For more information contact: Brewster LaMacchia 781 937 6300 x312 6th Grade at J. G. Whittier Middle School Looking Up at Night! ... The "Star Party," as these events are called in astronomical circles, was organized by amateur astronomer Brewster LaMacchia and 6th grade teacher Robert Estes. They are both part of Project Astro, a national project that links astronomers with educators and students in the fourth through ninth grades. ... 2 Whittier Middle School Star Party ...

First: an organization relevent to all amateurs (and professionals): International Dark-Sky Organization . This group spends its energy helping protect dark skies, and educating the public, government, and utilities on the efficient use of lighting. ... International Amateur-Professional Photoelectric Photometry This group has been arranging amateur participation in astronomical projects via newsletter and local groups for some time, but doesn't have much of a web presence. ...

In Figure 10 (528 Kbytes) we show an image of the LMC taken in Red light. In this passband one measures the intensity and appearance of the galaxy in the light of stars which are about 5 billion years old. ... Lastly, we include in Figure 12 , another image taken with Parking Lot CCD. ... In sum, this article has summarized the various systems that are capable of performing wide field CCD imaging. ... Figure 1: Mark Cornell and David Chappell - McDonald Observatory, University of Texas . ...

... The axial support is provided by 78 air pistons. ... The transverse support is provided by 38 air pistons, supported by cantilevers from the mirror cell, that act on the mirror local center of gravity surface. ... The locations where the transverse mirror support forces should be applied to the mirror are listed in Table 1 and illustrated in Figure 1. ... Figure 1: CAD drawing showing the 2.5-m primary mirror and the locations of the transverse support posts (black) and axial pneumatic pistons (blue...

... Radio Astronomy . ... ASRAS Board Members . ... To see the most up to date news and events happening with ASRAS log in with your user name and password and then click on the Activities page. ... Messier Marathon (Member Observing) CANCELLED Saturday, April 9, 2016 9:00 PM Location:Farash Center Ionia NY . ... ASRAS Members meeting - Friday May 6 at Farash Center - Ionia NY . ... ASRAS Board members meeting - monday May 9 @ Farash Center Monday, May 9, 2016 7:00 PM Location:Farash Center Ionia NY . ...

... Because keywords are implemented as a global data structure, different MIDAS procedures can access the same keyword. ... WRITE/KEYWORD N/I/1/1 0 . ... Local keywords are defined inside a MIDAS procedure via the command DEFINE/LOCAL . ... Local keywords љ may have the same name as an existing global keyword (except the system keyword names as stored in MID_MONIT:syskeys.dat ) or local keyword of any other procedure, since local keywords are searched before the global ones. ... DEFINE/LOCAL N/I/1/1 0 ...

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Портал | ... Первая десятка "Русского переплета" Темы дня: . ... УРАНИЯ . Научно-популярный образовательный журнал в "Русском переплете" . ... Как читать "Уранию" . ... Владимир Липунов . ... Сергей Пашутин . Феномены биологичекой эволюции Урания, популярно о сложном, 08.IV.2002 . ... Наука в "Русском переплете" Все проекты . ... Образование в "Русском переплете" Все проекты . ... Дата создания журнала: 7 декабря 2000 г. Обратите внимание на баннерную систему и счетчик Русского Переплета . ...

Russian Space Science Internet (RSSI) is a successful result of RSSI Project. ... space oriented organizations; . ... RSSI offers for its members : . ... videoconferences via MBONE Internet protocol (there are 2 tunnels available now through the general IP network: one to NASA Internet, and another to Moscow State University); . ... It is designed so that all organizations connected to the RSSI gain access to the resources of Russian computer networks as well as world wide Internet. ... nic@rssi.ru ...

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... Image Quality of the VLT . Total Optical Control . First light for the ESO VLT unit telescope 1 occurred during the workshop. ... The image shown (Figure 1 ) here was obtained with the VLT on May 16, 1998, in red light (R band), i.e. while the mirror was still uncoated. ... In this diagram (FIgure 2), the measured image quality of the VLT UT1 astronomical images is plotted versus the ``seeing", as measured by the Seeing Monitor, a small telescope also located on top of the Paranal Mountain. ...

