Astronomy Picture of the Day . ... 22.11.2004 . ... Credit: NASA Explanation: Where do gamma ray bursts occur? To help find out, NASA launched the Swift satellite on Saturday, as pictured above . ... Subsequently collected GRB and afterglow information will help astronomers not only determine the nature of the initial explosions, but also the nature of the expanding shockwaves. ... Publications with keywords: Swift - launch . Publications with words: Swift - launch . ... Dawn Launch Mosaic . ...

... 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 . ...

Next: Stellar parameters from calibrations Up: Command line procedures Previous: Lists Contents . ... DafDal#OPAfPAlSepfSeplMagAMagBSpectrum_pmrapmdeDM######No hhmmf ddmm YYYYYY degdeg m m s y+1000 /century 05167 +4600ANJ 1Aa 91999799 49 01 008 G3III +076-425+45 1077NO 05167 +4600BAR 25AB 898898 1 23 23 466 466 21 171 05167 + 4600BU 1392AC 878878 1318318 782 782 21 151 05167 + 4600BU 1392AD 878878 118318312621262 21 136 05167 + 4600BU 1392AE 878878 131631614321432 21 121 ...

... Bojan Nikolic web pages (r. 329) . ... The order in which libraries to link to are passed to the linker is important . ... Many libraries use the GNU Autoconf/Automake build toolchain. ... Run the ./configure script, which looks for the various programs and libraries that the package needs . ... The simplest way is to run ./configure and make note of any complaints about missing programs or libraries that it reports. ... Some notes on the GNU toolchain . ... Passing options to configure . ...

Next: Amorphous magnesium silicate Up: Examples of data contained Previous: Examples of data contained . ... We have used the infrared optical constants of forsterite contained in the database for calculating the absorption cross sections of spherical and non-spherical particles in the Rayleigh limit (see Fig. The spectra are obtained by averaging the cross sections calculated for the three different crystallographic directions. ...

Astronotes Armagh Planetarium's Stellar Blog! ... Armagh Planetarium . ... Moon . ... Space Flight . ... Science Fiction . UFOs and Fringe Science . Monthly Sky Notes . ... NASA's Cassini spacecraft obtained this image of Saturn's moon Helene on June 18, 2011. Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Space Science Institute) . ... Your email address will not be published. ... Email * . ... Here you will find the latest news and views from the fascinating worlds of astronomy and space exploration. ...

... Time calculated from Fermi GBM Trigger Time = 14:12:08.67 ( Connaughton, GCN 9230 ). 1% coincident with our start zero image time. 3x3 degrees around Swift XRT position . ... SUBJECT: GRB 090424 : MASTER-Net prompt optical limit DATE: 09/04/25 20:29:42 GMT FROM: Vladimir Lipunov at Moscow State U/Krylov Obs E. Gorbovskoy, V. Lipunov, V.Kornilov, A.Belinski ... Our observations results: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Fermi GRB Trigg.* ...

... Next, the screen displays "Press 0 to align or Mode for Menu." Press "0" if you wish to begin Automatic alignment (or Easy Align, depending on your telescope model), or press Mode if you wish to choose a manual alignment method ("Automatic Alignment" displays, and you can press MODE to go through the menu to find other alignments). ... Note: If you press the "?" key while "Ctr Brightest Star" displays, the alignment star that AutoStar has chosen will display. ... Alignment successful" displays. ...

T he Siding Spring Survey (SSS) is a Near-Earth Object search program that utilises the 0.5-m Uppsala Schmidt Telescope at Siding Spring Observatory, N.S.W., Australia. ... The mission of the Siding Spring Survey is to contribute to the inventory of near-earth objects (NEOs), or more specifically, the potentially hazardous asteroids (PHAs) and comets (PHOs) that may pose a threat of impact and thus harm to civilization. ... Based on the CSS Mission page . ... Siding Spring Survey Main Page . ...

