... What you are seeing, most likely, is a spacecraft in low Earth orbit reflecting back sunlight as it circles the Earth once every 90 minutes or so. Two of the brighter spacecraft in the present day sky are the International Space Station (ISS), and, when it is up, a NASA space shuttle. ... These lights were were the ISS and the space shuttle Discovery , which had undocked from the ISS a few hours earlier. ... Publications with keywords: international space station - ISS - space shuttle Discovery . ...

... 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. ...

... Basic time functions . ... Example 2: Set a random number seed . ... Uses of time functions include: . ... time_t time(time_t *tloc) -- returns the time since 00:00:00 GMT, Jan. 1, 1970 , measured in seconds. ... timer.c */ #include <stdio.h> #include <sys/types.h> #include <time.h> main() { int i; time_t t1,t2; (void) time(&t1); for (i=1;i<=300;++i) printf(``%d %d %d n'',i, i*i, i*i*i); (void) time(&t2); printf(`` n Time to do 300 squares and cubes= %d seconds n'', (int) t2-t1); } . ...

... Ignacio Ugarte Urra's PhD thesis topic is the investigation of coronal bright points. In his first paper (in collaboration with Gerry Doyle and Maria Madjarska) he investigated the formation, evolution and decay of a coronal bright point via a spectroscopic analysis of its transition region counterpart and the evolution of the underlying magnetic bipole during 3 days of almost continuous observations. ... In general the bright point has a radiance 4 times higher than that of the network. ...

... 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...

As an obligatory preparing for the application to participate in the IAO a short report of National Olympiad of the current year with a set of all problems used on the Olympiad has to be presented by the applicating team. ... The final minutes (protocols written in Latin or Cyrillic in form of tables) of the Olympiad (evaluating of solutions of the students participated in the last stage of the Olympiad) should be included as well. ... Historical data of the National Astronomy Olympiad: . ...

NAUTICAL ASTRONOMICAL ALMANAC for 2011-2012 (in Russian-English) . Preface . The Institute of Applied Astronomy of the RAS (IAA RAS) submits the next issue of ?The Nautical Astronomical Almanac for the years 2011-2012? biennial (NAA-2). ... There are some auxiliary tables for interpolation and calculation of altitude and azimuth in NAA-2. Calculations of ephemerides in NAA-2 for 2011-2012 have been executed by the following researchers of Laboratory of Astronomical Yearbooks of IAA RAS: . ...

... Enhanced HST Pointing and Calibration Accuracy: Generating HST Jitter Files at ST­ECF M. Dolensky, A. Micol, B. Pirenne and M. Rosa Space Telescope ­ European Coordinating Facility, Karl­Schwarzschild­Str. ... The Pipeline In order to generate the missing jitter files a pipeline was set up (Figures 1 and 2). ... Both the Mission Schedule and the AEDP subset files are retrieved from the Data Archive and Distribution System (DADS) at STScI. ... 94 STScI started producing obs logs on a regular basis. ...

specpsf -- Form a longslit spectrum for a point source from many point spread function images specpsf refima psfwavs psfims sliwid pixwid subsam cenoff psfpos outpsf . ... The name of the input 2-dimensional reference image to supply the dimensions and header information for the output longslit Point Spread Function (PSF) spectrum image. psfwavs = "" [table file name] . ... The centre of the Point Spread Function in each input image is determined by centroiding and the slit is placed over the image. ...

E.T. MATVEYEVA, R.V.Shchepetnov Сatalogue of geomagnetic pulsations of Pc1 type on observation data at the Antarctic Observatory Mirny Geophysical Observatory Borok, Institute of Physics of the Earth RAS, Russia The catalogue is based on the analysis of long-term and continuous observations of pulsations such as Pс1 on the Antarctic Observatory Mirny( ? ... C?- traces of Pc1. ... The period of Pc1 in seconds (Ts) is determinated as averaged prevailing in the given time interval. ...

