Summary of SPHERE performance at NIH Ralf Siebenmorgen (PS) and Markus Kasper (PM) SPHERE performs in the NIH similar to what was achieved in Grenoble. ... IRDIS The IR and V filters are well mounted and the positioning accuracy is within a 1% pixel tolerance. ... The IRDIS detectors have a read-out noise 9.4 e-, a gain of 2e-/ADU and the dark current is <0.5e-/pixel/s. The instrumental background is still high. ... Centering of the pupil is achieved at an accuracy of 0.1% of the pupil diameter. ...

Upper stage Block DM-SLB has delivered spacecraft (SC) Measat-3a with a mass of about 2.4 tons into its target geotransfer orbit. The launch took place under the Land Launch program using Zenit-2SB launch vehicle (lift-off at 1 hour 50 minutes Moscow Time). ... The mission control for the upper stage with the SC was provided by the Technical Management (The Technical Manager is the President and Designer General of the S.P.Korolev RSC Energia V.A. Lopota). ...

... Institutes of Chernogolovka . The largest of all the scientific institutions of the center is the Institute of Chemical Physics in Chernogolovka , where fundamental problems of chemical physics are studied: kinetics and mechanisms of chemical and biological processes; processes of combustion, explosion, and polymerization; and mechanisms of elementary reactions involving high energy particles. ... Developments and Technologies . ...

... First of all, I should say that you cannot guarantee user-mode processes to have exact control of timing because of the multi-tasking nature of Linux. ... However, for most applications using I/O ports, this does not really matter. To minimise this, you may want to nice your process to a high-priority value (see the nice(2) manual page) or use real-time scheduling (see below). ... Linux 2.x kernels have soft real time support; see the manual page for sched_setscheduler(2) for details. ...

SXG Data Center . ... Data archive . ... The prototype of archiving and data extracting system was realized for MOXE all-sky monitor long-term data archive . ... The data must be organized in the way that will provide the maximum effectiveness for the goals of long term data analysis i.e. long period monitoring of the particular field of the sky. ... DBM2 field Because the data in DBM2 are stored sorted by the fields on the sky it is the simpliest way to specify which part of the sky is necessary. ...

A computer controlled low light photometer for nightglow observations. Hardware units of portable photometer for low light measurements, especially night glow emission is described. ... Interface card contain three channels of 24 bit counter, 4 channels of 12 bit ADC and the buffer bus for the controlled motors of the altazimuthal fork mounting and filters wheel, the position encoders. ... Where N( ) is output signal photometer generated input light flux F( l ) . ... PMT # . 599 . ...

... Meade Instruments Corporation . ... Meade Pictor 616A Color Filter System Instruction Manual . ... Remove the Meade Pictor 616A Color Filter System from the telescope or camera. Use the supplied hex wrench to remove the three screws from the telescope side of the Meade Pictor 616A Color Filter System. Position your Meade Pictor 616A Color Filter System to align with the diagram below. ... Carefully screw each filter into the wheel, and re-assemble the Meade Pictor 616A Color Filter System. ...

Infrared Detector Array Links . ... Control Software Links . Optics Links . Micro-Optics Links . ... Optical Materials Databases . ... Atmospheric Database Links . Linux Links . ... Rockwell Science Center home page. ... Santa Barbara Research Center home page. ... CCD-World home page. ... SDSU home page. ... EPICS home page. ... Optics Society of America . ... Linux on Laptops ( local site and US home page ). ... Instrumentation Links * Gemini Project Links * Other IR Instruments ...

... Schedule IKI RAN Data Acquisition, Processing and Dissemination Center . SRC "Planeta" Data Acquisition, Processing and Dissemination Center . Sea Surface Temperature Adriatic Sea . Baltic Sea . Barents Sea . Black Sea . ... Composite Image of Cloudiness Russia . ... Regional Archive (only cloudless data) . ... Operative Regional Archive (all data for last 3 days) . ... NOAA Data on other Servers (about Russia) . For more information send a mail to: info@sputnik.infospace.ru . ...

