. Scientists at Brown, Carnegie Mellon, and Cambridge universities have detected gamma ray emissions from the direction of the galaxy Reticulum 2. Bright areas indicate a strong gamma ray signal coming from the direction of the galaxy, according to the researchers search algorithm. NASA/DOE/Fermi-LAT Collaboration/Geringer-Sameth Walker, Carnegie Mellon Univ./Koushiappas, Brown Univ.

... Follow these steps to get the package and install it. ... Specify this as an environmental variable drsRoot: mkdir /cool2/jaffe/ews setenv drsRoot /cool/jaffe/ews (csh) export drsRoot=/cool/jaffe/ews (sh) This assignment must be made whenever you want to use EWS, so it is most convenient to put it in a .login, .profile,.alias.... type file. ... After fixing cfitsio/Makefile, return to $drsRoot and type gmake install_c This should recompile the c-code using the new Makefile. ...

slitless -- Extract a spectrum from a direct/GRISM image pair slitless image grism output PARAMETERS . ... A two dimensional direct image to be used to select an object. grism . A two dimensional GRISM image containing slitless spectra of objects present in the direct image. output . ... Toggle whether or not a background estimate is subtracted from the extracted object spectrum. mingood = INDEF . Pixels of the grism image with values smaller than this are ignored. maxgood = INDEF . ...

NAUTICAL ASTRONOMICAL YEARBOOK for 2010 (in Russian) . Foreword . ... The EPM2004 domestic numerical theory of movement of the Sun, the Moon, and major planets is used in т??Nautical Astronomical Yearbookт?? In NAY the positions of stars are published in the system of stellar catalogues FK6 and HIPPARCOS. ... conditions of visibility of the planets, apparent places of stars, star charts, tables of azimuths of Polaris ? ... Examples for NAY 2010 are calculated by M.V.Lukashova, M.L.Sveshnikov. ...

Measurement of Sky Brightness at the Iranian National Observatory Davoud Afshari1 and Sadollah Nasiri1,2 1Physics Department, Zanjan University, Zanjan 45195-313, Iran; Institute for Advanced studies in Basic Science (IASBS), Zanjan 45195-1159, Iran; Measurement of light pollution 2 Introduction Among 34 candidate sites at the central part of the country, 5 sites namely Garkesh (in Kashan ), Kolahbarfi(in Kashan ), Deynava (in ... One of these is light pollution. ...

... In brief: the frequency-dependent radiative transfer equation is solved for a dust under assumption of spherically-symmetric geometry for its distribution taking into account particle size distribution and quantum heating effects for the very small dust particles. ... Table: Model parameters for IRAS04296+3429. ... parameter . ... hot dust shell) . ... The best fit to the spectral energy distribution of IRAS04296 is shown by heavy solid line (see Table2 for details concerning parameters of the model...

The Face on Mars . ... The Raw Images . Table 1: List of Viking Orbiter Images of the "Face on Mars" . ... Processing the Face Images . Table 2: Dimensions of Mercator Projected Images of "The Face on Mars" . Map Projected Images . ... Processing the "Face on Mars" Images . ... This page will provide interested persons with both the raw Viking images, transformed to GIF format, and a brief tutorial (with examples) of image processing techniques applied to create "better looking" images. ...

... This program was created for correlating chosen regions in the series of fts images. ... Chosen regions' . ... In this section the program counts the integral for each region of the grid for each image. ... As a matter of fact, the integral is total brightness of the region and it is counted by 'int_tabulated' IDL function. ... In addition, the program will show the count of the regions which correlate with the corresponding region (the brighter region means the bigger count) and its contour. ...

Finding Himalia, The Fifth Brightest Moon Of Jupiter . Articles | ... Himalia is the only moon other than the Galilean moons of Jupiter that is visible in an amateur size telescope. ... I normally use “The Sky” from Software Bisque for planning my observing sessions and in helping me find objects, but it only has the Galilean moons for Jupiter so I used Red Shift (version 3 at the time) which I also had on my computer. ... www.astronomy.net . ... dbHTML," "AstroGuide," "ASTRONOMY.NET" & "VA.NET" . ...

... Bad Astronomy . ... Bad Astronomy: The North Star, Polaris, is a very bright star. Good Astronomy: Polaris is a middling-bright star, easily missed. ... He said it was close to Polaris, the North Star, but he also said it was in the East. ... It's natural, I suppose, to think that such an important star should be bright, but really, that's a conceit, like thinking that the Earth is at the center of the Universe. If more people knew just why Polaris is the North Star, this Bad Idea would stop. ...

