... On September 12 and 13, dozens of astronomers plan to meet in Washington, D.C. to discuss the future of the Cornell-owned and operated Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico, the largest radio telescope in the world. ... On November 3, 2006, the National Science Foundation (NSF) issued a Senior Review report that advised that the NSF cut Arecibo s funding by 20 to 25 percent in order to free up funding for new observatories and projects. ...

. 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

. This schematic diagram shows how scientists think the universe has evolved from the Big Bang to the present day. Data from the UKIRT, VLT, and Subaru observatories allowed astronomers to take four precise and comparable snapshots of the universe when it was, 2, 4, 6 and 9 billion years old, each containing hundreds of star-forming galaxies. By comparing the different snapshots, astronomers were able to accurately track what has changed over the past 11 billion years. // illustration by CXC/NASA/NOAO/KIPAC

The Library of Medium Resolution Spectra . HyperLeda home | Documentation | ... The library is divided into different archive corresponding to the different datasets. ... They are stored as tar files. ... cumulus . ... The archive will be divided in subdirectories in order to avoid problems with some unix commands which have a limitation in the size of the argument or number of files. ... The file name is the file number in this dataset The file naming convention has the form: LYYMMOBSj/nnnn . ...

NASA - Space Task Group . ... Location of new site for Space Task Group . ... It has been announced today by the Administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration that the location of the new Center will be upon a 1000-acre site donated by Rice University southeast of Houston in Harris County, Texas. ... Additional information as well as a booklet of general information about the Houston and Harris County area will be distributed to the staff as quickly as possible. ... NASA release . ...

. Attached is an image of the Nova in M32. It was made under uncomfortable conditions, as our summer here in Germany makes a clear sky a rare event. To create this image, 5 images of 45 seconds each were summed. It was taken on September 12, at 21h 45m UT. Udo Zlender - Udo.Zlender@gmd.de . Back to Supernovae in NGC and IC galaxies. David Bishop Last modified: Thu Sep 17 12:41:25 EDT 1998

... The main topics of the Conference were: 1. ... Asteroid-comet hazard (origin and dynamic evolution of objects approaching the Earth, observations, physical properties, cataloguing, data bases, estimation of collision probability with the Earth and other bodies). ... 5) In this connection the problem of concluding the international political agreement within the frames of UN about common active counteractions to the bodies on the orbits leading to collisions with the Earth is urgent. ...

... St Petersburg 23, September 2014 1 Motivation · Origin of Martian moons? ... Considered error sources: ­ Phobos a priori ephemerides; ­ Phobos a priori GM value; ­ measurements noise; ­ different strategies; · Methods: ­ real data analysis; ­ simulations. ... St Petersburg 23, September 2014 8 Simulations: sensitivity of the measurements to the a priori GM value Simulations: zero noise+ IMCCE a priori ephemerides +GMPH = 7.16 * 105 m3/sec2. ... St Petersburg 23, September 2014 14 Thank you! ...

... The Astronomical Data Analysis Software and Systems (ADASS) conference is held each year at a different hosting astronomical institution. The conference provides a forum for scientists and programmers concerned with algorithms, software and software systems employed in the acquisition, reduction, analysis, and dissemination of astronomical data. ... The 26th annual ADASS conference will be held from October 16th to 20th, 2016 at the Stazione Marittima Conference Centre , Trieste, Italy. ...

... Give laxation where number a simple order of magnitude argument to show why the retime for 2-bo dy encounters in a stellar system TR 3 /m2 n, is the velo city dispersion, m the typical stellar mass and n the density of stars. (10 marks) 2. From B&T 99, question 2.3). The density distribution (r ) = 4 M rJ 3 4 r J r 2 (r + r J ) 2 (where M and rJ are constants) for a spherical galaxy is called a Jaffe mo del (after Walter Jaffe of Leiden University, who devised it). ...

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