Next: Command summary Up: MIDAS utilities for Previous: Analysis in the . The following commands implement auxiliary utilities for time series analysis: . BAND/TSA -- . ... BAND/TSA may be used to find a reasonable guess for the frequency grid. ... Correlation length: The statistical evaluation of TSA results rests on the assumption that the noise in the data is white noise. ... The window should not be too narrow as it is also used for the determination of the continuum level. ...

We cannot observe the way the distant universe accelerates cosmic rays or produces energetic photons, but acceleration processes also occur on our Sun , though on a much more moderate scale. ... That is why such events are often missed by cosmic ray detectors near the equator, where the lowest energies are excluded by the Earth's magnetic field. The best detectors for observing solar particles are therefore those sensitive to the lowest energies of the cosmic radiation. ...

... S.P. KOROLEV ROCKET AND SPACE CORPORATION ENERGIA . ... RSC Energia after S.P. Korolev is the leading enterprise of Russian rocket and space industry in the filed of manned space flight programs; responsible for building the ISS Russian Segment, its being integrated into the station and operational use, including building and operation of the main segment modules (Zvezda, Pirs, Poisk, Rassvet, etc.), as well as manufacture, commissioning and operational use of Soyuz TMA, Progress-M space vehicles. ...

... ARTICLE: The Adventurous Search For The Astronomical Unit . ... Kepler himself had suggested to use the rare occasions of Venus transiting (crossing) the solar disk to measure our distance to the planet. ... Due to the orbital inclination of Venus against the ecliptic of 3.5°, a Venus transit is so rare that it happens only at intervals of 121.5 years, 8 years, 105.5 years, 8 years and so on. ... Crabtree witnessing the transit of Venus 1639 . ... Transits of Venus - The Quest for the Solar Parallax...

... V79 was known as an RRab type star or fundamental mode pulsator with the period of about 0.483 day during the century after its discovery by S.I.Bailey in 1895. ... The first overtone with the period of 0.359 day became the dominant mode. ... Periodogram analysis gives the only period of 0.4825 day, but not of 0.359 day. ... The period of this modulation is unusually small and equal to 1.389 day, that suggests the beat period or resonance motion between the fundamental mode and the first overtone. ...

... Returns UT1 in seconds, with UTC input in seconds. ut12gst ( utc _real [, ut1 _real ]) Function. Returns GST in hours, inputs are in seconds. hourangle ( gst _real , ra _real ) Function. Return hourangle in hours, with inputs also in hours. zenithangle ( ha _real , dec _real ) Function. Return zenithangle in degrees with inputs ha in hours and dec in degrees. mirrorangle ( ha _real , dec _real ) Function. ... Return horizon coordinates for input azimuth and elevation angle in degrees. ...

... This applet generates an observing list based on an observer's location and time. ... To use this program, enter in your location, and the local times at which you wish to begin and end observing. The date you enter should correspond to the calendar day at the time at which you begin observing. For example, if you wish to observe from 9:37 PM October 23, 2007 until 3:21 AM October 24, 2007, you would enter 21:37 for the starting time, 03:21 for the finish time, and 10/23/2007 for the date. ...

... NASA Astronaut . ... NASA EXPERIENCE: Selected by NASA in April 1996, Dr. Pettit reported to the Johnson Space Center in August 1996. ... He lived aboard the International Space Station for 5-1/2 months during Expedition 6, was a member of the STS-126 crew, and again lived aboard the station for 6-1/2 months as part of the Expedition 30/31 crew. ... Expedition 30/31 (December 21, 2011 to July 1, 2012) launched to the International Space Station aboard the Soyuz TMA-03M craft from Kazakhstan. ...

... 0: MexicanHat wavelet ; 1: use inverse of 1st derivative ; 2: radius of curvature ; 3: stepped toggle ; eps [INPUT; default=1e-7] small number ; _extra [JUNK] ignore. here only to prevent crashing program. ; ;subroutines ; WVLT_ SCALE [ROOFN] ; ;history ; vinay kashyap (Apr97) ; added CHOICE option 3 (VK; Feb03) ;- ; usage if n_elements( curve ) eq 0 then begin print,'Usage: ls=findscale( curve , dim ,/crunch,/half, pick = pick , choice = ...

lsst.tcc љ 1.2.2-3-g89ecb63 . ... Files . FileљList . ... python . ... cmd . showTime.py . ... 4 љ Returns the current time in several time systems. ... 5 љ time the command was parsed. ... Note that there is a SET TIME command, but it . 8 љ calibrates the TCC's clock from the observatory's time standard. ... 18 љ """Implement the Show Time command . ... 24 љ currTAI = tcc.base.tai() . ... 27 љ # making a copy is probably silly, but avoids the possibility that the "show time" command . ...

