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The picture above was made with this demo POV file and this Mirror object POV file . ... This is a magnifying mirror with a light around it, on an articulated arm, designed for wall-mounting. ... Behind this mirror in the image are two more mirrors, one above showing the front, and one below showing the arm in a bent position, and the whole thing roated so that you are effectively looking "up" at it. ... The two images below show details of the base, and the back of the mirror. ...

... Observing . ... Solar Observing . ... April 3 (SUN) - Solar Observing, Central Park , Manhattan . ... APRIL'S SKY . ... Lecture Series at the American Museum of Natural History The Amateur Astronomers Association is proud to present an astronomy lecture series from October through May each year for our members and the .. ... The€аAmateur Astronomers Association of New York€аwas organized in 1927 to promote the study of Astronomy, emphasizing its cultural and inspirational value. ...

... This paper presents an overview of the CENTERFIT image centering algorithm library currently under development in the IRAF system. ... The centering algorithms employed by these applications must satisfy a wide range of efficiency and accuracy requirements, and function robustly on data sets spanning a broad wavelength, resolution, and signal-to-noise regime. This paper presents an overview of CENTERFIT, a library of 1-D and 2-D centering algorithms currently under development in the IRAF system. ...

... НЕПРЕРЫВНОГО МАТЕМАТИЧЕСКОГО ОБРАЗОВАНИЯ . ... Кружок ?Олимпиады и математика? ... Московская математическая олимпиада . Заочный математический конкурс . ... Устные математические олимпиады . Олимпиады по программированию . Математический праздник . Математические регаты . ... Математические бои . Олимпиада по геометрии им. И.Ф.Шарыгина . ... Программа ?Math in Moscow? Научные конкурсы . Творческий конкурс . ... График олимпиад . ... XXVII Математический праздник . ...

... These Frontier Fields will combine the power of HST with the natural gravitational telescopes of high-magnification clusters of galaxies. ... We are soliciting gravitational lensing maps for the last four Hubble Frontier Fields clusters (MACSJ0717.5+3745, MACSJ1149.5+2223, AbellS1063, and Abell 370) based upon the exceptionally deep HST FF imaging and other new ancillary data. ... For the full set of proposal instructions and requirements, see the FY16 Frontier Fields Lensing Map Call for Proposals....

... Fall 2005 . Fall 2004 . Winter 2005 . Spring 2005 . Summer 2005 . Fall 2003 . Winter 2004 . Spring 2004 . Summer 2004 . Fall 2002 . Winter 2003 . Spring 2003 . Summer 2003 . ... The Swift gamma-ray burst explorer was launched on Nov. 20, 2004 from Cape Canaveral, Florida. ... A number of models describing exotic forms of matter, generically referred to as dark energy (not to be confused with dark matter), have been proposed to explain this acceleration. ...

... News . ... Pre-university education . ... Samara region . SSAU History . SSAU roadmap . ... Scientists of Samara University (joined SSAU and of SSU) have designed new materials for accumulator batteries, that will allow us to refuse from the use of a relatively scarce and expensive lithium in favour of a more widespread and cheap metals. ... Calculations of properties for the future substances are made with the use of a software system ToposPro, developed by the scientists of ICTMS. ...

... Институт прикладной математики им. М.В.Келдыша . БАЛЛИСТИЧЕСКИЙ ЦЕНТР . О Центре . ... Баллистический Центр Института прикладной математики им. М.В.Келдыша РАН . Баллистический центр (БЦ) ИПМ им. М.В. Келдыша создан по предложению С.П. Королева и М.В. Келдыша в 1965 году. На него были возложены работы по баллистико-навигационному обеспечению (БНО) управления полетом пилотируемых кораблей и автоматических космических аппаратов научного и народно-хозяйственного назначения. ...

... Research . ... Ljubljana Univ., ... Zagreb Univ., ... Asiago Observatory, Italy . ... ESO, Germany . ... I am an associate astronomer at the European Southern Observatory (ESO). I divide my work between the scientific research and management of the ESO's User Support Department (USD), which is in charge of providing support to observers who use ESO's Paranal Observatory facilities . ... A final standard disclaimer: the opinions expressed in this site do not reflect in any way the opinions of ESO. ...

... Classes . ... casa . casa::Gaussian1D< T > . Public Member Functions . A one dimensional Gaussian class. ... Gaussian1D (const T &height) . Gaussian1D (const T &height, const T &center) . Gaussian1D (const T &height, const T &center, const T &width) . ... Copy constructor (deep copy). template<class W > . ... The peak height of the Gaussian can be specified at construction time or by using the setHeight function. ... virtual Function <T>* casa::Gaussian1D < T >::clone . ...

... Fermi Space Telescope , NASA Explanation: What is creating the gamma rays at the center of our Galaxy? ... Over the past few years the orbiting Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope has been imaging our Galaxy's center in gamma-rays . ... A raw image of the Galactic Center region in gamma-rays is shown above on the left, while the image on the right has all known sources subtracted -- leaving an unexpected excess. ... Publications with keywords: Galactic Center - gamma ray - dark matter . ...

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... As is known, the observed distribution of massive stars in the direction of the Galactic center looks very peculiar: the vast majority of all massive stars are concentrated towards the central 1 pc or so (Genzel et al. ... In order to compare the observed distribution of X-ray sources in the Galactic center with what would be expected from the population synthesis computations, we have considered two hypothetical scenarios for the location of the starburst. ...

... 2002 May 1 . In the Center of the Omega Nebula . ... Explanation: In the depths of the dark clouds of dust and molecular gas known as the Omega Nebula , stars continue to form. ... The dark dust filaments that lace the center of Omega Nebula were created in the atmospheres of cool giant stars and in the debris from supernova explosions . ... Dark globules mark even younger systems , clouds of gas and dust just now condensing to form stars and planets. ... About APOD | ... NASA Technical Rep.: ...

I will present theresults from a deep, extended, planetary nebulae survey in a 0.5 sqdeg region centered on the brightest cluster galaxy NGC 4486 (M87) in the Virgo cluster core, carried out with SuprimeCam@Subaru and FLAMES-GIRAFFE@VLT. ... A substructure detected in the projected phase-space of the line-of-sight velocity vs. major axis distance for the M87 halo planetary nebulae provides evidence for the recent accretion event of a satellite galaxy with luminosity twice that of M33. ...

... The e-mail interface of the CATS is designed like CGI for the call of the basic procedures: select and match from the html-forms and the program is a lexical analyser, distinguishing keywords and parameters from the electronic letter sent to the address `cats@sao.ru'. ... The output of result is forseen in the same formats as in other forms of the access to the CATS. ... out[put] < arg1 arg2... > . ... ra [ < arg1 > ] < arg2 > < arg3 > ... min max [center] . ... window < arg1 arg2 ... > . ...

home resources > books . SEARCH ASP SITE: Match ALL words Match ANY word . ... Buy The Black Hole at the Center of our Galaxy at Amazon.com! Reviewed by Terrell Kent Holmes . In 1974 astronomers discovered a bright radio source at the center of the Milky Way Galaxy, in the direction of the constellation Sagittarius. It was an unknown quantity then, but astronomers now know that the object is a supermassive black hole causing a maelstrom of activity at the galactic center. ...