. An operating system is the program that controls all the other parts of a computer system - both the hardware and the software. Most importantly, it allows you to make use of the facilities provided by the system. Every computer has an operating system. The UNIX operating system has three important features; a kernel, the shell and a filesystem. The Kernel . The Shell . UNIX file system . More about the UNIX operating system .

There are 2 separate compressed air systems on site that function independently. These systems can backup each other in case of an emergency. ... System No. 1: This system provides compressed air to: . ... Compressed air is provided by two Kaeser screw compressors in the boiler room. ... Pressure runs at either 109 or 115 psi depending on which compressor is operating. ... However, System No. 2 can only backup System No. 1 when operating on the Kaeser compressor. ...

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The AstroGuide . ... AstroGuide | ... AstroGuide Listing . Login . See many more Astronomy Listings by: Category or Alphabet . Southern Stars provides professional software for the Amateur Astronomer. Platforms include Windows 3.1, Windows 95 and Macintosh System 7.x. Last Update August 28, 2005 . ... Web Site . ... Web . ... Unless otherwise specified, web site content Copyright 1994-2016 John Huggins All Rights Reserved . dbHTML," "AstroGuide," "ASTRONOMY.NET" & "VA.NET" . ...

... For every catalog we provide the detailed and maximum full scientific text in separate files, describing the telescope, calibration of observations, columns of tables, etc., from the original paper publications. ... The main list of CATS catalogs has, as a rule, references to original ones or to the site of initial storage, and ftp-access to every catalog. In our database we also used catalogs typed from original paper. But in some cases we corrected the typos or errors in initial texts. ...

The software package ERA (Ephemerides for Research in Astronomy) is a problem-oriented software system for solving heterogeneous calculating tasks of Ephemeris and Dynamical Astronomy. The package makes it possible to produce ephemeris calculations needed for both planning various observational programs and processing the resulting observations. ... The system includes packages of processing the position observations by both the Least Squares Method and by Kalman filtering. ...

... Survey processing . ... ESO - Public Surveys . ... Individual pawprints extracted from the ESO archive can be passed through a calibration pipeline at Garching that will remove instrumental artefacts, and produce astrometrically and photometrically calibrated single pawprints for the user. The UK-based VISTA Data Flow System (VDFS) receives a copy of all VISTA raw data by agreement with ESO, and is required to fully respect the proprietary rights assigned by ESO to observations. ...

... Satellite data ] . ... The SCANOR system provides receiving and processing of the Earth-surface pictures made in visible and infra-red bands and transferred by satellites of the NOAA polar orbiter series (in the HRPT mode). ... The SCANOR system includes the desktop receiving device connected to an IBM AT 386 type computer, and the parabolic antenna with the guiding mechanism. The SCANOR system possesses the state-of-art software providing registration and processing of the received data. ...

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home education > activities . ... Astronomy . ... This calculational activity by Evan Manning helps familiarize students with the Gregorian calendar, and then asks them to come up with a calendar system for another planet where the year is also not an integer multiple of days. [m,h] . ... Offers a spreadsheet to make a scale model of the solar system and beyond. ... Very basic activity, building a scale model of the Earth-Moon system; also teaches the simple math of ratios and scaling. [e, m] . ...

The Equatorial Inertial (GEI) coordinate system: . The X GEI axis is directed to the point of the spring equinox, . The Z GEI axis is coincide with the Earth's rotation axis, . The Y GEI supplements the right three. The Geographic (GEO) coordinate system: . ... The Solar Magnetic (SM) coordinate system: . ... About space physics coordinate transformation see Russel [1971] and Hapgood [1992] . ... M.A. Hapgood , Space physics coordinate transformations: A user guide // Planet Space Sci. ...

... I am involved in Project Astro, a program to bring astronomers into public schools to assist with teaching students about science and astronomy. ... While there are all sorts of scale model of the Solar System type exercises ( Mitchell Charity's page has a good listing of what's available), none were really tailored towards discovering the spatial relationships of the planets, and in a way that could be done at night as part of a Star Party. ...

Stellarium - free GPL software which renders realistic skies in real time with openGL. the University of California's Melvyl System on the World Wide Web - a computer-based library system . ... Handbook of Space Astronomy and Astrophysics . ... Astronomical Data Analysis Center, NAO Japan . ... Space Movie Archive . ... Aips - the Astronomical Image Processing System is a software package for calibration, data analysis , image display, plotting, and a variety of ancillary tasks on Astronomical Data . ...

NMW survey overview . Access image archive . ... The New Milky Way survey aims to detect bright (V<13.5) optical transients near the Galactic plane using an automated wide-field (8x6 deg.) system capable of surveying the whole Milky Way area visible from the observing site in one night. ... All images obtained during the transient search survey are available online (please use the image archive access form ). ... Images per field: . ... Images per night: . ... Milky Way imaging time: . ...

To main of Laboratory . The research work and design of optical and optical-electronic devices are carries out by laboratory staff: . ... Lens: . ... In the layout 1 prism systems perform functions of dispersive element, corrector of aberrations, optical reducer. ... Spectral range 200 - 400 nm; . ... Back Forward . ... The main corrector's function are compensation of field aberrations of the main spherical mirror of a telescope (diameter of 600 mm, f'=1200 mm) and increase aperture ratio. ...

... Contacts . 2008: . Spiral structure of the magnetic field in AO 0953 over a stable spot. A two-dimensional high-altitude structure of the coronal magnetic field, with the power tube extending up the ~0.4 о -wide spiral was observed over a stable spot in the active region AO 0953. The magnetic field of around 600Gs is located at a rather high altitude in the solar corona (up to 25 thousand km). ... Contacts: V.M. Bogod ) . Archive . ...

Astronotes Armagh Planetarium's Stellar Blog! ... Armagh Planetarium . Colin Johnston . ... Telescopes and Observatories . ... January . ... By admin February 20, 2013 Posted in: Armagh Planetarium . ... M42, the Great Nebula in Orion, imaged through Armagh Planetarium?s telescope in January 2013. ... Image credit: Colin Johnston/Armagh Planetarium) . ... M31, the Andromeda Galaxy, imaged with the new telescope in January 2013. ... Armagh Planetarium?s new telescope in action in January 2013. ...

... S.P. KOROLEV ROCKET AND SPACE CORPORATION ENERGIA . ... OAO RSC "Energia" . ... Company's History . ... Rocket Systems . Flights Chronology . ... ISS Russian Segment . ... Automatic Space Systems . Universal Space Platform . Yamal-200 Communications Satellite . ... The Universal Space Platform was developed by S.P. Korolev RSC Energia within the Yamal project. ... Using the Universal Space Platform as the basis, RSC Energia provides activities in any scope: . ... AUTOMATIC SPACE SYSTEMS . ...

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RADIOASTROPHYSICAL DEPARTMENT • INSTITUTE OF SOLAR-TERRESTRIAL PHYSICS RAS SB . ... SSRT - Receiving systems . The SSRT has two independent receiving systems for recording solar observational data, and several ancillary receivers for checking, setting up and adjusting the instrument. The base receiving systen is a multichannel filter receiver for a simultaneous recording in 180 channels with the 500 kHz band each, adjusted at steps of about 600 kHz. ... Channel's band . ...