... A star party is a gathering of amateur astronomers who set up their telescopes and observe the dynamic night sky. ... Star parties are best scheduled during first quarter and waxing gibbous Moon. During full moon, the moon is so bright it obscures a view of other celestial objects and even the Moon is best viewed when NOT full. ... We will consult local weather forecasters and make a decision by 2:00p on the day of the star party. ... Copyright (c) Amateur Telescope Makers of Boston, Inc. ...

Astronomy Articles . Articles | ... Moon | ... Astronomy Binoculars - The Skies The Limit - by Scott Gray, September 2006 . ... Astronomy Terms - To Help You Study The Universe - by Scott Gray, October 2006 . ... Himalia is the only moon other than Europa, Ganymeade, Callisto and IO visible with small telescopes. ... The Harvest Moon refers to the Full Moon that comes closest to the autumnal equinox, or the first day of autumn. ... Think the study of stars is best left to professional astronomers? ...

... Apache HTTP Server Version 2.2 . ... What is Apache? ... May I use the Apache logo on my product or Web site? The Apache Software Foundation (ASF) is a 501(c)3 non-profit organization providing support for the Apache community of open-sourced software projects. ... The Apache HTTP Server -- sometimes called Apache httpd -- is a project of the Apache Software foundation aimed at creating a robust, commercial-grade, featureful, and freely-available source code implementation of an HTTP (Web) server. ...

Use of Charts. by Stefano Pesci . ... The charts are used by some amateurs in Italy and are now available to world-wide amateurs interested in supernova hunting. ... A reference of the galaxy observed is crucial to determine if any suspect stars are visible or not. ... What do the charts show * --------------------------- Galaxies are shown as a set of lines, sort of isophotes. ... CCD imaging gives a very deep view of the galaxy and some very faint stars may not be shown on the chart. ...

... XPA and the now-defunct funtools have moved to GitHub! Please visit: . xpa @ https://github.com/ericmandel/xpa . funtools (not supported but ...) @ https://github.com/ericmandel/funtools for the latest version. Also available on GitHub: . ... The public release xpa version 2.1.15 is available here . Please upgrade at your convenience. ... Its available here . ... Software to benefit the astronomical community and especially the X-ray astronomy community. ... saord@cfa.harvard.edu . ...

... Home Lectures Lecture Series 2015-2016 . ... Lecture Series 2014-2015 . ... Beyond New York City . ... The Amateur Astronomers Association is proud to present an astronomy lecture series from October through May each year for our members and the public. ... Amateur Astronomer Association is pleased to announce we will be offering select, limited reserved seating for current AAA members for the Friday, January 8, 2015 AAA Lecture entitled Robert Nemiroff ?2015 Astronomy Picture of the Day?. ...

... Science Users Information Science Software Scisoft Collection jump to navigation jump to content . ... Scisoft is a project within ESO to provide a collection of astronomical software utilities in a uniform way at all ESO sites and to make them available to the outside world. The current version, Scisoft 8, December 2014, is only available for 64-bit Fedora 20 Linux . ... If you managed to install an run Scisoft on an other Linux distribution please contact us and we will update this page. ...