... February 2016 Monthly Meeting - The World At Night (TWAN) . Babak Tafreshi   . Thursday, Feb 11, 2016 at 8:00 PM . This month, we are pleased to welcome Babak Tafreshi, founder and director of The World At Night (TWAN) . ... He is the founder and director of The World At Night (TWAN), a board member of Astronomers Without Borders, a contributing photographer at Sky magazine and the European Southern Observatory. ... 2016 . ... Copyright (c) Amateur Telescope Makers of Boston, Inc. ...

... Annual Meeting . ... Exhibitors . ... This year's ASP Annual Meeting, "Science Education and Outreach: Forging a Path to the Future" is once again expected to be 2009's largest gathering of astronomy/space science education and outreach professionals, with an expected attendance of 250 or more. ... Exhibit Information . ... Exhibitors will be responsible for shipping their display materials to and from the hotel (instructions below) and for setting up and tearing down their own exhibits. ... 5:00pm ...

STATUS REPORTS 1. Observatory Status MOSES status reports: -PCS - nominal - Data analysis of FGS guide star acqs (proposal 7028) continues to look good. ... A test plan for re-try table patch is being worked. ... Since being turned on again, the temperature has increased from 29 to 35 degC, the yellow limit being 40 and the hardware limet 43 degC. ... FOC/COSTAR status - FOC Initial Ops (7011) and the non-SMOV f/48 monthly activation were successfully performed. ... PLANNING REPORTS 1. ...

... Science . ... Science Users Information > Data Handling and Products > Data Reduction FAQ > I see unexpected boxy emission-like features in my REDL spectra - where do they come from? ... Observing with ESO Telescopes . ... ESO-MIDAS . ... ESO Data . ... The pipeline by default interpolates across the bad columns in the REDL CCD when it creates the master bias, but does not so when it processes the science data. This inconsistency can create boxy emission-like features as seen in the figure below. ...

... Each day a different image or photograph of our fascinating universe is featured, along with a brief explanation written by a professional astronomer. 2009 September 8 . Unexpected Impact on Jupiter . ... Explanation: Two months ago, something unexpected hit Jupiter. First discovered by an amateur astronomer Anthony Wesley on 2009 July 19, the impact was quickly confirmed and even imaged by the Hubble Space Telescope during the next week. ... About APOD | ...

Astronomy Picture of the Day . Unexpected Impact on Jupiter . ... 8.09.2009 . ... First discovered by an amateur astronomer Anthony Wesley on 2009 July 19, the impact was quickly confirmed and even imaged by the Hubble Space Telescope the very next day. ... It is now thought that a small comet -- perhaps less than one kilometer across -- impacted Jupiter on or before 2009 July 19. ... July . ... Publications with keywords: Jupiter - impact . Publications with words: Jupiter - impact . ...

Introduction to Hardware Signal Injections Peter Shawhan, Isabel Leonor, Szabi MАrka (LIGO/Caltech, U. of Oregon, LIGO/Caltech) LSC Meeting March 19, 2003 LSC Meeting, 19 March 2003 Shawhan, Leonor, Marka LIGO-G030112-00-D Uses of Hardware Signal Injections Complete end-to-end test of detector and analysis Verify that detector does not distort si gnal in unexpected ways Verify that search algorithm can detect signals ! ...

30th of July 2015 . FAST Science Meeting . ... The Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical radio telescope (FAST), located in the Guizhou province in the southwestern part of China will be the largest radio antenna upon the finishing of construction. FAST is expected to receive its first light at the end of 2016. On 29 July 2015, the first FAST early science meeting is held in Guiyang. On 28 July 2015, a group of the attendees for the meeting enjoyed a trip to the FAST site. ...

Image Quality and Stability Criteria Alex Rea adr34@cam.ac.uk Cavendish Lab oratory, University of Cambridge FTT Meeting Friday 7th May 2010 Alex Rea ( Cavendish Labs, Cambridge ) Image Quality and Stability Criteria 7th May 2010 1/9 Off-Axis Angle · MTF reference surfaces · MRTD test systems · Spectrograph mirrors ... Image Quality and Stability Criteria 7th May 2010 9/9 Alex Rea (Cavendish Labs, Cambridge) ...

The focus of the meeting is to explore scientific frontiers that require large collecting area and state of the art instrumentation over the next 5 to 15 years. ... The meeting will form the basis for an Arecibo scientific and instrumentation roadmap that takes into account developments in electromagnetic and non-photonic astronomy and, in particular, development of the Square Kilometer Array. ... COSMOLOGY & GALAXY EVOLUTION . ... INSTRUMENTATION DEVELOPMENT . ...

