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. ...

... sterne . ... New commands added. ... New physics (OP continuous opacities, opacity sampling, diffusion, tetrahedralization) and methods are being incorporated into all codes. ... The last SFIT news bulletin was issued in 2002 September. ... Together, STERNE , SPECTRUM and SFIT form the major components of this package, known as LTE-CODES. ... 2002 SEP 11 - SFIT2 Method " genetic " implemented for solve , not synth . ... 2002 SEP 4 - Development of SFIT2 - a merger of SFIT and SFIT_SYNTH, has begun ....

Marc White . ... This page details the updates and changes I've made to this website since it's original iteration. ... The changes listed here are structural/design changes only. ... 29 Dec 2013 . ... Altered header/footer background colour, added header background image . ... E marc.white@anu.edu.au . ... F www.facebook.com/marc.white.au . L au.linkedin.com/pub/marc-white/84/460/84a/ . S marc.christopher.white . G github.com/marc-white . Design copyright Marc White 2014 . ...

... In less then one day "Mir" station will finish its flight. ... Besides, the operability of motion control systems will be tested to ensure further dynamic operation at the final stage of "Mir" complex. ... The final third burn is given in daily orbit 2 using the "ProgressM1-5" 8 control engines and its main engine with the trust of 300 rg/s. Thus, to peform deorbit maneuver the OC"MIr" real-time tested manuevers involving control engines and their combination with the main engine are used. ...

SAI VO . ... ConeSearch . ... Access . ... CrossMatch your data with CAS catalogs . How to access the SAI CAS services . Catalogs access ( wsdl ) . ... Third release of DENIS data (20 September 2005) . ... The Naval Observatory Merged Astrometric Dataset . The DR5 data release of SDSS . Data release 6 of Sloan Digital Sky Survey catalogs . ... The Second U.S. Naval Observatory CCD Astrograph Catalog (UCAC2) . Third U.S. Naval Observatory CCD Astrograph Catalog (UCAC3) . ...

... 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. ...

Previous Editions of the M111: . ... OutReach Training and Program . September Public Night . Welcome all ye weary travelers to a new type of M111 "On Line". ... Back to top.. ... When I logged our last outreach programs I couldn't help but notice that Warren Rupp Observatory is NUMBER FIVE in the worldwide standings in public outreach programs! ... If you'd like to train in astronomy outreach, just contact any of our members and we'll be happy to train you to do public outreach! ...

... Next: Statistical Analysis Up: Image Restoration and Previous: Restoration of HST . ... This presentation is devoted to the MEM (Maximum Entropy Method) task, version D, for image restoration in IRAF. Described in detail are its enhanced functions of Poisson noise only case handling and subpixelization technique; improved algorithms for maximization including the preconditioned conjugate method, accurate Newton method, the accurate one-dimensional search, and the model updating technique. ...

... Bad Astronomy . ... I think I will break from my usual format of Bad Astronomy/ Good Astronomy by saying that the way we define seasons currently is not strictly bad, but I feel (in my opinion!) that it could be better. The definition of when the seasons begin is at the moment of solstice or equinox; that is, winter (in the north) starts on December 22 nd and summer starts on June 22 nd . ... Now imagine breaking up the Sun's 46 degree up-and-down yearly swing into 1 day intervals. ...

. Minsk bibliography on light scattering . What's new . (under construction) . 01.11.01 . Release of alpha version of the on-line database (for local use). 07.08.01 . Start of developement of the on-line database. 01.08.01 . New version of the original FOXPRO database. To homepage . © 1990,2001 Victor Babenko (Bibliography compiling) . © 2001 Serge Beletsky (Design & Programming) . E-mail: serge@cyteg.com . Last updated: 2001/10/30

... BLG 109: A Distant Version of our own Solar System . ... Perhaps quite common, as the first system of planets like our own Solar System has been discovered using a newly adapted technique that, so far, has probed only six planetary systems . The technique, called gravitational microlensing , looks for telling brightness changes in measured starlight when a foreground star with planets chances almost directly in front of a more distant star. ... VB 10: A Large Planet Orbiting a Small Star . ...

