... American Triumph: Project Apollo . Jim Hand . Thursday, Nov 8, 2012 at 8:00 PM . This month’s speaker will be physicist Jim Hand who worked for Kollsman Instruments and at the MIT Instrumentation Lab during the Apollo years designing and integrating hardware and software for the command and lunar modules including a fifteen million dollar telescope used on the lunar module to assist in navigation. ... Nov . ... Copyright (c) Amateur Telescope Makers of Boston, Inc. ...

... ACS . ... As part of this team I have helped in testing the new calibration pipeline for ACS (CALACS). This new pipiline includes new fixes for images including crosstalk correction, bias striping, and CTE correction. As part of this work, I tested the accuracy of the new CTE correction using simulated images. ... CTE poster . I was part of the DrizzlePac testing team. DrizzlePac is a software package designed to combine Hubble Space Telescope images. ... DrizzlePac poster . ...

The Astronomical Society of the Pacific gratefully acknowledges the partnership of the Geological Society of America in sponsoring this national meeting including the "Cosmos in the Classroom" Symposium and the "Earth & Space Science: Making Connections in Education and Public Outreach" symposium. ... NASA Lunar Science Institute . Infrared Processing and Analysis Center . NASA Herschel Science Center . ... The Center for Astronomy Education at the University of Arizona . ... Big Kid Science . ...

... This meeting, the first joint event between the Astronomical Science Group of Ireland (ASGI) and the Institute of Physics in Ireland (IoPI), was the largest astronomical conference ever held in Armagh, with nearly 140 registered participants. ... Figure 9: The Northern Ireland Minister of Culture, Arts and Leisure, Ms Angela Smith MP, prior to the formal opening of the ASGI/IoPI meeting in St Patrick's Trian, Armagh, on 2 April 2004. ...

... Words . ... Connections (constellation) . Connections (matrix) . Data Collection and Analysis . AAS 223 . AAS 221 . AAS 219 . AAS 218 . ... The data below shows the most-popular words used in tweets about the 223rd meeting of the American Astronomical Society . A number of common English words have been removed (including terms AAS223 , AAS and RT since they are very popular). ... Here we restrict ourselves to those tweets not flagged by Twitter as being a re-tweet. ...

OptInt PmWiki : MROI Fast Tip Tilt / Tech Meet 8 . ... Attendees: JSY, DFB, EBS, MF, ADR . ... Thermal control . Scope of this software includes thermal control of camera enclosure . Thermal control should be active continuously, day and night . ... Separate process for thermal control (possibly with its own interface to the ISS) desireable, but requires dedicated I/O hardware . ... Printable View of http://www.mrao.cam.ac.uk/projects/OAS/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/MROIFastTipTilt/TechMeet8) ...

... Science . ... Science Users Information > Science Activities > APEX Science Verification > SHFI . ... Observing Facilities . ... Observing with ESO Telescopes . ... Telescope Time Allocation . ... ESO Data . ... The Science Verification (SV) observations of the APEX Swedish Heterodyne Facility Instrument were observed in March 2008. ... A selection of the APEX-1 proposals listed below have been observed during the week of joint SV observations in March 2008, and later during the ESO time of period...

SAI 175 anniversary . ... Moscow University . Search for in SAI Moscow University Search for in Russian astronomical resources . ... SAI Astronomical Databases . ... Browse SAI Software archive(ftp.sai.msu.su) . ASTRONET.RU - Russian Astronomical Network (available in translit also) . ... SAI Supernovae Research Group . ... Department of the Galaxy and Variable Stars (in Russian) . Sternberg Astronomical Institute Seminars . ... All-Russian Astronomical Olympiad (in Russian) . ...

... Most of us are aware that next generation instruments, with Terabyte databases, are going to present enormous challenges to the way that we process data, and our current ways of managing astronomical databases will probably no longer work. ... The Working Group on Astronomical Data (WGAD) has two key roles: to act as a communication channel between the IAU and CODATA (ICSU Committee on Scientific Data), and to provide a forum for discussion of data issues. ...

... Partly based on observations performed with radio telescopes of IAA RAS (Federal State Budget Scientific Organization Institue of Applied Astronomy of Russian Academy of Sciences). c . ... Partly based on observations with the 100-m telescope of the MPIfR (Max-Planck-Institute for Radio Astronomy) at Effelsberg . ... NRAO facilities . The National Radio Astronomy Observatory is a facility of the National Science Foundation operated under cooperative agreement by Associated Universities, Inc. ...

