January 2004 Starfields. The monthly newsletter of the Amateur Telescope Makers of Boston. ... 1 January 2004 Newsletter of the Amateur Telescope Makers of Boston Including the Bond Astronomical Club Established in 1934 In the Interest of Telescope Making & Using January 2004 Newsletter President's Message.. HAPPY NEW YEAR, EVERYONE! ... The December meeting of the ATM's of Boston was called to order by our esteemed President Eileen Myers. ... David is the director of Public Relations at CfA. ...

Return to Hidden Hollow 2008 Info . ... A few thousand stars resolved through a small telescope. ... Special thanks go out to Tammy Plotner and her Hidden Hollow associates from the Richland Astronomical Society who organized this event. ... It is nice to see that they are providing us with all of the essentials. ... Ron Ravneberg is an amateur astronomer, telescope builder and long-time member of the Columbus Astronomical Society. ... Phil Creed is an active participant in amateur astronomy. ...

... In this paper we show how to form the link, how to include papers which ADS does not currently have, and how to deal with name changes. ... For example the following links to Martha Hazen's bibliography. http://adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi­bin/abs connect?author=hazen,m. &aut syn=YES&nr to return=all This sets the author=last, first initial (author), turns on author synonym replacement (aut syn), and returns all papers in the database (nr to return). ... A completed submission form for ADS ...

... APT Activities and Science Results 3. ... APT Secretary Philip Edwards (ISAS) reviewed the aims of the APT (http://www.vsop.isas.ac.jp/apt/DefinitionAndAims.html). ... The Australia Telescope Compact Array, and Ceduna, Hartebeesthoek, Kashima, Mopra, Parkes, and Shanghai telescopes of the Asia-Pacific Telescope participated in these observations. ... In the absence of Tetsuo Sasao, Philip Edwards briefly described results of the APT 22 GHz observations conducted from October 1st to 5th, 1997. ...

To enter a command type its name followed by any options and arguments that you want the command to have. Leave one or more spaces between the command name, its options and arguments. If necessary you can continue the command onto another line. Correct mistakes by using the <Delete> or <BackSpace> key to back up along the command line and correct it. ... Quoting command arguments . Entering more than one command . ... Command name completion . Editing the command line . ...

... Telescopes . ... On February 4, 2016, the Jubilee conference dedicated to the 40th anniversary of the first observations on the 6-m BTA telescope took place at SAO RAS. ... Afterwards, Igor D.Karachentsev shared his memories of the first observations at the BTA. ... One of the first SAO RAS astronomers Eugene L.Chentsov outlined the first steps of stellar spectroscopy at BTA and Vladimir E.Panchuk in detail described the instruments and stellar spectroscopy technique at the 6-m telescope. ...

... Pre-university education . ... Samara region . ... University at a glance . ... A group of young scientists of Samara University under the guidance of the candidate of chemical sciences Yevgeniy Aleksandrov began to make the most extensive database in the world for the structure and physical properties of crystalline coordination polymers. ... The idea of making a database for coordination polymers already exists in the scientific community of the world. ... SAMARA STATE AEROSPACE UNIVERSITY . ...

... Space flight . Crew training . ... Space camp . ... acquiring practical habits and skills of performing all the flight operations envisaged for a flight participant; . maintaining and honing professionally required qualities and skills for a successful activity in conditions of effect of adverse factors of a space flight, as well . ... preparing for the activity outside the spacecraft; . ... preparing for professional activity in conditions of effect of the space flight factors; . ...

... Carl Lindenmeyer and Ron Miksa (both FNL) are on site 2/24-3/1 to install the plate manipulator arm. Yesterday, they were able to find the marks they had previous made (last Fall!) on the concrete to drill the support holes for the arm.. In the first series of pictures are Carl (left) and Ron (on ladder) continuing to install all the parts that are piled around. Another view of the arm's installation. ...

... 8, ``Celestial Mechanics'', 2002 Celestial Mechanics in Internet --- Russian web­site V. S. Ural'skaya, N. V. Emelianov Sternberg Astronomical Institute, Moscow, Russia Our main goal is to create a professional site in Internet, containing ephemeris service, database of observations, bibliographic references and information on natural satellites of planets. ... Up to now, the drawing up and the presentation in Internet of the information on natural satellites of planets in Russian are completed. ...

... 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 . ...