... This experiment makes use of a novel an sophisticated CCD imaging design whereby by 4 2048x2048 detectors are butted together to form a single 4096x4096 pixel detector system. ... Figure 4 (1.1 Megs) shows an example image from one of the LMC fields that is searched for gravitational microlensing amplification of stellar brightness. ... Figure 5 (124 Kbytes) shows an image of NGC 253, taken with this camera and a 320x512 RCA CCD which has 30 micron size pixels. ... Page 5 . ...

... The first step to improve the FORS calibration is therefore to obtain data to allow a computation of the illumination correction across the field. ... Another limitation on the calibration accuracy has been the brightness of the Landolt standards which have forced the use of extremely short exposures introducing small but non-negligible shutter-time errors and also resulting in a very small number of useful standards per frame. ...

... This program was created for correlating chosen regions in the series of fts images. ... Chosen regions' . ... In this section the program counts the integral for each region of the grid for each image. ... As a matter of fact, the integral is total brightness of the region and it is counted by 'int_tabulated' IDL function. ... In addition, the program will show the count of the regions which correlate with the corresponding region (the brighter region means the bigger count) and its contour. ...

Race to the Planets Family Event Sample Agendas Family ASTRO Leader Kits and Guides are designed to contain enough materials and activities for two full family events. ... What's Next: As families leave, make sure they know about the date and time for your second Race to the Planets session and that you'll want to know how they did playing the "Surfing the Solar System" game. ... If there are any planets visible in the night sky, a nice follow up to this family event is a planet observing session. ...

... Hidden Hollow 2008 . ... Prizes . ... door prizes! ... May 2 - 4, 2008 . ... The Hidden Hollow weekend Star Party at Warren Rupp Observatory . ... As always, we raffle our door prizes by allowing you to purchase tickets for only the items you select. ... Your door prize raffle ticket purchase is key to continuing the Legend of Hidden Hollow. We'd like to thank all of our fine guests from 2005 on for their generosity in raffle ticket purchases and have allowed us to venture into a 2008 star party! ...

Next: Silicate minerals Up: A Database of Optical Previous: Database of Optical Properties . ... If necessary, data have been determined for the different crystallographic axes. ... In the following we give some examples of the data and their possible applications. Table: Summary of data measured in the Jena laboratory, which are currently available from the JPDOC. compound . ... amorph. ... Next: Silicate minerals Up: A Database of Optical Previous: Database of Optical Properties root 2003-03-06 ...

... With enough velocity, a spacecraft can break loose from the Earth's gravity and enter an orbit around the Sun, like that of a planet. If it then orbits the Sun with the same period as the Earth--one year--it may keep a fixed position relative to Earth. ... If the distance is just right--about 4 times the distance to the Moon or 1/100 the distance to the Sun--the spacecraft, too, will need just one year to go around the Sun, and will keep its position between the Sun and the Earth. ...

As an obligatory preparing for the application to participate in the IAO a short report of National Olympiad of the current year with a set of all problems used on the Olympiad has to be presented by the applicating team. ... The final minutes (protocols written in Latin or Cyrillic in form of tables) of the Olympiad (evaluating of solutions of the students participated in the last stage of the Olympiad) should be included as well. ... Historical data of the National Astronomy Olympiad: . ...

Astronomical Data Analysis Software and Systems VII ASP Conference Series, Vol. ... Querying by Example Astronomical Archives F. Pasian and R. Smareglia Osservatorio Astronomico di Trieste, 34131 Trieste, Italy Email: pasian@ts.astro.it Abstract. ... The basic user query would simply be the submission of an input image, either 1­D or 2­D; the system should allow retrieval of archived images similar to an input one on the basis of some ``resemblance parameter''. ... the QUBE User Interface. ...

... Documentation for the Python objects defined by the project is divided into separate pages for each package, module, and class. The API documentation also includes two pages containing information about the project as a whole: a trees page, and an index page. ... A description of the package. ... A summary of the classes defined by the package. ... The module contents frame contains a list of every submodule, class, type, exception, function, and variable defined by a module or package. ...

