods less than 125 days. ... It lies above Spica in early evening, between the stars Gamma and Theta Virginis. ... April's Constellations. ... I will discuss use of solar-system r esources to improve life on Earth, especially methods of diverting threatening asteroids. ...

... Currently, John's main deep sky work is done with a TEC140 refractor, and a few images have taken with a Takahashi FS60C. He uses a Celestron C11 for webcam imaging of the planets and the C11 sees some limited deep sky work too. ... Happy New Year to ATMoB members, friends and family! ... If you have not already visited the clubhouse, we hope you will attend our New Member's Night planned for this spring. ... Charlie McDonald announced the Reading star party to be held on Jan. ... Jan. ...

... Hazy skies usually mean steady skies, and steady air is just what the doctor ordered for observing planets and double stars. Mars is well past opposition and becoming less an item of interest as it shrinks in size, but Jupiter and Saturn are well placed in the early morning August sky. ... Their magnitudes are 4.2 and 6.0. ... It has an easily observed 10.6 magnitude central star. ... Cygnus is also host to a lot of small open star clusters that stand up to inspection under hazy skies. ...