This service contributes to the International Service of Geomagnetic Indices (ISGI) of the IAGA . ... The Kp numbers of the previous month are available in tabular format . ... There are available also historical and current Kp and derived indices per anonoymos FTP (see below). ... U.S.A. FTP server: ftp://ftp.ngdc.noaa.gov/STP/GEOMAGNETIC_DATA/INDICES/KP_AP/ . monthly update) . ... contains the monthly Kp / ap tables in a simple text format readable for both humans and computers (*.tab). ...

Contents and Select Excerpts . ... Summer 2008 . This page contains the table of contents and select excerpts only and is not a complete reproduction of this issue. Complete content for online Mercury is available to ASP members and institutional subscribers . ... Astronomy in the News . ... Editorial, Paul Deans . ... A Personal Sky . ... Annals of Astronomy, Clifford J. Cunningham . ... ASP's EPO in the IYA . ... Sky Sights, Paul Deans . The Sky of August, September, and October . ...

lsst.coordConv љ unknown . ... Classes . Files . ... Site . ... coordConv::Site Class Reference . ... Site (double meanLong , double meanLat , double elev ) . ... site longitude, ignoring pole wander (deg, positive eastward) More... љ . ... Definition at line 10 of file site.h . coordConv::Site::Site . ... double coordConv::Site::azCorr . ... double coordConv::Site::corrLat . ... double coordConv::Site::corrLong . ... double coordConv::Site::diurAbMag . ... double coordConv::Site::elev . ...

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 . ...

... 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 . ...

... Documentation for the Python objects defined by the project is divided into separate pages for each package, module, and class. The API documentation also includes two pages containing information about the project as a whole: a trees page, and an index page. ... A description of the package. ... A summary of the classes defined by the package. ... The module contents frame contains a list of every submodule, class, type, exception, function, and variable defined by a module or package. ...

Next: Mission Operations Data Transfer . ... VLBI Tape Management . VLBI Tapes . ... When: As soon as the correlator is satisfied with the correlator output. back to top . ... What: Each correlator will maintain a data base including the status of all VLBI tapes under its control. ... The correlators will distribute tapes to mission elements based on the Observation Summary File produced by the RSOG ( Observation Summary File ) to ensure each element has enough tapes to support SVLBI observations. ...

For calculating model spectra of early-type helium stars in LTE, we maintain a database of atomic data for, mostly, blue-visual absorption lines of light elements. The data is sorted with one file for each ion. ... III = ++ . ... It will work on both complete linelists (including the atomic data at the start and references at the end) or raw ion files (such as Ni2.d). ... A Fortran utility to convert linelists downloaded from the Vienna Atomic Line Database into the new QUB format. synspec_qub . ...

Photon Scattering: Basic Principle of Photon Scattering . Audio Narration is available . No Scattering: Photon Source and Detector . ... For optical photons, scattering goes as wavelength to the -4 power. In the case of blue photons compared to red photons, this means that blue photons are about 10 times more likely to get scattered than red photons. ... Watch the blue photons scatter away from the detector . ... Interstellar dust make stars appear redder than they really are . ...

Next: Observing the Old-Fashioned Way (Gui-Free Observations) Up: Spectral Line Appendices Previous: OLD Basic Analyz Routines For use with data taken BEFORE March 6, 2000 . This appendix contains example analyz sequences used to look at HI spectra. ... Additionally, if you have not run analyz before, instruction (2) should read: If you have not, instruction (3) should read: . ... 7) redln < rec < n : This first stores the individual ON/OFF - 1 data dumps into registers 100 - 100+ - 1. ...

Please enter the lightcurve file name and period search parameters: . Lightcurve file: . ... Apply the Heliocentric correction and convert all dates to Terrestrial Time (TT)? ... Also, the Heliocentric correction cannot be applied to such lightcurves. ... This period search service is also available at the mirror sites: Mirror 1 , Mirror 2 , Mirror 3 , Mirror 4 . You may download the latest source code distribution and install the period search service at your own web server. ...

