... New Developments in the FITSIO and Fv Software Packages W. Pence NASA/GSFC, Code 662, Greenbelt, MD 20771, Email: pence@tetra.gsfc.nasa.gov Abstract. This paper describes recent improvements to the FITSIO subroutine library and the fv FITS file viewer and editor, both of which were initially described at previous ADASS conferences. ... Introduction The FITSIO subroutine library for reading and writing FITS format files was last described in the ADASS IV conference proceedings. ...

... The Russian TESIS (FIAN) Solar Observatory has transmitted observations back to Earth of the solar eclipse made on July 22nd, 2009. ... On the first occasion, the satellite passed through the eclipse area at 04:30 Moscow time, making it the first on our planet to see the shadow of the Moon, which was still in space and was only approaching the Earth ( film 1.2 MB, wmv format ). ... The first Moon passage over the solar disk (00:30 UT) (Movie wmv; 1.2 MB) . ...

Franckly, it is extremly difficult for me to make a list of my favourite books. The problem is: every new book pretends to be the favourite one. Another one: some books, which I liked very much, when I was younger, were not read for years. The last one: I can't explain to myself why I like some books...but I'll try.. ... The book I like to read for years (and I don't know why), when I don't feel well and wanna relax: "Noon. ... My favourite Americane writer: Ernest M. Hemingway . ...

... As then we removed from the Earth, we dived into a sky deeper and deeper. ... We saw immense red-hot spheres, liked suns, in illuminator of our spaceship. ... We saw our Earth, Mars, Mercury, and planets-giants, such as Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and other. ... Also we saw a comet. ... The planet Upsilon was on our way. ... If we could speak the language of these two peoples, we could explain them what the war did on our home planet "the Earth", how many people were killed because of war conflicts. ...

... Copyright©1997 Bob Yen (byen@ix.netcom.com) (http://www.comet-track.com/hb/hb.html) . ... Information on Comet Hale-Bopp for the Non-Astronomer Hale-Bopp rotates about twice a day (3/14/97) . ... The Comet Observation Home Page was been selected to receive the Griffith Observatory Star Award for the week of February 2 - 8, 1997 for excellence in promoting astronomy to the public through the World Wide Web. ... Typically, about 1,000 individual users/computers access this page every day. ...

To Do List ========== November 10, 2007 =============== Progress in base code not yet on this site will appear in the next beta version released here. ... Features in development for the next stable release include TDI with absolute timing Binning and subarea readout Autoguiding with the tracking control and adaptive optics features XML based server/client for remote use Command line version Browser version Connection to XmTel and XEphem for coordinate information in FITS headers ...

... Contacting and discussing with people sharing your interests, participating in night sky observations with telescopes as well as a large choice of astronomical books, magazines and video-tapes out of our club library. ... A reasonable compromise for observing both planets and brightest deep sky objects ( nebulae, galaxies) are either a 4 to 8 inch mirror telescope ( Newton, Schmidt-Cassegrain ) or a 3 to 4 inch refracting ( lens) telescope. ... Where can I buy a telescope in Luxembourg ? ...

AUTOMATIC CREATION OF THE HYPSOMETRIC MAP OF VENUS. ... The hypsometric map of Venus (1:45M) created under editing of Dr. Rodionova gives the representation of the planet relief on the basis of up-to-date data. ... The requirement was to preserve contour polygons with the areas more than 10 000 sq. km at the Venus surface, which corresponded with areas approximately more than 5 sq. km at the map. ... The other side of Venus map has been prepared. ... Surface height histograms for both Venus and Earth. ...

Электронная библиотека астронома-любителя. ... библиотека . архив RSN . ... Ru.Space.News: . Июль 1998 . ... Дата: 23 июля 1998 (1998-07-23) От: Alexander Bondugin Тема: SpaceViews Update - 15 July 1998 [1/6] Привет всем! ... S P A C E V I E W S U P D A T E 1998 July 15 http://www.spaceviews.com/ 1998 /0715/ *** Top Stories *** Planet-B Launched on Mars Mission Researchers Find Evidence Against Martian Nanofossils Astronomers Discover Nearby Developing Solar System Baikonur Problems ...

world space congress Ї Houston to Host WSC Ї 2002 Employee Involvement There are numerous ways for the JSC community to get involved in WSCЇ2002.. ... Kids Festival and Discover NASA Day, held on Oct. 18 and 19 respectively, will call for JSC volunteers to lead hands-on activities and experiments, lead education trailer tours and supervise youth engineering competitions. ... M The Exhibit T he space event of the decade, World Space CongressЇ2002 comes to Houston Oct. ... 11-19 Space Policy Summit Oct. ...

