Journal of the Amateur Astronomers Association of New York December 2008 Volume 56 Number 12, ISSN 0146-7662 EYEPIECE Dispute Flares on Going to the Moon or Mars First By Dan Harrison Answering a question followin g h is Novem b er 21 lecture to the AAA on a 2006 mission to service the ISS, Coast Guard captain and former astronaut Daniel C. Burbank was clear in saying humans should return to the Moon before they go to Mars. ... The first image shows the Moon with Earth rising in the background. ...

ST-ECF Instrument Science Report ACS 2001-003 ACS Grism Simulations using SLIM 1.0 N. Pirzkal, A. Pasquali, J. R. Walsh, R. N. Hook, W. Freudling, R. Albrecht, R.A.E. Fosbury April 4, 2001 ABSTRACT We introduce SLIM, a slitless spectroscopy simulator written in Python which can be used to simulate the ACS grism and prism modes. ... We have thus developed a simulator called SLIM which is able to disperse an input spectrum in a well-controlled manner. ... Can simulate multiple order grism observations. ...