... Hidden Hollow 2008 . ... Prizes . ... door prizes! ... May 2 - 4, 2008 . ... The Hidden Hollow weekend Star Party at Warren Rupp Observatory . ... As always, we raffle our door prizes by allowing you to purchase tickets for only the items you select. ... Your door prize raffle ticket purchase is key to continuing the Legend of Hidden Hollow. We'd like to thank all of our fine guests from 2005 on for their generosity in raffle ticket purchases and have allowed us to venture into a 2008 star party! ...
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Next: The Computer Hardware Up: The Care and Previous: Introduction . ... The weather is not as bad as one might expect, base on statistics from 1991 through 1993 one can expect about 120 usable nights a year with about thirty of those being totally cloudless. ... This, along with the fact that the telescope drive motor is misgeared, made it difficult for the telescope to collect research data. ... The dome houses a 14" Celestron Schmidt-Cassegrain telescope that was installed in 1981. ...
The Astronomical Society of the Pacific gratefully acknowledges the partnership of the Geological Society of America in sponsoring this national meeting including the "Cosmos in the Classroom" Symposium and the "Earth & Space Science: Making Connections in Education and Public Outreach" symposium. ... NASA Lunar Science Institute . Infrared Processing and Analysis Center . NASA Herschel Science Center . ... The Center for Astronomy Education at the University of Arizona . ... Big Kid Science . ...
... Gallery . Stromlo Reconstruction . ... Sidebar Left . Sidebar Top . No Sidebar . Sidebar Bottom . Sidebar Right . Title: The Outreach Domes . Description: Public donations to the Stromlo Redevelopment Fund in the 2 years after the fire were sufficient to build 3 small domes to house 3 of the outreach telescopes. ... The domes were built by Astrodomes of Yandina, Qld, during July 2005. ... Views: 1091 . ... Views: 972 . ... Views: 999 . ... Views: 982 . ... Views: 992 . ...
Astronotes Armagh Planetarium's Stellar Blog! ... Apple have recently made it possible for you to БЂњgiftБЂќ one of their applications to someone as a present, and how amazing would it be for you astronomy loving friend to be able to use their ipod or ipad as a personal star chart to identify everything you see in the sky at any given time? ... If you love the idea of this for yourself, but are feeling the pinch with Christmas coming, there are also theб free apps Pocket Sky and Space Brains . ...
Measurement of Sky Brightness at the Iranian National Observatory Davoud Afshari1 and Sadollah Nasiri1,2 1Physics Department, Zanjan University, Zanjan 45195-313, Iran; Institute for Advanced studies in Basic Science (IASBS), Zanjan 45195-1159, Iran; Measurement of light pollution 2 Introduction Among 34 candidate sites at the central part of the country, 5 sites namely Garkesh (in Kashan ), Kolahbarfi(in Kashan ), Deynava (in ... One of these is light pollution. ...
... Finders mounted permanently in COAST telescopes and standalone portable finders are all documented. ... 1D DIMM Mode . ... CCD Readout . ... The Z dimension is time (3ms between frames in 2D DIMM mode, 4ms in transverse DIMM mode) and of depth as specified in the data file dialog. ... Displays a red grid in the video display area that marks the fast readout regions useful in 1D DIMM mode . ... Displays a blue grid in the video display area that marks the fast readout regions useful in 2D DIMM mode ....
On Thursday, 1998 February 26, a total eclipse of the Sun was visible from within a narrow corridor traversing the Western Hemisphere. The totality path (or path of the Moon's umbral shadow) began in the Pacific, continued through northern South America and the Caribbean Sea, and ended at sunset off the Atlantic coast of Africa. ... Some of the best placed sites along the totality path were in Venezuela. ... Exposure time was 1/2 second. At this location totality lasted 3min 36sec. ...
... Breaking News | Hubble asteroid images help prepare ... http://www.spaceflightnow.com/news/n0706/20hubbledawn/ Spaceflight Now + Subscribe to Spaceflight Now Plus for access to our extensive video collections! ... Video archive Complex 36 demolition Hubble asteroid images help prepare for spacecraft visit NASA NEWS RELEASE Posted: June 20, 2007 These Hubble Space Telescope images of Vesta and Ceres show two of the most massive asteroids in the asteroid belt, a region between Mars and Jupiter. ...
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ELT MASS/DIMM instrument for atmospheric turbulence measurements. ... 1.2 Principal geometry of MASSDIMM device . ... The next chapter is a guide for alignment of the optical scheme elements the op eration which is mandatory after the device assembly or while installing the device on the telescop e. Exit pupil optics tuning (MASS segmentator and DIMM mirrors), fo cusing and lateral p ositioning of the Fabry lens, checking the entrance pupil p osition are the sub jects of particular attention. ...
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... Role of the Facility The Mt Pleasant and Ceduna antennas play an important role in the Australian Long Baseline Array, a national facility operated jointly by the Australia Telescope National Facility and the University of Tasmania. ... When not participating in VLBI observations the telescopes are in constant use for staff and student research projects and as a teaching facility for undergraduate students. ... It is envisioned that the wide-field optical telescope will be used in transit mode. ...
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Wright: Today is March 10th, 2010. This oral history interview is being conducted with Hector Garcia for the Johnson Space Center Oral History Project. ... I remember one time we were out there and a hurricane was coming. ... It took me one day and I got it to work. ... The main thing that I know is Larry Davis was one of my best friends, and the guys I worked with at my level were good, but [I] never got anything, not even for the emergency deorbit, [and] all the work that I was doing. ...