... 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. ...

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 . ... APT . ... HST Overview . Overview . ... Phase I Proposing . ... Cycle 24 Announcement . ... Phase II Cycle 23 . ... Documents . ... After you have brought up APT you will see a "Help" menu on the top menu bar. From here you can also bring up the documents that will help you to learn APT. Phase I: You can bring up Phase I Specific APT Training Materials to learn about using APT to submit your Phase I proposal. ... These are the same documents you will find on the HST Website. ...

... People . Posts tagged ?reviewers? ... Posted by chasc . ... Guest Slogger Simon Vaughan describes the problem and shows what you can do to make reviewers happy (and you definitely want to keep reviewers happy). ... Category: Astro , Bad AstroStat , Uncertainty | 11 Comments . ... Entries RSS . Comments RSS . ... vlk on [MADS] Parallel Coordinates . upvc windows on [MADS] Parallel Coordinates . ... Alfred Inselberg on [MADS] Parallel Coordinates . ... Entries (RSS) and Comments (RSS) . ...

Journal of Atmospheric and Solar-Terrestrial Physics Manuscript Draft Manuscript Number: ATP1021 Title: comment on the paper by Dalin , Pertsev and Romejko Significance of lunar impact on noctilucent clouds ( revised version) Article Type: Research Paper Section/Category: Keywords: Noctilucent clouds moon influence mesosphere Manuscript Region of Origin: Abstract: a critical review of the paper by Dalin , ... Reference: Dalin, P.A., N.N. Pertsev, V.A. Romejko. ...

... Initial Setup Tasks . ... LBAJun2013 / . ... Setup v490a.1cm-icrf: . ... IFP#1-LO 22000 - 22016 MHz USB RCP . ... IFP#1-HI 22016 - 22032 MHz USB RCP . ... IFP#2-LO 22500 - 22516 MHz USB LCP . ... IFP#2-HI 22516 - 22532 MHz USB LCP . ... The 4 x 16 MHz bandpass setup requires feeding two separate LOs into IFP#1 and #2 on the DAS/frequency translator. For both Hobart and Ceduna the LOs should be set to 706 MHz (IFP#1) and 206 MHz (IFP#2) for the 4 x 16 MHz setup and 495 MHz for the 2 x 16 MHz setup. ...

Command file observing allows You to prepare a list of instructions in advance, which can then be executed automatically when You are observing. ... Syntax and commands changed quite a lot with the introduction of CIMA version 2.3. You thus have to select which description of command file observing You want to view depending on which version of CIMA You are going to use: . Command file observing in CIMA version 2.2 . ... Command file observing in CIMA version 3.1 or later . ...

... Moon Maps . ... ALMA makes the worldт??s first interferometric map of carbon atoms . ... ALMA . Planetary Nebula NGC 6302. ... Astronomers successfully synthesized the distribution of atomic carbon around planetary nebula NGC 6302 in test observations with the ALMA Band 8 receiver, developed by the National Astronomical Observatory of Japan (NAOJ). ... ALMA targeted the center of the nebula, revealing that the distribution of carbon atoms is concentrated in a small part. ...

... The process of proposing for Hubble Space Telescope observing time has been revised, to make it simpler for proposers. We describe the simple, flexible, and robust prototype system created to handle proposal submission. ... Proposing for Hubble Space Telescope ( HST ) observing time proceeds in two phases: the scientific merits of the proposal are considered in Phase I; only accepted proposals enter Phase II, where the observations are described in complete detail. ...

Astronotes Armagh Planetarium's Stellar Blog! ... Monthly Sky Notes . ... Posted on September 26, 2014 | 2 Comments October is an interesting month for astronomers as World Space Week falls from 4 October until 10 October and coincidentally itтАЩs a good month for keen astronomers to take to [ ] . Continue Reading.. ... No Comments I have never met a child who is not fascinated by the stars. €аLearning to find and recognise planets and constellations is the first step in what can be a [ ] . ...

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... Following the full moon on Monday, March 24, I was able to make use of a few brief periods totalling about an hour and a half before the Easter weekend to make some 160 galaxy observations at home in Coonabarabran using the 0.41m telescope. ... Because of being on holidays my resources for comparison purpouses were rather limited, and so I had to rely upon amateur contacts in Queensland to verify my memory of this galaxy, and also to obtain visual confirmation of the supernova. ...

home publications > mercury . ... Astronomy Beat . ... Nearly four centuries ago, Galileo's simple observations of Earth's planetary sibling, Venus, buoyed the proponents of a Copernican universe. ... The Italian astronomer had settled into a new house in Florence and had begun to observe Venus, which in November 1610 would have appeared as an evening star, bright in the western sky after dusk. ... From these two observations, Galileo inferred that Venus must orbit closer to the Sun than does Earth. ...

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... Files in red?history) . ... The Sun . ... Large sunspots may be occasionally seen by the unaided eye, with the sun near the horizon and dimmed by thick haze. ... Year after year, beginning in 1826, on every clear day, Schwabe would scan the sun and record its spots, until 17 years later he began to suspect a regular variation . ... Some, led by Rudolf Wolf, examined old records to reconstruct earlier sunspot cycles, while Edward Sabine in England in 1852 found a similar periodicity in magnetic...

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... 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 . ...

These policies are consulted whenever there are questions or concerns for closing the enclosure due to hazardous conditions or situations. telescope operations will be suspended whenever conditions pose a risk to facilities or personnel; . the Chief Telescope Engineer has full responsibility and sole authority to make this decision. ... Policy: The Chief Telescope Engineer has full responsibility and sole authority to suspend operations for the reasons described in the previous policy. ...

Next: Reducing the observations Up: PEPSYS general photometry Previous: Influencing the plan . ... If the telescope and instrumentation are unfamiliar to you, you may have trouble keeping to the schedule for the first night or two, so try to work with a previous observer on the equipment for a night or two of training before your observing run. If you fall behind, try to keep as many low-altitude observations of extinction stars as you can, and drop some circumzenithal ones if necessary. ...