... The Milky Way's Center . ... Credit Copyright: DIRBE , COBE , NASA Explanation: Although the Earth is round, our Galaxy appears truly flat. This was shown in dramatic fashion by the COsmic Background Explorer (COBE) satellite which produced this premier view of the central region of our own Milky Way Galaxy in infrared light in1990. The Milky Way is a typical spiral galaxy with a central bulge and extended disk of stars. ... Milky Way Galaxy Doomed: Collision with Andromeda Pending . ...

The NICFPS:Dither:Extended Source script allows you to a set of take pairs of dithered source/sky exposures. These pairs of exposures are taken over various points of a small 5-point dither pattern. ... dither point 1 on source . dither point 1 on sky . ... For more information see NICFPS:Dither:Point Source . ... As the script runs the status of each dither point is updated. ... This differs from the NICFPS:Dither:Point Source script, whose dither pattern is aligned with the detector. ...

... Proposed directory for placement: /pub/os2/apps/graphics Your name: Martin Iturbide Email address: martin@os2world.com Program contact name: Lutz Wagner Program contact email: luwag@gmx.net Program URL: http://os2.zworks.de/ImgMeta/eng/index.html Would you like the contact email address included in listings? yes Operating System/Version: Additional requirements: Replaces: (none) ...

... A2704 Date Received: 2012-Mar-01 19:29:39 Technical Page Proposal Type: General Category : Sub- Category : Observation Category : Total Time Requested: Minimum Useful Time: Regular Astronomy Continuum Extragalactic 50 Hours 2 hrs Prop osal Title: Extended Imaging of Diffuse Intergalactic 430 -MHz Emission in the PerseusPisces Supercluster region ABSTRACT: We request to extend, at 430 MHz, the 230 deg2 area we observed in the Perseus-Pisces ...

... Central astronomical observatory at Pulkovo of Russian Academy of Sciences . ... INTAS 2001-0550 "The Solar-terrestrial climate link in the past millennia and its influence on future climate" . ... Programs of Presidium of Russian Academy of Sciences "Non-stationary phenomena in astronomy" . and "Solar activity and physical processes in the Sun-Earth system" . Program of Division for Physical Sciences of RAS No 16 "Solar Wind" . ...

... Configuration The dictionary accepts one obligatory parameter - RULES, which has to be set to the file describing parsing rules and output recipes. ... Each non-empty line is either a comment (when started with '#' symbol), or a conversion rule, and in the latter case has to contain whitespace-separated pattern and output recipe. Currently, pattern has to match the _integer_ (one, two or more) number of input tokens; they will be replaced with a single one. ...

Wide-angle telescopes for photometry and polarimetry in optical and infrared ranges . ... Investigation of the Earth’s atmosphere, comets, interplanetary and interstellar medium with brightness and linear polarization measurements of extended sources and sky background in optical and infrared spectral ranges. ... The devices are small diameter telescopes with CCD-detectors for optical and infrared spectral range with spectral and polarization filters. ... 15-cm telescope with cooling down to 80 K . ...

... Telescope concept . ... The Submillimetron Project is dedicated to astronomical studies at the submillimeter and far infrared wavelengths using a cryogenic telescope located on the Russian segment of the International Space Station (ISS). The Astro Space Center of the Lebedev Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences is responsible for developing the Submillimetron Project. ... Currently, the Astro Space Center is carrying out a pre-Project study under contract with the Russian Space Agency. ...

The 2016 Project ASTRO introductory workshop will take place September 16-17, 2016. ... Participating teachers and astronomers are required to attend. ... Home Phone: . ... work email . ... Please briefly describe your background and your experiences in astronomy (if different). Describe experiences you have working with schools or explaining astronomy to students and/or the public. ... What grade level(s) do you prefer to work with (check all that apply) . ... either work or home . ...

... Impedance . Electrical impedance, or simply impedance, describes a measure of opposition to a sinusoidal alternating current (AC). Electrical impedance extends the concept of resistance to AC circuits, describing not only the relative amplitudes of the voltage and current, but also the relative phases. ... Resistance is the real part of impedance; a device with a purely resistive impedance exhibits no phase shift between the voltage and current. ...

