... The current version 5.2.1 will see only minor additional revisions through 2010. October 14, 2010 =============== To do: Add home on startup of bisque/mks Add southern hemisphere tracking direction change to bisque/mks Check southern hemisphere mappings in bisque/mks Check lower horizon limit Known problems on release of 5.2.1: With 64-bit OS's there are warnings from Motif on compilation. ... Pointing corrections, while available in software, are not fully tested. ...

... Primary Mirror after being stripped and recoated in 3-layer protected silver (NiCr-Ag-NiCr) on 12 September 2009. image: CIMG7901.jpg . ... Primary Mirror held by (yellow) handling tool being lifted off transport container (note the tennis balls it rested on), to be put on wash cart during unpacking at VISTA on 29 March 2008. image: P1060207.jpg (taken 29/03/08) . ... VISTA Mirror Blank: Shape of 4m primary mirror blank being tested at Schott Glas in Germany. image: M1_shape_checking-300dpi.jpg . ...

... ASRAS HOME . ... For our educational outreach event, we hosted a Boy Scout troop in Ionia (Pix_1), for a sleep over this last spring and were able to make our Portable Radio Telescope (PBT - itty bitty radio telescope ) operational. ... The Solar Radio Telescope project is coming together nicely. ... You may have seen or heard of articles about the ongoing Solar RT project which is a Solar RF Spectrograph to study sunspots, presently being built for the ASRAS astronomy club (site in Ionia, NY). ...

... PUBLIC LECTURE - APRIL 12, 2016 . New Discoveries in the Outer Solar System: Ceres, Pluto and Planet X . ... Dr. Green will talk about "New Discoveries in the Outer Solar System: Ceres, Pluto, and Planet X". ... Beginning in 1992 planetary astronomers began to find Pluto like objects beyond the orbit of Neptune showing us that Pluto was a member of an entirely new family of objects we now call the Kuiper Belt. ... Amateur Astronomers Association of Princeton, Inc., ...

Winer Observatory P.O. Box 797, Sonoita, Arizona 85637-0797, USA . ... 2/3-m Telescope . ... Site . ... Commanding . ... In a typical robotic observing scenario, each afternoon, a telescope control computer obtains a set of objects to observe from its home institution from a command or script file. ... The file is then transferred to the telescope control computer at the Winer Observatory in Sonoita. ... The Iowa control computer then begins processing the telrun.sls file. ... 2013 Winer Observatory. ...

MAIN PAGE . ... LINKS . ... AAL Members Sites . ... Amateur Astronomy . ... Mars Missions . Observatories Telescopes . ... astronomylinks.com. - astronomy and space links, shortcuts, favorites and bookmarks . ... Mel Bartels' Homepage about Amateur Telescope Making and a lot of interesting links (thx to Hugues Laroche for the link!) ... STEREO (Solar TErrestrial RElations Observatory) consists of two space-based observatories - one ahead of Earth in its orbit, the other trailing behind . ...

ESAC XMM-Newton - Calibration strategy, status and factors limiting success M.G.F. Kirscha),and the EPICb,c,d CAL Team A.M.T. Pollocka) and RGSe CAL Team aEuropean bMP E, cLeiceste Space Agency, r University, dCEA/Saclay APC eSRON, Kirsch Pollock , XMM-Newton European Space Astronomy Centre Page 1 The Mission ESAC Xray-Multi-Mirror-Mission Cornerstone Mission of ESA's Horizon 2000 Program ... Vignetting ESAC mirrors filter CCD electronics 1. mirrors 2. ...

... История календаря . ... Семь дней . ... Время. ... У вьетнамцев сохранился до сих пор красивый обычай созерцать луну в шестнадцатый день восьмого месяца их лунного календаря: светлый лик, не закрытый тучами, обещает хороший урожай в этом году, полузадернутый туманной пеленой ? ... Император решил провести реформу в 46 г. до н.э. К тому времени римский календарь разошелся с солнечным на 70 суток по милости нерадивых понтификов, да еще десять дней надо было прибавить, чтобы год стал нормальной длины. ...