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... We report on the progress of the development of CVcat, an interactive catalogue on Cataclysmic Variables, which is the first application based on AstroCat, a general framework for the installation and maintenance of web-based interactive astronomical databases. ... With the development of the AstroCat software we intend to fill the gap between these two categories by enabling astronomers to set up interactive astronomical catalogues for reduced and inferred data (Fig. ... 2003). ...

... Mark Jaworsky will present one early next year. ... It is theorized that Dark Matter is responsible for holding galactic (Program, continued on page 3) (Program, continued from page 2) systems together and that without it, galaxy-mass structures just would have not come into existence. ... Researchers use the theory of Dark Matter to explain this discrepancy. ... The standard theory of gravity still applies and dark matter still exists, but somehow the dark matter emulates MOND. ...