... B=Command, 12AB=Azm, comma, 4000=Alt. ... Example: if the desired position is 220°, then POSITION_24BIT = (220/360)*224 = 10,252,743 Separate POSITION_24BIT into three bytes such that (POSITION_24BIT = PosHigh*65536 + PosMed*256 + PosLow). Exampe: PosHigh = 156, PosMed = 113, PosLow = 199 Send the following 8 bytes: a. Azm Slow Goto: 80, 4, 16, 23, PosHigh, PosMed, PosLow, 0 b. Alt Slow Goto: 80, 4, 17, 23, PosHigh, PosMed, PosLow, 0 The number 35 is returned from the handcontrol 4. ...

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. ...

... 14 & 15 July 2008: from Babylon to the Big Bang - a History of Astronomy . ... This is a collaboration between the project P.I. in the Centre for Astronomy at the National University of Ireland, Galway (Dr. Ray Butler) and researchers in the University of California at Santa Cruz (Prof. Jean Brodie), the Institute for Astronomy at the University of Edinburgh (Dr. Dougal Mackey), and Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Massachusetts (Dr. Jay Strader). ... Closing date: Friday 18 July 2008. ...

... Graduated from Moscow State University in 1970 and till now in permanent staff of the Sternberg Astronomical Institute, Moscow State University. ... Member, Euro-Asian Astronomical Society . ... Jointly with Dr. V.Konnikova, I teach a course in Radio Astronomy at the Astronomy Division , Physics Department of Moscow State University . ... Astronomical Meetings . ... Net Search: MetaCrawler . ... Moscow State University . ... Rudnitskij, Georgij M. Page last updated November 25, 2015. th . ...

... Specialists from the TESIS Control Centre, at the FIAN Laboratory of Solar X-ray Astronomy, have succeeded in fixing a malfunction in one of the observatory's central telescopes, which occurred in the second half of May. ... The main version of events pointed to a malfunction in the drive mechanism's reducer, which is responsible for the rotational power from the main shaft of the motor to its output shaft, which is connected to the shutter. ... The TESIS observatory ї TESIS: www.tesis.lebedev.ru . ...

polimplot -- Plot a polarization vector map . ... inpol = "" [name] . Input linear polarization image (in %) to plot. inpopa = "" [name] . Input image for position angle of linear polarization vectors (degrees). poi_err = "" [boolean] . ... Name of corresponding polarization position angle error image (degrees). ... This task is a flexible tool for plotting a polarization vector map from two images of the polarization and the position angle of the polarization vector. ...

... Classes . ... TelescopeTCP Class Reference . This TelescopeClient class can controll a telescope by communicating to a server process ("telescope server") via the "Stellarium telescope control protocol" over TCP/IP. ... TelescopeTCP (const QString &name, const QString &params, Equinox eq=EquinoxJ2000) . ... getInfoString (const StelCore *core, const InfoStringGroup &flags) const . ... getEquinoxEquatorialPos (const StelCore *core) const . ... getJ2000GalacticPos (const StelCore *core) const . ...

... 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 . ...

... Tonight's Sky . ... Mars . ... Home . ... Observing . ... Mars orbiter repositioned to phone home Mars landing . ... Two other Mars orbiters, NASAт??s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter and the European Space Agencyт??s Mars Express, also will be in position to receive radio transmissions from MSL during its descent. ... Only registered members of Astronomy.com are allowed to comment on this article. ... Receive news, sky-event information, observing tips, and more from Astronomy's weekly email newsletter....

Astronotes Armagh Planetarium's Stellar Blog! ... Moon . ... Earth Satellites . ... By admin October 4, 2012 Posted in: Moon . A tiny second moon.This is Phobos (27 km across) seen over Mars by ESA's Mars Express (Image credit:ESA) . ... They concluded that at any given time Earth probably has a second moon. ... But, just perhaps, briefly the Earth had a second natural satellite seen by thousands of people.Remember the spectacular fireball witnessed over the UK and Ireland on 21 September 2012 ? ...

