XmTel ----- XmTel is a Motif-based telescope control program based on INDI, the Instrument-Neutral Distributed Interface. ... See the files LICENSE and COPYRIGHT for the details. ... About Epoch ----------- XmTel assumes that the telescope is set to "Epoch of Date", which means that it is using ideal celestial coordinates precisely aligned today. ... XmTel assumes that target coordinates entered from the keyboard are in the Epoch that the telescope coordinates are currently displayed in. ...

... EYEPIECE April 2013 Volume 61 Number 4 ISSN 0146-7662 Isaac Asimov Memorial "Debate About Nothing" By Richard Brounstein NASA ROVER FINDS CONDITIONS ONCE SUITED FOR ANCIENT LIFE ON MARS WASHINGTON - An analysis of a rock sample collected by NASA's Curiosity rover shows ancient Mars could have supported living microbes. ... 11 EYEPIECE April 2013 FOCUS ON THE UNIVERSE Comet Chasing: Photographing PanSTARRS By Stan Honda wasn't expecting to dodge cow chips while photographing Comet PanSTARRS. ...

... Even though for the upcoming year will be discussed, including the fall picnic, the moon was just past full, a remarkable amount of detail and observatory events, programs, and light pollution activities. All color was captured in this LRGB composite CCD image (below). interested members are welcome-- please call or e-mail me or As a visual challenge over the next month, see how much of the other members of the board if you'd like to attend. ... AAAP's Washington Crossing Observatory. ...

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. ... Sure we have a number of new members join every year and a few of them become extremely active and make valuable contributions to the club. ... Steve would like to keep the club's outward focus by attracting new members and start focusing inwards so that members can develop their skills in astronomy and telescope making. ...

... I'd like you to imagine that you are aliens, living in the city of Mog, on a strange and distant world that just happens to be just like the Earth. ... The inhabitants of Mog have never seen the sky. ... They believe that the Great God has a light switch, which she switches off and on to make day and night. ... You have recently completed the greatest piece of telegraph engineering that the world of Mog has ever seen: a telegraph linking Mog to the incredibly distant seaside city of Zing. ...

... Soc. 376, 1033­1046 (2007) doi:10.1111/j.1365-2966.2007.11549.x Kinematics and stellar populations of the dwarf elliptical galaxy IC 3653 I. V. Chilingarian,1 1 2 ,2,3 P. Prugniel, 2,4 O. K. Sil'chenko1 and V. L. Afanasiev 5 Sternberg Astronomical Institute of the Moscow State University, Universitetsky pr. ... Fitting the spectra with synthetic single stellar populations (SSP), we found an SSPequivalent age of 5 Gyr and nearly solar metallicity [Fe/H] =-0.06 dex. ... 2007 The Authors. ...