... Next, the screen displays "Press 0 to align or Mode for Menu." Press "0" if you wish to begin Automatic alignment (or Easy Align, depending on your telescope model), or press Mode if you wish to choose a manual alignment method ("Automatic Alignment" displays, and you can press MODE to go through the menu to find other alignments). ... Note: If you press the "?" key while "Ctr Brightest Star" displays, the alignment star that AutoStar has chosen will display. ... Alignment successful" displays. ...

Russian Academy of Sciences Pulkovo Observatory On systematic and stochastic errors of radio source position catalogues Zinovy Malkin Pulkovo Observatory and St. Petersburg State University malkin@gao.spb.ru JournИes 2013, Paris, France, September 2013 Topics to discuss The following topics related to the radio source position catalogues are considered: 1. ... A new approach to assess the external stochastic errors of radio source position catalogues has been presented. ...

... To plot the data (and model, here xitau.model), I have read the model, computed the model values for the ASTROMETRY, and used Plot|ASTROMETRY to produce the ASTROMETRY plot widget. ... First, plot the data and with Util|Ellipse and the mouse buttons interactively define an apparent ellipse to fit your data as best as you can. ... Under Util|Orbit, there is a Thiele-Innes procedure to estimate the orbital elements using your apparent ellipse and Kepler's laws! ... Back to tour page . ...

... With enough velocity, a spacecraft can break loose from the Earth's gravity and enter an orbit around the Sun, like that of a planet. If it then orbits the Sun with the same period as the Earth--one year--it may keep a fixed position relative to Earth. ... If the distance is just right--about 4 times the distance to the Moon or 1/100 the distance to the Sun--the spacecraft, too, will need just one year to go around the Sun, and will keep its position between the Sun and the Earth. ...

... The goal of this course is to introduce some -- very interesting -- basic examples and notions of combinatorial game theory, following the book "How to win your mathematical games", by Berlekamp, Conway and Guy. ... So, for every game there is a winning strategy, and to find one one can use the well-known idea of winning/losing positions. ... Temperature theory. We will see the limits of the association of numbers and games: some positions can not be associated to a single real number! ...

... The package AMPLE (Adaptable Minor Planet Ephemerides) is dedicated to solving a number of problems concerning minor planets with the aid of IBM-type personal computer. ... Obtaining selection of orbital elements and/ or photometric parameters of minor planets in conformity with imposed restrictions. ... The orbital elements of all minor planets used in AMPLE for 2015 have been determined in IAA on the ground of available observations in the catalogue of observations of the Minor Planet Center. ...

October 14, 2010 =============== Address BUGS In bisque/mks: add Home on startup -- currently must be homed with the joystick reverse tracking direction in southern hemisphere check southern hemisphere mappings In order of priority -- Make a guide and manual available. Provide a method of determining best pointing correction parameters. ... Fully test pointing corrections on a system capable of arc second accuracy. ...

... This program was created for correlating chosen regions in the series of fts images. ... Chosen regions' . ... In this section the program counts the integral for each region of the grid for each image. ... As a matter of fact, the integral is total brightness of the region and it is counted by 'int_tabulated' IDL function. ... In addition, the program will show the count of the regions which correlate with the corresponding region (the brighter region means the bigger count) and its contour. ...

International Space Station Transits Saturn . ... Credit Copyright: Julian Wessel Explanation: From low Earth orbit to the outer Solar System, this remarkable video frame composite follows the International Space Station's transit of Saturn. ... That put the camera about 1,140 kilometers away from the space station during the transit and 1,600,000,000 kilometers away from Saturn . ... Of course, you could also try to capture the International Space Station as it transits Jupiter . ...

... Laboratory and theoretical modelling of the UV bump on the interstellar extinction curve is a very popular topic in dusty investigations. ... feature is illustrated by Fig. 10 where the profiles were calculated using the model of graphite spheres. Figure 10: Normalized extinction efficiencies for graphite spheres. ... The lower panel shows the summary extinction of two graphite spheres with radii and (from upper panel) taken in equal proportions. ...

