Collins School Star Party - Oct. 5, 1999 Presented by the North Shore Amateur Astronomy Club (NSAAC) For more information: NSAAC: http://www.star.net/people/~nsaac 1.0 Using a telescope Close one eye (use your hand if it's easier) and look straight down into the eyepiece. ... Massive stars use up their fuel much faster - in some cases less than 100 million years. ... Jupiter _____. ... With the chart at left and using the brightest stars as a guide, see if you can find Uranus with binoculars. ...

... Tonight's Sky . ... Sky this Month . ... solar system . ... Sky this Week . ... Observe the Solar System . Astronomy for Kids . ... Tour the Solar System . ... Are astronomers still looking for "Planet X," a 10th planet in our solar system? ... For most of the 20th century, some astronomers were convinced that a 10th planet Planet X lay somewhere beyond Neptune. ... Get instant access to subscriber content on Astronomy.com! ... If you are already registered on Astronomy.com, please log in below. ...

In this gallery are many images of Low Surface Brightness Galaxies which have recently been discovered and analyzed. ... The central surface brightness of this galaxy is 24.28 . Malin 2 This galaxy is another huge disk galaxy with a scale length of 15 kpc and a redshift of 15000 km/a. The high surface brightness knot in one of its spiral arms actually has the same color, luminosity and H-alpha equivalent width as the entire Large Magellanic Cloud . ... Truly it is a Low Surface Brightness Galaxy. ...

A student observatory located on the roof of the Natural Science Building on Belknap Campus is used in the astronomy lab classes and by majors in the Department of Physics and Astronomy's B.S. Astrophysics track. ... The 14-inch Celestron Schmidt-Cassegrain seen here was installed in May 2010. ... In spite of a location in the midst of our bright urban heat island, this 14-inch diameter telescope provides quality visual images of the moon, planets, multiple stars, and bright nebulae. ...

Bright Supernova - Archives On these pages you will find references to Supernovae which have faded into oblivion. ... Finally, in 1999, when I took over the International Supernova Network's Latest Supernovae page I retitled the main page "Latest Supernovae", BUT, it's the "Latest Supernovae" page of the "Bright Supernovae" pages which are also sub-pages of ISN. ... Brightest supernova in 2005 . ... Brightest supernova in 2002 . ... Brightest supernova in 2000 . ... Brightest supernova in 1999 . ...

... 238, Astronomical Data Analysis Software and Systems X, eds. F. R. Harnden, Jr., ... We will implement these protocols within the HEASARC's FTOOLS and XANADU analysis environments to provide a fully functional system to users. ... Hera is designed to bring data analysis to the web. ... Using Hera, the user could actually use FTOOLS on archive data all on the HEASARC servers, without installing the entire suite of FTOOLS, and without downloading the data files from the archive. ...

. Map of Nizhnij Arkhyz . Living building #1 and #2 with general shops on a ground floor; . 3,4 -- living buildings; . 5 -- school; . 6 -- sport hall and swimming pull; . 7 -- service building, . 8 -- SAO admimistration, library, laboratories; . 9 -- hotel and coffee, . 10 -- informatics departament

... PUBLIC LECTURE - APRIL 12, 2016 . New Discoveries in the Outer Solar System: Ceres, Pluto and Planet X . ... Dr. Green will talk about "New Discoveries in the Outer Solar System: Ceres, Pluto, and Planet X". ... Beginning in 1992 planetary astronomers began to find Pluto like objects beyond the orbit of Neptune showing us that Pluto was a member of an entirely new family of objects we now call the Kuiper Belt. ... Amateur Astronomers Association of Princeton, Inc., ...

Thursday, April 2, 2015 Tech o con Discussion Attending: Alaina, Mark, Bill, Joe, John Wilson, Fritz, Suzanne, Conor, Alysha - STA sent the test report of our detector. ... Overall, Joe is happy with the results. ... We will do our own full-well and linearity tests, up to 65,000 counts. Can we ask them to test up to 65,000 counts? ... Open the dewar, take everything out, remove old chip, insert new chip. ... All done in the clean room. ... Joe will ask Connie and Jim. ...

