... Norm Oberle being reflected by one of his . ... The 31" mirror at the . ... It was through Norm's classes that I made my own two telescope mirrors described elsewhere on this site. ... Soon he made his first first telescope. ... Norm was one of the charter members and organizers of Cuyahoga Astronomy Club and its first president. ... In 1968, Norm formed the LEAP Project (Lake Erie Astronomical Project) partially an out growth of the telescope making class and astronomy meetings at the planetarium. ...

... MaximDL и PinPoint с ошибкой "The plate's exposure start time is required for catalog proper motion calculation. Check the attached image." ... Прошу помощи в разборках с MaximDL и PinPoint. ... Кадры открываются в MaximDL при указании формата RAW и размера. Когда пытаюсь распознаться ПинПоинтом (или в Максиме или в отдельном) вылезает ошибка: The plate's exposure start time is required for catalog proper motion calculation. ... Откуда качнуть эти метры? http://www.cyanogen.com/help/maximdl.. ...

... SAI CAS . ... Catalog Access Services . ... This site is about the Virtual Observatory project at the Sternberg Astronomical Institute, Moscow University ( SAI MSU ). We provide a public access to the growing set of astronomical services developed by the SAI RVO development team in accordance with the Virtual Observatory standards. ... We provide access (programmatic and interactive) to the all major and biggest astronomical catalogs (about 4 billions objects total) as well as other web-services. ...

ASTRONOMY IN UKRAINE - 2000 AND BEYOND . ... Kyiv, Ukraine, 5-8 June 2000 . ... The primary objective of the conference is to consider the integration of astronomical research in Ukraine into the international astronomy. ... VLBI for Astronomy and Geodynamics Convenors: Kees van't Klooster (The Netherlands), Leonid M. Litvinenko (Ukraine), Chopo Ma (USA). ... Planetary Astronomy Convenors: Teodor Kostiuk (USA), Robert Nelson (USA), Yuri Shkuratov (Ukraine). ... The "general" registration fee: 100 USD. ...

... BDR FAX: (303) 497-6513 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- SELECTED GEOMAGNETIC AND SOLAR ACTIVITY INDICES ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- WORLDWIDE INDICES -------------------------------------------------------------- The subscript p means planetary and designates a global magnetic activity in- dex ... 13-14 I2 Kp or PLANETARY 3-HOUR RANGE INDEX for 0000 - 0300 UT. ...

... 8 AAAP Meeting The Space Elevator is coming to Princeton! ... Program Chair Michele Novatski has invited Michael J. Laine of the LiftPort Group, Bremerton, WA, (http://liftport.com), who will present "Space Elevator- Countdown to 2018". ... To bring this vision to Winter Observing. ... For me, CCD astronomy is the way to go. life requires commitment and work by the members. ... Swift has successfully begun its mission to study gamma-ray bursts and identify their origins. ...

... Bad Astronomy . ... On Thursday, February 15th 2001 (and replayed on March 19), the Fox TV network aired a program called ``Conspiracy Theory: Did We Land on the Moon?'', hosted by X-Files actor Mitch Pileggi. ... Dust around the lander . ... However, it appeals to our common sense: when the sky is black here on Earth, we see stars. ... Bad: The program claims that when the top half of the lander took off from the Moon to bring the astronauts back into orbit, there was no flame from the rocket. ...

... VaST is a software tool for finding variable objects on a series of astronomical images. ... VaST performs object detection and aperture photometry using SExtractor on each image, cross-matches lists of detected stars, performs magnitude calibration with respect to the first (reference) image and constructs a lightcurve for each object. ... VaST FITS image viewer ./pgfv . ... Part I" PZP, vol. ... K. V. Sokolovsky, S. A. Korotkiy; "New Variable Stars Discovered by the NMW Survey" PZP, vol. ...