Astronotes Armagh Planetarium's Stellar Blog! ... Stars . ... Space Flight . ... Some 13.7 billion years ago, a mere millionth of a second after the Big Bang, the first hydrogen and helium nuclei condensed out of a hot, dense soup of quarks and gluons. ... In the very last few kilometres some of the light was scattered by a myriad of water droplets (containing hydrogen nuclei which had existed almost since the Big Bang) slowly descending through the air following a rainshower. ...

... Activity 3: Measuring the Position of the Sun in the Sky . Purpose: To give students the opportunity to measure the position of the Sun in the sky using simple tools and methods. ... Alternatively, you may have students devise their own methods of relative measurement and apply them to measuring the position of the Sun in the sky. ... Rangi is the sky, and when the Sun is near Rangi's head it is summer in New Zealand. ... Read the Maori story to students. ... back to Teachers' Newsletter Main Page ...

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... Place of birth: Province (city/town), state, country . ... Passport data: 8.1.( ... 10.6. (for students) In what previous IAOs or APAOs participated (write years and Diploma, like: IAO-2003, 2nd Diploma) 11. ... What official language (Russian or English) he/she will use while translate text at the olympiad and during the cultural programme . ... GUVD 611, city Alma-Ata, Kazakhstan . ... Dr. Michael G. Gavrilov, Founding Chairman and Coordinator of the Asian-Pacific Astronomy Olympiad (APAO) . ...

Shareable Data Center "East Siberian Center for the Earth's Ionosphere Research" (SDC ESCEIR) maintains fundamental researches for nothing  if these projects are supported by RFBR. ... SDC ESCEIR performs work on a commercial basis. Financing is supported by RFBR. RFBR Grant № 00-05-72026. ... RFBR grant . Work description (obligatory) . ... Request for work | ...

... From the top-level of the Apache source tree, type: cd support [ENTER] . ... From support/suexec.h /* * HTTPD_USER -- Define as the username under which Apache normally * runs. ... See the suEXEC documentation for more detailed * information. */ #define USERDIR_SUFFIX "public_html" /* * LOG_EXEC -- Define this as a filename if you want all suEXEC * transactions and errors logged for auditing and * debugging purposes. */ #define LOG_EXEC "/usr/local/apache/logs/cgi.log" /* Need me? ...

Super Rocket Targets . NPO MOLNIYA has been designing rockets-targets for over 30 years using the great experience in crea-ting anti-aircraft guided rockets (AGR) for C-25M. On the basis of B-300 anti-aircraft rockets which expired their service life, there were designed, tested and put into the serial production the following types of the rocket - ... The analogue of this system successfully passed the state tests with the ZVEZDA-4 rocket-target. ...

... This appartus will drop a mass from different heights. When the mass strikes the ground, some percentage of its original energy will be absorbed by the ground. ... The percentage of the energy which is absorbed by the surface on each "bounce" (EAS) . ... The impact velocity of the object will also be given at each bounce. ... Start= Drop the ball after Energy, Mass and EAS have been set; resume after step or pause has been selected . ... Reset = Reset experiment to intial values . ...

... Exposure Time Calculator (ETC) . Survey processing . ... VISTA is a 4-m class wide field survey telescope for the southern hemisphere, equipped with a near infrared camera (1.65 degree diameter field of view at VISTA's nominal pixel size) containing 67 million pixels of mean size 0.34 arcsec and available broad band filters at Z,Y,J,H,K s and a narrow band filter at 1.18 micron. A wide field visible camera, if constructed, could also be used on VISTA. ... Tile . ... ESO VISTA Public Surveys . ...

... The HST uses an onboard model of its orbit to perform in real-time various control functions relating to spacecraft operations and observation support. ... New coefficients for the ephemeris are updated every other day, and are archived as FITS keywords for each HST observation data set. Using these coefficients,an observer can perform a variety of calibration and characterization calculations relating to the orbital position and velocity of the telescope. ...