... Armagh Planetarium . ... Universe . ... Space Flight . ... December . ... No Comments To get the latest on space and astronomy go to Carnival of Space. ... No Comments Carnival of Space, the regular and vital guide to space and astronomy blogs is hosted by a different site every week. ... Newer Entries . Hello, IтАЩm Colin, welcoming you to Astronotes, the PlanetariumтАЩs official blog. Here you will find the latest news and views from the fascinating worlds of astronomy and space exploration. ...

Weaving together Astronomy+Statistics+Computer Science+Engineering+Intrumentation, far beyond the growing borders . ... Archive for August 2007 . ... Aug 13th, 2007| 05:13 pm | ... Once I quoted an article by Prof. Terry Speed in IMS Bulletin: Data-Doctors. ... Category: arXiv , Fitting , Quotes | ... Numerous interesting topics were presented but not much about statistics (Only advice so far, ?use implemented statistics in x-ray data reduction/analysis tools? and ?it?s just a tool?) ...

... Tonight's Sky . ... Mars . ... Astronomy for Kids . ... Mars rover approaches long-term goal . Endeavour crater offers the setting for plenty of productive work by Opportunity. ... NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity used its panoramic camera (Pancam) to capture this view of a portion of Endeavour crater's rim after a drive during the rover's 2,676th martian day, or sol, of working on Mars (August 4, 2011). ... Only registered members of Astronomy.com are allowed to comment on this article. ...

... 03/26/09 - Chelmsford Historic Society holds a star party. Reading Chronicle article on Reading TV astronomy show. ... Front page picture of Barrows School Star Party from Reading Advocate , February 2, 2006. ... Front page photo in Reading Daily Times Chronicle of star party at Killam School. ... Article on front page of Reading Daily Times Chronicle about star party at Killam School, and the pictures published with it. ... Star Parties . ... Copyright (c) Amateur Telescope Makers of Boston, Inc. ...

... HST . Phase I: CCD Read Noise Monitor . ... HST Overview . ... Data Analysis . ... Astronomer's Proposal Tool . ... STIS Cycle-17 Calibration Phase -1 Template Last Revised: February 19, 2009 Proposal ID: 11848 Title: CCD Read Noise Monitor PI: Michael A. Wolfe Co-I(s): Rachel Osten Charles Proffitt ------------------------------------------------------------------- ... Description of analysis Plans: This proposal measures the read noise of the STIS CCD using pairs of bias frames. ...

National Aeronautics and Space Administration . Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center . ... SHANNON W. LUCID (Ph.D.) . nasa astronaut (former) . ... She is qualified for assignment as a mission specialist on Space Shuttle flight crews. ... A veteran of five space flights, Dr. Lucid has logged 5,354 hours (223 days) in space. ... Dr. Lucid retired from NASA in January 2012. ... In completing this flight, Dr. Lucid logged 838 hours and 54 minutes in space. ... FEBRUARY 2012 ...

Blackholes2 Forum Message . ... Post . ... I Read Somewhere . ... Post Message | ... that matter spurts out of the spinning black hole along its axis of rotation in both directions, and some other thing only has a jet in one direction, thus allowing the astronomer to distinguiosh the black hole from the thing. ... www.astronomy.net . About Astronomy Net | ... Forum posts are Copyright their authors as specified in the heading above the post. "dbHTML," "AstroGuide," "ASTRONOMY.NET" & "VA.NET" . ...

... ESO Science Newsletter October 2015 . 08 Oct 2015 . ... This newsletter is a summary of recent ESO Science Announcement items. Follow the links or visit ESO Science Announcements to read more. ... A detailed report on the outcome of the ALMA Early Science Cycle 3 Proposal Review Process is available . ... Read more . ... 17 Sep 2015: . ... Science Operations 2015: Science Data Management . ... You are receiving this newsletter because you subscribed to the ESO Science Newsletter. ...

... The Exploration of the Earth's Magnetosphere" files are available as a TARed and GZIPed file via anonymous FTP . This is the home page of an overview of space research on the Earth's environment in space. ... A basic chronology of key dates in the exploration of the magnetosphere. ... The Magnetosphere . ... Magnetic Fields . ... 3a. Auroral Map of Loomis . ... Trapped Radiation . ... The Radiation Belts . 12H. History: 1958--Inner radiation belt is explained. 12a. Inner Radiation Belt . ...

These routines are meant to provide a simple to use asynchronous line reading facility. ... arln_read_float . Read a floating point value from the user. arln_read_int . ... Read a line from the user. float arln_read_float (CONST char *prompt, float default_value) . ... If no input is given, the routine returns a default value. ... Returns: The value. ... This routine will prompt the user for a single boolean value. ... flag arln_read_line (char *buffer, unsigned int length, CONST char *prompt) . ...

