Astronotes Armagh Planetarium's Stellar Blog! ... Armagh Planetarium . ... Moon . Planets . ... Space Flight . ... A gorgeous image of the real ?Lord of the Rings? ... Saturn is a big planet, about nine times as wide as the Earth, so the rings are huge. Let me put them into scale, if Saturn and the rings were moved so that one edge of the rings touched the Earth, then the distance across the rings to the opposite edge would extend more than halfway to the Moon. ... Saturn has a lot of moons. ...

... LUMAM . ... ABOUT LOMO . ... MICROSCOPES . ... Home Products Microscopes Lumam . ... LUMAM™ microscopes include high-performance fluorescence filters specially developed by LOMO for fluorescence microscopy. ... It allows the attachment of all modules and components, such as the mechanical stage, condensers, objectives, filters, fluorescence cubes, mercury epi-illuminator and observation heads. ... The LUMAM Mercury Epi-Illumination is the standard light source system for research fluorescence. ...

... LINKS . ... Founded in 1971 by a group of enthusiasts and star aficionados, our association is now counting more than 130 members.As a national association we attract hobby astronomers from the whole country to our regular night-sky observations and to the meetings in our club at Dudelange. ... Club News . ... by topic : PDF File Download (360KB) . by title : PDF File Download (640KB) . ... Article about AAL in "Le Quotidien" newspaper of Juli 21 2005 - PDF File Download (132KB) . ... SOME LINKS . ...

... We then updated to PVCam 2.7.4.2, but we still see corrupt images if we don't close and reopen the camera after every exposure sequence, and the camera sometimes fails to respond to a trigger pulse. ... Close and re-init the camera, as follows: ... pl_cam_close(0) pl_pvcam_uninit() pl_pvcam_init() . ... power off camera . ... Call pl_exp_start_cont (to start a continuous exposure sequence into a circular buffer) with a circular buffer that holds too many images and you will hang your computer. ...

... Image Quality of the VLT . Total Optical Control . First light for the ESO VLT unit telescope 1 occurred during the workshop. ... The image shown (Figure 1 ) here was obtained with the VLT on May 16, 1998, in red light (R band), i.e. while the mirror was still uncoated. ... In this diagram (FIgure 2), the measured image quality of the VLT UT1 astronomical images is plotted versus the ``seeing", as measured by the Seeing Monitor, a small telescope also located on top of the Paranal Mountain. ...

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... Here's the latest version of the M111 " ONLINE. ... We've had some fantastic Public Nights - although there's nothing unusual about that for RAS. ... And our " Starry Nights " program for the Hidden Hollow Camp kids was just awesome! ... The 2007 Black Forest Star Party was a blast. ... Public Nights & Starry Nights.. ... Hidden Hollow 2007 . ... Please make plans to donate your time generously... the Hidden Hollow Star Party reflects on our club as a whole and we want everyone to have a great time!...