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The fixed azimuth drift routine within cima is used for various drift surveys. It allows you to start a drift scan at a particular az and declination. ... the observer provides the azimuth and declination of the source. ... It computes the ha,za given the az, dec Current, and the observatory lattitude. ... Users have been having trouble with the fixed drift routine when observing declinations close to that of the AO lattitude (18:21:14.2). ... az > 90, dec > ao lattitude, source setting . ...

Detecting Long Period Planets with WASP 1 University of Warwick, Gibbet Hill Road, Coventry, CV4 7AL To estimate the number of transiting planets in this period range, planetary occurrence rates from Kepler (Fressin et al, 2013) for varying spectral type & planet type were used. ... Two `stare' fields are currently available from 2011 (330,000 stars) producing a detection rate of 3.0±2.4 planets (Fig 4). ... Since 2011, WASP-N cameras have observed in `Stare' mode, with cadence of ~1-2min. ...

... Apache HTTP Server Version 2.2 . ... Apache is configured by placing directives in plain text configuration files. ... Any directive may be placed in any of these configuration files. ... Apache configuration files contain one directive per line. ... Directives placed in the main configuration files apply to the entire server. ... The server administrator further controls what directives may be placed in .htaccess files by configuring the AllowOverride directive in the main configuration files. ...

... Scope of Directives .htaccess Files . ... Apache is configured by placing directives in plain text configuration files. ... Any directive may be placed in any of these configuration files. ... Apache configuration files contain one directive per line. ... Directives placed in the main configuration files apply to the entire server. ... The server administrator further controls what directives may be placed in .htaccess files by configuring the AllowOverride directive in the main configuration files....

... Directives | ... Apache HTTP Server Version 2.2 . ... This document describes the files used to configure the Apache HTTP server. ... Scope of Directives .htaccess Files . ... Apache is configured by placing directives in plain text configuration files. ... Directives placed in the main configuration files apply to the entire server. ... The server administrator further controls what directives may be placed in .htaccess files by configuring the AllowOverride directive in the main configuration...

... ARTICLE: The Adventurous Search For The Astronomical Unit . ... Kepler himself had suggested to use the rare occasions of Venus transiting (crossing) the solar disk to measure our distance to the planet. ... Due to the orbital inclination of Venus against the ecliptic of 3.5°, a Venus transit is so rare that it happens only at intervals of 121.5 years, 8 years, 105.5 years, 8 years and so on. ... Crabtree witnessing the transit of Venus 1639 . ... Transits of Venus - The Quest for the Solar Parallax...

... Meta Index / Home Page / Output Files / Summary File specification from After each exposure record there will be an instrument configuration record. If the exposure record describes an OM exposure then the instrument configuration record will be an OM Configuration Record. The record will detail the instrument configuration in terms of the instrument programmable parameter values obtained from the proposal information. ... Note . ... Identifies the record as an OM Configuration Record. ...

... A modern driver for a device will find out the bus-resource configuration without you having to tell it anything. ... In the worst case you must hard-code the bus-resources into the kernel (or a module) and recompile. In the middle are cases such as where you run a program to give the bus-resource info to the driver or put the info in a configuration file. ... You give such bus-resources as a parameter to the kernel or to a loadable module. ... Setserial is often run from a start-up file. ...

... ISC Kosmotras . ... Dnepr Cluster Mission 2013 19 June 2014. ... Mission profile SHM configuration Reliability Dnepr LV Performance Launch Sites . ... Depending on requirements of a specific launch mission, ISC Kosmotras offers several configurations of the Dnepr Space Head Module (SHM), where customer s payload will be accommodated. ... The SHM configuration is selected based on the type of the launch mission: dedicated, cluster (multiple small satellite) or shared (primary payload and a piggyback)...

... NASA Integrated Services Network (NISN) . ... Russian Space Science Internet (RSSI) . ... In the Fall of 1993, NASA Science lnternet (NSI) and the Russian Space Science lnternet (RSSI) began a cooperative effort to provide lnternet communications to selected Russian institutions in order to promote sponsored scientific cooperation between the two countries. ... This change, limiting full lnternet access via NISN for NASA selected Russian institutions, will take place no later than July 1998. ...

