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? ...

Statistics of sunspot activity . ... The solar regions . ... NOAA 11300's . ... The fine bipolar sunspots were marked at the tenth parallel of the Northern hemisphere since 11.06 to 20.06.01. ... From time to time pores of opposite magnetic polarity were observed neighbouring the sunspot, and the total region's area reached 150 m.s.h. NOAA 09502 . ... The fine bipolar sunspots were observed at the mid latitudes of the Northern hemisphere since 15.06 to 17.06.01, in the Eastern part of the Sun disc. ...

Электронная библиотека астронома-любителя. ... архив RSN . ... Ru.Space.News: . Апрель 2004 . ... Дата: 18 апреля 2004 (2004-04-18) От: Boris Paleev Тема: Hенужные вещи можно выбросить на Луну Hello All! ... Упакованный в специальный контейнер, груз победителя аукциона будет размещен на частном космическом корабле, который примерно через 1,5 года врежется в лунный грунт на скорости почти 6 тысяч километров в час. ... Пишите нам: info@lenta.ru Copyright c 2004 Lenta.Ru Лицензия Минпечати Эл ? ...

... Active Skepsis . ... Probably, one should know the results from any actions. ... As a result, a sceptic, who discredits, for example, the tales of Christian wonders, has to follow the practical recommendations of Christianity or any other belief knowing how to act. ... As a result, scepticism restricts itself with discrediting secondary wonders, permanently replacing one doubtful interpretation with another and telling nothing of life and action. ... Yuri Tikhonravov, Ph.D. Translated from Russian ....

... 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...

New data - Magnetograms of Geophysical Observatory "Paratunka" 1967-2006 ! ... Solar Activity and Interplanetary Medium . Cosmic Rays . Ionospheric Phenomena . Geomagnetic Variations . Other STP Data . List of CD-ROMs in WDC for STP, Moscow . ... STP Data Online . ... Daily Forecasts of Geomagnetic Activity Geofor , (IZMIRAN) . Weekly Bulletin of Solar and Geomagnetic Activity Forecast , (IZMIRAN) . ... STP Data from other WDC's and Institutes and Observatories: . ...

... Общероссийская неделя "Астрономия на тротуаре" - 15-17 апреля . ... Практическая астрономия ? Астрономия и компьютеры (Модераторы: Deimos , Ed_Vazhorov ) ? CCD - астрофотосъемка для Linux . ... Сообщений: 702 . Рейтинг: +27/-4 . ... После добавления поддержки ряда камер выложена на sourceforge программа CCD версии 1.1.0 для Linux 32/64-бита. http://sourceforge.net/projects/cccd/ . ... Записан . Debian GNU/Linux . ... Сообщений: 5 167 . ... Ответ #1 : 28.12.2011 [14:39:05] ? ...

... FTP access the basic models is here . ... Below, we put short descriptions of the used SED models for the photometric redshifts providing by the current server . ... The uniqueness of this model consists in expanding to the near IR (NIR) of Rocca-Volmerange and Guiderdoni's (1988) atlas of synthetic spectra with a revised stellar library, which includes parameters of cool stars. ... Homepage of the GISSEL model). ... Another model used earlier is the model of synthetic spectra of Poggianti (1997). ...

... Bad Astronomy . ... I think I will break from my usual format of Bad Astronomy/ Good Astronomy by saying that the way we define seasons currently is not strictly bad, but I feel (in my opinion!) that it could be better. The definition of when the seasons begin is at the moment of solstice or equinox; that is, winter (in the north) starts on December 22 nd and summer starts on June 22 nd . ... Now imagine breaking up the Sun's 46 degree up-and-down yearly swing into 1 day intervals. ...

... ASRAS HOME . ... For our educational outreach event, we hosted a Boy Scout troop in Ionia (Pix_1), for a sleep over this last spring and were able to make our Portable Radio Telescope (PBT - itty bitty radio telescope ) operational. ... The Solar Radio Telescope project is coming together nicely. ... You may have seen or heard of articles about the ongoing Solar RT project which is a Solar RF Spectrograph to study sunspots, presently being built for the ASRAS astronomy club (site in Ionia, NY). ...

... О метеоритах . ... О лаборатории . ... Падение 12 февраля 1947 г. 10 ч. 38 мин. ... Е.Л. Кринов, 1981 г. Падение Сихотэ-Алинского метеорита 12 февраля 1947 г., 10 ч. 38 мин., г.Иман, Приморский край. ... Установить место падения метеорита пока не удалось.. Вечерняя Москва" 17 февраля 1947 г. Один из кратеров, образовавшихся при падении Сихотэ-Алинского метеорита. ... Схема дробления метеорного тела во время движения в земной атмосфере с космической скоростью (Кликни чтобы увеличить). ...

