Authors: T.V. Borkova , V.A. Marsakov , . ... It is found that dispersions of spatial and kinematics characteristics of field stars change abruptly when the metallicity crosses the boundary [Fe/H] -0.95 . ... По опубликованным прецизионным наземным и спутниковым измерениям собственных движений, компилятивным лучевым скоростям и фотометрическим расстояниям вычислены компоненты пространственных скоростей и элементы галактических орбит для 174 переменных звезд типа ab RR Лиры околосолнечной окрестности. ...

Next: Imaging Polarimetry with NICMOS Up: NICMOS Data Calibration and Previous: The Photometric Performance of . ... NICMOSlook and Calnic C . ... Extracting spectra from a large number of NICMOS grism images requires a convenient interactive tool which allows a user to manipulate direct/grism image pairs. ... NICMOSlook and Calnic-C are two programs that were designed to take advantage of the fact that the NICMOS grism mode typically consists of taking both a direct and a grism image. ...

... Plots of the 4 wapps (.ps) ( .pdf ) : . ... top plot: this is how many seconds off the wapp clocks were measured to be from the ntp servers on the network. The colors are for the 4 wapps. 2nd plot: This is the offset (in seconds) that the ntpd pll time loop was using. ... Notice that there are no changes from 9.06 till 9.31 when the loop parmeters were reset. 2nd plot: The frequency offset used in the wapp4 pll loop. 3rd plot: The time offset of wapp4 time relative to the 3 primary ntp servers. ...

... SQL | ... Tutorial: determine H0 using SQL queries to LEDA . ... We select in the database all galaxies with known velocity and magnitude and similar to a given template for which we know the distance, the magnitude and the radial velocity. ... We simply have to choose a property which does not depend on the distance, as for example the rotation velocity ( log(vrot) ) and select the galaxies having log(vrot) in a very narrow range around the value for the template galaxy. ... leda@univ-lyon1.fr ...

Paolo Padovani , II Universit di Roma , Paolo Giommi , ASI, SDC and Fabrizio Fiore, ASI, SDC and Osservatorio Astronomico di Roma . Original Version: MNRAS, (1997), 284, 569 . Text copyright (c) 1997. ... We study the X-ray spectra of 114 flat-spectrum radio quasars (FSRQ) using the hardness ratios as given in the WGA catalogue of ROSAT sources. ... We find that FSRQ have a distribution of energy spectral indices ranging between 0 and 3 with a mean value alpha_x ~ 1. ... Figure 1 (13kb) . ...

... 3 ­ Sternberg State Astronomical Institute, Moscow, :jeanna@sai.msu.ru The graphic method of the analysis of an arrangement of linear structural elements on geographical and geological maps of continents (A.V.Dolitsky, [1]) has allowed to find out global stress fields of the past and among them one which directions (the main normal and maximal tangents) describe more than 80 % of all linear elements of a relief. ... The found poles share program way on density of an arrangement on 3-4 groups. ...

... Information about a variety of different calendars for different cultures (e.g., Christian, Jewish, Muslim, Chinese, Hindu etc.) ... In addition, the Chinese had two different ways of interpreting and observing celestial events. One way the Chinese used astronomy was known as lifa; it was a discipline that aimed to understand the regularities and the predictable events in the celestial system through careful, observations, measurements and records. ... back to Teachers' Newsletter Main Page ...

Organiser: Xavier Caruso (CNRS, Poncelet Laboratory) . ... Isogenies are an essential tool in Elliptic Curves cryptography, where they are used in a wide variety of area: fast point counting, complex multiplication methods.. V lu's formulas give an efficient method for computing such isogenies, but there were no known formulas for computing isogenies for hyperelliptic curves of higher genus, except in particuliar cases. ... Poncelet Laboratory web page . ...

... Spectrometer and CCD camera attached to the 2 metre "Karl-Zeiss-Jena" telescope of the Observatory on peak Terskol (3100 m, Northern Caucasus). ... The accessible spectral range is ~3500 - ~10200 AA. The CCD camera and the data handling system, developed at SAO, consist of front-illuminated CCD device of 1024x1024 pixels (pixel size 16x16 mkm) inside a dewar, an electronic controller-interface and a IBM PC computer. ... R=45 000 (~90 spectral orders, ~3500 - ~10200 AA registered simultaneously) . ...