... This transit allows for the angular size of the dark spot (i.e. Venus) to be measured in a way that is more accurate than other ways. ... Calculate the distance to the Sun by assuming that the Earth and Venus have the same physical diameter (i.e. 12,600 km). ... The solar constant, the amount of energy that is received by the earth at the top of our atmosphere is 1.4 x 10 6 ergs cm -2 sec -1 , Calculate the total luminosity of the sun (you should get 4x10 33 ergs/sec). ...

... Тип тележки: тележка, . ... Грузовые тележки и платформы . ... Пособие содержит рабочую программу по русскому языку для 5 класса к УМК СИ.Львовой, В.В.Львова (М.: Мнемозина), составленную с опорой на материал учебника и требования Федерального государственного образовательного стандарта (ФГОС). ... Московская кондитерская фабрика 'Красный Октябрь', основанная в 1851 году, занимается производством сладостей, сохраняя лучшие традиции русского кондитерства. ...

Настройка PPP . ... Если хотя бы одно PPP-соединение уже определено, в появившемся окне "кликнуть" иконку "Новое соединение". Должно появиться новое окно.. ... Нажать в появившемся окне "закладку" "Параметры", далее в нем установить параметр "Выводить окно после набора номера" в "ON" ("галочку" поставить). Нажать" .. ... Если ему удасться таки до него дозвониться, то на экране должно появиться окно, в котором необходимо нажать клавишу: "Enter" . ... На это в окне должно появиться: . ...

ARCSAT ID NUMBER: AS02 DESCRIPTIVE TITLE: Constraining the magnetic fields of transiting exoplanets through ground-based near-UV observations PI: Jake Turner OBSERVER(S): Jake Turner (Graduate Student: University of Virginia) Apurva Oza (Graduate Student: University of Virginia) Robin Leiter (Undergraduate Student ... The magnetic field of a transiting exoplanet can be constrained by observing asymmetries in their near-UV light curves (Vidotto, Jardine Helling 2011a; Vidotto et al. ...

... It has been the focus of past AAVSO/Transitsearch campaigns to search photometrically for transits. ... The HD 80606 b results page from the pre-2007 transitsearch.org site is located here . ... Transitsearch.org observers are encouraged to monitor HD 80606 b during this encounter, and through the transit window which ends roughly a week later. ... Observers are encouraged to obtain as much photometry as possible of this extremely important and intriguing system. copyright 2007 Oklo Corporation . ...

Astronotes Armagh Planetarium's Stellar Blog! ... June . ... Posted on February 8, 2013 | ... Continue Reading.. ... 1 Comment In June 1882, at 30 years of age, John Dreyer was appointed Director of Armagh Observatory following the death of Thomas Romney Robinson, who had held the post for a [ ] . ... Posted on August 31, 2012 | ... 2 Comments ItтАЩs the beautiful clear morning of 6 June 2012 here in Armagh and the Sun is rising into a cerulean blue sky.But look closer, and you can see a tiny [ ] . ...

arxiv:0906.0544 Кандидат в планеты около ультрахолодной звезды (An Ultracool Star's Candidate Planet) . ... Authors: K. Belkacem et al. arxiv:0906.2780 Поиск южных экзопланет на HARPS. ... Планета с массой порядка земной в системе GJ 581 (The HARPS search for southern extra-solar planets XVIII. ... Authors: M. Mayor et al. arxiv:0906.2235 OGLE-2009-BLG-076S - самая бедная металлами звезда в галактическом балдже (OGLE-2009-BLG-076S - The most metal-poor dwarf star in the Galactic bulge ) . ...

... CONTACT . ... Planned space experiments promise a considerable increase in the detections and statistical knowledge arising especially from transit and astrometric measurements over the years 2005­15, with some hundreds of terrestrial-type planets expected from transit measurements, and many thousands of Jupiter-mass planets expected from astrometric measurements. ... To request a printed copy, please contact Britt Sjoeberg (bsjoeber@eso.org) . ...