Advisor's project abstract: . How do stars form? ... The fact that stars form in dense clusters raises the possibility that interactions between stars may govern the process of star and planet formation. ... As a project, the student will be assigned a star forming region in the Orion molecular cloud containing a cluster of young stars. ... A summer intern will also carry out diagnostics studies of the stellar activity and variability using the results from these simulations. ... Abstract: . ...

... The International Astronomical Union (IAU) , founded in 1919, promotes and safeguards the science of astronomy in all its aspects through international co-operation. ... Details about the organisation of the IAU and current information on its activities may be found at the UnionтАЩs web-site ( http://www.iau.org ). ... Data Centres . ... Instead of giving a full list of ways to obtain data and information in astronomy, we limit ourselves to a summary of the major entry-points to information services...

Draft version September 5, 2005 A Preprint typ eset using L TEX style emulateap j v. 11/26/04 THE DEMOGRAPHICS OF LONG-PERIOD COMETS Paul J. Francis Research School of Astronomy and Astrophysics, the Australian National University, Mt STromlo Observatory, Cotter Road, Weston ACT 2611, Australia Draft version September 5, 2005 ABSTRACT The absolute magnitude and perihelion distributions of long-perio d comets are derived, using data from the Lincoln Near-Earth Asteroid Research (LINEAR) survey. ...

. This image of Comet Ikeya-Zhang was taken on March 13, 2002 with a Meade STC 10" and a SBIG ST7-E CFW-8. Denis Bergeron

STAR FIELDS Newsletter of the Amateur Telescope Makers of Boston Including the Bond Astronomical Club Established in 1934 In the Interest of Telescope Making & Using Vol. ... There are astronomy-related lectures throughout the day designed to capture the interest of the tyro. ... The day ends with a star party on the top floor of the museum's parking garage, planned for 8-10 p.m. This star party attracts hundreds of people and it gives many of them their first look through a real telescope. ...

Astronomical Data Analysis Software and Systems VII ASP Conference Series, Vol. ... This trend has allowed pro jects and users to build customized processing systems from existing components. We present examples of user-customizable systems that can be built from existing tools, based on commonly-used infrastructure: a parameter interface library, FITS file format, Unix, and the X Windows environment. ... User Applications Users often need to sequence several tools. ...

A new infrared camera for COAST Richard J. Neill1, John S. Young Astrophysics Group, Cavendish Laboratory, University of Cambridge ABSTRACT We describe the design of a new IR camera for the Cambridge Optical Aperture Synthesis Telescope that has been designed both to increase our science productivity at COAST and to prototype novel hardware architectures for the Magdalena Ridge Observatory Interferometer IR detector systems. ... The Hawaii sensor also acts as a source of noise. ...