Next: J.E. Chambers, Research Astronomer Up: Research Previous: Research Contents . ... Solar Variability and Climate . Other Activities . ... Applied to data of flares on Gliese866 he was able to estimate the area of hydrogen emitting flare regions as 1-13% of the stellar surface. ... As partners in the project, Armagh Observatory has been asked to contribute to the selection process in exchange for priority access to the data which will eventually flow from the satellite. ...

Hide Zen home . ... We realized original spatial algorithm for 2-dimensional data with spherical attributes in open-source database PostgreSQL, which allow us to work with terabyte-sized data. ... The total number of objects in our database is about 4 billions (10^9) objects. ... Large scale survey projects produce huge amount of data, which needs to be processed and organized in databases to provide access by astronomical community. ... Astronomy is the only science which has so many objects. ...

... Bad Astronomy . ... Mad Science . ... Site Info . ... Public Talks . ... Keep Bad Astronomy close to your heart, and help make me filthy rich. ... Who is this guy who calls himself "The Bad Astronomer?" ... First, yes, I am a real live astronomer (when people ask me what astronomers do, I tell them "They astronom !" ... These are emitted by powerful objects like black holes, exploding stars, and super-dense neutrons stars. ... Finally, am I really a bad astronomer? ... 2008 Phil Plait. ...

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Home About Meade Product Information Dealer Locator Customer Support Investor Relations Dealer Support Employment Opportunities Site Map . Meade Instruments Corporation . ... Meade Pictor XT-Series CCD Autoguider/Imagers . Section 13: Viewing and Processing Images . ... The software can read most images in these formats, and convert between them using the File, Save As command. ... This is done by placing the information in a .txt file with the same name as the image file). ... Merge Images: . ...

... CATS is being expanded continuously. Now (March 1997) it comprises over 150 catalogs and big tables including most of the RATAN--600 catalogs, ninety the biggest world radio astronomical catalogs with number of objects more than 1500, hypertext documentation and full scientific references for every catalog (3 Mb), systems of coordinates transformations, software for spectral data processing, and occupies 450 Mb, while most of catalogs storaged in compress (gzip) files. ... 1996; Trushkin et al., ...

... Document Title | Document Number | ... The code uses fields: category, system, subsystem, EMA, vendor, and a sequential number. ... Previous Document Number This is a TEXT field and represents the document number that preceeds the found document in the set of original documents supplied by the engineer/vendor. ... Next Document Number This is a TEXT field and represents the document number that follows the found document in the set of original documents supplied by the engineer/vendor. ...

Helpful information for users of the UNIX operating system, developed at the University of Edinburgh from work funded by the ITTI . ... UNIXhelp is mirrored around the world and freely available for local installation. ... Working with files and directories . Managing your working environment . Controlling access to your files and directories . ... Editing text files . ... Using UNIX commands . ... UNIX commands for VMS users . UNIX commands for DOS users . ... The UNIX file system . ...

... ClassљIndex . ... StelRendererStatistics Class Reference . Stores and provides access to statistics about a StelRenderer backend. ... getNext (const char *&name, double &value) . Get next statistic name and value. ... Access statistic with specified index to modify it. ... while (statistics.getNext(name, value)) . ... Name of the statistic will be stored here (only a pointer to it). value . ... A clean way to do this is to use an enum with name corresponding to the name of the statistic. ...

... 10:00 - 11:00 Juergen Reingruber (ENS de Paris, France) . The search process for small targets in cellular microdomains . ... Statistical models on random lattices . ... 15:00 - 16:00 Vyacheslav Priezzhev (Joint Institute for Nuclear Research, Dubna, Russia) . ... Extreme statistics of vicious walkers: from random matrices to Yang-Mills theory . ... Conformal blocks and quantum Hall effect . ... Topological field theories and statistical models . ... Benjamin-Ono integrable systems in 2D CFT . ...

