... Science Users Information > Science Publications > Archive of the ESO Enews > ESO-Enews #16: August 2010 . ... Phase 1 Proposals . ... This is an early announcement of changes to be introduced in the ESO observing proposal submission process for Period 87 (proposals to be submitted by 30 September 2010 for observations to be executed between 1 April and 30 September 2011). ... PREVIEW OF PERIOD 87 CALL FOR OBSERVING PROPOSALS: MERGER OF SHORT PROGRAMMES CATEGORY AND CHANGES TO PROPOSAL FORM . ...

As in the last years, the Ephemerides of Minor Planets for 2015 are prepared by the IAA RAS only in the electronic form. ... Orbital elements of all numbered planets have been determined in IAA all over again on the ground of available observations in the catalog of the Minor Planet Center. ... More detailed information on orbital elements used in the present volume of EMP and their accuracy is given in section "Information on new orbital elements". ... a) information on new orbital elements; . ...

On April 14, 2000 UT a series of Shack-Hartmann measurements were made at varying altitudes. ... The tilts and sags shown are those given by the normal Shack-Hartmann analysis. ... Without this feedback, off-telescope tests showed positioning errors on the order of 10 arcseconds in the secondary mirror position. ... Tilt M2 Bk by X" . ... The coefficients m1 through m3 need to be added to those that are currently in the TCC to correct for the secondary translation with respect to the primary. ...

... Bad Astronomy . ... I think I will break from my usual format of Bad Astronomy/ Good Astronomy by saying that the way we define seasons currently is not strictly bad, but I feel (in my opinion!) that it could be better. The definition of when the seasons begin is at the moment of solstice or equinox; that is, winter (in the north) starts on December 22 nd and summer starts on June 22 nd . ... Now imagine breaking up the Sun's 46 degree up-and-down yearly swing into 1 day intervals. ...

... Fitting the observed dependence includes calculations of the polarization cross-sections averaged over particles orientation and size distribution, their normalization and the comparison of obtained dependencies with Serkowski's curve representing observational data for a chosen star. ... Variations of the polarization factors with wavelength are shown in Fig. 16 for homogeneous spheroidal particles with PF orientation. ... The distinction between prolate and oblate spheroids is also clearly seen. ...

... Astrobrowse is a user agent which significantly streamlines the process of gathering astronomical data on the web. With it, a user can query thousands of resources without having to search through old bookmark lists, deal with out-of-date URLs, or spend time figuring out how to use each resource's unique input form. Given a user's selection of web-based astronomical databases and an object name or coordinates, Astrobrowse will explode queries to all selected databases and collect the results. ...

II-VI compound crystal growth, HPVB & HPVZM basics . ... Developed and first time applied for II-VI compound crystal growth in our lab back in late sixties [1]. ... Basics . The II-VI compounds have particular physical-chemical properties that present a challenge for the crystal growth. ... In the general case of II-VI compounds and HPVB growth conditions: . ... These peculiarities of composition stipulate another problem of the II-VI compound crystal growth from the melt - "bubbles". ...

... 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 . ...

Comedi Documentation . ... Right to the source: #include <stdio.h> /* for printf() */ #include <comedilib.h> int subdev = 0; /* change this to your input subdevice */ int chan = 0; /* change this to your channel */ int range = 0; /* more on this later */ int aref = AREF_GROUND; /* more on this later */ int main(int argc,char *argv[]) { comedi_t *it; lsampl_t data; it=comedi_open("/dev/comedi0"); comedi_data_read(it,subdev,chan,range,aref,&data); printf("%d\n",data); return 0; } . ...

... Former residence of Captain Marshall, American envoy in China (160 Taiyuan Rd) lived here in 1945-1947. ... Former residence of Ding Guitang (45 Fenyan rd) built in 1935 and designed by Morrison Hunt, the house belonged to the head of Shanghai Customs before 1949. ... Former residence of Tang Xinghai (1431 Huaihai Zhong rd) now the French Consulate. ... Former residence of Rong Hongyang (Huaihai Zhong rd Wulumqi Rd) built in 1921 and belonged to the riches family in China. ... Now the US Consulate. ...

polimodel -- Produce model linear polarization and position angle images . ... Whether to apply random errors to output polarization and position angle values. seed = "" [integer] . ... This task produces a model linear polarization image and corresponding position angle image from an input image assumed to represent intensity (Stokes I parameter). ... A threshold for the input image can be defined such that polarization and position angle are not computed for input values less than this threshold. ...

... A Front of line M-G Goto a line ^E End of line ^N Next line M-N Front of paragraph ^P Previous line M-P End of paragraph ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- = (2) DELETING INSERTING -- Delete previous character ^D or DELETE Delete next character ^C or INSERT Insert a space M- -- Delete previous word M-D Delete next word ^K Close ( ... The KILL BUFFER is the text which has been most recently saved or deleted. ...

Since the first stars and then galaxies formed the Universe has been an immense factory converting neutral gas into stellar material. ... In this seminar I will discuss recent results from the Galaxy And Mass Assembly (GAMA) survey, probing the assembly of stellar mass though both in-situ star formation (as traced by multiple SFR indicators) and interactions (both mergers and interaction induced star-formation) - in galaxies spanning ~4 decades in stellar mass. ...

... NASA Astronaut (former) . ... Graduated from East Detroit High School, Eastpointe, Michigan, in 1973; received a bachelor of science degree in bioscience from the U.S . Naval Academy in 1977; a doctorate in medicine from Wayne State University in 1981; a master of science degree in systems management from University of Southern California in 1988; a master of public health degree in health policy from the ... Top graduate, Naval Flight Surgeon Training and Naval Safety Officer's School. ...

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. ...

Trace: paper-arxiv-2007-adass . start : people : sergeykarpov : paper-arxiv-2007-adass . ... SAI VO Projects . ... Our People . ... Help on Wiki search . ... The search of scientific textual information in the Virtual Observatory. ... Also, we implemented usual web form query interface to perform both full-text search and query by object name. people/sergeykarpov/paper-arxiv-2007-adass.txt Last modified: 2007/06/30 20:57 by karpov Back to top . SAI VO | ... SAI MSU | ...

The 6th INTEGRAL Workshop . The Obscured Universe . Space Research Institute, Moscow, Russia . July 2-8, 2006 . Workshop Information: . ... Travel support . ... SAC/LOC . ... The 6th INTEGRAL (International Gamma-Ray Astrophysics Laboratory) Workshop ``The Obscured Universe'' changed its location announced in the first circular and finally will be held at the Space Research Institute (IKI), Moscow, Russia on July 2-8, 2006 (the working days July 3-7). ... INTEGRAL Workshop LOC) . ...

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STARTEST IMAGES GALLERY . STARTESTING TELESCOPES WITH AN AUTOCOLLIMATOR . ... This website is a joint effort of Markus Ludes from APM-Telescopes and Cor Berrevoets ( Aberrator free startesting Software ). The site aims at explaining the different aspects of star-testing telescopes. ... Markus Ludes (APM telescopes) used a high quality 10" Maksutov Newtonian (Zygo tested at 632,8 nm with the following errors: 1/10.1 wavefront p.t.v. and 1/51 wavefront RMS) as collimator in single pass scheme. ...

... The ideas of Dark Matter and Dark Energy are certainly revolutionary. ... What is Dark Energy? ... The galaxies are much more massive than expected and consist of matter we can detect and something else we can't see i.e. Dark Matter. ... How does Dark Energy fit into the evolution of the universe? ... The mutual gravitational attraction between this matter slows the rate of expansion · Once the universe is beyond a certain size Dark Energy, which is a repulsive force, forces galaxies apart. ...