. 113th Annual Meeting Photo Gallery . ASP Board member Dennis Schatz tells educators at the Teachers' Workshop how to make an artificial comet. Photo Credit: Robert Naeye

... The program Conspiracy Theory: Did We Land on The Moon? seen on FOX television network (2/15/01) advanced the claim that NASA's Apollo Moon missions were a giant hoax. ... In our view the Apollo pictures were faked. ... Illumination in Shadow: FOX narrator: "On the Moon, the astronaut's only source of light was the Sun.. ... The two side-by-side photos show a test I conducted with a model of the lunar module and a toy astronaut placed in its shadow as in the Apollo image above. ... Apollo 11 Faked? ...

... Basic algorithms for the production of stellar photometry from CCD observations are described and reviewed. ... The problem of doing accurate stellar photometry with calibrated charge-coupled device (CCD) data amounts to that of condensing the intensity values of hundreds, thousands, or even millions of picture elements (pixels) into a list containing the magnitude and position of each star on the CCD image. ... Center an aperture of N A pixels on the star. ... PIXEL.LT.PEAKMAX)) THEN BINGO = .TRUE....

Proposal Identification No.: ... Proposal Type: General Category: Observation Category: Total Time Requested: Minimum Useful Time: Prop osal Title: ABSTRACT: Urgent Planetary Radar Solar System 3.0 Hours 1.0 Radar Observations of a Temporary Satellite of Earth We request one 3-hour observing track, October 23 from 03:30 to 06:30 AST, to detect a (presumably artificial) temporary satellite of Earth designated WT1190F by the Minor Planet Center. ...

... This offset corrects for low level noisy columns, by artificially suppressessing their threshold values. ... 5 CCF components Name of CCF VALDATE List of Blocks changed CAL VERSION XSCS flag EPN ADUCONV 0017 2000 ­06­11T03:00:00 OFFSET GAIN NO EPN ADUCONV 0018 2000 ­06­29T02:49:00 OFFSET GAIN NO EPN ADUCONV 0019 2000 ­07­01T08:07:00 OFFSET GAIN NO EPN ADUCONV 0020 2000 ­07­03T12:00:00 OFFSET GAIN NO EPN ADUCONV 0021 2000 ­07­03T22:16:00 ...

... Staff list | Student list | ... Email discussion lists . ... Engineering education program . ... Murchison Radio-astronomy Observatory . ... Australia Telescope Online Archive (ATOA) . ... Engineering research . Engineering education . ... Virtual Radio Interferometer . ... Date : Mon, 19 Apr 2004 10:26:25 +1000 . ... the following conference may be of interest / relevance to . ... INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON . ... international multi-disciplinary conference that will bring several areas . ...

This example shows how to add a few input widgets to a script and how to get data from them. This is a fairly artificial example in that one would normally just use the DIS Expose window for this purpose. ... import RO.Wdg import Tkinter import TUI .Inst.ExposeModel as ExposeModel from TUI .Inst.ExposeStatusWdg import ExposeStatusWdg class ScriptClass(object): Take a series of DIS darks with user input . def __init__(self, sr): Display exposure status and a few user input ...

Astronotes Armagh Planetarium's Stellar Blog! ... Telescopes and Observatories . Space Flight . ... August 15, 1977 may be etched into the minds of some people, it was the night before Elvis Presley died, but it was also the night that a signal from space was detected.€а Uncovered by Jerry Ehman, the WOW signal was a strong narrowband radio signal.€а Ehman was part of the SETI (Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence) project working at the Big Ear radio telescope at Ohio, USA at the time. ...

Astronomy Discussion Forums . ... Teleportation . ... If the Sun lost half its mass; = includes basic concept apparently Sun losing "half its uncertainty", = Sun becoming more factorised (concentrated) .. ... If the sun lost half its mass, on this idea it would partially let go of gravity (well conventional physics says this too?) ... www.astronomy.net . ... Forum posts are Copyright their authors as specified in the heading above the post. "dbHTML," "AstroGuide," "ASTRONOMY.NET" & "VA.NET" . ...

. Food/crop/plant production is very sensitive to climate; many zones exist .

... Astronomers rely on scatter plots to illustrate correlations and trends among many pairs of variables more than any scientists [ 1 ] . ... When having many pairs of variables that demands numerous scatter plots, one possibility is using parallel coordinates and a matrix of correlation coefficients. ... Tags: ANCOVA , ANOVA , approximation , correlation , Gaussianity , graphics , MADS , modeling , nonparametric , parallel coordinates , PCA , quality , quantity , regression , scatter plots . ...

... ARTICLE: Total Solar Eclipse 2006 . ... Bild Timber ) den tЭrkeschen Timber vun der SonnendДischtert 2006 . Ons ZКmmeren hate BlИck op d' Mier a Richtung SЭden , eng gudd Viraussetzung fir dИi kommend Beobachtung. ... Et huet sech hanneno erausgestallt, dass eng extrem gutt Preparatioun den A an den O sinn, fir eng SonnendДischtert propper op e Film ze krИien.Vill vun deenen, dИi vu wДit ugereest waren, hunn dat leider ze spИit erkannt. ... Jeanny JUNGBLUTH             AAL , Astroclub Veymerange . ...

... Members . ... The ATM's of Boston was founded in 1934 by a group of persons interested in assisting others in the art of optical polishing the craft of telescope making, and to learn together about the science of astronomy and the use of astronomical instruments. ... Mr. Jones introduced the club to Dr. Harlow Shapley at Harvard College Observatory. ... Regular shop activities resumed with the help of these "professional amateurs" and the club grew to 180 members. ... Club Newsletters . ...

... Astrophysics Group . ... Pulsars . ... Stars ? ... The array was designed to detect compact radio sources such as these by virtue of the fact that they would scintillate (twinkle) when observed from the Earth through the interplanetary medium ? ... One of Antony Hewish?s research students, Jocelyn Bell, was set the task of operating the telescope and inspecting the daily charts for the kind deflections in the trace which occurred when a scintillating source passed over the array. ...

MPEC 2010-A35 : 2010 AL2 http://www.cfa.harvard.edu/mpec/K10/K10A35.html Printer-friendly version MPC Ope rations Status Processing (Info) ECS: Accessible Obse rv e r Se rv ice s (NEOs) NEO Services Overview NEO Confirmation NEO Confirmation (RA order) NEO Ratings NEO Page NEO Observation Planning Aid NEOChecker NEOCMT Checker Obse rv e r Se rv ice s Services Overview IAUMail Minor Planet & Comet Ephem. ... Orbital elements: 2010 AL2 Epoch 2010 Jan. ...

... Home Articles Observing Resources for Amateur Astronomers ? Part 1: Beginning Observers Observing Resources for Amateur Astronomers ? Part 4: Magazines and Miscellany . ... Observing Resources for Amateur Astronomers - Part 1: Beginning Observers . Observing Resources for Amateur Astronomers - Part 2: Intermediate Observers . Observing Resources for Amateur Astronomers - Part 3: Advanced Observers . Observing Resources for Amateur Astronomers - Part 4: Magazines and Miscellany . ...