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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Subsystemsof RR Lyrae Variable Stars in Our Galaxy . ... Field stars displaying more rapid motion and clusters with redderh orizontal branches constitute the spheroidal subsystem of the accreted outer halo, which is approximately a factor of three larger in size than the first two subsystems. ... Both the clusters and field stars belong to at least three Galactic subsystems: the thick disk and genetically related inner proto-disk halo, and the outer accreted halo. ...
... 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:...
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. ...
Optimized MASS device for synchronous measurements with Paranal DIMM. ... System 1.2.2 Fabry lens . ... 3.2 Device alignments at the telescop 3.2.1 Fabry lens p osition . ... Optical layout of MASS device in ZY plane . Optical layout of the MASS device in ZX plane MASS segmentator . ... Other values are explained in text. working entrance pupils for the MASS devices can b e defined in reverse light path as the images of these pupil stops pro duced by the Fabry lens + telescop e optical system. ...