... 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" . ...

... 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. ...

... 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. ...

... Find the three stars of his belt and follow the line they make up the sky and you will meet Aldebaran, the brightest star in Orion?s neighbour, Taurus the Bull . ... A K5 III red giant about 350 times as luminous as our Sun, it appears as a red-orange magnitude 0.9 object in our sky. ... The name Aldebaran is derived from the Arabic for тАШthe FollowerтАЩ as the ancient Muslim astronomers saw it as trailing behind the Pleiades star cluster across the sky. ... Posted April 2, 2014 at 8:03 PM . ...

... A closer look at the Eagle Nebula, however, shows the bright region is actually a window into the center of a larger dark shell of dust. Through this window, a brightly-lit workshop appears where a whole open cluster of stars is being formed. ... NGC 281: Cluster, Clouds, and Globules . ... Prominent features include a small open cluster of stars, a diffuse red-glowing emission nebula, large lanes of obscuring gas and dust, and dense knots of dust and gas in which stars may still be forming. ...

... Listed below are questions submitted by users of "The Great Magnet, the Earth" and the answers given to them. ... In "The Exploration of the Earth's magnetosphere" on the magnetic environment of the Earth in space (a few Q duplicated here) . ... 11) Magnetic Shielding . ... 51) Can electricity be generated from the Earth's magnetic field? ... 9) Measuring Earth's magnetic field . ... 6) Reversals of the Earth's field (4 queries) . ... 42) Could generated electricity affect Earth's magnetic field? ...

... Posts tagged ?close? ... For a discipline that relies so heavily on images, it is rather surprising how little use astronomy makes of the vast body of work on image analysis carried out by mathematicians and computer scientists. ... images. ... 1 Comment . ... Entries RSS . Comments RSS . ... General comments . ... vlk on [MADS] Parallel Coordinates . upvc windows on [MADS] Parallel Coordinates . ... Alfred Inselberg on [MADS] Parallel Coordinates . ... Entries (RSS) and Comments (RSS) . ...

... 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 . ...

... Listed below are questions submitted by users of "The Great Magnet, the Earth" and the answers given to them. ... In "The Exploration of the Earth's magnetosphere" on the magnetic environment of the Earth in space (a few Q duplicated here) . ... 11) Magnetic Shielding . ... 51) Can electricity be generated from the Earth's magnetic field? ... 9) Measuring Earth's magnetic field . ... 6) Reversals of the Earth's field (4 queries) . ... 42) Could generated electricity affect Earth's magnetic field? ...

... Do not warn when variables are not explicitly declared. ... Do not check if a variable has been initialized before being used. If a variable is not in a DATA, COMMON, PARAMETER or SAVE statement, and if it is not a dummy subroutine argument, then Flint normally attempts to check that the variable is initialized before it is used. ... By default Flint warns if subroutine or variable names are longer than 8 characters, or if they contain underline or dollar characters. ...

... 2004 October 25 . The Perseus Cluster of Galaxies . ... Each of the fuzzy blobs in the above picture is a galaxy, together making up the Perseus Cluster , one of the closest clusters of galaxies . The cluster is seen through the foreground of faint stars in our own Milky Way Galaxy . ... The Perseus Cluster of Galaxies is part of the Pisces-Perseus supercluster of galaxies, which spans over 15 degrees and contains over 1000 galaxies. ... About APOD | ... NASA Official: Jay Norris. ...

... Bad Astronomy . ... Book Store . ... My book has been getting a fair share of positive reviews , but it has now garnered a negative one. I should have expected it: it's from a mailing list about UFOs. ... Note added May 21, 2002 : It was brought to my attention by several people that in the article below, I say that amateur astronomers "never" report UFOs. ... My point remains: if amateurs watch the sky far more than laymen, then they should see far more UFOs. ... 2008 Phil Plait. ...

... In 1930, Trumpler noticed that linear diameters (LD) of open clusters increase with distance (D) from the Sun. ... Since that time, the interstellar absorption has become one of the best studied factor in astrophysics, and we may hope that current OCL distance scales are free from this LD-D correlation. To verify if this is the case we have chosen several modern OCL distance scales and test them with the same clusters and the same angular diameters that Trumpler had used back in 1930. ...

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... Orbit | ... Comet Hale-Bopp, designated C/1995 O1 (Hale-Bopp), is named after Alan Hale and Thomas Bopp, two amateur astronomers of Cloudcroft, New Mexico, and Glendale, Arizona, who independently discovered it on the night of 22 July 1995 whilst observing the globular cluster M70, in Sagittarius, which happened to be close on the sky. ... The initial orbit even indicated that Hale-Bopp might pass close to the Earth in 1997. ... Path of Comet Hale-Bopp (from March 1996 to May 1997). ... 1997 . ...

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ACTIONS · EPIC_10/1 on Munoz. ... EPIC_9/2 on Altieri: to provide new CCFs reflecting the current MOS bad pixels. ... Commitment to maintenance. · new portal for calibration : · Capella cross- calibration with Chandra: GRB021004 killed first effort second attempt it went ahead with simultaneous observations EPIC : · See specific calibration talks and Cooling report RGS : · · RGS IDT believes great improvements of wavelength ...

... The proper procedure to set up the wind baffle and enclosure to be powered by the emergency generator in the event that both commercial and site emergency generator power is lost. ... The enclosure should be open with telescope in an un-stowed position. ... Wind baffle (WB) control power switch ; Location : ?; ... Enclosure power switch box ; Location : ?; ... Change the WB manual pendent connector in WB control box to ALT Axis Brundy, make sure the "pot" is at "000" and the palm switch is depressed...