... 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" . ...

... Archives . ... The PCA and ICA is used for separating mixed components with some assumptions. ... The need of source separation methods in astronomy has led various adaptations of decomposition methods available. ... I rarely come up with a paper which gathered and summarized component separation methods applicable to astronomical data. In that regards, the following paper seems useful to overview methods of reducing dimensionality for astronomers. [arxiv:0805.0269] . ... Chandra Blog . ...

... Most data from ATNF observatories distinguishes on and off source data using the file name. This makes it easy to create two scantables with the source and reference data. As long as there was exactly one reference observation for each on source observation for following method will work. For Mopra and Parkes data: ASAP> r = scans.get_scan('*_R') ASAP> s = scans.get_scan('*_S') . For Tidbinbilla data ASAP> r = scans.get_scan('*_[ew]') ASAP> s = scans.get_scan('*_[^ew]') . ...

... 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. ...

... [y; passwd: 305m_adm] (to update database) ~palfa/bin/plot_pointings (to see pointings that have been done) ~palfa/bin/makeobs_ new (to generate obs for current MJD (default) or a specific value if mjd is specified at the command line) autosched.cmd written locally [and postscript file generated]; cp autosched.cmd to /share/obs4/usr/ pulsar /p2030/autosched_date.cmd; present ... Unmount existing firewire disk. umount /export/firen2 (or similar) Remove and replace with new disk. ...

... This step is done mostly interactively and uses some basic ad-hoc IDL procedures, mainly for testing and checking of the consistency of the results.Once the observations have been selected and the count spectra extracted, the available spectra of each background level are accumulated. ... Average QUALITY such that QUALITY =0|1 Exposure times are added and the total is written in the EXPOSURE keyword of the header of the output FITS file. Finally, the CCFs are built from these templates. ...

... 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. ...

... 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. ...

adapted from Observe: Eclipses, published in 1979 by the Astronomical League and "Safe Solar Filters," by B. Ralph Chou, Sky and Telescope, August 1981) . ... Tape TWO pieces of film together into a sandwich, and tape this over the opening in the cardboard. ... The cardboard frame will act as a shade from the bright Sun, while you safely observe through the film sandwich. ... Undeveloped film is not safe. ... tape . ... At the end of one of the tubes, tape the aluminum foil, and make a tiny pinhole. ...

... 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! ... Planets . ... Monthly Sky Notes . ... October . ... By admin October 8, 2010 Posted in: Monthly Sky Notes . A giant from close up: an image made using data from the Cassini probe which flew past Jupiter in 2000. ... As it is so far from us, it takes JupiterтАЩs light a significant time to reach us тАУso when you see Jupiter tonight you are seeing it as it was 35€а minutes in the past. ... Posted October 12, 2010 at 11:15 PM . ... Astronotes . ...

Examples of pipeline processing . ... This page presents examples of "on the fly" processing of FITS astronomical data available on the WEB using the HyperLeda pipeline tools. ... In many cases, raw data are archived and a consisten description of the file (FITS header) allows to process them on the fly. ... This first command makes a "pre-view" display of the image. o=fa:L93111HP1/00147&z=vg . ... The result of a pipeline processing is a FITS file that you can read as a normal disk file. ...

You can also see this page in Russian with using KOI8 (X Windows) or CP1251 (MS Windows) Cyrillic coding. The Laboratory supports the space TV experiments, mainly in the planetary exploration missions. ... Image Co-registration . ... PHOBOS mission - Martian satellites investigations. Phobos on the Martian limb, the image from Phobos-2 probe from 02/28/89. ... Russian Space Bulletin. ... Last modified at June,26 1997 Alexey Kuzmin: akuzmin@mx.iki.rssi.ru . Back to IKI home page ...

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... Home Observing High Line Jupiter and its moons . ... Lecture Series 2014-2015 . ... AAA Fall Astronomy Class: Astronomy Basics тАУ October-November 2015 . ... Clear Sky Chart . ... This MonthтАЩs Sky тАУ April 2015 . ... Beyond New York City . ... Observing Resources for Amateur Astronomers - Part 1: Beginning Observers . ... A History of the First Forty Years of the Amateur Astronomers Association . ... 2016 Amateur Astronomers Association of New York Designed by Press Customizr Powered by . ...

... 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. ...

The planets Jupiter and Venus will make an apparent close approach to each other on the early morning of Friday, 5th November. When Jupiter rises above the eastern horizon at 4.07 a.m. for Northern Ireland viewers, it will be just about one Moon-width away from the much more brilliant Venus. ... In reality, a vast distance will separate the planets. ... FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: John McFarland at the Armagh Observatory, College Hill, Armagh, BT61 9DG. ...

... Survey processing . ... ESO - Public Surveys . ... The Survey Areas Definition Tool is part of the VISTA Data Flow System Project (a separate project to the VISTA Project) and was delivered to ESO for use with VISTA and (later) VST. ... The SADT and can be found via the ESO SADT page and includes inter alia . ... The Y overlap value set in SADT controls how the Y edges of adjacent tiles overlap. ... Y overlap 0/60 efficiently uses the one time covered regions to make a 2x covered region . ...

The software package ERA (Ephemerides for Research in Astronomy) is a problem-oriented software system for solving heterogeneous calculating tasks of Ephemeris and Dynamical Astronomy. The package makes it possible to produce ephemeris calculations needed for both planning various observational programs and processing the resulting observations. ... The system includes packages of processing the position observations by both the Least Squares Method and by Kalman filtering. ...