... IC 1396 . IC 1396, better know as the Elephant's Trunk. ... LGB (no red)and H filters as follows: . L - 25 images, G and B - 15 images each, all with a subframe of 180 seconds. Halpha (Used Halpha in place of Red filter) - 20 images of subframe 360 seconds. Processed/stacked with CCDStack. Combined and stacked with PS CS5. ... Copyright (c) Amateur Telescope Makers of Boston, Inc. ...

... Research . Projects . ... IZMIRAN Information and Computing Center is responsible for the main information and computing facilities of IZMIRAN as well as communication equipment. IZMIRAN ICC is also taking part in a number of IT research projects. Along with the IZMIRAN Space Information Technologies Center (CKIT) ICC takes part in space projects, such as CORONAS-I , CORONAS-F , COMPASS-2 . ICC handles data acquisition and preprocessing as well as archiving and dessimination of data. ...

... SAO researchers have discovered that supercritical accretion disks eject hot gas with a velocity of a few thousand kilometers per second. The supercritical regime of accretion onto black holes is very important for astrophysics. In the first half-billion years just after our Universe was born, supermassive black holes (quasars) began to appear and grow in centers of young galaxies. ... Gas falling onto a black hole (accretion) is not a frequent phenomenon in our Galaxy. ...

... Bad Astronomy . ... Bitesize Astronomy . ... Last week's Snack talked about how black holes can affect the environment around them in such a way as to be very bright . ... It's a common misconception that black holes always have matter swirling into them. ... As this matter gets closer and closer to the black hole it piles up and a large, fairly flat disk forms. This is called the accretion disk , because matter from this disk accretes (that is, falls in) on the black hole. ... 2008 Phil Plait. ...

M obile A stronomical Sy stem of TE lescope- R obots MASTER-II Kislovodsk Lomonosov Moscow State University, Sternberg Astronomical Institute , Moscow Union "Optic" , Kislovodsk Solar Station Latitude = 43 o љ44'.767љN; Longitude = 42 o љ31'.417љE; Altitude = 2067љm MASTERљIIљ(8љsquareљdegress) + MASTERљVWF(VeryљWideљFieldљCameras (FOV=800 square degrees, Timeљresolutionљupљtoљ150љms, with unfiltered m_lim=14m on 5 sec. exposure, and ~10.5m with 0.15 sec) . ... 11h 38m 38.0s , -09d 59m 59s) . ...

... Skalnatґ Pleso 43, 1 ­ 2, (2014) e Mini-MegaTORTORA ­ multichannel system for wide-field optical monitoring with high temp oral resolution V. Sasyuk1 , G. Beskin2 , S. Karp ov2 , S. Bondar3 , A. Perkov3 , E. Ivanov3 , E. Katkova3 and A. Shearer4 2 Kazan Federal University, Russia Special Astrophysical Observatory of Russian Academy of Sciences, Russia 3 Insttitute for Precise Instrumentation, Russia 4 National University of Ireland, Galway, Ireland Received: November 4, 2013; Accepted: ?? ...

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... Relativistic Astrophysics, . ... PhD 1974 in Astrophysics . ... Department Number . 01 (Theoretical Astrophysics) . ... Astro Space Center . ... Telephone Number . 7(495) 333 3366 . FAX Number . 7(495) 333 2378 . ... illarion@lukash.asc.rssi.ru . ...

... Satellite data ] . SMIS ] . ... NOAA satellites . Telemetry Data Format . ... METEOR-3M Satellite Pass Schedule . Telemetry Archive Catalog . Last telemetry files . ... Data Processing Examples . ... Caspian Sea (server "SPUTNIK") . GOMS satellite (server "SPUTNIK") . Archive Directory . Latest Data . ... RESURS 01 satellite (server "SPUTNIK") . Operational Archive (MSU-E Data) . ... METEOR satellite (server "SPUTNIK") . ... OKEAN satellite (server "SPUTNIK") . ...

extract equivalent widths ew(t) from 2d spectrum f(w,t) compute equivalent widths from normalized spectra smooth a function with a gaussian filter compute a gaussian filter for applying to a FFT calulate moments of a line profile compute periodogram dft(frq) from a light curve f(t). Use CLEAN if clean_mode = 1. fit a parabola fit(xv) to an arbitrary function yv(xv) evaluates a sine function on a given x-array

... 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....