... Please note that throughout this exercise you need some patience since the PEARL procedures use the Direct Fourier Transform which is quite slow for the size of map we are trying to work with! . ... Initial chisq= 24.980139 . SVD: will edit 0 singular values! ... Click Update to add the selected number of CLEAN component to the current model (which was empty at the start), self-calibrate the phases, subtract the CLEAN components from the data, and re-display the updated residual and final maps. ...

... 295, 2003 H. E. Payne, R. I. Jedrzejewski, and R. N. Hook, eds. ANDES: NOAO's Observatory Database System D. Gasson, D. Bell, M. Hartman National Optical Astronomy Observatory, 950 N. Cherry Ave. ... ANDES (the Advanced NOAO Database Expert System) is NOAO's new observing proposal system. ... This L TEX file is then parsed via a Perl script into a more structured format that is suitable for ingest into the database system (Bell, Barnes & Pilachowski 1998). ... 280 Gasson, Bell & Hartman Figure 1. ...

... Bad Astronomy . ... News . ... In the following article, I used the wrong number to get the circumference of the Earth at the latitude of Cape Canaveral, which ironically is what I accuse Ms. vos Savant of as well! ... At the Equator, the Earth spins at 1000 miles per hour (the Earth is 24,000 miles around, and spins once every 24 hours). ... The math is a wee bit hairy, but not too bad, to calculate the circumference of the Earth at Cape Canaveral assuming the Earth is an ellipse with these numbers...

... Feger T. How to connect up to 16 GLD 20-24 Mini motor control stages to a PC by using a Ethernet Terminal Server (LANtronix) 1. ... To use this software in combination with the terminal server, a virtual COM port must be created. ... Control a stepper motor: To control an stepper motor, set the generated virtual COM port on "Port" and select the corresponding axis on "Axes" in the IPCOMM software. ... Select the first generated COM port and the corresponding axis ID, then start the control panel. ...

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The Re/Max Ballunar Liftoff Festival took place at Johnson Space Center on August 27-29. ... Leadership We have a tremendous challenge in front of us. ... As leaders, we are committed to embracing and demonstrating behaviors to help us achieve our goals: Integrity ­ Leaders have total honesty in dealing with the people who work for them, and those for whom they work. ... Compassion ­ Leaders show a genuine understanding of, and care for, the people who work for them. ...

... xxxedit and linkxxx) A careful look at the full field of view for this sharp image reveals a surprising number of galaxies both near and far toward the constellation Ursa Major. The most striking is clearly NGC 3718, the warped spiral galaxy right of center. ... About 50 million light-years distant in the northern constellation Pegasus, NGC 7331 was recognized early on as a spiral nebula and is actually one of the brighter galaxies not included in Charles Messier's famous 18th century catalog. ...

... Asteroid . ... In case you didn't hear about it, which you probably didn't: On Jan. 7, an asteroid 1,000 feet across -- nearly three times the current diameter of Marlon Brando -- barely missed the Earth, which is most likely your planet of residence. ... What if this asteroid had hit the Earth? ... As it happens, the American Astronomical Society was holding a conference in Washington AT THE VERY SAME TIME as the asteroid nearly hit the Earth. ...

There is an obligation of team leaders to translate these rules and regulations to native language of participants in advance. Starting since 2004 this translation has to be done in written form as an obligatory part of application to the International Astronomy Olympiad.) ... Don't write the conditions of problem in rough copy or clean copy. ... All additional information for participants to be done in both official languages of the Olympiad: in Russian and in English. ... Rough copy. ...

... Simulation Images . Simulations of convection in stars . Mach-numbers in a simulation of convection inтАж . ... Title: Mach-numbers in a simulation of convection in the sub-giant Eta Boo . Description: The mach-number is the local speed in units of the local sound speed, with values above 1 being super-sonic. ... Mach-numbers in a simulation of convection in the sub-giant Eta Boo The mach-number is the local speed in units of the local sound speed, with values above 1 being super-sonic. ...

