... user-defined data file formats . ... better integration with a user's analysis routines To add such functionality to SAOimage, we developed the XPA Messaging System that allows X programs to define points of public access through which data and commands can be exchanged with external programs. ... We have utilized XPA to develop "SAOimage: The Next Generation" (SAOtng), an extensible image display service that can cooperate with other processes and programs. ... SAOtng help pages . ...

... For many ATMs, having a good ray trace program on hand is pretty valuable. ... http://www.willbell.com . ... It is a slick Windows package with great graphics, but my most recent machine (Win95 OSR2) now encounters many error messages. ... OSLO LT : This is the freeware Windows version of OSLO - it is limited to 12 surfaces, but is otherwise amazing. ... KDP : This is another powerful, freeware Windows raytrace package. ... ZEMAX : This is yet another powerful, Windows raytrace package. ...

MSSSO Annual Report 1997 . ... The Duffield Heliostat was designed and constructed for the Stromlo Exploratory, and forms the central feature within the building. It produces a stationary, high-quality image of the sun, which is one of the major exhibits in the Exploratory, and was installed in time for the opening ceremony on July 26, 1997(Fig. ... The tracker module of the Heliostat is located at the top of the pier in the central area of the building, under a roll-off roof. ...

... Space flight . ... Space Hotel . ... The program of deployment of small orbital station (SOS) consisting of a family of spacecrafts and module-spacecrafts represents a consecutive realization of flight scenarios with consecutive building up of functions. ... Scenario 1 - the regular and revised spacecrafts of class "Soyuz" - TMSC and MNMSC (MNMSC-cargo, MNMSC-MR) are used, pls. see fig fig.8 . ... The terms of transition to this scenario are determined by terms of readiness of one or another module....

ICC/Hub Software Overview Requirements · · · · Monitor and control the instrument's robotics. ... Design · · Computer and software is in the computer room, named the ICC, which means Instrument Control Computer. Instrument's robotics and telemetry uses smart Ethernet I/O devices. ... Filter wheel changes for a variety of different wheel types (mix of filter sizes and number of filters in a wheel). ... Imager Robotics and Telemetry Requirements · · · · · · Stepper motor for filter wheel. ...

... Coming Soon to a Channel Near You: Oracle.. ... But now users are discovering that this beefy class of multiprocessing, "fault-tolerant" PC servers handle databases just as well as mainframes and minicomputings. ... Programmers at four competing Unix software vendors are working together on what may be the last chance for Unix on the corporate desktop. ... COSE's Common Desktop Environment goes a long way toward establishing a standard Unix interface that's easy enough for novice users to master. ...

... Eugene A. Cernan (Captain, USN, Ret.) NASA Astronaut (former) . ... Cernan subsequently served as backup pilot for Gemini 12 and as backup lunar module pilot for Apollo 7. On his second space flight, he was lunar module pilot of Apollo 10, May 18-26, 1969, the first comprehensive lunar-orbital qualification and verification flight test of an Apollo lunar module. ... Captain Cernan has logged 566 hours and 15 minutes in space-of which more than 73 hours were spent on the surface of the moon. ...

... Mark 6 Next-Generation VLBI Data System , IVS 2012 General Meeting Proceedings, p.86­90 http://ivscc.gsfc.nasa.gov/publications/gm2012/whitney.pdf Mark 6 Next-Generation VLBI Data System Alan Whitney, David Lapsley MIT Haystack Observatory Contact author: Alan Whitney, e-mail: awhitney@haystack.mit.edu Abstract The Mark 6 VLBI data system is being developed by MIT Haystack Observatory as a nextgeneration ... Converted modules are not backwards compatible with Mark 5 systems. ...

... Pre-university education . ... On March 16 a meeting with Raymond Murphy - the author of the world famous series of English grammar textbooks: English Grammar in Use and Essential Grammar in Use took place in Samara State Aerospace University within the framework of the conference Peculiarities of grammatical skills formation in various stages of English language teaching (Innovative Approaches to ELT). ... The textbook of Raymond Murphy is a practical guide to learning English as a foreign language...

... Tonight's Sky . ... Observing . ... Astronomy for Kids . ... Observing springtime deep-sky objects with a large telescope . ... What became of the discarded lunar modules from the Apollo missions? ... All but one of the Apollo program s used lunar modules either crashed into the Moon s surface or burned up in Earth s atmosphere. ... Get instant access to subscriber content on Astronomy.com! ... Receive news, sky-event information, observing tips, and more from Astronomy's weekly email newsletter. ...