... Observing . ... Solar Observing . ... April 3 (SUN) - Solar Observing, Central Park , Manhattan . ... APRIL'S SKY . ... Lecture Series at the American Museum of Natural History The Amateur Astronomers Association is proud to present an astronomy lecture series from October through May each year for our members and the .. ... The€аAmateur Astronomers Association of New York€аwas organized in 1927 to promote the study of Astronomy, emphasizing its cultural and inspirational value. ...

NMW survey overview . Access image archive . ... The New Milky Way survey aims to detect bright (V<13.5) optical transients near the Galactic plane using an automated wide-field (8x6 deg.) system capable of surveying the whole Milky Way area visible from the observing site in one night. ... All images obtained during the transient search survey are available online (please use the image archive access form ). ... Images per field: . ... Images per night: . ... Milky Way imaging time: . ...

Central Astronomical Observatory at Pulkovo of Russian Academy of Sciences PUL Analysis Center Pulkovo IVS Analysis Center (PUL) 2009 Annual Rep ort Zinovy Malkin, Natalia Miller, Elena Popova Abstract This report briefly presents the PUL IVS Analysis Center activities during 2009 and plans for the coming year. The main topics of the investigations of PUL staff in that period were ICRF related studies, computation and analysis of EOP series, and VLBI2010 related issues. ...

As it was already mentioned, the idea behind File Juggler is rather simple: using CGI scripts as processing tools and WWW browser as user interface, display the structure and content of typical anonymous FTP server in a convenient, easily navigated form. ... My P5-133 spends about 0.025 ms on one file when doing linear search with simple criterion (690 ms for 27,000 files, search for substring among file names/descriptions with 70 hits). ... Let's now look whether we can handle 1,000,000 files. ...

Organization of the Data Processing in the Interball Project. ... Interball Data Archive contains data produced during Interball mission: raw data, data files produced by express-analysys and preprocessing systems, orbit and attitude data files, key physical parameters, Magion-4,5 subsatellites data files and other types of data. Express-analysys data is available for Interball participants within 1 day after telemetry session, level 1 processed data - within 2 weeks. ... Attitude data files . ...

Natural Satellites Data Center NSDC . ... Natural Satellites Ephemerides Server MULTI-SAT. ... OF NATURAL PLANETARY SATELLITES. ... A light movement of your arm ... and all necessary data are instantly available on your computer screen. ... New orbital models for all the new faint satellites of Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune were determined independently from other authors on the basis of all published observations using numerical integration method applied to the equations of satellites motions. ...

... Since 2011 our observatory is a member of GLORIA (GLObal Robotic telescopes Intelligent Array for e-Science) project - wide international collaboration of 13 scientific institutions from 8 countries aiming at opening public access to robotic telescopes, as well as propagating astronomy in general. The GLORIA Project offers Internet users the possibility of studying the sky from professional observatories. ... The experiments are available at the users site of GLORIA. ... About GLORIA . ...

Russian Space Science Internet (RSSI) is a successful result of RSSI Project. ... space oriented organizations; . ... RSSI offers for its members : . ... videoconferences via MBONE Internet protocol (there are 2 tunnels available now through the general IP network: one to NASA Internet, and another to Moscow State University); . ... It is designed so that all organizations connected to the RSSI gain access to the resources of Russian computer networks as well as world wide Internet. ... nic@rssi.ru ...

INTEGRAL SOURCE RESULTS PAGES AND ACCESS TO INTEGRAL DATA THROUGH VIRTUAL OBSERVATORY: SCIENTIFIC MOTIVATION AND RECENT STATUS Д Д Petr Kubanek1,2 and Rene Hudec 1 2 2 INTEGRAL Science Data Center, Chemin d'Ecogia 16, Versoix, Switzerland Astronomicky ustav Akademie ved Ceske republiky, Ondrejov, Czech Republic ДД Д ABSTRACT In its current status, the Virtual Observatory (VO) is an international effort to handle distributed databases of all data taken from the sky. ... The INTEGRAL Burst Alert System. ...