... New Mexico State University is seeking a technical and computer-oriented person as a Support Astronomer for nighttime astronomical observing at Apache Point Observatory (APO) with the Astrophysical Research Consortium (ARC) 3.5m Telescope. б  . ... Paper/email documents will not be accepted. ... TELESCOPE OPERATIONS SPECIALIST . ... Responsibilities include nightly operation of the 3.5m telescope and instruments, Quality monitoring the data streams and system performance and observing efficiency. ...

... 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. ...

... APT Activities and Science Results 3. ... APT Secretary Philip Edwards (ISAS) reviewed the aims of the APT (http://www.vsop.isas.ac.jp/apt/DefinitionAndAims.html). ... The Australia Telescope Compact Array, and Ceduna, Hartebeesthoek, Kashima, Mopra, Parkes, and Shanghai telescopes of the Asia-Pacific Telescope participated in these observations. ... In the absence of Tetsuo Sasao, Philip Edwards briefly described results of the APT 22 GHz observations conducted from October 1st to 5th, 1997. ...

... The main goals of the society are to maintain the development of astronomy and to reinforce scientific contacts between astronomers of the former Soviet Union and their colleagues all over the world. Official languges of EAAS - Russian and English. ... IV Russian Olympiad on Astronomy and Cosmic Physics for high-school students (April 7-12, 1997, Troitsk, Moscow region, Russia) . ... In Russian. ... Dr. Nikolai G. Bochkarev , Co-chairman of Euro-Asian Astronomical Society, 21.02.1997. ...

Storing and accessing the largest astronomical catalogues with the SAI CAS project S. Koposov1,2,3, O. Bartunov2, S. Karpov4 et al2. ... Why we want to build our own Catalogue Access Service The requirements for our CAS system The importance of the Database for the CAS (PostgreSQL & Q3C) The technical realization of CAS What has been already done Example of work TODO Storing and Accessing Astronomical Catalogues Existing projects CDS OpenSkyQuery CASjobs with SDSS They are all really great! ...

... Conference Photograph . ... This volume contains the papers presented at the sixth annual conference on Astronomical Data Analysis Software and Systems (ADASS VI), which was held at the Omni Charlottesville Hotel in Charlottesville, Virginia, 22-26 September 1996, hosted by the National Radio Astronomy Observatory (NRAO). ... Astronomical Data Analysis Software and Systems VII 1998, ASP Conf. ... Astronomical Data Analysis Software and Systems V 1996, ASP Conf. ...

National Aeronautics and Space Administration . ... Bruce McCandless II (Captain, USN, Ret.) NASA Astronaut (former) . ... He was a member of the astronaut support crew for the Apollo 14 mission and was backup pilot for the first manned Skylab mission (SL-1/SL-2). ... A veteran of two space flights, McCandless has logged over 312 hours in space, including 4 hours of MMU flight time. ... With the completion of this flight McCandless logged 191 hours in space (including 4 hours of MMU flight time). ...

... Scientific Venues American Association for the Advancement of Science meeting American Astronomical Society meeting American Association of Physics Teachers meeting American Association of Variable Star Observers meeting .Astronomy Conference. ... Worth, TX University of Nebraska, Lincoln, NE Yale University, CT Conventions/Special Interest Meetings/Other (James Randi's) "The Amaz!ng Meeting" (2003 - 2009), Las Vegas, NV, Ft. ... Diablo Astronomical Society, Concord, CA Mt. ...

XMM -Newton TTD Meeting 6-7th of June 2001 M. Casale XMM 1 Eclipse season Autumn 2001 (1) · Eclipse period: 31-08 (REV-317) to 14-10 (REV-339) · Max duration: 47 minutes (including penumbra) · Timing: the eclipse will occur after Perigee; min 0.5 h to max 56 min (at the end of the eclipse season ) · Base-line for eclipse ...

Isabel Leonor University of Oregon searched 25 S2 GRBs for coincident G-waves of duration ~1 ­ 10 ms used crosscorrelation method explored data conditioning in the frequency domain, included whitening and phase correction ­ luxury of limited on-source and off-source data to analyze injected signals to study sensitivity of pipeline used playground data with no GRB trigger data analysis code (standalone), injection and calibration scripts, written using Matlab ...