... Donate to Support Science Literacy . ... 2016 Annual Awards . The ASP is accepting nominations for the organizationтАЩs national annual awards which recognize special achievements in astronomy research, technology, education, and public outreach. ... Shop the AstroShop . ... The Astronomical Society of the Pacific (ASP) is accepting nominations for the organizationтАЩs national annual awards which recognize special achievements in astronomy research, technology, education, and public outreach.. ...

... Don't forget the Galway Astronomy Club's "Connaught Star Party" (CSP), on 24 January, @ 10pm (Registration 9.15-9.45), at The Westwood House Hotel, Newcastle, and Galway City (BTW, that's Newcastle district in Galway City, near NUIG, not the village of Newcastle NE of Athenry! Terry) Admission: 20 Euro inc. ... Terry O'Flaherty. ... The Crab Nebula": The Crab Nebula in the Constellation of Taurus is the debris of a supernova explosion that occurred on July 6th, 1054. ... Galway. ...

... Henry Draper, a doctor by trade, was a prominent American amateur scientist and an early pioneer of astronomical photography. ... Aside from the star catalog bearing his name, Henry Draper is best known for obtaining the first photograph of an astronomical nebula, recording the Great Nebula of Orion on the night of September 30, 1880. ... Draper, Henry", by Charles A. Whitney, 1971, in the Dictionary of Scientific Biography , ed. Charles Coulston Gillispie (New York: Scribner), v. 4, p. 178 . ...

Astronotes Armagh Planetarium's Stellar Blog! ... Armagh Planetarium . ... Space Flight . Human Exploration . Robot Exploration . ... Originally Discovery had been set to launch on 1 November, but this was delayed when fatigue cracks were found in the structure of its External Tank. ... A little bit of trivia is that Discovery has actually made the only shuttle-era Christmas time flight to date, this was STS-103 ,€а a mission to repair the Hubble Space Telescope in 1999. ...

... Australian telescopes have helped the Hubble Space Telescope (HST) find thousands of new galaxies. ... Preliminary HST results were released today by NASA's Space Telescope Science Institute , as were the results from the Australian institutions. ... Called the Hubble Deep Field South , it complements the original Hubble Deep Field , another small patch in the northern sky. ... The Anglo-Australian Telescope has measured the distances of about 75 faint far-flung galaxies in the field. ...

... The Observatory, the cupola of which is 480 cm wide, is equipped with a Ritchey-Cretien 500 mm f/7.5 telescope, a 200 mm f/7.5 guide telescope, and a 250 mm f/13 Baker-Schmidt, a ST4 and a ST6 CCD cameras and four computers. ... Up until now we have archived about 600 images from the first observation, and 100 from the second, thanks to the automatic telescope aiming control program written by Vairo Risoldi. ... A.Nakamura, Japan, took CCD image of NGC5775. ...

... Astrophysics Group . ... COAST Technical Details . ... The beam from each telescope passes through an aluminium tube, which serves to isolate it from the atmosphere, into the beam combining building. ... Inside the beam combining building the outer annulus of each light beam is separated and used in the acquisition and autoguider system. ... A simple algorithm is then used to detect the offset from the centre of the field, and this is corrected using piezo-driven mirrors at the back of the...

The Astronomical Society of Australia has been asked by STANDARDS AUSTRALIA to compile a list of "designated" optical observatories that are valuable resources for (i) research, (ii) education and (iii) community use. The ASA is the final arbiter of whether any particular observatory is so designated. ... Upon receipt of your application form, your observatory will be entered on a list of "Pending Designated Observatories" on the ASA Home Page. ... It will be emailed for you. ... Email . ...

... Up: Database Applications . ... QDB is a collection of IDL and C routines that provides a query interface to the Large Angle Spectrometric Coronograph ( LASCO ) databases maintained under the Sybase database management system. ... These changes illustrated a need for a general and flexible interface that could be used with any database, regardless of its structure, size, and type of data. ... These features of QDB have allowed us to query the LASCO database frequently and efficiently. ...

... Club By-laws . ... Other Club Activities . ... Public Nights . ... Dr. James Green, NASA, Director Planetary Science will be our esteemed speaker on Tuesday, April 12, 2016 at 7:30 PM in Peyton Hall on the Princeton University campus. ... Our astronomers setup telescopes for public use at Communiversity in Princeton, Super Science Saturday at the NJ State Museum in Trenton and at various public events around Mercer County. ... Amateur Astronomers Association of Princeton, Inc., ...

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