With the aim of providing steady development of astronomy and spreading astronomical knowledge the Euro-Asian Astronomical Society (EAAS) and the Euro-Asian Association of Astronomy Teachers (EAATA) of the EAAS with the assistance of the P.K.Sternberg State Astronomical Institute (in Moscow), Special Astrophysical Observatory of Russian Academy of Sciences (in Niznij Arkhyz) and the Moscow-Regional ... The Coordinating Council forms an IAO jury for the period of holding the current Olympiad. ...

astronomy . Astro Courses . ... IYA 2009 . ... Armagh Planetarium is proud to be associated with the International Year of Astronomy 2009 (IYA2009) . IYA 2009 is a global year of events celebrating all things associated with the absorbing science that is astronomy. ... IYA 2009 Autumn/Winter events . ... Here at Armagh Planetarium one of our most important objectives is to promote formal and informal science education and there will be activities celebrating IYA 2009 throughout the year. ...

... ClassX is a project aimed at creating an automated system to classify X-ray sources and is envisaged as a prototype of the Virtual Observatory. ... The most fundamental are: (a) classification methods and algorithms, (b) selection and definition of classes (object types), and (c) identification of source counterparts across multi-wavelength data. ... Using different sets of training parameters (attributes), we get different classifiers for the same list of class names (e.g., Figure 1). ...

. XMM-Newton Science Analysis System . omichain (omichain-1.51) [xmmsas_20080701_1801-8.0.0] . Meta Index / Home Page / Intermediate Output Files This image-file is produced by omdetect and the image shows the pixels assigned to each source- the value assigned to each pixel corresponds to the number of the source in the source-list file. Intermediate level-image file produced by omdetect - eg I0123920101OMS493LEVELIMAGE1000.FIT . XMM-Newton SOC/SSC -- 2008-07-02

... Observing . ... Cygnus arrives at the International Space Station . ... INTERNATIONAL SPACE STATION . ... A week after its original approach date, Orbital Sciences commercial cargo craft Cygnus has arrived at the International Space Station. ... Cygnus en route for Sunday rendezvous with space station . ... Only registered members of Astronomy.com are allowed to comment on this article. ... Receive news, sky-event information, observing tips, and more from Astronomy's weekly email newsletter. ...

... This software appears to conflict with use of the ports for serial device control. If you are using a USB to serial converter, then you will need read/write access to /dev/ttyUSB0 or something similar. ... Alternatively, make the device available to the world by (1) as root chmod a+rw /dev/ttyUSB0 whenever a USB device converted is inserted or powered on or (2) adding a MODE="666" entry to the appropriate line of a rules file in /etc/udev/rules.d . ... Devices from other manufacturers may not. ...

PhysicsWeb - physics news, jobs and resources - новости физики, важнейшие события (конференции, школы), ресурсы. PhysNet - Worldwide Physics Department and Documents Network - ссылки на сайты физических институтов и факультетов университетов, электронные журналы, научные доклады, препринты, списки публикаций, календарь конференций и научных школ. ... Журналы Американского физического общества . Журналы Института физики . ... Электронные журналы Американского Института физики . ...

... Even though the DoD would ultimately select senior Air Force officials, US Navy oceanographers and Air Weather Service officers as shuttle payload specialists, MSEs would be the first personnel from an American military programme to go into space. ... One Air Force officer, Maj. ... Jacobson was concerned about shuttle launch delays and wanted the MSEs to understand that his mission, i.e., the launch of national security payloads, dwarfed their mission, flights in space by Air Force personnel. ...

... Schools . ... Dean?s Office . Departments . ... Artificial Intelligence and Interactive Systems Department . Electronics and Control Systems Department . Systems and Technologies Modeling Department . Theoretical and Applied Systems Engineering Department . ... School of History . ... Department of theoretical and applied system engineering was founded in 2005 and now is a part of the School of Computer Science in the Institute of High Technology of Karazin Kharkov National University. ...

Poster Schedule . ... Poster Number . ... Poster Title . Building on the Momentum of the International Year of Astronomy . ... UC Berkeley's Celebration of the International Year of Astronomy 2009. ... The AstroDay Festival - A Celebration of Astronomy and Hawaiian Culture. ... The International Year of Astronomy Meets National Science Week in Australia. ... Astronomy Posters and Trading Cards at Mauna Kea and in Japan. ... Refining Our Practice . ... back to Annual Meeting Schedule Overview ...

