Association FranГaise d'Astronomie 17, rue иmile Deutsch de la Meurthe 75014 Paris www.afastronomie.fr www.cieletespace.fr PRIX CIEL & ESPACE DU LIVRE D'ASTRONOMIE 1 La revue Ciel & Espace, ИditИe par l'Association FranГaise d'Astronomie dont le siХge social est situИ au 17, rue иmile Deutsch de la Meurthe 75014 Paris, organise la troisiХme Иdition du « Prix Ciel & Espace du livre d'astronomie » en 2016. ... 5 Le jury se rИunira Ю Paris, dans le courant du mois de mars 2016, pour attribuer le prix. ...

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Astronotes Armagh Planetarium's Stellar Blog! ... Milky Way . Stars . ... By admin September 12, 2011 Posted in: September . ... In this area of the sky there are a few little constellations that are worth a mention, Between Altair and the bright star, Albireo, at the head of Cygnus, lies(or flies) Sagitta, the Arrow, the third smallest constellation in the sky, which was well known to the ancient Greeks. ... One of the most amazing naked eye sights in the night sky is the Milky Way. ...

PHOTO: Richard Woolley in 1943 Richard van der Riet Woolley took up his duties on Mount Stromlo as Director of the then Commonwealth Solar Observatory early in December l939. ... I suggested to Woolley that we should hold a bicycle race from the Cotter Road at the foot of the mountain to the top, with the finishing line in front of the Observatory Building. ... I am gratified that, as the Tour de Stromlo Classic, it is still celebrated some 55 years later. ... Back to the Tour de Stromlo main page ...

... Observatory . ... THE HISTORY OF AAAP . ... After introductory remarks by Robert Sanders, founder of the Association, it was moved that the name of the organization be Amateur Astronomers Association of Princeton. ... 2/72 First issue of Sidereal Times, so named by Editor Roxanne Tobin. ... 5/72 Election of officers: Norman Sperling, Director; John Church, Assist. ... Sidereal Times, John gives the following report: . ... Sidereal Times.) ... Amateur Astronomers Association of Princeton Т? 2015. ...

The Magdalena Ridge Observatory Interferometer Fast Tip-Tilt/Narrow-field Acquisition System: Conceptual Design CoDR_NRL_v2.3 Prepared by: Jonathan R. Andrews Checked and validated by: Sergio R. Restaino July 10, 2009 Naval Research Laboratory Remote Sensing Division, Code 7216 3550 Aberdeen SE KAFB, NM 87117 http://rsd-www.nrl.navy.mil/7216/ Contents Change Record .................................................................................................................................. 5 Objective

PROGRESS SINCE MARCH ON S3 ENVIRONMENTAL DISTURBANCES Dust , Acoustic, Magnetic, and LHO Seismic Mitigation and Intersite Burst Search Robert Schofield, University of Oregon John Worden, Richard McCarthy, Bartie Rivera, Nathan Hindman, LHO AND MANY OTHERS 1 LIGO-G040391-00-W DUST BURSTS Dust burst in raw AS_Q time series : 12 10 8 6 4 2 0 -2 -4 -6 -8 0.2 0.22 0.24 0.26 0.28 0.3 0.32 0.34 0.36 0.38 0.4 H2: 2 Stirred up dust produces AS_Q glitches only at dark port. ... REDUCE COUPLING? ...

... Why does the Sun shine? The Sun is a mass of incandescent gas, . ... Where hydrogen is built into helium . ... The Sun is hot . ... And even when it's out of sight the Sun shines night and day . ... That heat and light from the Sun come from nuclear reactions of hydrogen, carbon, nitrogen and helium . ... Why does the Sun shine " from Space Songs LP (series: Singing Science Records) , produced in the late 1950s by Hy Zaret and Lou Singer; singers: Tom Glazer and Dottie Evans. б© 2010 OASES . ...

The telescope configured for measurements of exoplanet transit light curves is seen from the north side in this May 2010 photo. Lower portions of the dome have been insulated to reduce daytime heating by radiation from the warm metal dome. ... The interior of the dome is seen soon after the encoder upgrade in February 2007. ... Karen Collins, a research astronomer specializing in exoplanets, helped with the telescope installation in August 2006. ... kielkopf at louisville dot edu . ...

... I used Ѕ inch thick Appleply plywood throughout. ... The mirror box is a little unusual. ... The original design uses a fiberglass tube to connect the mirror base plate to the top ring to form the mirror box. ... I decided to build the mirror box like a standard secondary cage instead, using aluminum tubes with push-in inserts. ... All three tubes are retained at the mirror box and the secondary ring using nine, 1-inch thick Appleply clamps, three at the secondary and six on the mirror box. ...

... This sp ectral distribution is defined b oth by the energy distribution in the target star's sp ectrum and by the sp ectral resp onse of the detector, i.e. by the central wavelength 0 and the effective sp ectral bandwidth . ... On the right: The collection of the MASS sp ectral resp onse curves. ... Table 1: Integral characteristics of the resp onse curves of the MASS devices. 0 -- central wavelength, ef f -- effective wavelength for A0 V stars, -- effective bandwidth (integral under the curve). ...

... M111 Jan 2008 . ... New Members . ... 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! ... The flight computer onboard the Lunar Excursion Module, which landed on the Moon during the Apollo program, had a whopping 4 kilobytes of RAM and a 74-kilobyte ?hard drive.? ...

... Up: Adaptive and Active Optics . ... Six laser rangefinders are used to trilaterate to these prisms so that departures from paraboloidal shape due to wind pressure and thermal gradients in the backup structure can be measured. ... NRAO decided to build a 100-meter unblocked (off-axis) millimeter-wave active surface antenna, with laser rangefinders to control both mirror shape and pointing, and to call it the ``Green Bank Telescope'' [GBT]. ... Figure 1 shows the GBT as it looked in the Fall of 1999....