... Proposal Type: General Category: Observation Category: Time Requested this semester: Hours Next Semester: Hours already used for this pro ject: Additional Hours required to complete pro ject: Minimum Useful Time: Expected Data Storage: Prop osal Title: ABSTRACT: Regular Astronomy Extragalactic 22 10 3 hours less than 100 GB The Baryonic Content of Extremely Low Mass Galaxies We propose continued HI observations of low mass galaxies to better quantify the galaxy mass function. ...

... Previous: Filtering KPNO LaTeX Observing Proposals with Perl . ... The Planning and Scheduling Tool was designed allow the user easily to take advantage of all available resources of the four telescopes (LASCO's three coronagraphs and the EIT Telescope) to maximize the use of the telemetry downlink. The Planning Tool allows users to develop customized observing sequences while monitoring compression factors and on-board processing times to realistically work within the limits of the instruments. ...

RadioAstron AO-1 prop osal Submission dead line: February 8, 23:59 UT. ... Team contact name and e-mail address: Ivan Petrov (e-mail: Ivan.Peterov@gmail.com ) Total observing time request: 100 hrs Number of independent observing segments and typical range of pro jected baselines required: 20 (3-30 Earth diameters) Specific dates and time intervals requested : If your experiment requires specific dates and UT ranges, please, indicate them: February 1, 2014: 08:00-16:00 UT -- M87 imaging ...

... The schedule for May and June 1998 is shown here. ... EXPNO SOURCE FRQ Corr DOY DY: DATE UT RANGE #TEL TELESCOPES V012a 3C395 C Socr 121 Fr:May-01 04:00 - 15:00 10 VLBA VS06c V029a3 VELAPSR L Pent 122 Sa:May-02 05:00 - 13:00 6 HH HO MK UD SH TI V032a 1342+662 C Socr 127 Th:May-07 14:00 - 23:00 11 VLBA EB V097a NGC5793 L Pent 128 Fr:May-08 13:00 - 21:00 5 NT AT SH KA BL V090c 3C309.1 C Socr 131 Mo:May-11 23:00 - 11:00 11 VLBA EB VT716 GMS1 C Mitk ...

... 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. ...

... Public . Science . ... Science Users Information > Observing with ESO Telescopes . ... La Silla Paranal Observatory . ... Observing with ESO Telescopes . ... Publications with ESO Data . ... Large Programmes . ... Phase 1 Proposals . ... Telescope time for ESO telescopes on Paranal and La Silla is allocated twice a year in periods of 6 months. ... All information concerning service mode observing programmes are available via the page page " Service Observing Information " and links therein. ...

Proceedings of the Particle Physics and Early Universe Conference (PPEUC). ... TESRE, Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Via Gobetti 101, 40129 Bologna, Italy . Dip. Fisica, Universit? di Roma TRE, Roma, Italy . ... Observations will take advantage of the exceptional dryness and stability of the atmosphere on the high Antarctic Plateau, at Dome C. The first run of observations was performed in December 96 -- January 97 at the Italian-French site, Concordia, at Dome C (Antarctica). ...

OBSERVATIONS OF COORBITAL SATELLITES OF SATURN Emel'yanov N., Varfolomeev M. Sternberg State Astronomical Institute, Moscow, e-mail : emelia@sai.msu.ru Institut de MИcanique CИleste et de Calcul des иphИmИrides, Paris, e-mail : emelia@imcce.fr Abstract. To improve the orbital parameters and masses of coorbital satellites of Saturn, Janus and Epimetheus, new observations of these satellites are necessary. ... IN: Saturn. ... New observations of Saturn's coorbital satellites" - Icarus. ...

... Within the transnational Access program of SOLARNET, European investigators can apply for observing time with the European instruments IBIS and ROSA , which are installed at the Dunn Solar Telescope of the US National Solar Observatory ( DST/NSO ). ... Periodic calls for proposals will be published for requesting SOLARNET observing time with the European instruments IBIS and ROSA, installed at the Dunn Solar Telescope of the US National Solar Observatory (DST/NSO). ... SOLARNET Access . ...

... 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 . ...

... Spacecraft . 29a. Satellite looking up . ... 29e. Explorers of distant space . Space Index . ... Many "down-looking" satellites also carry out local observations, among them Polar, Viking, Freja and satellites of the GOES and DMSP series. ... Other explorers of the distant magnetosphere have included the three ISEE spacecraft (International Sun-Earth Explorers), Polar in an elliptical polar orbit with cameras observing the polar aurora, and Image observing energetic neutral atoms. ...

... AAA Fall Astronomy Class: Astronomy Basics тАУ October-November 2015 . ... Clear Sky Chart . This Month's Sky . ... This Month's Sky - 2015 . This Month's Sky - January 2015 . This Month's Sky - February 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 . ...

... 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. ...

... Recent Topics . ... MAO main . ... Fw: ASTRONET: Task 5.4 - observing schools . ... Subject: Re: ASTRONET: Task 5.4 - observing schools . ... with the organization and carrying out observing schools. ... second half of September, and which will be funded by the training and . ... 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. ...

. Please use the following for publications and media citations: . "Based on observations obtained with Apache Point Observatory's 0.5-m Astrophysical Research Consortium Small Aperture Telescope." . List of publications based on 0.5-m observations (TBD) . for questions or comments contact archive server .

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. ...

... Soon it?ll not be qualified for [MADS] because I saw some abstracts with the phrase, compressed sensing from arxiv.org. ... Title: Compressed sensing imaging techniques for radio interferometry . ... The theory of compressed sensing demonstrates that such measurements may actually suffice for accurate reconstruction of sparse or compressible signals. ... Tags: compressed sensing , ill-posed , image reconstruction , interferometry , inverse problem , MADS , Nyquist-Shannon sampling theorem . ...

... The choice of the spectrograph design (Fig.2) is determined by the quantity R, the overall dimensions of the PF cage and the restrictions on the rigidity of the structure of the device. ... As the camera's objective a fast 4-lens aplanat is used having a focal distance F cam =140 mm and a relative aperture of 1:1.8, the resolution at the centre is no less than 80 gr/mm, that over the field at a distance of 3 mm from the edge along the frame ( ) diagonal is 35 gr/mm. ...

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Taking the opportunity of the Gaia reference star catalogue for observing the Solar system in the past D. Hestroffer , J.-E. Arlot , V. Lainey , V. Robert 1 1 1 1,2 1 - IMCCE ... Institut Polytechnique des Sciences AvancИes (IPSA), 7-9 rue Maurice Grandcoing, F-94200 Ivry-s/-Seine, France Abstract The Gaia astrometric catalogue of reference stars will provide proper motions of stars until mag 18 with an accuracy better than 6 mas over one century ...