General Information . ... The conference is organized by the Sternberg Astronomical Institute (SAI) of Moscow University and the IAU Working group "Site-testing Instruments" . ... Use of site data in telescope operation and adaptive optics. ... Recent conferences on this subject (2007, 2008) demonstrated great interest of the community, hence the need for a new meeting. ... Unlike previous recent conferences, this meeting will cover all aspects of site monitoring for optical/IR astronomy. ...

... Solar Wind . ... During a total eclipse of the Sun, when for a few minutes the Moon completely covers the Sun's face, a glow appears around the darkened Sun--the solar corona, the Sun's outermost atmosphere. ... Such high levels of ionization require the atoms to be buffeted around by extremely high temperatures, around 1,000,000 C (1,800,000 F). ... It is brightest near sunspots, whose arched field lines apparently hamper the outflow of solar wind which carries away energy and helps cool the corona...

... Dongwon Kim , March 2014, on-going . ... Tammy Roderick , March 2011, on-going . Emma Kirby, *PhD completed August 2010* . ... Laura Dunn, *PhD completed December 2007* . ... David Nicholls, *PhD completed March 2014* . ... Antoine Bouchard, *PhD completed June 2006* . Emily McNeil, *PhD completed December 2010* . ... Eduard Westra, *PhD completed December 2007* . Sebastian Gurovich, *PhD completed August 2006* . Rami Rekola, *PhD completed December 2004* . ...

... After delivery of all engineering models and SRT test sets to LA main ASC activities were moved to LA as well. ... Special attention was paid to the problem of tests on the electromagnetic compatibility between service and scientific on-board payload. ... The SRT was attached to special supporting frame, and LNA cooling system (NSOTR) was installed on the Focal Container. ... FC Focal Container - hermetic package with the scientific payload; it contains receivers, . ... TVT Thermo-Vacuum Tests . ...

... Photos . ... The annular eclipse . ...

ALMA Enhancement: Work Package 5 Highlights since last F2F Plans Nikolic Richer Cavendish Laborator y/Kavli Institute University of Cambridge 7 October 2010 ESO, Garching ( University of Cambridge ) October 2010 1/9 Overview Completion of documentation of empirical algorithms Commissioning trip August 2009: check-out of WVR hardware Repor t on the ...

... First Contact Moon begins to move over Sun from West Starts at ~5:44:45 AM (about 10 minutes after sunrise) Must observe sun with filter! Good time to check and adjust mount tracking and alignment Watch for sunspots 6/21/ 2001 - Zambia ( Mario Motta ) First Contact Crescent images of Sun Natural pin-holes such as leaves on trees Pin-holes in cardboard Mario Motta Watch sky and environment Gradually darkens Temperature drops 8/11/1999 Hungary (Eric Pauer) ~1 min Before Second ...

Next: X--ray Quiet PMS Up: Contents Previous: Fits to Evolutionary . The X--ray selected PMS candidates may not constitute a complete list. The primary factor is the sensitivity limit, complicated by the vignetting in the field of the PSPC which was used to make the source list. ... In order to better understand the completeness of the X--ray data, photometry of every star in both regions was undertaken. ... The X--ray quiet sources are distributed evenly across the field (see Figure 8 ). ...

Ron Miksa, Carl Lindenmeyer, and John Korienek, as well as Steve Bastian (all from FNL), were on site to install the new manipulator arm in the 2.5m support building. Not to break tradition, these photos are of the completed installation and those hard working folks are not pictured. Captions above photo . ... Note that the bay door is open. ... The arm swings out from the body of the manipulator, and the assembly is moved along the metal runners to position it in front of the plate cartridge. ...

... Richard F. Gordon, Jr. ... NASA Astronaut (former) . ... ORGANIZATIONS: Fellow, American Astronautical Society; Associate Fellow, Society of Experimental Test Pilots; and Navy League. ... Gordon, R. F., FJ-4B FUEL CONSUMPTION AND PERFORMANCE REPORT, Flight Test, NAS Patuxent River, Maryland, 1958. ... In 1957, he attended the Navy's Test Pilot School at Patuxent River, Maryland, and served as a flight test pilot until 1960. ... He served as backup pilot for the Gemini 8 flight. ...

