... Australia Telescope Steering Committee . ... Parkes radio telescope . ... Late Stages of Stellar Evolution . Welcome to the home page of the Late Stages of Stellar Evolution" We are a research group which operates within the Astrophysics Group of the Australia Telescope National Facility. ... To investigate the late stages of stellar evolution and in particular the role of stellar mass-loss in the evolution of asymptotic giant branch stars, proto-planetary nebulae and extremely massive stars. ...

... Information for Students on the Womens Science Forum . ... Events . ... Summer Student . ... The Women's Science Forum wants to help you to meet other young women with the same questions, as well as meet women that have built successful careers in the fields of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics. At WSF events you will be given opportunities to speak directly to women scientists and engineers about what they do, and how they made their decision to go into their respective fields. ...

... Research . ... Students . ... PlanetTreky: Treking the planets at Arecibo . ... Graduate Student, Ph.D. Candidate, Universidad de Granada . ... Current status: Undergraduate student at the University of Puerto Rico, Mayaguez majoring in Physics . ... Current status: Research Assistant at the University of Texas at Austin . ... Current Status: Postdoctoral Researcher at Southwest Research Institute . ... How to Apply : Interested students should send an email to Dr. Rivera-Valentin . ...

... Plan and make at least 4 classroom visits, plus an extra first visit for the astronomer to observe the class anonymously. Make multiple visits to the school or classroom, and begin with an observation visit so that the astronomer can see what the school and classroom are like. We've found that four visits are the minimum number for the astronomer and students to have time to get to know each other. ... Commitment and communication are the keys to a successful partnership. ...

... SOC Info XMM-Newton Contact Details How to get to ESAC ESA Research Fellowships ESAC Trainee Projects ESA Young Graduate Trainees . ... The trainees are from the University of Madrid (Spain), the University of Bonn (Germany) and from the ESA Young Graduate Trainee Programme. ... The combination of the different ESA trainee schemes will allow to follow up the EPIC trainee project 2004, also in collaboration with a PhD project with the University of T bingen and University of Warwick. ...

Brad Carter, Carolyn Brown, Rhodes Hart Drew Foster, John Kielkopf, Ron Moore University of Southern Queensland, Australia University of Louisville, Kentucky, USA OVERVIEW Mt Kent Observatory is now providing live remote observations of southern skies as part of a collaborative project between USQ, the University of Louisville, and Northern Kentucky University. ... This enables observers to make daytime use of a remote telescope during its local night-time, and image otherwise inaccessible skies. ...

... Samara region . SSAU History . ... Today, on the 1th of July, took place the opening of Russia-wide students construction project on the space-launch complex Vostochniy . ... SSAU students participated in today's celebratory assembly, where Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Rogozin and Head of Roscosmos Oleg Ostapenko addressed the construction brigade students. Rector of SSAU Yevgeniy Shakhmatov also took part at the opening ceremony of the student construction project on Vostochniy". ...

... Star parties can be done with naked eye observing, or with telescopes, as long as your site is reasonably dark enough (or can be darkened). Star parties give students the opportunity to put their observational skills to work, and to directly experience astronomy. ... As mentioned earlier, star parties are also great opportunities to involve families, the school, and the community. ... Fun Star Party Ideas . ... Give students "ASTRO Boxes" containing activities or tasks to do during the star party. ...

European . ... Science Users Information > Science and Technical Meetings > Conferences 2006 > neon-2006 . ... The NEON Observing Schools are supported by the European Astronomical Society ( EAS ) and by OPTICON . ... The Archive Observing School at ESO will concentrate on the quality appraisal of existing data and the research possible with large databases combining ground and space data, with emphasis on data reduction techniques and the new tools now available within the Virtual Observatory. ...

... Armagh Observatory, College Hill, Armagh BT61 9DG, +44 (0)28 3752 2928 . ... Three sixth-form students from St Patrick's Grammar School, Armagh , used the Faulkes Telescope South in Australia in April to observe and measure HW Virginis , an unusual "binary" or double star system suspected to host one or two extrasolar planets orbiting the central stellar pair. ... Armagh Observatory and associated researchers hope to develop this work to look for further evidence of planet-hosting binary star...

