Winer Observatory P.O. Box 797, Sonoita, Arizona 85637-0797, USA . ... Winer Observatory) was incorporated in 1983 as a 501(c)(3) non-profit public charity to perform basic research in astronomy, provide educational outreach programs, and provide site and maintenance services for small telescopes through cooperative agreements with other astronomical institutions. ... The picture at the top left of this page is of our facility near Sonoita, Arizona, approximately 50 miles southeast of Tucson, Arizona. ...

... For many ATMs, having a good ray trace program on hand is pretty valuable. ... http://www.willbell.com . ... It is a slick Windows package with great graphics, but my most recent machine (Win95 OSR2) now encounters many error messages. ... OSLO LT : This is the freeware Windows version of OSLO - it is limited to 12 surfaces, but is otherwise amazing. ... KDP : This is another powerful, freeware Windows raytrace package. ... ZEMAX : This is yet another powerful, Windows raytrace package. ...

The 2dF QSO Redshift Survey (2QZ) . ... Before jumping into all the finer details of teh survey, a brief non-astronomer's guide to redshift surveys is available. ... The primary scientific aims of the QSO survey are: (1) to obtain the primordial fluctuation power spectrum out to COBE scales, (2) to determine the rate of QSO clustering evolution in the non-linear and linear regimes and hence obtain new limits on the value of and the bias parameter, (3) to apply a powerful geometric method to measure . ...

Trace: benchmark . start : benchmark . ... SAI VO Projects . ... AstroSearch . AstroDB . AstroKeywords . ... Help on Wiki search . ... benchmark.txt Last modified: 2011/12/27 17:19 by karpov Back to top . SAI VO | Astronet | SAI MSU | ...

... Bad Astronomy . ... On Thursday, February 15th 2001 (and replayed on March 19), the Fox TV network aired a program called ``Conspiracy Theory: Did We Land on the Moon?'', hosted by X-Files actor Mitch Pileggi. ... Dust around the lander . ... However, it appeals to our common sense: when the sky is black here on Earth, we see stars. ... Bad: The program claims that when the top half of the lander took off from the Moon to bring the astronauts back into orbit, there was no flame from the rocket. ...

Baikonour Space Port Tour Program (optional) . ... apply to visit Baikonour . ... Day 1 (Moscow time) . 10:00-13:00 . Arrival to Baikonour (former Leninsk) city airport by an RSC Energia plane . ... Transfer from the airport to a hotel at the Space Port . ... Lunch . ... Excursion to the Space Port facilities . ... Day 2 (local time) . ... Excursion to the Space Port Museum . ... Tour of Space Port . ... Excursion to a Cosmonaut Training Center (GCTC branch) . ... Day 4 . ...

Электронная библиотека астронома-любителя. ... библиотека . архив RSN . ... Ru.Space.News: . Февраль 1998 . ... Дата: 11 февраля 1998 (1998-02-11) От: Alexander Bondugin Тема: Aerospace Safety Advisory Panel To Present Report To NASA Привет всем! ... Priority is given to programs that involve the safety of human flight. ... Дата: 11 февраля 1998 (1998-02-11) От: Alexander Bondugin Тема: First Major Flight Component For X-33 Arrives At Palmdale Привет всем! ...

Databases (NSDC) of the Natural Planetary Satellites. ... NSDC: Database of astrometric observations of Natural Planetary Satellites . ... They are thoroughly looking for observations in different sources, creating their owndatabases which are then mostly inaccessible to other researchers. ... In the file "content" with explications, the reference is given to the data source as well as the bibliographic reference. ... Data sources. ... Why a specific bibliographic database for Natural satellites? ...

... Exposure Time Calculator (ETC) . Survey processing . ... VISTA is a 4-m class wide field survey telescope for the southern hemisphere, equipped with a near infrared camera (1.65 degree diameter field of view at VISTA's nominal pixel size) containing 67 million pixels of mean size 0.34 arcsec and available broad band filters at Z,Y,J,H,K s and a narrow band filter at 1.18 micron. A wide field visible camera, if constructed, could also be used on VISTA. ... Tile . ... ESO VISTA Public Surveys . ...

... CVS . ... ASM Kislovodsk . ... Anonymous CVS access through CVS protocol: . cvs -d :pserver:anonymous@curl.sai.msu.ru:/srv/cvs/cvsroot . Anonymous CVS browse through ViewVC: . ... Rs485 CVS . ... ASM Dome demon CVS . ... CVSROOT at curl.sai.msu.ru is located in /srv/cvs/cvsroot . You may access to CVS repository via SSH only using your curl's account login/password. ... export CVSROOT=curl.sai.msu.ru:/srv/cvs/cvsroot . ... CVS_RSH=ssh cvs -d user@ curl.sai.msu.ru:/srv/cvs/cvsroot command . ...

