... Role-playing exercises can be an excellent way for you and your club members to share effective ways to interact with the public in difficult situations. ... Explain the roles of the three characters -- the amateur practices skills they would use, the public member should try to be as realistic as they can, the observers should watch the interaction to provide insight at the end of the exercise about what things were handled well and how things could have been handled better. ...

... Home Observing-Events Transit of Venus by AAA member Tom Haeberle . ... Observing Resources for Amateur Astronomers - Part 1: Beginning Observers . ... A History of the First Forty Years of the Amateur Astronomers Association . ... AAA In the News . ... Published February 14, 2015 at dimensions 3264 2448 in Transit of Venus by AAA member Tom Haeberle . ... 2012 Transit of Venus by AAA member Tom Haeberle . ... 2016 Amateur Astronomers Association of New York Designed by Press Customizr Powered by . ...

... 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. ...

... previous | GPI Data Pipeline 1.0 documentation . ... Observed Effect and Relevant Physics: . ... Image persistence is effect of the observed flux of previous images impacting the following observations as an elevated dark current (see Figure 1). ... Persistence removal is performed using the ?Persistence Removal of previous images? primitive. ... This primitive must not be run on flexure-corrected data as the persistence is derived from the previous image and will not change with elevation. ...

The NAIC-NRAO School on Single-Dish Radio Astronomy Techniques and Applications -- July 2005 Writing Effective Telescope Proposals Chris Salter (NAIC) Chris Salter's credent ials to present a talk on writ ing telescope proposals: 1. ... Service as a member of the Arecibo Scheduling Advisory Co mmittee. ... 1 The Arecibo Telescope Proposal System Components that make up an Arecibo proposal; · The Cover Sheet (web-based) containing technical details and an abstract (not more than 150 words). ...

... BigStarCatalogExtension::StarWrapper< Star > Class Template Reference . StarWrapper (const SpecialZoneArray < Star > *a, const SpecialZoneData < Star > *z, const Star *s) . ... getJ2000EquatorialPos (const StelCore *core) const . ... getVMagnitude (const StelCore *core, bool withExtinction=false) const . ... getSelectPriority (const StelCore *core) const . ... getInfoString (const StelCore *core, const InfoStringGroup &flags) const . ... getEquinoxEquatorialPos (const StelCore *core) const . ...

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... It was with this spirit that Norman Oberle suggested that area amateurs should have the benefit of a large aperture (25 inches or larger) telescope with sufficient focal length for excellent visual work. ... Norm Oberle and Jim Thomas spent 2,000 hours grinding and polishing to work the mirror into an oblate spheroid. ... Norm worked with Jim Thomas in a basement workshop. ... The Richland club is situated in the Hidden Hollow camp ground, and has long held meetings in the clubhouse on the grounds. ...

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... Contacting and discussing with people sharing your interests, participating in night sky observations with telescopes as well as a large choice of astronomical books, magazines and video-tapes out of our club library. ... A reasonable compromise for observing both planets and brightest deep sky objects ( nebulae, galaxies) are either a 4 to 8 inch mirror telescope ( Newton, Schmidt-Cassegrain ) or a 3 to 4 inch refracting ( lens) telescope. ... Where can I buy a telescope in Luxembourg ? ...

Astronotes Armagh Planetarium's Stellar Blog! ... Space Flight . ... January . ... Posted on February 3, 2011 | No Comments Kepler-11 is an amazing, newly-discovered system of exoplanets. ... Continue Reading.. Posted on January 31, 2011 | ... 8 Comments NASA?s Curiosity Mars rover is to use a unique system called a ?sky crane? to touch down next year on the Red Planet. ... 1 Comment 2011 will be a year of exciting and historic upcoming events in space exploration. ...

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... Archives . ... DOE Petascale Data Analysis Program . ... Before using any adaptations of chi-square statistic, please spend a minute or two to ponder whether your strategy with chi-square belongs one of these categories. ... Chapter 10: On the Use and Misuse of Chi-square ? ... I wonder if XSPEC and Sherpa offers a tool to check the balance between the sum of observed counts and the sum of expected (model) counts. ... Category: arXiv , Bad AstroStat , Cross-Cultural , Data Processing , Stat | ...

The Astrophysical Research Consortium Small Aperture Telescope (ARCSAT) is a 0.5-m (or 20") Classical Cassegrain telescope, formerly known as the SDSS Photometric Telescope (PT). ... Chief Telescope Engineer : Bill Ketzeback (bketzeba/apo.nmsu.edu) . Remote Operations Upgrade Project Manager : Joe Huehnerhoff (jwhueh/apo.nmsu.edu) . ... SurveyCam PI : Dmitry Bizyaev (dmbiz/apo.nmsu.edu) . FlareCam PI : Joe Huehnerhoff ( jwhueh/apo.nmsu.edu ) . ...

... Natalya V. Raguzova and Sergei B. Popov . ... We present a compilative catalogue of Be/X-ray binaries and candidates in the Galaxy and in the Large and Small Magellanic Clouds. This catalogue contains 160 sources and provides information on names and spectral types of optical components, distances, on spin characteristics of neutron stars, and on orbital and X-ray properties of binary systems. ... Be/X-Ray Binaries and candidates in the Galaxy . Galactic sources: comments to the Table 1 . ...

The accommodation fees for the IX APAO : . ... Team fee: 390.- Euro/team . ... Euro/person . ... The fee covers the board, lodging, transportation, excursions, sport, ceremonial, and general organization expenses since 12:00 of official Day of arrival till 12:00 of official Day of departure . ... Euro/person/day . ... The fees are to be paid cash the first day of accommodation. ... Dr. Michael G. Gavrilov, Founding Chairman and Coordinator of the Asian-Pacific Astronomy Olympiad (APAO) . ...

... Jay Apt (Ph.D.) . NASA Astronaut (Former) . ... PUBLICATIONS: Dr. Apt shared his images and knowledge in the publication Earth in Orbit : NASA Astronauts Photograph the Earth , written in conjunction with NASA scientists Michael Helfert and Justin Wilkinson and published by the National Geographic Society. ... From 1976 to 1980 he was a staff member of the Center for Earth & Planetary Physics, Harvard University, supporting NASA s Pioneer Venus Mission by making temperature maps of Venus from Mt. ...