... Hidden Hollow 2008 . ... Prizes . ... door prizes! ... May 2 - 4, 2008 . ... The Hidden Hollow weekend Star Party at Warren Rupp Observatory . ... As always, we raffle our door prizes by allowing you to purchase tickets for only the items you select. ... Your door prize raffle ticket purchase is key to continuing the Legend of Hidden Hollow. We'd like to thank all of our fine guests from 2005 on for their generosity in raffle ticket purchases and have allowed us to venture into a 2008 star party! ...

... AMATEUR TELESCOPE MAKERS OF BOSTON The Am ateur Telescope Makers of Boston, Inc. ATMoB) is an am ateur astronom y club devoted to telescope m aking, observing, and the study of the stars. ... These m onthly m agazines, which can be found on m ost newsstands, contain general astronom y articles, m onthly observing inform ation, and star charts. ... For general observing inform ation on the Moon, planets, and sky phenom ena SKY REPORT, (617) 496-7827, Harvard-Sm ithsonian Center for Astrophysics. ...

Next: The Computer Hardware Up: The Care and Previous: Introduction . ... The weather is not as bad as one might expect, base on statistics from 1991 through 1993 one can expect about 120 usable nights a year with about thirty of those being totally cloudless. ... This, along with the fact that the telescope drive motor is misgeared, made it difficult for the telescope to collect research data. ... The dome houses a 14" Celestron Schmidt-Cassegrain telescope that was installed in 1981. ...

Astronotes Armagh Planetarium's Stellar Blog! ... Apple have recently made it possible for you to БЂњgiftБЂќ one of their applications to someone as a present, and how amazing would it be for you astronomy loving friend to be able to use their ipod or ipad as a personal star chart to identify everything you see in the sky at any given time? ... If you love the idea of this for yourself, but are feeling the pinch with Christmas coming, there are also theб  free apps Pocket Sky and Space Brains . ...

Sponsors of Views of the Solar System . ... Unlike many of the sites on the Web, Views has been created from a budget of $0.00 and from the assistance from many individuals in the world who have made some significant contributions of time. ... A. Tayfun Oner has contributed a significant amount of time in producing images, mosaics, and animations. ... I am looking for a photo lab that would be interested in producing prints and slides of the Views of the Solar System images. ... Tape backup system. ...

... Finders mounted permanently in COAST telescopes and standalone portable finders are all documented. ... 1D DIMM Mode . ... CCD Readout . ... The Z dimension is time (3ms between frames in 2D DIMM mode, 4ms in transverse DIMM mode) and of depth as specified in the data file dialog. ... Displays a red grid in the video display area that marks the fast readout regions useful in 1D DIMM mode . ... Displays a blue grid in the video display area that marks the fast readout regions useful in 2D DIMM mode ....

Measurement of Sky Brightness at the Iranian National Observatory Davoud Afshari1 and Sadollah Nasiri1,2 1Physics Department, Zanjan University, Zanjan 45195-313, Iran; Institute for Advanced studies in Basic Science (IASBS), Zanjan 45195-1159, Iran; Measurement of light pollution 2 Introduction Among 34 candidate sites at the central part of the country, 5 sites namely Garkesh (in Kashan ), Kolahbarfi(in Kashan ), Deynava (in ... One of these is light pollution. ...