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... Iowa Robotic Telescope | ... Talon is based on OCAAS, a software suite developed by software engineer Elwood Downey ( Clear Sky Institute ) for use at the University of Iowa ?s first remote facility (the ATF, or Automated Telescope Facility). ... XObservatory : Telescope Control Interface . ... This program calls upon and coordinates much of the interrelated portions of the Talon architecture, and forms the primary control panel for the telescope, dome, and peripheral systems when used locally. ...

Peremennye Zvezdy ( Variable Stars ) 26 , No. ... Our BVR CCD photometric study of the globular cluster NGC 7006 permitted us to find two new suspected RR Lyrae variables. A cluster chart is presented with the position of known and suspected variables marked. ... According to the Catalogue of Variable Stars in Globular Clusters (Clement et al., 2001), it contains 76 variables, most of which are RR Lyrae variables, the RR1 to RR0 ratio being 8:55. ... for suspected and some of known variable stars. ...

... int feof(FlLE *file_pointer) - Check if end of file occurred on a stream. int ferror(FlLE *file_pointer) - Check if any error occurred during file I/0. int fflush(FlLE *file_pointer) - Write out (flush) buffer to file. int fgetc(FlLE *file_pointer) - Get a character from a stream. int fgetpos(FlLE *file_pointer, fpos_t current_pos) - Get the current position in a stream. char *fgets(char *string, int maxchar, FILE *file_pointer) - Read a string from a file. ...

Quasar VLBI network observatories as co-location sites A. Ipatov, I. Gayazov, S. Smolentsev Institute of Applied Astronomy, Saint Petersburg, Russia ... supposes: 1. installation of different observational techniques at sites (co-location) 2. combined processing of different types of observations (collocation) IAA activity in space geodesy · Quasar VLBI network : ­ VLBI observations ­ GPS /GLONASS observations ­ DORIS ( ...

Next: RSOG Pre-Observation Products . ... Mission Elements . ... The main mission elements (ME) are: . The RSOG, based at ASC, which is responsible for the science operation of the RadioAstron Mission. ... The Main Ballistic(Navigation) Center (MBC) belonging to Lavochkin Association coordinates preparation and exchange of orbit determination and orbit reconstraction ptoducts. ... Experiment codes of five characters are used in naming GRT related files. ... RSOG . ... Corr (GTS?) ... Corr (RSOG?) ...

Russian version of HP . ... StarCalc is the fastest professional astronomy planetarium & star mapping program for Windows 9x/ME/NT/2000/XP (StarCalc version for PocketPC computers you can found here ). ... Extensibility : This program is based on common "Plugin StarCalc interface to catalogs and object groups", which allows program to add new modules as Plugins. ... Welcome to the Pocket StarCalc Home Page: . ... Some bugfixes in eclipses" and line" plugins - see the new versions in downloads page. ...

home publications > mercury . SEARCH ASP SITE: Match ALL words Match ANY word . ... ASP Conference Series . ... Let it be a time for you to become aware of the Sun's motion in our skies. ... They observed, as we do today, the motion of the Sun from a point high in the summer sky to a point low in the winter sky. ... The Chumash, Native Americans who inhabited what is now California, relied on their high chief and his assistants to pull the Sun back to Earth at the time of the winter solstice. ...

Locating Uranus and Neptune in the constellation Capricornus for fall 1999 Alpha Theta Beta Rho Pi Omicron Sigma Key: Magnitudes 3 4 5 6 7 8 Uranus (mag 5.7) Neptune (mag 7.9) Shown for 5-Oct-99, but positions wont change much until mid-November Using binoculars, you should be able to locate Uranus and possibly Neptune using the chart above, even from the light polluted suburbs of Boston. ... Once you find Sigma, look further in the same direction and youll see Neptune. ...

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" . ...

... The European HST Archive has been moved to ESA's European Space Astronomy Centre ( ESAC ), Spain, where most of ESA's Space Science Archives are located and operated from. ... The Space Telescope European Coordinating Facility (ST-ECF), jointly operated by ESA and the European Southern Observatory ( ESO ) was, until the end of 2010, the European HST science facility, supporting the European astronomy community in exploiting the research opportunities provided by the Hubble Space Telescope. ...

Pulkovo Database of Observations of Visual Double Stars . ... Catalog of relative positions of visual double stars, based on photographic observations performed since 1960 in Pulkovo on the 26-inch refractor (A.A.Kiselev, O.A.Kalinichenko, O.V.Kiyaeva, N.A.Shakht, L.G.Romanenko, I.S.Izmailov, O.P.Bykov, K.L.Maslennikov, E.A.Grosheva, D.L.Gorshanov), 2010 . ... Enter either ADS or WDS number. Click here to display full list of visual double stars observed at Pulkovo. ADS . ...

... Advises . Contact Advises . As an advise for amateurs we would like to underline: if it's possible, try to observe 3 asteroid positions per night and do not neglect to observe the Numbered Minor Planets in your telescope field of view as a "by product" of your observational programs. ... We think such estimations ought to be produced every morning after CCD observations of the moving celestial objects by observer himself. ...

... Structure of Data . ... Catalog . ... In SAI OCL Catalog, we introduce our work on investigation of the Milky Way system of open star clusters. The main goal of our study is a search for new clusters using huge surveys. 168 new clusters have been already discovered by us using J,H,Ks data from 2MASS point source catalog. ... For 141 new clusters, we found their physical parameters using J,H,Ks data from 2MASS catalog and, for a number of clusters, our UBVRI CCD observational magnitudes. ...

Computer Ephemeris for 2014 from DE200/LE200. Longitude of central meridian of Uranus. ...

Follow-up astrometry and recoveries are made with the ANU 40 inch (1.0-m) f/8 reflector at Siding Spring Observatory (IAU code 413). ... A routine follow-up of 2003 WY153 on 2003 Dec 15 became much more than routine when a faint object with unusual motion vector was found close to the target asteroid. ... During routine astrometry with the 1.0-m to improve the orbit of the Apollo asteroid 2004 CB, the asteroid was found on March 30 to have a short tail! ... Siding Spring Survey Main Page . ...

... astro-ph . ... Statistical Characterization of the Chandra Source Catalog . ... The first release of the Chandra Source Catalog (CSC) contains ~95,000 X-ray sources in a total area of ~0.75% of the entire sky, using data from ~3,900 separate ACIS observations of a multitude of different types of X-ray sources. ... In addition to these traditional catalog elements, for each X-ray source the CSC includes an extensive set of file-based data products that can be manipulated interactively. ...

... Exposure Time Calculator (ETC) . Survey processing . ... VISTA is a 4-m class wide field survey telescope for the southern hemisphere, equipped with a near infrared camera (1.65 degree diameter field of view at VISTA's nominal pixel size) containing 67 million pixels of mean size 0.34 arcsec and available broad band filters at Z,Y,J,H,K s and a narrow band filter at 1.18 micron. A wide field visible camera, if constructed, could also be used on VISTA. ... Tile . ... ESO VISTA Public Surveys . ...

... 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. ...

... What happens if you do a cd (change directory) to this type of directory? ... Look at this example: pwd (print the user's working directory) /usr/home/john/tmp ln -s $HOME/accounts/may fifth (use a symbolic link named fifth that points to the directory $HOME/accounts/may) ls fifth cd fifth (change directory to the new directory) pwd (print the working directory) /usr/home/john/accounts/may (the user is actually in the the directory that the linked directory points to) . ...