... Operations Support Staff . ... Complete dormitory information is available. ... Please contact the Site Operations Manager to make arrangements. ... overall project requirements, equipment use, safety, or physical plant ; contact Mark Klaene , Site Operations Manager; Ben Harris provides APO infrastructure support and acts as Safety Officer . ... Cloudcroft is located 17 miles from APO, two miles south of the start of Hw,. 6563 which leads to Sunspot/APO. ... Contact APO staff for more information. ...

... STAR FIELDS Newsletter of the Amateur Telescope Makers of Boston Including the Bond Astronomical Club Established in 1934 In the Interest of Telescope Making & Using Vol. ... Then NASA's LCROSS probe finds water ice on the moon when it slammed into the lunar South Pole. ... New Star Parties: Lexington Planet Party - Jan 19, 2010 Butler Middle School Star Party - Feb 23, 2010 Cambridge Science Festival Sidewalk Astronomy - April 26th and May 1st ~ Al Takeda, Secretary ~ Clubhouse Report . ...

... Recognition of Anomalous Events S. Monai 1,2 and F.Pasian 2 1 Osservatorio Astronomico di Brera Merate, Italy 2 Osservatorio Astronomico di Trieste, Italy Abstract. We present an original algorithm for the recognition of anomalous events in a CCD frame (i.e., cosmic hits, bad pixels etc.) ... Raw images, as read from a CCD, are often a#ected by some events which are revealed by anomalous pixel values, i.e., single saturated pixels or pixels at zero intensity (also named hot or bad pixels). ...

... It was with this spirit that Norman Oberle suggested that area amateurs should have the benefit of a large aperture (25 inches or larger) telescope with sufficient focal length for excellent visual work. ... Norm Oberle and Jim Thomas spent 2,000 hours grinding and polishing to work the mirror into an oblate spheroid. ... Norm worked with Jim Thomas in a basement workshop. ... The Richland club is situated in the Hidden Hollow camp ground, and has long held meetings in the clubhouse on the grounds. ...

What is the VSM ? ... VRML = Virtual Reality Modeling Language. ... One of the best VRML viewers, if not the best, is Netscape Navigator with Live3D plugin. ... Warning: if you use any other viewer, spacecraft will probably look like parrots or clowns because each VRML viewer treats colors in its own unpredictable way. ... You can use these VRML models freely in any way you like, but: 1) let me know you use them; 2) if you add them to your Web page, a reference to the VSM must be there. ...