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NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory (n e AXAF), was launched in July 1999. The Chandra Multiwavelength Project (ChaMP) described here combines radio to X-ray observations of serendipitous Chandra sources, with an optical survey as its backbone, to provide a uniform multiwavelength database to the community. ... Here we describe the ChaMP, with emphasis on optical imaging followup, reaching V ~ 25. ... what fraction missed in soft X-ray and optical surveys due to obscuration? ... Science Goals | ...

... Tonight's Sky . ... Young super-Jupiter found wandering without a parent . ... Gravitational wave search provides insights into galaxy evolution and mergers . ... Astronomers find missing matter . ... The missing baryonic matter helps trace out the structure of intergalactic space, called the "cosmic web." ... Now, in an extensive search of the local universe, astronomers say they have definitively found about half of the missing normal matter, called baryons, in the spaces between the galaxies. ...

... Armagh Observatory staff regularly receive awards of telescope time on national and international facilities, and research grants from various grant awarding bodies. ... Within the next two years, with the support of the DCAL, the Observatory will benefit from access to the Southern African Large Telescope (SALT), a large (10-metre class) telescope located at the Sutherland Observatory, South Africa, through its membership of the UK SALT Consortium (see http://star.arm.ac.uk/SALT/). ...

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... POLAM-L . ... ABOUT LOMO . ... These include the same trinocular head with three vertical adapters, the same intermediate module with built-in Bertrand lens and analyzer, the same rugged stand with coaxial focusing, and the same precision rotatable stage that accepts the included stage clips. ... The 360° rotatable head features a built-in iris diaphragm, optical path selector and a vertical photo/video port. ... The Intermediate Module is a standard feature on every POLAM?- ... Intermediate Module ...

... Next: The SAX-LEGSPC Data Up: Software Systems Previous: Porting CGS4DR to . ... This paper describes the recently commissioned Array Limited Infrared Control Environment (ALICE), used to control a new array imager, IRCAM3, on UKIRT. ... What was needed was a flexible and extensible system capable of driving the new generation of arrays to the limits of their performance, hence the term Array Limited Infrared Control Environment (ALICE). ... Thus a full 4-bytes pixel frame takes 5s to transfer. ...

... One of the reasons for this is that we have begun to receive interferometric testing data from OSF, and use of casa (or at least, casa-core) is necessary to read the resulting Measurement Set (MS) data format. ... 2 Short term/relatively easy 2.1 An open mailing list for casa There should be an open mailing list to which all users and developers of CASA can subscribe if they wish, and which will be publicly archived and accessible through standard gateways such as GMane. ...

... Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1999, ISBN: 0 395 93888 0 $25 . ... This book clarifies the fundamental principles of the field as well as the important astronomical phenomena it describes. ... Basic Books, 2001, ISBN: 0-465-05755-1, $40 . ... Prometheus Books, 2004, ISBN: 1-59102-186-3, $28 . ... Astronomical. ... Book. ... This book is filling a gap in the astronomy-related literature by providing a set of chapters not only of direct interest to astronomy communication, but also well beyond it. ...

Summer Triangle . Articles | ... As dusk deepens into night in early June, look a bit north of east, not real high in the sky, for a sparkling blue-white star, whose name is Vega . ... Since the stars rise some four minutes earlier with each passing day, expect the stars of the Summer Triangle to light up the twilight dusk around middle to late June -- a sure harbinger of the change of seasons, of spring giving way to summer. ... Re-published on Astronomy Net with permission of the author. ...