... For any PostScript hardcopy printer that has been assigned by ASSIGN/GRAPH , MIDAS produces a so-called encapsulated PostScript file. Using a public domain macro package ( e.g. Psfig/TeX) this PostScript plot file can, with a minimum of effort, be included in TeX or LaTeX documents. To do so, in the TeX or LaTeX document one should refer to the (possibly renamed) MIDAS PostScript file (normally pscrplot.ps ). ... Here is how the LaTeX text file with the included MIDAS plot then looks like. ...

Doom2 Single player Wad file ================================================================ Title : Dachronix [Prounounced "Dah KROH NiX"] Filename : DCHRONIX.WAD Author : Swedish Fish Email Address : NewOrderDirective@hotmail.com Misc. ... Description : Total Number of Nodes: 1957 Total number of tags assigned: 94 Final File Size: 451,502 bytes Intro Story : 2021 a.d. Interplanetary travel with people has reached the infant September stages. Scientists have detected lifeforms on Pluto-Charon. ...

... Telescopes . ... The International Conference "Dark Ages and White Nights (Spectroscopy of the CMB)" (June 20-24, 2016) . ... The International Conference "Stars: from collapse to collapse" (October 3-7, 2016) . The traditional annual competition conference of scientific and scientific-engineering papers of the Observatory staff members . ... A session of the Dissertation Council (October 16, 2015) . ... International scientific conference "Large Optical Telescopes" (October, 10-13, 2011) . ...

... The school and the conference will be held at the Poncelet Laboratory for all days except from December 7 . ... The nearest metro station is СМОЛЕНСКАЯ (Smolenskaya), line 3 , 5 minutes by walk. ... How to reach Poncelet Laboratory from these metro stations. ... It is located within 15 minutes by feet from АКАДЕМИЧЕСКАЯ (Akademicheskaya) metro station, line 6 . ... There are a lot of exchange offices where you can exchange euro or US dollars to rubles. ...

... Our tours this year include: Yuri Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center at Star City, Bauman Moscow State Technical University Orevo Laboratory, Russian Mission Control Center (TsUP), Rocket and Space Corporation Energia, Lavochkin Scientific and Industrial Association, Energomash Scientific and Industrial Association, Scientific and Industrial Association "Zvezda", Khrunichev State Research & Production Space Center, Monino Air Force Museum. Bauman Moscow State Technical University . Moscow) . ...

Captain of a crew of the space station is sure that 13 years for it is not an age. On Saturday an international expedition consisting of Russian Viktor Afanasiev, French Jean-Pierre Eniere and Slovak Ivan Bella set off from launching pad Baikonur to the space station Mir. ... The station is set in order. ... As a captain of maybe the last crew of the station Mir, what do you think about the planned sinking of the station? ... The International Space Station (ISS) will begin working not very soon. ...

... The purpose of the meeting was to review the current status of project development and to discuss working plan for international cooperation on the stage of preparation to the launch. 22 foreign specialists participated in the meeting representing Australia, Canada, China, Finland, Japan, the Netherlands, Ukraine, United Kingdom, and USA. ... To define personal content of proposed working groups and to develop plan of their activity for 2003 year (15 November 2002, chairmen of working groups). ...

... Science Users Information > Observing with ESO Telescopes > Phase 2 Preparation > Visitor Mode Guidelines . ... Service Mode Philosophy . ... This page provides information about Observation Block (OB) creation only for users assigned Visitor Mode time at ESO telescopes. ... Please notice that the scheduling containers should NOT BE USED for preparation of visitor mode OBs, because the Visitor Mode Observing Tool (vOT), used to execute the observations at the telescope on Paranal, will ignore them. ...

Describes how spatial region boundaries are handled. The golden rule for spatial region filtering was first enunciated by Leon VanSpeybroeck in 1986: . ... With this in mind, the rules for determining whether a boundary image pixel or table row are assigned to a region are defined below. For image filtering, pixels whose center is inside the boundary are included. ... That is, an row is inside the boundary without regard to its integerized pixel value. ...

nearneighbor - A Nearest neighbor gridding algorithm nearneighbor [ xyzfile ( s ) ] -G out _ grdfile -I x _ inc [ m|c ][/ y _ inc [ m|c ]] -N sectors -R west / east / south / north [ r ] -S search _ radius [ m|c|k|K ] [ -E empty ] [ -F ] [ -H [ nrec ] ] [ -L flag ] [ -V ] [ -W ] [ -: ] [ -bi [ s ][ n ] ] nearneighbor reads arbitrarily located (x,y,z[,w]) triples [quadruplets] from standard ... Default is quadrant search, i.e., sectors = 4]. ... H Input file(s) has Header record(s). ...