The AstroGuide . ... AstroGuide | ... AstroGuide Listing . ... See many more Astronomy Listings by: Category or Alphabet . The "Linux for Astronomy" project publishes a compilation of Astronomy software prebuilt for the Linux operating system. The latest release includes 1.6Gb of astronomy software plus a full Linux distribution. (2 cdrom set) . ... 520) 822-5221 . ... Web Site . ... Web . ... Unless otherwise specified, web site content Copyright 1994-2016 John Huggins All Rights Reserved . ...

... High above Laguna Beach last month hung bright celestial orbs. Visible after the California sunset were, from left to right, the Moon, Saturn, and Venus. ... Star Wars in NGC 664 . ... Here, a high concentration of dust and molecular gas absorb practically all the visible light emitted from background stars. Polar Ring Galaxy NGC 4650A . ... A rare type of galaxy known as a Polar Ring, NGC 4650A is composed of an old central group of stars and a young ring of stars rotating farther out. ...

... astro-ph . ... Statistical Characterization of the Chandra Source Catalog . ... The first release of the Chandra Source Catalog (CSC) contains ~95,000 X-ray sources in a total area of ~0.75% of the entire sky, using data from ~3,900 separate ACIS observations of a multitude of different types of X-ray sources. ... In addition to these traditional catalog elements, for each X-ray source the CSC includes an extensive set of file-based data products that can be manipulated interactively. ...

... Linux systems will usually have the Python core (Version 2.7) available. ... ALSVID Python Utilities for Processing FITS Images ================================================== file _renumber.py Renumber files in a directory fits _1d_to_dat.py Extract a 1-dimensional FITS array as data fits _absolute_value.py Absolute value of an image fits _background_remove.py Fit and subtract a background fits _bias.py Subtract a bias frame fits _bin.py Bin a stack of images one by one ...

Next: Mission Operations Data Transfer . ... VLBI Tape Management . VLBI Tapes . ... When: As soon as the correlator is satisfied with the correlator output. back to top . ... What: Each correlator will maintain a data base including the status of all VLBI tapes under its control. ... The correlators will distribute tapes to mission elements based on the Observation Summary File produced by the RSOG ( Observation Summary File ) to ensure each element has enough tapes to support SVLBI observations. ...

... AstroAsciiData is a Python module to handle ASCII tables. ... The idea to develop this Python module emerged from the fact that ASCII tables continue to be one of the most popular and widely used data exchange formats in astronomy and probably science in general. ... To load this ASCII table, go into Python, load the AstroAsciiData module and read in the table with: . ... demo = asciidata.open('webexa.txt') . ... Users who only want to work with ASCII tables neeed no further python modules. ...

lsst.tcc љ 1.2.2-3-g89ecb63 . ... Files . ... include . ... telMod.h . ... 6 љ #include <string> . ... 24 љ explicit TelMod (std::string const &filePath) { . ... 86 љ void loadPath (std::string const &filePath); . ... 112 љ std::vector<std::string> getTermNames () const ; . ... 145 љ std::ostream & operator<< (std::ostream &os, TelMod const &telMod); . ... double getTerm(std::string const &termName) const . ... std::vector< std::string > getTermNames() const . ... TelMod(std::string const &filePath) . ...

... Survey processing . ... ESO - Public Surveys . ... 21/12/2009 Release of Science Verification Data . ... 11/12/2009 Press release about VISTA (Text, Images and Videos) . The ESO press release is at www.eso.org/public/outreach/press-rel/pr-2009/pr-49-09.html . ... 10/12/2009 15:00+ Ownerhsip of VISTA accepted by ESO from STFC (UK Goverenment representative) . ... 15/10/2009 Science Verification period started (see 21/12/9 for release) . ... 17/04/2008 Press releases om M1 from ESO , STFC and QMUL . ...

... Natalya V. Raguzova and Sergei B. Popov . ... We present a compilative catalogue of Be/X-ray binaries and candidates in the Galaxy and in the Large and Small Magellanic Clouds. This catalogue contains 160 sources and provides information on names and spectral types of optical components, distances, on spin characteristics of neutron stars, and on orbital and X-ray properties of binary systems. ... Be/X-Ray Binaries and candidates in the Galaxy . Galactic sources: comments to the Table 1 . ...

More about How to Say "I Don't Know" . ... It not only includes information about each planet and all of the moons, but also information about what astronomers don't know and are trying to learn. ... Includes lists of additional resources by topic, curriculum supported materials that trace the history of advancements in history, and many videos. Sharing the Universe is based upon work supported by the Informal Education Division of the National Science Foundation under Grant no DRL-0638873. ...

