... 32-inch Milligan Relay telescope . ... Thursday, Feb 11, 2010 at 8:00 PM . ... The February meeting will be a "Member Show and Tell Night". Four members have stepped forward to talk on some of their telescope making and observing projects. ... Please join us for a pre-meeting dinner discussion at Changsho, 1712 Mass Ave, Cambridge, MA at 6:00pm before the meeting. ... Other Monthly Meetings . ... Feb . ... Monthly Meetings . ... Copyright (c) Amateur Telescope Makers of Boston, Inc. ...

... Home Gallery Astrophotography Urban Lunar Eclipses . ... Beyond New York City . ... Observing Resources for Amateur Astronomers - Part 1: Beginning Observers . ... A History of the First Forty Years of the Amateur Astronomers Association . ... Several lunar eclipses have been visible from the New York area as these photographs from AAA members show. ... Penumbral lunar eclipse, New York City . ... 2016 Amateur Astronomers Association of New York Designed by Press Customizr Powered by . ...

. Moore Observatory on the afternoon of February 27, 2007. This 185-degree fisheye view was recorded with a Nikon D70 and a Costal Optical Systems f/5.2 4.88 mm focal length lens. The roll roof building is in the center to the north, the RC24 dome is to the east on the right, and the CDK20 dome to the west on the left. Overhead the setting Sun is behind trees to the west, Venus visible here in the daytime is above the tree line near a contrail, and the Moon is rising over the RC24 dome to the east.

... Gallery . ... The Common Room roof is completed . Sidebar Left . Sidebar Top . No Sidebar . Sidebar Bottom . Sidebar Right . ... Title: The Common Room roof is completed . Description: NOTE: All images and movies are copyright and must not be reproduced or mirrored in any form without written permission. ... The Common Room roof is completed NOTE: All images and movies are copyright and must not be reproduced or mirrored in any form without written permission. ...

... Solar Wind . ... During a total eclipse of the Sun, when for a few minutes the Moon completely covers the Sun's face, a glow appears around the darkened Sun--the solar corona, the Sun's outermost atmosphere. ... Such high levels of ionization require the atoms to be buffeted around by extremely high temperatures, around 1,000,000 C (1,800,000 F). ... It is brightest near sunspots, whose arched field lines apparently hamper the outflow of solar wind which carries away energy and helps cool the corona...

... The SAO ( Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory ) Summer Intern Program is a Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU) program where students work on astrophysics research with an SAO/Harvard scientist. ... On-line Application Form -- is OPEN for the 2016 SAO Summer Intern Program . ... SAO Summer Intern Program . ... Recent SAO Summer Intern Program Events . ... June 2015 . ... For more information about the SAO Summer Intern Program and other programs/opportunitities that may be of interest: ....

... Alfred Merrill Worden . NASA Astronaut (former) . ... Married to Jill Lee Worden (Hotchkiss). ... He served as a member of the astronaut support crew for the Apollo 9 flight and as backup command module pilot for the Apollo 12 flight. ... Scott and Irwin collected approximately 171 pounds of lunar surface materials on their three expeditions onto the lunar surface; and Worden logged 38 minutes in extravehicular activity outside the command module, "Endeavour." ...

... ATNF Home . About ATNF . ... About ATNF overview . ... Governance overview . Australia Telescope Steering Committee . ... Australia Telescope User Committee . ... Our people overview . ... Publications overview . ... Careers overview . ... ATNF facilities . ... Parkes radio telescope . Australia Telescope Compact Array . Mopra radio telescope . ... Parkes | ... CSIRO Radio Astronomy Image Archive . ... Visiting Parkes radio telescope . ... Parkes radio telescope webcam . ... Images . ...

... Copyrightї1997 Bob Yen (byen@ix.netcom.com) (http://www.comet-track.com/hb/hb.html) . ... Information on Comet Hale-Bopp for the Non-Astronomer Hale-Bopp rotates about twice a day (3/14/97) . ... The Comet Observation Home Page was been selected to receive the Griffith Observatory Star Award for the week of February 2 - 8, 1997 for excellence in promoting astronomy to the public through the World Wide Web. ... Typically, about 1,000 individual users/computers access this page every day. ...

... APT Activities and Science Results 3. ... APT Secretary Philip Edwards (ISAS) reviewed the aims of the APT (http://www.vsop.isas.ac.jp/apt/DefinitionAndAims.html). ... The Australia Telescope Compact Array, and Ceduna, Hartebeesthoek, Kashima, Mopra, Parkes, and Shanghai telescopes of the Asia-Pacific Telescope participated in these observations. ... In the absence of Tetsuo Sasao, Philip Edwards briefly described results of the APT 22 GHz observations conducted from October 1st to 5th, 1997. ...

