... user-defined data file formats . ... better integration with a user's analysis routines To add such functionality to SAOimage, we developed the XPA Messaging System that allows X programs to define points of public access through which data and commands can be exchanged with external programs. ... We have utilized XPA to develop "SAOimage: The Next Generation" (SAOtng), an extensible image display service that can cooperate with other processes and programs. ... SAOtng help pages . ...

... Reference Data for Calibration and Tools . ... There are two independent directories which contain the spectra of ultraviolet and optical standard stars. The CALSPEC directory contains the composite ultraviolet and optical absolute calibrated reference spectra of the HST standards. ... Details of the CALSPEC data, along with another supplemental CALSPEC directory, are contained in the above web page. ... Another directory of supplemental calspec data is available and detailed on the calspec page. ...

Astronomy Department was found in Kyiv University in 1834 together with other twelve departments of the Faculty of Philosophy. ... At that time V.Struve was a World famous astronom, and helped V.Fedorov in creation of Kyiv University Astronomical Observatory. ... M.Khandrikov successfuly modernized the Observatory. ... Researches of the history of Kyiv Observatory say about an important contribution into development of orbits theory made by the famous Kyiv astronoms I.Illinsky and I.Putilin. ...

... SSAU History . ... SSAU team took the 1st place in the competition of engineering teams within the competence of Lifecycle Management at the National Championship of cross-industry working professions in high-tech industries WorldSkills Hi-Tech-2015 in Yekaterinburg. ... The participants developed the project concepts, prepared design and engineering documentation, performed strength, aerodynamic and economic calculation as well as marketing research, made 3D-printed model of the developed jetpack. ...

Russian SHAREABLE DATA CENTER Institute of Solar-Terrestial Physics SB RAS . ... The algorithm and appropriate program for decametric radiosignal propagation conditions prediction for paths from 500 to 9000 km have been developed at ISTP SB on the basis of normal wave method (AltyntsevaB.I,Iliyin N.V., Kurkin V.I. and others //Decameters channel simulation on the base of normal wave method . ... Solar activity indices are chosen automatically from the prediction date from the database . ...

... SAI CAS . ... Catalog Access Services . ... This site is about the Virtual Observatory project at the Sternberg Astronomical Institute, Moscow University ( SAI MSU ). We provide a public access to the growing set of astronomical services developed by the SAI RVO development team in accordance with the Virtual Observatory standards. ... We provide access (programmatic and interactive) to the all major and biggest astronomical catalogs (about 4 billions objects total) as well as other web-services. ...

... Satellite data ] . ... SMIS IKI RAN has developed the software package which may be used both by owners of acquisition stations and individual users of satellite information. ... AVHRR instrument data processing. ... This enables the users who are not yet qualified in computer methods of satellite data processing, to get a quick start with the software. ... The basic software package enables a user to solve a wide range of tasks (in our server You can find the data processing samples ). ...

... References: % observed energy levels : Shirai,T., Sugar,J., Musgrove,A., Wiese,W.L., 2000, J.Phys.Chem.Ref.Data, Monograph 8 % observed energy levels (12,21,22,25,29,34,37,39-42): Martin,W.C., Sugar,J., Musgrove,A., Dalton,G.R., 1995, NIST Database , Version 2.0, NIST Standard Reference Database 61. %comment: the following NIST observed energy ... References: %filename: fe_23.splups %oscillator strengths (n=2 levels): Zhang, H.L., Sampson. ...

... - File Name Lrecl Records Explanations ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- table3a.dat 133 9405 Texas Survey , -26 deg strip : [-357,-187] table3b.dat 133 8533 Texas Survey , -12 deg strip : [-186,-064] table3c.dat 133 8022 Texas Survey , -01 deg strip : [-063,+039] table3d.dat 133 7772 Texas Survey , +09 deg ... The resultant scale (TXS for Texas Survey) is about 2% below BW at 365 MHz. ...

