... Armagh Observatory, College Hill, Armagh BT61 9DG, +44 (0)28 3752 2928 . Full Programme in PDF format . The City of Armagh and Armagh Observatory are honoured to be hosting the Ninth European Symposium for the Protection of the Night Sky, an international conference from 17th to 19th September to discuss light pollution and its impact on astronomy and our view of the night sky, and its effect on the natural environment, education, wildlife and public health. ... Dark Skies Campaign . ...

... ESO is building what will be the World's largest optical telescope array, The Very Large Telescope (VLT). The VLT Project organisation is responsible for the design and construction of the Unit Telescopes, including enclosures, optics, adapter-rotators and coating unit. ... Unit Telescopes Overview - This page is outdated, an update is in process. ... Secondary mirror (M2 Unit) - This page is outdated, an update is in process. ... Coating Unit - This page is outdated, an update is in process. ...

... Light Pollution and Amateur Astronomers - and Annual Meeting . Panel Discussion with New England Light Pollution Advisory Group . ... Recent announcements about global warming, combined with heightened interest in "green" practices, make this an especially good time to raise light-pollution awareness. ... Please join us for a pre-meeting dinner discussion at Changsho, 1712 Mass Ave, Cambridge, MA at 6:00pm before the meeting. ... Jun . ... Copyright (c) Amateur Telescope Makers of Boston, Inc. ...

... Bionic eyes. If our eyes could see in different wavelength bands, this is what the Sun would look like. ... Visible light, crucial to photosynthesis, is a type of radiation. ... At the heart of this revolution is the recognition that light travels as a wave. ... Dreams of Fields . ... By the time the fields go from strong to weak and back to strong, the wave has moved a certain distance, known as the wavelength. ... Red light, blue light, infrared light, ultraviolet light, radio waves, x-rays ? ...

... This plug-in enables you to add various types of lighting effects to your (RGB) image. ... Directional light . ... Well, you get the idea :) The default settings for this light-type is [-0.5,-0.5,-1.0]. ... Higher values makes your image reflect a lot of light (appear lighter or more intense), while smaller values makes it appear more dull or matte. ... A value of 1.0 makes your image very shiny (bright high-lights) while smaller values makes you image less shiny, making the high-lights dimmer. ...

... z zi Wavelength Wavelength Wavelength Lyman Forest Absorption Patchy Absorption Black Gunn-Peterson trough 6 Wolfram Freudling , AAS Town Hall Meeting , January 7, 2003 First Light: Supernovae Wolfram Freudling , AAS Town Hall Meeting , January 7, 2003 7 Assembly of Galaxies · Overall Approach · Deep Multi-color imaging · Morphologies · Photometric redshifts · Locate high z sample ...

DSS input form . The SuperCOSMOS Sky Survey . ... Pi of the Sky . The Sloan Digital Sky Survey . ... Extragalactic DataBase . ... SIMBAD Astronomical Database . ... Query form . ... The Two Micron All Sky Survey. ... The NRAO VLA Sky Survey . ... NIST Atomic Spectra Database (Lines Form) . ... The UVES Paranal Observatory Project . ... Rochester Astronomy . ... European Southern Observatory . European Astronomical Society . ... Astronomical Society of the Pacific . ... Sat24 BTA on line . ...

... MAO main . Info . e-EPS | Facts and Info from the European Physical Society | June 2014 . ... Тема: e-EPS | ... For example, the European Physical Society attracts mainly physicists from Europe. ... The Condensed Matter Division of the European Physical Society is proud to announce the award of the 2014 European Physical Society Condensed Matter Division... [read more] . ... Prof. Edward G. Krubasik took over the role of President of the German Physical Society [DPG] in April 2014. ...

Mark your calendars to reserve Tuesday, December 13 for a sensational astronomy meeting! The Amateur Astronomers Association of Princeton is presenting astronomer and author Kim Weaver for a presentation titled: "New Eyes on the Universe: Observing Beyond Hubble with the Chandra and Spitzer Space Telescopes," and will highlight violent processes and dust-enshrouded objects revealed only by searching for signatures in x-ray and infrared light. ...

