The mosaic camera was mounted today in preparation for first light. The Gunn/Carr/Rockosi/Lupton team from PU were supported by French Leger/UW, Angie Prosapio and Steve Bastian from FNL, Mark Klaene and Jon Davis from APO, Alan Uomoto/JHU, and Larry Fiscelli/UC. ... Everyone monitors the progress of the mosaic camera as it is lifted in the saddle to the underside of the mirror cell. ... The camera is up in place. ... The camera mounted on the telescope and in position for first light. ...

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... The bright supernova (hereafter SN) in the galaxy NGC 4527 was first sighted by S. Knight (USA) on April 13.17UT at magnitude ~14.0v. The report of the sighting was subsequently forwarded by phone to the AAVSO. ... SN 1991T. The galaxy NGC 4527 is an Sb(s)II type galaxy with an apparent Blue magnitude of 11.32 (Shapley-Ames, 1981). ... An analysis of this event utilizing visual observations by amateurs, plus a light curve is presented.. ... THE LIGHT CURVE: . ... ISN SN 1991T web page . ...

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... Phase light curves of binary model that consists of a primary component with mass M 1 and a secondary component with mass M 2 . ... The input parameters of the problem are the accretion rate onto the binary components ( ), the component mass ratio q = M 2 /M 1 , the orbital inclination to the line of sight , the eccentricity e, the rotation angle of the apsidal line relative to the observer , and the parameter c characterizing viscosity. ...

Shematovich, V.I . ... Shematovich, V.I., and Bisikalo, D.V. Kinetic simulation of rarefied gas in the aeronomy problems. ... Shematovich, V.I., Bisikalo, D.V., and Gerard J.-C. Superthermal particles in the planetary atmospheres. ... Shematovich, V.I., Bisikalo, D.V. Nonequilibrium processes in the planetary and cometary atmospheres. A kinetic approach to modeling, . ... Shematovich V.I., Gerard J.-C., Bisikalo D.V., and Hubert B. Thermalization of O(1D) atoms in the thermosphere ( abstract ). ...

... Astronomy news . ... NASA's Spitzer Images Out-of-This-World Galaxy . ... It is spiral-shaped like our Milky Way, with long, spindly arms of stars. The "eye" at the center of the galaxy is actually a monstrous black hole surrounded by a ring of stars. In this color-coded infrared view from Spitzer, the area around the invisible black hole is blue and the ring of stars, white. ... The ring around the black hole is bursting with new star formation. ...

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... Na - number of occulting satellite 2. Np - number of occulted satellite 3. ... Y(0) - difference of the planetocentric rectangular coordinates ( occulting satellite minus occulteded one) in the event plane ( see reference ), km 12. ax - the coefficient required for application of the coordinates X(0), Y(0) ( see reference ) 13. ay - the coefficient required for application of the coordinates X(0), Y(0) ( see reference ) 14. bx - the coefficient required for ...

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... 11 Yellow-Green (78% transmission): Contrasts well with the red and blue characteristics of surface features on Jupiter and Saturn. ... 82A Light Blue (73% transmission): Useful on the Moon, Mars, Jupiter, and Saturn, this subtle pale blue filter enhances areas of low contrast while avoiding significant reduction of overall image brightness. ... Meade Series 4000 Photo-Visual Color Filters may be ordered individually or in the following sets: . ... Meade Series 4000 Broadband Nebular Filters . ...

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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. ...