The Special Astrophysical Observatory of the Russian Academy of Sciences will organize a traditional International conference ?Physics and Evolution of Magnetic and Related stars? during the period from August 25 to August 31, 2014. ... evolution of CP and related stars, . ... interplay of pulsations and magnetism in B, A, and F stars, . ... chemical abundance patterns of CP and related stars, . magnetic white dwarfs, . ... Laboratory for the Stellar Magnetism Study of SAO of RAS . ...

... N. Kardashev and M. Popov informed the participants on the current IOC results. ... Kovalev). ... Agenda of the RadioAstron teleconference November 16, 2011 Corrections to the Agenda 1 2 3 4 5 6 IOC status and results Single Dish observation with RA VLBA observations to find best fringe search candidates Fringe search plan Early science program plan Tracking stations outside Russia N.Kardashev N. Kardashev / M.Popov V. Kostenko E.Fomalont M.Popov Y.Y. Kovalev / M.Popov /A.Alakoz ...

... Friday, May, 18, 5 p.m., room 206. ... Friday, April, 27, 5.30 p.m. JOINT MEETING WITH THE SEMINAR OF M.TSFASMAN . V.M.Buchstaber will speak on the so called "(n,s) -- models of Riemann surfaces". ... Friday, April, 13, 5 p.m., room 206. ... Topological classification of Z^m_p actions on surfaces . ... Dessins d'enfants and Riemann surfaces . ... Friday, March, 30, 5 p.m., room 206. ... On Friday, February, 23, 5 p.m., room 206, S.Loktev will go on with his talk "Conformal blocks of the CFT". ...

... Images obtained using the Faulkes Telescope South, operated by Las Cumbres Observatory. ... The Faulkes Telescope Project and Las Cumbres Observatory Global Telescope Network had kindly given us the opportunity to use these telescopes and the observatory had booked us four sessions of controlling the telescope in order for us to make some observations on NEOs. ... Just before our first observing session on Friday, we were given a tour of the observatory building and its telescopes, by John McFarland...

Blackholes2 Forum Message . ... Post . ... Shifts Are As Would Be Expected. ... Post Message | ... Red and blue shifts can be caused by velocities also. ... The expectd result would be a red or blue shift proportional to the aparent distance an object is from the observer. ... www.astronomy.net . About Astronomy Net | Advertise on Astronomy Net | ... Forum posts are Copyright their authors as specified in the heading above the post. "dbHTML," "AstroGuide," "ASTRONOMY.NET" & "VA.NET" . ...

... December 30, 1998 . Supernova 1994D and the Unexpected Universe . Credit: High-Z Supernova Search Team , HST , NASA . Explanation: Far away, long ago, a star exploded. ... Supernova 1994D was not of interest for how different it was, but rather for how similar it was to other supernovae . ... The large number and great distances to supernovae measured in 1998 have been interpreted as indicating that we live in a previously unexpected universe . ... About APOD > . ... NASA Technical Rep.: ...

... Data . AAS 221 . AAS 219 . ... The first thing to note is that Twitter does not guarantee to return all matching Tweets, whatever method is used (unless you have direct access to their "fire hose", which I don't). ... This should result in the same results as my REST-based search (method 2), since the volume of Tweets was probably not enough to cause this site to miss Tweets based on their collection strategy . ... A search for the tag #aas219 (case insensitive) using the Twitter REST API . ...

... S.P. KOROLEV ROCKET AND SPACE CORPORATION ENERGIA . ... OAO RSC "Energia" . ... Rocket Systems . ... ISS Russian Segment . ... Automatic Space Systems . ... Guidance, navigation and control system sensors measuring the Station angular velocities; . ... Telemetry information concerning measurements of nominal sensors of the ISS RS power supply system and guidance, navigation and control system, received from the Station. ... AUTOMATIC SPACE SYSTEMS . ... 2015 JSC "S.P. Korolev RSC "Energia" . ...

... OM Calibration Meeting, October 2000 ­ RM OM CCF Status Detail I ffl all OM CCFs required by the SAS pipeline are present ffl crucial files for scientific analysis were updated reflecting inflight perfor­ mance: -- AstroMet (position) -- Boresight (position) -- PhotToNat (flux) -- ColorTrans (flux) -- BadPix (cosmetics: reduced sensitivity, edge emission) ffl other updated files reflecting inflight performance: -- Darkframe ...

... On 26 October 2009 in Moscow, in the Russian Academy of Sciences (RAS) a meeting was held of the leading Russian scientists and statesmen with the Director General of the European Southern Observatory (ESO) Tim de Zeeuw and the Head of International Relations Rowena Sirey. ... Director General of the European Southern Observatory (ESO) Tim de Zeeuw. ... Balega, the Head of International Relations Rowena Sirey, Director General of the ESO Tim de Zeeuw, deputy director of the SAO RAS V.V.Vlasuyk . ...