PHOTO: Richard Woolley in 1943 Richard van der Riet Woolley took up his duties on Mount Stromlo as Director of the then Commonwealth Solar Observatory early in December l939. ... I suggested to Woolley that we should hold a bicycle race from the Cotter Road at the foot of the mountain to the top, with the finishing line in front of the Observatory Building. ... I am gratified that, as the Tour de Stromlo Classic, it is still celebrated some 55 years later. ... Back to the Tour de Stromlo main page ...

... AstroAsciiData is a Python module to handle ASCII tables. ... The idea to develop this Python module emerged from the fact that ASCII tables continue to be one of the most popular and widely used data exchange formats in astronomy and probably science in general. ... To load this ASCII table, go into Python, load the AstroAsciiData module and read in the table with: . ... demo = asciidata.open('webexa.txt') . ... Users who only want to work with ASCII tables neeed no further python modules. ...

S S P i s n ow p ro u dl y sponsored by SSP2015 REGISTRATION FOR M August 7 ­16th. ... SSP 2015 is located at Peppermint Park Camping Resort, Plainfield, Massachusetts to provide you with top-notch facilities, camping grounds and on-site food service, as well as fantastic amenities such as FREE WI-FI, beautiful in-ground swimming pool, new kid's playground, and lodge with fireplace, all under the pristine dark skies of the Berkshire Mtns! ... 45) > The Famous SSP Chicken StarBQ, Sunday August 9th. ...

... Tadpole Emission Nebula and the Flaming Star Nebula . The constellation of Auriga harbors the cluster NGC 1893 which contains the Tadpole Nebula (IC 410). ... The Flaming Star Nebula, IC 405, is the magenta/purplish area and is the reflection portion of this nebulous region. 5nm Narrowband filters; H-alpha: O-III: S-II - 60: 60: 40 minutes x 600-second sub frames, Total= 2-hours 40-minutes, binned 1x1. ... Copyright (c) Amateur Telescope Makers of Boston, Inc. ...

... It was with this spirit that Norman Oberle suggested that area amateurs should have the benefit of a large aperture (25 inches or larger) telescope with sufficient focal length for excellent visual work. ... Norm Oberle and Jim Thomas spent 2,000 hours grinding and polishing to work the mirror into an oblate spheroid. ... Norm worked with Jim Thomas in a basement workshop. ... The Richland club is situated in the Hidden Hollow camp ground, and has long held meetings in the clubhouse on the grounds. ...

Observing sessions Dippach . We will meet every first Saturday each month. Meeting point will be on the parking in front of the railway station in Dippach-Gare. ... Only under clear skies . ... at: Clubroom 05:30 pm . ... Observation session . ... Meeting point: Dippach-Gare . ... AAL Facebook site . ... O Farol 72,rue Jean Jaures L-3490 Dudelange 05:00 pm . ... Meeting point: Parc Leh Dudelange . ... Meeting point: Dippach-Gare / side Dippach . ... Meeting point: Clubroom Dudelange . ...

Shades of Deep Purple (USA: Tetragrammaton 1968 ; Europe: EMI Parlaphone 1968 ; Japan: Polydor 1968) (CD) . Deep Purple's debut album, recorded very hastily. ... Tracks: . ... Wring That Neck (Blackmore/Lord/Simper/Paice) . ... All tracks written by Blackmore/Gillan/Glover/Lord/Paice . ... Painted Horse (Blackmore/Gillan/Glover/Lord/Paice) . ... Child in Time (Live, 690924) (Blackmore/Gillan/Glover/Lord/Paice) . ... Bonus tracks on Japanese CD: Lazy (edited) (Blackmore/Gillan/Glover/Lord/Paice) . ...