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? ...

Crater Gassendi . ... I made this drawing was made on the 26th of november 2001. If you compare this one with the previous drawing of Gassendi (below) the differences are clear. ... This drawing was made on the 28th of september 2001. After nearly a full month without observations I had a one hour gap between the thicker clouds. ... This drawing was made on the 29th of august 2001. ... This drawing was made on the 27th of august 2001. ... This drawing was made on the 25th of august 2001. ...

... 110, A09S07, doi:10.1029/2004JA010931, 2005 CORONAS-F/SPIRIT EUV observations of October ­ November 2003 solar eruptive events in combination with SOHO/EIT data V. V. Grechnev,1 I. M. Chertok,2 V. A. Slemzin,3 S. V. Kuzin,3 A. P. Ignat'ev,3 A. A. Pertsov,3 I. A. Zhitnik,3 J.-P. Delaboudinie e,4 and F. Auche e4 `r `r Received 30 November 2004; revised 2 March 2005; accepted 8 April 2005; published 28 July 2005. ... Events of the First Rotation 3.1. ... SPIRIT AND EIT OBSERVATIONS A09S07 Figure 1. ...

... The ancient chronical said about the colour rings around the Sun and the Moon, about three suns in the sky, light columns, bright lightning, different "comets" rushing to the Earth, moving among the stars or round the Earth with the sky. All these occurrences may be divided into three categories: one that occur in the near or far space, processes going on in the Earth atmosphere under the influence of cosmic factors and at last the occurrences connected with the Earth atmosphere. ... Rainbow . ...

... Iowa Robotic Telescope | ... Talon is based on OCAAS, a software suite developed by software engineer Elwood Downey ( Clear Sky Institute ) for use at the University of Iowa ?s first remote facility (the ATF, or Automated Telescope Facility). ... XObservatory : Telescope Control Interface . ... This program calls upon and coordinates much of the interrelated portions of the Talon architecture, and forms the primary control panel for the telescope, dome, and peripheral systems when used locally. ...

MNRAS Advance Access published January 27, 2014 MNRAS (2014) doi:10.1093/mnras/stt2365 Decoupled gas kinematics in isolated S0 galaxies Ivan Yu. ... Seven of 12 galaxies have revealed the presence of extended ionized-gas discs whose rotation is mostly decoupled from the stellar kinematics. ... Isolated galaxies are such galaxies. ... Similarly, we have found the shock-like excitation of the emission-line gas in the inclined gaseous disc of S0 galaxy NGC 7743 (Katkov, Moiseev & Sil'chenko 2011). ...

... 2008) 29, 363­366 Error Minimization of Polynomial Approximation of Delta T Islam Sana1, , Sadiq Muhammad1 & Qureshi Muhammad Shahid2 1 2 Department of Applied Physics, University of Karachi, Pakistan. ... Polynomial approximations have been developed to obtain the values of T for any time of a year for the period AD 1620 to AD 2000 (Meeu 2000) as no dynamical theories describe the variations in T . ... Meeus, J., Simons, L. 2000, Polynomial Approximation of Delta T, Br. ...

RADIOASTROPHYSICAL DEPARTMENT • INSTITUTE OF SOLAR-TERRESTRIAL PHYSICS RAS SB . Support of activities at the Radio telescope General information Main characteristics of the Radio telescope Observing programs General view of the antenna array Main research areas Principle of generation of radio images Radio telescope 's beam Receiving systems Main characteristics of the base receiving-recording complex Calibrations Data archive and databases Publication of ... 9.4 GHz band. ...

... Bad Astronomy . Misconceptions . ... Bad Astronomy : "That's as remote as the dark side of the Moon!" ... As the tired, hackneyed refrains went on, one in particular caught my ear: " Fly me away to the bright side of the moon, and meet me on the other side." ... As the Moon orbits the Earth, different parts of it get illuminated by the Sun. ... Bad Addendum : At the end of the album "Dark Side of the Moon" by Pink Floyd, there is a voiceover that actually says "There is no dark side of the moon. ...

... All rights reserved. doi:10.1088/0004-637X/805/2/180 THEORY AND SIMULATIONS OF REFRACTIVE SUBSTRUCTURE IN RESOLVED SCATTER-BROADENED IMAGES 1 Michael D. Johnson1 and Carl R. Gwinn 2 Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, 60 Garden ... Santa Barbara, CA 93106, USA Received 2015 February 19; accepted 2015 April 9; published 2015 June 2 ABSTRACT At radio wavelengths, scattering in the interstellar medium distorts the appearance of astronomical sources ... THE SCATTERED IMAGE 4.1. ...

... Field of interest: data analysis and interpretation of X-ray observations of BHC and NS systems, astrophysics of compact objects and related phenomena: X-ray , optical and radio observations , shocks and stellar winds, emission mechanism, the spectral and timing analysis of the X-ray emission from microquasars ( signature of accreting BH), atoll- and Z-sources ( signature of accreting NS), modeling of INTEGRAL images % . ...

... 000, 1­13 (2010) Printed 21 September 2011 A (MN L TEX style file v2.2) A universal ultraviolet-optical colour­colour­magnitude relation of galaxies I1gor V. Chilingarian1,2, and Ivan Yu. ... Received 2011 Sep 15; in original form 2011 Feb 6 ABSTRACT The bimodal galaxy distribution in the optical colour­magnitude diagram (CMD) comprises a narrow "red sequence" populated mostly by early-type galaxies and a broad "blue cloud" dominated by star-forming systems. ...

The possibility of recovery of the vertical distribution of the magnetic field in umbrae by line width differences S.G. Mozharovsky Ussuriysk Astrophysical Observatory of FEB RAS, Ussuriysk, Russia sw@newmail.ru Abstract. This article studies the possibility of recovery of the vertical distribution of the magnetic field in the photospheric layers of sunspot umbra by the Difference of the Line profile Absolute Widths of neutral zirconium ? ... 2) Line profiles for cold models have extended wings. ...

. Russian Version [ MS-Win ] . [ News ] . [ Satellite data ] . [ SMIS ] . [ ] . NOAA 14, 1997.04.16 10:37 GMT . St.Petersburg . Pseudo-colour image. Red - channel 3, Green - channel 2, Blue -channel . St. Petersburg . August 1996. True-color composition from NOAA 12 and NOAA 14 AVHRR Channel 3 data using images acquired at different times of a day. Back to SMIS Home Page .

Educational program of the project is intended for training of specialists in different fields of space physics, astronomy and the Earth sciences. ... Special space-physics lab exercises are intended for the students of the senior courses of the Institutions, specialized in the field of space engineering and space physics. Its main task is to teach them some methods of satellites scientific and engineering data processing. ...

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