... 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 . ...

Life from Mars: . The Discovery . ... Meteorite Yields Evidence of Primitive Life on Early Mars (August 7, 1996) . Life from Mars: Video Animations . ... The NASA-funded team found the first organic molecules thought to be of Martian origin; several mineral features characteristic of biological activity; and possible microscopic fossils of primitive, bacteria-like organisms inside of an ancient Martian rock that fell to Earth as a meteorite. ... Mars Life? Microscopic Structures . ...

... 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 ....

... ARC 3.5m | TripleSpec . ... Fowler sampling, read noise, and minimum integration time . ... The integration time for the slit viewer is adjustable, but 30 seconds represents a maximum practical integration for positioning the source and for guiding. Longer integration times are possible, but the delay between exposures makes guiding and/or positioning the source on the slit tedious. ... Decide on your guider integration time and acquire a frame to serve as the background image with "Expose". ...

... Bad Astronomy . ... This kind of telescope, selling for about $100-200, makes a decent starter 'scope, but in general most people would find the view through them disappointing. ... They showed an image of the galaxy which they claimed was taken by the Hubble Space Telescope, even displaying it with the word "Hubble" on it. ... Anyway, a picture taken through a telescope is not what you would see with your own eyes. ... The on-air rep said (and I quote): "Pluto is no problem for this telescope." ...

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. ...