Astronotes Armagh Planetarium's Stellar Blog! ... August . ... Posted on December 1, 2011 | No Comments St Patrick?s Academy in Dungannon is hosting a fantastic public event for stargazers this Saturday evening. This local school has its own observatory and astronomy club for the students [ ] . Continue Reading.. Posted on November 17, 2011 | ... Posted on October 10, 2011 | ... Posted on September 29, 2011 | ... Posted on August 18, 2011 | ... Posted on June 21, 2011 | ...

... Structure of Data . ... Catalog . ... The SAI OCL Catalog site provides several VO-enabled modes of operation: . VO-enabled catalog data analysis from a browser . ... Endpoint URL is http://ocl.sai.msu.ru/catalog/conesearch/ . ... VO-enabled catalog analysis from a browser . Presently, this recipe works with Firefox (Windows, MacOS, Linux), Internet Explorer (Windows) and Opera (Windows) browsers with Java plugin 1.6 installed. ... Main TOPCAT window with SAI OCL catalog loaded will appear. ...

... Jay Apt (Ph.D.) . NASA Astronaut (Former) . ... PUBLICATIONS: Dr. Apt shared his images and knowledge in the publication Earth in Orbit : NASA Astronauts Photograph the Earth , written in conjunction with NASA scientists Michael Helfert and Justin Wilkinson and published by the National Geographic Society. ... From 1976 to 1980 he was a staff member of the Center for Earth & Planetary Physics, Harvard University, supporting NASA s Pioneer Venus Mission by making temperature maps of Venus from Mt. ...

Please enter the lightcurve file name and period search parameters: . Lightcurve file: . ... Apply the Heliocentric correction and convert all dates to Terrestrial Time (TT)? ... Also, the Heliocentric correction cannot be applied to such lightcurves. ... This period search service is also available at the mirror sites: Mirror 1 , Mirror 2 , Mirror 3 , Mirror 4 . You may download the latest source code distribution and install the period search service at your own web server. ...

IV International Astronomy Olympiad . ... Text of these problems is available also . ... To solve every problem you may use constants and well-known values you know by heart. ... The apparent diameter of the Moon, as seen from the Earth, is 31'. ... Can you observe a star with magnitude . ... Consider the stars as black bodies. ... Estimate the diameter of a black hole constructed using this patent from a ship with the mass of 5000 tn (1 tn = 1000 kg). ... What stars would you observe this nigth? ...

. The shell provides you with one or more of the following features. You can: . create an environment that meets your needs . write shell scripts . define command aliases . manipulate the command history . automatically complete the command line . edit the command line . Some shells provide more of these facilites than others. Summary table .

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The Second U.S. Naval Observatory CCD Astrograph Catalog ( UCAC2 ) Table of Contents 1) Introduction 2) Summary of the Project a) Observations and Instrumentation b) Reductions of UCAC Observations c) Computation of Proper Motions 3) Properties of the Catalog and Important Notes For the User a) Sky Coverage b) Completeness c) Positions, Proper Motions and Error Calculations d) UCAC2 Magnitudes e) 2MASS Photometry f) Non-stellar ... All stars in the UCAC2 have proper motions. ...

... Our scientific interest is an accuracy of asteroid CCD observations obtained by amateurs and professional astronomers all over in the World. ... These data help us to analyse an accuracy of real CCD positions in the MPC Database. ... Do you test your observations of the small Solar System bodies permanently before sending them to the International Minor Planets' Center? ... Do you know a real accuracy of your positional CCD-observations in comparison with the other observatories' one ? ...

Stellarium 0.12.3 . ... Classes . ... SpaceShipObserver Class Reference . An observer which moves from from one position to another one and/or from one planet to another one. ... SpaceShipObserver (const StelLocation &startLoc, const StelLocation &target, double transitSeconds=1.f) . ... Get whether the life of this observer is over, and therefore that it should be changed to the next one provided by the getNextObserver() method. ... Get the next observer to use once the life of this one is over. ...