. Note: This material is from a 1994(!) Talk about CCDs - the physics remains the same, only the detector size has increased since then. ___________________________________________________________________ The Electronic Universe Project e-mail: nuts@moo.uoregon.edu

... V838 Mon is a member of a new class of eruptive variables which appear as a peculiar novae having late K-M type spectra in their outburst. Before its outburst, it was a wide binary system of B3V type stars. ... The B3V companion was seen in the outburst in the UV spectrum taken with HST (Rauch et al., ... In the latest spectra, the light of B3V companion was predominating in the short-wave photometric bands. ... CCD blue frames of V838 Mon before the eclipse (left) and in the eclipse (right). ...

XMM­Newton CCF Release Note XMM­CCF­REL­222 Update of EPIC MOS2 gain epoch revs. 446­533 Martin Stuhlinger, Darren Baskill October 31, 2006 1 CCF components Name of CCF VALDATE EVALDATE List of Blocks CAL XSCS (start of val. period) (end of validity period) changed VERS. flag EMOS2 ADUCONV 0042 2002­05­16T05:00:01 2002­11­07T05:00:00 OFFSET GAIN NO 1 XMM­Newton CCF Release XMM­CCF­REL­222 Page: 2 2 Changes The new MOS2 ADUCONV CCF issue 42 has been created together with a MOS2 CTI CCF issue 30. ...

Command file observing allows You to prepare a list of instructions in advance, which can then be executed automatically when You are observing. ... Syntax and commands changed quite a lot with the introduction of CIMA version 2.3. You thus have to select which description of command file observing You want to view depending on which version of CIMA You are going to use: . Command file observing in CIMA version 2.2 . ... Command file observing in CIMA version 3.1 or later . ...

... Bad Astronomy . ... This first Snack of the year 2000 (yes, I am one of those who says the Millennium begins in 2001) will talk a little about a wonderful event: a total lunar eclipse. On the evening of Thursday, January 20 (or the early morning Friday, January 21 if you lives east of England) the Moon will go undergo one of the best eclipses it can. ... The Moon stays in the Earth's shadow in a lunar eclipse longer the Earth stays in the Moon's shadow during a solar eclipse. ... 2008 Phil Plait. ...

... ATNF Home . About ATNF . ... About ATNF overview . ... Governance overview . Australia Telescope Steering Committee . ... Australia Telescope User Committee . ... Our people overview . ... Publications overview . ... Careers overview . ... ATNF facilities . ... Parkes radio telescope . Australia Telescope Compact Array . Mopra radio telescope . ... Parkes | ... CSIRO Radio Astronomy Image Archive . ... Visiting Parkes radio telescope . ... Parkes radio telescope webcam . ... Images . ...

... Yes, Exploding Comet 17P/Holmes is one of the strangest things ever seen by astronomers - professional and amateurs alike. ... We also had some club members who received some Astronomical League awards...and we'd like to congratulate them! ... It is again a potluck, and is being held at the Masonic Temple in Galion ( 1252 State Route 598, Galion , OH 44833) Here's a map: Map of 1252 State Route 598 Galion, OH 44833-9367, US And, along with the party come RAS elections for 2008! ... Comet 17P/Holmes ...

... ST-ECF . ABOUT ST-ECF . ... After an initial agreement between NASA and ESA in 1977 and following Hubble's more than twenty years in space and 110,000 orbits of the Earth, the aim of this conference is to celebrate the huge contributions made by the Hubble observatory to our knowledge and understanding of the Universe. ... David Southwood . ... Robert O'Connell . ... Robert O'Dell . ... Questions and information: HST3@stecf.org . ... Maintained by HST 3 Webmaster <HST3@stecf.org> . ...

Filename completion is only available if the the environment variables EDITOR and/or VISUAL are set to either emacs , gmacs or vi . For example: EDITOR=emacs . ... To complete a file or directory name with emacs or gmacs set press the ESC key twice. ls -l on<ESC><ESC> line_help . If the filename is not completed enter more characters until the filename can be uniquely identified. ... To complete a file or directory name with vi set press the \ (backward slash) key. ls -l on\ line_help . ...

... Gloria, Gloria @SONG: I fall Down You know he says I'm getting nowhere. ... SONG: Rejoice He's falling, he's falling, And outside the buildings are tumbling down, And inside all over the ground. ... Rejoice Rejoice @SONG: Fire Falling, falling The sun is burning black. Falling, falling It's beating on my back, With the fire. ... When I'm falling over, There's a fire in me. ... When I'm falling over, I feel the fire. I'm burning fire, falling. SONG: Tomorrow Won't you come back tomorrow? ...