... ESO for the Public > Doing Business with ESO > Technology Transfer > Historic examples of ESO-developed technologies . ... Solar System . ... Survey Telescopes . ... Technical CCD systems . ... The original TCCD systems are now obsolescent, and have been replaced by a newer version based on a commercial controller and an ESO-developed CCD head. ... Remote Observing . ... Before the VLT era, astronomers given observing time on ESO telescopes had to travel to Chile to carry out their observations. ...

... For given geographical longitude and time zone show the current data and time, Universal data and time, current local star time. ... Accept 10 different data formats (data&time, data with decimal day of month, data with decimal day of year, decimal year, some Julian dates), calculate from any formate to others, show day of week. Current data and time direct insertion function is exists. ... Calculate angular distance between two points at the sky by its equatorial coordinates. ...

... Description . Catalog . ... In the Catalog, we publish equatorial (ЮБ 2000 , ЮД 2000 ) and galactic (l,b) coordinates of cluster centers derived as the position of overdensity in 2MASS catalog (Koposov et al. ... Distances, color-excesses and ages are the mean-square values calculated using all available evaluations from different color-magnitude diagrams. ... There are individual pages for every cluster where all available plots and parameters are published. ... 2002). ...

. Dr. Michael G. Gavrilov, Founding Chairman and Coordinator of the International Astronomy Olympiad (IAO) . ISSP of Russ. Acad. Sci., Institute street 2, 142432 Chernogolovka, Moscow region, Russia. URL: http://www.issp.ac.ru/iao/2010/ . e-mail: gavrilov@issp.ac.ru . fax: + 7-(496-52)-49-701 . Updated 30.10.2010.

... Space Research Institute . ... Main research and development work completed in 2009 and ready for implementation . ... Development of the Northern Eurasia land cover map based on medium spatial resolution satellite data. ... The research and development has been completed of the first in Russia and in the whole world high-speed digital streams decoder for space and satellite channels with extremely high noise levels. ... Main research and development work completed in 2008 and ready for...

The first persistent Web agent that we have created on Actor Prolog is a program that collects information about research groups that develop Prolog and projects in the field of logic programming. The agent looks through a given list of Web sites and calculates some attributes of the sites: the date of recent modification, total size, the number of figures, the number of outside links, the number of error links, the number of given keywords, etc. ... http://www.cplire.ru/Lab144/space/prolog.html . ...

. The XMM-Newton website has moved to the following location: . http://www.cosmos.esa.int/web/xmm-newton

Publications Currently the Editorial Board of the Irish Astronomical Journal publishes a single publication. The Irish Astronomical Journal (ISSN 0021-1052) is published as a general review of modern astronomical knowledge and related subjects. ... An author and subject index is published every five volumes. ... Instructions for Authors containing information on the preparation of manuscripts for submission to the Journal are to be found in IAJ Volume 22 Number 1 in their complete form. ...

... The reduction system of observations FADPS (description in Russian) (Flexible Astronomical Data Processing System) for data of wide-band receivers of the first observation cabin of the radio telescope RATAN-600 had been created under the Unix-like operational system DEMOS for computers of the SM-1420-type (PDP/11) in 1987 for observation analysis and estimates of coordinates and flux densities of radio sources. ... FADPS: flexible astronomical data processing system at RATAN-600 in UNIX environment....

XmCCD ----- The programs provided here offer a Linux graphical user interface to astronomical and scientific CCD cameras. ... It is the latest one they offer and the files included allow support for Android and Mac OS X. This distribution of XmCCD includes source code to utilize the SBIG shared library libsbigudrv.so with a Motif-based graphical user interface. ... The XmCCD source package includes and will install: SAOimage ds9 xpa cfitsio SAOimage is the primary image display for XmCCD. ...

... New infrared sensor to revolutionize infrared astronomical imaging . ... Infrared image of the Whirlpool Galaxy (M51) taken by the UH 2.2-meter telescope on Mauna Kea with the new 16-megapixel HAWAII 4RG-15 image sensor. ... This represents a significant step forward in astronomical infrared technology because it is the first time a sensor with anywhere near this many infrared pixels has been trained on the sky. ... Only registered members of Astronomy.com are allowed to comment on this article. ...