adapted from Observe: Eclipses, published in 1979 by the Astronomical League and "Safe Solar Filters," by B. Ralph Chou, Sky and Telescope, August 1981) . ... Tape TWO pieces of film together into a sandwich, and tape this over the opening in the cardboard. ... The cardboard frame will act as a shade from the bright Sun, while you safely observe through the film sandwich. ... Undeveloped film is not safe. ... tape . ... At the end of one of the tubes, tape the aluminum foil, and make a tiny pinhole. ...

The activities of the group started at the end of 70's with the building of FIRT: the photometer of the National Infrared Telescope ( TIRGO ). The group has also developed a large amount of software and procedures in order to define all the relevant parameters of the systems. ... See also the local Labir4Giano pages. ... In addition to the development of the above instruments, we also carried some observations in collaboration with the science groups of Arcetry Observatory. ... Giano Local Page . ...

... ESO for the Public > Doing Business with ESO > Technology Transfer > Developments at ESO . ... About ESO . ... Survey Telescopes . ... The survey has been carried out at ESO in late 2004 to document both the technologies developed by, or for, ESO as well as examples of Technology Transfer that have taken place. ... Technologies that have been developed or extended in collaboration with industry through an ESO development contract or collaboration agreement, etc. ... Historic Developed Technologies ....

By encouraging student participation and interaction during the lecture, Peer Instruction encourages students to critically think through the arguments being developed, and to discuss their ideas and insights with their neighbors. ... After one minute, the students record an answer and are then asked to turn to their neighbors to try and convince them of their answers. ... After another minute or so, the students are asked to reconsider their answer and record it again. ...

Analysis of general features of the chaotic system behavior and investigation of the properties of concrete chaotic sources. ... Analysis of information properties of chaotic systems and chaotic oscillations as concrete objects for information processing and comunications. ... This hypothesis gives a possibility of designing simple mathematical structures accomplishing various processes of information processing using chaos. ... Activities | ... E-mail: chaos@mail.cplire.ru ...

... Engineering experiments aimed at testing and developing engineering solutions for a future interplanetary vehicle were a prominent activity during missions of Salyut and Mir space stations. ... In October 1998, cosmonauts placed on the outside surface of Mir space station some samples of film-type solar array, which constitutes a key element of the Martian vehicle, in order to study how they are affected by actual space environments. ... Official WEB-site of S.P.Korolev RSC Energia . ...

... Discusses the role of a pipeline in the AXAF Science Center Data System. Due to the complexity of the application, a prototyping effort was initiated to evaluate the risks involved with portability, open architecture, error handling/recovery, and distributed processing. Processes in the pipeline are initiated and monitored by a process control application developed using Perl. ... During that time, a Process Control application was developed to allow us to assess the risk factors. ...

... Moon . ... Observing . ... Cassini tracks clouds developing over a Titan sea . ... NASA s Cassini spacecraft recently captured images of clouds moving across the northern hydrocarbon seas of Saturn s moon Titan. ... Cassini tracked the system of clouds developing and dissipating over the large methane sea known as Ligeia Mare for more than two days. ... But since a huge storm swept across the icy moon s low latitudes in late 2010, only a few small clouds have been observed anywhere on the icy moon. ...

... ATNF Home . About ATNF . ... About ATNF overview . ... Australia Telescope Steering Committee . ... Australia Telescope User Committee . ... Australian Square Kilometre Array Pathfinder . Murchison Radio-astronomy Observatory . ... Parkes radio telescope . Australia Telescope Compact Array . Mopra radio telescope . ... Australia Telescope Online Archive (ATOA) . ... Visiting Parkes radio telescope . Visiting Australia Telescope Compact Array . ... Parkes radio telescope webcam . ...

. Dedicated to 40th anniversary of the . first artificial Earth satellite launch . Russian (Win) .

