SITE 2010 Comprehensive Characterization of Astronomical Sites Kislovodsk, Russia, 49 October 2010 Conference Summary Marc S. Sarazin*a a European Southern Observatory, Garching, Germany Abstract The main topics discussed during the Site 2010 conference are outlined and the outcome is described. Keywords: Astronomical Site testing, precipitable water vapor, atmospheric turbulence, cloudiness, seeing 1. ... Site surveys for National observatory projects in China, India, and Iran benefit from this. ...

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Phase Retrieval Measurements of Antenna Surfaces Using Astronomical Sources Bojan Nikolic, John Richer, Richard Hills Mullard Radio Astronomy Observatory, Cavendish Laboratory, Cambridge, U.K. Abstract We present a novel technique for accurate measurement of the largescale errors in an antenna surface using astronomical sources and detectors. Out-of-focus images of compact astronomical sources contain a wealth of information about the telescope optics. ...

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International School-Seminar . Dark Matter, Dark Energy . ... Gravitational Lensing . ... Lebedev Physical Institute and Sternberg Astronomical Institute of Lomonosov Moscow State University and Centre for Cosmoparticle physics "COSMION" (with the help of Russian Foundation for Basic Research  and Russian Federal Government Program "Integration" of the Fundamental Science and High Education) are organising the International School-Seminar "Dark Matter, Dark Energy and Gravitational Lensing" . ...

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RTT150 . ... HEAD IKI . This page is a search interface through RTT150 observationsdatabase which is stored at IKI. According to the agreement between participantsof RTT150 project, observational data fully belong to the institution which hascarried out this observation for one year, are available to all three partiesinvolved (IKI, KSU and TUG) during the second year and become freely accessibleto the whole astronomical community starting two years after observation date. ...

Astronomes Amateurs du Luxembourg a.s.b.l. " We bring the Universe to you ! Founded in 1971 by a group of enthusiasts and star aficionados, our association is now counting more than 130 members.As a national association we attract hobby astronomers from the whole country to our regular night-sky observations and to the meetings in our club at Dudelange. ... by topic : PDF File Download (360KB) . ... Article about AAL in "Le Quotidien" newspaper of Juli 21 2005 - PDF File Download (132KB) . ...

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