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Next: A Coronagraphic Search for Up: NICMOS Science Previous: NICMOS Science . ... A search for previously unknown low-mass (giant planet and brown dwarf) companions to stars in the solar neighborhood, and circumstellar dust disks around main sequence stars by direct coronagraphic imaging has been undertaken by the NICMOS Instrument Definition Team (IDT). ... The problem in the target acquisition process resulted in degraded pointing and target centration performance for these observations. ...

Previous Editions of the M111: . ... The Christmas Star - Fact Or Fiction? ... Any time you have something you'd like to offer - be it a story of how you first got started in astronomy, a star party you just attended, a telescope you just bought, or your favorite constellation, just drop me a line with the story included and I'll be sure to get it posted! ... First and foremost, I'd like to thank everyone who took the time to vote on this year's board and officer elections both in person and by proxy. ...

... The unlocked gate at the entrance to the observatoryтАЩs gravel driveway should remain closed to prevent the public from driving back to the observatory. ... This means that if there are still members of the public present at the observatory who do not wish to leave by 11:30 PM they will be locked in the park until a keyholder leaves and secures the gate(s) behind him/her. ... Roll the roof back using the hand crank near the computer room. ... Amateur Astronomers Association of Princeton, Inc., ...

CFITSIO Interface Library CFITSIO is a library of ANSI C routines for reading and writing FITS format data files. ... The CFITSIO library is built on Unix systems by typing: > ./configure [--prefix=/target/installation/path] > make (or 'make shared') > make install (this step is optional) at the operating system prompt. The configure command customizes the Makefile for the particular system, then the `make' command compiles the source files and builds the library. ...

... Beyond New York City . ... Observing Resources for Amateur Astronomers - Part 1: Beginning Observers . ... A History of the First Forty Years of the Amateur Astronomers Association . ... The Board of Directors shall be the governing body of the Association. ... As soon as possible after the annual meeting of the Association (cf Article VII), and no later than May 31, the President shall convene a meeting of the Board of Directors, to which any new Directors-elect shall be specifically invited. ...

... Imaging spectrometer for atmosphere and ionosphere spectral investigation consist the static Michelson interferometer and CCD camera. The prototype of the onboard CCD camera for the spectrometer used the Toshiba 2048 pixels CCD linear array (TCD 1201D) with FPGA-based controller. The controller is building on ACTEL A1020A field programmable gates array with maximum data rate 40 MHz and can be used with linear and area array CCD. ... Toshiba CCD Linear Image Sensor Data Book, 1997. ...

... 000, 1­12 (2009) Printed 11 February 2010 A (MN L TEX style file v2.2) Analytical approximations of K -corrections in optical and near-infrared bands I1gor V. Chilingarian1 2 ,2,3 , Anne-Laure Melchior 1,4 and Ivan Yu. ... Received 2010 February 01; in original form 2009 August 14 ABSTRACT To compare photometric properties of galaxies at different redshifts, the fluxes need to be corrected for the changes of effective rest-frame wavelengths of filter bandpasses, called K -corrections. ... Table 1. ...