... It was with this spirit that Norman Oberle suggested that area amateurs should have the benefit of a large aperture (25 inches or larger) telescope with sufficient focal length for excellent visual work. ... Norm Oberle and Jim Thomas spent 2,000 hours grinding and polishing to work the mirror into an oblate spheroid. ... Norm worked with Jim Thomas in a basement workshop. ... The Richland club is situated in the Hidden Hollow camp ground, and has long held meetings in the clubhouse on the grounds. ...

... available from http://www.vsop.isas.ac.jp/ops/VSOG_doc.html . draft dated 1 July 1996. ... dated 12 March 1996. ... version 2.0, dated 14 Dec 96. ... version 2.0, dated 19 Feb 1996. ... version 1.0, dated 11 October 1996. ... version 3.0, dated 10 April 1996. ... version 1.1, dated 30 July 1996. ... version 1.10, dated 13 Nov 1996. ... version 1.0, dated 05 Sep 1997. available from http://www.vsop.isas.ac.jp/ops/VSOG_doc.html . ... draft version dated 27 November 1996. back to top . ...

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... More information on books, telescopes, clubs, etc. is available in the Getting Started section. ... For more information call 617-495-7461. Boston University Astronomy Department - Public telescopic observing is held every clear Wednesday night. ... Boston Museum of Science - For more information and admission prices call 617-723-2500. ... For information and admission prices call 508-929-2700. ... Springfield Telescope Makers , VT. ... Copyright (c) Amateur Telescope Makers of Boston, Inc. ...

... 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 ? ...

Gaia local test of General Relativity With Gaia and Solar System Objects Daniel HESTROFFER1, P. DAVID1, A. HEES2, C. LE PONCIN LAFITTE3 1. ... SYRTE/ Observatoire de Paris Gaia, asteroids and orbits -- Gaia -- ESA astrometric space mission has been launched on 2013 December 19th -- is the successor of the pioneering Hipparcos/Tycho (1899-1993; 1997). ... Gaia mission: a few numbers for asteroids Launch date Observing mode Number of asteroids Aver. ... The Nordtvedt effect in the Trojan asteroids. ...

. The Table on p. 5771 – 5779 includes alternative values of period and amplitude for minor planets marked in the Table “Minor planet lightcurve parameters” as having ambiguous value of period. The data for publication in the Table were supplied by B. Warner (Palmer Divide Observatory, Colorado Springs, U.S.A.), A. W. Harris (Space Science Institute, U.S.A.) and P. Pravec (Astronomical Institute, Academy of Sciences of Czech Republic).

Astronomical Data Analysis Software and Systems VII ASP Conference Series, Vol. ... The REMOT project objective is to develop and validate a generic approach to allow remote control of scientific experiments and facilities that require real time operation and multimedia information feedback. ... Introduction As a response to the increasing need for remote control of large scientific in­ stallations, the REMOT (Remote Experiment MOnitoring and conTrol) project was initiated in 1995. ...

... For a semple of red giants comprising about 2000 stars, the distributions of metallicity [Fe/H] are given. ... The center of the distributions of giants in both galactic poles is found to demonstate a statisticaly significant gap similar to the one found earlier for the late main-sequence stars. The implications of the metallicity distribution properties for the problems of the chemical evolution of the galactic disk are discussed. ...

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... ASRAS HOME . ... ASRAS Board Members . ... Site . ... The Astronomy Section of the Rochester Academy of Science , also known as ASRAS, is Rochester's astronomy club. ... ASRAS Members enjoy all aspects of astronomy, including: тАв astrophotography and astro-imaging . ... тАв Monthly meetings that include presentations by guest speakers or members on topics ranging from elementary to advanced. тАв Access to our dark sky observing site, the Marian and Max Farash Center for Observational Astronomy, . ...

Mark your calendars to reserve Tuesday, December 13 for a sensational astronomy meeting! The Amateur Astronomers Association of Princeton is presenting astronomer and author Kim Weaver for a presentation titled: "New Eyes on the Universe: Observing Beyond Hubble with the Chandra and Spitzer Space Telescopes," and will highlight violent processes and dust-enshrouded objects revealed only by searching for signatures in x-ray and infrared light. ...

Winer Observatory P.O. Box 797, Sonoita, Arizona 85637-0797, USA . ... 2/3-m Telescope . ... Site . ... Commanding . ... In a typical robotic observing scenario, each afternoon, a telescope control computer obtains a set of objects to observe from its home institution from a command or script file. ... The file is then transferred to the telescope control computer at the Winer Observatory in Sonoita. ... The Iowa control computer then begins processing the telrun.sls file. ... 2013 Winer Observatory. ...

New GCVS Version (GCVS5) FileName Explanations ----------------------------------------------------------------- ReadMe This file GCVS5 The ... ------------------------------------------------------ 1- 2 I2 --- Constell [1/88]Constellation numeric code 3- 6 I4 --- Number Star number within the constellation 7 A1 --- Component *Component identification 9- 18 A10 --- GCVS * Variable ... Field is non-blank if magMin is a magnitude or amplitude given in a system other than that indicated by magCode. ...

... Under certain conditions, like those in the nucleus of a QSO, all atoms can be made to emit light at particular wavelengths. ... If that source is approaching the observer, the wave is squashed up onto itself making the wavelength shorter. ... This is redshift. ... You can see how the section of the QSO spectrum which we observe changes with redshift. ... We then see how far we had to slide the observed spectrum along the scale to make it match and that is the objects redshift. ... The 2QZ team . ...

ROBOTIC OBSERVATIONS OF INTEGRAL SOURCES IN THE OPTICAL DOMAIN Д Д Petr Kubanek1,2,4 , Rene Hudec 1 , John French3,4 , Jan Strobl1 , Martin Nekola1 , and Filip Munz1 1 Astronomicky ustav Akademie ved Ceske republiky, Ondrejov, Czech Republic ДД Д 2 INTEGRAL Science Data Center, Chemin d'Ecogia 16, Versoix, Switzerland 3 University College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland 4 for the Watcher Collaboration ABSTRACT ... The sources are monitored with BART[3]. ... IGR J00234+6141 error box. ...