... Description . Catalog . ... In the Catalog, we publish equatorial (ЮБ 2000 , ЮД 2000 ) and galactic (l,b) coordinates of cluster centers derived as the position of overdensity in 2MASS catalog (Koposov et al. ... Distances, color-excesses and ages are the mean-square values calculated using all available evaluations from different color-magnitude diagrams. ... There are individual pages for every cluster where all available plots and parameters are published. ... 2002). ...

... 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. ...

Preliminary results of astroclimate parameters measurements at the Sternberg 2.5m telescope installation site V.Kornilov, N.Shatsky, S.Potanin, O.Voziakova, B.Safonov Moscow, 2008 Acknowledgements A.Belinskiy M.Kornilov A.Tokovinin M.Kuznetsov P.Kortunov E.Gorbovskoy SAI administration some SAI students Pulkovo solar station (KHSS) staff RFBR support MAVEG Gmbh Why to study optical turbulence and some other relevant ... Mean seeing by DIMM data for this night is 1''5. ...

INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITION . Space technologies - to serve the society" Kyiv, Khreschatik street, 2 24-28 August 2001 . ... About exhibition . ... NAME: International Exhibition "Space Technologies to Serve the Society". ... REASONS: International Exhibition "Space Technologies to Serve the Society" is being carried out according to the President of Ukraine Decree ? ... strengthen of the space industry enterprises' positions and ptoducts' manufacturing for domestic market needs, . ...

... 1979 A TICKET TO SPACE . ... The Volks-rocket and its designer, Robert Truax. ... We have since heard of another "private venture" space project being pursued by the veteran rocket pioneer Robert Truax in the United States. ... One need not have the advanced degrees, perfect health or the thousands of hours .of flight time this frontier has demanded to be attracted towards it. ... Robert Truax brings some forty years of experience to his private manned space flight programme. ... Flight Tests . ...

... MASTER Net is 56 square degrees per 1 exposition . ... 06 Dec 2015: GRB 151205B: MASTER-NET early optical observations GCN18665 . ... 18 Nov 2015: GRB 151118A: MASTER-NET optical observations GCN18613 . ... 12 Nov 2015: GRB 151112A: MASTER-NET optical limit GCN18591 . ... 07 Nov 2015: GRB 151107A: MASTER-NET optical observations GCN18565 . ... 31 Oct 2015: Five OTs detected by Global Robotic MASTER Net ATel8232 . ... 02 Oct 2015: GRB 151001B: MASTER-NET early optical observations GCN18380 . ...

Advances in Space Research 36 (2005) 1595­1603 www.elsevier.com/locate/asr Solar origins of intense geomagnetic storms in 2002 as seen by the CORONAS-F satellite O. Panasenco a,*, I.S. Veselovsky a,b, A.V. Dmitriev a,h, A.N. Zhukov a,i, O.S. Yakovchouk a, I.A. Zhitnik c, A.P. Ignatуev ... 2002; Huttunen et al., ... Event 279 This is a member of another vast recurrent series of geomagnetic storms observed during many solar rotations in the second half of 2002 and the spring of 2003. ...

The low aspect ratio, or spherical tokamak Globus-M [1] has recently been built in a support of international spherical tokamak plasma investigation program. ... The survey to determine the work scope in diagnostic design for Globus-M is given in the paper. ... The next one is an advanced diagnostic set intended to supply the data on basic plasma parameters: electron temperature and density profiles, ion temperature, plasma composition, radiation profile, Zeffective. ... Magnetic Diagnostics. ...

... DESCRIPTION General Catalog of Variable Stars (GCVS database) . ... Kholopov P.N., Samus N.N., Durlevich O.V., Kazarovets E.V., Kireeva N.N., Tsvetkova T.M., 1990, General Catalogue of Variable Stars, 4rd ed., vol.IV, Nauka, Moscow. Kholopov P.N., Samus N.N., Durlevich O.V., Kazarovets E.V., Kireeva N.N., Tsvetkova T.M., 1992, General Catalogue of Variable Stars, 4rd ed., vol.IV, Bull. ... Kazarovets E.V., Durlevich O.V. Editor-in-Chief Samus N.N., 1998, New Catalogue of Suspected Variable Stars. ...