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. ...

... 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. ...

... Master of Science thesis, St.Petersburg University, 2001 (in Russian). Kiselev N.N. Scattering Light on Dust Particles of Comets, Asteroids and Circumstellar Disks: Observations and Interpretation. Doctor of Science thesis, Kharkov University, 2001, submitted (in Russian). Kokhanovsky A.A. Light Scattering Media Optics: Problems and Solutions. ... Master of Science thesis, St.Petersburg University, 2000 (in Russian). ... Ph.D. thesis, Friedrich-Schiller-University, Jena, 2001. ...

... A nasty dispute between the Strategic Defense Initiative Organization (SDIO) and the space-science community was narrowly averted early this year when SDI officials backed down on a planned launch of a satellite with a Russian-built nuclear reactor on board. ... Early Soviet space reactors orbited for two to three months, and two Soviet Topaz 1 experiments, one for six and one 12 months, created radiation belts that disrupted the operation of scientific satellites. ...

... A new comet has brightened unexpectedly and is currently visible to unaided observers of southern skies. ... The Coma Cluster of Galaxies . ... Each of these galaxies houses billions of stars - just as our own Milky Way Galaxy does. ... Deep inside Centaurus A, the closest active galaxy to Earth, lies ... another galaxy! ... The result, shown above, is the most complete sky map of the most common visible light emitted from the most abundant element in our Galaxy: hydrogen. ... Earth Rise . ...

... 10:00 - 11:00 Juergen Reingruber (ENS de Paris, France) . The search process for small targets in cellular microdomains . ... Statistical models on random lattices . ... 15:00 - 16:00 Vyacheslav Priezzhev (Joint Institute for Nuclear Research, Dubna, Russia) . ... Extreme statistics of vicious walkers: from random matrices to Yang-Mills theory . ... Conformal blocks and quantum Hall effect . ... Topological field theories and statistical models . ... Benjamin-Ono integrable systems in 2D CFT . ...

... The reduction system of observations FADPS (description in Russian) (Flexible Astronomical Data Processing System) for data of wide-band receivers of the first observation cabin of the radio telescope RATAN-600 had been created under the Unix-like operational system DEMOS for computers of the SM-1420-type (PDP/11) in 1987 for observation analysis and estimates of coordinates and flux densities of radio sources. ... FADPS: flexible astronomical data processing system at RATAN-600 in UNIX environment....

... Precisely one month ago, on 11 July 2009, the last active area of the new solar cycle disappeared from the surface of the Sun. Over the 30 days following this, neither observers on Earth nor devices in space have been able to detect the emergence of any sunspots. ... Therefore, it seems that our star has once again returned to a state of deep solar "winter", following several sparks of activity in May-June 2009. ... To date, this period has lasted 30 days. ...

... Shustov B.M., Wiebe D.S. Dust expelling from the Galaxy ( abstract from the journal ). Astronomy Reports , 1995, 39 , 578-586 [AZh, 72 , 650-659]. Wiebe D.S., Shematovich V.I., Shustov B.M. Chemical and dynamical evolution of protostellar clouds: initial stages of collapse ( abstract from the journal ). ... Shustov B.M., Wiebe D.S., Tutukov A.V. Evolution of disk galaxies and loss of heavy elements into the intracluster medium. ... ApJ (Letters), 1998, 503 , L71-L74 ( astro-ph/9806155 ). ...

Astronotes Armagh Planetarium's Stellar Blog! ... Space Flight . ... Could NASA research mean day trips to the Moon? Image credit: NASA) . ... The paper reports the EM drives were tested in a vacuum chamber which described in detail yet the authors fail clearly to spell out that the chamber was not operating during the tests (the experiment was NOT performed in a vacuum). ... These intriguing developments are reported in the Nasaspaceflight.com article Evaluating NASAтАЩs Futuristic EM Drive . ...

obsreq *.edb *.sch pc39.o gpsd wxd telescoped domed camerad telsched telrun (tty) apogee.o xephem xobservatory camera telrun.sls Batch Real­time shm OCAAS Data Flow driver process GUI file fifo shared­mem I/O telsched.cfg camera.cfg domed.cfg focus.cfg filter.cfg wxd.cfg telescoped.cfg Introduction OCAAS 2.0 November 12, 1998 1­7 1.4 Basic Software Architecture OCAAS design takes full advantage of the UNIX architecture. ... The special file to access the driver is $TELHOME/dev/pc39. ...