A bout ADLab . ... designing of high-sensitivity imaging systems for the 6-m telescope of the Russian AS; . development of new-type image detectors for astronomy in cooperation with other research and industrial institutions. ... analog TV tube systems incorporating image tubes with charge accumulation (SEC vidicon, silicon vidicon, SIT vidicon and others ) and digital processing of videosignal; . ... In 1986 the first CCD system incorporating an array of 512 x 576 pixels was developed in the Lab. ...

... Management of the satellite remote sensing data in environment monitoring systems. ... Systems for collection, processing, archiving and dissemination of satellite data in data centers of Russian Academy of Sciences, Russian Meteorological Agency, Russian Space Agency, Federal Agency of geodesy and cartography. Monitoring system of Russian Fishing Agency. ... Agricultural territory satellite monitoring system for Russian Ministry of Agriculture. ...

MAIN METROLOGICAL CENTER RUSSIAN FEDERATION National Research Institute for Physical-Technical and Radio Engineering Measurements (VNIIFTRI) e ­ mail: pasynok@vniiftri.ru, ru bezmenov@vniiftri.ru JOURNEESE 2014 VNIIFTRI as the Russian Main Metrological Center of Time, Frequencies and Earth Rotation Service th ti carried out the rapid EOP processing based on GNSS, VLBI and SLR observations for many years. 2 VNIIFTRI takes participation in GNSS and SLR observations of IGS and ILRS too. ...

... This Primary course is suitable for beginners as well as children who have completed a pre-Junior course. ...

... The schedule assigned id (example: AS05) for your observing program. ... Use the time you started using the telescope including when you started taking calibrations. The time you opened for on sky observations can be entered later in the activity log. UTC End Time: . ... Focus Log: . ... The focus position can be obtained under the Telescope column of the System Status in ACP or from the run log. ... When all fields are filled out press this button to email the log to the ARCSAT and community. ...

See SBIG or APOGEE for instructions on building and installing the software for your camera. It helps to have a recent Linux operating system installed. ... Edit protocol.h for the filter wheel and maximum filter count in your system. With recent versions of Linux, ds9, and xpa you must add this to the local profile (e.g. in /etc/profile.local for global use): export XPA_METHOD=local Otherwise, you will see an error message when ds9 starts, and xmccd and ds9 cannot communicate. ...

Astronomy Education News . ... T he SELB Schools Cluster Programme is an innovative learning strategy developed by the Armagh Rhymers in collaboration with the Armagh Observatory to teach children science and the arts in a new and fun way. During this programme, children from seven schools in Armagh have learnt astronomy through storytelling and music; and creative writing and music through science and astronomy. ... Schools involved: . ... Armagh Observatory - Astronomy Education . ...

Russian SHAREABLE DATA CENTER Institute of Solar-Terrestial Physics SB RAS . ... The algorithm and appropriate program for decametric radiosignal propagation conditions prediction for paths from 500 to 9000 km have been developed at ISTP SB on the basis of normal wave method (AltyntsevaB.I,Iliyin N.V., Kurkin V.I. and others //Decameters channel simulation on the base of normal wave method . ... Solar activity indices are chosen automatically from the prediction date from the database . ...

... Please visit the SOS homepage at: http://looney.physics.sunysb.edu/ sos / The latest releases of SOS DOOM as well as screen-shots can be found at: http://dau.physics.sunysb.edu/~ming/ sos /sosdoom.html New Features in SOS DOOM2 version 0.3: -------------------------------------- - Brand new Status Bar, New Menu Graphics - Bugs fixed (No help screen bug) - New Opening Demos (Only works with Doom2 version ... To install SOS DOOM2, type "sosinst2". ...

Structure of the supersmall satellites . Scientific equipment . Supersmall satellite "Universitetskiy" is manufactured by Production Corporation "Polyot" (Omsk, Russia) in the interests of Lomonosov Moscow State University. Supersmall satellite "Kompas-2" is a pilot project of multi-satellite system which is intended for prediction and motnitoring of natural and technologenical disasters. ... Composition of the scientific equipment of the "Universitetskiy" satellite. ...