M82 has an angular size of 9 x 4 arcminutes and has very high surface brightness. ... The high surface brightness is due to the very high star formation rate currently operative in M82. The interaction of this star formation pattern and the peculiar distribution of dust in M82 gives rise to its peculiar appearance and its misnomer label as an "exploding galaxy". The high star formation fuels vigorous hydrodynamic winds in the galaxy which can eject material to distances beyond the galaxy. ...

Crews of the Space Station "Mir" . ... First main crew on the Station Mir. ... Soyuz TM-2" . ... Second main crew on the Station Mir. ... Third main crew on the Station Mir. ... Fifth main crew on the Station Mir. ... Sixth main crew on the Station Mir. ... Tenth main crew on the Station Mir (175 days). ... Twelfth main crew on the Station Mir. ... Thirteenth main crew on the Station Mir (179 days). ... Copyrigth ї The People's Charity Foundation for the Preservation of the Space Station "Mir", 1999 . ...

So what is "Code Blue" and what does it mean? It's no great secret that several years ago we had the mirror re-coated on the 31" Blue Beast at Warren Rupp Observatory, and within a few short weeks, portions of the coating began to fail. ... These are the fellows that showed up at the Observatory on February 20th to help with the gargantuan and nail-biting task of getting mirror out of the telescope safely, out of the cell safely, into the box safely, and put into the truck safely. ...

... The Galactic low-mass X-ray binary GS 2023+338 was discovered during the burst on May 22, 1989 with the Japanise satellite Ginga (aka Galaxy). The flux reached 17 crabs (this unit of flux measurement is an bright X-ray source, Crab Nebula) at 10-35 keV. ... No other radio telescope worldwide carried out multi-frequency measurements. ... Upon 14 days the radio flux fell below the detection level at the RATAN-600 in relation to the decrease of the X-ray flux. ...

... Observing . ... Solar Observing . ... April 3 (SUN) - Solar Observing, Central Park , Manhattan . ... APRIL'S SKY . ... Lecture Series at the American Museum of Natural History The Amateur Astronomers Association is proud to present an astronomy lecture series from October through May each year for our members and the .. ... The€аAmateur Astronomers Association of New York€аwas organized in 1927 to promote the study of Astronomy, emphasizing its cultural and inspirational value. ...

... The Multiple Extension FITS (MEF) file interface is an IRAF library providing facilities for general file operations upon FITS multi-extension files. ... The Multiple Extensions FITS (MEF) interface consists of a number of routines to mainly read a FITS Primary Data Unit or an Extension Unit and manipulate the data at a file level. ... Read the FITS header of a MEF file that matches the EXTNAME or EXTVER keyword values or if not specified, read the extension number `group'. ... The header filename. ...

... Jupiter without its Southern Equatorial Belt . The Southern Equatorial Belt (SEB) started to fade during the latter part of 2009 and completely disappeared around May of 2010. It is believed that bright ammonia clouds obscure the dark belt at irregular intervals. The SEB previously vanished in 2007. The belt returned around November 2010. ... Copyright (c) Amateur Telescope Makers of Boston, Inc. ...

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... In this paper we show how to form the link, how to include papers which ADS does not currently have, and how to deal with name changes. ... For example the following links to Martha Hazen's bibliography. http://adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi­bin/abs connect?author=hazen,m. &aut syn=YES&nr to return=all This sets the author=last, first initial (author), turns on author synonym replacement (aut syn), and returns all papers in the database (nr to return). ... A completed submission form for ADS ...

This module provides for mapping different parts of the host filesystem in the document tree, and for URL redirection. ... The directives contained in this module allow for manipulation and control of URLs as requests arrive at the server. ... The ScriptAlias directive has the additional effect of marking the target directory as containing only CGI scripts. The Redirect directives are used to instruct clients to make a new request with a different URL. ... Syntax: Alias URL-path file-path | ...