... Acronyms and Abbreviations AMOS Advanced Mechanical and Optical Systems (UTM vendor) EIE FTT FLC ICD ISS European Industrial Engineering (UTE vendor) Fast Tip-Tilt First Light Camera Interface Control Document Interferometer Supervisory System NAS NMT NOT TBC TBD UT UTE UTM Narrow-field Acquisition System New Mexico Tech Nasmyth Optical ... Interface design description 2.5 FTT/NAS to ISS ICD This ICD describes the software interfaces of the FTT/NA system to the ISS. ...

... Effective immediately, the following telescope dust closure rules and guidelines will be followed by all users of APO telescopes, both by operations staff and visitors. ... 3.5-m Telescope: . use dust monitor in enclosure when telescope is open. when > 1 micron dust level is in the 2000 to 3000 range, operate enclosure pressurization fan and close louvers while telescope is open, checking enclosure dust level every 15 minutes. if level inside enclosure exceeds 3000, close telescope. ...

The database contains references to the papers, data files and links to the Internet resources related to measurements and calculations of the optical constants in the wavelength interval from X-rays to radio domain. ... References to some useful books and reviews on the subject (e.g. the classical handbooks edited by E.D.Palik) and links to Internet collections of optical constants and personal WWW pages with related software were also placed in the database. You have arrived at our welcome page. ...

... We considered our current level of technology compared to that of an average alien civilization. Regardless of any modest value of L chosen?500 years, 5000 years, or longer?their level of technology is vastly advanced compared to ours. Thus, most science fiction gets it right by having advanced alien technology, but gets it wrong by not making them sufficiently advanced. ... What would alien civilizations at a distance of 100 or 1000 lightyears know of us (hypothetically)? ... Education . ...

Next: The exercise level Up: Using Ceilidh as a Student Previous: Using Ceilidh as a Student . ... This menu is identical whether it is obtained from the system level of Ceilidh using the sc command, or by entering Ceilidh with a -c argument. ... Course Summary button) If the teacher remembers to keep the information up-to-date, this command gives you a summary of the timetable for your course, with . ... ceilidh -c pr1 . ... If you entered the course level from the system level using first ceilidh . ...

This artist s impression shows a supernova and associated gamma-ray burst driven by a rapidly spinning neutron star with a strong magnetic field an exotic object known as a magnetar. ... The results show that the supernova following the burst GRB 111209A was not driven by radioactive decay, as expected, but was instead powered by the decaying super-strong magnetic fields around a magnetar. ESO ...

... Since the reddening found for the stars in Table 13 was small, no reddening correction was attempted. ... These diamonds indicate the positions of very low mass, 3 Myr old, objects from the work of Burrows et al. ... This optical V versus R - I scheme is a very powerful method of detecting very low mass (VLM) objects. ... Because of this, young brown dwarfs are intrinsically no more difficult to observe in the optical than low mass stars at the age of Orionis. ...

... Over the first 4 years, its X-ray telescopes eROSITA and ART-XC will survey the whole sky with a record sensitivity in the 0.5-10 keV energy band. ... The goal of the second international Spectrum-RG conference is to discuss the different scientific topics addressed by the mission, synergies with surveys at other wavelengths, and requirements to follow-up observations.Contributed talks and poster presentations are invited on the topics related to the SRG science goals. ... Active galactic nuclei . ...

Vladimir Igorevich Arnold . June 12, 1937 ? June 3, 2010) . ... Yesterday morning Vladimir Igorevich left us.. ... And already the next morning he was gone. ... The ceremony in Paris took place on Tuesday, June 8. The coffin reached Moscow June 10. The ceremony in Moscow will start at 13:00 on Tuesday, June 15 in the RAN main building (Leninsky prospekt, 32). ... Contributions to the electronic memorial book can be sent to the following address arnold@mccme.ru . ...

. This is a new popup window - close it when you are done . Submitted by Bruce Berger on 03/14/2007 11:14:36 . Scopes for Sale at the Beijing Planetarium . I was surprised that the prices were close to what you'd spend online at Orion Telescopes. I expected them to be much less. But hey, this WAS a museum so I shouldn't have expected any bargains. Logon to post a follow-up comment or review comments from others . Copyright (c) Amateur Telescope Makers of Boston, Inc. About Us Contact Us

MAJOR MAGNETIC STORMS 1932-1997 ACCORDING TO THE Ap* CRITERIA To view a plot of the number of magnetic storms v.s. sunspots, go to ftp://ftp.ngdc.noaa.gov/STP/GEOMAGNETIC_DATA/APSTAR/magstorm.gif A simpler global index of magnetic activity (other than Kp or Km) is produced in France from the K indices of two nearly antipodal magnetic observatories in England and Australia. ... An AA* index has been derived that is the counterpart of Ap* but is available for the longer span of years. ...

