... Canadian Astronomy Data Center, DAO/NRC . SkyCat is a tool that combines image visualization with access to astronomical catalogs and data archives. SkyCat uses a standardized URL syntax to access a large number of data sources on the net. ... More information on SkyCat can be found at the SkyCat Web site. The ESO SkyCat Tool includes the following features: . ... PostScript color printing of the display (image + graphics), . ... overlay catalog sources on an image, . ...

Click for cloud data . Weather Forecasts . National Weather Service forecast . Clear Sky Chart for Moore Observatory . Canadian Weather Office forecast for astronomy . ... Louisville area forecast . Weather Data . Observatory weather station . ... SSEC geostationary satellite images . Regional reports . National Weather Service radar . ... Regional weather for the last three days . ... Click for a larger view, or here for other images from NOAA. ...

International Gemini Project Office Mirror . Gemini f/16 Optical Design Summary ( local ps ). Australian Gemini Project Office . ... USA Gemini Project Office . Gemini Instrumentation Development Requirements ( local ps ). UK Gemini Project Office . ... Canadian Gemini Project Office . NIRI home page . ... GNIRS home page . ... GMOS home page . ... Publications * Team Members * Internal Project Links * . Instrumentation Links * Gemini Project Links * Other IR Instruments ...

Astronotes Armagh Planetarium's Stellar Blog! ... Space Flight . ... Of the hundred different kinds I like the ones that become unconscious, when it feels like you have wings on your back and of those I think that my favourite is the F-86 Sabre. ... It was just something I resolved to myself, and so my family treated it- theyтАЩd five kids- like it was just something one of their kids talked about. ... Chris Hadfield addresses a large and attentive audience at Armagh Planetarium. ... Astronotes . ...

... Archives . ... Oct 6th, 2007| 12:45 pm | ... This week, instead of only filtering AstroStatistics related papers from arxiv, I chose additional arxiv/astro-ph papers related to CHASC folks? astrophysical projects. ... Due to the CHACS? long history (we are celebrating the 10th birthday this year) and my being a newbie to CHASC, I may not pick up all papers related to the projects of current, former, and future CHASC members and dedicated slog readers. ... astro-ph:0709.4531] . ... Chandra Blog . ...

... Media Files . ... There are media files (ppt, pdf of presentations shared by authors) on this page. ... Alexander Gusev (SAI), Boris Artamonov (SAI) . ... Maidanak Observatory by AZT-22 1.5m telescope observations (poster) . PDF [2.3€аMB] . ... PDF [692.6€аKB] . ... PDF [704.7€аKB] . ... Some results after 10 years of site testing at Concordia . ... Giant Magellan telescope site testing summary (poster) . ... Peter Scheglov - pioneer of site testing in the Central Asia (poster) . ...

... Astrophysics Group . ... Integration of the NIRSpec instrument . ... SKA AAVS0 array . ... One of the major milestones for the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has been, in September 2013, the completion by ESA of NIRSpec, the first multi-object spectrograph to be operated in space. ... Cambridge, and in particular the Cavendish Astrophysics Group and the Kavli Institute for Cosmology, is heavily involved in NIRSpec by hosting one of the Instrument Science Team members (R. Maiolino). ...

... The ST-ECF consisted, until its closure in December 2010, of a small group of astronomers, software scientists and media specialists who support Hubble science in Europe and collaborate internationally on HST science, instrument, archive and outreach activities. provided detailed technical information about the HST and its science instruments, . supported European astronomers in the preparation of HST observing proposals . ... acted as a European centre for associated meetings and workshops, . ...

Learning Astronomy Through Storytelling . That children at different stages of development will derive different meanings from the same story is obvious but worth mentioning. ... If you teach K-2, the central message of the story that you want students to understand is simply that the Moon's shape, as they see it in the sky, varies. ... Children learn that a story has a plot, a setting, characters, a main problem, a crisis point, and a solution. ...

... The Triplet Lenses are manufactured by LOMO PLC of St. Petersburg Russia, one of the world's largest and most advanced optical manufacturers. ... This day the official web site of St.Petersburg company, lomo.ru, became accessible. ... LOMO VOTING PAPERS PROCESSING COMPLEXES TESTED SUCCESSFULLY . On December 16, 2001 during elections to Legislative Assembly of Leningrad Region, Russia, pilot pieces of the new Voting Papers Processing Complex created at LOMO PLC were used for the first time. ...