Lessons learned from the Thirty Meter Telescope site testing Tony Travouillon Sebastian Els, Angel Otarola, Reed Riddle, Matthias Schoeck, Warren Skidmore TMT.XXX.PRE.05.0XX.DRF01 1 Introduction TMT and its Site testing. Important choice before going on site. ... Considerations during analysis of the data. TMT.XXX.PRE.05.0XX.DRF01 2 Some Background about the TMT Site Testing TMT is a 30m, segmented, RitcheyChretien telescope design. ... ASCA Cloud Cover Analysis So how do we do it in practice? ...

Technical Subject: Public information system for remote monitoring and control of forest fire-induced enviromental health risk. ... Method / Approach : We rely on the existing solutions for 1) remote detection and classification of forest fires, 2) assessment of health risk from air pollution by smoke plumes and 3) information exchange in peer-to-peer networks. ... Tier 1. ... The software will include agents for accessing remote information on current forest fires, public meteo and GIS data etc. ...

... Spectrometer and CCD camera attached to the 2 metre "Karl-Zeiss-Jena" telescope of the Observatory on peak Terskol (3100 m, Northern Caucasus). ... The accessible spectral range is ~3500 - ~10200 AA. The CCD camera and the data handling system, developed at SAO, consist of front-illuminated CCD device of 1024x1024 pixels (pixel size 16x16 mkm) inside a dewar, an electronic controller-interface and a IBM PC computer. ... R=45 000 (~90 spectral orders, ~3500 - ~10200 AA registered simultaneously) . ...

... galaxies: bulges galaxies: clusters: general galaxies: clusters: individual: . ... star formation statistics stellar content structure Cosmology ( cosmology :) cosmic background radiation ( cosmology :) cosmological parameters cosmology : miscellaneous cosmology : observations cosmology : theory ( cosmology :) dark ages, reionization, first stars ( cosmology :) dark energy ( cosmology :) dark matter ( cosmology :) diffuse radiation ( cosmology :) distance scale ( cosmology :) early Universe (...

The Family ASTRO "How-To Manual" . From 2000-2004, we tested and developed many key strategies that our Event Leaders could use to lead successful Astronomy Events with our series of Leader Kits . ... Working with Families . We first envisioned Family ASTRO as a way to expand the ASP's flagship program Project ASTRO? and bring what it was doing in the classroom to the students' families. ... what we now call our "12 Key Ideas for Working with Families." ... From Family ASTRO . ...

MICROSCOPES . ... In the last three to five years, LOMO has developed new lines of products, including new families of biological, fluorescent, and polarizing microscopes, night vision devices, consumer Maksutov telescopes, etc. ... 1939 Company introduces its first student and biological microscopes. as well as its first manual movie camera . ... 1956 LOMO produces its first wide-screen-format movie projector and introduces its first fluorescent microscope for chemical structure analysis. ...

SAI VO . ... SAI CAS . ... Access . ... We present the results of the development of Sternberg Astronomical Institute Catalog Access Services (SAI CAS) project - the first and the only project in Russia, which provides online access to the major astronomical catalogues and different services on top of them. ... SAI CAS is an open-source implementation of the general Catalogue access service (influenced by SDSS CAS CASjobs project), based on original algorithms and open-source software. ... SAI MSU | ...

... About ISSP . RAS members working in ISSP . ... A set of technological processes is developed in the Institute of Solid State Physics RAS for manufacturing of scintillation elements for radiation detectors with high space resolution. ... тАв€а a technology of direct forming of scintillation elements with necessary profiles and dimensions by means of external pressure in pressing tools with corresponding geometry. ... Scientific Secretary WWW: www.issp.ac.ru . ...

... Ж.Ф. Родионова, А.А.Карлов, Т.П. Скобелева и др. ... Sternberg State Astronomical Institute, 119899, Moscow, Russia; jeanna@sai.msu ru. ... Moscow State University, Vorobjovy Gory, 119899, Moscow, Russia. Brown University - Vernadsky Institute Microsymposium 34, October 8-9, 2001, Moscow, Russia . ... Rodionova J1., ... Sternberg State Astronomical Institute, Moscow University, jeanna@sai.msu.ru . ... 1 Sternberg State Astronomical Institute Lomonosov Moscow University, Russia; marss8@mail.ru . ...

Astronotes Armagh Planetarium's Stellar Blog! ... Space Flight . ... According to recent government figures, the UK space industry contributes бе9bn to the economy each year and supports tens of thousands of jobs.б  Working closelyб  with Invest Northern Ireland, Aerospace, Defence and Security Industries NI, CCEA has developed a new Level 2 Space Science Technology qualification to give learners aged 14-16 the necessary skills and expertise needed in Northern IrelandБЂ™s growing space industry. ...

