... Apr 14, 2016 - Monthly Meeting . ... The Amateur Telescope Makers of Boston, Inc. ATMoB) is an astronomy club devoted to telescope making, observing, and studying the heavens. ... CURRENT MOON . ... April Sky . ... Lyrids Meteor Shower . ... Sources: NASA JPL Space Calendar , StarDate Online , Sky Telescope , Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics , RASC Observer’s Handbook , Abrams Planetarium Sky Calendar and Astronomy Magazine . ... Copyright (c) Amateur Telescope Makers of Boston, Inc. ...

... 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 Unit Telescopes Overview - This page is outdated, an update is in process.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 Secondary mirror (M2 Unit) - This page is outdated, an update is in process.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 Coating Unit - This page is outdated, an update is in process. ...

Astronotes Armagh Planetarium's Stellar Blog! ... Meteors and Meteorites . ... Stars . ... Monthly Sky Notes . ... This famous depiction of the Leonids was based on a first hand account of a meteor storm by a minister, Joseph Harvey Waggoner. ... In the autumn the Great Square of Pegasus is visible in the southern night sky. ... I hope this guide to the November night sky is helpful and have fun star sight-seeing! ... Tweets that mention The Leonid meteors: highlights of the November night sky | ...

The Status window shows the status of the telescope and (on unix and Windows) contains TUI's menus. ... The top panel shows user-specified information about the current target and also the progress of slews: . Name : object name . Obj Pos1/2 (e.g. RA/Dec): net object position. including object and arc offsets. ... Object Arc Off: the current object arc offset . Object Arc Off X,Y: the current object arc offset rotated to instrument xy coordinates (this may vary if the field rotates). ...

... 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 . ...

On September 15, 1998, the STScI director, Dr. Steven Beckwith, announced a special observation opportunity to the astronomical community during the Leonid Meteor Shower. During the peak of the Leonid meteor shower on November 17, 1998, HST will be pointed near the anti-radiant for ten hours. Anyone who is interested can submit ideas to STScI for scientific observations during this time. ... There are no HST observations in the archives for objects in this field. ...

... The comet 169P was first observed by the Near-Earth Asteroid Tracking system. In order to observe this comet we had to figure out if it was possible to view it from Faulkes Telescope South, a 2m reflecting telescope which is used for research as well as for use by school students around the world over the internet. ... Since 169P is such a bright object, we were able to use a red filter on some of our observations to provide a clearer image. ...

... To get an idea for how the tension in the tiedowns varies with telescope motion, 3 different projects that use repetitive telescope motion were selected (a fourth day was also included to show typical tracking of sources). ... The azimuth sits at 360 or 180 degrees. ... dome at 15 degrees, ch at 0 degrees. azimuth rotates 360 degrees in 15 minutes. the rotation continues for 3 to 7 days. ... black : td12 (az=360) . ... Top: tiedown tension vs hour of day. td12 change in tension is 31 kips. ...

... Spiral Galaxy NGC 1232 . ... Grand spiral galaxy NGC 1232, recently captured in detail by the new Very Large Telescope, is a good example. A Peculiar Cluster of Galaxies . ... A diverse group of galaxies populate this cluster, including, on the left, an unusual galaxy showing an equatorial polar ring and a large spiral. ... M61: Virgo Spiral Galaxy . ... Visible in M61 are a host of features common to spiral galaxies: bright spiral arms, a central bar, dust lanes, and bright knots of stars. ...

... This page contains pictures and text to accompany the press release entitled "some black holes are pink", which was presented as part of the Fresh Science event, ScienceNow! ... I first show colour pictures of the pink black holes (and of some blue and yellow ones for comparison. ... If you are having this trouble, I've included pictures below with stretched colour maps, to emphasise the colours: these should print better. (jpeg image, 29kb) . ... Quasar (black hole) PKS 1133-172. ...

... STScI-PRC96-05 HUBBLE TELESCOPE PHOTO REVEALS STELLAR DEATH PROCESS This NASA Hubble Space Telescope image of planetary nebula NGC 7027 shows remarkable new details of the process by which a star like the Sun dies. ... The NGC 7027 photograph is a composite of two Hubble images, taken in visible and infrared light, and is shown in "pseudo-color." Credit: H. Bond (STScI) and NASA Image files in GIF and JPEG format and captions may be accessed on Internet via ftp from oposite.stsci.edu in /pubinfo. ...

