... International Dark-Sky Association, 3225 North First Avenue, Tucson, AZ 85719; ida@darksky.org ; http://www.darksky.org . ... Several articles on light pollution in Sky & Telescope , Sept. ... Several dozen IDA Information Sheets, on almost every topic related to light pollution, are available from the International Dark-Sky Association (see address above) . ... International Dark-Sky Association: http://www.darksky.org . ... Light Pollution (Set of 20 Slides), ASP Catalog AS 294, $26.95 . ...

... Bad Astronomy . Misconceptions . ... Bad Astronomy : "We're light years more advanced than our competition!" ... Even the closest astronomical object, the Moon, is 400,000 kilometers away! ... A beam of light will travel 9,500,000,000,000 kilometers in one year. This distance is defined as a light year ; the distance light travels in a year. ... This is another example of Bad Astronomy; like a light year, a parsec is a unit of distance, not time (to be specific, it equals 3.26 light years) . ...

Albert White (Irish Light Pollution Awareness Campaign), Mark Bailey (Armagh Observatory), Terry Moseley (Irish Astronomical Association) and Leo Enright (Broadcaster and Journalist, and invited Guest Speaker at the Conference) receiving "Recognition of Merit" Awards from the International Dark-Sky Association, in the Market Place, Armagh, 19th September 2009. ... An important objective was to raise public and private awareness of the many adverse impacts of light pollution. ...

NATURE|Vol 450|15 November 2007 NEW S D. VAN RAVENSWAAY/SPL WHAT TO DO WITH A WORMHOLE OPTICAL CABLES: the wormhole could act as a perfect optical fibre that is invisible from the outside -- but only at a single wavelength, the one the tube is designed to carry. OPTICAL COMPUTERS: dataprocessing elements for conducting logical operations on light signals could be placed inside the wormhole, so that all one would see of the computer is input and output sockets. ... Science 314, 977­980 (2006). ...

... It includes level converters and a optional radio modem designed to decode the radio timecode signals transmitted by the Canadian time and frequency station CHU. A complete set of schematics, PCB artwork, drill templates is in the pub/ntp/gadget.tar.Z file on ftp.udel.edu. ... One of these converts a TTL positive edge into a fixed- width pulse at EIA levels and is for use with a timecode receiver or oscillator including a TTL PPS output. ... See the schematic diagram gadget.s01 for reference. ...

... More information on books, telescopes, clubs, etc. is available in the Getting Started section. ... For more information call 617-495-7461. Boston University Astronomy Department - Public telescopic observing is held every clear Wednesday night. ... Boston Museum of Science - For more information and admission prices call 617-723-2500. ... For information and admission prices call 508-929-2700. ... Springfield Telescope Makers , VT. ... Copyright (c) Amateur Telescope Makers of Boston, Inc. ...

... Determination of the direction towards the center of the Sun’s visible disc relative to spacecraft axes. ... The direction to the Sun is computed in the instrument coordinate system relative to the pixels' position on the linear CCDs, illuminated with the light passing through the coding mask. ... less than 0.1 deg./s                                        3 arcmin . ... Field of view, deg . in the plane OXZ                                           –60…+60° . ... Optical Solar Tracker (OSD) . ...

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RTT150 . ... The primary mirror 1 reflects light to the secondary mirror 2 which sends the converging beam of light to the system of four flat mirrors 3, 4, 5 and 6. That allows the beam of light to leave the telescope strictly along its polar axis and be collected in Coude focus. ... That's why at any tube position (for any rotation along the declination axis) beam of light parallel to the principal axis after reflection on mirror 3 follows the direction of declination axis. ...

... Dr. Ravil Nazirov is the head of the workshop, and Andrew Ananjev is the secretary of the workshop. ... The workshop is used to be held in the last decade of the month, preferably on Tuesdays. ... The next session will take place October 29, 1996 . ... There is "CONPAS" mailing list which you can join to discuss issues of problem solving and to be automatically notified of important dates and decisions with respect to the coming sessions. ... Secretary of the Workshop: Andrew Ananjev . ...

... l - the mean galactic longitude; . ... mul - the median proper motion along galactic longitude of the stars of the OB-association, in units of 0.001 arcsec year -1 ; . dml - the estimation of mul dispersion in the OB-association, in 0.001 arcsec year -1 ; . mub - the median proper motion along galactic latitude of the stars of the OB-association, in units of 0.001 arcsec year -1 ; . dmb - the estimation of mub dispersion in the OB-association, in 0.001 arcsec year -1 ; . ...

Galactic Wind Shells and High Redshift Radio Galaxies . ... M.Krause . Astronomy & Astrophysics, v.436, 845-851 . Very Light Jets II: Bipolar large scale simulations in King atmospheres [small version] . ... Simulations of Astrophysical Jets in Dense Environments . M.Krause, V.Gaibler & M.Camenzind . in: High Performance Computing in Science and Engeneering '05 eds.: E.Krause, W.J ger & M.Resch. ... M.Krause & M.Camenzind . ... Martin Krause & Paul Alexander . ... Martin Krause . ...

Peremennye Zvezdy ( Variable Stars ) 33 , No. ... The new variable star HD 305629, with a Cepheid-like light curve, is demonstrated, from our optical observations and ASAS-3 data, to actually be an ellipsoidal variable star on a highly eccentric orbit. ... During a systematic search of variable stars in the publicly available ASAS-3 database (Pojmanski 2002), apparent variability was found in the star HD 305629 (10 51 34 35, -60 47 57 4, J2000.0; Fig. ... The light curve and color curves of HD 305629. ...

Please enter the lightcurve file name and period search parameters: . Lightcurve file: . ... Apply the Heliocentric correction and convert all dates to Terrestrial Time (TT)? ... Also, the Heliocentric correction cannot be applied to such lightcurves. ... This period search service is also available at the mirror sites: Mirror 1 , Mirror 2 , Mirror 3 , Mirror 4 . You may download the latest source code distribution and install the period search service at your own web server. ...

... DESCRIPTION General Catalog of Variable Stars (GCVS database) . ... Kholopov P.N., Samus N.N., Durlevich O.V., Kazarovets E.V., Kireeva N.N., Tsvetkova T.M., 1990, General Catalogue of Variable Stars, 4rd ed., vol.IV, Nauka, Moscow. Kholopov P.N., Samus N.N., Durlevich O.V., Kazarovets E.V., Kireeva N.N., Tsvetkova T.M., 1992, General Catalogue of Variable Stars, 4rd ed., vol.IV, Bull. ... Kazarovets E.V., Durlevich O.V. Editor-in-Chief Samus N.N., 1998, New Catalogue of Suspected Variable Stars. ...

Status of the RadioAstron project development . The engineering model of the Space Radio Telescope (SRT) was assembled in Lavochkin Association (LA) in the configuration consisting of 10-m parabolic radio astronomical antenna made of carbon-fiber, F ocal and Device cabins of the scientific payload and on-board and ground complex of high data rate up-down radio link (VIRK). ... Then,radio astronomical tests were conducted using real radio sources. ... Space Radio Telescope . ... Data Processing . ...

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... public class TiffDecoder . ... static int . ... Field Detail public static final int NEW_SUBFILE_TYPE . ... public static final int IMAGE_WIDTH . ... public static final int IMAGE_LENGTH . ... public static final int BITS_PER_SAMPLE . ... public static final int COMPRESSION . ... public static final int PHOTO_INTERP . ... public static final int IMAGE_DESCRIPTION . ... public static final int STRIP_OFFSETS . ... public static final int ORIENTATION . ... public static final int SAMPLES_PER_PIXEL . ...

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