... This past spring, as Comet Hyakutake decorated our evening skies, I received a telephone call from an upset parent. We bought our daughter a telescope to see the comet," she said, "and we can't see anything!" The exasperated mother said they found binocular and naked-eye views to be better than those through the telescope. ... They may be bright overall, but all that light is coming from a big area of space. ... OK, you say, I found Comet Hale-Bopp this evening. ... Does the comet have a tail? ...

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... 26 5.3.2 Create an Image by Binning Table Columns . ... Symbolic Const Value Meaning -------------- ----- ----------------------------------------- 0 OK, no error SAME_FILE 101 input and output files are the same TOO_MANY_FILES 103 tried to open too many FITS files at once FILE_NOT_OPENED 104 could not open the named file FILE_NOT_CREATED 105 could not create the named file WRITE_ERROR 106 error writing to FITS file END_OF_FILE 107 tried to move past end of file READ_ERROR 108 error reading...

The best possible protection for personnel is elimination of the hazard. ... Wherever the hazard cannot be eliminated, and there is reasonable risk to hazard exposure, personnel are required to use the proper protective equipment. ... Refer to Section 13 , titled ?Eye and Face Protection?) ... For example, rubber insulation gloves are required to protect against electrical shock wherever work is done on high voltage power equipment. ... Refer to Figure 12.1 , titled ?Use of Protective Equipment?) ...

Using Site testing data for Adaptive Optics simulations Kislovodsk, October 2010 1Glen Herriot, 1David Andersen, 1Jean-Pierre VИran, 2Brent Ellerbroek, 2Luc Gilles, 2Lianqi Wang 1National Research Council Canada ­ Herzberg Institute of Astrophysics 2TMT Project Office, Pasadena TMT.AOS.PRE.10.074.REL01 1 Outline TMT / NFIRAOS Site Testing Parameters and their value for Adaptive Optics Simulations ... TMT.AOS.PRE.10.074.REL01 9 What is the interest of Adaptive Optics in r 0 Seeing ? ...

... Submitted by Paul Valleli on 11/03/2009 10:52:59 . ITEAMS 1st Light (for Paul) . At the end of October '09, I got access to the robotic telescopes of the ITEAMS project - a 5-inch automatic scope with cooled CCD detector. ... Copyright (c) Amateur Telescope Makers of Boston, Inc. ...

... Structural Analysis of Disk Galaxies of the NGC 524 Group M. A. Il'ina and O. K. Sil'chenko * Sternberg Astronomical Institute, Lomonosov Moscow State University, Moscow, Russia Received February 24, 2012; in final form, March 2, 2012 Abstract--Members of the NGC 524 group of galaxies are studied using data obtained on the 6m telescope of the Special Astrophysical Observatory of the Russian Academy of Sciences, with the SCORPIO reducer in an imaging mode. ... NGC 502. ... NGC 524. ... Rev. Astron. ...

... Bad Astronomy . ... Movies . ... Hey, it's either this or one of those really irritating PayPal donation buttons here. Right off the bat: Cloverfield is made of awesome. ... Honestly, we're talking monster movie here, so a science review is, on the face of it, pretty silly. I have a few of nitpicky comments, and I want to talk a bit about monsters in general... so I'll drop the usual Good/Bad format for this one, and just launch into the review. ... SPOILERS! ... OK, on to the nitpicks! ...