The starting page - The catalogues page - The list of the PUL2 fields - The list of the Pul-3(Pul-3SE) fields - The list of the PUL_ERS fields . please read short description of the access form controls . ... Right Ascension (ICRF/Tycho-2) J2000 at the central epoch of obs. (hours, minutes, seconds) (Obligatory parameter) . ... proper motion in RA (*cos(DE)) (ICRF/Tycho-2). (mas/yr) . ... Check the apropriate checkbox to output these data and radiobutton to select stars within interval. ...

... Director of the RAS ISR . RAS Academician . ... Astrophysics module Kvant of the orbital complex Mir launched in 1987 contains the largest on the station complex of the scientific equipment named the orbital observatory Roentgen. Observatory Roentgen consists of 4 X-ray telescopes, jointly exceeding the range of energies from 2 to 800 keV. ... Among the most significant results that were received in the observatory Roentgen are: . ... measurement of the periods of 9 X-ray pulsars; . ...

The Astronomical Society of Australia has been asked by STANDARDS AUSTRALIA to compile a list of "designated" optical observatories that are valuable resources for (i) research, (ii) education and (iii) community use. The ASA is the final arbiter of whether any particular observatory is so designated. ... Upon receipt of your application form, your observatory will be entered on a list of "Pending Designated Observatories" on the ASA Home Page. ... It will be emailed for you. ... Email . ...

... Meade Instruments Corporation . ... Autostar Computer Controllers . 497 Autostar . ... One of the most important advances in telescope control in the past 25 years, the Meade #497 Autostar Computer Controller turns the ETX into an automatic celestial object locating system. ... The #497 Autostar Computer Controller plugs into the control panel of ETX-90EC, ETX-105EC, and ETX-125EC telescopes and enables automatic location of more than 30,000 celestial objects. ... about meade | ... Meade 4M | ...

... ASRAS HOME . ... For our educational outreach event, we hosted a Boy Scout troop in Ionia (Pix_1), for a sleep over this last spring and were able to make our Portable Radio Telescope (PBT - itty bitty radio telescope ) operational. ... The Solar Radio Telescope project is coming together nicely. ... You may have seen or heard of articles about the ongoing Solar RT project which is a Solar RF Spectrograph to study sunspots, presently being built for the ASRAS astronomy club (site in Ionia, NY). ...

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In Memory of Vsevolod Gantmakher . ... Having received his Ph.D. in 1964, V. Gantmakher continued work at the Institute of Solid State Physics (ISSP) of the USSR Academy of Sciences, which had been founded a year before. For the next three years, he worked on his D.Sc. thesis at IPP. ... For many years, as an outstanding personality and highest scientific authority, V.Gantmakher made a remarkable contribution to creating a friendly atmosphere and a creative approach to the research work at ISSP. ...

GPS GP-37 () GPS . ... GPS- (John A. Klobuchar) [3]. ... GPS GP-37, Furuno. ... Datta-Barua S., Doherty P.H., Delay S.H., Dehel t., Klobuchar J.A. Ionospheric scintillation effects on single and dual frequency GPS positioning. ... Air Force Surveys in Geophysics, No. ... Klobuchar, J. A. Ionospheric Time-Delay Algorithm for Single-Frequency GPS Users. ... Global Positioning System Standard Positioning Service (SPS) Signal Specification. 2nd Edition. ... Klobuchar, J. A. Ionospheric Effect on GPS. ...

Celestron Forum Message . Forums: . ... Discussion Forums | ... Post . ... Hand Control CGE 1400 . ... Post Message | ... On hand control display I receive the message "No respond 16" and "No respond 17", . I don't know if the Hand control or the telescope is damaged. ... www.astronomy.net . About Astronomy Net | Advertise on Astronomy Net | ... Forum posts are Copyright their authors as specified in the heading above the post. "dbHTML," "AstroGuide," "ASTRONOMY.NET" & "VA.NET" . ...

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), . ...