... Telescopes . ... The LX850 combines innovative concepts like StarlockтДв fulltime automatic guiding and high-precision pointing, f/8 ACF OTAs with internal Crayford-style two-speed focuser and a portable precision German equatorial mount. ... 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 Green Laser Pointer- a great item for star parties and backyard astronomy. ...

. RTT150 . Russian-Turkish 1.5-m Telescope . (C) Copyright . HEAD IKI . Telescope is installed at the TUBITAK National Observatory (TUG) under the administration of Scientific and Technical Research Council of Turkey. It is located approximately 50 km to the north from Antalya in the south of Turkey on the Bakyrlytepe mountain. Latitude: j = 36 o 49' 30'' North . Longitude: l = 30 o 20' East . Elevation: 2550 m . Time zone: +2 hours .

The local time is a time determined for the given place on the Earth; it depends on the geographical longitude of the place and is the same for all points on the meridian. ... For each place of Russia being on the longitude l it is possible to indicate the true local solar time Ti; the local medium solar time MT ; the local zone time Tp; the winter season time Tw ; the summer season time Ts; the local star time S. Here are the formulas for those who need to transform one time into another: . ...

Stellarium 0.12.3 . ... StelCircleArcRenderer Class Reference . Provides functions to draw circle arcs using StelRenderer . ... drawGreatCircleArc (const Vec3d &start, const Vec3d &stop, const SphericalCap *clippingCap=NULL, void(*viewportEdgeIntersectCallback)(const Vec3d &screenPos, const Vec3d &direction, void *userData)=NULL, void *userData=NULL) . ... Create a circle arc renderer to draw multiple circle arcs . ... void(*)(const Vec3d &screenPos, const Vec3d &direction, void *userData)љ . ...

Polar Align Your Telescope, Here's How. Articles | ... The Equatorial Mount . Balancing the Declination Axis . ... T he first thing we need to do is set the scope on the mount, and balance it. Put your weight on the mount, then the scope. ... As you use the scope to find objects, NEVER move the base of the mount once it is aligned, and NEVER allow the weight to be in a position higher than the scope tube, as it may slide down and damage the scope or mount. ... www.astronomy.net . ...

All teams have to inform the Olympic Coordinating Council (OCC) and the Local Organizing Committee (LOC) about their participation not later than the dates determined by the Acting Statutes/Regulations on the International Astronomy Olympiad . ... Leaders of official teams of states have to present to the OCC necessary personal information about every leader, participant and observer (if any) not later than 9 weeks before the beginning of the Olympiad. ... Passport data: 8.1.( Passport no . ...

... Iowa Robotic Telescope | ... Talon is based on OCAAS, a software suite developed by software engineer Elwood Downey ( Clear Sky Institute ) for use at the University of Iowa ?s first remote facility (the ATF, or Automated Telescope Facility). ... XObservatory : Telescope Control Interface . ... This program calls upon and coordinates much of the interrelated portions of the Talon architecture, and forms the primary control panel for the telescope, dome, and peripheral systems when used locally. ...

... For the past years I have been working on the problem of synthesis of light curves of close binary systems, consisting of a normal star and a compact object (point object with fixed X-ray luminosity). ... Possible existence of a bright spot on the disk's lateral surface is taken into account. ... The last of then will be published in Gordon and Breach Publishers ( Cherepashchuk A.M., Katysheva N.A., Khruzina T.S., Shugarov S.Yu. ... Cherepashchuk A.M., Katysheva N.A., Khruzina T.S., Shugarov S.Yu. ...

... The location - country, state . a summary (2-3 lines) of what your server provides . ... new-wwws@tel.etf.hr . ... District of Columbia: www-request@fedix.fie.com . ... As it is maintained by several people, you will need to explore the VT, find your respective country, and post your announcement to the address given there. email: whats-new@ncsa.uiuc.edu You may also want to announce your server to the newsgroup "comp.infosystems.announce", and to the mailing list "net-happenings@is.internic.net". ...

... Exposure Time Calculator (ETC) . ... ESO - Public Surveys . ... the recommended values to use for DIT, . ... Detector on-chip integration (DIT): seconds. to your chosen value - a separate page gives recommended values to use for DIT - for modes 1 and 2 below you may wish to start with the maximum recommended values as these will minimize the effect of read noise (a total object exposure of Y secs with DIT=X secs will produce Y/X lots of read noise) and give you a lower limit on the time needed. ...

