New NexStar GPS Commands Mike Swanson swanson.michael@usa.net http://www.angelfire.com/ns/nexstar Tracking Rate Commands 1. ... The tracking rate returns to the hand control default (usually sidereal) after any of the following: after approximately 20 seconds with no action from the PC or the user after pressing any of the arrow buttons on the hand control To prevent this automatic return to default tracking, you must set the tracking mode to Off prior to issuing a new tracking rate command. ...

Numbering Procedures for APO 2.5m and 3.5m Drawings and Engineering/Drafting Documents . ... Document part numbers are to consist of a 7 character long "base numbe,r" which is coded to provide information about the part's intended first use. The part number becomes complete and unique only with the addition of a revision number. ... Example of a "base number": 25CSA01 . ... PART NUMBER CONVENTION . ... For Example: . ... R = "Revision" . ... Questions contact Larry Carey/University of Washington ...

... In order to successfully graduate from the University and receive a diploma, a student must pass exams in all required courses and in some elective courses, and then must write and defend a thesis. ... In order to become a student at the IUM, one had to take a written mathematical entrance exam in the end of June or in the beginning of September. ... Non-matriculated students who successfully complete the exams for the first semester become official students of the University. ...

... Galaxies' Charts and Images . ... This chart shows nearby galaxy NGC 2805. ... Use of these charts to compare CCD images is not recommended. ... Antonio Cidadao , supernova hunter from Portugal, has an excellent galaxies atlas on line, made with a 25cm telescope. ... Another excellent CCD atlas is made by Pedro Re' , supernova hunter from Portugal. ... CCD Atlas is a compilation of CCD images of deep sky objects (galaxies, nebulae and clusters). ... There are galaxy CCD images for supernovae hunters...

home publications > mercury . SEARCH ASP SITE: Match ALL words Match ANY word . ... ASP Conference Series . ... Following the Martian Coastline . ... It seems scientists and laypeople alike have wondered for quite a long time whether or not water exists on Mars. ... A second reason we should determine the sites of ancient Martian seas is that if water once existed on Mars, it is possible that conditions for life obtained on the planet in the past and possibly even persist into the present. ...

... References (if any) 2 Preamble Please follow this sample (see LaTeX file). If your contribution is submitted by less than 3 coнauthors, please use \markboth{A.B.\,Author A and A.B.\,Author B}{Title of Contribution} otherwise please use \markboth{A.B.\,Author A et al.} ... 6.2 Reference list Please follow the examples: [1] shows the ref. for a journal article, [3] shows the ref. for a monograph, [4] shows the ref. for an article in proceedings, [5] shows the ref. for a preprint. ...

... Scientific Publications . ... In the autumn of 2016 the scientific journal Computer Optics is planned to be issued with original publications in English (Volume 40 No. ... The journal is included in the List of State Commission for Academic Degrees and Titles of the Ministry of Education and Science of the Russian Federation of the leading peer-reviewed scientific journals and publications, in which basic scientific results of the doctoral thesis in physics and informatics should be published. ...

... Space flight . ... Space Hotel . ... Small orbital stations (SOS) are intended for the arrangement of flexible manned programs on commercial basis with the possibility of using the traditional Russian manned , cargo spacecrafts, their modifications and new modules oriented for the minimum costs and terms of orbital objects development . оThe principle of SOS building is as follows: it is developed not as a separate self-sufficient project of an ... It means a possibility of: . ...

... The program Conspiracy Theory: Did We Land on The Moon? seen on FOX television network (2/15/01) advanced the claim that NASA's Apollo Moon missions were a giant hoax. ... In our view the Apollo pictures were faked. ... Illumination in Shadow: FOX narrator: "On the Moon, the astronaut's only source of light was the Sun.. ... The two side-by-side photos show a test I conducted with a model of the lunar module and a toy astronaut placed in its shadow as in the Apollo image above. ... Apollo 11 Faked? ...

I. Installation . ... AMPLE package distributive (created with program InstallShield for Microsoft Visual C++) has been downloaded on FTP server of IAA RAS as archive Ample.zip. ... Note: If the window "file download" appears, select Open... switch button, then press OK button. ... The shortcut for AMPLE will be linked with this folder, and auxiliary files will be created here during AMPLE work. ... When running AMPLE all auxiliary and new configuration files are created in the WORK folder. ...