The Optical Solar Sensor (OSD) has been designed to determine the direction towards the center of the Sun's visible disc. The direction to the Sun is computed in the instrument coordinate system relative to the pixels' position on the linear CCDs illuminated with the light passed through the incoming coding mask. The OSD coding mask has three groups of slits with three slits in each group. This mask configuration provides for reliability increase as well as for the required accuracy. ...

... the shutters, loads . ... We have shutter/receiver protection to protect the receivers when we transmit with one of our transmitters (sband,430, hf). ... this is also controlled by the 430 ch load/antenna switch. closed always wins . ... shutter - open,close, or query the receiver/radar shutters . ... When the 430 dome is being used, we want to close all shutters, but leave the 430 dome receiver under control of the ch load/antenna switch (above the oscilloscopes in receiver room). ... shutter close...

... View/Edit: Fix reading text from files with a code page that doesn't have a valid character for all 256 values, especially 1252 which has a few gaps. Make more archiver command work correctly by using shell escapes and path separators in the right direction. Editor search/replace: - Fix a memory leak - Improve efficiency when replacing text in very long lines. ... Support Ctrl-Shift-F3 as alternate viewer to be consistent with Ctrl-Shift-F4 as alternate editor. ...

... For more distant stars we must use other techniques. ... Hence if we see a distant galaxy and can pick out any cepheids lying within it, we can calculate its distance. ... Here then is another method to gauge the size of the Universe and there are yet more. volume at high enough temperature a nuclear fusion reaction sweeps across the white dwarf's surface and eventually we will see a spectacularly bright new star (hence nova) in our skies. ... Why is this relevant to the size of the Universe? ...

... Posts tagged ?multitaper estimate? ... Astronomers have developed their ways of processing signals almost independent to but sometimes collaboratively with engineers, although the fundamental of signal processing is same: extracting information. ... This particular issue of IEEE signal processing magazine may shed lights for astronomers interested in signal processing and statistics outside the astronomical society. IEEE Signal Processing Magazine Jul. ... Entries RSS . Comments RSS . ...

MRO Delay Line Socket Initialisation Protocol for Delay Line Computers E. B. Seneta bodie@mrao.cam.ac.uk rev 1.0 13 October 2006 Cavendish Laboratory JJ Thomson Avenue Cambridge CB3 0HE UK Objective To describe the protocol by which network connections are to be made and broken between delay line computers. Scope This document describes how to make and break network connections for the purpose of sending and receiving delay line command, command data, status and telemetry messages. ...

Lab . Main page News People . ASA . Master . Master net Homepage . ... Lomonosov Moscow State University Sternberg Astronomical Institute . ... MASTER . ... Lomonosov (ShOK) . ... About Space Monitoring Laboratory, scientific directions, instruments, contacts . People, who work in lab . Latest news and news archive . ... All news ...

... They are concerned with Attitude Control System of the spacecraft, satellite visibility from tracking stations, limits on the satellite autonomous operations during the orbit, and needs for auxiliary operations with the spacecraft. ... Among the operational constraints the most important one is the number of programmed slews per orbit, which determines the maximum number of radio sources to be observed during one orbit. ... System temperature (K) . ... Progress of the RadioAstron Project in Pictures...

... COMPUTER SIMULATION OF RADIOWAVE MULTIPLE SCATTERING EFFECTS IN IONOSPHERE USING MONTE-CARLO METHOD . ... Distribution of reflected radiation on the ground is computed. ... Such influence can be remarkable if the scattering is multiple, i.e. the optical thickness for the scattering process is considerably greater than a unit. ... Radiation energy transfer in the slab is modeled by distribution of some particles carring small portions of radiation energy. ... The isotropic plasma approximation is...

Russian Space Science Internet (RSSI) is a successful result of RSSI Project. ... space oriented organizations; . ... RSSI offers for its members : . ... videoconferences via MBONE Internet protocol (there are 2 tunnels available now through the general IP network: one to NASA Internet, and another to Moscow State University); . ... It is designed so that all organizations connected to the RSSI gain access to the resources of Russian computer networks as well as world wide Internet. ... nic@rssi.ru ...