New RRC variables with an additional non-radial pulsation . PZ, vol. ... We present a new study of 14 known RR Lyrae variable stars from the Catalina surveys periodic variable star catalog. ... New Double-Mode RR Lyrae Variables III . ... We present a new study of 123 known RR Lyrae variable stars from the Catalina surveys periodic variable star catalog. ... According to these data, the stars are double-mode RR Lyrae variables, pulsating in the first-overtone and fundamental modes. ...

... Capability of space means for the solution of problems of military character . ... Classification and functions of space systems of military purpose(assignment) . ... Ground complex of maintenance of launch and control of space vehicles . ... Capability of space systems of optical reconnaissance . ... Complexes topographical and earthresource shooting on base of "Zenit" space vehicle . ... Space vehicle for optical-electronic reconnaissance . ... System with space vehicle on low-altitude orbits . ...

... There are preliminary series of photometric and radio spectral observations of the above-mentioned stars, archival data on the light curves of the stars, results of the search for OH and H 2 O maser emission in IRAS point sources that possess the IR parameters similar to Miras. ... The aim is a detailed study of the maser emission variability. ... In 1996-1997, astronomical observations of Mira Ceti-type stars (miras) were carried out in three spectral ranges: optical, infrared, and radio. ...

... Ballistics, navigation and flight control of the spacecraft, going to the L2 point of Sun-Earth system. ... and calculation algorithms have been developed: - an algorithm, building nominal trajectories for one impulse flights to the L2 point of Sun- Earth system, including a Moon swingby maneuver or not. - an algorithm, calculating corrections of spacecraft trajectory needed for the flight from Earth to halo orbit and for stationkeeping of the spacecraft moving in halo ...

Status of the RadioAstron project development . The engineering model of the Space Radio Telescope (SRT) was assembled in Lavochkin Association (LA) in the configuration consisting of 10-m parabolic radio astronomical antenna made of carbon-fiber, F ocal and Device cabins of the scientific payload and on-board and ground complex of high data rate up-down radio link (VIRK). ... Then,radio astronomical tests were conducted using real radio sources. ... Space Radio Telescope . ... Data Processing . ...

... 400mm f/2.8 Nikor lens: images the sky on the entrance slit. ... The optical system maintains image quality along the slit length so that each row of the image is a spectrum of that spatially selected region of the sky. 180mm f/2.8 Nikor lens: collimates the light from the slit. ... The auxiliary optical platform on WISPI now accomodates a short focal lens and a guiding/imaging video system that may use sub-pixel corrections to provide feedback to the tracking drive motors. ...

ПУБЛИКАЦИИ - 1997 год . ... 125, 1997. ... XXVII Радиоастрономическая конференция "Проблемы современной радиоастрономии", Санкт-Петербург, 10-14 ноября 1997 г., Тезисы докладов. ... Solar Phys. 1997. ... XXVII Радиоастрономическая конференция 'Проблемы современной радиоастрономии' Санкт-Петербург, 10-14 ноября 1997 г. Тезисы докладов, том.2, с.4-5. ... XXVII Радиострономическая конференция 'Проблемы современной радиоастрономии' Санкт-Петербург, 10-14 ноября 1997 г. Тезисы докладов, том.2, с.14-15. ...

The following page provides access to several SVM codes developed by us. ... Several our codes realizing some other exact and approximate methods are also available. The codes are provided by rather small (sorry) comments and test run results. ... Another page contains links to other collections of light scattering software (under construction). Our overview of the ranges of applicability of different codes is under preparation. ... Created by V.I. Last modified: 10/05/03, V.I. ...

... Field of interest: data analysis and interpretation of X-ray observations of BHC and NS systems, astrophysics of compact objects and related phenomena: X-ray , optical and radio observations , shocks and stellar winds, emission mechanism, the spectral and timing analysis of the X-ray emission from microquasars ( signature of accreting BH), atoll- and Z-sources ( signature of accreting NS), modeling of INTEGRAL images % . ...

Software Forum Message . ... Astronomy Software Discussion | ... PEAS Is SW For Analysis Of P.E. FFT . ... P E A S is an abbreviation of Periodic Error Analyzing Software, simple program for evaluation and analysis of periodical errors (P.E.) and FFT in equatorial mount. ... www.astronomy.net . About Astronomy Net | Advertise on Astronomy Net | ... Forum posts are Copyright their authors as specified in the heading above the post. "dbHTML," "AstroGuide," "ASTRONOMY.NET" & "VA.NET" . ...