. The XMM-Newton website has moved to the following location: . http://www.cosmos.esa.int/web/xmm-newton

... SAI CAS . ... Catalog Access Services . ... This site is about the Virtual Observatory project at the Sternberg Astronomical Institute, Moscow University ( SAI MSU ). We provide a public access to the growing set of astronomical services developed by the SAI RVO development team in accordance with the Virtual Observatory standards. ... We provide access (programmatic and interactive) to the all major and biggest astronomical catalogs (about 4 billions objects total) as well as other web-services. ...

... Astrophysics Group . ... Optical Interferometry . OIFITS: A Data Exchange Standard for Optical (Visible/IR) Interferometry . ... OIFITS is a standard for exchanging calibrated, time-averaged data from astronomical optical interferometers , based on the FITS Standard (OIFITS is a registered FITS convention ). ... The OIFITS standard is used in the biennial optical interferometry Imaging Beauty Contests: . ... A data exchange standard for optical (visible/IR) interferometry. ...

Weekly Bulletin on Solar and Geomagnetic Activity Highlights on 15 - 22.02.2015, Forecast on 23.02 - 02.03.2015, Carrington Rotation 2160,2161 (1,28.02; 27,93.03.2015) SUNSPOT-FORMING ACTIVITY OF THE SUN REMAINED AT THE MIDDLE LEVEL ALL PERIOD. ... ON FEBRUARY 18 ON THE VISIBLE DISK OF THE SUN AT ONCE THE- RE WERE FIVE NEW SUNSPOT GROUPS THAT IS VERY RARE EVENT. NEXT WEEK EXPECTED THE AVERAGE AND THE LOW LEVELS OF SUNSPOT ACTI- VITY. ... IN OTHER DAYS THE GEOMAGNETIC FIELD WAS UNSETTLED AND QUIET. ...

... Bad Astronomy . ... On Thursday, February 15th 2001 (and replayed on March 19), the Fox TV network aired a program called ``Conspiracy Theory: Did We Land on the Moon?'', hosted by X-Files actor Mitch Pileggi. ... Dust around the lander . ... However, it appeals to our common sense: when the sky is black here on Earth, we see stars. ... Bad: The program claims that when the top half of the lander took off from the Moon to bring the astronauts back into orbit, there was no flame from the rocket. ...

... S.P. KOROLEV ROCKET AND SPACE CORPORATION ENERGIA . ... OAO RSC "Energia" . ... Company's History . ... History . Brief History of Rocket and Space Technology . ... Project History . ISS Russian Segment . Steps of ISS Assembly . ... ISS 45/46 . ... Missions Archive . ... Sea Launch . ... News . ... News archive . Contribution of RSC Energia to the Russian Rocket-Space Technology . ... RSC Energia: Progress MS-02 docked with the ISS.' ... 2015 JSC "S.P. Korolev RSC "Energia" . ...

This page provides a jumpstation for a variety of web resources appropriate to the development and use of CCDs in professional astronomy. I make occasional searches of the web in an attempt to keep it complete and up to date. ... Observatories & Universities . Commercial . ... Data Reduction . ... Apogee Instruments make a high-end, off-the-shelf system and offer the "CCD University" with some introductory on-line tutorials about CCD technology. ... Philips make CCDs up to 7kx9k pixels. ...

Contents. planet: 5 - Jupiter satellites: J1 - Io : 81, J2 - Europa : 24, J3 - Ganymede :129, J4 - Callisto : 36 total number: 270 type: relative dates: 1996-1997 observatory: see observatories list in the comments Reference. Emelianov N. V., Vashkovjak S. N. (2009) Astrometric results of the observations of the mutual occultations and eclipses of the Galilean satellites of Jupiter in 1997. ... X coordinate in arcseconds (topocentric for mutual occultation or heliocentric for mutual eclipse) 10. ...

Progenitors and remnants of red novae V838 Mon and V4332 Sgr Special Astrophysical Observatory Elena Barsukova Special Astrophysical Observatory (Russia) In collaboration with Goranskij Vitaly ... Moscow University); Kroll Peter (Sonneberg Observatory, Germany); Valeev Azamat (Special Astrophysical Observatory (Russia) The light curve of V838 Mon in the outburst from January to May 2002 ... The B star disappeared. ... Spectra of V4332 Sgr (top) and V838 Mon (bottom) in 2007. ...

Winer Observatory P.O. Box 797, Sonoita, Arizona 85637-0797, USA . ... Winer Observatory) was incorporated in 1983 as a 501(c)(3) non-profit public charity to perform basic research in astronomy, provide educational outreach programs, and provide site and maintenance services for small telescopes through cooperative agreements with other astronomical institutions. ... The picture at the top left of this page is of our facility near Sonoita, Arizona, approximately 50 miles southeast of Tucson, Arizona. ...