... Apr 14, 2016 - Monthly Meeting . ... The Amateur Telescope Makers of Boston, Inc. ATMoB) is an astronomy club devoted to telescope making, observing, and studying the heavens. ... CURRENT MOON . ... April Sky . ... Lyrids Meteor Shower . ... Sources: NASA JPL Space Calendar , StarDate Online , Sky Telescope , Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics , RASC Observer’s Handbook , Abrams Planetarium Sky Calendar and Astronomy Magazine . ... Copyright (c) Amateur Telescope Makers of Boston, Inc. ...

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i've been looking so long at these pictures of you that i almost believe that they're real i've been living so long with these pictures of you i almost believe that these pictures are all I can feel remembering you standing quiet in the rain as I ran to your heart to be near and we kissed as the sky fell in holding you close how i always held close in your fear ...

The AstroGuide . ... AstroGuide | ... AstroGuide Listing . ... See many more Astronomy Listings by: Category or Alphabet . The ATMoB is a group of about 300 individuals in the greater Boston area. In addition to telescope making, our club members are involved in star, comet, and planetary observing. ... Web Site . ... Web . ... Unless otherwise specified, web site content Copyright 1994-2016 John Huggins All Rights Reserved . dbHTML," "AstroGuide," "ASTRONOMY.NET" & "VA.NET" . ...

... HST Overview . ... The second issue is only a problem if the input fringe flat was taken as a subarray (note that this is not the usual case). ... If the fringe flat is a subarray, then you will need to use the updated version of mkfringeflat.cl. To use the new version of mkfringeflat, copy mkfringeflat.cl to some directory (referred to below as ), load the stis package, and redefine the mkfringeflat task, e.g.: . ... redefine mkfringeflat = /mkfringeflat.cl Download mkfingeflat.cl Copyright | ...

... Comet Schwassmann Wachmann 3 Passes the Earth . ... Rarely does a comet pass this close to Earth. ... Large comet fragments passed about 25 times the Moon's distance from the Earth. Maneuvering in Space . ... The Canadarm2 aboard the International Space Station (ISS). ... Canadarm2 is operated by remote control by a human inside the space station. ... The International Space Station (ISS) is the largest human-made object ever to orbit the Earth. ... The Very Large Array of Radio Telescopes . ...

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... Create the position of New Member Steward . ... Conduct meetings that members want to attend . ... previous page | ... The New Member Steward helps new members know what to expect. ... A name badge that includes the member s name and the club name . ... Sharing the Universe videos are produced by the Astronomical Society of the Pacific (ASP) from research conducted by the Institute for Learning Innovation, the ASP, and from astronomy clubs like yours. www.astrosociety.org/SharingTheUniverse . ...

This package contains two libraries of SAS utilities: saslib and sasdal . ... setEmosRejectionMask(TableT table) . ... Directory d("."); . ... class Directory : public list { public: Directory ( const string name = . , const string pattern = * , const bool recurse = false); Directory ( const DirEntry * d, const string pattern = * , const bool recurse = false); void filter( const string pattern); string filter() const ; void recurse( const bool dorecurse); ...

... SUN MOON MERCURY VENUS MARS, JUPITER SATURN . ... Mars . ... An artificial comet holds secrets to Earths life . ... Comet to make close flyby of Red Planet in October 2014 . ... COMETS | ... Comet C/2013 A1 (Siding Spring) will make a close approach to Mars in October 2014. ... During the close Mars approach, the comet likely will achieve a total visual magnitude of 0 or brighter, as seen from Mars-based assets. ... Only registered members of Astronomy.com are allowed to comment on this article. ...

... ESO, the European Southern Observatory . ... ESO Acronyms . ... TRAnsiting Planets and PlanetesImals Small Telescope . ... This artistтАЩs impression shows an event in the early history of the Solar System that may explain how the unusual asteroid Lutetia came to now be located in the main asteroid belt, between Mars and Jupiter. Lutetia is seen passing close to one of the very young rocky planets about four billion years ago and having its orbit drastically altered. ... Asteroid (21) Lutetia . ...

