... ESO Science Newsletter November 2015 . 18 Nov 2015 . ... This newsletter is a summary of recent ESO Science Announcement items. Follow the links or visit ESO Science Announcements to read more. ... An integral part of the commissioning of a new instrument at the VLT is the Science Verification ( SV ) phase. ... Joint ESO, ALMA, NAOJ, NRAO Workshop: . ... Science Operations 2015: Science Data Management . ESO/ESA Workshop, ESO Headquarters, Garching, Germany, 24тАУ27 November 2015 . ...

... X-ray (left) and magnetic field (right) evolution of an X-ray jet in coronal hole. ... In both coronal holes and quiet-Sun regions, all brightening events are associated with bipolar regions and caused by magnetic flux emergence followed by cancellation with the pre-existing and/or newly emerging magnetic flux. ... The dominant flux of the coronal hole form the largest concentration of magnetic flux in terms of size while the opposite polarity is distributed in small concentrations. ...

This is a personal project collecting and documenting early images of Harvard College Observatory, focusing on the site at Observatory Hill (previously Summer House Hill). ... The current focus is through about 1920, and filling out the history of the Cambridge location, and buildings. ... Because I'm also interested in the history of printing and image reproduction, some of the information here will emphasize that viewpoint. ... All images plus additional timeline notes (138) . ... Selina Bond (0) . ...

Instrument Summary -- Why Use the GHRS? Here we provide a brief overview of the basic properties of the GHRS. ... The GHRS can obtain spectra from about 1150 to 3200 . ... The repeatability of fluxes is even better, being better than 1%; i.e., it is possible to compare measures of the same wavelength in the same star at different times to within 1% for observations with the LSA. ... The source to be observed may be placed in a Large Science Aperture (LSA) or a Small Science Aperture (SSA). ...

... The quasar database tables are in the subdirectory QSO as follows: QSO.DOC General documentation FORMAT.DOC Summary of column names and fortran formats QSOS Object list XOBS X-ray observational data XFLUXA X-ray fluxes, energy index = 0.0 XFLUXB X-ray fluxes, energy index = 0.5 XFLUXC X-ray fluxes, energy index = 1.0 XFLUXD X-ray fluxes, energy index = 1.5 OPTICAL Optical information MISSING QSOs not processed NOTES Notes to all the ... O stars Chlebowski,T., Harnden Jr., ...

... Australia Telescope Steering Committee . ... Staff list | ... Parkes radio telescope . ... Australia Telescope Online Archive (ATOA) . ... VLBI . ... Visiting Parkes radio telescope . ... Parkes radio telescope webcam . ... Here is an initial plan for the disk logistics for the November VLBI . ... Disks for Tidbinbilla are already at the telescope. ... 1 x (4 x 400 GB IDE) . ... IDE*" 4 x 400 IDE*" --------------- . ... This set of 4 x 400 IDE disks will be used to record both V190e and V215a . ...

... The properties of the currently available receivers are given in Table 3 . The columns of the table give the receiver name, frequency range, the typical System Temperature (T ), Gain, System Equivalent Flux Density (SEFD) and Half Power Beamwidth (HPBW) for zenith angles below 15 (as measured by Arecibo staff.) ... Full details of the ALFA observing system, its performance, how to join an ALFA Consortium, and the latest ALFA news is to be found via, http://www.naic.edu/alfa/ . ...

... 23 September 2004 - Telescope First Light! ... 30 July 2004 . ... NIC-FPS is an instrument combining the capabilities of a near-infrared imaging camera with a cryogenic Fabry-Perot etalon currently under development at the Center for Space Astrophysics and Space Astronomy , University of Colorado with support from Rice University , Ball Aerospace and the Astrophysical Research Consortium. It is scheduled to begin operations on the ARC 3.5m telescope at Apache Point Observatory in 2004. ...

Peremennye Zvezdy ( Variable Stars ) 27 , No. 8, 2007 . ... Sternberg Astronomical Institute, 13, University Ave., Moscow 119992, Russia; e-mail: antipin@sai.msu.ru . Institute of Astronomy, Russian Academy of Sciences, 48, Pyatnitskaya Str., ... We present the discovery, photographic and V-band CCD observation of a new High Amplitude Delta Scuti star USNO-A2.0 0975-09853705. ... The photographic and -band CCD phased light curves of the newly discovered High Amplitude Delta Scuti star. ...

... Abstract: The database we announce contains references to the papers, data files and links to the Internet resources related to measurements and calculations of the optical constants of the materials of astronomical interest: different silicates, ices, oxides, sulfides, carbides, carbonaceous species from amorphous carbon to graphite and diamonds, etc. ... The main topics of the database are the optical constants of materials involved in astronomical calculations. ...

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... The Science Operation Department is composed of Astronomers, Telescope Instruments Operators(TIOs) and Data Handling Administrators(DHAs). ... Astronomers have proposed several methods to quantitatively measure the amount of turbulence above the telescope, which the most common ones is Differential Image Motion Monitor (DIMM). In optical testing, the Hartmann test is the common method to test the quality of optical components. ... Hartmann mask consists of 48 lenses. ...

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... Outreach . ... I'm a PhD student at the Australian National University's Mt Stromlo observatory and am part of the Australia Telescope National Facility (ATNF) graduate program. I study the properties on nearby galaxies and investigate the evolution of the local universe. ... I run the RSAA Student Outreach Group which invites school children to participate in free astronomy outreach evenings. ... Copyright 2007 Emma Kirby. ... All Photos were taken by Emma Kirby unless otherwise stated. ...

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... Astrophysics Group . Graduate Research Opportunities 2016 . Available research projects/areas . ... Astrophysics Admissions Form . ... This includes active participation in the development of new instruments as well as the use of ground and space observatories. ... Further details are available at the following web site: http://www.mrao.cam.ac.uk/research/extragalactic-group-2/ . ... Our research group has a wide range of expertise in the development of receivers for radio astronomy. ...

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... Membership . ... The name of this organization shall be Amateur Astronomers Association of Princeton, Incorporated (hereinafter abbreviated as AAAP). ... General membership shall be open to any person paying dues with the proviso that any member under the age of 18 must be accompanied by a responsible adult while at any AAAP meeting, other function, or observatory. ... A. Director The Director shall preside at all meetings of the Board of Trustees and at all general membership meetings. ...

Databases (NSDC) of the Natural Planetary Satellites. ... NSDC: Database of astrometric observations of Natural Planetary Satellites . ... They are thoroughly looking for observations in different sources, creating their owndatabases which are then mostly inaccessible to other researchers. ... In the file "content" with explications, the reference is given to the data source as well as the bibliographic reference. ... Data sources. ... Why a specific bibliographic database for Natural satellites? ...