... A star party is a gathering of amateur astronomers who set up their telescopes and observe the dynamic night sky. ... Star parties are best scheduled during first quarter and waxing gibbous Moon. During full moon, the moon is so bright it obscures a view of other celestial objects and even the Moon is best viewed when NOT full. ... We will consult local weather forecasters and make a decision by 2:00p on the day of the star party. ... Copyright (c) Amateur Telescope Makers of Boston, Inc. ...

Astronomy Articles . Articles | ... Moon | ... Astronomy Binoculars - The Skies The Limit - by Scott Gray, September 2006 . ... Astronomy Terms - To Help You Study The Universe - by Scott Gray, October 2006 . ... Himalia is the only moon other than Europa, Ganymeade, Callisto and IO visible with small telescopes. ... The Harvest Moon refers to the Full Moon that comes closest to the autumnal equinox, or the first day of autumn. ... Think the study of stars is best left to professional astronomers? ...

... Apache HTTP Server Version 2.2 . ... What is Apache? ... May I use the Apache logo on my product or Web site? The Apache Software Foundation (ASF) is a 501(c)3 non-profit organization providing support for the Apache community of open-sourced software projects. ... The Apache HTTP Server -- sometimes called Apache httpd -- is a project of the Apache Software foundation aimed at creating a robust, commercial-grade, featureful, and freely-available source code implementation of an HTTP (Web) server. ...

Use of Charts. by Stefano Pesci . ... The charts are used by some amateurs in Italy and are now available to world-wide amateurs interested in supernova hunting. ... A reference of the galaxy observed is crucial to determine if any suspect stars are visible or not. ... What do the charts show * --------------------------- Galaxies are shown as a set of lines, sort of isophotes. ... CCD imaging gives a very deep view of the galaxy and some very faint stars may not be shown on the chart. ...

... XPA and the now-defunct funtools have moved to GitHub! Please visit: . xpa @ https://github.com/ericmandel/xpa . funtools (not supported but ...) @ https://github.com/ericmandel/funtools for the latest version. Also available on GitHub: . ... The public release xpa version 2.1.15 is available here . Please upgrade at your convenience. ... Its available here . ... Software to benefit the astronomical community and especially the X-ray astronomy community. ... saord@cfa.harvard.edu . ...

... Home Lectures Lecture Series 2015-2016 . ... Lecture Series 2014-2015 . ... Beyond New York City . ... The Amateur Astronomers Association is proud to present an astronomy lecture series from October through May each year for our members and the public. ... Amateur Astronomer Association is pleased to announce we will be offering select, limited reserved seating for current AAA members for the Friday, January 8, 2015 AAA Lecture entitled Robert Nemiroff ?2015 Astronomy Picture of the Day?. ...

... Science Users Information Science Software Scisoft Collection jump to navigation jump to content . ... Scisoft is a project within ESO to provide a collection of astronomical software utilities in a uniform way at all ESO sites and to make them available to the outside world. The current version, Scisoft 8, December 2014, is only available for 64-bit Fedora 20 Linux . ... If you managed to install an run Scisoft on an other Linux distribution please contact us and we will update this page. ...

... ATNF Home . About ATNF . ... About ATNF overview . ... Australia Telescope Steering Committee . ... Australia Telescope User Committee . ... Astrophysics graduate student programs . ... Australian Square Kilometre Array Pathfinder . Murchison Radio-astronomy Observatory . ... Parkes radio telescope . Australia Telescope Compact Array . Mopra radio telescope . ... Visiting Parkes radio telescope . Visiting Australia Telescope Compact Array . ... Parkes radio telescope webcam . ...

... Bojan Nikolic web pages (r. 329) . ... The OOF data reduction software is made available under the terms of the GPL V2 or (at licensee?s option) latter licences. ... Also, please note that this is primarily a research system that has grown during investigation and application of the OOF technique. ... The first generation of the OOF system that I wrote was designed to work within the software package that J. S. Richer wrote for reduction of with-phase holography for the JCMT. ... Build system: . ...

... If some entries are missing, which might turn out later, add them in a way that the library remains downward compatible. (13aug97) XAW3D 3D widget library 1.3 . ... ASCII Art library 1.2 (by Hung-Chi Chu , aa.dll for XFree86, aa.dll.noX for non-X environments) . ... MPEG library 1.2.1 (by Hung-Chi Chu , DLL only ) . PNG library 1.0.2 (by Hung-Chi Chu , requires zlib , DLL only ) . TIFF library 3.4beta037 (by Hung-Chi Chu , requires zlib and jpeg , DLL only ) . ... Xpm 3.4k (by Hung-Chi Chu ) . ...