... Tonight's Sky . ... Observing . ... Observing Podcasts . ... Astronomy for Kids . ... Get to Know the Night Sky . ... Observing springtime deep-sky objects with a large telescope . Springtime observing for small telescopes . ... Scopes get repairs after quakes . ... Quakes rattle Hawaii telescopes . ... Only registered members of Astronomy.com are allowed to comment on this article. ... Receive news, sky-event information, observing tips, and more from Astronomy's weekly email newsletter. ...

GEOMAGNETIC SUDDEN COMMENCEMENTS (from SGD Explanation of Data Reports) Sudden Commencements and Solar Flare Effects - These reports are provided by Observatorio del Ebro, Roquetes, Spain, on behalf of the IAGA Service on Rapid Magnetic Variations. ... From then until 1970 they were published quarterly in Solar-Geophysical Data (SGD). Beginning with December 1970 these data are published monthly and, thus, are based on fewer reports and differ slightly from similar data published previously. ...

... 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; . ...

Next: Photometric Performance of NICMOS Up: NICMOS Data Calibration and Previous: The STScI NICMOS Calibration . ... Cycle 7 Calibration Plan. ... This document summarizes the goals and status of the various calibration programs that form the basis of the NICMOS Cycle 7 calibration plan. ... This document summarizes the content, goals and status of the Cycle 7 calibration plan for NICMOS and also points to the WEB pages where detailed information on specific topics of interest can be found. ...

SOFTWARE AND HARDWARE IN SYSTEMS OF PATTERN RECOGNITION AND IMAGE ANALYSIS On the Problem of Logical Recognition in the Dynamic Internet Environment1 A. A. Morozov and Yu. ... The data may undergo changes in the course of the execution of a logic program, which may result in recognition errors. ... ON THE PROBLEM OF LOGICAL RECOGNITION 455 modified data from the Web can be obtained simply by running the logic program all over again. ... Now, let us write the same example in terms of logical actors. ...

... Liyong Liu (NAOC) . Site testing on seeing conditions of the astronomical observatories over China are briefly reviewed, including Xionglong station of NAOC, Gaomeigu station of Yunnan Observatory, Delingha station of Purple Mountain Observatory. ... PDF [3.0€аMB] October 8, 09:55 10:20 . ... In this paper, we will review the site survey activities in the past years, and present the site-testing results on the Oma site, including cloud cover, seeing, water vapor, transparency and sky brightness. ...

Ilya M. Chertok . A researcher of the Solar and Solar-Terrestrial Physics . ... by I. M. Chertok, A. V. Belov, V. V. Grechnev . ... by Chertok I. M., Grechnev V.V., and Meshalkina N.S. Astronomy Reports , Vol. ... Solar Events of October-November 2003 by IZMIRAN Radio Observations , . ... by I.M. Chertok, V.V.Grechnev, H.S. Hudson, and N.V. Nitta. ... by Chertok I.M., Fomichev V.V., Gorgutsa R.V., and Sobolev D.E. · Slowly Drifting Fine - Structure Radio Continuum of 4 April 2001 , by Chertok I . ...

Journal of Atmospheric and Solar-Terrestrial Physics Manuscript Draft Manuscript Number: ATP1021 Title: comment on the paper by Dalin , Pertsev and Romejko Significance of lunar impact on noctilucent clouds ( revised version) Article Type: Research Paper Section/Category: Keywords: Noctilucent clouds moon influence mesosphere Manuscript Region of Origin: Abstract: a critical review of the paper by Dalin , ... Reference: Dalin, P.A., N.N. Pertsev, V.A. Romejko. ...

... AMPLE (Adaptable Minor Planet Ephemerides) is integrated software package to deal with a number of problems concerning minor planets with the aid of IBM-type personal computer. ... compiling a list of all numbered minor planets which can be seen at certain moment within specified sky region and visualization of their mutual positions; . ... As AMPLE is able to reproduce virtually any table of "the Ephemerides of Minor Planets" , it may be considered as computer version of the EMP. ...