Disastrous earthquakes happen 100 to 200 times a year. ... There is a chance that the data of ionospheric plasma observations hold an answer to the latter question. Satellites and ground-based facilities may detect earthquake precursors in the ionosphere a few hours or days before the main shock. ... ULF "Hz"-oscillations have been recorded several hours before the main shock in a narrow magnetic field tube (40...100 km along the satellite trajectory) conjugated with epicenter of the earthquake. ...

... It allows observations of extended and starlike objects in different modes: CCD photometry, panoramic spectroscopy with the Fabry-Perot interferometer, spectroscopy and spectropolarimetry with a "long-slit", slit-free spectroscopy, multi-object spectroscopy. ... Digital servo drives that were installed have improved the reliability of the complex, extended the range severalfold, and reduced the telescope's speed control step. ... A software and hardware set for the BTA control system was implemented...

... a) As source material for the high-school or college curriculum, especially in physics. astronomy and their history. (b) As a source of supplemental projects by high school students or by undergraduates. (c) As material for independent studies, In particular by motivated students who seek to know more about space . ... Those wishing to look up specific topics are advised to use the index file, accessible from the end of any "Exploration" file. ... files not listed and at other resource material. ...

... About StarCalc . News . ... StarCalc Home Page . Short description of changes, implemented in the StarCalc, . ... CHANGES OF PROGRAM CORE FUNCTIONS. CHANGES OF PROGRAM INTERFACE. CHANGES OF OBJECT INTERFACES. ... New "Output console". ... Information, which is generated by StarCalc, is added into the console - for example, ephemeris tables. ... In the StarCalc state file can be saved autorotation parameters, object selection, object locking mode, auto start and stop autorotation mode. ...

... is for inputs/outputs referenced to ground . ... On most architectures, lsampl_t is defined to be uint32. typedef struct comedi _trig_struct comedi _trig; struct comedi _trig_struct{ unsigned int subdev; /* subdevice */ unsigned int mode; /* mode */ unsigned int flags; unsigned int n_chan; /* number of channels */ unsigned int *chanlist; /* channel /range list */ sampl_t * data ; /* data list, size depends on subd flags */ unsigned ... read values from an input channel . ...

... Report on Cosmic Call 1999 . ... Cosmic Call Sessions . ... This Report outlines methodology, hard- and software, which were developed to transmit first public Interstellar messages from Evpatoria Deep Space Center (EDSC), and describes four Cosmic Call Sessions, which were fulfilled in EDSC on May 24 and June 30 - July 1, 1999. ... Each Cosmic Call consists of two parts. ... Dutil Message, . ... The software for gathering all messages and creating the Cosmic Call stream, was written on C language. ...

In the regular experiments carried out with the RAS radio telescopes at Pushchino during 1999-2002, the study of the radial dependence of scattering of compact natural radio sources was extended to remote regions of the solar plasma environment. ... The stream in the transalfvenic region displays the same typical radial structure as observed in the transonic region, i.e., the existence of a "precursor" - a narrow band of reduced scattering preceding a wide region of enhanced scattering. ...

... Visual Observing of Variable Stars - an Addict's Story . ... In Glenn’s words…I’ve been an avid amateur astronomer since the summer of 1963 when a high school friend showed me Saturn through his telescope. ... I’ve been a member of both the Amateur Telescope makers of Boston (currently Vice President) and the American Association of Variable Star Observers (AAVSO) since 1980. ... Copyright (c) Amateur Telescope Makers of Boston, Inc. ...

. This is an image of Reticulum II obtained by the Dark Energy Survey, using the Blanco 4-meter telescope at Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory. The nine stars described in the paper are circled in red. The insets show the strong presence of barium, one of the main neutron capture elements the team observed in three stars. Background image is courtesy of Dark Energy Survey/Fermilab. Foreground image is courtesy of Alexander Ji, Anna Frebel, Anirudh Chiti, and Josh Simon

... The words are numbered according to the reference mentioned above. ... 59 WORD wSecond ; // 0 .. 59 satellite tracking start time (GMT) float fStep ; // reserved WORD wMass ; // reserved BYTE reserved [12] ; // reserved WORD wExtraBytes ; // reserved } TRAJECTORYHEADER ; NOTE: the satellite tracking start time is a hardware operating start time to follow satellite. typedef struct { // ephemeris at satellite tracking start time double time ; // Epoch time (yyddd.ddddddddd)...