IBIS Data Analysis . ... IBIS . ... Flat Fielding - Introduction . The images obtained by IBIS will have intensity variations across the field of view that are not due to the solar image, but rather caused by instrumental effects that alter the observed intensity in each point of the field of view. ... IBIS Flat Fielding Techniques . ... Therefore, it is desirable to obtain the flat field measurements center on a point along the equator near the heliographic center of the solar disk. ...

... Fortran . Storage rules Dummy argument is a quantity in the specification of a procedure, function or subroutine. Actual argument is a quantity in the call of a procedure, function or subroutine. ... Becomes 101 END PROGRAM EXAMPLE SUBROUTINE SUB(X, Y, Z) IMPLICIT NONE REAL, INTENT(IN) :: X REAL, INTENT(INOUT) :: Y REAL, INTENT(OUT) :: Z Y = Y**2 Z = X + Y END SUBROUTINE SUB In Fortran there is really only one kind of argument usage, called argument association. ...

... Q 12.649 0.523 0.342 -0.108 4444 -4.647 -4.582 "n6231_ 178" 16 53 48.63 -41 51 54.1 J2000.0 ! ... A few lines are then added to the top (see readme_asc2dxf for details) to produce input for asc2dxf :in.coo: n6231cp6.dxf slot line 2.00 43.00 9.00 43.00 point 9.773 19.026 n6231 _ 171 Q 12.649 11.236 57.382 n6231 _ 178 I 14.533 ... the output of this program is as follows :n6231cp6.dxf: 0 SECTION 2 ENTITIES 0 CIRCLE 8 1 62 3 10 43.00 20 43.00 30 0.000 40 43.00 0 ...

... 24 } Line { SrcBlock sin SrcPort 1 DstBlock func1 DstPort 1 } Line { SrcBlock Fcn SrcPort 1 Points [0, -55] DstBlock func DstPort 1 } Line { SrcBlock (G*M) ^1/2 SrcPort 1 Points [25, 0] DstBlock func DstPort 3 } Line { SrcBlock func SrcPort 1 Points [40, 0] Branch { ...

The Olympiad participants are not supposed to study at any institutions of higher education (university or school which can be considered technical colleges). ... Only students did not participated at the IAO or APAO of the current educating year may participate in SiberiaOpen (that is, during an educating year - since autumn till spring - a student may participate in IAO or in APAO or in "Siberia Open", not in any two of these Olympiads). ... m - those who finish school later than in 3 years; . ...

Astronotes Armagh Planetarium's Stellar Blog! ... Armagh Planetarium . ... Moon . ... Space Flight . ... Science Fiction . UFOs and Fringe Science . Monthly Sky Notes . ... NASA's Cassini spacecraft obtained this image of Saturn's moon Helene on June 18, 2011. Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Space Science Institute) . ... Your email address will not be published. ... Email * . ... Here you will find the latest news and views from the fascinating worlds of astronomy and space exploration. ...

Distribution of the analyzed SEPs with different >100 MeV proton fluxes ( J 100 ) at the microwave flux density plane ' S 9 vs. ... 1) General correspondence takes place between intensities of microwave bursts and proton fluxes - J 100 increases when S 9 and S 15 rise. ... 3) Powerful microwave bursts ( S 9 , S 15 >3000-10000 sfu ) with hard radio spectra ( S 9 < S 15 ) correspond to majority of powerful proton fluxes ( J 100 >10 pfu ). ...

Scale-heights of the Galactic disk subsytems with different ages and metallicities . V.Marsakov & Yu. ... It is based on the fact, that all stars cross the disk plane several times during their Galactic orbital period. ... We have used our representative sample of nearby disk F2-G2 stars Marsakov & Shevelev (1995) in which fundamental stellar parameters was determined on the basis of published date on uvby-photometry, proper motion and radial velocities. ... Marsakov V.A., Shevelev Yu.G. Bull. ...

