T he Siding Spring Survey (SSS) is a Near-Earth Object search program that utilises the 0.5-m Uppsala Schmidt Telescope at Siding Spring Observatory, N.S.W., Australia. ... The mission of the Siding Spring Survey is to contribute to the inventory of near-earth objects (NEOs), or more specifically, the potentially hazardous asteroids (PHAs) and comets (PHOs) that may pose a threat of impact and thus harm to civilization. ... Based on the CSS Mission page . ... Siding Spring Survey Main Page . ...

... Milky Way . ... Science Fiction . ... Karl Guthe Jansky (1905-50) was born in Norman, Oklahoma; he was of French, Czech and English descent and grew up in Madison, Wisconsin.б  Jansky was the third of six children and was named after physicist Karl Guthe whom his father Cyril Jansky had worked for earlier in his career.An interest in science and physics was perhaps in KarlБЂ™s genes as Cyril Karl Jansky БЂњRadio Astronomy, I am your fatherБЂќ (Image credit:Wikimedia.org) . ...

SURNAMES OF THE ASTRONOMERS IN THE NAMES OF THE LUNAR OBJECTS. ... Sternberg State Astronomical Institute, Moscow University, Moscow, Russia The whole complex information about toponymy, morphology, selenographical coordinates and dimensions of the lunar objects was included in the automated information system for the Lunar Nomenclature. ... You may receive more detailed information in the Russian version of this article (nomen.pdf). ...

... 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., ...

... The main goals of the society are to maintain the development of astronomy and to reinforce scientific contacts between astronomers of the former Soviet Union and their colleagues all over the world. Official languges of EAAS - Russian and English. ... IV Russian Olympiad on Astronomy and Cosmic Physics for high-school students (April 7-12, 1997, Troitsk, Moscow region, Russia) . ... In Russian. ... Dr. Nikolai G. Bochkarev , Co-chairman of Euro-Asian Astronomical Society, 21.02.1997. ...

... Astronomy and Astrophotography - amateur tips and ideas from personal experience. ... CNES : CLEMENTINE data Server - Access to 1.8 million lunar images . ... Astrofili on the Web - Dr. Fabio Marino's CCD images and links. Astronomical Images - Deep-sky astronomical photographs. ... Astronomy Page - collection of amateur astrophotographs, along with observatory and Hubble images. ... Igor's Astronomy Page - with thumbnail links to images from observatories, including the Hubble Space Telescope. ...

. The Catalogue has been created as a handbook for professional astronomers and experts in other related fields of knowledge. An additional objective is to outline the astronomical knowledge that is required for understanding and usage of the data included in the Catalogue. The Catalogue contains data on 493 potentially hazardous asteroids as of 27 March, 2003 (Minimum Obital Intersecion Distance MOID H . Full Russian version of book ?Catalogue of potentially hazardous asteroids and comets?

... Many scientific institutions maintain bibliographies of articles published by their scientists and monitor references made to these publications; these figures are often used to evaluate the effectiveness of the institution. ... a) Identification of papers that are based, at least partly, on new data Publications based on observations can be subdivided into two groups: those presenting new, previously unreported data, and those that make use of already published data. ... Published by . ...

... Bojan Nikolic web pages home . ... For some numerical experiments with CASA , I have recently been recompiling some parts of this package. ... That is before even touching the code! ... I used the SCons build system to build the CASACORE libraries. ... Apparently missing include for strlen: --- a/code/display/Display/Options.cc +++ b/code/display/Display/Options.cc @@ -30,6 +30,7 @@ #include <sys/stat.h> #include <iostream> #include <dirent.h> +#include <string.h> namespace casa { namespace viewer {...

... Classes . ... gTime Class Reference . This class implements time calculations. ... gTime (double ai_jDays=0) . ... gTime (const gTime &timeSrc) . ... Set the time value of the time object to the julian day of year, day. ... operator= (const gTime &timeSrc) . ... Returns the time GMT value in Julian days. ... Returns the time_t value of the gTime Object. ... Returns a gTime object setted with the actual machine time. ... gTime Object assigned with real machine time. double gTime::getGmtTm . ...

