... 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. ...

... Home Lectures Lecture Series 2011-2012 Lecture Series 2011-2012 ? тАЬA Ray of Light in a Sea of Dark (Matter)тАЭ ? Charles Keeton . ... Charles Keeton , associate professor of physics and astronomy at Rutgers University and faculty director of the Aresty Research Center for Undergraduates , will speak to the AAA Friday, March 2, on тАЬA Ray of Light in a Sea of Dark (Matter).тАЭ The free public lecture begins at 6:15 p.m. in the Kaufmann Theater of the€а American Museum of Natural History . ...

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" . ...

... SUN MOON MERCURY VENUS MARS, JUPITER SATURN . ... Mars . ... Early Mars bombardment likely enhanced life-supporting habitat . ... Would the thin atmosphere and absence of light pollution on Mars make for a fantastic night sky, or would martian dust/twilight spoil the view? Why don't we have broad night-sky pictures? ... MARS . ... But the brightest lights on Mars are Curiosity s Mars Hand Lens Imager s LED lights and ChemCam laser. ... Get instant access to subscriber content on Astronomy.com! ...

Classroom Activity: Making a Rainbow . ... When white light from the Sun or a light bulb passes through a prism, the light splits into its component wavelengths. ... Red, blue, green colored filters - if possible, cut 1x4-inch pieces of the filters for each student . ... Many students have the misconception that filters somehow dye the light a certain color. ... Younger students can draw the rainbow and make up a mnemonic for remembering the order of the colors (such as, ROY G. BIV). ...

... ESO is building what will be the World's largest optical telescope array, The Very Large Telescope (VLT). The VLT Project organisation is responsible for the design and construction of the Unit Telescopes, including enclosures, optics, adapter-rotators and coating unit. ... Unit Telescopes Overview - This page is outdated, an update is in process. ... Secondary mirror (M2 Unit) - This page is outdated, an update is in process. ... Coating Unit - This page is outdated, an update is in process. ...

In this gallery are many images of Low Surface Brightness Galaxies which have recently been discovered and analyzed. ... The central surface brightness of this galaxy is 24.28 . Malin 2 This galaxy is another huge disk galaxy with a scale length of 15 kpc and a redshift of 15000 km/a. The high surface brightness knot in one of its spiral arms actually has the same color, luminosity and H-alpha equivalent width as the entire Large Magellanic Cloud . ... Truly it is a Low Surface Brightness Galaxy. ...

... This task computes the average or folded light curve for a single cycle of known period. input file: rp90_sect2_sti.qp . ... xt> fold input source timing file: rp90_sect2 input background timing file (none): <cr> root name for outfile [root_fld.tab]: rp90_part2 # chosen so name of output # file different from that of Section 8.9. fold period in seconds: 100.14 # this value chosen by user. number of bins: 10 The folded light curve may be displayed with the task fldplot . ...

... casa . casa::RecordExpr_global_functions_RecordExpr . ... Global functions to make a expression node for a record field. ... makeRecordExpr (const RecordDesc &desc, Int fieldNumber) . Make a record expression node for the given field in the record description. ... Make a record expression node for the given field in the record. ... makeRecordExpr (const RecordInterface &record, const String &fieldName) . ... References casa::RecordInterface::description() , and makeRecordExpr() . ...

... 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 ? ...

... Bad Astronomy . Misconceptions . ... Bad Astronomy : "We're light years more advanced than our competition!" ... Even the closest astronomical object, the Moon, is 400,000 kilometers away! ... A beam of light will travel 9,500,000,000,000 kilometers in one year. This distance is defined as a light year ; the distance light travels in a year. ... This is another example of Bad Astronomy; like a light year, a parsec is a unit of distance, not time (to be specific, it equals 3.26 light years) . ...

... 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...

The nasa.gov site requires that JavaScripts be enabled in your browser. ... Contact NASA . ... The term "astronaut" derives from the Greek words meaning "space sailor," and refers to all who have been launched as crew members aboard NASA spacecraft bound for orbit and beyond. Since the inception of NASA's human space flight program, we have also maintained the term "astronaut" as the title for those selected to join the NASA corps of astronauts who make "space sailing" their career profession. ...

... Barred spiral galaxy NGC 1365 is truly a majestic island universe some 200,000 light-years across. ... The active moon Enceladus appears to be making Saturn's E ring. ... Enceladus is the bright point near the center, right near the center of Saturn's E ring. ... Welcome to Planet Earth . ... Brilliant Venus, a slender crescent Moon, and lights along the Ponte 25 de Abril glow against the western twilight in this lovely moonset scene from Lisbon, Portugal, recorded on March 20. ...

... 93 13:29:03 -0500 From: mkennedy@charmed.tjhsst.edu The CD lyrics are way off... here's my attempt KISS KILLERS - 1982 I'M A LEGEND TONIGHT - Adam Mitchell, Paul Stanley I've been working at my job, slaving like a dog all day And I've been thinking about you, girl And watching the minutes slip away Yeah , and I know there's someone inside me that nobody sees And I know in the darkness you're gonna be reaching for me I'm a legend tonight ...

Stellarium 0.12.3 . ... FileљStructure . ... StelLight Struct Reference . Basic light source. More... #include < StelLight.hpp > . ... operator== (const StelLight &rhs) const . Is this light identical to another light? ... Position of the light. ... ambient . Ambient light color. ... Definition at line 32 of file StelLight.hpp . ... Vec4f StelLight::ambient . ... The documentation for this struct was generated from the following file: . core/renderer/ StelLight.hpp . ...

... 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 . ...

Astronotes Armagh Planetarium's Stellar Blog! ... Armagh Planetarium . ... Space Flight . Human Exploration . Robot Exploration . ... By admin January 28, 2011 Posted in: Human Exploration . Challenger sets off on its tragic mission (image credit: NASA) . ... Your email address will not be published. ... Email * . ... Here you will find the latest news and views from the fascinating worlds of astronomy and space exploration. ... Subscribe to Astronotes . ... Email Address * . ...

HUBBLE SPACE TELESCOPE DAILY REPORT #950 PERIOD COVERED: 0800 EST Daily Status Report as of 225/1200Z. 1.0 ACTIVITIES SCHEDULED AND ACCOMPLISHED: 1.1 Completed WFC 4666 (The Jet of Centaurus A and Its Host Galaxies - Cycle 3 Medium) The Wide Field Camera was used to make images of Object Centaurus A (Part 4) to view the jet and its inner regions. ... 1.4 Completed Two Sets of 5014 (WF/PC Cycle 3 Calibration: PC Flats Narrow. ... 1.6 Completed WFC 5013 (WF/PC Cycle 3 Calibration: WFC Flats Narrow. ...

Sternberg Astronomical Institute, Moscow University, . Moscow, Russia . Supernovae make us brighter .. Search russian astronomical resources . Mirror of International Supernovae Network ( Original site ) . Catalogue of Supernovae Stars . HTTP access to SAI Catalogue of Supernovae Stars . SAI SN Light Curves Online . ... Sternberg Astronomical Institute ( in Russian ) . ... Astronet - Russian Astronomical Network . ... Russian Foundation for Basic Research . ...