... The Radon transform (also known as the Hough transform) is formulated as a family of line integrals through a two-dimensional function. ... The Radon transform provides us with a simple means of computing the FF plane of the autochirplet transform, by using the Wigner distribution, and arriving at a transform space that tells us basically the same information as the chirplet FF-plane, except that we benefit from the greater resolution of the Wigner distribution. ...

... 2011 March 14 . Spacecrafts Streak Over Colorado . ... What you are seeing, most likely, is a spacecraft in low Earth orbit reflecting back sunlight as it circles the Earth once every 90 minutes or so. Two of the brighter spacecraft in the present day sky are the International Space Station (ISS), and, when it is up, a NASA space shuttle. ... These lights were were the ISS and the space shuttle Discovery , which had undocked from the ISS a few hours earlier. ... About APOD | ...

To pass a single argument to a command alias: alias print 'lpr \\!^ Pps5' print memo.txt . The notation !^ causes the first argument to the command alias print to be inserted in the command at this point. ... character is preceded by a \\ to prevent it being interpreted by the shell as a history command. To pass each argument to a command alias: alias print 'lpr \\!* ... The notation !* causes each argument given to the alias print to be inserted in the command at this point. ...

Underdetermined sets is a new type of data structures (terms) developed in Actor Prolog . ... The point is that an underdetermined set can include some indefinite rest (a tail) like a list in usual Prolog . At the same time, the order of elements of an underdetermined set can be arbitrary one and it does not affect results of unification of underdetermined sets. Moreover, Actor Prolog guarantees that a rest of an underdetermined set never contains elements that are explicitly given in the set. ...

... Mars . ... Orbiter observations point to "dry ice" snowfall on Mars . The carbon dioxide snowfalls occurred from clouds around the Red Planet's south pole in winter. ... Observations by NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter have detected carbon-dioxide snow clouds on Mars and evidence of carbon-dioxide snow falling to the surface. ... NASAт??s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) data have given scientists the clearest evidence yet of carbon dioxide snowfalls on Mars. ...

... The Science Operation Department is composed of Astronomers, Telescope Instruments Operators(TIOs) and Data Handling Administrators(DHAs). ... Astronomers have proposed several methods to quantitatively measure the amount of turbulence above the telescope, which the most common ones is Differential Image Motion Monitor (DIMM). In optical testing, the Hartmann test is the common method to test the quality of optical components. ... Hartmann mask consists of 48 lenses. ...

... 13, Moscow 119992, Russian Federation, e-mail: busarev@sai.msu.ru; 2 Research Institute Crimean Astrophysical Observatory, p/o Nauchnyi, Crimea 334413, Ukraine, e-mail: prok@crao.crimea.ua Summary: We propose a combined method of astronomical investigations of small or distant planets incorporating registration of a set of integral spectra of an object and their frequency analysis. ... An application of the method is shown on example of asteroid 21 Lutetia. ... 6] Busarev V. V. (2002), Solar Sys. ...

. May 22, 1996 . Fig. 1. An example of the EUV and soft X-ray large-scale chain of bright point revealed by the modified SOHO/EIT and Yohkoh/SXT images. A coinciding straight-line chain of the bright points extends between very distant points 1 and 2 on the SOHO/EIT (a) and Yohkoh/SXT (b) images of May 22, 1996. Back to the page of the SOHO/EIT and Yohkoh/SXT chains . Back to the parent page . Last update: 9 August 1998 .

... For the past years I have been working on the problem of synthesis of light curves of close binary systems, consisting of a normal star and a compact object (point object with fixed X-ray luminosity). ... Possible existence of a bright spot on the disk's lateral surface is taken into account. ... The last of then will be published in Gordon and Breach Publishers ( Cherepashchuk A.M., Katysheva N.A., Khruzina T.S., Shugarov S.Yu. ... Cherepashchuk A.M., Katysheva N.A., Khruzina T.S., Shugarov S.Yu. ...