This picture of the Meathook Galaxy (NGC 2442) was taken by the Wide Field Imager on the MPG/ESO 2.2-meter telescope at La Silla, Chile. It shows a much broader view than the Hubble image, although less detailed. This view includes the whole galaxy and the surrounding sky, and clearly shows the asymmetric spiral arms. The longer of the two arms has intense star formation, which is visible here as a pink glow: this is due to the radiation of young stars ionising the gas they form from. ...

STEP INTO THE BLUE - MEADE INSTRUMENTS PRODUCT GUIDE . ... Telescopes . LX850 Series . ... For over 30 years, itтАЩs been our passion to create the finest telescopes available for the astronomy enthusiast. ... Events . Meade Events . ... Event Calendar . Northeast Astronomy Forum & Telescope Show (NEAF) . ... Meade is happy to announce that we will be attending the Northeast Astronomy Forum & Telescope Show, a.k.a. NEAF, one of the largest astronomy trade shows in the United States. ...

Stellarium 0.12.3 . ... Classes . ... Oculars Class Reference . ... voidљ . ... enableOcular (bool b) . ... rotateCCD (QString amount) . ... selectCCDAtIndex (QString indexString) . ... boolљ . ... virtual voidљ . ... virtual boolљ . ... virtual bool Oculars::configureGui . ... virtual void Oculars::deinit . ... virtual void Oculars::draw . ... The main StelStyle instance should be passed. virtual void Oculars::handleKeys . ... virtual void Oculars::handleMouseClicks . ... virtual void Oculars::init . ...

... The European HST Archive has been moved to ESA's European Space Astronomy Centre ( ESAC ), Spain, where most of ESA's Space Science Archives are located and operated from. ... The Space Telescope European Coordinating Facility (ST-ECF), jointly operated by ESA and the European Southern Observatory ( ESO ) was, until the end of 2010, the European HST science facility, supporting the European astronomy community in exploiting the research opportunities provided by the Hubble Space Telescope. ...

Your First Telescope . Articles | ... Next to "What telescope should I buy?" this is the most common question I usually get asked. ... What you can see depends on a lot of factors, including the type of telescope you bought, the quality of your local seeing conditions, and your level of skill. ... As a result, an experienced observer might enjoy deep sky objects in an 80 mm refractor, while a beginner with a light bucket next door is still struggling to find the Orion Nebula. ...

XmTel uses the XPA interface for extensible connection to the operating system and scripting. ... Support for several commercial telescopes and controllers under Linux .. ... Software Bisque Paramount ME (requires RTS2 library) . ... In the current version of XmTel .. ... Offers command line and scripted operation using XPA . ... Version 7 includes the XPA server, telescope drivers, a client, utility software, and a standalone option that does not use XPA. ... Previous versions and support for INDI . ...

... This telescope is also able to be used in a non-assisted manner. ... Upon availability, the use of the Club's 10" dobsonian mount telescope. Upon availability, the use of the Club's 16" Meade LightBridge telescope. ... Use of the Club's Coronado Personal Solar Telescope and Cemax Eyepieces. Use of the Club's Video Eyepieces. ... Use of Club Binoculars. ... It's all part of being here and just one of many telescopes that are the benefit of being a member of the Richland Astronomical Society. ...

... Next: Space and the Up: GUIs and Visualization Previous: A Graphical Planning . ... The WIYN 3.5m Telescope Control System features a platform independent, network transparent protocol for distributing telescope control data to both local and remote sites. ... The WIYN Engineering Data Subsystem (EDS) is a spacecraft-style telemetry system that sends telescope telemetry (encoders, currents, voltages, pointing data, etc.) in a machine-independent format to clients connected across a network. ...

home education > resources . ... Resources . ... Astronomical Pseudo-Science . ... Black Holes: An Introductory Resource List . ... http://www.astrosociety.org/2012 . ... Fraknoi, A. "Dealing with Astrology, UFOs, and Faces on Other Worlds: Guide to Astronomical Pseudo-science in Classroom," Astronomy Edu cation Review, (2004): http://dx.doi.org/10.3847/AER2003022 . ... The Skeptic's Dictionary: An excellent source of brief reviews, references, and links on dozens of areas of pseudo-science. ...