Construction of the 31" Telescope and Observatory . A lot has been said about the history of the Warren Rupp Observatory and the legacy of the telescope's mirror maker Norm Oberle . Many articles on this web site and others will provide you with the details and the stories that made it all happen. This article will not focus on the the facts outlined in previous articles but will instead document the construction of the Warren Rupp Observatory through pictures taken from start to finish. ...

... The properties of the currently available receivers are given in Table 3 . The columns of the table give the receiver name, frequency range, the typical System Temperature (T ), Gain, System Equivalent Flux Density (SEFD) and Half Power Beamwidth (HPBW) for zenith angles below 15 (as measured by Arecibo staff.) ... Full details of the ALFA observing system, its performance, how to join an ALFA Consortium, and the latest ALFA news is to be found via, http://www.naic.edu/alfa/ . ...

T he Nine Planets is a collection of information about our Solar System intended for a general audience with little technical background. ... T his document consists of about 90 WWW "pages", one page for each major body in the Solar System. ... if the object has satellites then its page has a table of data on them and links to their pages, . ... To visit the next body in an ordered traversal of the solar system choose the link immediately to the right of the name of the current page. ...

... Michael E. Lopez-Alegria (Captain, USN, RET.) ... After his second mission, he led the International Space Station (ISS) Operations branch of the Astronaut Office. ... In October 2014 Lopez-Alegria became an independent consultant; he is based in Washington, D.C. SPACE FLIGHT EXPERIENCE: Mission Specialist (MS)-2, STS-73 Columbia (October 20 to November 5, 1995). ... The primary mission objective was delivery of the Expedition 6 crew to the ISS and the return of the Expedition 5 crew to Earth. ...

... See "About ATMoB" / "Network" for more details on the clubhouse network. ... Direct viewing of a laser-pointer beam, even briefly and at a distance of a kilometer or two, has the potential to cause temporary flash blindness — the same effect you get right after a flash photo is taken — or afterimages. ... To help use our laser tools safely, the Amateur Telescope Makers of Boston, Inc. has adopted these recommendations as policy. ... Copyright (c) Amateur Telescope Makers of Boston, Inc. ...

... public class NewImage . ... createByteImage (java.lang.String title, int width, int height, int slices, int options) . ... Method Detail public static ImagePlus createByteImage (java.lang.String title, int width, int height, int slices, int options) . ... public static void open (java.lang.String title, int width, int height, int nSlices, int type, int options) . public static ImagePlus createImage (java.lang.String title, int width, int height, int nSlices, int bitDepth, int options) . ...

The Charged Coupled Device (or CCD) was initially conceived in 1970 at Bell Labs by W. Boyle and G. Smith. ... Stored charged readout along the registers of the CCD would then allow this device to be a serial memory device. ... The charge transfer efficiency of this device was so low, that the overall yield was less than 0.5% (slightly less than good photographic plates at the time). ... Early observations with this CCD quickly showed its superiority over photographic plates. ...

... Recent Topics . ... Open access submissions and content now available . ... Отправлено: Thu, 15 Oct 2015 07:50:43 +0300 (EEST) Тема: Open access submissions and content now available Planetary and Space Science Welcomes Open Access Submissions @media only screen and (max-device-width: 480px) { } p { margin-top: 1em; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0em; margin-right: 0em; color: #53565A; } img { display:block; -ms-interpolation-mode:bicubic; } Can't see this email properly? ... MAO NASU . ...

From: TerryMosel aol.com Date: Mon, 11 Oct 2004 18:00:58 EDT Subject: N/S Special, Armagh Planetarium, AWOTWS, ISS Hi all, 1. ... This is most of the text of the Press Release re the Armagh Planetarium: STAR ATTRACTION SOON TO RE-OPEN IN ARMAGH Culture, Arts and Leisure Minister, Angela Smith MP, announced that a total of бе2 million is now to be made available towards the cost of re-opening the Armagh Planetarium to the public within 18 months. ... Clear Skies, Terry Moseley . ...

... Superb optical performance coupled with time proven computerized pointing and tracking has made the LX200 ACF series a best-seller in the high-performance telescope class. ... Meade's revolutionary LS LightSwitchтДв series of telescopes use advanced technologies to do what no other consumer telescopes have done before: take all the hassle out of using a telescope. ... Meade Series 5000 2" Enhanced Diagonal Mirror with SC adapter . ... Meade Series 5000 2" Enhanced Diagonal Mirror #07680. ...

Please enter the lightcurve file name and period search parameters: . Lightcurve file: . ... Apply the Heliocentric correction and convert all dates to Terrestrial Time (TT)? ... Also, the Heliocentric correction cannot be applied to such lightcurves. ... This period search service is also available at the mirror sites: Mirror 1 , Mirror 2 , Mirror 3 , Mirror 4 . You may download the latest source code distribution and install the period search service at your own web server. ...

