... 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. ...

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... 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 . ...

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XMM-Newton Science Analysis System . ... The `position angle' used is in actuality an ` astronomical position angle' (see XMM-MOC-TN-0109-OAD and INT-SYS-FD-TN-0004-OAD). This angle is counted from the celestial north in the mathematically positive sense around the axis pointing from the object towards the observer (i.e. anticlockwise from the observer's point of view, looking towards the sky). ... XMM-Newton SOC/SSC -- 2007-07-09 ...

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... Archives . ... The PCA and ICA is used for separating mixed components with some assumptions. ... The need of source separation methods in astronomy has led various adaptations of decomposition methods available. ... I rarely come up with a paper which gathered and summarized component separation methods applicable to astronomical data. In that regards, the following paper seems useful to overview methods of reducing dimensionality for astronomers. [arxiv:0805.0269] . ... Chandra Blog . ...

... Meteors and Meteorites . ... By admin August 2, 2011 Posted in: August . 13 August 2009: A perseid flashes through the sky (Image credit: Andreas M†ґller via wikimedia.org) . ... Not all meteors are sporadic events, the regular meteor showers occur when the Earth bulldozes through a great swarm of meteoroids drifting in orbit round the Sun. ... They are at their best in the pre-dawn hours, as the face of the Earth turning towards the Sun catches more meteors as the Earth moves through space. ...

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Peremennye Zvezdy", . ... Min . ... 2MASS J16480306-6715178 . ... The variable star catalogued as ASAS 164802 6715.2 by Pojmanski (2002) was found to display two types of eclipsing variability by Pilecki and Szczygiel (2007). ... The comparison stars (identified in the finding chart) used were: . ... The data for Star A and B has been obtained using Comp Star 2 between HJD 2455709.956 and 2455710.089 and between 2455718.005 and 2455718.096. All other data was obtained using Comp Star 1. ...

... 9a. Earth orbits Sun? . ... 10a. Scale of Solar Sys. ... If the mean distance of Earth from the Sun is 1 AU ("Astronomical Unit"), then that of Venus is 0.723 AU, of Mercury 0.387 AU and that of Mars is 1.524 AU. ... By noting (1) where on the Sun's disk is the crossing seen, (2) timing its duration at two far-apart points on Earth, and (3) comparing the times, one can calculate the distance to Venus and from it the scale of the solar system. ... One occurred in 1639--too early. ...

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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. ...

... NIST Atomic Spectra Database" Ver. 2.0, March 1999, NIST Physical Reference Data %theoretical energy levels: Landi E. Bhatia A.K., 2005, ADNDT, in press %comment: theoretical energies come from the 24-configuration calculation of Landi Bhatia %produced as part of the Arcetri/Cambridge/NRL 'CHIANTI' atomic data base collaboration % %E. Landi - Feb 2004 . ... contains the spline fits to the electron collision strengths scaled according to Burgess and Tully (1992). ...

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... The concerns here are similar to those for observing bright targets; saturation and blooming of the bright companion PSF must not impact the faint target. Also, one may need to consider subtracting the PSF of the bright object, and effects which limit the accuracy of that subtraction. If the bright companion will saturate and bloom, it will be necessary to rotate the CCD so that blooming along the CCD columns does not obliterate the faint target. ...

... Observatory has four telescopes: . ... Zeiss-300 (D=300mm F=4500mm), visual . AVR-1 (D=200mm F=3000mm), visual . ... AZT-7 (D=200mm F=900mm), photometer . ... Zhujko Sergey V. Burlak Alexander N. Volod'ko Dmitry G. Pakhomov Yuriy V. Objects of research: . ... Variable stars . ... Moon . Covers stars by Moon . Field of research: . ... Questions and comments please mail to pakhomov@sai.msu.su . Yury V. Pakhomov . pakhomov@sai.msu.su . ...