... What ChaMP does is put together X-ray observations from the satellite Chandra and, using and optical and x-ray surveys, will ultimately put together a multiwavelength database that will be accesible to all. ... ChaMP uses the X-ray observations taken from the Chandra X-ray satellite and compares them with images of the same star field ( group of stars in an image ) in an optical picture. They find the coodornates of the x-ray sources in both the x-ray images and the optical images. ...

NAME apxs - APache eXtenSion tool SYNOPSIS apxs - g [ - S variable = value ] - n name apxs - q [ - S variable = value ] query ... apxs - c [ - S variable = value ] [ - o dsofile ] [ - I incdir ] [ - D variable [= value ] ] [ - L libdir ] [ - l libname ] [ - Wc, compiler - flags ] [ - Wl, linker - flags ] files ... apxs - i [ - S variable = value ] [ - n name ] [ - a ] [ - A ] dso- file ... apxs - e [ - S variable = value ] [ - n name ] [ - a ] [ - A ] dso- file .. ...

... It is also our solar system's tenth planet. ... The astronomers first imaged 2003 UB313 October 21, 2003 -- but the ice world moved so slowly along its orbit it eluded software designed to look for moving targets until the scientists reanalyzed their images January 5, 2005. ... But Brown's crowning of 2003 UB313 as a tenth planet has rankled some astronomers and reinvigorated the simmering debate over how to define a planet -- and if any scientifically useful definition can include Pluto. ...

CFITSIO Interface Library CFITSIO is a library of ANSI C routines for reading and writing FITS format data files. ... The CFITSIO library is built on Unix systems by typing: > ./configure [--prefix=/target/installation/path] > make (or 'make shared') > make install (this step is optional) at the operating system prompt. The configure command customizes the Makefile for the particular system, then the `make' command compiles the source files and builds the library. ...

ASTRONOMY IN UKRAINE - 2000 AND BEYOND . ... Kyiv, Ukraine, 5-8 June 2000 . ... The primary objective of the conference is to consider the integration of astronomical research in Ukraine into the international astronomy. ... VLBI for Astronomy and Geodynamics Convenors: Kees van't Klooster (The Netherlands), Leonid M. Litvinenko (Ukraine), Chopo Ma (USA). ... Planetary Astronomy Convenors: Teodor Kostiuk (USA), Robert Nelson (USA), Yuri Shkuratov (Ukraine). ... The "general" registration fee: 100 USD. ...

Architect's Drawing: ARC 3.5-mTelescope This year we celebrate the 20th anniversary of the Astrophysical Research Consortium's (ARC) 3.5-m Telescope (1994 - 2014) dedication. ... It was a pioneer telescope in remotely operating the telescope and instruments. ... Four telescopes are currently operated: The Sloan Foundation 2.5-m Telescope, the ARC Small Aperture 0.5-m Telescope, the New Mexico State University 1.0-m Telescope, and the ARC 3.5-m Telescope. ...

. [Russian version] . M a i n p a g e . Future seminars . P a s t seminars . Seminar council . "The solar activity influence onto biological objects" . T.K. Breus (IKI) . Abstract: . An attempt has been done to revise long existing principal contrudictions in the problem of the solar activity influence on biological objects including human beings . The results may be interesting in association with the problem of space weather hazards.

... 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. ...

to build all that is needed to run, do make (either at the toplevel directory of the SAS or your package). If it reports an error, see build.html. to run the tests do 'make test'. to run a thorough check, do make check (either at the toplevel directory of the SAS or your package). ... Each subdirectory contains a Makefile that includes the toplevel Make.include. ... Each Makefile should define a few variables and then include the toplevel Makefile: # Makefile include $(SAS_DIR)/Make.include are: . ...

... Sternberg Astronomical Institute , Moscow University . ... Present edition unites two parts of Catalogue of interacting galaxies by B.A.Vorontsov-Velyaminov: the first part (Part 1) containing 355 systems was published in 1959 [1] and the second one (Part 2) with 497 objects - in 1976 [2].Thus two published parts of Catalogue include 852 interacting systems. ... All new of them (1162 by number) were taken from the comments to the galaxies in Morphological catalogue by Vorontsov-Velyaminov et al.[ ...