The Official Publication of the Amateur Astronomers Association of Princeton Director Bill Murray (609) 298-1179 strgazr@comcast.net Assistant Director John Church (609) 799-0723 j.church@mindspring.com Treasurer Program Chairman Michael Mitrano OPEN (609)-737-6518 michael.mitrano@worldnet ... (609) 273-1456 (908) 859-1670 and (609) 448-8644 kane@princetonastronomy.org editors@princetonastronomy.org Volume 38 From the Director December ... The speaker will be the AAAP's own John Church. ...

GENERAL INFORMA T ION ABOUT How does my LOMO® Night Vision Device Work? ... LOMO® NIGHT VISION DEVICES & FAQs When using a Night Vision Device, you are actually looking at an image that is projected by the intensifier tube located inside the unit (Fig. ... Light enters the Night Vision Device through the objective lens and hits the photocathode in front of the intensifier tube. ... Infrared (IR) Illuminator Microchannel Plate (Gen.2 Only) When do I use my LOMO® Night Vision Device? ... Fig. ...

... ---------- FileName Lrecl Records Explanations -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- catalog .dat 269 36020 Revised NLTT Catalogue and 1st Supplement Description of catalog columns (see Paper II for details): -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Summary Information 1) NLTT number (drawn consecutively from 1 to 58,845) 2) binary component 3) RA ( 2000 ), epoch 2000 ( ...

Электронная библиотека астронома-любителя. ... Ru.Space.News: . Ноябрь 1998 . ... Дата: 12 ноября 1998 (1998-11-12) От: Alexander Bondugin Тема: Leonid Meteor Shower Prospects for UK and Europe (Forwarded) Привет всем! ... Дата: 12 ноября 1998 (1998-11-12) От: Alexander Bondugin Тема: Research Aircraft Fly Below Leonid Meteor Storm (Forwarded) Привет всем! ... Дата: 12 ноября 1998 (1998-11-12) От: Alexander Bondugin Тема: Leonid Meteor Storm Won't Deter Hubble From Space Observations Привет всем! ...

Rocket R-5 . ... The rocket R-5 engine was provided with a special extension nozzle that enabled to increase a flight range up to 1200 km. ... Prior to carry out flight tests at the 2 NII-88 affiliate division, firing bench tests of rocket R-5 were run. ... A launch range of all 7 rockets was 1185 km. ... With a 37% increase in the R-5 launch mass its firing range increased two times as compared to R-2, masses of fore bodies being practically equal. ... Official WEB-site of S.P.Korolev RSC Energia . ...

... Since GCVS IV, there was no new GCVS edition. ... Main reasons for the automatic-survey new variables remaining outside the GCVS for a long time:  different level of detail of the classification systems, no perfect software for automatic classification available;  individual approach to each star that was always used in the GCVS cannot be applied any longer, but the experience of automatically- updated catalogs evidences for the number of errors ...

Обзоры hep-ex: тематический рубрикатор . ... Коллаборация DIANA из подмосковной Дубны наконец-то опубликовала свое сообщение об указании на существование экзотического бариона с положительной странностью Z+ (подробности про этот барион см. на странице "Текущие открытия в физике элементарных частиц: открытие бариона с положительной странностью" ). Масса 1539 +/- 2 МэВ, ширина менее 9 МэВ (см. закрашенную область на Рисунке). ... В простой кварковой модели такого бариона не существует! ...

... 24-Sep-14 JOURNиES 2014 Investigation · checking possibility of nutation rates estimation based on RLG observations simulation level · combination of simulated RLG data with real VLBI data · comparison of estimates based on real RLG data (Wettzell) with results of simulation 24-Sep-14 JOURNиES 2014 Simulation ... 10-8) 24-Sep-14 JOURNиES 2014 Simulated data + VLBI (ac. lev. ...

. F IGURE . 3. Plots of V S against cos for the thick disk and the old halo samples. In this graph a constant V rot appears as a straight line. Higher-weight points are plotted with larger symbols. discussion in the text | previous figure | next figure .

Molniya Triplane Aircraft . At present NPO MOLNIYA is working not only in the space field but also on aircraft engineering. ... Considering this NPO MOLNIYA has chosen a "triplane" aerodynamic scheme stipulating in comparison with traditional schemes the essential increase of flying safety and fuel economy of its aircraft. The triplanes have advantages of canard and classical schemes, but are free from their faults. ... Molniya-1 . ... Heracles Triplane and Aerospace Systems . ...

