MINUTES OF THE NINETY SIXTH MEETING OF THE MANAGEMENT COMMITTEE OF THE ARMAGH OBSERVATORY AND PLANETARIUM HELD ON 12 NOVEMBER 2015 AT 11.00 A.M. IN THE BOARD ROOM, ARMAGH OBSERVATORY Present: Archbishop Clarke (Chair), Professor A. Hibbert (Deputy Chair), Professor R. Oudmaijer, Professor T. Ray, Mr B. Hannam, Professor M. Merrifield, Mr S. Brown, Professor L. Harra, ... DATE OF THE NEXT MEETING The next meeting will be on Thursday 28 January 2015 in the Armagh Planetarium. ...

Home Search Collections Journals About Contact us My IOPscience Sapphire shaped crystals for medicine This content has been downloaded from IOPscience. ... We have developed a new kind of medical instruments and devices for laser photodynamic and thermal therapy, laser surgery, fluorescent diagnostics, and cryosurgery based on sapphire crystals of vari ous shapes with capillary channels in their volume. ... This development has given rise to the emergence of essentially new areas of application. ...

Slew limit control to protect the telescope and hardware is not completely implemented in softare. This system is not recommended for unattended operation unless safety limit switches are installed that will stop motion that could exceed the telescope's mechanical constraints. We use a tilt switch on the OTA and mechanical limit switches on the RA axis to prevent motions that would go beyond safe limits. ...

Operating Instructions Starlock PEC Utility Tool For use with Meade Starlock Equipped Telescopes Only PEC Utility The PEC Utility Tool allows you greater control over the Periodic Error Correction functions of your Starlock equipped telescope. ... Sharpening: The sharpening function makes the error corrections determined by Starlock be applied more aggressively while chasing small variations in the tracking. ... Sharpening, on the other hand, tends to increase the magnitude of the corrections applied. ...

... SUN MOON MERCURY VENUS MARS, JUPITER SATURN . ... NASA lunar spacecraft complete prime mission ahead of schedule . ... An artist's depiction of the twin spacecraft that comprise NASA's Gravity Recovery And Interior Laboratory (GRAIL) mission. ... A NASA mission to study the Moon from crust to core has completed its prime mission earlier than expected. ... The spacecraft returned their last data set of the prime mission Tuesday. ... The spacecraft will have to endure a lunar eclipse on June 4. ...

... Results Let me recall that the general goal of my research project was to try to prove a weaker version of Tate Conjecture for crystalline cohomology of algebraic varieties -- roughly speaking, one wanted to prove that for a smooth algebraic variety over a finite field of characteristic $p$, the pro-$p$ completion of its algebraic $K$-theory can be expressed in terms of the Frobenius action on cristalline cohomology. ... Other part of the project are less problematic. ...

... It was found that the Sun lies 9?2 pc above the plane of hte Galactic disk in the direction of North Galactic pole and that F0-F9 stars contribute 0.0035 M /pc 3 to the density of the Galactic disk. ... We used this method to determine the scale height of the subsystem of F stars of the Galactic disk, Z 0 =160?10 pc. ... It is suggested that scale height of the metal-poor stars subsystem is due to the infall of the metall-poor intergalactic gas onto the disk. ...

... russian ) . ... Came to work at the Institute of Terrestrial Magnetism, Ionosphere, and Radio Wave Propagation, Russian Academy of Sciences (IZMIRAN) . ... Chairman of the "Solar Physics" section of Space Council of Russian Academy of Sciences . Vice-Chair of «Solar System» Section of Space Council of Russian Academy of Sciences and "Geophysical Research" Section of Scientific Technical Council of Federal Space Agency. Space Council of Russian Academy of Sciences . ... Scientific interests . ...

USSR Venus Orbiters . ... Venera 15 and Venera 16 were a two-spacecraft mission designed to use 8-centimeter (3-inch) band, side-looking radar mappers to study the surface properties of Venus . ... Each spacecraft consisted of a synthetic aperture radar (SAR) and a radio altimeter. ... The Venera 15 and 16 synthetic aperture radar (SAR) systems were identical, and were used to map the surface of Venus at a resolution of 1 to 2 kilometers (.6 to 1.2 miles) over a period of 8 months. ...

The AstroGuide . ... AstroGuide Listing . ... See many more Astronomy Listings by: Category or Alphabet . The Bradford Robotic Telescope has now been completely rebuilt and is operating in a new dome at the Observatorio del Teide 8,000 feet up on the Island of Tenerife. The new telescope has been designed as a completely free robotic system to support the understanding of astronomy. ... Unless otherwise specified, web site content Copyright 1994-2016 John Huggins All Rights Reserved . ...

... 8, ``Celestial Mechanics'', 2002 Determinati