... Climb 60 steps at the back of the planetarium to view the sky through a 12.5-inch diameter reflecting telescope operated by knowledgeable volunteers from the Astronomy Section of the Rochester Academy of Science, the leading local astronomy club. ... As many as 100 people per Saturday night come to view the heavens through a telescope at the Strasenburgh Planetarium, thanks to volunteers from our leading local astronomy club, the Astronomy Section of the Rochester Academy of Science (ASRAS). ...

... Club By-laws . ... Other Club Activities . ... Public Nights . ... Dr. James Green, NASA, Director Planetary Science will be our esteemed speaker on Tuesday, April 12, 2016 at 7:30 PM in Peyton Hall on the Princeton University campus. ... Our astronomers setup telescopes for public use at Communiversity in Princeton, Super Science Saturday at the NJ State Museum in Trenton and at various public events around Mercer County. ... Amateur Astronomers Association of Princeton, Inc., ...

... Local Group . ... When amateur astronomers grow old and wish to donate their telescope and observatory to their local club, who assesses the value? ... Get instant access to subscriber content on Astronomy.com! ... If you are already registered on Astronomy.com, please log in below. ...

... Data Analysis SAS News What is SAS? ... Back to Calibration Homepage In order to analyze the data collected with XMM-Newton you need some calibration files (Current Calibration File, see below) and a copy of the Science Analysis System (SAS) available here . ... Mirroring the Calibration Archive . ... CCF$ or use instead: package=xmm-ccf comment="The XMM-Newton calibration archive" site=xmm.esac.esa.int mode_copy=true max_delete_files=100% remote_dir=pub/ccf/constituents local_dir=/ccf get_patt=^*.\...

... Apr 14, 2016 - Monthly Meeting . ... The Amateur Telescope Makers of Boston, Inc. ATMoB) is an astronomy club devoted to telescope making, observing, and studying the heavens. ... CURRENT MOON . ... April Sky . ... Lyrids Meteor Shower . ... Sources: NASA JPL Space Calendar , StarDate Online , Sky Telescope , Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics , RASC Observer’s Handbook , Abrams Planetarium Sky Calendar and Astronomy Magazine . ... Copyright (c) Amateur Telescope Makers of Boston, Inc. ...

... Bad Astronomy . ... Mad Science . ... Where is the Hubble space telescope currently? (near what planet?) You may be surprised by this, but the Hubble Space Telescope (HST) is orbiting the Earth! ... At that height, HST is above almost all of the Earth's atmosphere, which gives it a clearer view of the sky than telescopes on the Earth. ... You can find pictures and info from STIS here , which is a page brought to you by the Space Telescope Science Institute . ... 2008 Phil Plait. ...

... On 26 October 2009 in Moscow, in the Russian Academy of Sciences (RAS) a meeting was held of the leading Russian scientists and statesmen with the Director General of the European Southern Observatory (ESO) Tim de Zeeuw and the Head of International Relations Rowena Sirey. ... Director General of the European Southern Observatory (ESO) Tim de Zeeuw. ... Balega, the Head of International Relations Rowena Sirey, Director General of the ESO Tim de Zeeuw, deputy director of the SAO RAS V.V.Vlasuyk . ...

concam.net: The Night Sky Live . ... Latest view of LBT construction on Emerald Peak . McDonald Observatory Axis-camera . ... Lick Observatory, Current Hamcam Image . ... NASA Infrared Telescope Facility Webcam . ... SOAR Webcams . ... Liverpool Telescope Exterior Webcam . Liverpool Telescope Interior Webcam . Mercator Telescope Webcam . ... JBO - Lovell Telescope Webcam . JBO - MK II Telescope Webcam . JBO - 7-metre Telescope Web Camera . ... South African Large Telescope Webcam ...

... The ring current (e.g., Frank, 1967) consists of geomagnetically trapped 10 - 200 keV ions (mainly H + , He + , and O + ) and electrons that drift azimuthally around the Earth at radial distances of about 2-7 Re (Earth radii), overlapping the radiation belt region. ... This index can be used to monitor the development of geomagnetic storm (see also geomagnetic activity ), as the main signature (actually definition) of the storm main phase is the build-up of an enhanced ring current. ... Res., ...

