... Iowa Robotic Telescope | ... Talon is based on OCAAS, a software suite developed by software engineer Elwood Downey ( Clear Sky Institute ) for use at the University of Iowa ?s first remote facility (the ATF, or Automated Telescope Facility). ... XObservatory : Telescope Control Interface . ... This program calls upon and coordinates much of the interrelated portions of the Talon architecture, and forms the primary control panel for the telescope, dome, and peripheral systems when used locally. ...

... STScI-PRC96-05 HUBBLE TELESCOPE PHOTO REVEALS STELLAR DEATH PROCESS This NASA Hubble Space Telescope image of planetary nebula NGC 7027 shows remarkable new details of the process by which a star like the Sun dies. ... The NGC 7027 photograph is a composite of two Hubble images, taken in visible and infrared light, and is shown in "pseudo-color." Credit: H. Bond (STScI) and NASA Image files in GIF and JPEG format and captions may be accessed on Internet via ftp from oposite.stsci.edu in /pubinfo. ...

... November 29, 1998 . Arecibo: The Largest Telescope . ... Explanation: The Arecibo radio telescope is currently the largest single-dish telescope in the world. ... The Arecibo telescope has been used for many astronomical research projects , including searches and studies of pulsars , and mapping atomic and molecular gas in the Galaxy and the universe . ... About APOD > . ... NASA Technical Rep.: ... A service of: LHEA at NASA / GSFC . ...

... In essence, you have an equatorial telescope mount for your camera to track the stars anywhere in the sky. ... Astronomy Camp for All Ages . Astronomy Campers use the research telescopes and equipment at the mountain-top observatories on Mt. ... At night, Campers observe celestial objects under a dark sky using the 40-inch and 60-inch telescopes on Mt. ... A complement of computers allows Campers to analyze data using professional languages and to simulate astronomical phenomena. ...

Euro-Asian Astronomical Society . ... International Astronomy Olympiad . The First (Experimental) International Astronomy Olympiad was carried out by Euro-Asian Astronomical Society and took place at the Special Astrophysical Observatory of Russian Academy of Sciences (SAO RAS) in North Caucasus on November 1-8, 1996. ... Why is it sometimes better to use a small telescope in orbit around the Earth than it is to use a large telescope on a mountain top? ... Grades 11-12 . ... Russia) . ...

... The TESIS is a set of solar imaging instruments developed by the Lebedev Physical Institute of the Russian Academy of Science, and launched aboard the Russian spacecraft CORONAS-PHOTON on January 30, 2009. The main goal of the TESIS is to provide complex observations of solar active phenomena from the transition region to the inner and outer solar corona with high spatial, spectral and temporal resolution in the EUV and Soft X-ray spectral bands. ... Solar activity hits a new low . ...

... Classes . ... TelescopeTCP Class Reference . This TelescopeClient class can controll a telescope by communicating to a server process ("telescope server") via the "Stellarium telescope control protocol" over TCP/IP. ... TelescopeTCP (const QString &name, const QString &params, Equinox eq=EquinoxJ2000) . ... getInfoString (const StelCore *core, const InfoStringGroup &flags) const . ... getEquinoxEquatorialPos (const StelCore *core) const . ... getJ2000GalacticPos (const StelCore *core) const . ...

AMATEUR ASTRONOMERS ASSOCIATION Membership Application Please note: membership dues are collected on an annual basis, at the start of every calendar year. ... Sky & Telescope Magazine o Astronomy Magazine o YES o NO Membership Fee Donation (optional) TOTAL $35 Please mail your completed application, along with a check or money order for the above total amount to: Amateur Astronomers Association P.O. Box 150253 Brooklyn, New York 11215 ...

... Our Java and Python software runs anywhere on Windows, Mac, and Linux . ... Alsvid - Algorithms for visualization and processing of image data with Python . Our observatory software . PyDome - Astronomical dome control in Python . ... Software archive . ... XEphem for visual access to astronomical data and remote telescope operation (Linux and Mac OS X) . ... SAOImage DS9 for astronomical data visualization (Linux, Mac OS X, and Windows) . ... G ttingen ImageJ astronomical resources . ...

... Atronomical schools, carried out in the Special astrophysical observatory , is one of ways to involve young people into scientific researches. Therefore, the observatory supports educational events, occured in the SAO, including oastronomical and astrophysical schools, lectures and excursions at the SAO's telescopes. Here are some recent schools: . 2010 - The XIII Autumn astronomical school in Nizhnij Arkhyz . ... 2014 - The XIV Autumn astronomical school in Nizhnij Arkhyz . ...