National Aeronautics and Space Administration . Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center . ... William A. Anders (Major General, USAF Reserve, Ret.) NASA Astronaut (former) . ... EDUCATION: Received a bachelor of science degree from the United States Naval Academy in 1955 and a master of science degree in Nuclear Engineering from the Air Force Institute of Technology at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio, in 1962. ...

This section of AMPLE provides a means for identification of minor planets. ... Due to special organization of the package, AMPLE permits the identification to be reliable fulfilled THROUGHOUT the TITLE YEAR. ... In such cases the result of identification depends on where the nearest opposition of inspected planet is situated, within basic interval lasted from November of preceding year to February of subsequent one or without it. ...

Download Izmccd (~2.7 MB). ... for 1-5 bytes is number of a numbered minor planet, . ... Positions 1-80 file "mpcreportiz.txt" are similar to positions of file "mpcreport.txt". 83-95 – errors of unit weight, . ... If this tag is " 1 0 " , this record contains results of measurements of an image of object (approximation by "PSF"),  . ... 57-66 – error in X (pixels), for first star in a multicentric image, for subsequent it is error in (distance between first star in the image and this), . ...

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. ...

... Class . ... SUMMARY: NESTED | ... METHOD . ... public class Channels . ... Displays the ImageJ Channels window. ... Nested classes/interfaces inherited from class java.awt.Frame . ... Nested classes/interfaces inherited from class java.awt.Window . ... Nested classes/interfaces inherited from class java.awt.Container . ... Nested classes/interfaces inherited from class java.awt.Component . ... void . ... Methods inherited from class ij.plugin.frame. ... Methods inherited from class java.awt.Frame . ...

... We have compared visualized fields of GSC and USNO A1.0 catalog with unpublished photographic finding charts that were sent by L. Plaut to the compilers of the GCVS. ... 7-15 A9 --- GCVS GCVS or NSV name 17-25 F9.4 --- GSC GSC number 26 A1 --- NoteFlag *Nonstar (GSC) flag 28-29 I2 h RA2000GSC.h Hours RA (GSC), equinox 2000.0 31-32 I2 min RA2000GSC.m Minutes RA (GSC), equinox 2000.0 34-38 F5.2 s RA2000GSC.s Seconds RA (GSC), equinox 2000.0 40 A1 --- DE2000GSC.- ... Plaut, L., 1966, Bull. ...

Stellarium 0.12.3 . ... ClassљList . ... StelLocationMgr Class Reference . Manage the list of available location. ... locationForString (const QString &s, bool *ok=NULL) const . ... Get whether a location can be permanently added to the list of user locations The main constraint is that the small string must be unique. bool StelLocationMgr::deleteUserLocation . ... Return the StelLocation for a given string Can match location name, or coordinates. bool StelLocationMgr::saveUserLocation . ...

... The trapping regions of high-energy charged particles surrounding the Earth are called radiation (or van Allen) belts (Van Allen et al., 1958; Van Allen and Frank, 1959). The inner one, located between about X = 1.1 - 3.3 Re (Earth radii, geocentric) in the equatorial plane, contains primarily protons with energies exceeding 10 MeV. ... The radiation belts are of importance primarily because of the harmfull effects of high energy particle radition for man and electronics: . ...

WDC-A Digital Exchange Format for One-Minute Geomagnetic Data (Update August 1993) 1. The logical record length is 400 coded characters containing header information, blank spaces, and data for one element for one hour. ... Each logical record contains header information and data in the following format: North polar distance, longitude, year, month, day, hour, element, observatory code, blank spaces, 60 data values, and an hourly mean. ... ORG is the origin of the data. A = Alaska Chain. ...

... Bus Hound may be the very first product of its kind -- a software bus analyzer for capturing device I/O and protocol. ... When the capture buffer fills to capacity, Bus Hound can be configured to stop the capture process or continue capturing, keeping the most recent acquired data. ... IDE : Bus Hound captures command and data transfers for ATA and ATAPI devices. ... B us Hound captures I/O using a device driver. ... The below figure demonstrates how Bus Hound captures data for SCSI devices. ...