NASA Johnson Space Center Oral History Project . Photos provided by NASA JSC Image Repository and Terry Slezak . ... from the primary NASA humidity-controlled cold storage vault built for the permanent preservation of spaceflight films. ... the other vault, situated in a remote corner of the NASA property, is used to store a complete duplicate set of the films, . ... at 0 F (-18 C) and 20% RH, houses a second duplicate set of backup copies and documentation of the spaceflight films. ...

... Ground rules and representative assumptions for lunar base studies: 1. ... Cost summary of a Lunar Laboratory with a 10 year development phase and a 30 year operational life-cycle - (million 1999 $ at 0.2 million $ per man- year ) : Development test of lunar facilities-10 year : 9,340 Dev. test of space transportation system -10year: 18,923 Subtotal development test - 10 year : 28,263 Sustained engineering STS - 30 year : 4,146 Production of ...

... SUPER RATIO . ... On this page I will present the most important (on my opinion) idea on Intellegence Life in the Universe . ... On the problem of the Super Ratio in astrophysics" . ... As a matter of fact, this is the main problem of the modern natural science. ... Here I shall try to speak about the most important problem of the modern natural science, the problem which is undoubtedly, of more importance than discovery of Blacks Holes, creation of Grand Unification Theory or Artificial...

... Moon Phase below . ... ARTICLE: Why the moon always shows us the same face . ... Before you continue reading, you should know that this was not always the case, i.e. the Moon once was rotating with respect to the Earth, so that on every night a terrestrial observer (if there was one, because this was long, long before mankind appeared on our planet, and even before any major animals had appeared) saw another face of the Moon. ... Figure 1 (not to scale) shows how we can imagine the system Earth-Moon...

RELATIVE SUNSPOT NUMBERS Description of Data from SGD Explanation of Data Reports: Relative Sunspot Numbers -- The relative sunspot number is an index of the activity of the entire visible disk of the Sun. ... The provisional daily Zurich relative sunspot numbers, Rz, were based upon observations made at Zurich and its two branch stations in Arosa and Locarno and communicated by M. Waldmeier of the Swiss Federal Observatory. ... This indicates the uncertainty above and below the predicted number. ...

... The circumnuclear GASEOUS disks are often decoupled from the circumnuclear stellar disks and are even stronger inclined to the outer disk planes; in fact, we have found a considerable `population' of inner polar rings. Inner gas polar rings are found as in spiral galaxies with the massive outer gas disks co-planar to the main symmetry planes (e.g. NGC 2841, Sil'chenko et al. 1997, and NGC 7217, Sil'chenko & Afanasiev 2000) as well in many lenticular galaxies (Fig. ...

Located at the Hidden Hollow Campground, near Mansfield, Ohio. and counting.. ... For those of you who dislike the outdoorsy camping thing, or if you want a little privacy there are several hotels within 7 miles of Hidden Hollow . Located at the intersection of I-71 and State Route 13 (about 10 minutes from Hidden Hollow ‘02) : . ... HERE IS A MAP: This map is of Central Ohio surrounding the I-71 exit to Hidden Hollow. ... Map of Hidden Hollow Camp Grounds . ... Hidden Hollow 2002 Forms . ...

... Participant : The person whose name appears on the booking form. ... Participation Fee/ Optional Program Price . ... Passport and Visas . ... Travel insurance is highly recommended for all Participants while attending SpaceDTP-2016 and any related optional trips arranged by the Organizer. ... This booking condition states that the Participant must assume that he/she is not covered by the Organizer insurance policy including all liability insurance, for death, injury, damage or any other loss. ...

... Spherical aberration, coma, and astigmatism are also easily observed using the star test. ... Off-axis images are complex. ... Fig. ... Diffraction by a circular aperture as a function of defocus for no aberration Airy Disk 1 wave defocus Less than 1 wave defocus Fig. ... Diffraction by a circular aperture as a function of defocus for third-order spherical aberration Paraxial Focus Small distance inside paraxial focus Moderate distance from marginal focus Immediate neighborhood of marginal focus Fig...

... Yerga Expedition . ... Novaya Yerga Expedition . ... I n 1662 a meteorite shower fell near the village of Novaya Yerga. ... In 2002, the Meteoritics Laboratory of the Vernadsky Institute of Geochemistry And Analytical Chemistry of the Russian Academy of Sciences (GEOKHI) organized an expedition to search for the location and any traces of the Novaya Yerga meteorite shower. ... After visiting the town of Kirillov, the expedition returned to Novaya Yerga, i.e. to near the village of Nekrasovo. ...