Space Station Mir Over Earth . ... Credit Copyright: NASA , Russian Space Research Institute Explanation: This picture of the Russian space station Mir over the Pacific Ocean was recorded by the Space Shuttle Discovery in February 1995. ... Many scientific experiments and astronomical observations were completed jointly by the American astronauts and the Russian cosmonauts. ... Some cosmonauts have spent more than a year on board Mir, the longest anyone has ever lived in space. ...

Next: X--ray Quiet PMS Up: Contents Previous: Fits to Evolutionary . The X--ray selected PMS candidates may not constitute a complete list. The primary factor is the sensitivity limit, complicated by the vignetting in the field of the PSPC which was used to make the source list. ... In order to better understand the completeness of the X--ray data, photometry of every star in both regions was undertaken. ... The X--ray quiet sources are distributed evenly across the field (see Figure 8 ). ...

Next: Algorithm Up: Description of program searchdup Previous: Program parameters . Program is started by the command searchdup with no parameters. The graphic user interface appears, with all parameters to their default value. After parameter entry, the button START starts data processing. ... It is possible to stop the program clicking button BREAK! ... It is then possible to change some parameters, or to exit the program, by clicking on the EXIT button. ... 2000-06-30 ...

... PUL2 catalog contains original absolute proper motions of 59646 stars in 149 fields with galaxies. ... Mean errors of relative proper motions in PUL2 catalog is 5.5 mas/year. ... The external mean error of one relative proper motion of a bright star of PUL2 catalog is 9 mas/year for both of coordinates. ... After issue of UCAC2 catalog, we decided to improve accuracy of proper motions, using Pul-3 coordinates (of 1950s) as the first epoch, and UCAC2 coordinates as the second epoch. ...

... -instrument capability: manual at first; heading toward multi-port fast change capability [got it] Excellent pointing and tracking: 1 arcsec goal; can usually point to within ~few arcsec [or better] Excellent delivered image quality: 0.5 arcsec goal; often subarcsecond, but still feel we could improve about .3 arcsec [median seeing still about 1 arcsec ] Full suite of science instruments : Got them, upgraded them, have plans and paths to replace aging ...

... Makefiles are included to rebuild the executable from the original sources with Open Watcom C/C++ compiler and utilities. ... Proposed directory for placement: /pub/os2/dev/misc Your name: Olafur Gunnlaugsson Email address: oli@audiotools.com Program contact name: Rob Hamerling Program contact email: robhamerling@gmail.com Program URL: http://www.robh.nl/picsoft.php#jalv2 Would you like the contact email address included in listings? yes Operating System/Version: OS/2 v3 and up or eComStation. ...

Next: NICMOS/HST H-band (F160W) Images Up: NICMOS Science Previous: HST NICMOS Observations of . ... Observations of P . ... The NICMOS team has devised a comprehensive program of observations of the Galactic Center. ... Data in hand give a first look at variability and a detailed look at the search for the tip of the main sequence will be discussed where NICMOS has demonstrated adequate sensitivity and photometric precision to identify likely O8-B1 stars at the Galactic Center. ...

Operating Instructions Starlock PEC Utility Tool For use with Meade Starlock Equipped Telescopes Only PEC Utility The PEC Utility Tool allows you greater control over the Periodic Error Correction functions of your Starlock equipped telescope. ... Sharpening: The sharpening function makes the error corrections determined by Starlock be applied more aggressively while chasing small variations in the tracking. ... Sharpening, on the other hand, tends to increase the magnitude of the corrections applied. ...

Filename completion is only available if the the environment variables EDITOR and/or VISUAL are set to either emacs , gmacs or vi . For example: EDITOR=emacs . ... To complete a file or directory name with emacs or gmacs set press the ESC key twice. ls -l on<ESC><ESC> line_help . If the filename is not completed enter more characters until the filename can be uniquely identified. ... To complete a file or directory name with vi set press the \ (backward slash) key. ls -l on\ line_help . ...

... Bojan Nikolic web pages home . ... As an exercise to put through the new InMin library through its paces, I have looked recently at applying Nested Sampling ( Skilling2006 ) algorithm to the fitting of star-formation history as function of redshift. ... The data I used are from Figure 1 of Yuksel08 but I use only the grey data paints, which are just the data originally from Hopkins2006 . ... The next step is to define the function which is the model for the history of the SFR density. ...