... TV research areas include design and building application CCD camera for investigation of nightglow emissions, investigation parameters of CCD chip and camera, calibration camera. ... Lapchuk V.P., Zhuravkov O.V., Ivchenko V.M. CAMERA ELECTRONICS FOR THE CCD FOURIER SPECTROMETER. ... CCD table . ... Photomultiplier tube housings, intensified CCD cameras, Monochromators, optical choppers, photometers, fiber optics ,... http://www.hpk.co.jp/ - HAMAMATSU Photonics Photomultiplier tube and more . ...

SYM53C4xx SCSI Interface Adapter Cards These questions and answers are for any SCSI interface card that uses any Symbios Logic (or old NCR)53C400, 53C400A, 53C406, and 53C406A chips and connects to an ISA bus in the host. ... Are there drivers available for my card to operate under any operating system besides DOS? ... Yes, provided the manufacturer of the device provides a device driver for the scanner to operate from an pci/host adapter card that has a Symbios Logic scsi processor chip on it. ...

... 214-225 April 30, 2006 The SCORPIO Universal Focal Reducer of the 6-m Telescope Afanasiev V.L. and Moiseev A.V. Sp ecial Astrophysical Observatory, RAS, Nizhnii Arkhyz, Karachai-Cherkessian Republic, 357147 Russia arXiv:astro-ph/0502095 v1 4 Feb 2005 Abstract. ... Observations of various astronomical ob jects are used as examples to demonstrate the SCORPIO capabilities. ... Afanasiev & Moiseev: The SCORPIO focal reducer 5 jects in various emission lines (H , [OIII], etc.) and in the continuum. ...

... 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. ...

... Contacting and discussing with people sharing your interests, participating in night sky observations with telescopes as well as a large choice of astronomical books, magazines and video-tapes out of our club library. ... A reasonable compromise for observing both planets and brightest deep sky objects ( nebulae, galaxies) are either a 4 to 8 inch mirror telescope ( Newton, Schmidt-Cassegrain ) or a 3 to 4 inch refracting ( lens) telescope. ... Where can I buy a telescope in Luxembourg ? ...

... Other Planned Activities Include Solar Observing Astrophotography Presentations and CCD Demo's Field Trip to AAAP Observatory at Jenny Jump Workshop: Learning to Use Your New Telescope Plus Swimming (life guards provided), Fishing, Volleyball, Basketball, Hiking, Game room Kayaking/canoeing (bring your own) on two lakes and nearby Pequest and Paulins Kill Rivers Registration Fees Camping and RV -- $35.00 per person ($45 after June 9) Bunkhouse -- $45.00 per ...

... Proposals will be accepted until 1 May 1997 and should be sent to: Mary A. Cragg Mount Wilson Institute 740 Holladay Road, Pasadena, CA 91106 USA e-mail: mwi@mtwilson.edu Haystack Observatory Call for Proposals ---------------------------------------- Haystack Observatory invites proposals for the use of the 37-m radio telescope for observations in the following wavelength bands: 3-mm (85-115 GHz ) 7-mm (35-49 GHz ) 1.3 cm (21-25 ...

International Workshop NAROO-GAIA "A new reduction of old observations in the Gaia era", Paris Observatory, June 20-22, 2012 Registration of participants of Workshop NAROO-GAIA Before the first meeting OPENING OF THE WORKSHOP The natural planetary satellites are observed since centuries in order to understand their dynamics and their evolution. ... Science results, reports, data mining. ... L. Beauvalet: Strong need of a new reduction of Pluto's old observations W.Thuillot: very important. ...

Please enter the lightcurve file name and period search parameters: . Lightcurve file: . ... Apply the Heliocentric correction and convert all dates to Terrestrial Time (TT)? ... Phase range for plots: -0.5 to 1.0 0.0 to 2.0 0.0 to 1.0 . ... Also, the Heliocentric correction cannot be applied to such lightcurves. ... Two period search methods are currently implemented. ... This period search service is also available at the mirror sites: Mirror 1 , Mirror 2 , Mirror 3 , Mirror 4 . ...