... MANNED SPACE FLIGHT LABORATORY LOCATION . The Manned Space Flight Center location study is completed. James E. Webb, Administrator of NASA, announced today the completion of the study to determine the location of the agency's new $60,000,000 Manned Space Flight Laboratory. The facility was authorized by Congress for initiation in the current Fiscal Year. The laboratory will be located in Houston, Texas on 1,000 acres of land to be made available to the government by Rice University. ...

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... Solar PV Arrays (needs storage) . 2 .Magic Hydro Power that doesn't kill salmon (does not need storage) . ... You need to realistically calculate the capital costs of building the facility, how much land it will utilize, and what the operating costs are. ... Energy storage = 40 kilowatt hours per gram. ... You are to build an energy model from this array of power generating facilities and energy storage that you will be sustainable and deliver energy at a reasonable cost to the consumer. ...

Электронная библиотека астронома-любителя. ... архив RSN . ... Апрель 1998 . ... Дата: 10 апреля 1998 (1998-04-10) От: Alexander Bondugin Тема: Galileo Update - April 9, 1998 Привет всем! ... Дата: 10 апреля 1998 (1998-04-10) От: Alexander Bondugin Тема: Mars Global Surveyor Update - April 9, 1998 Привет всем! ... The feature known as the "Face on Mars" in the Cydonia region was imaged quite successfully on April 5th and its image was released in raw form and in an enhanced form on April 6th. ...

... A dynamical system is an action of the infinite cyclic group. Group action study is€аimportant for€аdifferent areas of€аdynamics and geometry. The topics of€аthe conference include: . ... Diophantine approximations and homogeneous flows, e.t.c. We plan a€аminicours by€аD.€аCalegari about the solution of€аthe Ahlfors' measure conjecture for limit sets of€аKleinian groups. ... In 5тАУ7€аminutes you'll see a€аchurch on€аyour right€атАФ turn right to€аBolshoy Vlasyevsky street after that. ...

... Hartmann Test Using a Screen With Four Holes 2 Hartmann test with four holes screen The theoretical concept of the primary aberrations measurement by four apertures Hartmann test introduced by "Malacara" * and "SalasPeimbert et. al. ... Black curve show the calculated coefficients for phase screens which have 8 modes of Zernike aberrations and red curve show the calculated coefficient for original phase screen. (a) astigmatism 45 (b) astigmatism 090 14 Coma Coma modes of Zernike aberration. ...

... Contact Peter Bealo for maps). ... Observing: 7 - 9 PM, Setup at 6PM Attendance: Pollard Elementary School students and family ~350 expected 10 telescopes requested, power available Refreshments: Food and drinks served Other goings on: bonfire and related farm festivities Coordinator: Peter Bealo (603) 382-7039 PBEALO@COMCAST.NET Date: Oct 27th Wednesday Location: Parker Middle School, Chelmsford (Go to www.chelmsford.k12.ma.us for directions or contact Joan Kadaras). ...

... There are two stars in the binary system: a donor star on the right and a black hole on the left (an infinitely small point in the center of a complex figure). ... The wind is ejected as a hollow cone; it has a funnel (the funnel opening angle in the figure) and thick walls (wall opening angle in the figure). The observer looks at the whole system and the supercritical disk from the right, and sees everything up to the wind photosphere (the red color in the figure). ...

... Ballistics, navigation and flight control of the spacecraft, going to the L2 point of Sun-Earth system. ... and calculation algorithms have been developed: - an algorithm, building nominal trajectories for one impulse flights to the L2 point of Sun- Earth system, including a Moon swingby maneuver or not. - an algorithm, calculating corrections of spacecraft trajectory needed for the flight from Earth to halo orbit and for stationkeeping of the spacecraft moving in halo ...

A STUDY OF THE FRAGMENT DISPERSAL AND TRAJECTORY OF THE SAYH AL UHAYMIR 001 METEORITE SHOWER. ... We obtained hundreds of GPS find locations, analyzed the fragment distribution, and developed a model of the meteorite's trajectory. ... More than 2670 samples weighing more than 450 kg have been collected. ... Increasing fragment mass along track indicated a flight direction of 233o. The fragments' mass distribution was used to model the meteorite trajectory. ...