The Richland Astronomical Society is a nonprofit organization formed in 1960 to promote the advancement of amateur astronomy. ... Mike Romine - President/Board Member . ... Bob Kocar - Treasurer/Board Member/Grant Coordinator . ... Eric Heintz - Assistant Observatory Director/Board Member . ... Tammy Plotner - President Emeritus/Webmaster (www.wro.org)/Astronomical League ALCor. ... Site content is maintained by Webmaster Tammy Plotner and Assistant Webmaster Greg DeChant All rights reserved. ...

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? ...

... IRPS is the small size infrared photometer with detector cooled by liquid nitrogen . IRPS was designed as the instrument for work with optical systems with angular apertures . ... Multichannel preamplifiers (N*8) are designed for use with IR and mm wave detectors arrays. ... Thermoelectric cooling system is designed for use with IR detectors. ... IR photodetector modules with detectors cooled by LN2. ... Gas cooled radiation shield optical cryostat, IR detectors. liquid nitrogen capacity 1.2 ltr. ...

... I used Ѕ inch thick Appleply plywood throughout. ... The mirror box is a little unusual. ... The original design uses a fiberglass tube to connect the mirror base plate to the top ring to form the mirror box. ... I decided to build the mirror box like a standard secondary cage instead, using aluminum tubes with push-in inserts. ... All three tubes are retained at the mirror box and the secondary ring using nine, 1-inch thick Appleply clamps, three at the secondary and six on the mirror box. ...

Related Building Energy Efficiency Sites . ... Arizona Energy Office . Association of Energy Engineers . ... Beijing Energy Efficiency Center . ... CANMET Energy Diversification Research Laboratory . ... Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory Building Simulation Research . ... National Renewable Energy Laboratory High-performance Buildings Research . ... Oak Ridge National Laboratory Buildings Technology Center . Oak Ridge National Laboratory Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy Program . ...

The paper presents the 'Neptune-ME' information display system (IDS) as a spaceman console (SC) of the descent module of the 'Soyuz -TMA' piloted transport spaceship, and the integrated console (IC) of manual control loop for module equipment in the Russian segment of the 'Alpha' international space station. ... to control spaceship systems; . ... An integrated control console (ICC) which is hardware and software compatible with a IBM PC, is suggested as a basic console for the manual control loop. ...

... Exposure Time Calculator (ETC) . Survey processing . ... VISTA is a 4-m class wide field survey telescope for the southern hemisphere, equipped with a near infrared camera (1.65 degree diameter field of view at VISTA's nominal pixel size) containing 67 million pixels of mean size 0.34 arcsec and available broad band filters at Z,Y,J,H,K s and a narrow band filter at 1.18 micron. A wide field visible camera, if constructed, could also be used on VISTA. ... Tile . ... ESO VISTA Public Surveys . ...

Russian version of HP . ... StarCalc is the fastest professional astronomy planetarium & star mapping program for Windows 9x/ME/NT/2000/XP (StarCalc version for PocketPC computers you can found here ). ... Extensibility : This program is based on common "Plugin StarCalc interface to catalogs and object groups", which allows program to add new modules as Plugins. ... Welcome to the Pocket StarCalc Home Page: . ... Some bugfixes in eclipses" and line" plugins - see the new versions in downloads page. ...

The Integrated Information Display System for the Soyuz-TMA and the Integrated Console of Manual Control Loop for the Russian Segment of the International Space Station Yurii Tiapchenko, deputy Chief Designer and head of the Division of Onboard Information Display Systems (1993-2002) at the Specialized Experimental Design Bureau of Spacecraft Technology and Chief Designer at the NTC "Alpha-M". ... The tasks of the spaceship IDS are provided by the Simvol and KL-110 display systems. ...

ARMAGH PLANETARIUM IN THE 1990s Dawn of the Digistar era This decade saw the arrival of our first digital projector, an Evans & Sutherland Digistar 1. This was a revolutionary new approach to planetarium display equipment. ... This was the first Digistar projector to be installed in the UK. ... In 1994 a new section was added to our building, doubling its size. ... A walk through the stars Our Astropark opened in 1994. ... Armagh's Astropark allows visitors to walk through the Cosmos ...

... During all period of our investigations Dr. N.Sumzina from the Institute of Applied Astronomy of RAS had prepared the Numbered Minor Planet positions from MPC Database for our processing with kind permission of the Director of Minor Planet Center Prof. Braian Marsden. ... Our extensive processing of the MPC data allows us to conclude that CCD observations of the Numbered and Unnumbered Minor Planets have the errors, sometimes very crude. ...

The most up-to-date information related to atmos 3.0 are collected here due to constantly increasing interest to MASS/DIMM processing software... atmos 3.0 is still beta , so the latest version is 2.97.5 (there is also 2.98.x branch which absorbs new features) . ... M' line: . ... free seeing and its relative error . ... dimm seeing and its relative error (if dimm data are present, zeros otherwise) . ... dimm turbulence power and its relative error (if dimm data are present, zeros otherwise) . ...

Our School Observatory: . N56.2/E94.6 deg. and ~200m above sea level) . Our small observatory is located near Zelenogorsk (Siberia), in 170 kms to east from Krasnoyarsk - our regional main city. It includes a tower with a rotary dome (D=3.5m) on a roof of one of buildings. ... Our basic instrument is homemade D=150mm & F=695mm Newtonian reflector. Despite of its small size, we have learned to receive rather detailed views of heavens. ... HOME (Eng) | HOME (Rus) ...

Next: Introduction . Binary Evolution in World Wide Web . ... Sternberg Astronomical Institute . ... We present a WWW-version of the Scenario Machine - a computer code designed to calculate the evolution of close binary stellar systems. The Internet users can directly access to the code and calculate binary evolutionary tracks with parameters at the user's will. ... More possibilities for Internet users are intended to become available in the near future. ... Normal star evolution . ...

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... 4 November 1994 . orbit . ... 0.0128 . ... orbit period . ... satellite mass . 1950 kg . scientific payload mass . 550 kg . ... For more information send a mail to: info@sputnik.infospace.ru . 1997-2002 SMIS IKI RAN and SRC "PLANETA" Moscow, Russia. ...

... astro-ph . ... SAI VO . ... Design, analysis, and testing of a microdot apodizer for the apodized pupil Lyot coronagraph (Research note). ... Application to extremely large telescopes . ... Following the development of an early demonstrator in the context of the VLT-SPHERE project (~2012), we manufactured and tested a second APLC prototype in microdots designed for extremely large telescopes. ... The maturity and reproducibility of the APLC made with microdots is demonstrated. ... SAI MSU . ...

... Telescopes . ... Creation of the distributed net of control (DCN) of the 6 m telescope has been completed, which is based on the use of digital tracking drives and the means of commercial automatization to ensure the real-time processes of control and data acquisition. With changing to DCN, computer diagnostics of the majority of units of the telescope has been implemented, the reliability of its operation in the whole has been increased, its performance characteristics have been improved. ...

Interball-Tail Magnetic field measurements . Magnetic field measurements on-board the Interball Tail Probe are carried out by the FM-3I and MIF instruments. ... FM-3 M2 magnetometer failed in February 1996, FM-3 M1 and MIF are working until now. Data presented here are the combination of the data of all magnetometers. First of all FM-3 M1 data are used, if they are absent, MIF data used and if data of both magnetometer are absent, FM-3 M2 data presented. ...