... embadpixfind (embadpixfind-1.20.1) [xmmsas_20040318_1831-6.0.0] . ... embadpixfind estimates an upper limit to the local statistical average from the median + 1 (1 is added to take care of the case when the median is 0). ... If the local count number is larger than that threshold, the pixel is flagged as bright, the median is recomputed around the bad pixel ignoring it, and the loop goes on. ... In a second step (if findbadsegments =Y) embadpixfind looks for too bright rows and columns. ...

... The second "Hey, I already thought of that!" experience I had was when I read the quote from you saying that modern physics seems to have left consciousness out of the equation. ... I forget if it was in response to Chisholm's book, but sometime for that course, I wrote a short paper outlining my theory, which was that the conscious experiences we have are not part of today's physics Standard Model (they didn't call it that in 1969). ... A model is like a road map. ... Sincerely, Mark Trueblood ...

You know you're a Deep Sky Observer when.. ... You consider Jupiter 'light pollution'. ... You refuse to use the ladder with your 20" f/6 at the Winter Star Party stating, "If I use that, the objects are too far north." ... You spend most of your time looking at or for objects you can barely see. Your favorite objects are objects you can barely see. ... You view a major earthquake as an opportunity for a close-in dark-sky star party. ... You believe M13 ruined your dark adaptation. ...

... Very few of us can do something without the feeling that it can be done and done good. So, I want to say several words on the possibility of building the Open society in Russia. ... Even if we can't find long happy periods in the history, but can find ideas, which were original for Russia and the whole world, which were created by Russian philosophers, we can say that we can try to build the Open Society, because Russian way of thinking has something in common with the ideas of the Open society. ...

... The expansion is measured as a number called the Hubble Constant . ... Our value is about 20% lower than the one got with the Hubble Space Telescope in 1994," said Dr Jim Lovell, leader of the team that made the measurement. The Hubble Constant is named after American astronomer Edwin Hubble, who in the 1920s found that other galaxies were moving away from ours. ... The Hubble Constant links the galaxy's distance with its speed." ... A short run-down on the Hubble Constant: . ...

When I build NEdit on my SunOS system, I get undefined symbols: _memmove , _atexit , _strerror . ... I built NEdit on my Linux system, and it's full of bugs. ... When I build NEdit on my SunOS system, I get the fillowing undefined symbols: ld: Undefined symbol _memmove _atexit _strerror *** Error code 1 make: Fatal error: Command failed for target `nedit' . ... NEdit fails to build on Linux, with messages undefined reference to `XpGetDocumentData' undefined reference to `XpGetPageDimensions' .. ...

... The theater "U Nikitskikh Vorot" is located at the Nikitskiye Vorota (Nikita Gate) Square, at the intersection of the Nikitskiy (formerly Suvorovckiy) Boulevard and the Bolshaya Nikitskaya (formerly Gerzen) Street. ... 1) From "Arbatskaya" metro station (any of the two). ... Then walk for 5-6 minutes on the right side of the Nikitskiy Boulevard in the direction of the Pushkinskaya Square until you see the theater's front porch. ... BACK to "U Nikitskikh Vorot" theatre page . ...

... Project 183B. Final Report (in ukr). Project 183B. Publications (in ukr). Project 207. Final Report (in ukr). ... Dictionaries from Rambler.ru . Dictionaries from Meta.ua . Online Dictionary: a US site . The William Strunk, Jr. guide to Stylish English . ... Ukrainian and/or semi-ukrainian:) Papers . www.pravda.com.ua in Ukrainian and in English . ... BBC ukrainian . ... Trains to/from Kyiv . Map of Kyiv (mapia.ua) . ...

... SSAU History . ... Students from the University of Stuttgart will take part in the English-speaking summer school on engine building and will attend a course on the Theory and Design of Aircraft Engines during three weeks in Samara. ... The Aircraft Engines Design is a unique course for German undergraduate students. ... The course studied in the Samara University will be accepted into the program for German students, and each Bachelor will receive three European academic credit units for it. ...

... The ancient chronical said about the colour rings around the Sun and the Moon, about three suns in the sky, light columns, bright lightning, different "comets" rushing to the Earth, moving among the stars or round the Earth with the sky. All these occurrences may be divided into three categories: one that occur in the near or far space, processes going on in the Earth atmosphere under the influence of cosmic factors and at last the occurrences connected with the Earth atmosphere. ... Rainbow . ...

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 . ...