... John Butler reports that the HLF-supported programme of restoration of three historic telescopes and their domes has continued throughout the year, and that a growing collection of images showing progress with the Telescopes and Telescope Domes restoration project is available on the Armagh Observatory web-site (see http://star.arm.ac.uk/history/Domes/). ... The new dome for the 18-inch Calver Telescope is now fully operational and awaits the return of the telescope to Armagh later in 2005. ...

... Sidebar Left . Sidebar Top . No Sidebar . Sidebar Bottom . ... Title: Rebuilding the Commonwealth Solar Observatory . Description: Rebuilding the Commonwealth Solar Observatory building commenced in May 2006, and is due to be complete by end of January 2007. The external appearance of the east, west and south aspects of the building will be returned as nearly as practical to the original 1920s design. ... CSO viewed from the entrance road, looking weтАж . ... 27 June 2006 . ...

... Astrophysics Group . ... Opening of Battcock Centre for Experimental Astrophysics . ... SKA AAVS0 array . ... SKA production design with Cambridge Consultants Ltd . ... Astronomy, Astrophysics and Cosmology have historically been among the very strongest scientific disciplines in Cambridge. ... Paul Alexander, Head of the Cavendish Astrophysics Group and Director of the Battcock Centre for Experimental Astrophysics, is the leader of CambridgeБЂ™s involvement in the SKA: . ...

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. ...

Ron Miksa, Carl Lindenmeyer, and John Korienek, as well as Steve Bastian (all from FNL), were on site to install the new manipulator arm in the 2.5m support building. Not to break tradition, these photos are of the completed installation and those hard working folks are not pictured. Captions above photo . ... Note that the bay door is open. ... The arm swings out from the body of the manipulator, and the assembly is moved along the metal runners to position it in front of the plate cartridge. ...

CFITSIO Interface Library CFITSIO is a library of ANSI C routines for reading and writing FITS format data files. ... The CFITSIO library is built on Unix systems by typing: > ./configure [--prefix=/target/installation/path] > make (or 'make shared') > make install (this step is optional) at the operating system prompt. The configure command customizes the Makefile for the particular system, then the `make' command compiles the source files and builds the library. ...

... The Wingaersheek Observatory and Telescope . Mario Motta and Scott Milligan . ... For the May meeting I was hoping to show a completed telescope, but it always takes twice as much time to make over 400 parts than you think. ... A new design that has near zero aberrations (no Newtonian coma, for example), made from all spherical surfaces, and would help me build the optics, including fabricating the main mirror. ... Other Monthly Meetings . ... Copyright (c) Amateur Telescope Makers of Boston, Inc. ...

When I build NEdit on my SunOS system, I get undefined symbols: _memmove , _atexit , _strerror . ... I built NEdit on my Linux system, and it's full of bugs. ... When I build NEdit on my SunOS system, I get the fillowing undefined symbols: ld: Undefined symbol _memmove _atexit _strerror *** Error code 1 make: Fatal error: Command failed for target `nedit' . ... NEdit fails to build on Linux, with messages undefined reference to `XpGetDocumentData' undefined reference to `XpGetPageDimensions' .. ...

BUILDING ARMAGH PLANETARIUM A stately astrodome The chief architect for the project, Mr. Bell of Portadown, designed a building inspired by the Queen Elizabeth Planetarium in Edmonton, Canada. ... The foundations are laid: 1966 The first floor completed: 1966 The dream takes form By the time the building was complete ё70 000 had been spent on the project. Included in this was ё12 000 for Armagh Planetarium's first projector, a Goto Mars model made in Japan. ... The dome takes shape: 1967 ...

... This is a personal project collecting and documenting early images of Harvard College Observatory, focusing on the site at Observatory Hill (previously Summer House Hill). ... This page shows a list of all images tagged with "Astrophotographic Library". [link] 1892 Brick Building Construction . Earliest source: "[Harvard College Observatory, Cambridge, construction, ca. ... Harvard College Observatory, Cambridge, construction, ca. ... Harvard College Observatory building under contruction] 1892 . ...

... Although many of the images are used for teacher-driven activities, students do have the opportunity to work with scientists on original research projects. ... The primary goal is to have teachers experience astronomy research and then to bring the research data into their classrooms via the internet. ... They also learn how to process their data, build a solar telescope to take home to their classrooms, and learn background information from astronomers in each of the three research areas. ...