The aim of this section of the course is to enable you to use simple computer programs to solve a variety of common astronomical tasks. ... I have (somewhat arbitrarily) decided to use Python for this course, because it seems to be gaining popularity fast for astronomical data handling, and because some of you will have encountered it at the ATNF course. ... We've put Python (plus all relevant libraries) on the Stromlo Linux computers moron and maggot. ... Now log in to moron (or maggot). ...

University Satellites and . Space Science Education . ... The purpose of the developed scientific - educational program complex is creation on the Earth on the base of telemetry data of virtual model of microgravitational environment in which experiments are carried out, and virtual motion model of of the space vehicle. ... The developed program complex concerns to the class of the distributed program systems. ... Skobeltsyn Institute of Nuclear Physics, Moscow State University, 2005-2006 . ...

Finding Himalia, The Fifth Brightest Moon Of Jupiter . Articles | ... Himalia is the only moon other than the Galilean moons of Jupiter that is visible in an amateur size telescope. ... I normally use “The Sky” from Software Bisque for planning my observing sessions and in helping me find objects, but it only has the Galilean moons for Jupiter so I used Red Shift (version 3 at the time) which I also had on my computer. ... www.astronomy.net . ... dbHTML," "AstroGuide," "ASTRONOMY.NET" & "VA.NET" . ...

SITE 2010 Comprehensive Characterization of Astronomical Sites Kislovodsk, Russia, 49 October 2010 Conference Summary Marc S. Sarazin*a a European Southern Observatory, Garching, Germany Abstract The main topics discussed during the Site 2010 conference are outlined and the outcome is described. Keywords: Astronomical Site testing, precipitable water vapor, atmospheric turbulence, cloudiness, seeing 1. ... Site surveys for National observatory projects in China, India, and Iran benefit from this. ...

... Holometer: A Microscope into Space and Time . ... Why would the sky look like a giant target? ... Space Shuttle and Space Station Photographed Together . ... Usually, pictures of the shuttle, taken from space, are snapped from the space station. Commonly, pictures of the space station are snapped from the shuttle. ... The Wizard Nebula . ... Seen with foreground and background stars along the plane of our Milky Way galaxy it lies some 8,000 light-years distant, toward the constellation Cepheus. ...

The original files with the data were in different formats. ... Such files were named "standard data files" and linked to the database. They can be easily transformed to any desirable format by a code. Here we present two simple computer programs of this kind. ... When running the code, you can specify columns in the output file: wavelength, energy (eV) or wavenumber (cm -1 ) as the first column, and complex refractive index or dielectric function as the second and third columns. ...

Russian SHAREABLE DATA CENTER Institute of Solar-Terrestial Physics SB RAS . ... To improve the quality of ionograms and to carry out on automatic ionogram processing we have developed a special software, which can be arbitraly devided into the following main parts: . ... Ionogram processing software on the basis of image processing; . Interactive ionogram processing software. ... Here we present ionogram samples for different kinds of chirp sounding . ... Capabilities and samples | ...

To main of Laboratory . The research work and design of optical and optical-electronic devices are carries out by laboratory staff: . ... Lens: . ... In the layout 1 prism systems perform functions of dispersive element, corrector of aberrations, optical reducer. ... Spectral range 200 - 400 nm; . ... Back Forward . ... The main corrector's function are compensation of field aberrations of the main spherical mirror of a telescope (diameter of 600 mm, f'=1200 mm) and increase aperture ratio. ...

SAI VO . ... SAI CAS . ... Access . ... We present the results of the development of Sternberg Astronomical Institute Catalog Access Services (SAI CAS) project - the first and the only project in Russia, which provides online access to the major astronomical catalogues and different services on top of them. ... SAI CAS is an open-source implementation of the general Catalogue access service (influenced by SDSS CAS CASjobs project), based on original algorithms and open-source software. ... SAI MSU | ...

Report “Laboratory zero-baseline interferometer tests” (ZBT) was prepared and issued in ASC (35 pages including 17 figures and diagrams in Russian language). ... The Ground-Space radio interferometer (OVLBI) Radioastron includes several space and ground-based segments which are designed and manufactured by different countries and organizations. ... ZBI tests (for OVLBI) were implemented in Russia firstly. The tests were implemented by joint team of ASC, JPL and NRAO in 1999. ...

... News . ... Pre-university education . ... Samara University scientists have developed a technology of new-designed photoelectric converters for solar batteries of spacecraft. ... The new solar batteries will be as much effective as their contemporary nanoheterostructured counterparts surface-supported by germanium, and the cost will be five times cheaper. ... Scientists of Samara University (joint SSAU and SSU) developed a technology basis of new silicon-based photoelectric converters (FEC). ...