... 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. ...
... Gallery . Stromlo Reconstruction . ... Sidebar Left . Sidebar Top . No Sidebar . Sidebar Bottom . Sidebar Right . Title: The Outreach Domes . Description: Public donations to the Stromlo Redevelopment Fund in the 2 years after the fire were sufficient to build 3 small domes to house 3 of the outreach telescopes. ... The domes were built by Astrodomes of Yandina, Qld, during July 2005. ... Views: 1091 . ... Views: 972 . ... Views: 999 . ... Views: 982 . ... Views: 992 . ...
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 . ...
... 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 ....
... Электронная музыка ] [ Зодиакальные мифы ] [ Полезные ссылки ] [ Викторина ] . ... According to myth, Taurus represents the bull-form taken on by Jupiter when he became enamored of Europa, princess of Phoenicia: . ... Согласно легенде, Телец - это бык, в которого превратился Юпитер (Зевс), очарованный красотой Европы, принцессы и дочери финикийского царя Агенора. ... Близнецы - это зодиакальное созвездие, изображающее двух братьев-близнецов, Кастора и Поллукса. ...
MULTISCOPES . MULTISCOPE-EF . ... ACCESSORIES . ... HOME . ... ABOUT LOMO . PRODUCTS . MICROSCOPES . ... Home Products Microscopes Multiscopes EDUPOINTER . ... Teaching Pointer Eyepiece . LOMO?s unique and easy-to-use EDUPOINTER™ is simply a 10X (F.N. 18) eyepiece with a built-in pointer that is focusable, movable and fully retractable for unobstructed observation ?an unsurpassed advantage over conventional eyepieces with pointers that always remain in the middle of the field of view. ...
... Let be a random deviate which follows a Poissonian probability distribution about the expectation value . Although the Poisson distribution itself is only defined for integer , one can find the following continuous `envelope function' to the Poisson values: . ... where is the gamma function . ... The expectation value of is . ... Equation 5 is used both in the present program and in boxdetect to estimate the null-hypothesis probability distribution of the weighted sum of Poissonian images. ...
... Into the late 1960's, the space community had high hopes that Apollo would lead directly to the construction of a permanent base on the Moon and, sooner rather than later, to the first voyages to Mars. ... The simple fact that six Apollo crews landed on the Moon and brought back a treasure throve of samples, data, and experiences means that the lunar base designers will have to deal with far fewer uncertainties than did the Apollo team. ... Moon Apollo 17 . ...
NASA HEADQUARTERS NACA ORAL HISTORY PROJECT ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT ALAN B. KEHLET NTERVIEWED BY JENNIFER ROSS-NAZZAL SAN JOSE, CALIFORNIA 30 SEPTEMBER 2005 I ROSS-NAZZ : Today is September 30th, 2005. This oral history session is being conducted AL with Alan Kehlet of NACA [National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics], Langley [Research Center, Hampton, Virginia], and STG [Space Task Group] as part of the NACA Oral History Project sponsored by the NASA [National Aeronautics and Space Administration]
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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. ...
Example 2: Figure 8 (90 Kbytes) shows an image of M31. While this is not a particularly spectacular image of M31 it is nevertheless unique as it was taken in a suburban backyard using a Lynxx CCD camera. The exposure is unfiltered. ... The image scale in this system is 41 arcseconds per pixel which yields a total field size of 2.2 x 1.9 square degrees. At this pixel resolution M32 blends into the light of M31, although NGC 205 (marked with a red arrow) is plainly visible. ... Page 6 . ...
... Operations of the Hubble Space Telescope (HST) require the creation of stable and e#cient observation schedules in an environment where inputs to the plan can change daily. A process and architecture is presented which supports the creation of e#cient and stable plans by dividing scheduling into long term and short term components. ... The short term scheduler builds e#cient week long observation schedules by selecting observations which have plan windows open within the week. ...
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A successful telescope enclosure must satisfy several requirements: First, it must survive often severe mountain top weather. ... The enclosure must support a 5 ton bridge crane which will be used to handle the primary mirror, the secondary assembly, and instruments. ... The roof, upper surfaces of shutter panels, and shutter tracks will be heated during snow storms in order to remove snow. ... Hatches and doors will be sized to accomodate the primary. ... The hatch is opened on the next floor down. ...