... history, facts, technology, space ships . Posted by Askar under Space stations . Квант? - специализированный астрофизический модуль России для работы в составе орбитального комплекса ?Мир?. ... Модуль ?Квант? предназначен для проведения исследований по внеатмосферной астрономии и решения ряда др. научных и прикладных задач. ... Russian Astronauts . ... Russian Research Ships . ... Russian Space Probes . Russian Space Ships . Russian Space Stations . ... Space stations . ...

... In this example we will use /usr/local/data/catalogue for the location of all original catalogues, and /usr/local/scisim-x.y.z for the installation directory of SciSim . ... The installer has to specify their full path in the csim_config section of / usr / local / scisim-x.y.z /config/ scisim .cfg : gsc_regions / usr / local / scisim-x.y.z / data / catalogue /gsc.regions tic_ data / usr / local / scisim-x.y.z / data / catalogue /TICcat.dat wga_ data / usr / local / scisim-x.y.z / data / ...

The Astronomy Shop . ... Shop | ... Starry Night's Deep Space Explorer - Astronomy Software . ... From the same team that brought you the acclaimed Starry Night family of astronomy software products, Deep Space Explorer is the first program for the home user that accurately models the wonders of our universe in all their three-dimensional glory. World-renowned astronomer Brent Tully has compiled a new database of 30 000 galaxies which has never before been available in a desktop astronomy program. ...

SAI VO . ... SAI CAS . ... Access . ... We present the results of the development of Sternberg Astronomical Institute Catalog Access Services (SAI CAS) project - the first and the only project in Russia, which provides online access to the major astronomical catalogues and different services on top of them. ... SAI CAS is an open-source implementation of the general Catalogue access service (influenced by SDSS CAS CASjobs project), based on original algorithms and open-source software. ... SAI MSU | ...

Russian version of HP . ... StarCalc is the fastest professional astronomy planetarium & star mapping program for Windows 9x/ME/NT/2000/XP (StarCalc version for PocketPC computers you can found here ). ... Extensibility : This program is based on common "Plugin StarCalc interface to catalogs and object groups", which allows program to add new modules as Plugins. ... Welcome to the Pocket StarCalc Home Page: . ... Some bugfixes in eclipses" and line" plugins - see the new versions in downloads page. ...

ECal R D in N. America - Test Beam Readiness/Plans · Silicon-tungsten SLAC, Oregon, Brookhaven (SOB) · Scintillator tiles ­ tungsten U. Colorado, Fermilab · Hybrid silicon/ scintillator ­ tungsten U. Kansas Durham TB R. Frey 1 Si-W Concept ­ SiD version 30 or fewer long. samples Durham TB R. Frey 2 · Features Compact (1 mm gaps) High segmentation with little penalty Passive cooling ... Expect ­ at least for front half of ECal ­ to be able to optimize the design independent of test beam. ...

... POLAM-L . ... ABOUT LOMO . ... MICROSCOPES . ... OEM OPTICAL COMPONENTS . ... SURGICAL MICROSCOPES . ... Home Products Microscopes POLAM-L . ... The POLAM?- ... The 360° rotatable head features a built-in iris diaphragm, optical path selector and a vertical photo/video port. ... Microscopes, the stand allows attachment of all the standard and optional modules and components such as stages, condensers, illuminators, intermediate module, and LOMO’s unique, rotatable Monochrometer . ... STAGES . ...

Mercury Winter 2011 Table of Contents . A screenshot from ESA's JHelioviewer. The solar image, taken by NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory, shows a prominence twisting upwards in the atmosphere of the Sun. ESA Makes the Sun Available to Everyone . ... New software developed by ESA makes available online to everyone, everywhere, at anytime, the entire library of images from the SOHO solar and heliospheric observatory. Just download the viewer and begin exploring the Sun. ...

A computer controlled low light photometer for nightglow observations. Hardware units of portable photometer for low light measurements, especially night glow emission is described. ... Interface card contain three channels of 24 bit counter, 4 channels of 12 bit ADC and the buffer bus for the controlled motors of the altazimuthal fork mounting and filters wheel, the position encoders. ... Where N( ) is output signal photometer generated input light flux F( l ) . ... PMT # . 599 . ...

... List of courses | Advanced courses . ... Introduction . ... Introduction to Commutative and Homological Algebra . ... 3.Typical singularities of mappings and Equivalence of singularities. ... 13.Resolution of singularities of algebraic varieties. ... Commutative and homological algebra studies algebraic structures, say, modules over commutative rings, in terms of their generators and relations. ... 1) M. F. Atiyah, I. G. McDonald, Introduction to commutative algebra, Addison-Wesley (1969) . ...