... RelatedљPages . ... FITS-WCS and related software . Several implementations of the FITS WCS standards are available: . The WCSLIB software distribution (i.e. this library) may be obtained from http://www.atnf.csiro.au/people/Mark.Calabretta/WCS/ . ... The Kapteyn Package http://www.astro.rug.nl/software/kapteyn/ by Hans Terlouw and Martin Vogelaar. pywcs , http://stsdas.stsci.edu/astrolib/pywcs/ by Michael Droettboom. ... Gentoo, http://packages.gentoo.org/package/sci-astronomy/wcslib . ...

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... The 2012 Transit of Venus . ... The French astronomer eagerly set sail for India to witness the 1761 transit of Venus, a rare celestial alignment in which the silhouette of Venus appears to pass directly across the sun. ... The last transit of Venus in our lifetimes occurs June 5-6, 2012, with the date and time dependent on your location. ... Transit Begins . ... As the 2012 transit of Venus concludes, envision how the 2117 and 2125 pair of transits might differ from our seemingly modern events. ...

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... For the next AAAP regular meeting (October 10, 8:00 PM, at Peyton Hall, Princeton Univ), Program Chair Ken Kremer has invited Dr Theresa Kucera of NASA/ Goddard. Terry Kucera has been a member of the Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO) solar mission since 1995 and is deputy project scientist for the upcoming and cutting edge Solar Terrestrial Relations Observatory (STEREO) project. ... AAAP Observatory Events in October. ... Terry will give a first hand account of NASA Solar Research. ...