... ASP Conference Series . ... Astronomy Beat . ... World Beat: Vietnam . ... Thousands of years ago, the ancient Vietnamese began rice cultivation, ocean navigation, and, to support these activities, astronomical observation. ... But during the war from 1945 to 1975, Phu Lien observatory was seriously damaged, its equipment largely destroyed. ... Over the past few years, largely because of visits by astronomers from the International Astronomical Union, Vietnamese astronomy has risen from the dead. ...

A prefs.ccd file should be located in /usr/local/observatory/prefs on the computer to which the camera is attached. ... Parameters that will be read by prefs.ccd are -- ccd.frame_count_multi Sets the maximum number of frames in multi mode Default is 10 Minimum is 2 No maximum ccd. filter _max Sets the number of filters in the filter wheel Should be less than or equal to the number of slots available ccd. filter _01 to ccd. filter _10 Labels for each ...

... a journal of his thoughts and experiences, some two million words in . ... The boy's sled gets put away in the barn or shed, and there it lies . dormant all summer, like a woodchuck in winter. ... sees a sled, nor a sled a woodchuck, unless it were a prematurely risen . ... Journal, 25 March 1860 . ... Please join us for a pre-meeting dinner discussion at Changsho, 1712 Mass Ave, Cambridge, MA at 6:00pm before the meeting. ... Copyright (c) Amateur Telescope Makers of Boston, Inc. ...

Statistics of sunspot activity . The sunspot indices . ... Visual indices of solar activity . ... n - number of spot groups . A - Waldmeier class of unipolar spot groups without penumbra . B - class of bipolar spot groups without penumbra . C - class of bipolar spot groups with one penumbra pole . D - class of small bipolar spot groups with two penumbra poles . E - class of middle bipolar spot groups with two penumbra poles . ... H - class of unipolar penumbrated spot groups . ...

... The extinction in terrestrial atmosphere. ... A star was observed at different zenith distances during one night at the Engelgardt's Astronomical Observatory in the program of atmospheric extinction study at blue. ... Calculate the air mass for given zenith distances in 1st 54.9 11800 column, and write the result into the 2nd column. ... Spectral observations. ... Calculate the radial velocity Vr of the star on each date, the results of measurements and write calculations into the table. ...

... 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. ...

... About half an hour after the BAT trigger, the first images were obtained with the SAO RAS Zeiss-1000 telescope in four BVRI filters (see Fig.1). ... The spectrum of the optical transient was obtained with the SAO RAS 6-m BTA telescope 1.54 hours after the burst, using the SCORPIO instrument in the spectroscopic mode (Fig.2). ... The spectrum of the optical transient GRB090726 with identified lines, obtained with the BTA 1.54 hours after the burst. ...