An Ancient Universe: How Astronomers Know the Vast Scale of Cosmic Time . ... 56 - Fall 2001 . Click here for a printable pdf version of this newsletter. ... by Andrew Fraknoi (Foothill College), George Greenstein (Amherst College), Bruce Partridge (Haverford College) and John Percy (University of Toronto) . ... American Astronomical Society . ... Copyright 2001, American Astronomical Society. ... The Ancient Universe . The Age of the Expanding Universe . ... The Changing Universe . ...

New GCVS Versions for Three Southern Constellations Peremennye Zvezdy (Variable Stars) 27, No. ... We are currently working on a version of the General Catalogue of Variable Stars (GCVS) revised taking into account the new data accumulated since the 4th GCVS edition. ... It will contain all stars of the 4th GCVS edition plus a complete catalogue of the stars added to the GCVS in the Name Lists of Variable Stars Nos. ...

VSOP: The VLBI Space Observatory Programme . Released data. VSOP Survey Publications . ... The VSOP Survey Data Reduction Handbook. ... Data reduction in Difmap in postscript (447 kb) or gzipped postscript (77 kb). ... Template Checklist and Worksheet for reduction and analysis of Survey data. ... Changes to Difmap for VSOP data analysis. ... Difmap macros needed for the processing of survey data. ... VSOP Survey Working Group Data Reduction Meeting , July 10, 12, 13 1999 . ...

... The data of the Table are based on the data published by C.-I. Lagerkvist, A. W. Harris and V. ZappalА (See: “Asteroids II machine-readable data base: March 1988 floppy disk version”, National Space Science Data Center, Greenbelt MD). The Table was updated for publication in the volume for 2014 by B. Warner (Palmer Divide Observatory, Colorado Springs, U.S.A.), A. W. Harris (Space Science Institute, U.S.A.), and P. Pravec (Astronomical Institute, Academy of Sciences of Czech Republic) . ...

... Primary Mirror after being stripped and recoated in 3-layer protected silver (NiCr-Ag-NiCr) on 12 September 2009. image: CIMG7901.jpg . ... Primary Mirror held by (yellow) handling tool being lifted off transport container (note the tennis balls it rested on), to be put on wash cart during unpacking at VISTA on 29 March 2008. image: P1060207.jpg (taken 29/03/08) . ... VISTA Mirror Blank: Shape of 4m primary mirror blank being tested at Schott Glas in Germany. image: M1_shape_checking-300dpi.jpg . ...

Astronotes Armagh Planetarium's Stellar Blog! ... Solar System . ... Monthly Sky Notes . ... By admin January 21, 2011 Posted in: Robot Exploration . A UFO hovers in the Martian sky (Image credit:NASA/JPL) . The car-sized Mars Science Laboratory Curiosity is too heavy to slam into the rocky plains of Mars encased in airbags like its predecessors, so this imaginative and complex system was devised instead. ... Is there a video anywhere on the internet of a test of the ?sky crane? rockets? ...

... 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. ...

... CVS . ... ASM Kislovodsk . ... Anonymous CVS access through CVS protocol: . cvs -d :pserver:anonymous@curl.sai.msu.ru:/srv/cvs/cvsroot . Anonymous CVS browse through ViewVC: . ... Rs485 CVS . ... ASM Dome demon CVS . ... CVSROOT at curl.sai.msu.ru is located in /srv/cvs/cvsroot . You may access to CVS repository via SSH only using your curl's account login/password. ... export CVSROOT=curl.sai.msu.ru:/srv/cvs/cvsroot . ... CVS_RSH=ssh cvs -d user@ curl.sai.msu.ru:/srv/cvs/cvsroot command . ...

... Documentation . ... I've added in a few more things to the documentation mainly in the area of error handling. ... Thanks to Steven Schoch <schoch@sheba.arc.nasa.gov> we now have a version of telnet and telnetd that can (as long as you enable it with a new server and client option) enable a user to telnet to the telnetd and not be asked for a password if they send a certificate that is signed by a trusted CA (which you naturally configure yourself) for those users in the new /etc/ssl.users file. ...