Popularization of astronomical knowledge Michael Passarge Sonnenobservatorium Bad Salzschlirf D- 36364 Bad Salzschlirf , Dr. Martiny Strasse 1 michael.passarge@sonnenobservatorium.de During recent years it was developed a scheme for popularizing scientific astronomy to a broad audience in form of: Monthly Talks Newspaper Articles, Radio and TV Talks Guided Tours Practical instructions The experiences of these ...

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... Each data set has 36 values in it. ... If it is, what can you conclude about the nature of the data? ... Data Set 1: 12.8 8.4 12.5 2.5 1.1 0.4 1.4 0.4 0.1 1.6 6.4 9.3 6.9 6.8 7.6 2.9 2.2 0.9 1.2 2.1 0.1 5.7 8.5 7.1 9.8 7.6 6.2 1.9 0.9 0.2 0.4 2.0 1.1 1.9 1.3 1.2 Data Set 2: 6.8 12.3 10.6 3.4 1.8 1.8 1.8 3.2 0.5 1.4 13.1 7.5 2.1 9.6 6.4 5.4 3.9 3.9 0.3 0.1 0.9 6.1 18.7 4.6 0.3 5.1 5.7 0.5 1.5 2.5 1.4 0.1 2.1 4.8 6.3 3.5 Data Set 3: 6.9 2.6 8.6 7.9 6.9 3.7 1.1 1.8...

... Walton, N. A., Lawrence, A., & Linde, T. 2003, in ASP Conf. ... 314 Astronomical Data Analysis Software and Systems XIII, eds. F. Ochsenbein, M. Allen, & D. Egret (San Francisco: ASP), 601 . ... It is using the iterative process, with eight iterations, with each successive iteration release building a working system comprising increasing capabilities. ... For a more detailed description of a number of the components of AstroGrid, see elsewhere in these proceedings: MySpace (Davenhall et al. ... 2004...

Swift/ XRT radiation damage and results from the lab using a proton-damaged CCD Claudio Pagani (Swift/ XRT team) XMM Calibration Meeting, Leicester, 7/3/2012 XRT CCD e2v CCD -22 detector (developed for EPIC MOS camera on XMM) Operated in Photon Counting (PC) and Windowed Timing (WT) mode 4 55Fe corner sources continuously illuminate CCD corners, used to monitor CCD performance Spectral resolution at launch: FWHM = 135 eV at Mn K- (5.9 ...

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... Timothy L. Kopra (Colonel, U. S. Army, Ret.) NASA Astronaut . ... In this position, he primarily served as an engineering liaison for space shuttle launch operations and International Space Station hardware testing. ... He then served in the Space Station Branch of the Astronaut Office, where he was involved in the testing of crew interfaces for two space station pressurized modules as well as the implementation of support computers and operational Local Area Network on the station. ...

... Archives . ... Since I start reading arxiv/astro-ph abstracts and a few relevant papers about a month ago, so often I see chi-square something as an optimization or statistical inference tool. Chi-square function, chi-square statistics, chi-square goodness-of-fit test are the words that serve different data analysis purposes but under the same prefix. ... Nothing special. However, in astronomy, chi-square becomes the almost only method for statistical data analysis. ... Chandra Blog . ...

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Data format on monthly mean areas of sunspots groups and faculae 1-4 Year 6-7 Month 9-13 Monthly mean of the daily sunspots areas, total (99999=no data) 15-19 Monthly mean of the daily sunspots areas, the central zone (99999=no data) 21-25 Monthly mean of the daily sunspots areas, the north parth of the disk (99999=no data) 27-31 Monthly mean of the daily sunspots areas, the south part of the disk (99999=no data) 33-37 Monthly mean of the daily faculae areas (99999=no data)

... News . ... Pre-university education . ... Samara University scientists have developed a technology of new-designed photoelectric converters for solar batteries of spacecraft. ... The new solar batteries will be as much effective as their contemporary nanoheterostructured counterparts surface-supported by germanium, and the cost will be five times cheaper. ... Scientists of Samara University (joint SSAU and SSU) developed a technology basis of new silicon-based photoelectric converters (FEC). ...

To Do List ========== November 10, 2007 =============== Progress in base code not yet on this site will appear in the next beta version released here. ... Features in development for the next stable release include TDI with absolute timing Binning and subarea readout Autoguiding with the tracking control and adaptive optics features XML based server/client for remote use Command line version Browser version Connection to XmTel and XEphem for coordinate information in FITS headers ...

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. Detector Performance . Characterization test results . Some spectra from TIRGO observation test (10/94) .

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