... The complexity of inversion of Goldreich's function by backtracking algorithms. ... In 2005 M. Alekhnovich, E. Hirsch and D. Itsykson proved the exponential lower bound on the complexity of inversion of Goldreich's function based on linear predicate and random graph by myopic bactracking agorithms. ... Motivated by applications to string algorithms, we introduce the following subclass of Monge matrices: a matrix is called unit-Monge, if its density matrix is a permutation matrix. ...

... Bit Fields . Bit Fields: Practical Example . ... NOTE: The combination of pointers and bit-level operators makes C useful for many low level applications and can almost replace assembly code. ... To illustrate many points of bitwise operators let us write a function, Bitcount , that counts bits set to 1 in an 8 bit number ( unsigned char ) passed as an argument to the function. int bitcount(unsigned char x) { int count; for (count=0; x != 0; x>>=1); if ( x & 01) count++; return count; } . ...

... Bad Astronomy . ... Bitesize Astronomy . ... Mad Science . ... Keep Bad Astronomy close to your heart, and help make me filthy rich. ... Sun coming thru clouds forms beams of light (in dust in air?) ... Why does it look like that when the rays are supposed to be parallel and the sun 93M miles away? ... The rays really do appear to diverge: they are close together near the Sun, then spread out overhead. ... The rays as a set are parallel, but each ray is a little bit fan-shaped. ... 2008 Phil Plait. ...

... astro-ph . ... Statistical Characterization of the Chandra Source Catalog . ... The first release of the Chandra Source Catalog (CSC) contains ~95,000 X-ray sources in a total area of ~0.75% of the entire sky, using data from ~3,900 separate ACIS observations of a multitude of different types of X-ray sources. ... In addition to these traditional catalog elements, for each X-ray source the CSC includes an extensive set of file-based data products that can be manipulated interactively. ...

... 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 . ...

... The DIV element is used with the CLASS attribute to represent different kinds of containers, e.g. chapter, section, abstract, or appendix. ... An SGML identifier used as the target for hypertext links or for naming particular elements in associated style sheets. ... By convention, the class names are interpreted hierarchically, with the most general class on the left and the most specific on the right, where classes are separated by a period. ... ALIGN . ... move down until left margin is clear . ...

... 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 . ...

polimplot -- Plot a polarization vector map . ... inpol = "" [name] . Input linear polarization image (in %) to plot. inpopa = "" [name] . Input image for position angle of linear polarization vectors (degrees). poi_err = "" [boolean] . ... Name of corresponding polarization position angle error image (degrees). ... This task is a flexible tool for plotting a polarization vector map from two images of the polarization and the position angle of the polarization vector. ...

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... NASA History . ... NASA Oral History Project: Administrators . This ongoing NASA Oral History Project captures information from the individuals who were involved in key positions with the Space Agency. ... Deputy Director , Mission Operations and Data Systems Directorate, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, 1989-1990 . Associate Director for Hubble Space Telescope Flight Projects, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, 1990-1994 . Deputy Center Director , NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, 1995 . ...

... Bojan Nikolic web pages (r. 329) . Currently I hold a Principal Research Associate position at the University of Cambridge. ... More information on the SKA SDP consortium will be available shortly on the public web-pages . ... Previous to that, I developed the technique of Out-Of-Focus (OOF) holography and wrote the software that is currently used for this at the Green Bank 100m (GBT) and other telescopes. ... Welcome . ... Copyright 2005 -- 2016, Bojan Nikolic feedback welcome ...

Astronomes Amateurs du Luxembourg a.s.b.l. " We bring the Universe to you ! Founded in 1971 by a group of enthusiasts and star aficionados, our association is now counting more than 130 members.As a national association we attract hobby astronomers from the whole country to our regular night-sky observations and to the meetings in our club at Dudelange. ... by topic : PDF File Download (360KB) . ... Article about AAL in "Le Quotidien" newspaper of Juli 21 2005 - PDF File Download (132KB) . ...