... К вопросу возможной модификации двигателя Шкадова и ее перспективах для решения некоторых задач SETI . ... А.Л.Зайцев . ... КОНЕЦ СОЦИУМА И ПРОБЛЕМА SETI . Л.М.Гиндилис . ... ОБОСНОВАНИЕ METI . ... Борис Николаевич Пановкин о познаваемости мира и о возможности связи с внеземными цивилизациями (к 80-летию со дня рождения) . ... Alexander Zaitsev . ... КНИГА ОБ ЭВОЛЮЦИИ И ВНЕЗЕМНЫХ ЦИВИЛИЗАЦИЯХ (Рецензия на книгу А.Д.Панова Универсальная эволюция и проблема поиска внеземного разума (SETI) . ...

Астрономия и Космос Небесные тела Планеты и их спутники . Видимым парадом планет называется планетная конфигурация, когда пять ярких планет Солнечной системы (Меркурий, Венера, Марс, Юпитер и Сатурн) в своем движении по небосводу подходят друг к другу на близкое расстояние и становятся видны в одно время в небольшом секторе (10 - 40 градусов) неба. ... Из выше описанного видно, что парад планет можно наблюдать, либо вечером, либо утром. ... Не пропустите ОСЕННИЙ ПАРАД планет 2002 года! ...

... Tikhonov N.A., Lebedev V.S., Galazutdinova O.A., . ... Tikhonov N.A., Galazutdinova O.A., Lebedev V.S., . Stellar Content of the Metal-Poor Galaxy DDO 68, . Astronomy Letters, Vol. ... Stellar Content of the Interacting Galaxies IC 1727 and NGC 672, . ... Tikhonov N.A., Galazutdinova O.A., . ... Tikhonov N.A., Galazutdinova O.A., Tikhonov E.N., . ... Karataeva G.M., Tikhonov N.A., Galazutdinova O.A., Hagen-Thorn V.A., . ... Tikhonov N.A., Galazutdinova O.A., Drozdovsky I.O., . ...

Russian page . The 6th International Astronomy Olympiad will be organized on September 26 - October 3, 2001 in the scientific town of Nauchnyj, Republic of Crimea. ... Weather in Crimea . ... Those who were interested to get further information about the VI International Astronomy Olympiad (including official invitations for teams and observers: Ukrainian visa and visa support was necessary for citizens of some countries!) were welcome to contact Coordinating Council in English or Russian . ...

... This page is intended for those with a technical background who want more detail than was available in the press releases. 23) 5% of the sources. ... Radio quiet quasars have essentially uniform B-K colours (around 2.5) while these Parkes sources had B-K ranging from 2.5 out to 8! ... Dust: these actually are typical blue quasars obscured by dust somewhere along the line of sight. ... They appear pink to the human eye (I combined out BVR imaging weighted such that a sun-like star would appear white)...

Dear Colleagues, As you know, JENAM-2007 will take place in Yerevan, Armenia. ... JENAM-2007 will consist of 6 Plenary sessions (invited reviews on hot topics of modern astrophysics, 8 EAS Symposia, and 7 Special Sessions (SPS). ... The opening and closing sessions, EAS symposia and special sessions will be organized in the conference halls and auditoria of the Yerevan State University (YSU). ... The proceedings of the JENAM-2007 will be published in the EAS proceedings series in 2008. ...

... Allows webmasters to configure the response of Apache to some error or problem. Customizable responses can be defined to be activated in the event of a server detected error or problem. e.g. if a script crashes and produces a "500 Server Error" response, then this response can be replaced with either some friendlier text or by a redirection to another URL (local or external). ... New behavior . ... redirect to a local URL, or . ... Each new variable will have the prefix REDIRECT_ . ...

... Exposure Time Calculator (ETC) . Survey processing . ... VISTA is a 4-m class wide field survey telescope for the southern hemisphere, equipped with a near infrared camera (1.65 degree diameter field of view at VISTA's nominal pixel size) containing 67 million pixels of mean size 0.34 arcsec and available broad band filters at Z,Y,J,H,K s and a narrow band filter at 1.18 micron. A wide field visible camera, if constructed, could also be used on VISTA. ... Tile . ... ESO VISTA Public Surveys . ...

USING THE CORRELATION BETWEEN ISGRI SURVEY RESULTS AND OTHER CATALOGUES TO AID SOURCE IDENTIFICATION John B. Stephen, A. Malizia and L. Bassani IASF-INAF, Via P. Gobetti 101, 40129 Bologna, ITALY, E-mail: stephen@iasfbo.inaf.it ABSTRACT In order to help in the identification of INTEGRAL/ISGRI sources, we have developed a software package which allows a rapid and detailed cross-correlation to be performed between various source catalogues. ... We show below some preliminary results from this analysis. ...