Documentation for TABLES/STSDAS is available from http://www.stsci.edu/resources/software_hardware/stsdas/Documentation If you have any questions or problems while installing TABLES or STSDAS, or if you are compiling the binaries from scratch, please refer to the "STSDAS Site Manager's Installation Guide and Reference" Help is also available from the STScI Help Desk, e-mail help@stsci.edu, telephone (410)338-1082. ...

NMW survey overview . Access image archive . ... The New Milky Way survey aims to detect bright (V<13.5) optical transients near the Galactic plane using an automated wide-field (8x6 deg.) system capable of surveying the whole Milky Way area visible from the observing site in one night. ... All images obtained during the transient search survey are available online (please use the image archive access form ). ... Images per field: . ... Images per night: . ... Milky Way imaging time: . ...

... My Trip To Southampton For the Jennicam TV interview (Jennifer has most of these on her Website ), and of course, there's the Cyber-Cafe website. Topbit's Photos . ... A lot of people ask me where teh Jennicam gallery is, and if you're thinking of asking the same question then I'll put your mind at reast right now. ... Jennifer doesnt like galleries, I don't like the "So-Called-Fan" sites which collect together pictures from the camera based on criteria which doesn't represent the site's content . ...

... Forum: Filesystems . ... Keywords: ext2 filesystem . ... It's not clear from your question whether you are trying to write a user mode application, or trying to write kernel code. Parts of your question imply that you're writing user-mode code, but iget() is a kernel routine which isn't available to user-mode programs. ... Assuming that you're writing a user-mode application, are you trying to read the filesystem directly using the device file, and using direct I/O to the device? ...

... Listed below are questions submitted by users of "The Great Magnet, the Earth" and the answers given to them. ... In "The Exploration of the Earth's magnetosphere" on the magnetic environment of the Earth in space (a few Q duplicated here) . ... 11) Magnetic Shielding . ... 51) Can electricity be generated from the Earth's magnetic field? ... 9) Measuring Earth's magnetic field . ... 6) Reversals of the Earth's field (4 queries) . ... 42) Could generated electricity affect Earth's magnetic field? ...

... Listed below are questions submitted by users of "The Great Magnet, the Earth" and the answers given to them. ... In "The Exploration of the Earth's magnetosphere" on the magnetic environment of the Earth in space (a few Q duplicated here) . ... 11) Magnetic Shielding . ... 51) Can electricity be generated from the Earth's magnetic field? ... 9) Measuring Earth's magnetic field . ... 6) Reversals of the Earth's field (4 queries) . ... 42) Could generated electricity affect Earth's magnetic field? ...

M1 image More About M1 Nice Color Picture . ... M16 image More About M16 HST image . ... M31 image More About M31 Nice Color Picture . ... M42 image ; M43 image More About M42/43 Nice Color CCD Picture . M51 image More About M51 Color Image of M51 M51 Supernova . M57 image More About M57 Nice Color CCD Picture Very Deep M57 Image . ... M81 image More About M81 M81 Supernova Ultraviolet Image of M81 More about Ultraviolet Imaging . M82 image More About M82 M82 False Color M82 True Color . ...

... Watchouts . ... Help . You need to install a patched version (2.64.6) of xmmselect , available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 only. This patch is available under the same directory as the SAS 6.0.0 binaries . The patch tarfile is: xmmselect-2.64.6-rhel3-bin.tar.gz . ... Pages maintained by SAS librarian . Any question about SAS should be addressed to the XMM-Newton help desk . Updated on: November 18, 2006 ...

... Tonight's Sky . ... The Magazine . ... Observing . ... Magazine . ... Ask Astro . ... Astronomy for Kids . ... Submit a question to Ask Astro . ... Ask Astro answers reader questions about the science and hobby of astronomy in every issue of the magazine. ... Ask Astro, Astronomy . ... Only registered members of Astronomy.com are allowed to comment on this article. ... Receive news, sky-event information, observing tips, and more from Astronomy's weekly email newsletter. ... Astronomy Magazine . ...

... Astronomes Amateurs du Luxembourg a.s.b.l. " We bring the Universe to you ! Founded in 1971 by a group of enthusiasts and star aficionados, our association is now counting more than 130 members.As a national association we attract hobby astronomers from the whole country to our regular night-sky observations and to the meetings in our club at Dudelange. ... by topic : PDF File Download (360KB) . ... Article about AAL in "Le Quotidien" newspaper of Juli 21 2005 - PDF File Download (132KB) . ...