STEP INTO THE BLUE - MEADE INSTRUMENTS PRODUCT GUIDE . ... Meade Instruments . ... Telescopes . LX850 Series . ... Superb optical performance coupled with time proven computerized pointing and tracking has made the LX200 ACF series a best-seller in the high-performance telescope class. ... Meade's revolutionary LS LightSwitchтДв series of telescopes use advanced technologies to do what no other consumer telescopes have done before: take all the hassle out of using a telescope. ... Support . ...

... A Web browser with Java support and an account to establish a secure Internet HTTP connection to the Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC), is everything needed in order to use the new Control Center System (CCS). Then full access to the telemetry of the Hubble Space Telescope (HST) is given (Figure 2). A public version of CCS is also available. ... Rifkin, A. 1997, Reengineering the Hubble Space Telescope Control Center System, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. ...

SAI VO . ... Web Services . Catalog Access Services . ... SAI Web Services . ... This service aims to automatically match stars in FITS image provided with catalogue and add the correct WCS keywords to its FITS header. ... Service Web Interface . ... The service is available here To use it, you has to provide the image as a Base64-encoded string, along with the rough information on image field of view size and center (the latter may be deduced from FITS header keywords like 'RA' and 'DEC'). ...

... Staff . Research staff . ... Research . ... Solar physics . ... Historical research . ... Friends of Arcetri . ... Because of these problems, Giovan Battista Donati (director since the end of 1859) made all necessary steps to build a new observatory. ... In 1894, a new Director was appointed, an astronomer from Padua, Antonio Abetti (1846-1928). ... Guglielmo Righini did not hesitate to enter the Arcetri Observatory into the European project JOSO (Joint Organization for Solar Observations). ...

... IAA VLBI Analysis Center . ... First IAA SLR EOP submission to IERS Annual Report . ... Beginning of operational processing of SLR observations . ... We use several program packages for analysis mostly developed at the IAA: GROSS for processing of the SLR observations and analysis of EOP and coordinates time series, OCCAM/GROSS for computation of EOP, station coordinates, and troposphere parameters time series from the VLBI observations, GRAPE for processing of GPS observations. ...

... Astronomy Ireland's Christmas talk: Mon 14 Dec, TCD, Dublin . ... Cosmic Christmas to be launched on Friday 4 December at Blackrock Castle Observatory . The next meeting of the NIAAS takes place on Monday 7th December, starting at 8pm in Ballyclare High School lecture theatre. ... The IMOAS celebrate their 20th anniversary this year. ... Howard's topic for the night is SETI which stands for the Search for Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence. ... International Year of Astronomy, Ireland National Node . ...