Lessons learned from the Thirty Meter Telescope site testing Tony Travouillon Sebastian Els, Angel Otarola, Reed Riddle, Matthias Schoeck, Warren Skidmore TMT.XXX.PRE.05.0XX.DRF01 1 Introduction TMT and its Site testing. Important choice before going on site. ... Considerations during analysis of the data. TMT.XXX.PRE.05.0XX.DRF01 2 Some Background about the TMT Site Testing TMT is a 30m, segmented, RitcheyChretien telescope design. ... ASCA Cloud Cover Analysis So how do we do it in practice? ...

National Aeronautics and Space Administration . ... NASA Astronaut (former) . ... EDUCATION: Graduated from Coral Gables High School, Coral Gables, Florida, in 1968; received a bachelor of arts degree in music from Florida State University in 1972; a master of science degree in aeronautical engineering from the U.S. Naval Postgraduate School in 1980. ... Scott has accumulated more than 5,000 hours of flight time in 20 different military and civilian aircraft, and more than 200 shipboard landings. ...

... Prof. Yu.Yu. Balega, corr.-member of the Russian Academy of Science, director of the Observatory . ... Weiget G., Balega, Yu.Yu. et al. ... Astronomy and Astrophysics , v.381, p.905-913. PDF file ] . ... 2002) Diffraction-limited bispectrum speckle interferometry of the Herbig Be star R Mon. Astronomy and Astrophysics , v.392, p.937-943. ... 2002) Bispectrum speckle interferometry of the B[e] star MWC 349A. Astronomy and Astrophysics , v.395, p.891-898. ...

... Using the CFBDSIR wide field survey for brown dwarfs, we identified CFBDSIRJ214947.2-040308.9, a late T dwarf with atypically red J-Ks colour. ... SN 2009ip in NGC 7259 Electronic Telegram No. ... 7.09, [19.0; 2009 Aug. ... Accepted for publication in MNRAS Subjects: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE) The jet opening angle theta_jet and the bulk Lorentz factor Gamma_0 are crucial parameters for the computation of the energetics of Gamma Ray Bursts (GRBs). ...

... Go to This section of the glossary . ... APHELION : The point in a planet's orbit where it is farthest from the sun. ... It melts at 83.95 K, and boils at 87.45 K. Many people don't realize that argon makes up a full 1% of our atmosphere, while carbon dioxide is only a fraction of a percent of our atmosphere. ... COMET: An object moving about the sun in an eccentric orbit and composed of materials which, on warming up near the sun, form a "tail" which always points away from the sun. ...

... See you all on February 8th! ... David Lechter, Outreach Chair 2 February 2011 Amateur Astronomers Association of Princeton Mars Rovers Celebrate 7th Anniversary on the Red Planet NASA's twin Mars rovers Spirit and Opportunity surely rank as one of the greatest triumphs in the history of space exploration. ... 4 February 2011 Amateur Astronomers Association of Princeton Opportunity is driving to different vantage points around the steep walled crater and snapping a series of gorgeous Martian vistas....

... 4 November 1994 . orbit . ... 0.0128 . ... orbit period . ... satellite mass . 1950 kg . scientific payload mass . 550 kg . ... For more information send a mail to: info@sputnik.infospace.ru . 1997-2002 SMIS IKI RAN and SRC "PLANETA" Moscow, Russia. ...

Central Bodies Masses of Selected Globular Clusters N.A.Shakht, A.A.Kiselev, Yu.N.Gnedin and E.A.Grosheva. The Main Astronomical (Pulkovo) Observatory RAS 47 Tuc ­NGC 104 RA 00 24 .1 Dec -72° 04 .9 Size = 30.9 mvis + 4. 0 m D from = 12,1 kpc, h m Cen - NGC 5139 NGC 6397 (Ara) RA 17 h40.m7 Dec -53o 40'.4 Size = 31',0 mvis + 5,3m D from =2.3 kpc RA 13h 26m .8 Dec -47° 28 6 Size = 36.3 m vis +3. 7 m D from =15.8 ±1.1 kpc, 12109 years, Age: 10109 years, (13.4 ± 0.8)109 years. ...

