Proposal Identification No.: ... For these observations night-time is not needed. Begin ­ End Interval ­ Interval 1700 ­ 2200 ­ ­ ­ Days Needed at This Interval 14 Time Constraints (Must Be Justified in the Prop osal Text) In order of scheduling: 2 gridding sessions : 3.5h and 2.5h (ALFA) Starting at least a week later (L-wide or 327MHz, TBD by the gridding sessions ): 3 sessions of 3h each on successive days 1 session of 3h a week later 1 session of 3h two weeks later 11 monthly ...

This page allows the current observer to add to the session log for the current PPTA observing session. To start a new session, click 'start new observing session'. The last observer in the session must end the session by clicking on 'finish current observing session' - the observer will be redirected to a form. ... Current observer: . ... Note that all windparks, failures etc. should also be recorded through the standard observing webpages (click on "Links" tab at the top of the dashboard) . ...

... Science . ... Science Users Information > Science Publications > Science Announcements > Completion of ALMA Early Science Cycle 1 and start of Cycle 2 . ... Observing Facilities . ... ALMA . ... The ALMA Cycle 1 Early Science observing season ended in May 2014. ... Cycle 2 science observations started on the 3 June 2014 and will extend until October 2015 with two pauses: SeptemberтАУNovember 2014 (commissioning of long baselines) and FebruaryтАУMarch 2015 (annual engineering and computing activities...

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... 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. ...

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... The J, H and K bands are characterized by a bright background, such a background is mainly due to the emission of atmospheric lines and of thermal radiation. ... If the source cover a large fraction of the slit, spectra off-source must be observed to adequately sample the sky background. ... The on chip integration time (time spent in each position of the slit) must not exceed 40 seconds in J and H bands and 60 seconds in K band. ... We suggest a sequence of 10 for each elementary integration time. ...

Next: GOCG Pre-Observation Products . Previous: RadioAstron Mission Element Overview . ... Observation Summary File (OSF) . GRT (Ground Radio Telescope) Schedule Files . ... How: The long-term schedulers will produce two files: GSTS-file (General Space Telescope Schedule) to be used by GOCG and LTS-file for all mission elements. ... What: The RSOG will produce schedule files for all GRTs participating in a particular observation, in the format required by each GRT. ...

... The schedule assigned id (example: AS05) for your observing program. ... Use the time you started using the telescope including when you started taking calibrations. The time you opened for on sky observations can be entered later in the activity log. UTC End Time: . ... Focus Log: . ... The focus position can be obtained under the Telescope column of the System Status in ACP or from the run log. ... When all fields are filled out press this button to email the log to the ARCSAT and community. ...

Astronotes Armagh Planetarium's Stellar Blog! ... January . ... Posted on January 29, 2013 | 1 Comment On the weekend of the 14and 15 of July 2012 we held a pinhole photography event.€а This was led by the world renowned pinhole photographer Justin Quinnell.€а Justin has been [ ] . Continue Reading.. ... This new comet was in January 2013 just a dim speck in the constellation Gemini, between the stars Castor and Pollux. ... Posted on November 15, 2012 | ... Posted on October 3, 2012 | ...

... Tonight's Sky . ... Observing . ... Sky this Month . ... An artificial comet holds secrets to Earths life . ... The Real Reality Show: Would aliens be anything like us? ... The Real Reality Show: All about the Drake Equation . ... The Real Reality Show . ... The Real Reality Show: How Did Life Start on Earth? ... Only registered members of Astronomy.com are allowed to comment on this article. ... Receive news, sky-event information, observing tips, and more from Astronomy's weekly email newsletter. ...

... Archives . ... Since I start reading arxiv/astro-ph abstracts and a few relevant papers about a month ago, so often I see chi-square something as an optimization or statistical inference tool. Chi-square function, chi-square statistics, chi-square goodness-of-fit test are the words that serve different data analysis purposes but under the same prefix. ... Nothing special. However, in astronomy, chi-square becomes the almost only method for statistical data analysis. ... Chandra Blog . ...

... Table of Contents - Index - PS reprint - PDF reprint . ... All RXTE telemetry will be archived in a hierarchical database consisting entirely of FITS Binary Tables. We describe an interactive tool, the XTE Data Finder (XDF). ... Our basic design contains a three level hierarchy: Master Index, Subsystem Index, and Data Table. ... The Master Index acts as an observation catalog with references to Subsystem Indices, while the latter contain configuration information and references to the Data Tables. ...

H-alpha filaments data format 1-7 Number of the filament 9-11 Latitude 13-15 Heliographic longitude 17-18 Start of observation, day 20-21 Start of observation, month 23-24 End of observation, day 26-27 End of observation, month 29-32 The mean area, in millionths of hemisphere (9999=no data) 34-36 The mean intensity (in 5-point scale)

home publications > mercury . ... Astronomy Beat . ... Nearly four centuries ago, Galileo's simple observations of Earth's planetary sibling, Venus, buoyed the proponents of a Copernican universe. ... The Italian astronomer had settled into a new house in Florence and had begun to observe Venus, which in November 1610 would have appeared as an evening star, bright in the western sky after dusk. ... From these two observations, Galileo inferred that Venus must orbit closer to the Sun than does Earth. ...

... The observing season of Jupiter's Galilean satellites (Io, Europa, Ganymede and Callisto) occultations start in Ireland on the 24th of July and end on the 11th of November. The occultations are seen from Earth only once every six years. ... See the page dedicated to the observers who never made such observations. ... I mage: the famous dark spot discovery photo by Anthony Wesley, taken on 19 July 2009 from Australia . ... International Year of Astronomy, Ireland National Node . ...

Astronomes Amateurs du Luxembourg a.s.b.l. " We bring the Universe to you ! Founded in 1971 by a group of enthusiasts and star aficionados, our association is now counting more than 130 members.As a national association we attract hobby astronomers from the whole country to our regular night-sky observations and to the meetings in our club at Dudelange. ... by topic : PDF File Download (360KB) . ... Article about AAL in "Le Quotidien" newspaper of Juli 21 2005 - PDF File Download (132KB) . ...

NOVAC Newsletter - Reflections On 1982 . Articles | ... Richard Lawson . ... Attending this observation was Nils Thomas, John Huggins, Richard Lawson, Bob Koberg and his kids, David Edwards and Bryan Bloomer. ... Nils, John, Richard and A.J. Piccillo met for the July lunar eclipse. ... Twelve days later Nils, John, Richard, and Ian Babcock attended a scheduled NOVAC observation. ... Attending were Nils, John, A.J., Richard and Blaine Korcel. ... www.astronomy.net . About Astronomy Net | ...

Starting Apache on Windows . Starting Apache on Unix . ... If the Port specified in the configuration file is the default of 80 (or any other port below 1024), then it is necessary to have root privileges in order to start Apache, so that it can bind to this privileged port. ... As an alternative to invoking the httpd binary directly, a shell script called apachectl is provided which can be used to control the daemon process with simple commands such as apachectl start and apachectl stop . ...

... Perhaps the most interesting satellites in this group are the ones sent into distant orbits, some of them extending well past the Moon--e.g. the WIND spacecraft pictured here. Among them is a long series of IMP s (Interplanetary Monitoring Platforms) which sampled the Earth's distant magnetic environment, the magnetosphere, and the surrounding interplanetary region; IMP-8 is still returning good data, more than 20 years after its launch. ...