... Observing springtime deep-sky objects with a large telescope . ... Buy and sell astronomy gear April 9 . ... Astronomy.com: Jim Forbes . ... A refracting telescope makes use of this property with a carefully made lens having curved surfaces. ... The first telescope (of any type) was constructed by the Dutch spectacle maker Hans Lippershey (1570 1619) who, on October 2, 1608, filed a patent application for "an instrument for seeing faraway things as though nearby." ... Buying your first telescope . ...

... Tested with -- Suse 10.0 Should work with -- Suse 10.0 , 10.1 Novell/ Suse Enterprise 9.3 or 10 when available Slackware 11 when available Any other recent distribution with 2.6.13 or higher kernel and udev Will not work with -- Slackware 10.2 or earlier Any distribution using 2.4 series kernels or lacking udev Dependencies -- Among others, but source code included: libusb Motif or Lesstif fxload Coming soon -- No support for LPT cameras in 2.6 series kernels. ...

... Library . ... The New Hampshire Astronomical Society's Library Telescope Program . Marc Stowbridge . ... Our guest speaker this month is Marc Stowbridge, of the New Hampshire Astronomical Society. Marc was the brainchild behind the NHAS Library Telescope Program – an outreach effort to supply user-friendly loaner telescope to local libraries. ... A lifelong interest in amateur astronomy led to his joining the NHAS in 1999. ... Copyright (c) Amateur Telescope Makers of Boston, Inc. ...

... This paper discusses various information technology methods being applied to science education and public information. ... This paper addresses instructional technology used in astrophysics-related public programs and will explore issues related to the clientele, resource design and budgetary issues. ... Information technology methods are being applied and evolved to provide exemplary materials for science education, curricula and general public information about research and technology. ...

Described here are the basics of ISDN, including much practical information for the consumer, as well as some fairly technical descriptions of ISDN, and finally some discussion on where ISDN is going in the future. ... The ISDN Reference Configurations . ... ISDN References . ISDN Glossary This document was created for CIS 788.08Q: Recent Advances in Networking , a class project to assemble information on networking. It was written by Thomas A. Fine (fine at head dot cfa dot harvard dot edu) . ...

General Forum Message . Forums: . ... Post . ... Telescope Types . ... Many types exist, but a good 8 inch Newtonian on a simple Dobsonian mount provides great views in a simple package. ... While the SCT is not my favorite design for the type of astronomy I pursue, I do think it is the right kind of telescope for the average consumer. ... www.astronomy.net . ... Forum posts are Copyright their authors as specified in the heading above the post. "dbHTML," "AstroGuide," "ASTRONOMY.NET" & "VA.NET" . ...

... Your main research interests concern the computer modelling of galaxy formation. ... The observers think that they are smart, but it is only thanks to these new telescopes that all the exciting recent progress has been made in the study of the high redshift universe. ... By redshift ten, some knots (where filaments and sheets join) are getting dense enough to form galaxies, and the first light in the universe switches on. ... By redshift 5, clusters of galaxies are centred on these knots. ...

... There are TPM log files for every night of the dark run except for the nights of 08 October and 14 October 1999. ... The figures below are plots of the MIG data with the y-axis in TPM MIG units (real MIG units*1000) and the x-axis in seconds since midnight. ... Figure: Plot of MIG values vs elapsed time from midnight 10 October 1999. ... Figure: Plot of MIG values vs elapsed time from midnight 08 October 1999.The plot starts recording data from 21:26:52.0 on that day. ... 11/24/1999 ...

... Moon Phase below . ... ARTICLE: Why the moon always shows us the same face . ... Before you continue reading, you should know that this was not always the case, i.e. the Moon once was rotating with respect to the Earth, so that on every night a terrestrial observer (if there was one, because this was long, long before mankind appeared on our planet, and even before any major animals had appeared) saw another face of the Moon. ... Figure 1 (not to scale) shows how we can imagine the system Earth-Moon...