... Members . ... Thursday, Nov 12, 2009 at 8:00 PM . In October, ATMoB members Gary Jacobson, Bernie Volz, John Briggs, Paul Valleli and Bruce Berger traveled to different parts of the globe in hopes of being part of the first team to capture the occultation of a distant star by a Kuiper Belt Object. ... Please join us for a pre-meeting dinner discussion at Changsho, 1712 Mass Ave, Cambridge, MA at 6:00pm before the meeting. ... Nov . ... Copyright (c) Amateur Telescope Makers of Boston, Inc. ...

... However, our studies show that Prosilica EC650 has very good p erformance to use as DIMM image detector. ... The sub-directories /opt/dimm/data/out for the output data file, /opt/dimm/data/log for the output log file yymmdd-dimm.log and /opt/dimm/etc for the configuration file must b e created. ... Pictures mode The Pictures mode provides grabbing of the star b ox images and storing their sequence as one output file "b oxrecord.fits" in /opt/dimm/data/images/ sub directory. ...

... How can I participate in AAAP to elevate my own interests and contribute in a way that helps advance the club and the future of amateur astronomy? ... Well known to AAAP from her significant role with the Sloan Digital Sky Survey in which Princeton is a key player, Dr. Knapp will speak to us about her research on Brown Dwarfs. ... 2003 ґ A Year of Progress in AAAP Reflecting back over the past year, I am struck by the contributions of many members which continue to solidify our club. ...

The low aspect ratio, or spherical tokamak Globus-M [1] has recently been built in a support of international spherical tokamak plasma investigation program. ... The survey to determine the work scope in diagnostic design for Globus-M is given in the paper. ... The next one is an advanced diagnostic set intended to supply the data on basic plasma parameters: electron temperature and density profiles, ion temperature, plasma composition, radiation profile, Zeffective. ... Magnetic Diagnostics. ...