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Shore Leave 39 Science Programming
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Shore Leave, A fan run Science Fiction Convention. Science Programming will return for Shore Leave 39. Please check back for updates. As always, weather permitting, Stargazing will take place on Friday and Saturday evenings on the tennis courts. Space Telescope Science Institute. The latest goodies from Hubble. Educational activities and resources at HST. Goddard Space Flight Center. Sky and Telescope Magazine.
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Automating the LHiRes III Calibration Lamps
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The Beverly Hills Astronomer. Astronomy from Beverly Hills, MD 21214! Automating the LHiRes III Calibration Lamps. March 15, 2015. The recent upgrades to the LHiRes III spectrograph include an improved calibration lamp assembly that basically has three positions:. Straight through (normal data acquisition). Neon-Argon Wavelength Calibration Lamp. The next task is to create a small class library for the control so that I can incorporate the automation into scripts that can be run from Maxim DL, which is w...
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2014_08_0910
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The Beverly Hills Astronomer. Astronomy from Beverly Hills, MD 21214! August 10, 2014. Rig #1: Spectra for the U Montreal P Cyg/Deneb campaign. View of the control panel for Rig #1 tonight – gathering spectra of P Cyg and Deneb for Noel Richardson at U Montreal. Rig #2: RX2133 51. Installed A Wifi Range Extender for the Domes. Filed Under: Observatory Log. Leave a Comment Cancel reply. The Beverly Hills Astronomer. American Assn. of Variable Star Observers. Center for Backyard Astrophysics.
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Relative Throughput Tests Using Focal Reducers with a Santa Barbara Instrument Group Self-Guiding Spectrograph
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The Beverly Hills Astronomer. Astronomy from Beverly Hills, MD 21214! Relative Throughput Tests Using Focal Reducers with a Santa Barbara Instrument Group Self-Guiding Spectrograph. This shows the approximate shape and size of the “D mirror” in the SGS. Light from the slit is collimated by the left side and sent towards the grating. Light returning from the grating is focused by the right side onto the camera chip. Shown in Figure 2 are scale drawings of the D mirror with the illumination pattern from a ...
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The South Dome
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The Beverly Hills Astronomer. Astronomy from Beverly Hills, MD 21214! The South Dome is a Technical Innovators 10-foot HomeDome that was purchased from a local amateur astronomer in 2010. For those of you from Baltimore, the person I bought the dome from was Norm Lewis, chief meteorologist at Channel 2, WMAR-TV. When Norm decided to retire and return to his native Florida he elected not to take the observatory with him and so offered it up on AstroMart. A view inside Dome #2. December 5, 2015 at 08:43.
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Results
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The Beverly Hills Astronomer. Astronomy from Beverly Hills, MD 21214! January 3, 2015. Guess What I Was Doing New Year’s Eve? 5400 second exposure of ASAS-SN14mv. The two most prominent lines visible are of ionized Magnesium (4481 – left side) and molecular oxygen (O2) from the earth’s atmosphere at 6867- 6944 Angstroms. Prominent night sky lines visible from BHO. All except the Oxygen line at 6300 are light pollution! Total Lunar Eclipse of October 8, 2014. October 9, 2014. I had to be at the studio ear...
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2014_10_0405
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The Beverly Hills Astronomer. Astronomy from Beverly Hills, MD 21214! October 5, 2014. This is the first evening of real autumn! Rig #1 is running another sequence of spectra for the U Montreal campaign – Deneb and PCyg, both at H-alpha, then Deneb at the Si lines. Rig #2 is again shooting a sequence of images of GD552. This may be my last night on this object as Joe Patterson is requesting data from several other targets. Filed Under: Observatory Log. Leave a Comment Cancel reply. Return to top of page.
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UX UMa
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The Beverly Hills Astronomer. Astronomy from Beverly Hills, MD 21214! June 26, 2014. After many false starts this year I finally got back out to the observatories and did some real observing! By the middle of the last century photometric and spectroscopic observations had revealed that UX UMa was, in fact, an eclipsing nova-like system. For a really good description of this star and a quick synopsis of the nova-like class check out this. There is a lot going on in the light curve of UX UMa!
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2014_09_0304
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The Beverly Hills Astronomer. Astronomy from Beverly Hills, MD 21214! September 5, 2014. Another set of spectra for the BRITE/UMontreal campaign on P Cyg and Deneb. I am seriously behind in getting these data calibrated and sent. Something for the next few days as the clear weather is supposed to go away for a while. Filed Under: Observatory Log. Leave a Comment Cancel reply. The Beverly Hills Astronomer. American Assn. of Variable Star Observers. Center for Backyard Astrophysics. Return to top of page.
