... John Butler reports that the HLF-supported programme of restoration of three historic telescopes and their domes has continued throughout the year, and that a growing collection of images showing progress with the Telescopes and Telescope Domes restoration project is available on the Armagh Observatory web-site (see http://star.arm.ac.uk/history/Domes/). ... The new dome for the 18-inch Calver Telescope is now fully operational and awaits the return of the telescope to Armagh later in 2005. ...

Log windows display messages from all "actors" (instruments, the TCC, the hub...) and allow you to send commands. Controls along the top allow you to filter out unwanted garbage or highlight messages of particular interest. ... Regular Expressions . ... The entry field for "+ Actors" and "+ Commands" filtering accept space-separated regular expressions . ... If you plan to send many messages to a particular actor, you may select the actor from the menu next to the command entry field. ...

Contents and Select Excerpts . ... Winter 2008 . This page contains the table of contents and select excerpts only and is not a complete reproduction of this issue. Complete content for online Mercury is available to ASP members and institutional subscribers . ... The Mystery of Dark Energy, Robert Naeye . ... Melted Crumbs from Asteroid Vesta, Linda M.V. Martel . ... Astronomy in the News . ... Annals of Astronomy, Clifford J. Cunningham . ... ASP 2008 Meeting, Andrew Fraknoi . ...

... Welcome to the X-Ray World Wide Web Server! This server has been operational since April 1994. ... It is the repository of the COREX bibliography and database, the Henke atomic scattering factors, and other information of interest to x-ray spectroscopists. It provides links to additional locations for information about x-ray research, including conferences , synchrotron radiation laboratories , and other x-ray related Web or FTP sites . ... UW Synchrotron Radiation Center (Stoughton, WI USA) . ...

... To set the coordinates in E2000 use xpaset -p tel target [ra] [dec] All commands and arguments are lower case. ... Primary functions set or get values and provide basic control with the actions noted tel status [exit/on/off] manage xpatel and the telescope controller tel goto [on/off] go to target tel track [on/off] toggle track on and off tel guide [on/off] toggle precision guide on target tel target [#] [#] target coordinates [RA (h)] [ Dec (deg)] (E2000) tel ...

Stellarium 0.12.3 . ... Classes . ... FileљStructure . ... StelQGL1Renderer Class Reference . ... virtual boolљ . ... areFloatTexturesSupported () const . Returns true if floating point textures are supported, false otherwise. ... virtual voidљ . ... Create an empty index buffer and return a pointer to it. ... setGlobalColor (const float r, const float g, const float b, const float a=1.0f) . ... virtual void StelQGL1Renderer::drawVertexBufferBackend . ... virtual void StelQGL1Renderer::invariant . ...

... Satellite data ] . SMIS ] . SMIS IKI RAN: table of contents . About SMIS laboratory Team . ... PREDICT - Satellite orbit and antenna tracking data calculation . ... XV_FRAME - Raw HRPT data processing: browsing, fragmentation, geo-location, storing to TDF format . ... XV_AVHRR - AVHRR instrument data processing . ... Satellite data NOAA . ... Russian Regions . ... Operational archive . ... Data archive . ... Archive . ... Telemetry data operational archive . ... Data processing examples . ...

NAUTICAL ASTRONOMICAL YEARBOOK for 2017 (in Russian) Contents . ... Daily tables . ... Stars. ... Determination of latitude by altitude of Polaris . ... Correction to azimuth of apparent solar upper limb at sunrise and sunset . ... 280 . ... 280 Appendices . ... Corrections to the time of sunrise and sunset, rising and setting of the Moon, twilight and the culminations of stars: . 1.A. Correction for latitude . ... Tables for correction of the observed altitudes of stars . ... The index of stars . ...

Photon Scattering: Basic Principle of Photon Scattering . Audio Narration is available . No Scattering: Photon Source and Detector . ... For optical photons, scattering goes as wavelength to the -4 power. In the case of blue photons compared to red photons, this means that blue photons are about 10 times more likely to get scattered than red photons. ... Watch the blue photons scatter away from the detector . ... Interstellar dust make stars appear redder than they really are . ...

Trace: ranking . ... CREATE OR REPLACE FUNCTION my_rank (tsvector, tsquery, int ) RETURNS float AS $$ use List::Util qw(min max); my ($string, $ query ) = @_; my $maxpos = 0; # Parse tsvector, taking into account positional information foreach (split / /, $string){ if(/^'(\w+)'(:([0-9,]+))?$/){ foreach(split /,/, $3){ $ vector {$_} = $1; $maxpos = max($maxpos, $_); } } } my @ vector = map {$ vector {$_}} sort {$a = $b} keys(% vector ); # Parse tsquery, assuming it to be ORed only $ ... SAI VO | ...