Follow-up observations with the University of Washington 0.76 m telescope at Manastash Ridge Observatory (MRO) of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) cataclysmic variable (CV) SDSS J170053+400358 are presented. ... They estimate that the dimming amounted to about 0.028 mag (using two comparison stars that were each about 4 mag fainter than HD 209458). only UW affiliated authors have been listed, student researchers are marked with an ``*'' . ... XTE J1859+226" UW affiliated authors: *Kevin Krisciunas. ...

Winer Observatory P.O. Box 797, Sonoita, Arizona 85637-0797, USA . ... Outreach . Projects . ... Science . ... Participating in Project ASTRO, a national program to assist teachers in grades 4 through 12 in teaching astronomy . ... June, 1990: National Optical Astronomy Observatory, Friday Science Lunch Talks: "Engineering Big Science Projects" . ... May 4, 2007: National Optical Astronomy Observatory, Friday Science Lunch Talks: "The Ohio State University KELT Telescope -- Early Results" . ...

Participants about project . ... makes the world a welcoming place. ... we see it shared by those who love it. ... us more aware of our own community when we shared it . with the schools around the world. ... pleased my students chose to share the feelings of . ... Our town cannot grow much as it is like an island with . other communities growning around it. ... diverse, with many Mexican people recently adding to . ... Our town is old and the new City Building looked a bit . ... city. ...

... The material in "From Stargazers to Starships" meets several important requirements of the national standards. Pages cited below are from National Science Education Standards National Academy Press, Washington 1995. ... For example: the sections on astronomy not only describe calendars and sundials (including their construction), but also the astronomy of the ancient Greeks, including two different ways in which ancient Greeks estimated the distance to the Moon. ...

... Went on to do a PhD at Melborne, post-doc at Space Telescope Science Institute, and is now a research fellow at Melbourne Uni. ... Greg Wilson, 3 month (1st year PhD) project 1999. ... Katie Dodds-Eden, Undergraduate Research Project 2002. ... Kirsten Gottschalk, Paul Bonato and Jemma Polari, PhB/DSP project 2003, "Simulating an Outreach Telescope" . Conor Mow-Lowry, Undergraduate research project 2003. Craig Harvey, 2003, Undergraduate research project "Spectral Imaging of Mars" . ...

... Recent Topics . ... MAO main . ... Fw: ASTRONET: Task 5.4 - observing schools . ... Subject: Re: ASTRONET: Task 5.4 - observing schools . ... second half of September, and which will be funded by the training and . ... www.iap.fr/opticon/neon_schools/2014/index.html . ... intended for master and starting PhD students. ... actions on observing schools, providing access for students, Master . ... observing schools for master students. ... in form of observing schools for pre-PhD students. ... MAO NASU...

... Exams and Homework . ... Electric Hybrid Cars: BS or not? ... Low pollution Cars . ... Environmental Protection Agency . ... Energy Information Administration . California Energy Commission . ... Financial Times Energy Newsletter . Energy News Stories . Environmental Organizations: . ... Electric Cars . First Homework Assignment (Due Jan. ... Second Homework Assignment (Due Feb 9) . Third Homework Assignment (Due Feb 25) . Last Homework Assignment (Due Mar. ...

... Stars and Planets ? A project in Astronomy . ... During the first few months of 2001 year, students at our teacher training institutes (six in St. Petersburg, ten in Amsterdam, three in Stockholm and one student in Vietnam) have been working together in an international project in Astronomy. ... In this paper, we report on the project. ... While studying their topics, students in each country had regular contact with their tutor (at least once a week during the ten-week period of the project). ...

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Фонд поддержки научных образовательных и культурных инициатив "Траектория" и Специальная астрофизическая обсерватория РАН проводят Первую астрофизическую школу "Траектория" с 8-го по 21-е августа 2016 года. ... ведущий науч. сотрудник докт.физ.-мат. наук Григорий Меерович Бескин, . ведущий науч. сотрудник докт.физ.-мат. наук Олег Васильевич Верходанов, . ведущий науч. сотрудник докт.физ.-мат. наук Евгений Леонидович Ченцов . ...