... Classes . ... casa::LCUnion . ... Make the union of 2 or more regions. ... LCUnion (const LCRegion &region1, const LCRegion &region2) . ... LCUnion ( Bool takeOver, const PtrBlock < const LCRegion * > &regions) . ... Copy constructor (copy semantics). virtual . ... Otherwise a copy of the regions is made. casa::LCUnion::LCUnion . ... Copy constructor (copy semantics). virtual casa::LCUnion::~LCUnion . ... Get the class name (to store in the record). virtual LCRegion * casa::LCUnion::cloneRegion . ...

... Classes . ... ClassљList . ... Server Class Reference abstract . ... Adds this object to the list of connections maintained by this server. ... The class makes heavy use of polymorphism to perform all its work by maintaining a list of connections in the form of Socket pointers. The list actually contains objects of classes that inherit Socket , including one Listener object, created in the constructor, and one or more Connection objects, each representing a TCP/IP connection to a client. ...

... Since 2011 our observatory is a member of GLORIA (GLObal Robotic telescopes Intelligent Array for e-Science) project - wide international collaboration of 13 scientific institutions from 8 countries aiming at opening public access to robotic telescopes, as well as propagating astronomy in general. The GLORIA Project offers Internet users the possibility of studying the sky from professional observatories. ... The experiments are available at the users site of GLORIA. ... About GLORIA . ...

... Bad Astronomy . ... This first Snack of the year 2000 (yes, I am one of those who says the Millennium begins in 2001) will talk a little about a wonderful event: a total lunar eclipse. On the evening of Thursday, January 20 (or the early morning Friday, January 21 if you lives east of England) the Moon will go undergo one of the best eclipses it can. ... The Moon stays in the Earth's shadow in a lunar eclipse longer the Earth stays in the Moon's shadow during a solar eclipse. ... 2008 Phil Plait. ...

... A Close Pass of Saturn's Moon Dione . Image Credit: Cassini Imaging Team , ISS , JPL , ESA , NASA . ... When making its closest pass yet of Saturn's moon Dione late last year, the robotic Cassini spacecraft snapped this far-ranging picture featuring Dione, Saturn's rings, and the two small moons Epimetheus and Prometheus . ... Future events in Cassini's continuing exploration of Saturn and its moons include tomorrow's flyby of Titan and imaging the distant Earth passing behind Saturn in June. ...

... SET/IRSPEC flat=.. ... SKYSUB/IRS . ... However, in SKYSUB/IRS you can avoid caring about the dark if -- and only if -- you use this command to make a straight subtraction (see last example of TUTORIAL/SKYSUB), in which case the dark frame is effectively not used. ... SKYSUB/IRSPEC . ... When using this mode remember to apply -- using the above command -- the same calibration to the object and to the standard otherwise you will not be able to run FLUX/IRSPEC. ... RECTIFY/IRSPEC . ... STANDARD/IRSPEC...

This group of four pages describes how the Arecibo 430 MHz radar makes simple measurements in the ionosphere. ... Radar Reflections From the Ionosphere . ... Or How are radio and TV stations like radars?) ... Consider two radio stations located on a mountain transmitting to a nearby city. ... A radar is like a radio station, but it has a receiver that picks up radio waves reflected from objects (targets). ... Although a radio station transmits continously, a radar can transmit short bursts of waves. ...

... ASRAS Board Members . ... Site . ... ASRAS Board Positions . ... President - . ... The president has many responsibilities like running monthly meetings, running the monthly board meeting, representing ASRAS at local events like star parties, planetarium events, RMSC events, the monthly newsletter presidents message, etc .. ... The Vice Presidents position is mainly to assist the president and back them up if they cant make a major function like a general meeting or write the newsletter pres message...

2.5m Preflight Check . ... Preparations for Science: . ... If not already done, set Az and Alt brakes. Check that nothing is around/on the telescope which would interfere with altitude or rotator motion. ... Make an Alt move. Combine motion test with drive surface checking/cleaning to allow access to entire surface.* Set the Alt fiducial ( start at 14.5 and move up at 5000 cts/sec until crossed, put alt in hold then set fiducial ) Return Alt to ~18.5 deg when done. Set Alt brake. ...