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. ...
... 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., ...
... 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. ...
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... The event, a Type II supernova explosion, would have briefly dominated the night sky on Earth. ... Popularly known as the Veil Nebula, NGC 6960, NGC 6992, and NGC 6995 together constitute the corpse of a single supergiant star that perished in that supernova explosion. ... Such stars age about 1,000 times faster than does our Sun. ... Each nuclear-fusion stage releases energy and helps the star fight the ever-present pull of gravity. ... Copyright (c) Amateur Telescope Makers of Boston, Inc. ...
... 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. ...
... This oral history interview is with Dr. Mike Griffin in Houston, Texas, for the NASA Commercial Crew & Cargo Program Office History Project. ... As a consequence of that?I have characterized it as space was all government, all the time. ... Companies engage in things that look good on a balance sheet. ... In my view, a good way to get that started would be to make available to successful commercial developers the government market, and even to provide them a little bit of seed money. ... Griffin:...
... Видимое годовое движение Солнца . ... Чему равна высота точки зенита над горизонтом? ... Эксцентриситет орбиты Цереры равен 0,079, большая ось 5,54 а. е. Чему равно наибольшее расстояние Цереры от Солнца? ... Горизонтальный параллакс Солнца равен 8,8?? ... Горизонтальный параллакс Солнца 8,8??, расстояние от Солнца до Марса 1,5 а. е. Определите линейный радиус Марса, если известно, что во время великого противостояния его угловой радиус составляет 12,5??, а горизонтальный параллакс равен 23,4?? ...
VISTA Telescope Mount Factory testing prior to optics integration Paul Jeffers*a, Brian Stobiea, Stan Hermannb, Brad McCreightb a UK Astronomy Technology Centre, Royal Observatory, Blackford Hill, Edinburgh, EH9 3HJ, UK b VertexRSI General Dynamics C4 Systems, 1217 Digital Drive, Richardson, TX 75081, USA ABSTRACT VISTA1 is a survey telescope which will deliver 0.5 arc second images over a 2 degree diameter unvignetted field of view. ... Thermal affects during the period of the test. ...
Mon. Not. R. Astron. Soc. 349, 13971418 (2004) doi:10.1111/j.1365-2966.2004.07619.x The 2dF QSO Redshift Survey XII. The spectroscopic catalogue and luminosity function S. M. Croom,1 R. J. Smith,2 B. J. Boyle,1 T. Shanks,3 L. Miller,4 P. J. Outram3 and N. S. Loaring4,5 1 2 3 4 5 Anglo-Australian Observatory, PO Box 296, Epping, NSW 1710, Australia Astrophysics Research Institute, Liverpool John Moores University, Twelve Quays House, Egerton Wharf, Birkenhead CH41 1LD Department of Physics, University of
... Structural Analysis of Disk Galaxies of the NGC 524 Group M. A. Il'ina and O. K. Sil'chenko * Sternberg Astronomical Institute, Lomonosov Moscow State University, Moscow, Russia Received February 24, 2012; in final form, March 2, 2012 Abstract--Members of the NGC 524 group of galaxies are studied using data obtained on the 6m telescope of the Special Astrophysical Observatory of the Russian Academy of Sciences, with the SCORPIO reducer in an imaging mode. ... NGC 502. ... NGC 524. ... Rev. Astron. ...