... Visual Observing of Variable Stars - an Addict's Story . ... In Glenn’s words…I’ve been an avid amateur astronomer since the summer of 1963 when a high school friend showed me Saturn through his telescope. ... I’ve been a member of both the Amateur Telescope makers of Boston (currently Vice President) and the American Association of Variable Star Observers (AAVSO) since 1980. ... Copyright (c) Amateur Telescope Makers of Boston, Inc. ...

ATNF ATUC MEMORANDUM To: ATUC From: Jessica Chapman Date: 2 June 2004 Subject TAC Statistics and Outreach TAC Statistics As previously requested by ATUC, TAC statistics are provided on the ATNF website at the address http://www.atnf.csiro.au/observers/tacstats. ... For the 2004 MAYT, the ATNF received an exceptionally large number of proposals with 122 proposals for the Compact Array, 35 for Parkes, 18 for Mopra, 4 for VLBI and three for service observing with the Tidbinbilla 70-m antenna. ...

... Create the position of New Member Steward . ... Conduct meetings that members want to attend . ... previous page | ... The New Member Steward helps new members know what to expect. ... A name badge that includes the member s name and the club name . ... Sharing the Universe videos are produced by the Astronomical Society of the Pacific (ASP) from research conducted by the Institute for Learning Innovation, the ASP, and from astronomy clubs like yours. www.astrosociety.org/SharingTheUniverse . ...

... Tonight's Sky . ... The Magazine . ... Observing . ... The double star 54 Leonis, spiral galaxy NGC 3198, and emission nebula NGC 3199 . ... Astronomy for Kids . ... Observing springtime deep-sky objects with a large telescope . ... Bright planets meet at dusk . ... Astronomy magazine subscribers can read the full article for free. ... Get instant access to subscriber content on Astronomy.com! ... Receive news, sky-event information, observing tips, and more from Astronomy's weekly email newsletter....

... ASRAS HOME . ... ASRAS Board Members . ... Site . ... The Astronomy Section of the Rochester Academy of Science , also known as ASRAS, is Rochester's astronomy club. ... ASRAS Members enjoy all aspects of astronomy, including: тАв astrophotography and astro-imaging . ... тАв Monthly meetings that include presentations by guest speakers or members on topics ranging from elementary to advanced. тАв Access to our dark sky observing site, the Marian and Max Farash Center for Observational Astronomy, . ...

... Home The Club AAA Membership . ... Lecture Series 2014-2015 . ... AAA Fall Astronomy Class: Astronomy Basics тАУ October-November 2015 . AAA Winter Astronomy Class: Measuring Distances in Space тАУ Dec 2015 тАУ Feb 2016 . ... 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 . ...

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. ...

... Can we divine anything from the Twitter stream of the 218th meeting of the AAS ? The results presented here unfortunately do not reflect all the tweets from the meeting, but only those available via the Twitter Search API . Also, unlike my AAS 215 study I am only using the #AAS218 hashtag since #AAS is no-longer particularly astronomy-related (this link may include language or links that could be considered offensive). ... An archive and analysis of #AAS218 tweets using the Archivist site; . ...

... Thus the FTE described below must be added to the AOF FTE budget. ... Activity Scientist overview of changes (R7M) Observing preparation tool ( section 15.1) Instrument Control Panel ( section 15.2) Modification of AOF / Hawk-I acquisition template ( section 15.3) Site quality monitoring and display ( section 15.5) Exposure Time Calculator ( section 15.6) Modification Observing Tool (OT3) ( section 15.8) TOTAL FTE effort 1 0.1 0.3 0.3 0.3 0.2 0.3 2.5 ...

АНОНС НАУЧНЫХ КОНФЕРЕНЦИЙ 1998-99 гг. ... An AAS Electronic Announcement Dear Colleague: NASA has approved development of a Wide Field Camera 3 (WFC3) for installation in the HST on the 2002 Servicing Mission. A Scientific Oversight Committee (SOC) is being established to ensure that the broad interests of the scientific community are represented in the development of WFC3. The primary task of the SOC will be to advise the HST Project and STScI in all areas of scientific performance of WFC3. ...

Stellarium 0.12.3 . ... Classes . ... SpaceShipObserver Class Reference . An observer which moves from from one position to another one and/or from one planet to another one. ... SpaceShipObserver (const StelLocation &startLoc, const StelLocation &target, double transitSeconds=1.f) . ... Get whether the life of this observer is over, and therefore that it should be changed to the next one provided by the getNextObserver() method. ... Get the next observer to use once the life of this one is over. ...