National Aeronautics and Space Administration . ... Bruce McCandless II (Captain, USN, Ret.) NASA Astronaut (former) . ... He was a member of the astronaut support crew for the Apollo 14 mission and was backup pilot for the first manned Skylab mission (SL-1/SL-2). ... A veteran of two space flights, McCandless has logged over 312 hours in space, including 4 hours of MMU flight time. ... With the completion of this flight McCandless logged 191 hours in space (including 4 hours of MMU flight time). ...

... ASRAS HOME . ... ASRAS Board Members . ... Site . ... The Astronomy Section of the Rochester Academy of Science , also known as ASRAS, is Rochester's astronomy club. ... ASRAS Members enjoy all aspects of astronomy, including: тАв astrophotography and astro-imaging . ... тАв Monthly meetings that include presentations by guest speakers or members on topics ranging from elementary to advanced. тАв Access to our dark sky observing site, the Marian and Max Farash Center for Observational Astronomy, . ...

. English / Russian . Conference . Committees . Registration . Abstracts . Program . Venue . Accommodation . Contacts . Send your application and Abstract by e-mail to: smt-conf@sao.ru until 20 august 2015. The application form should include . Full name . Organization . Title of your presentation . Your application will be confirmed by e-mail . 2015 SAO RAS

As a service to the astronomical community, we are recalibrating all archival Hubble Space Telescope Faint Object Spectrograph UV and optical spectrophotometry of active galaxies and quasars in order to extract uniformly calibrated spectrophotometric data for further detailed scientific investigations. ... NGC 4151 CLOUD F . NGC 5548 . ... NGC 4395 . ... NGC 4486 . ... NGC 4486 JET KNOT-A . ... NGC 4486 CLOUD-A . ... NGC 3031 . ... NGC 1068 . ... NGC 1068 CLOUD A . ... 1413+117A . ... NGC 4151 . ...

... Observations of GRB afterglows with Russian-Turkish 1.5-m Telescope (RTT150) . ... The error box of GRB 051028 (Hurley et al., 4172) was observed with Russian-Turkish 1.5-m telescope (RTT150, Bakyrlytepe, TUBITAK National Observatory, Turkey) in R, on Oct. ... We made 10x30s exposures of the field, which includes X-ray afterglow, found later with XRT (Page et al., GCN 4205). We confirm the presence of the optical transient found by Jelinek et al. GCN 4175) and Sahu et al. ...

... Natalya V. Raguzova and Sergei B. Popov . ... We present a compilative catalogue of Be/X-ray binaries and candidates in the Galaxy and in the Large and Small Magellanic Clouds. This catalogue contains 160 sources and provides information on names and spectral types of optical components, distances, on spin characteristics of neutron stars, and on orbital and X-ray properties of binary systems. ... Be/X-Ray Binaries and candidates in the Galaxy . Galactic sources: comments to the Table 1 . ...

To see a Russian version of this page, click here . ... Graduated from Moscow State University (MSU), Faculty of Physics in 1976. Ph.D. degree - 1988, MSU. Main field of scientific activities: photometric investigations of various stars, close binary stellar systems and other astronomical objects, including research with use of fast photoelectric photometry with a high time resolution till 1 millisecond. ... New portable photometer . ... Send your mail to: tem@sai.msu.ru ...

... All engineering models of scientific equipment were assembled in the configurations for tests in Pushchino. The SRT was attached to special supporting frame (weight compensator), and LNA cooling system (NSOTR) was installed on the Focal Container. ... EM Engineering Model . FC Focal Container - hermetic package with the scientific payload; . ... OHCFS-SRT Space Radio Telescope On-board Heterodyne . ... SRT Space Radio Telescope (all scientific payload including 10-m dish) . ...

... Contacting and discussing with people sharing your interests, participating in night sky observations with telescopes as well as a large choice of astronomical books, magazines and video-tapes out of our club library. ... The seasons, the seeing ( a clear sky is not always associated to calm , stable air ) and most important how dark your observation site is. ... Therefore a dark site for observing is at least as important for deep sky observation as the diameter of your scope. ...

... Bad Astronomy . ... Mad Science . ... Site Info . ... Public Talks . ... Keep Bad Astronomy close to your heart, and help make me filthy rich. ... Who is this guy who calls himself "The Bad Astronomer?" ... First, yes, I am a real live astronomer (when people ask me what astronomers do, I tell them "They astronom !" ... These are emitted by powerful objects like black holes, exploding stars, and super-dense neutrons stars. ... Finally, am I really a bad astronomer? ... 2008 Phil Plait. ...