Stellarium 0.12.3 . ... Classes . ... ClassљList . ... Static Public Member Functions . CLIProcessor Class Reference . ... argsGetOption (const QStringList &argList, QString shortOpt, QString longOpt) . Check if a QStringList has a CLI-style option in it (before the first ). ... Retrieve the argument to an option from a QStringList. ... Check if a QStringList has a yes/no CLI-style option in it, and find out the argument to that parameter. ... a long-form option string, e.g. "–help" . ...

... This year SSAU provides 1429 state-funded places for admission in all kinds and directions of educational programs. ... In addition, SSAU Admission Committee notes the substantial increase in interest from the foreign applicants this year. The number of applications from foreign countries has already surpassed last year's totals - 76 applications. Based on the experience of admission campaigns of previous years, SSAU expects summer 2014 to enrol about 150 foreign students in the university. ...

... N. Kardashev and M. Popov informed the participants on the current IOC results. ... Kovalev). ... Agenda of the RadioAstron teleconference November 16, 2011 Corrections to the Agenda 1 2 3 4 5 6 IOC status and results Single Dish observation with RA VLBA observations to find best fringe search candidates Fringe search plan Early science program plan Tracking stations outside Russia N.Kardashev N. Kardashev / M.Popov V. Kostenko E.Fomalont M.Popov Y.Y. Kovalev / M.Popov /A.Alakoz ...

Astronomical Data Analysis Software and Systems XIII ASP Conference Series, Vol. 314, 2004 F. Ochsenbein, M. Al len, and D. Egret, eds. Planck/LFI DPC Software Integration plan A. Zacchei1 , C. Vuerli1 , N. Lama1 , F. Pasian1 INAF-Osservatorio Astronomico di Trieste,Via Tiepolo 11 34131 Trieste Italy, Email: zacchei@ts.astro.it Abstract. ... Individual scientists belonging to a Software Prototyping Team develop prototype code, which is then delivered to the LFI DPC team. ...

This page is devoted to information on Supernova 1999dq in NGC 976 Basic information on this SN, including the last reported brightness, on this Supernova can be found on the main supernova page. Information on the original web pages for many of these images can be found on the Supernova links web page. Supernova 1999dq is the 24th LOSS discovery this year. ... VSNET Light curve (requires JAVA). ... vsnet-alert 3442 ] SNe 1999dp and 1999dq . vsnet-chat 2285 ] Host galaxy of SN1999dq . ...

... International Astronomy Olympiad 2002 . ... The 7th International Astronomy Olympiad will be held on October 22-29, 2002 at the Special Astrophysical Observatory of Russian Academy of Sciences (SAO RAS) in North Caucasus. ... Authorized National Representative Astronomy Organizations (ANRAO) of the participating countries are authorized to form the teams of the Olympiad member-states. ... VII IAO . ... Information about the International Astronomy Olympiad 2003 will be known in the late 2002. ...

... Planets . ... Earth Satellites . ... The newly discovered ?mega-Earth? ... Its sibling, the lava world Kepler-10b, is in the background (the two planets? proximity is grossly exaggerated) .€а Kepler-10c has a diameter of about 29 000 km, 2.3 times as large as Earth, and weighs 17 times as much. ... The first mega-earth to be discovered is Kepler-10c which orbits a star lying about 560 light years from the Sun in the constellation Draco. ... Astronomers Find a New Type of Planet: The ?Mega-Earth? ...

The direct detection of gravitational waves is one of those events long-expected by physicists that are nevertheless a significant occurrence which excites the world scientific community as if something unexpected has happened. ... Many rumors leaked ahead of the conference, and the fact that something (that is, a signal corresponding to gravitational waves) was discovered by LIGO (Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory) was discussed on the sidelines. ... arXiv:1602.03868 . ...

... Between them, the following points are touched: ICRF-2 structure, ICRF Core sources selection, and some expected user's requirements. ... Suggested total number of sources is close to the number of sources already observed in the IVS and VCS sessions, and for most of them reliable positions are derived, mostly for declination > -40 deg. ... So, results of source position time series analysis heavily depend on method used for time series computation and should be used with care. ...