. english || русский . Main . Location . Telescope . Instruments . Program . Science . Publications . Images . Photos . Links . The following focal instruments are currently available at the telescope: . CCD-photometer . TFOSC -- medium and low resolution spectrometer . ( The page at TUG ) . High resolution echelle-spectrometer in coude focus . High Energy Astrophysics Department 2016 IKI RAN

JournИes SystХmes de RИfИrence Spatio-Temporels , St Petersburg, Russia, 22-24 Septembre 2014 Optical monitoring of QSO in the framework of the Gaia space mission F. Taris (1), G. Damljanovic (2), A. Andrei (3), A. Klotz (4) , F. Vachier (5) (1) Observatoire de Paris - SyRTE, France , (2) Astronomical observatory of Belgrad, Serbia, (3) Observatorio Nacional MCT, Brasil, (4) UniversitИ de Toulouse, France (5) Observatoire de Paris ­ IMCCE, ...

... This experiment makes use of a novel an sophisticated CCD imaging design whereby by 4 2048x2048 detectors are butted together to form a single 4096x4096 pixel detector system. ... Figure 4 (1.1 Megs) shows an example image from one of the LMC fields that is searched for gravitational microlensing amplification of stellar brightness. ... Figure 5 (124 Kbytes) shows an image of NGC 253, taken with this camera and a 320x512 RCA CCD which has 30 micron size pixels. ... Page 5 . ...

... Contemporary State ol SETI Problem In Russia . ... Presently the scientific and technological civilization on Earth possesses only one method of searching for extraterrestrial civilizations in outer space - the method of remote observation by scanning, optical and radio data from the surrounding space and by trying to detect and. recognize possibly intelligent signals. ... Theoretical Foundations ot the Contact oi Intelligent System. ... Intermediary Languages for the Contact ot Intelligent Systems....

... The choice of which type of electricity is called "positive" and which "negative" was made around 1750 by Ben Franklin, early American scientist and man of many talents (the stamp on the left commemorates his role as first US postmaster--and colonial postmaster before that). ... Franklin knew of two types of electric charge, depending on the material one rubbed. ... Later, when electric batteries were discovered, scientists naturally assigned the direction of the flow of current to be from (+) to (-...

... June 16, 2009 - TESIS has recorded new sizeable mass ejections from the Sun's atmosphere . One of this year's largest mass ejections from the Sun's atmosphere was recorded last Sunday by TESIS telescopes aboard the CORONAS-PHOTON satellite (video - wmv 4.3 MB). ... June 6, 2009 - This year's largest group of sunspots passes across the solar disk . ... June 2, 2009 - A malfunction in one of the TESIS telescopes has been fixed . ... A malfunction in one of the TESIS telescopes has been fixed . ...

The Richland Astronomical Society is a nonprofit organization formed in 1960 to promote the advancement of amateur astronomy. ... Mike Romine - President/Board Member . ... Bob Kocar - Treasurer/Board Member/Grant Coordinator . ... Eric Heintz - Assistant Observatory Director/Board Member . ... Tammy Plotner - President Emeritus/Webmaster (www.wro.org)/Astronomical League ALCor. ... Site content is maintained by Webmaster Tammy Plotner and Assistant Webmaster Greg DeChant All rights reserved. ...

Home About Meade Product Information Dealer Locator Customer Support Investor Relations Dealer Support Employment Opportunities Site Map . Meade Instruments Corporation . ... Meade Pictor XT-Series CCD Autoguider/Imagers . ... The status bar provides tool tips for each menu item, communication status information, the current x and y coordinates of the mouse on the active image, and the temperature of the CCD chip. (left to right): . ... File Save: Saves the current active image. ... about meade | ...

... 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. ...

Current is an open-source implementation of an up2date server, aka RedHat Network. The patched release 1.4.4.a is capable enough to support of an all channels for Fedora Core 1 2, AMDx86_64 et.a. Distributed free by GNU GPL . RPM 1.4.4.a package . SRPM 1.4.4.a source package . Public GPG-key , signed package builds.

Open Systems Handbook: A Guide to Building Open Systems . ... This book is designed to provide interested individuals and organizations with an overview of open systems and the work being done to achieve them. ... This section is organized using a descriptive model of an open systems environment developed by the IEEE PI 003.0 Working Group, which is developing the Guide to POSIX-based Open System Architecture. ... Standards for open systems 13 . Chapter 3: The open systems environment (OSE) 15 . ...