... That segment of good times that have been forgotten . ... Forgotten times . St Ignatius Cathedral at Xujiahui (158 Puxi road). One of the most famous Catholic Church cathedral in China, the center of the French Consession in Shanghai. Started to be built in 1896 by Society of Jesus and completed in 1910. ... Glass windows now incorporate Chinese characters and iconography. Has services in chinese and english every weekend. To the first trip . ...

First light from the Superconducting Integrated Receiver on board Terahertz limb sounder TELIS P. Yagoubova, G. de Langea, R. Hoogeveena, A. de Langea and V. Kosheletsb a Netherlands Institute for Space Research, SRON, the Netherlands b Institute of Radio Engineering and Electronics, IREE, Russia Abstract-- We present the flight configuration and performance of the Superconducting Integrated Receiver (SIR) channel on the TELIS instrument (Terahertz and Submm Limb Sounder). ...

... LWN.net Weekly Edition for March 18, 2004 . ... LWN.net FAQ . ... This article is part of the LWN Porting Drivers to 2.6 series . Completions are a simple synchronization mechanism that is preferable to sleeping and waking up in some situations. ... When your driver begins some process whose completion must be waited for, it's simply a matter of passing your completion event to wait_for_completion() : . ... void complete(struct completion *comp); void complete_all(struct completion *comp); . ...

... 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. ...

My colleagues and I have recently completed a series of observations of SN1999an. ... The telescope is located at Martin Observatory in Blacksburg, VA, and is operated by the Physics Department of Virginia Tech. Our IAU Minor Planet Center Observatory Code is 841. ... Attached you will find a copy of one of our images (in .jpg format) with the supernova indicated. ... Virginia Tech Department of Physics . Back to Bright Supernovae . Back to Supernova 1999an . ...

... The planned colloquium is attached to JENAM-2000, so we supply in this . Information letter a short description on the meeting. ... application of spectroscopic data. ... obtaining experimentally and theoretically of a vast bulk of atomic and . molecular data for various astrophysical problems and the ways how to . ... JENAN-2000 meeting. ... The Registration and accommodation are common both for main JENAM-2000 . ... form for the main JENAM-2000 meeting is mandatory for receiving the support. ...

General Information . ... The conference is organized by the Sternberg Astronomical Institute (SAI) of Moscow University and the IAU Working group "Site-testing Instruments" . ... Use of site data in telescope operation and adaptive optics. ... Recent conferences on this subject (2007, 2008) demonstrated great interest of the community, hence the need for a new meeting. ... Unlike previous recent conferences, this meeting will cover all aspects of site monitoring for optical/IR astronomy. ...

... Recent Topics . ... MAO main . ... Fw: ASTRONET: Task 5.4 - observing schools . ... Subject: Re: ASTRONET: Task 5.4 - observing schools . ... with the organization and carrying out observing schools. ... second half of September, and which will be funded by the training and . ... intended for master and starting PhD students. ... actions on observing schools, providing access for students, Master . ... observing schools for master students. ... in form of observing schools for pre-PhD students. ...

GENERAL INFORMA T ION ABOUT How does my LOMO® Night Vision Device Work? ... LOMO® NIGHT VISION DEVICES & FAQs When using a Night Vision Device, you are actually looking at an image that is projected by the intensifier tube located inside the unit (Fig. ... Light enters the Night Vision Device through the objective lens and hits the photocathode in front of the intensifier tube. ... Infrared (IR) Illuminator Microchannel Plate (Gen.2 Only) When do I use my LOMO® Night Vision Device? ... Fig. ...

... Bad Astronomy . ... Mad Science . ... Area of science: Astronomy . ... My idea is as follows: A very strong concrete foundation is attached to "Earth" a cable made of some increadably strong material is attached on to a giant powered pully wheel, the capble runs out into space aprox 400 miles ! ... In his novel "Fountains of Paradise" Clarke uses that idea: take a cable 40,000 km long and drop it from the satellite to the spot directly underneath it on the Earth and secure it. ... 2008 Phil Plait. ...

