... During all period of our investigations Dr. N.Sumzina from the Institute of Applied Astronomy of RAS had prepared the Numbered Minor Planet positions from MPC Database for our processing with kind permission of the Director of Minor Planet Center Prof. Braian Marsden. ... Our extensive processing of the MPC data allows us to conclude that CCD observations of the Numbered and Unnumbered Minor Planets have the errors, sometimes very crude. ...

Next: Equations of condition Up: Extinction and transformation Previous: Extinction and transformation . Bias can also be introduced by improper fitting procedures. For example, the reduction program known as SNOPY, used for many years at La Silla and also at La Palma, uses a simple iterative technique in which some subsets of the parameters are solved for, while others are held fixed; then the ones last solved for are held fixed, while the ones previously fixed are redetermined. ...

Symbolic circuit-matrix processor and evaluator . ... This software is reliable over the range of benchmark circuit complexity (both *.CIR and *.MAT file). ... SYMBOL is a symbolic-algebra package which in contrast to REDUCE, MACSYMA, MAPLE, MATHEMATICA, MathLAB, MathCAD and other known multi-purpose systems is especially intended for analysis of any lumped, linear, time-invariant circuit. ... pure ASCII text . ... CIRSYM - SYMbolic CIRcuit processor used to format ASCII text file *.out for CALCSYM. ...

... The two common precisions single precision (SP) and double precision (DP) on a system based on IEEE 754 can specified with INTEGER , PARAMETER :: SP = SELECTED_ REAL _ KIND (6,37) INTEGER , PARAMETER :: DP = SELECTED_ REAL _ KIND (15,307) REAL ( KIND =SP) :: single_ precision _variables REAL ( KIND =DP) :: double _ precision _variables If we wish to work with at least 14 decimal ...

Computer Ephemeris for 2014 from DE200/LE200. ... Sidereal Time. ... Apparent equatorial positions. Ecliptical positions. ... Chebyshev polinomial approximation of positions. ... Position and velocity. ... Dynamical time. Sidereal time. ... Osculating elements of planetary orbits. Planetary configurations (by time). ... Fundamental ephemeris. ... Ephemeris for physical observations. ... Stars. ... All comments on Computer Ephemeris please direct to the author: charlie@mail.univ.kiev.ua ...

A very important stage in a story of formation of any new science is the shift from discussion of situation which are possible but do not occur in practice due to some reason to recognition of real phenomena of interest. ... We suggest to consider computer viruses as this new specific form of life which is coming in the contact with our form of life. ... Computer life has been created by human being, the role of independent evolution of computer viruses seems to be still negligible. ...

Computers become more and more popular nowadays. That means that the amount of people who are able to work with computer programmes and play computer games has increased. In many cases computer games are the only thing that a person is accustomed to. ... As a result of this epidemic "homo playing" may put on the isoreality helmet which makes a person, crazy about games, forget about food, slumber and all other components of real life: "homo playing" becomes isolated from community. ...

... Bit Fields . Bit Fields: Practical Example . ... NOTE: The combination of pointers and bit-level operators makes C useful for many low level applications and can almost replace assembly code. ... To illustrate many points of bitwise operators let us write a function, Bitcount , that counts bits set to 1 in an 8 bit number ( unsigned char ) passed as an argument to the function. int bitcount(unsigned char x) { int count; for (count=0; x != 0; x>>=1); if ( x & 01) count++; return count; } . ...

... Science . ... Science Users Information Paranal Science Operations Visitor Information jump to navigation jump to content . Paranal Facilities . ... Offered Instruments . ... Paranal News . ... Paranal Telescopes Overview . Telescopes and Instruments . ... Overview . ... Manuals . ... Instrument Operation Team . ... Paranal Science Operations . ... Please submit one report per observing run or telescope/instrument combination. ... About ESO in general: . ... Telescope/Instrument Manuals: . ...