XmCCD ----- This distribution includes source code to utilize the Santa Barbara Instrument Group (SBIG) shared library libsbigudrv.so with a Motif-based graphical user interface program to control SBIG astronomical CCD cameras. ... The latest SBIG library is available from http://www.sbig.com However, the version included here is known to work with this program. ... The sources for these programs are available from the XmCCD home at http://www.astro.louisville.edu/moore/software. ...

... Press release for Jan. 28, 2001 a.m. (Moscow time) . The Station "Mir" and cargo ship "ProgressM1-5"operations scheduled for Jan. 27-28 completed. ... The MCS (motion control system) is in free drift. ... The Station "Mir" and cargo ship "ProgressM1-5" onboard systems checkout is shceduled for 28-29 Jan. On Jan 25"Progress M-43' undocked the Station at 08.20 a.m. (Moscow time), its de-orbit is scheduled for Jan.29.The calculated time of jets firing for breaking - 05,12 a.m. (Moscow time) . ...

... Recent Topics . ... MAO main . ... Fw: ASTRONET: Task 5.4 - observing schools . ... Subject: Re: ASTRONET: Task 5.4 - observing schools . ... with the organization and carrying out observing schools. ... second half of September, and which will be funded by the training and . ... intended for master and starting PhD students. ... actions on observing schools, providing access for students, Master . ... observing schools for master students. ... in form of observing schools for pre-PhD students. ...

BUILDING ARMAGH PLANETARIUM A stately astrodome The chief architect for the project, Mr. Bell of Portadown, designed a building inspired by the Queen Elizabeth Planetarium in Edmonton, Canada. ... The foundations are laid: 1966 The first floor completed: 1966 The dream takes form By the time the building was complete ё70 000 had been spent on the project. Included in this was ё12 000 for Armagh Planetarium's first projector, a Goto Mars model made in Japan. ... The dome takes shape: 1967 ...

Odessa is the city wherein George Gamow was born. ... It was too scanty and simple for Gamov to be just engaged in researches. ... The LOC in Odessa will try to do their best and make every participant feel extraordinary atmosphere of our city, its spirit of freedom and keen interest in the search for nonstandard . ... The pleasant sound of this word brings a warm smile to one's lips and rays of sunshine to the soul. It seems as if the city has always been on the shores of the Black Sea. ...

... 10:00 - 11:00 Juergen Reingruber (ENS de Paris, France) . The search process for small targets in cellular microdomains . ... Statistical models on random lattices . ... 15:00 - 16:00 Vyacheslav Priezzhev (Joint Institute for Nuclear Research, Dubna, Russia) . ... Extreme statistics of vicious walkers: from random matrices to Yang-Mills theory . ... Conformal blocks and quantum Hall effect . ... Topological field theories and statistical models . ... Benjamin-Ono integrable systems in 2D CFT . ...

... Telescopes . ... 2013: . A new control system for the 1-m telescope with remote control possibility for the observation process . In 2013, the creation of a control system for the multitask 1-m ZEISS-1000 telescope was completed in SAO RAS, allowing the use of the telescope's observational capabilities in the modes of local and remote control. ... FITS 3.0-compatible archive of direct images with astrometric calibration . ... SAO RAS Report N329, 2013. Archive . ...

Next: hello.c Up: Programming in C Previous: Time . Here we give complete program listings that illustrate points in the course. hello.c . ... args.c . arg.c . average.c . ... bitcount.c . ... cdir.c . list.c . ... Wed Sep 14 10:06:31 BST 1994 ...

RADIOASTROPHYSICAL DEPARTMENT • INSTITUTE OF SOLAR-TERRESTRIAL PHYSICS RAS SB . General information Main characteristics of the Radio telescope Observing programs General view of the antenna array Main research areas Principle of generation of radio images Radio telescope 's beam Receiving systems Main characteristics of the base receiving-recording complex Calibrations Data archive and databases Publication SSRT - Siberian Solar Radio Telescope . ...

... This tutorial is about how to setup typical FTS application using PostgreSQL. We create our configuration pg , which will be default for locale ru_RU.UTF-8 . ... We'll use postgresql specific dictionary using synonym template dictionary and store it under PG_ROOT/share/dicts_data directory. ... After vacuuming, we are ready to perform full-text search. =# select rank_cd(fts_index, q)as rank, title from pgweb, plainto_tsquery('create table') q where q @@ fts_index order by rank desc limit 10; . ...