It has been a busy time farewelling old and welcoming new staff members. ... Debbie has joined us as a cleaner and Lodge assistant, while Eric will work on the antenna drives and other power control systems. ... Millimetre observing during January (summer!) term was restricted to four 12-mm proposals (one of which experienced rain) and various tests. ... During the May term, millimetre observations at Mopra will be jointly run by the ATNF and UNSW, with each allocated six weeks of observing time. ...

... John Butler reports that the HLF-supported programme of restoration of three historic telescopes and their domes has continued throughout the year, and that a growing collection of images showing progress with the Telescopes and Telescope Domes restoration project is available on the Armagh Observatory web-site (see http://star.arm.ac.uk/history/Domes/). ... The new dome for the 18-inch Calver Telescope is now fully operational and awaits the return of the telescope to Armagh later in 2005. ...

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... BRC . ... Business Resource Center . ... The Business Resource Center (BRC) provides business and administrative services to the Institute in the areas of finance, accounting, payroll, human resources, contracts, grant administration, procurement, facilities management, property administration, administrative support, and staff support services. ... The Contracts and Sponsored Programs Office supports Institute staff members in preparing proposals and in administering awarded grants and contracts. ...

... Astrophysics Group . ... Opening of Battcock Centre for Experimental Astrophysics . ... SKA AAVS0 array . ... SKA production design with Cambridge Consultants Ltd . ... Astronomy, Astrophysics and Cosmology have historically been among the very strongest scientific disciplines in Cambridge. ... Paul Alexander, Head of the Cavendish Astrophysics Group and Director of the Battcock Centre for Experimental Astrophysics, is the leader of CambridgeБЂ™s involvement in the SKA: . ...

... SSAU History . ... Students from the University of Stuttgart will take part in the English-speaking summer school on engine building and will attend a course on the Theory and Design of Aircraft Engines during three weeks in Samara. ... The Aircraft Engines Design is a unique course for German undergraduate students. ... The course studied in the Samara University will be accepted into the program for German students, and each Bachelor will receive three European academic credit units for it. ...

... Sidebar Left . Sidebar Top . No Sidebar . Sidebar Bottom . ... Title: Rebuilding the Commonwealth Solar Observatory . Description: Rebuilding the Commonwealth Solar Observatory building commenced in May 2006, and is due to be complete by end of January 2007. The external appearance of the east, west and south aspects of the building will be returned as nearly as practical to the original 1920s design. ... CSO viewed from the entrance road, looking weтАж . ... 27 June 2006 . ...

... Timothy L. Kopra (Colonel, U. S. Army, Ret.) NASA Astronaut . ... In this position, he primarily served as an engineering liaison for space shuttle launch operations and International Space Station hardware testing. ... He then served in the Space Station Branch of the Astronaut Office, where he was involved in the testing of crew interfaces for two space station pressurized modules as well as the implementation of support computers and operational Local Area Network on the station. ...

... General information . ... Staff . Research staff . ... Historical highlights . ... In 1831, Giovanni Battista Amici , an optician from Modena, was invited by the Grand Duke Leopold II to preside as the Professor of Astronomy and to direct the "Specola", the observatory in Florence which was attached to the Royal Museum of Physics and Natural History. ... From that year, the telescope was used by Amici's young assistant, Giovan Battista Donati, mainly for observing comets and asteroids. ...

... Science User Portal . ... ESO, the European Southern Observatory . ... Travel and Contacts . Travel to ESO Headquarters . ... Travel to E-ELT Armazones . ... ESO . ... Survey Telescopes . ... Star Clusters . ... Stars@ESO . ... Catch a Star 2013 . ... Construction of the extension began on 1 January 2012 and the foundation stone was laid on 11 June ( ann12044 ). ... ESO, La Silla, Paranal, E-ELT Survey Telescopes Press Officer . ... Richtfest marks successful progress with ESO extension building . ...

... This is a personal project collecting and documenting early images of Harvard College Observatory, focusing on the site at Observatory Hill (previously Summer House Hill). ... This page shows a list of all images tagged with "Astrophotographic Library". [link] 1892 Brick Building Construction . Earliest source: "[Harvard College Observatory, Cambridge, construction, ca. ... Harvard College Observatory, Cambridge, construction, ca. ... Harvard College Observatory building under contruction] 1892 . ...

... Planet Building in HD 100546 . ... NOAO , NASA/GSFC ), CTIO , ESO , NSF Explanation: More than 100 billion boulders may be swarming in the disk around nearby star HD 100546 . In a scene thought similar to the early years of our own Solar System , ever larger rocks are growing by colliding and accreting dust as the messy business of planet formation appears to be underway. ... Publications with keywords: planetesmals - dust - planets . Publications with words: planetesmals - dust - planets . ...

... Operations Support Staff . ... Complete dormitory information is available. ... Please contact the Site Operations Manager to make arrangements. ... overall project requirements, equipment use, safety, or physical plant ; contact Mark Klaene , Site Operations Manager; Ben Harris provides APO infrastructure support and acts as Safety Officer . ... Cloudcroft is located 17 miles from APO, two miles south of the start of Hw,. 6563 which leads to Sunspot/APO. ... Contact APO staff for more information. ...

... 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.. ...

CFITSIO Interface Library CFITSIO is a library of ANSI C routines for reading and writing FITS format data files. ... The CFITSIO library is built on Unix systems by typing: > ./configure [--prefix=/target/installation/path] > make (or 'make shared') > make install (this step is optional) at the operating system prompt. The configure command customizes the Makefile for the particular system, then the `make' command compiles the source files and builds the library. ...

... Planets . ... Earth Satellites . ... The newly discovered ?mega-Earth? ... Its sibling, the lava world Kepler-10b, is in the background (the two planets? proximity is grossly exaggerated) .€а Kepler-10c has a diameter of about 29 000 km, 2.3 times as large as Earth, and weighs 17 times as much. ... The first mega-earth to be discovered is Kepler-10c which orbits a star lying about 560 light years from the Sun in the constellation Draco. ... Astronomers Find a New Type of Planet: The ?Mega-Earth? ...

... The Wingaersheek Observatory and Telescope . Mario Motta and Scott Milligan . ... For the May meeting I was hoping to show a completed telescope, but it always takes twice as much time to make over 400 parts than you think. ... A new design that has near zero aberrations (no Newtonian coma, for example), made from all spherical surfaces, and would help me build the optics, including fabricating the main mirror. ... Other Monthly Meetings . ... Copyright (c) Amateur Telescope Makers of Boston, Inc. ...

... Application Environment Specification : Operating System Programming Interfaces, Open Software Foundations . ... Open Software Foundation Staff . Barter Systems : A Business Guide for Trade Exchanges : A New Way to Offset Start-Up Expenses, Reduce Inventories, Conserve Cash Flow, and Open New m . ... Design of the Osf/1 Operating System : Release 1.2 (Osf/1 Operating System) . ... International open systems 87 : proceedings of the international conference held in London, March 1987 . ...