Kepler's Laws Kepler was an assistant to Tycho Brahe. Brahe had made extensive observations of the known planets and had accurately mapped the motion of these planets as they passed across the sky for a number of years. ... The orbits of the planets are ellipses with the sun at one of the foci. ... Look at the distance between the discs. ... Kepler's Laws All bodies sweep out equal areas in equal times If we look at the planets we have already seen that the planets change speed in their orbit. ...

... The conference will be also partially hosted by the Steklov Mathematical Institute, Gubkin 8, 119991, Moscow . The nearest metro stations are: Akademicheskaya (orange line) from which there is a 15-minute walk or Leninsky Prospekt (orange line) and Universitet (red line) from which one may take a tram No. 3 or 39 to the stop ?ulica Gubkina?. ... The location of the conference room at the building of the Steklov Institute will be announced later. ... Location of the Steklov Mathematical Institute . ...

... Cost­E#ective System Management Skip Schaller Steward Observatory, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ 85721 Abstract. Quality system management of computer workstations for as­ tronomy can be achieved with relatively small manpower requirements, if the right cost­e#ective administrative design decisions are made. ... The system is designed so that one doesn't depend on four or more hosts, (such as a software server, cpu server, data file server, font server, etc.) to get work done. ...

Previous Editions of the M111: . ... OutReach Training and Program . September Public Night . Welcome all ye weary travelers to a new type of M111 "On Line". ... Back to top.. ... When I logged our last outreach programs I couldn't help but notice that Warren Rupp Observatory is NUMBER FIVE in the worldwide standings in public outreach programs! ... If you'd like to train in astronomy outreach, just contact any of our members and we'll be happy to train you to do public outreach! ...

Download Izmccd (~2.7 MB). ... for 1-5 bytes is number of a numbered minor planet, . ... Positions 1-80 file "mpcreportiz.txt" are similar to positions of file "mpcreport.txt". 83-95 – errors of unit weight, . ... If this tag is " 1 0 " , this record contains results of measurements of an image of object (approximation by "PSF"),  . ... 57-66 – error in X (pixels), for first star in a multicentric image, for subsequent it is error in (distance between first star in the image and this), . ...

... static int . ... Plot (java.lang.String title, java.lang.String xLabel, java.lang.String yLabel, double[] xValues, double[] yValues) . ... void . ... This version of the constructor uses the default flags. public Plot (java.lang.String title, java.lang.String xLabel, java.lang.String yLabel, double[] xValues, double[] yValues, int flags) . ... public void addPoints (double[] x, double[] y, int shape) . ... Adds error bars to the plot. public void addLabel (double x, double y, java.lang.String label)...

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... Corresponding authors will receive an e-mail with a PDF file of paged proof for checking and correction. The file can be read and edited using Adobe Acrobat Reader (version 9 and higher) which can be free downloaded via the Internet ( http://get.adobe.c om/reader/ ). ... You can use text correction tools to make corrections (after selecting the necessary text fragment). ... For users of Adobe Reader 9: . ... to insert text without replacing the existing text, use the "Insert text at cursor" tool. ...

fitshdr_edit - FITS-file headers interactive editor fitshdr_edit [options] FITSfile_name . fitshdr_edit utility allows to modify FITS headers' lines interactively (FITS MultiExtentionsFiles included). fitshdr_edit is just simple shell script around fitshdr utility. ... It means, that You can't remove line from header! ... 560:CRDELT2 = 21.0 / this is example 640: 720:HISTORY header No.0: 1st history line 123456789012345678901234567 880:COMMENT Sat Sep 25 21:17:34 CEST 2004 / by fitshdr_edit . ...

Astronotes Armagh Planetarium's Stellar Blog! ... Space Flight . ... Posted on October 30, 2014 | 5 Comments Humans have been exploring mysterious lands and faraway civilizations for hundreds of years ever since they had the ability and knowledge to do so.€а A curiosity and a desire to [ ] . Continue Reading.. Posted on May 28, 2014 | ... 1 Comment Comets are frozen lumps of ice (often called volatiles) and rock that come from distant parts of our Solar System. ...