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This is the new output format generator. ... It works as such: The user will ask for format "output:html" with option "style=booklist". ... This is an output format. b) The "output" module's broken out format is the canon format. So the fromcanon and explode routines do nothing but return what they are given. c) The style module will return a single string. ... It takes as input a record in canon format. ... The charset used is canon. 4. bp-output.pl A new format module. ... bp-output.pl | ...

... Literature and Catalogs in Electronic Form: Questions, Ideas and an Example: the IBVS A. Holl Konkoly Observatory, P.O.Box 67, H­1525 Budapest, Hungary, Email: holl@ogyalla.konkoly.hu Abstract. While transforming astronomical journals and catalogs to electronic form, we should have in sight two questions: making it easier for the human reader to locate and comprehend information. ... IBVS will make available lengthy tables electronically, in machine readable ASCII text, or FITS ASCII Table form. ...

... CodingљStyle . ... Plugins . ... Building Plugins . ... dynamic plugins are stand-alone dynamic libraries (separate files with .so extension on Linux, .dll in Windows or .dylib on Mac OS X) that are loaded at run-time (on start-up) by Stellarium. This allows dynamic plugins to be distributed separately from Stellarium. static plugins are linked statically at build-time. ... For the rest of this discussion, I will assume you downloaded the source code in the directory /home/me/builds/stellarium . ...

OFFICIAL PRESS RELEASE . ... Soyuz TMA spacecraft being a modification of Soyuz spacecraft for operation in the frame of the ISS Project were developed by S.P. Korolev RSC Energia staff in cooperation with the subcontractors of the Russian rocket and space industry, and have been flying since November 2002. ... P. Semenov, Technical Director of Russian Manned Space Programs, General Designer of S.P. Korolev RSC Energia, V.V.Tsibliev, Head of RGNII of Yu. ... www.energia.ru/eng/iss/iss10/res.html , . ...

... Tonight's Sky . ... The Magazine . ... Observing . ... The double star 54 Leonis, spiral galaxy NGC 3198, and emission nebula NGC 3199 . ... Astronomy for Kids . ... Observing springtime deep-sky objects with a large telescope . ... Bright planets meet at dusk . ... Astronomy magazine subscribers can read the full article for free. ... Get instant access to subscriber content on Astronomy.com! ... Receive news, sky-event information, observing tips, and more from Astronomy's weekly email newsletter....

Space VLBI Mission RadioAstron Announcement of Opportunity -- 1 for the period July 2013 ­ 30 June 2014 Key Science Program ( KSP ) Final Notes Proposals Due: 8 February 2013, 23:59 UT 1 RadioAstron KSP meeting follow-up Based on the fruitful discussions, questions and suggestions from the RadioAstron Key Science program meeting in Bonn (December 3-4, 2012), we would like to emphasize the following specific aspects for the preparation of the AO-1 ...

... Liyong Liu (NAOC) . Site testing on seeing conditions of the astronomical observatories over China are briefly reviewed, including Xionglong station of NAOC, Gaomeigu station of Yunnan Observatory, Delingha station of Purple Mountain Observatory. ... PDF [3.0€аMB] October 8, 09:55 10:20 . ... In this paper, we will review the site survey activities in the past years, and present the site-testing results on the Oma site, including cloud cover, seeing, water vapor, transparency and sky brightness. ...

To run a browser from Urania at your computer, . you must give the following commands (in Linux?): . xhost +urania . ssh urania (or rlogin urania?) . (then give your login and password at Urania . that you must get from our system administrators) . export DISPLAY=your_PC:0 . (where your_PC is the name of your computer, . e.g. ursa, theor1, etc) . netscape . ================================== . 17/09/00, V.I.

... Tour Objects Tours can be created using objects from within the Autostar database or a user can enter in different objects (such as a newly discovered comet). ... Automatic Mode: As the user advances to each object, the title of the object appears on line 1 of the display while its descriptive text automatically starts scrolling across line 2. ... For example: STAR "Rigel" LANDMARK az alt "title" "description" Enter the azimuth (az) for the desired object in the following format xxxdxxmxxs. ...