The Richland Astronomical Society is a nonprofit organization formed in 1960 to promote the advancement of amateur astronomy. ... Mike Romine - President/Board Member . ... Bob Kocar - Treasurer/Board Member/Grant Coordinator . ... Eric Heintz - Assistant Observatory Director/Board Member . ... Tammy Plotner - President Emeritus/Webmaster (www.wro.org)/Astronomical League ALCor. ... Site content is maintained by Webmaster Tammy Plotner and Assistant Webmaster Greg DeChant All rights reserved. ...

... About ATMoB . ... The Observing Committee is starting an Observing Awards Program to promote observing among the membership of the Amateur Telescope Makers of Boston. ... Participant must be a current member of the Amateur Telescope Makers of Boston . ... To qualify for your Observing Award Certificate, turn in your worksheet and drawings to an ATMoB Observing Committee member or observing@atmob.org . ... This Excel sheet has useful macros. ... Copyright (c) Amateur Telescope Makers of Boston, Inc. ...

It has been a busy time farewelling old and welcoming new staff members. ... Debbie has joined us as a cleaner and Lodge assistant, while Eric will work on the antenna drives and other power control systems. ... Millimetre observing during January (summer!) term was restricted to four 12-mm proposals (one of which experienced rain) and various tests. ... During the May term, millimetre observations at Mopra will be jointly run by the ATNF and UNSW, with each allocated six weeks of observing time. ...

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... 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...

... He is Principal Investigator on the Data Reduction Expert Assistant (Draco) project which is supported by NASA's AISR program. He has authored or co-authored several articles on the development of HST planning software and the application of AI techniques to scientific applications and observatory operations. ... He earned a Ph.D. in Astronomy from the University of Texas at Austin and was an Assistant Professor of Astronomy at the University of Virginia prior to joining the STScI staff in 1983. ...

... Science . ... Science Users Information > Science Activities > PhD Thesis Topics offered by ESO Faculty Members . ... Science Users Information . ... Data Handling and Products . ... Science Data Products Forum . ... ESO Data . ... ESO Data Access Policy . ... ESO Science Newsletter . ... ESO astronomers often are working on scientific programmes and data sets that are suited for PhD theses. This page gives an overview over what is currently offered by Faculty astronomers. ... Thesis topic . ...

... Tonight's Sky . ... The Magazine . ... Observing . ... Gravitational wave search provides insights into galaxy evolution and mergers . ... The double star 54 Leonis, spiral galaxy NGC 3198, and emission nebula NGC 3199 . ... Astronomy for Kids . ... Cosmic Adventures . ... Cosmic evolution in a computer . ... V irgo Consortium astrophysicists used a 25-terabyte databank to create a computer simulation showing cosmic structure's evolution. ... Get instant access to subscriber content on Astronomy.com...

... The "GALFA Consortium" is a group of individuals interested in galactic astronomy programs using the Arecibo L-Band Focal Plane Array (ALFA) and who are committed to coordinating efforts to the extent possible in order to maximize science return and program efficiency. ... The GALFA "Coordinating Committee" consists of representatives of GALFA Consortium projects that have been granted telescope time or those in the development stage that have been endorsed by the GALFA Consortium. ...

Stellarium 0.12.3 . ... Classes . ... ClassљList . ... gSatWrapper Class Reference . ... This operation update Epoch timestamp for gSatTEME object from Stellarium Julian Date. ... Vec3d љ . ... This operation isolate gSatTEME getPos operation. ... This operation isolate gSatTEME getVel operation. ... This operation compute the slant range (distance between the satellite and the observer) and its variation/seg. ... Reference to a output variable where the method store the slant range measured in Km . ...

... Galaxy Evolution home . Cavendish Astrophysics . Cavendish Laboratory . People and Facilities . ... Cosmological evolution of star-forming galaxies . The origin and evolution of radio sources . Radio sources and their environments . ... Paul Alexander . P.Alexander@mrao.cam.ac.uk . ... Helen Buttery . Helen Thomas . ... Astrophysics group members (full list) . ...

Russian Space Science Internet (RSSI) is a successful result of RSSI Project. ... space oriented organizations; . ... RSSI offers for its members : . ... videoconferences via MBONE Internet protocol (there are 2 tunnels available now through the general IP network: one to NASA Internet, and another to Moscow State University); . ... It is designed so that all organizations connected to the RSSI gain access to the resources of Russian computer networks as well as world wide Internet. ... nic@rssi.ru ...

... Role-playing exercises can be an excellent way for you and your club members to share effective ways to interact with the public in difficult situations. ... Plan to allow 20 minutes for each scenario -- 5 minutes for the role-playing and 15 minutes for a discussion. ... The facilitator should remind the group of the main points of the video: . ... Sharing the Universe is based upon work supported by the Informal Education Division of the National Science Foundation under Grant no DRL-0638873. ...

The Astrophysical Research Consortium Small Aperture Telescope (ARCSAT) is a 0.5-m (or 20") Classical Cassegrain telescope, formerly known as the SDSS Photometric Telescope (PT). ... Chief Telescope Engineer : Bill Ketzeback (bketzeba/apo.nmsu.edu) . Remote Operations Upgrade Project Manager : Joe Huehnerhoff (jwhueh/apo.nmsu.edu) . ... SurveyCam PI : Dmitry Bizyaev (dmbiz/apo.nmsu.edu) . FlareCam PI : Joe Huehnerhoff ( jwhueh/apo.nmsu.edu ) . ...

... Up: Telescope and Instrument Control Systems . ... The software is based on a client/server architecture and provides remote access for controlling, monitoring and troubleshooting the array. ... The server software is developed in C++ and runs on a UNIX host machine. ... This computer demonstration consists of remote observing with the Caltech Millimeter Array located at Owens Valley in California to show the feasibility and features of this software package. ... Figure 2: Array Status window. ...

Large sunspots were occasionally seen far in the past without any instruments, when the sun was dimmed by thick haze, but not much was remembered of those observations. ... Sunspot Cycle (1850 - 1975) . One who was greatly influenced by Schwabe's discovery was an English gentleman of independent means, Richard Christopher Carrington , who devoted himself to the study of sunspots. ... Carrington had seen a flare, of the rare variety that is visible in white light (only about 50 are known). ...

... Your main research interests concern the computer modelling of galaxy formation. ... The observers think that they are smart, but it is only thanks to these new telescopes that all the exciting recent progress has been made in the study of the high redshift universe. ... By redshift ten, some knots (where filaments and sheets join) are getting dense enough to form galaxies, and the first light in the universe switches on. ... By redshift 5, clusters of galaxies are centred on these knots. ...

Weaving together Astronomy+Statistics+Computer Science+Engineering+Intrumentation, far beyond the growing borders . ... Posts tagged ?computer science? ... A postdoc job announcement from Prof. Joshua Bloom of UC Berkeley: . ... Jobs] postdoc position at UC Berkeley? Tags: AstroStat , computer science , job announcement , job market , time series , UC Berkeley . ... 1 Comment . ... Entries RSS . Comments RSS . ... vlk on [MADS] Parallel Coordinates . ... Entries (RSS) and Comments (RSS) . ...

National Aeronautics and Space Administration . ... Bruce McCandless II (Captain, USN, Ret.) NASA Astronaut (former) . ... He was a member of the astronaut support crew for the Apollo 14 mission and was backup pilot for the first manned Skylab mission (SL-1/SL-2). ... A veteran of two space flights, McCandless has logged over 312 hours in space, including 4 hours of MMU flight time. ... With the completion of this flight McCandless logged 191 hours in space (including 4 hours of MMU flight time). ...