... Telescopes . ... But regardless of where you observe from or whether or not you have a telescope, exploring the many aspects of astronomy can be an exciting hobby. It can be an activity shared with thousands of other amateurs all over the world. ... Or it might be pursued more actively by joining a local astronomy club like the Amateur Telescope Makers of Boston and learning by direct association with other amateurs. ... Copyright (c) Amateur Telescope Makers of Boston, Inc. ...

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. ...

Астрономия и Космос Солнечная система Марс . Н овые снимки поверхности Марса , полученные орбитальной станцией Mars Global Surveyor в декабре 2000 года, показывают слои осадочных пород, которые, вероятно, сформировались под водой в далеком прошлом. ... Рельеф поверхности . Телескопические исследования Марса обнаружили такие особенности, как сезонные изменения его поверхности . ... Комментарии к Поверхность Марса . ... Один простой трюк для ускорения вашего старого iPhone или iPad . ...

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. ...

... 01.30 Breakfast 02.40-03.15 Lecture "From cosmic dust to galaxies" 03.20-04.20 Classes: 1-st crew - Activities in astronomy + Mars 2003 project 2-nd crew - Creation html-pages 04.20-05.00 1-st crew - introduction in WWW 2-nd crew - Activities in astronomy + Mars 2003 project 05.00-06.00 Lunch 06.30-09.00 Classes 09.00-10.30 Preparation for afternoon and evening activities 10.30-12.00 Dinner 12.00-14.00 Sport. ...

Journal of the Amateur Astronomers Association of New York June 2008 Volume 56 Number 6, ISSN 0146-7662 EYEPIECE Global snow cover, an important surface feature for reflecting the Sun's radiation, has declined by 12 million square kilometers during the past half century. ... On June 6, a crescent Moon lies to Mars's lower right, while the next night the Moon stands below Saturn and Regulus. ... June 3 Moon at perigee, 221,985, 9:21 a.m.; New Moon at 3:23 p.m. June 7 Moon lies near Mars. ...

Weather . Please Report any broken links or additions to: webmaster@wro.org . Global Hydrology and Climate Center . ... METEOSAT Weather Satellite Images from the University of Nottingham . ... Snap Weather Center . U.S. National Weather Service . NWS Internet Weather Source . Yahoo Weather . Global Weather Forcast . ... The Weather Lab . Washington Post weather in the world . ... NOAA - National Weather Service Home Page . CNN's Weather . ... The Weather Channel . ...

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) . ...

... Contact A Problem of an estimation of accuracy of the asteroid CCD observations . The Minor Planet Center supported by the Interntional Astronomical Union is the main office for keeping observational data of the small Solar System bodies and their investigations. ... At Pulkovo Observatory we are estimating an accuracy of the CCD asteroid observations obtained by amateurs and professional astronomers all over the World using the MPC database. ...

... Class . ... CONSTR | METHOD . ... java.lang.Object ij.plugin.StackCombiner . ... public class StackCombiner . ... This plugin implements the Image/Stacks/Combine command. ... ImageStack . ... This method is called when the plugin is loaded. 'arg', which may be blank, is the argument specified for this plugin in IJ_Props.txt. ... public ImageStack combineHorizontally ( ImageStack stack1, ImageStack stack2) . public ImageStack combineVertically ( ImageStack stack1, ImageStack stack2) . ...

... Bad Astronomy . ... Bitesize Astronomy . ... I learned something new this week and what better forum to share it with my Bad and Bitesized readers than right here? ... Launched on November 7, it actually left Earth before the Pathfinder lander, but was sent in a slower orbit. The MGS entered Mars orbit September 12, 1997, and began a long series of aerobraking maneuvers: it started in a highly elliptical orbit, and at the bottom end of each pass it actually dips a bit into Mars' atmosphere. ...