... Solar Wind . ... During a total eclipse of the Sun, when for a few minutes the Moon completely covers the Sun's face, a glow appears around the darkened Sun--the solar corona, the Sun's outermost atmosphere. ... Such high levels of ionization require the atoms to be buffeted around by extremely high temperatures, around 1,000,000 C (1,800,000 F). ... It is brightest near sunspots, whose arched field lines apparently hamper the outflow of solar wind which carries away energy and helps cool the corona...

... Solar Wind . ... During a total eclipse of the Sun, when for a few minutes the Moon completely covers the Sun's face, a glow appears around the darkened Sun--the solar corona, the Sun's outermost atmosphere. ... Such high levels of ionization require the atoms to be buffeted around by extremely high temperatures, around 1,000,000 C (1,800,000 F). ... It is brightest near sunspots, whose arched field lines apparently hamper the outflow of solar wind which carries away energy and helps cool the corona...

The Local Group dwarf spheroidal galaxies: A key to the building blocks in the Universe H. Hirashita et al. Kyoto University, Japan Recent studies have been revealing the dark matter content in dwarf spheroidal galaxies (dSphs). ... We select the Local Group dSphs as a sample. ... However, we nd no observational evidence that the tidal forces by giant galaxies a ect the density pro les of the dSphs, which indicates that the stellar systems of the dSphs lie in their deep dark matter potentials. ...

... To save time, I will only provide ephemerides in 2000 coordinates. ... Note: most the orbital elements used to create these ephemerides were obtained from the International Astronomical Union Circulars (IAUCs), Minor Planet Circulars (MPCs) or the ICQ Comet Handbook. ... The following 1-day ephemeris (March 1, 1997 - October 1, 1997) is from Donald Yeomans of JPL and is based on Reference Orbit #55 (March 4, 1997). 2000 coordinates (March - September, 1997) [3/4/97] . ... Epoch: 1997 Feb. 1.0 . ...

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Astronotes Armagh Planetarium's Stellar Blog! ... Armagh Planetarium . ... Comets and Asteroids . ... Space Flight . ... Monthly Sky Notes . ... Zodiacal Light: A ghostly column of light in the sky taken near the Very Large Telescope at Paranal (Image credit: ESO) . ... Over the next month, on some clear moonless evening, if you are lucky enough to be far from any light pollution, keep a watch on the western horizon just after sunset and you might just see this column of light in the night sky. ...

The following page provides access to several SVM codes developed by us. ... Several our codes realizing some other exact and approximate methods are also available. The codes are provided by rather small (sorry) comments and test run results. ... Another page contains links to other collections of light scattering software (under construction). Our overview of the ranges of applicability of different codes is under preparation. ... Created by V.I. Last modified: 10/05/03, V.I. ...

... AstroImageJ (AIJ) .. ... Reads and writes FITS images with standard headers . ... Provides a time and coordinate converter tool with capability to update/enhance FITS header content (AIRMASS, BJD, etc.) ... Creates color images and with native ImageJ processing power . ... AstroImageJ_Updater . Update operation now updates AIJ version number in Info.plist CFBundleVersion and CFBundleShortVersionString (MacOSX only) . ... AstroImageJ is ImageJ with astronomy plugins and macros installed. ...

... Recent Topics . ... MAO main . ... Fw: Let's plan activities in Ukraine to celebrate IYL2015 ! ... Subject: Let's plan activities in Ukraine to celebrate IYL2015 ! ... national planning of activities in Ukraine to celebrate the International . ... is global awareness of the International Year. ... be the International Year of Light and Light-based technologies (IYL2015) on . ... activities that will be coordinated and run internationally. ... test.mao.kiev.ua/images/postbyemail/IYL2015_documents.zip...