... VaST is a software tool for finding variable objects on a series of astronomical images. ... VaST performs object detection and aperture photometry using SExtractor on each image, cross-matches lists of detected stars, performs magnitude calibration with respect to the first (reference) image and constructs a lightcurve for each object. ... VaST FITS image viewer ./pgfv . ... Part I" PZP, vol. ... K. V. Sokolovsky, S. A. Korotkiy; "New Variable Stars Discovered by the NMW Survey" PZP, vol. ...

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. ...

... Bad Astronomy . ... Mad Science . ... Area of science: Astronomy . ... My idea is as follows: A very strong concrete foundation is attached to "Earth" a cable made of some increadably strong material is attached on to a giant powered pully wheel, the capble runs out into space aprox 400 miles ! ... In his novel "Fountains of Paradise" Clarke uses that idea: take a cable 40,000 km long and drop it from the satellite to the spot directly underneath it on the Earth and secure it. ... 2008 Phil Plait. ...

... Declined commitment to national space programs and drastic cuts in ICBM demand create a strong economy-driven trend to proliferate missile and space-related technologies to new markets. ... to establish a regime to provide space launch services to potential proliferators as an incentive against development of rocket launch capabilities of their own. ... Under such a condition new space powers definitely would not give up the development of independent space launch capabilities. ...

... COMPUTER SIMULATION OF RADIOWAVE MULTIPLE SCATTERING EFFECTS IN IONOSPHERE USING MONTE-CARLO METHOD . ... Distribution of reflected radiation on the ground is computed. ... Such influence can be remarkable if the scattering is multiple, i.e. the optical thickness for the scattering process is considerably greater than a unit. ... Radiation energy transfer in the slab is modeled by distribution of some particles carring small portions of radiation energy. ... The isotropic plasma approximation is...

The Integrated Information Display System for the Soyuz-TMA and the Integrated Console of Manual Control Loop for the Russian Segment of the International Space Station Yurii Tiapchenko, deputy Chief Designer and head of the Division of Onboard Information Display Systems (1993-2002) at the Specialized Experimental Design Bureau of Spacecraft Technology and Chief Designer at the NTC "Alpha-M". ... The tasks of the spaceship IDS are provided by the Simvol and KL-110 display systems. ...

... Родился 17 июля 1954 года. ... В 1988 году служил в оперативном подразделении А в Штаб-квартире метеослужбы ВВС США (Air Weather Service) на авиабазе Национальной Гвардии США Бакли (Buckley Air National Guard Base) в Колорадо. В 1998 году служил в 45-й метеоэскадрильи (45th Weather Squadron) на базе ВВС Патрик (Patrick AFB) во Флориде. ... Капитан (в 1988 году). ... В феврале 1988 года принимал участие во втором наборе астронавтов - метеорологов WOSE-II . ...

... If you hope that aliens could be somewhere then meet with first Children's Message to Extraterrestrial! ... Message to . ... An idea of contact with unknown life forms unite different specialist like: astronomers, physicists, cyberneticians, radio technicians, linguists, philosophers, and historians. Take a look at page prepared by the SETI Science and Culture Center of the Tsiolkovsky Academy of Cosmonautics and by the SETI Section of the Radio Astronomy Council, Russian Academy of Sciences. ...

RADIOASTROPHYSICAL DEPARTMENT • INSTITUTE OF SOLAR-TERRESTRIAL PHYSICS RAS SB . Data processing and software General information Main characteristics of the Radio telescope Observing programs General view of the antenna array Main research areas Principle of generation of radio images Radio telescope's beam Receiving systems Main characteristics of the base receiving-recording complex Calibrations Data archive and databases Publication of SSRT - Data processing and software . ...

... Piotrovich Main Astronomical Observatory, Pulkovo, St. Petersburg, Russia Received May 24, 2006; in final form, July 7, 2006 Abstract--We have used two astrometric methods developed at the Main Astronomical Observatory of the Russian Academy of Sciences--the method of apparent-motion parameters (AMP) and a direct geometrical method (DGM)--to derive the orbit of the star S2 around the Galactic center, and thereby the mass of the supermassive black hole at the Galactic center. ... Relative positions. ...

... Printed in the U.S.A. doi:10.1088/0004-637X/691/2/1222 AUTOMATED LASCO CME CATALOG FOR SOLAR CYCLE 23: ARE CMEs SCALE INVARIANT? ... CME RATE DURING CYCLE 23 Figure 2 shows the daily CACTus CME rate for cycle 23 in red, with the International Sunspot Number (e.g., Vanlommel et al. 2004) superimposed in gray as solar cycle reference. ... The CACTus CME speeds Figure 12. ... A comparison of a sample of common events shows that on average the CDAW CME width is wider than the CACTus CME width. ...

... April 1992 The MD5 Message-Digest Algorithm Status of this Memo This memo provides information for the Internet community. ... combination): -sstring - digests string -t - runs time trial -x - runs test script filename - digests file (none) - digests standard input */ int main (argc, argv) int argc; Rivest [Page 17] RFC 1321 MD5 Message-Digest Algorithm April 1992 char *argv[]; { int i; if (argc 1) for (i = 1; i argc; i++) if (argv[i][0] == '-' argv[i][1] == 's') MDString (argv ...