News of events at Armagh Planetarium . ... Events . ... Coming to galaxy near you is The Stars Awaken, a wonderful exhibition of€а full-size fan-built props and creations inspired by the amazing Star Wars saga! ... Our course Stargazing the Night Sky€аwill be presented this spring at Queens University of Belfast. ... Celebrate Stars Wars at the Stars Awaken Exhibition Posted on March 3, 2016 . ... Click here to receive news of special events at Armagh Planetarium . 2016 Armagh Planetarium Events. ...

... rgsfilter creates the filtered event list as an exact replica of the combined event list, then removes unwanted frames and events, and adds the node-specific exposure maps. ... The common practice of including the effective area in the exposure map is rejected because the effective area is handled more correctly by including it in the response matrix. ... The combined map covers the full channel space, so that channel numbers assigned to the events are coordinates in this map. ...

... About ATNF overview . ... Australia Telescope Steering Committee . ... Murchison Radio-astronomy Observatory . ... Parkes radio telescope . ... To commemorate the international scientific importance of Rodney Reserve, the CSIRO Australia Telescope National Facility (ATNF), Australia's national radio astronomical research facility and a successor to the Division of Radiophysics, is erecting a full-size replica of one of the early radio telescopes on this site, together with an interpretative display....

... Informazioni . Informazioni generali . ... Personale . Personale di Ricerca . Personale tecnico, amministrativo, bibliotecario . ... Personale in ordine alfabetico . ... Per le scuole . ... Servizi . ... Servizi generali . ... L'Osservatorio Astrofisico di Arcetri partecipa a Galileo e le altre stelle , la serie di eventi organizzati intorno allo spettacolo teatrale Vita di Galileo di Bertold Brecht , in programmazione dal 28 ottobre al 12 novembre al teatro della Pergola di Firenze. ...

Date: Sun, 28 Sep 2008 18:31:24 -0400 From: Rodger Doxsey Subject: HST safing last night Last night, the NSSC-I, and all the Instruments, were placed into safemode by the 486 (spacecraft) computer. ... At this point, it seems the problem is in the hardware located in a unit called the CU/SDF (Command unit/Science data formatter I believe). This unit is associated with the NSSC-I, and handles commands and telemetry functions between the NSSC-I and the instruments and the 486. ...

... Design of Imaging Optics . Analyzing Optics . ... The high resolution near infrared camera (CONICA) for the first VLT unit telescope is under development. It serves as a multi-mode instrument for the wavelength region between 1.0 and 5.0 microns, providing diffraction-limited spatial resolution when combined with the adaptive optic system NAOS of the VLT (Rosset et al. ... VLT instrumentation, ALADDIN InSb detector, NIR imaging, NIR spectroscopy, re-imaging optics, IR optics . ...

... During the past year the Astrophysics Data System has set up two mirror sites for the benefit of users around the world with a slow network connection to the main ADS server in Cambridge, MA. ... The software used to perform the actual mirroring of the databases consists of a main program running on the ADS master site initiating the mirroring procedure, and a number of scripts, run on the mirror sites, which perform the transfer of files and software necessary to update the database. ...

... Armagh Observatory, College Hill, Armagh BT61 9DG, +44 (0)28 3752 2928 . ... J.A. Hardcastle . ... He was a first-class speaker, and he had the ability to make his subject really fascinating; for instance, he was a skilled maker of astronomical models. ... Naturally, he also served on the R.A.S. Committee dealing with the publication of Sir William Herschel's papers, and it was about this time that he came into close contact with Dreyer at Armagh. ... Mrs Hardcastle . ... Armagh Observatory, 1917 . ...

... Tonight's Sky . ... Trips Tours . ... Picture of the Day . ... Day 1: Monday, October 5, 2015 . ... Day 2: Tuesday, October 6, 2015 . ... After breakfast and checkout, stroll back through the airport to catch your morning flight to Trondheim, about one hour due north of Oslo. ... Meals: Breakfast / Dinner . Day 3: Wednesday, October 7, 2015 . ... Day 4: Thursday, October 8, 2015 . ... Day 5: Friday, October 9, 2015 . ... Day 6: Saturday, October 10, 2015 . ... Day 7: Sunday, October 11, 2015 . ...

... pdf] . ... Hierarchical modeling of astronomical images and uncertainty in truncated data sets . Abstract: I will discuss two astronomical problems that I am working on, and the statistical issues surrounding them. ... Abstract: There is a broad spectrum of astro-statistical challenges, in this age of huge, complex, and computer-intensive models, data, instruments, and questions. ... Doing Right By Massive Data: Using Probability Modeling To Advance The Analysis Of Huge Astronomical Datasets . ...

... However, the feed matrix MF can radically change the polarization state; for example, as we shall see a dual-circular feed changes the order of the Stokes parameters in equation 1. ... We have Q src = P src cos 2PA src (8a) U src = P src sin 2PA src (8b) P src = (Q 2 src + U 2 src ) 1=2 (8c) PA src = 0:5 tan 1  U src Q src  (8d) { 5 { As we track a source, the parallactic angle PA az of the azimuth arm rotates on the sky. ... LBW LBW is a very wide band feed with native linear polarization. ...

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