... N.A.Bobylev, Yu.M.Burman, Morse lemmas for functionals of the variational calculus, Func.Anal.Appl., ... N.A.Bobylev, Yu.M.Burman. ... N.A.Bobylev, Yu.M.Burman, A.B.Shubin, Algorithms for control with a minimal number of switchings, Automation and remote control , V.53, 5:619, 1992. ... TeX file ) . ... Quadratic Poisson brackets compatible with an algebra structure . ... Yu.M.Burman. ... Yu.M.Burman, Whitney's index formula in higher dimensions and Laplace integrals , Preprint math.DG/9801044 . ...

Stellarium 0.12.3 . ... Classes . ... ClassљList . ... TuiNodeActivate Class Reference . ... voidљ . ... TuiNodeActivate (const QString &text, QObject *receiver, const char *method, TuiNode *parent=NULL, TuiNode *prev=NULL) . Create a TuiNodeActivate node. ... virtual TuiNodeResponse љ . handleKey (int key) . ... TuiNode (const QString &text, TuiNode *parent=NULL, TuiNode *prev=NULL) . ... virtual TuiNode *љ . ... virtual voidљ . ... Contains the numbers of the parent nodes in the hierarchy. ...

... Tonight's Sky . ... Observing . ... Behemoth black hole found in an unlikely place . Gravitational wave search provides insights into galaxy evolution and mergers . ... A cosmic exclamation point . ... VV 340, also known as Arp 302, provides a textbook example of colliding galaxies seen in the early stages of their interaction. ... The infared emission of the galaxy pair, as observed by Spitzer, is dominated by VV 340 North, and also provides evidence for a growing supermassive black hole. ...

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... Planets . ... Stars . Exoplanets . ... Most exoplanets so far discovered fall into the category of тАШhot JupitersтАЩ, these are giant planets orbiting very close to their parent star. ... Note that we have discovered so many hot Jupiters because they are the easiest type of planet to find, they are not necessarily particularly common in the galaxy. ... Subsequently several similar hot and€а fuzzy worlds have been discovered the same way, proving this that this planet is not a one-off oddball. ...

... Parents who home-school their children often find it hard to locate suitable material for teaching astronomy and physics, as well as earth and space sciences, especially at the level of upper grades. ... Stargazers" also includes a linked, annotated timeline that covers 13,000 B.C.-2003 A.D. which allows parent-teachers to relate the science to history. ... I am grateful to a homeschooling parent, Mrs. April Dykes, for volunteering to handle the distribution of such disks, at cost. ... April Dykes ....

... Bad Astronomy . ... Every few months, one of a series of questions comes up on the USENET group sci.astro involving tides, or the rotation of the Moon, or the recession of the Moon from the Earth. ... Why the Moon's rotation period is the same as the length of time it takes to orbit the Earth (same as number 1, but phrased differently). ... But when this happens, the time it takes for the Earth to rotate once will be slowed to exactly the same time it takes for the Moon to go around the Earth once! ...

THE KAIDUN METEORITE: WHERE DID IT COME FROM? ... The formation of the subalkaline and alkaline clasts of the Kaidun meteorite, apparently also requires deep differentiation of material in a fairly large parent body. ... These differences in structure of two genetically linked clasts, due to the different encounter speeds of the clasts with the parent body of Kaidun, obviously indicate that these two events were separated in time. ... References: [1] Ivanov A.V. et al. ... 16] Ivanov A.V. et al. ...

I. Installation . ... AMPLE package distributive (created with program InstallShield for Microsoft Visual C++) has been downloaded on FTP server of IAA RAS as archive Ample.zip. ... Note: If the window "file download" appears, select Open... switch button, then press OK button. ... The shortcut for AMPLE will be linked with this folder, and auxiliary files will be created here during AMPLE work. ... When running AMPLE all auxiliary and new configuration files are created in the WORK folder. ...

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