... Finding Stars . ... Handling Bad Pixels . ... The guide camera image controller can control one or more guide cameras. ... Each time the camera is read, the image is automatically saved to a fits file on a shared disk. ... Cameras that have bad pixels require "bad pixel maps" in order to find stars, centroid or even compute statistics for the image. ... View this image (for instance in NIH Image) and determine an upper and lower cutoff; pixels whose values are outside of this range are considered...

Russian version of HP . ... StarCalc is the fastest professional astronomy planetarium & star mapping program for Windows 9x/ME/NT/2000/XP (StarCalc version for PocketPC computers you can found here ). ... Extensibility : This program is based on common "Plugin StarCalc interface to catalogs and object groups", which allows program to add new modules as Plugins. ... Welcome to the Pocket StarCalc Home Page: . ... Some bugfixes in eclipses" and line" plugins - see the new versions in downloads page. ...

... Epistemology is a part of the study of Philosophy dealing with how we use our senses to know something about the world. ... Yet we know that we can be deceived by our senses. ... If we cannot always trust our senses, how can we ever know anything for certain about the world? ... A branch of epistemology that has come into vogue in the last 10-15 years is the problem of consciousness. ... What relationship is there between our conscious experience and the true nature of the physical world? ...

Next: Galactic potential Up: Space and velocity distributions Previous: Space position . The initial velocity of young neutron stars can be taken either from the observed pulsar velocity distribution (which is still not firmly established), or from some model-dependendent assumptions based on current ideas about neutron star formation. ... At the same time we need know the distribution of projected velocities on the direction of the systematic motion in the Galaxy (i.e. on the direction of ) . ...

... Forum: The Linux Kernel Hackers' Guide . ... For mounting the files I used the following command in Linux: mount -t msdos /dev/fd0 /mnt But after the mounting in /mnt I had different garbled file names such as rtlinu~1 & kernel~1. ... But the problem is how? ... Which command should I use? ... Another problem was, I tried to patch those files to the kernel and it started asking me the question : File patch to, which files should i mention, or is it another problem because of the original problem? ...

... Using Java for Astronomy: The Virtual Radio Interferometer Example N.P.F. McKay 1 and D.J. McKay 1 Nu#eld Radio Astronomy Laboratories, University of Manchester, Jodrell Bank, Macclesfield, Cheshire SK11 9DL, UK Abstract. ... The resulting program was called the Virtual Radio Interferometer 2 (VRI). ... Software development metrics for VRI Java Development Kit Version 1.0.2 Software classes 26 Java instructions 1565 Development time 80 hours Size of byte code 1.3 Mbyte 5. ...

... I would several points which we faced during our everysolved for better quality of individual ACs' and EOP products · There are two main EOP products provided by two IERS Product Centers on Earth Orientation (Earth Orientation Center (EOC) and Rapid Service/ Prediction Center (RSPC)). ... However, the latter is not provided by the IERS. ... ITRF · Using ITRF in computation of EOP series produced by various ACs seems to be a necessary condition to provide the consistency between the IERS products. ...

... Discussion of Declination Drive Design . ... It is held in my personal stock of parts to replace a drive that might go out of service for some reason on one of the two LX200 telescopes that I am responsible for keeping in good repair.  ... The photocells detect light from a pair of small lights through the encoder mask and encoder wheel encased in the gear box housing. ... In one case of declination drive runaway, the cause was breaking of one of the leads to one of the photocells.  ... All fixed!! ...

... To go back in time, archaeoastronomers and teachers can turn to personal computers and any of a number of software packages. ... Examples include the Long Man of Wilmington, England and the Owl Man of Peru (see figure 8 and figure 9 ). ... Deciphering the unique number system of the Maya is another archaeoastronomy topic that involves a minimum of math. ... Several collections of early writing of the Maya survive; numbers from them can be read and in some cases interpreted (see figure 12 ). ...

... 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....

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