ATM Forum Message . ... Post . ... A.S.I.G.N. Observatory . ... Post Message | ... Posted by Barry on March 4, 2007 12:37:34 UTC . ... I have also had a professional re-design on the website, so now it looks better and is NOT located at the old barry's home-made observatory (iinet.net) link. It has been re-named A.S.I.G.N Observatory. ... www.astronomy.net . ... Forum posts are Copyright their authors as specified in the heading above the post. "dbHTML," "AstroGuide," "ASTRONOMY.NET" & "VA.NET" . ...

. | Front page | . | << - Number counts | Contamination - >> | . Robert J. Smith, ">rsmith@mso.anu.edu.au Last modified: Fri Sep 24 11:39:02 EST 1999 .

BUILDING ARMAGH PLANETARIUM A stately astrodome The chief architect for the project, Mr. Bell of Portadown, designed a building inspired by the Queen Elizabeth Planetarium in Edmonton, Canada. ... The foundations are laid: 1966 The first floor completed: 1966 The dream takes form By the time the building was complete ё70 000 had been spent on the project. Included in this was ё12 000 for Armagh Planetarium's first projector, a Goto Mars model made in Japan. ... The dome takes shape: 1967 ...

... The goal of the course is to give a complete mathematical description of Shor's algorithm which factors an N digit integer in O(NNlog(N)log(log(N))) steps on a quantum computer. ... Quantum computations and measurements, unitary operators and projectors. ... I will describe each~Z step in Shor's algorithm. ... 2) I will give the mathematical definitions of quantum-bit, quantum-memory, and quantum-computation, used in Shor's algorithm. ... This is the first step in Shor's algorithm. ...

Introduction 1 Observatory Control and Astronomical Analysis System. ... OCAAS is a complete UNIX software package for the local and remote operation of an astronomical observatory. ... It controls all aspects of the telescope mount, CCD camera, filter wheel, focuser, weather instrumentation, power supply, GPS receiver, internet or phone line communications, dome and shutter hardware. ... 1.2 Main Control Features. ... OCAAS can perform an automatic focus procedure at any time under operator control. ...

Общая Астрономическая Конференция > Все про астрономическое оборудование > Астрономическое оборудование > Вопрос Лорду Вэйдеру. ... Просмотр полной версии : Вопрос Лорду Вэйдеру. ... 29.11.2007, 12:39 . На облачных ночах появилась любопытная информация от Лорда Вэйдера. ... В общем то да. ... Если в данный проект вложены огромные деньги (примерно так в тексте), возможно что-то готовое в конце концов и появится.. Забыл добавить - Вэйдер это вероятно VD? . ...

... The author of the cover picture is Vasilisa Verkhodanova. The picture symbolizes our perception of the world. The modified emblem of the SAO unifying the 6-m optical telescope and the raditelescope RATAN-600 of SAO RAS is placed in the center of the radio galaxy isophotes. From the one hand, we can investigate the properties of radio galaxies with these (and other) telescopes, and try to study physical processes providing their activity. ...

... 20.02.2001 . ... Today is 15 years since Orbital Complex "Mir" first module (its core module) was launched.It was delivered to Earch orbit by "Proton" which lifted off form the launch pad in Baikonur at 00:28:23 Moscow time. ... Priroda" module attached to the "Mir" Orbital Complex in 1996 was the last to complete the orbital facility assembly. ... Currently, the cargo craft "Progress M1-5" launched on Jan 24 2001 docked the Orbital Complex on Jan 27 2001, it is still in orbit as part of the Station...

Instruments and Methods 129 Multi-element MMIC focal array for radio telescope V.B. Khaikin1, E.K. Ma jorova1 , Yu.N. Parijskij1, M.D. Parnes2 , R.G. Shifman2 , V.A. Dobrov2 , V.A. Volkov2, V.D. Korolkov2, S.D. Uman2 , N.A. Esepkina3 , and S.K. Kruglov3 The Special Astrophysical Observatory of Russian Academy of Sciences Karachai-Cherkessia, N.Arkhyz, 357147, Russia, E-mail: vkh@brown.nord.nw.ru Svetlana", Rezonance", Ascor", 194156, Engels pr. ... Four-element sub-array prototype is shown in Fig.2. ...

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