2 June 2006 2007-2009 Work Plan v1 2007-2009 WORK PLAN: TOWARD CONVERGENCE DRAFT 1 for Technical Review COVER NOTE The following is the first version for a three-year plan for GEO, 2007 to 2009. ... Page 1 of 38 2 June 2006 2007-2009 Work Plan v1 ACRONYMS ADM AMDAR AMMA APAN AVHRR CBD CEOS CERN DAPHNE DEM EC EPA EPIDEMIO FAPAR FDSN GEANT GEO GEOSS GIS GMES GOFC-GOLD GOS GPM GSN IGCO IGDDS InSAR INSPIRE IPY ITU MODIS NASA NGO NIEHS SAR SBA SPOT -VGT SST THORPEX UN UNFCCC COP ... Task No. ...

... Structure of Data . ... Catalog . ... The SAI OCL Catalog site provides several VO-enabled modes of operation: . VO-enabled catalog data analysis from a browser . ... Endpoint URL is http://ocl.sai.msu.ru/catalog/conesearch/ . ... VO-enabled catalog analysis from a browser . Presently, this recipe works with Firefox (Windows, MacOS, Linux), Internet Explorer (Windows) and Opera (Windows) browsers with Java plugin 1.6 installed. ... Main TOPCAT window with SAI OCL catalog loaded will appear. ...

... Bad Astronomy . ... Bad Astronomy: The North Star, Polaris, is a very bright star. Good Astronomy: Polaris is a middling-bright star, easily missed. ... He said it was close to Polaris, the North Star, but he also said it was in the East. ... It's natural, I suppose, to think that such an important star should be bright, but really, that's a conceit, like thinking that the Earth is at the center of the Universe. If more people knew just why Polaris is the North Star, this Bad Idea would stop. ...

VISTA Data Flow System: Status Jim Emerson*a, Mike Irwinb, Nigel Hamblyc b a Astronomy Unit, Queen Mary Universit y o f London, Mile End Road, London E1 4NS, UK Inst itute of Astronomy, Universit y of Cambridge, Madingley Road, Cambridge CB3 0HA, UK, c Inst itute for Astronomy, School of Phys ics, Universit y of Edinburgh, Edinburgh EH9 3HJ, UK ABSTRACT Data from two IR survey cameras UKIRT's WFCAM and ESO's VISTA can arrive at rates approaching 1.4 TB/night for of order 10 years. ...

... The author of the cover picture is Vasilisa Verkhodanova. The picture symbolizes our perception of the world. The modified emblem of the SAO unifying the 6-m optical telescope and the raditelescope RATAN-600 of SAO RAS is placed in the center of the radio galaxy isophotes. From the one hand, we can investigate the properties of radio galaxies with these (and other) telescopes, and try to study physical processes providing their activity. ...

RUSSIAN . The Centre for Astronomical Data (CAD) of the Institute of Astronomy (INASAN) of the Russian Academy of Sciences was established in 1980 as a branch regional center of the Centre de Donnes Stellaire (CDS) with the purpose of astronomical data dissemination among Soviet and Eastern Europe astronomers and for providing the CDS with Soviet machine readable astronomical catalogues. The CAD archive is based on astronomical catalogues received from Strasbourg since 1980. ...

... MASTER Net is 56 square degrees per 1 exposition . ... 06 Dec 2015: GRB 151205B: MASTER-NET early optical observations GCN18665 . ... 18 Nov 2015: GRB 151118A: MASTER-NET optical observations GCN18613 . ... 12 Nov 2015: GRB 151112A: MASTER-NET optical limit GCN18591 . ... 07 Nov 2015: GRB 151107A: MASTER-NET optical observations GCN18565 . ... 31 Oct 2015: Five OTs detected by Global Robotic MASTER Net ATel8232 . ... 02 Oct 2015: GRB 151001B: MASTER-NET early optical observations GCN18380 . ...

... Observing . ... Solar Observing . ... April 3 (SUN) - Solar Observing, Central Park , Manhattan . ... APRIL'S SKY . ... Lecture Series at the American Museum of Natural History The Amateur Astronomers Association is proud to present an astronomy lecture series from October through May each year for our members and the .. ... The€аAmateur Astronomers Association of New York€аwas organized in 1927 to promote the study of Astronomy, emphasizing its cultural and inspirational value. ...

... Вселенная, жизнь, разум (Модераторы: ivanij , AlexAV , Nucleosome ) ? Обнаружен радиосигнал, который может оказаться посланием от инопланетян!!! . ... Ответ #40 : 10.11.2004 [09:55:36] ? ... Цитата: ALZ от 10.11.2004 [11:50:31] Действительно, статья интересная. ... У меня вопрос, те несколько посланий инопланетянам , отправленных с земных радиотелескопов, они могут пройти Post-Detection Protocol или нет? ... тех нескольких посланий инопланетянам , отправленных с земных радиотелескопов . ...

... October 6, 09:00 09:40 . Jorge Melnick (ESO) . ... We present a statistical and temporal analysis of the ground meteorological properties recorded at the five selected sites for hosting the European Extremely Large Telescope (EELT). ... Marc Sarazin (ESO) . The organization and development of the E-ELT site testing campaign by ESO are described. ... The E-ELT Site Testing activities in northern Chile and Argentina are reviewed, and pioneering explorative campaigns are illustrated. ...

... Under certain conditions, like those in the nucleus of a QSO, all atoms can be made to emit light at particular wavelengths. ... If that source is approaching the observer, the wave is squashed up onto itself making the wavelength shorter. ... This is redshift. ... You can see how the section of the QSO spectrum which we observe changes with redshift. ... We then see how far we had to slide the observed spectrum along the scale to make it match and that is the objects redshift. ... The 2QZ team . ...

... GRIN lenses for telecommunication optics applications ? GTC (gradient telecom) lenses. ... GTC lenses are used in different fiber-optic devices: collimators, couplers, isolators and WDM etc . ... 2.Diameter . GTC lenses diameters are 1.0 mm, 1.8 mm, 3.0 mm and 4.0mm. ... 1.0 mm -3.0 mm diam GTC lenses are supplied in 0.22P, 0.23P, 0.25P, 0.27P and 0.29P length. 4.0 mm diam GTC lenses are supplied in 0.11P length. ... GTC . ... 3 scratches with 5mkm max width and 200mkm max length are allowed . ...