... Galileo Probe . The Galileo spacecraft was designed to study Jupiter's atmosphere, satellites, and surrounding magnetosphere for two years. ... From there, Galileo will spend more than five years traveling to Jupiter, where it will become the first spacecraft to make direct measurements from an instrumented probe within Jupiter's atmosphere. ... This image, taken by the Hubble Space Telescope, shows the predicted site at which the Galileo Probe will enter Jupiter's atmosphere on December 7, 1995. ...

... Planetarium Staff . ... Freedom of Information . ... The Armagh Planetarium website has been enabled to use BrowseAloud software. ... See the following instructions on how to increase the size of the text on any web page you are viewing. тАв Press ' Ctrl ' and ' + ' to increase the text size, ' Ctrl ' and ' - ' to decrease the text size. ... For information on changing the text size in older browsers and on different operating systems visit the BBC My Web My Way site for Windows, MAC and Linux . ...

... A. A. Berezhnoy1,2, N. Hasebe1, M. Kobayashi1, G. Michael3 and N. Yamashita1 1Advanced Research Institute for Science and Engineering, Waseda University, Tokyo, Japan 2Sternberg Astronomical Institute, Moscow, Russia 3German Aerospace Center, Institute for planetary research, Berlin, Germany Abstract: The quality of Lunar Prospector measurements of elemental composition of the lunar surface is checked by comparison between remote sensing and returned sample collection data sets. ...

XEphem Forum Message . Forums: . ... Post . ... CDRom Contents . ... Post Message | ... Posted by Ian Wilkinson on January 23, 2001 02:52:08 UTC . Is the CDRom contents available for download (as an ISO image, or otherwise)? ... www.astronomy.net . ... Unless otherwise specified, web site content Copyright 1994-2016 John Huggins All Rights Reserved . Forum posts are Copyright their authors as specified in the heading above the post. "dbHTML," "AstroGuide," "ASTRONOMY.NET" & "VA.NET" . ...

... 7.03.2001 . ... Credit: AMOS, AEOS ; Courtesy Compton GRO Science Support Center Explanation: On 2000 June 4, the 17-ton Compton Gamma-Ray Observatory returned to Earth after 9 years in orbit -- ending its remarkable voyage of discovery. ... March 2001 . ... 1999 2000 . ... NASA Web Site Statements, Warnings, and Disclaimers . ... Publications with keywords: orbit - satellite - compton - gro . Publications with words: orbit - satellite - compton - gro . ... Compton Observatory In Orbit . ...

... 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. ...

... Tonight's Sky . ... SUN MOON MERCURY VENUS MARS, JUPITER SATURN . ... Mars . ... The Magazine . ... Observing . ... Gravitational wave search provides insights into galaxy evolution and mergers . ... The double star 54 Leonis, spiral galaxy NGC 3198, and emission nebula NGC 3199 . ... Astronomy for Kids . ... Mars returns to glory . ... Get instant access to subscriber content on Astronomy.com! ... Receive news, sky-event information, observing tips, and more from Astronomy's weekly email newsletter...

... Documentation for the Python objects defined by the project is divided into separate pages for each package, module, and class. The API documentation also includes two pages containing information about the project as a whole: a trees page, and an index page. ... A description of the package. ... A summary of the classes defined by the package. ... The module contents frame contains a list of every submodule, class, type, exception, function, and variable defined by a module or package. ...

PRESS-RELEASE . about the return of the ISS-13 and VC-11 crews to the Earth . The Soyuz TMA-8 descent module returned to ground the Expedition 13 crew of the International Space Station (ISS-13) consisting of Pavel Vinogradov (commander, S.P.Korolev RSC Energia test cosmonaut), and Jeffry Williams (flight engineer, NASA astronaut). ... The spacecraft descent was carried out in the nominal automatic control mode. ... Official WEB-site of S.P.Korolev RSC Energia . ...

Databases (NSDC) of the Natural Planetary Satellites. ... NSDC: Database of astrometric observations of Natural Planetary Satellites . ... They are thoroughly looking for observations in different sources, creating their owndatabases which are then mostly inaccessible to other researchers. ... In the file "content" with explications, the reference is given to the data source as well as the bibliographic reference. ... Data sources. ... Why a specific bibliographic database for Natural satellites? ...