This is a directory of support staff and points of contact for projects at Apache Point. ... If you wish to be added to this page, please contact Suzanne Hawley/University of Washington (slh/astro.washington.edu). ... ARC 3.5-m Telescope Staff . ... New Mexico State University 1.0-meter Telescope . ... Operations Manage r: . ... mark/apo.nmsu.edu . ... Telescope Operations Specialist . ... Support Astronomer . ... Remote Operations Upgrade Project Manager : Joe Huehnerhoff (jwhueh/apo.nmsu.edu) . ...

... ARTICLE: The Adventurous Search For The Astronomical Unit . ... Kepler himself had suggested to use the rare occasions of Venus transiting (crossing) the solar disk to measure our distance to the planet. ... Due to the orbital inclination of Venus against the ecliptic of 3.5°, a Venus transit is so rare that it happens only at intervals of 121.5 years, 8 years, 105.5 years, 8 years and so on. ... Crabtree witnessing the transit of Venus 1639 . ... Transits of Venus - The Quest for the Solar Parallax...

... Soc. 376, 1033­1046 (2007) doi:10.1111/j.1365-2966.2007.11549.x Kinematics and stellar populations of the dwarf elliptical galaxy IC 3653 I. V. Chilingarian,1 1 2 ,2,3 P. Prugniel, 2,4 O. K. Sil'chenko1 and V. L. Afanasiev 5 Sternberg Astronomical Institute of the Moscow State University, Universitetsky pr. ... Fitting the spectra with synthetic single stellar populations (SSP), we found an SSPequivalent age of 5 Gyr and nearly solar metallicity [Fe/H] =-0.06 dex. ... 2007 The Authors. ...