... Space Flight . ... Earth Satellites . ... The first satellite launched into orbit was Sputnik€а 1 (meaning ?Traveller?), launched in 1957 by the Soviet Union. ... Space Shuttle creeping to the pad to launch the Misty satellite into orbit? ... The Misty is not the only mystery in orbit, another potential covert satellite is known as Prowler. ... However there does seem to be enough substantiated sightings and evidence to suggest there are or perhaps were real mystery satellites orbiting the Earth. ...

JSC Celebrates 40 Years of Human Space Flight . International Space Station . ... Among them: first time a partnership of nations owns and operates a space station , first time access to previously secret facilities, first time linkages between training and control centers, the first time orchestrating of multiple spacecraft traffic, the first -of-its-kind commercial ventures, including space tourism, the first time deployment of very large solar arrays, first ...

... SSAU History . SSAU roadmap . ... European Chamber of Science and Industry has published a rating of higher education institutions Academic Ranking of World Universities-European Standard ARES-2014. ... SSAU took the 29th place among the top 100 Russian universities. ... It is to be recalled that SSAU included among the 15 leading Russian universities that received government support to improve competitiveness and promote the top 100 international rankings. ... e-mail: ssau@ssau.ru . ...

... Comments, Opinions Publications Dnepr Program . Dnepr launch record 17 August 2011. Cluster Launch of Dnepr LV 22 August 2013 KOMPSAT-5 Launch 21 November 2013. Dnepr Cluster Mission 2013 19 June 2014. ... ISC Kosmotras announces signing of a launch contract with T B?TAK Space Technologies Research Institute (T B?TAK UZAY) for injection of RASAT spacecraft - the first Earth observation satellite designed and manufactured in Turkey by Dnepr LV in 2010. ... Dnepr LV Performance . ...

Stellarium 0.12.3 . ... Classes . ... AngleSpinBox Class Reference . A spin box for displaying/entering angular values. More... #include < AngleSpinBox.hpp > . ... virtual voidљ . ... Set the value to default 0 angle. ... AngleSpinBox (QWidget *parent=0, DisplayFormat format= DMSSymbols , PrefixType prefix= Normal ) . ... Set the display format. ... the value to set, in decimal degrees. void AngleSpinBox::setDisplayFormat . ... the value to set, in radians. void AngleSpinBox::valueChanged . ...

... Use another operation system in IOC. ... IOC components Current ifr iocs · · · CPU ­ Motorola 68060 OS ­ VxWorks Epics core software ( support for Epics database records) R3.13.6 Board Support Package (BSP) to drive VME bus Hardware device support ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ CANbus CAEN SIAM Struck scalars VSAM Suggested ifr-mon · · · · CPU ­ PowerPC OS ­ RTEMS Epics core software R3.14.6 Board Support Package for VME bus is developed at SSRL Hardware device ...

... Polish scientists at the Space Research Centre, Polish Academy of Sciences, in Wroclaw, south-west Poland, have constructed an instrument called SphinX (short for Solar PHotometer In X-rays), which is an X-ray spectrophotometer, that will obtain spectra in the energy range 0.5--15 keV in 256 energy channels with frequency of up to 100 times a second. ... SphinX is part of a package of instruments known as TESIS (PI Prof. Sergei Kuzin, Lebedev Institute, Moscow). ... Space Research Centre, . ...

... Participants . ... The workshop will take place at two locations: the Independent University of Moscow (3 days) and the Steklov Mathematical Institute (2 days). ... The registration fee is 150 USD for foreign participants (paid upon arrival by those who can cover it from their grants or institutions) and 3000 roubles for participants from the FSU (also paid for those who can cover it from their grants). This covers also the welcome party and the conference dinner. ...

SAI, graduates year 1982. ... Note: when just a 7-digit phone number is shown, it refers to a phone located in Moscow (international access 007-495). "+" in front of a number means that you must dial an international access code first (or just press "+" on your mobile phone keypad). ... 939-1672(work); . ... Ataev Sasha . 1-(703)-536-8881(home) (USA); . ... Bychkov Sergey . ... 1-(410)-740-8205(home), +1-(301)-286-2150(work) (USA); . ... 1-(412)-767-0332(home), +1-(412)-608-9339(mobile) (USA); . ...

... BOM2 and the basic block of solar limbograph including pointing and control systems ? ... Fine tracking platform (FTP) for Sun tracking by the sight axis of the limbograph; . ... Tracking system frequency ? ... Controller of the control system and solar fine tracking of the sight axis of the limbograph; . ... The basic relative construction of the elements and instrumental blocks of the "Astrometria" space experiment is shown on the block diagram of units within the complex of SL-200 solar...