... xpaaccess 3 June 7, 2012 version 2.1.14 SAORD Documentation .SH NAME XPAAccess: return XPA access points matching template ( XPA 2.1 and above) .SH SYNOPSIS .IX Header SYNOPSIS .Vb 1 \ #include xpa .h .Ve .PP .Vb 3 \ int XPAAccess( XPA xpa , \ char *template, char *paramlist, char *mode, \ char **names, char ** PP A template of the form \*(L"class1:name1\*(R" is sent to the \&\s-1XPA\s0 name server, which returns a list of at most n matching \s-1XPA\s0 servers. ...

... 15.03.2001 . ... March 15 2001 09:00 (Moscow time) . The operation with OC "Mir" scheduled for March 14 is complete. ... The onboard systems perform nominal, the battery generate enough electric power, the thermal condition is normal. Getting the OC"Mir" ready for dynamic operations the fuel containers pressure integrity was checked, the valves of the fuel supply pipes and the 1st collector oxidizer in the core block integrated propulsion system were opened. ...

Next: Examples of data contained Up: Electronic database Previous: Future plans . In astrophysics, the optical constants mainly are used to calculate the optical properties of scatterers, i.e. cross-sections, scattering matrix, etc. ... Optical properties derived from such models have been discussed in some books (see, e.g., [ 2 , 3 ]) and in principle can be calculated by using various light-scattering tools which are freely available via the internet [ 4 ]. ...

... Bondarko M.V., Vostokov S.V, Zhukov I.B., Additive Galois modules in complete discrete valuation elds// Algebra and Analysis, 1997, issue 4, 2846. ... Bondarko M.V., Vostokov S.V, Isomorphism of ideals regarded as Galois modules of complete discrete valuation elds with residue eld of positive characteristics // Trudy St. Peterburgskogo Matematicheskogo Obsh'estva, vol. 6, 2000, 4251, translation in Amer. ... Bondarko M.V., Z[ p ]-motivic resolution of singularities// Compositio Math., vol. 147, iss....

OSLO LT V5.4 Optical Software For Layout And Optimization . Articles | ... Has anyone out there tried to raytrace a telescope design? ... OSLO LT keeps track of the optical path length each ray travels, so it knows the phase relationship of the light as it travels through the telescope. ... Through the use of OSLO LT, I've been able to refine the optical design of the telescope I'm working on. ... www.astronomy.net . About Astronomy Net | ... dbHTML," "AstroGuide," "ASTRONOMY.NET" & "VA.NET" . ...

... MANNED SPACE FLIGHT LABORATORY LOCATION . The Manned Space Flight Center location study is completed. James E. Webb, Administrator of NASA, announced today the completion of the study to determine the location of the agency's new $60,000,000 Manned Space Flight Laboratory. The facility was authorized by Congress for initiation in the current Fiscal Year. The laboratory will be located in Houston, Texas on 1,000 acres of land to be made available to the government by Rice University. ...

... int kill(int pid, int signal) - a system call that send a signal to a process, pid . ... sig_talk.c --- Example of how 2 processes can talk */ /* to each other using kill () and signal () */ /* We will fork() 2 process and let the parent send a few */ /* signals to it`s child */ /* cc sig_talk.c -o sig_talk */ #include stdio.h #include signal.h void sighup(); /* routines child will call upon sigtrap */ void sigint (); void sigquit(); main() { int pid ; /* get child process */ if ((...

... On the left is a normal star field containing the constellation Orion. ... A Star Where Photons Orbit . ... Enceladus orbits Saturn between the smaller Mimas and the larger Tethys. Enceladus is composed mostly of water ice and has the cleanest and purest ice surface in the Solar System. ... The Crab Nebula resulted from a star that exploded - a supernova. ... The outer layers of the star were thrown violently into space, while the inner core collapsed to form a neutron star. ... Water World . ...

... Equinox of object coordinates BJ = 18.87 / bJ magnitude UMBJ = -0.69 / u - bJ colour BJMR = 0.22 / bJ - r colour NOBS = 1 / Number of 2dF observations available IS_ BEST = 'TRUE ' / TRUE if this file contains the best 2dF observa DATEBEST= '24/09/00' / Date of best 2dF observation (DD/MM/YY) ID_ BEST = 'QSO ' / ID from best 2dF observation QUALBEST= 11 / Data quality flag from best 2dF observation Z_ ...