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... Home Lectures Lecture Series 2011-2012 Lecture Series 2011-2012 ? тАЬA Ray of Light in a Sea of Dark (Matter)тАЭ ? Charles Keeton . ... Charles Keeton , associate professor of physics and astronomy at Rutgers University and faculty director of the Aresty Research Center for Undergraduates , will speak to the AAA Friday, March 2, on тАЬA Ray of Light in a Sea of Dark (Matter).тАЭ The free public lecture begins at 6:15 p.m. in the Kaufmann Theater of the€а American Museum of Natural History . ...

Astronotes Armagh Planetarium's Stellar Blog! ... Armagh Planetarium . ... Our Galaxy . ... Stars . ... Other Galaxies . ... Space Flight . ... Battling galaxies: This image of a remarkable galactic dynamic duo is based on data selected by Igor Chekalin for ESOтАЩs Hidden Treasures 2010 astrophotography competition. Image credit: ESO) . ... Instead galaxies career across cosmos, sometimes colliding or sometimes passing and tearing other apart, spilling stars into the intergalactic wastes. ...

OptInt PmWiki : MROI Fast Tip Tilt / Tech Meet 11 . ... This meeting is intended as an initial brainstorm on how we will perform the component and integrated tests in the PDR phase. ... How to measure movement of mount versus movement of optic in mount? ... Most tests should be conducted here in the lab but we could use COAST for some tests, particularly a system level test using a pin-hole at one end of the tables and the base-plate, optics and camera arrangement at the other end. ...

... Bad Astronomy . Misconceptions . ... Bad Astronomy : "We're light years more advanced than our competition!" ... Even the closest astronomical object, the Moon, is 400,000 kilometers away! ... A beam of light will travel 9,500,000,000,000 kilometers in one year. This distance is defined as a light year ; the distance light travels in a year. ... This is another example of Bad Astronomy; like a light year, a parsec is a unit of distance, not time (to be specific, it equals 3.26 light years) . ...

... The general term for these waves is "Electromagnetic Waves". ... ASTR1001 Wavelengths · Electromagnetic waves, while all travelling at the same speed, can have different wavelengths (the distance between the crest of one wave and the next). ... Red Light: Wavelength 700nm Green Light: Wavelength 550nm Blue Light: Wavelength 400nm Ultra-Violet Light: Wavelength 300nm ASTR1001 The Electromagnetic Spectrum · Electromagnetic waves can have any wavelengths at all: anywhere from picometres to light-years....

Minutes of the INTAS meeting, Amsterdam, October 28 2000. ... After this, the different groups participating in the INTAS programme presented their interests and expertise within the light scattering context. ... Karine Chamaillard (Paris, not formally taking part in INTAS): light scattering of rough surface spherical particles, DDA method. ... The meeting then proceeded with a discussion on possible projects to be done within the coming 6 months to 1 year. ... Amsterdam, October 30, 2000 Rens Waters ...

SAS home . SAS Watchout items . ... This thread contains a step-by-step recipe to extract a light curve of a point-like source for all the X-ray cameras, subtracting the background and correcting for exposure loses. ... The SAS task barycen performs this correction. ... If the following files are available: a) RGS event list; b) RGS source list, a call to the task performing light curve extraction, correction and background subtraction rgslccorr allows a user to create the light curve. ...

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LIGO-G020051-00-Z Isabel Leonor (w/ Robert Schofield) University of Oregon LIGO Reduced Data Sets E7 standard reduced data set RDS generation for future runs decimation examples Standard RDS ­ Guidance from LSC White Paper Data set levels outlined in LSC white paper: Level 0: Full IFO data stream (not archived) Level 1: Archived reduced data set · all important IFO and PEM channels · used principally for detector diagnostics Level 2: IFO strain and ...

... Archives . ... Going back to vlk?s comment, it is ?statistically probable? (and so natural) to see 1 keV photons in T= 10^7 K Thermal Bremsstrahlung (TB) spectra, actually more often than you might expect. ... Please, meet Ms. electron. ... Here you call it electron?s rest energy. Yeah, as if electrons rest in one place ever.б  Who remembers the electron mass is 9.1e-31 kg? Well, some freaks do.б  But almost all keV junkies know the electron mass is 511 keV. ... Chandra Blog . ...