Dear E-ALFA Consortium Members, Hopefully you have had an opportunity to look over the presentations made during our second meeting. ... A 2/3 majority of the team is required to remove membership. ... Issues not restricted TO WITHIN A PROJECT TEAM, such as voting on the current guidelines or future modifications to them, THE ENDORSEMENT OF NEW PROPOSED CONSORTIUM PROJECTS, OR AT-LARGE MEMBERSHIP ON THE COORDINATING COMMITTEE, will be subject to a majority vote of the entire E-ALFA consortium. ...

... SNEAKERS cannot unequivocally be stated to be a success, because only time will tell if it truly meets its primary goal of educating managers and engineers in the CE design methodology. ... Design Agents - There are 26 independent agents in SNEAKERS . ... Sundar Victor, who is working toward his master's degree in Computer Science, was a member of WPI's Intelligent, Interactive, and Integrated Design (I3D) team which did Army funded CE research. ... Their comments were noted. ...

OptInt PmWiki . ... Tech Meet 12 . ... Page History | ... MROI Delay Line Design Contract . ... Return to Tech Meet 12 ( Edit ) . ... October 28, 2010, at 05:31 PM by jsy1001 - . ... The upper diagram shows the FLC software tasks and dataflows as presented at the CoDR. The lower diagram includes changes discussed at this meeting, some of which are for our component and integrated tests. ... ISS Data Collector probably not suitable as LocalDataCollector and unlikely to be ready in time . ...

... Tiny Tim has been used for generating Hubble Space Telescope ( HST ) point-spread functions (PSFs) for deconvolution, algorithm testing, proposal planning, and optical studies. ... Tiny Tim is a stand-alone program for simulating HST PSFs as viewed with the on-board imaging cameras (WF/PC-1, WFPC2, FOC, COSTAR/FOC). ... The measured aberrations for FOC f/96, WF/PC-1 PC6, WFPC2, and COSTAR/FOC are used by Tiny Tim . ... Figure: FOC f/96 observed and Tiny Tim model PSFs (pre-COSTAR) at 253 nm. ...

... Bad Astronomy . ... I think I will break from my usual format of Bad Astronomy/ Good Astronomy by saying that the way we define seasons currently is not strictly bad, but I feel (in my opinion!) that it could be better. The definition of when the seasons begin is at the moment of solstice or equinox; that is, winter (in the north) starts on December 22 nd and summer starts on June 22 nd . ... Now imagine breaking up the Sun's 46 degree up-and-down yearly swing into 1 day intervals. ...

ChangeLog for srcmatch =============================== Version 3.15.1 - 2004-03-16 (GL) --------------------------------- Correction to documentation Version 3.15 - 2003-07-01 (GL) --------------------------------- Closed SPR: SSC-SPR-3107 (Incorrect flux units in merged source list) Version 3.14 - 2003-02-24 (GL) --------------------------------- Close SSC-SPR-3033: Copy ID colums and "TOT" columns also for single band input lists. ... Close SSC-SPR-3084: Included flag columns in copylist routine. ...

... Comet SWAN Outburst . ... Star clusters and nebulae abound in the ancient northern constellation Auriga - a region that includes the interesting pair NGC 1931 (lower left) and IC 417. ... The Crab Nebula is cataloged as M1, the first object on Charles Messier's famous list of things which are not comets. ... Star EGGs in the Eagle Nebula . ... Where do stars form? ... But the skilled and careful astronomer also went on to discover star clusters, comets, asteroids, and clusters of galaxies. ...

Previous Editions of the M111: . ... OutReach Training and Program . September Public Night . Welcome all ye weary travelers to a new type of M111 "On Line". ... Back to top.. ... When I logged our last outreach programs I couldn't help but notice that Warren Rupp Observatory is NUMBER FIVE in the worldwide standings in public outreach programs! ... If you'd like to train in astronomy outreach, just contact any of our members and we'll be happy to train you to do public outreach! ...

... APT Activities and Science Results 3. ... APT Secretary Philip Edwards (ISAS) reviewed the aims of the APT (http://www.vsop.isas.ac.jp/apt/DefinitionAndAims.html). ... The Australia Telescope Compact Array, and Ceduna, Hartebeesthoek, Kashima, Mopra, Parkes, and Shanghai telescopes of the Asia-Pacific Telescope participated in these observations. ... In the absence of Tetsuo Sasao, Philip Edwards briefly described results of the APT 22 GHz observations conducted from October 1st to 5th, 1997. ...