Posting Observations . ... You will need to subscribe to vsnet-acc (to allow you access to post your observations). ... VSNet has several different e-mail sigs, and sub sigs. ... These list are controlled by a software package called " Majordomo ", which allows you to subscribe and unsubscribe yourself from these list with an e-mail message (automated). ... Once you have subscribed to vsnet-acc (which will only send you a welcome message back and nothing else) you can post to the other list. ...

... F. Rodionova and E. A. Kozlova . ... Sternberg State Astronomical Institute, 119899, Moscow, Russia; jeanna@sai.msu ru. ... Brown University - Vernadsky Institute Microsymposium 34, October 8-9, 2001, Moscow, Russia . ... Brown University - Vernadsky Institute Microsymposium 38, October 27-29, 2003, Moscow, Russia . ... Brown University - Vernadsky Institute Microsymposium 40, 2004, Moscow, Russia . ... 1 Sternberg State Astronomical Institute Lomonosov Moscow University, Russia; marss8@mail.ru . ...

... VaST is a software tool for finding variable objects on a series of astronomical images. ... VaST performs object detection and aperture photometry using SExtractor on each image, cross-matches lists of detected stars, performs magnitude calibration with respect to the first (reference) image and constructs a lightcurve for each object. ... VaST FITS image viewer ./pgfv . ... Part I" PZP, vol. ... K. V. Sokolovsky, S. A. Korotkiy; "New Variable Stars Discovered by the NMW Survey" PZP, vol. ...

... The Drake Equation: Adding a METI Factor . ... METI (Messaging to Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence) is an activity, which I believe to be an inherent attribute of advanced civilizations. In order to account for the true prevalence of communicative civilizations (that is, those that engage in METI), I suggest we introduce a METI factor f m into the classical Drake Equation . ... f p = The fraction of those stars with planetary systems . ... Then the METI factor f m should be quite small, about 0.01. ...

Marc White . ... This page details the updates and changes I've made to this website since it's original iteration. ... The changes listed here are structural/design changes only. ... 29 Dec 2013 . ... Altered header/footer background colour, added header background image . ... E marc.white@anu.edu.au . ... F www.facebook.com/marc.white.au . L au.linkedin.com/pub/marc-white/84/460/84a/ . S marc.christopher.white . G github.com/marc-white . Design copyright Marc White 2014 . ...

... Tonight's Sky . ... News . ... Sky this Month . ... Star Atlas . ... New high-resolution atlas of asteroid Vesta is available to the public . ... Scientists have released a high-resolution public atlas of the asteroid 4 Vesta. ... An atlas of the asteroid 4 Vesta, which scientists created from images taken during the Dawn Mission s Low Altitude Mapping Orbit (LAMO), is now accessible for the public to explore online. ... Only registered members of Astronomy.com are allowed to comment on this article...

... They were determined as a result of orbit improving on the base of all kinds of optical observations available in the catalog of observations of the Minor Planet Center on March 16, 2014 (radar observations have not been used at this stage). ... As the MPC orbits do not all were improved simultaneously with EMP orbits, only 383866 sets of elements were used for data comparison (for selected sets of elements process of improvement had started with the use of the same observations). ...

Title: Structural evolution in elliptical galaxies: the age-shape relation . Authors: Barbara S. Ryden (Ohio State U.), Duncan A. Forbes (Swinburne U.), A. I. Terlevich (U. Birmingham) . Comments: 8 pages, 4 figures, accepted by MNRAS . ... Title: The radio-loudness dichotomy: environment or black-hole mass? ... Title: The REX survey: a search for Radio Emitting X-ray sources . ... The URL for this page is: http://xxx.itep.ru/find/astro-ph/1/dichotomy/0/1/0/past,all/7/0 www-admin@xxx.lanl.gov ...

... Description . Catalog . ... In the Catalog, we publish equatorial (ЮБ 2000 , ЮД 2000 ) and galactic (l,b) coordinates of cluster centers derived as the position of overdensity in 2MASS catalog (Koposov et al. ... Distances, color-excesses and ages are the mean-square values calculated using all available evaluations from different color-magnitude diagrams. ... There are individual pages for every cluster where all available plots and parameters are published. ... 2002). ...

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