e-mail: podgorny@inasan.ru . Institute of Astronomy RAS . ... Spectrum of solar flare protons // Journ. ... The active region magnetic flux correlation with flare appearance. ... Podgorny A. I., Podgorny I. M. Solar Flare Numerical Magnetohydrodynamic Simulation and Solar Flare Model. ... Podgorny A. I., Podgorny I. M. MHD simulation of magnetic field configuration above the active region NOAA. ... Podgorny I. М., Podgorny A. I. The active region magnetic field association with solar flares. ...

http://hubblesite.org/newscenter/archive/releases/1996/22/text/ Probing the mysterious heart of the Crab Nebula, the tattered remains of a stellar cataclysm witnessed more than 900 years ago, astronomers using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope have found that the Crab is even more dynamic than previously understood, based on a cosmic "movie" assembled from a series of Hubble observations. ... Because of this flickering, the neutron star is also called a "pulsar." ...

... InformChaos Lab took part in CeBIT-2015 (Hannover, Germany) with "Active Ultra Wideband Wireless Networks". ... Lev Kuzmin received Dr.Sci. degree for his thesis "Wireless information transmission over UWB chaotic carrier" from IRE RAS. ... Artem Nikishov received Ph.D. degree from the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology for the thesis "Generation of microwave chaotic oscillations in self-oscillating systems with several active elements". ... Our Products page is renewed. ... News | ...

... V. Pavlov, Int. J. Mod. Phys. D11 (2002), 433­436; Int. J. Mod. ... Mod. Phys. Lett. ... Do active galactic nuclei convert dark matter into visible particles? ... Disk-accretion onto a black hole. ... Comment on "Kerr black holes as particle accelerators to arbitrarily high energy". ... This black hole acts as a cosmic supercollider in which superheavy particles of dark matter are accelerated close to the horizon to the Grand Unification energies and can be scattering in collisions. ...

... Formation of Galactic Subsystems in Light of the Magnesium Abundance in Field Stars. ... The Thin Disk(2006) . ... I. The Thick Disk. ... A Compiled Catalog of Spectroscopically Determined Elemental Abundances for Stars with Accurate Parallaxws. I Magnesium. ... Stars of extragalactic origin in the solar neighborhood.( ... Evidence for age delay between the formation of the old halo and the thick disk(2000) . ... Tel:work(8632)433985 . home(8632)333178 . Fax:(8632)434044 . ...

... 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 . ...

... 4 .D.Dolgov (INFN, Ferrara, Italy) STOCHASTIC BACKGROUND GRAVITATIONAL WAVES FORM PRIMORDIAL BLACK HOLES OF G.Tsarevsky (PRAO ASC LPI) PROJECT "RADIOASTRON" AND THE FUTURE OF SPACE RADIOASTRONOMY V.N.Melnikov (VNIIMS, Moscow) SCALAR FIELDS AND MULTIDIMENSIONAL MODELS IN GRAVITY AND COSMOLOGY Wednesday, 24.08.2011 Cosmology, Gravitation and High Energy Physics Conference hall "Sovinyon" 09.00 ? ... 8 Section 2. Astrophysics University Recreation Centre "Chernomorka" (2 ) Tuesday, 23.08.2011 14.30 ? ...

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YAMAL 300 COMMUNICATIONS SATELLITE . Yamal 300 SC #1 . ... 1370 . ... Satellite stationkeeping accuracy in latitude and longitude, deg. 0.05 . ... Yamal 300 SC #1 coverage area . ... YAMAL-200 COMMUNICATIONS SATELLITE . ... Official WEB-site of S.P.Korolev RSC Energia . ...

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... The RAS Meteorite Collection: State on the 1 st of June, 1999 . ... About the laboratory . ... Chondrite . ... Find 1934. Several masses totaling 25 kg . ... One mass of about 320 kg . ... One mass of 510 kg . ... One mass of 2347 g . ... One mass of 331 g . ... Many masses, 12 kg collected . ... One mass of 75.75 kg . ... One mass of about 26 kg . ... Find 1962. 2 masses 22.7 kg and 9.0 kg . ... One mass of 1250 g . ... Find 1858-1964. 13 masses totaling about 505 kg . ... One mass of 150 kg . ...