... 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 . ...

... Linux is poised to storm the once-closed world of embedded applications. The open source operating system made its first big impact as a file and Web server, and is currently making headway in the enterprise market. ... Further, the pool of programmers familiar with Linux is broader than those at home with proprietary embedded software. ... While this San Jose, Calif., company does offer an open source embedded Linux, its main strength is its proprietary real-time operating system, LynxOS. ...

... Gas in Thermodynamic Equilibrium Conditions. Stellar Spectrums. Physical Basis of Spectral Classification of Stars. ... The Sun. General Stellar Feature of the Sun. ... Distribution of Brightness in Solar Disc. ... Chromosphere - Observations on Limb and Disc of the Sun, Basic Elements of Structure, Spectrum, Physical State. ... Solar Corona - Observation, Structure, Spectrum, Polarization, Dynamics, Rotation, Physical Condition. ... Interstellar Dust. ... Two Groups of Big Planets. ...

This module provides for user authentication using Berkeley DB files. ... AuthDBGroupFile . ... The AuthDBGroupFile directive sets the name of a DB file containing the list of user groups for user authentication. ... Combining Group and Password DB files: In some cases it is easier to manage a single database which contains both the password and group details for each user. ... The AuthDBUserFile directive sets the name of a DB file containing the list of users and passwords for user authentication. ...

P.O. Box 797 Sonoita, AZ 85637-0797 June 19, 2000 Prof. David Chalmers Philosophy Department Room 213, Social Sciences Building University of Arizona Tucson, AZ 85721-0027 Dear Prof. Chalmers: Well, here's another one from Mr. At-Least-I-Thought-Of-It-Independently. ... So as a thought experiment, let's imagine that instead of having our matter transporter actually move matter, what it moves is information. ... That will make it necessary to move the matter to move consciousness. ...

... OF THE MISSION CONCEPT AT RSC ENERGIA . Year of the design . ... Use of electric propulsion for interplanetary transit powered by a 7 MW nuclear reactor; . ... Delivery to Martian surface of a group of vehicles to make up a self-propelled train . ... Switch to a stationary "headlight"-shaped lander with frontal heat shield . ... Replacement of nuclear power plant with a solar power plant based on a film-type photoelectric converter . ... Official WEB-site of S.P.Korolev RSC Energia . ...

... Астрофест 2014 . ... Юпитер. Весна 2015г, съемка камерой QHY5L-II. ... Противостояние Марса весной 2014г, съемка камерой DВK-21. ... Юпитер 2012г, съемка камерой DВK-21, ЛЗОС APO175. ... Юпитер, ноябрь 2011г. съемка камерой QHY5T. 15.11.2011 . ... Съемка камерой QHY5T, телескоп Ньютон 200мм . ... Сатурн, 21.12.2008г. Первая попытка планетной съемки камерой QHY5, телескоп Ньютон 200мм на монтировке MT-3S-2D. Суммирование 450 кадров из 1000 в Registax3. ... 2004-2015г. Андрей Олешко ...

Общая Астрономическая Конференция > Товары для астрономов > Полезное для астрономии . Книга по астрофотографии. Making Beautiful Deep-Sky Images . ... Поиск . ... Из серии книг от Патрика Мура . ... Созвездия (поиск и описание) .. Созвездия южного неба (поиск и описание) .. Осенние созвездия (поиск и описание) .. ... Лунные феномены (редкие, необычные явления) Жизнь астрономов-любителей Анонсы астрономических мероприятий Астрономические клубы Наш "Старлаб" . ...

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... Our scientific interest is an accuracy of asteroid CCD observations obtained by amateurs and professional astronomers all over in the World. ... These data help us to analyse an accuracy of real CCD positions in the MPC Database. ... Do you test your observations of the small Solar System bodies permanently before sending them to the International Minor Planets' Center? ... Do you know a real accuracy of your positional CCD-observations in comparison with the other observatories' one ? ...