... August 5, 1999 . Asteroid 9969 Braille . Credit: DS1 Team , Spectrum Astro Inc. JPL , NASA . Explanation: NASA probe Deep Space 1 zoomed past asteroid 9969 Braille last week as it continued to test its new ion drive in the inner Solar System . ... 9969 Braille is thought by some to have collided with asteroid Vesta in the distant past and broken up, providing debris for many of the meteorites that fall to Earth. ... About APOD > . ... NASA Technical Rep.: ...

... 8th August 2000: The VLT images the Comet Linear breakup shower . ... Comet C/1999 S4 (LINEAR) was discovered on 27 September 1999 by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology/Lincoln Laboratory programme LINEAR (Lincoln Near Earth Asteroid Research), at the White Sands Missile Range in Socorro, New Mexico, USA. The LINEAR programme , which uses a 1m prime-focus Cassegrain telescope to search the sky for comets and asteroids passing close to the Earth, is funded by the United States Air Force. ...

FitsIO - C++ Class for Reading, Writing and Managing FITS Images . include FitsIO .h class FitsIO : public ImageIORep { ... public: FitsIO ( int width, int height, int bitpix, double bzero, double bscale, const Mem header , const Mem data); ~ FitsIO () {} int wcsinit(); int nativeByteOrder() const ; const char * classname() const ; static FitsIO * read( const char * filename, int memOptions = 0); ... The Mem class is used to speed up loading the file. ...

... In 1610, Galileo turned his telescope to the heavens and discovered that the planet Jupiter had four bright moons. ... Jupiter's Rings . ... Unlike Saturn's bright rings which are composed of chunks of rock and ice, Jupiter's rings appear to consist of fine particles of dust. ... Exploring Saturn's Rings . ... Saturn's spectacular system of bright rings has been the subject of study and wonder since Galileo first turned his telescope on the ringed planet in 1610. ... M57: The Ring Nebula . ...

... Samara region . SSAU History . SSAU roadmap . ... Events The Third Lem Reading Conference . ... September 10 - completion of reception of scientific articles for edited volume of the conference materials; . ... Proposals, suggestions and comments should be sent to Nesterov Aleksandr Yuryevich and Demina Anna Ivanovna at: lemovskiye.org@gmail.com or phil@ssau.ru marked 'The Third Lem Reading Conference' in the subject line, phone: +7 846-267- 47-87. ... Ed.) The Second Lem Reading Conference. ...

... Each is linked to 3-6 detailed files, telling a more complete story, and those in turn may have other links, including history sections which tell about the related history. ... Each is linked to either the next item in sequence, or else to the related historical overview. ... You can also link here to a self-contained overview of the early history of magnetism...note that links to all files are given in their proper order on the home page, linked here and also at the end of any "Exploration" file. ...

... lcplot (lcplot-1.19.1) [xmmsas_20080701_1801-8.0.0] . ... We note that no RGS Source Time Series FITS file is specified in [ 1 ]. ... Time intervals all have the same length, the first one is TSTART , TSTART + Binsize*TIMEDEL where TIMEDEL is the bin width read from the file [ 1 ]. ... We have assumed it to be given in seconds. ... The mean, variance, Chi Square, etc are provided with six significant digits. ... The output devices are those of the PGPLOT library. ...

... Corresponding authors will receive an e-mail with a PDF file of paged proof for checking and correction. The file can be read and edited using Adobe Acrobat Reader (version 9 and higher) which can be free downloaded via the Internet ( http://get.adobe.c om/reader/ ). ... You can use text correction tools to make corrections (after selecting the necessary text fragment). ... For users of Adobe Reader 9: . ... to insert text without replacing the existing text, use the "Insert text at cursor" tool. ...

... ISC Kosmotras . ... Comments, Opinions Publications Dnepr Program . Dnepr launch record 17 August 2011. ... The success of PICARD launch re enforces our high level of appreciation of the quality of the DNEPR launcher and of the professionalism and efficiency of ISC Kosmotras. ... The distinguishing feature of the THEOS launch by a converted SS-18 ICBM (Dnepr LV) is that it was the first ISC Kosmotras mission from the Yasny launch site that headed southward to its Sun-synchronous target orbit. ...

... Class . ... METHOD . ... public class PGM_Reader . ... public ImageStack openFile (java.lang.String path) throws java.io.IOException . ... public void openAsciiImage (java.io.StreamTokenizer tok, int size, byte[] pixels) throws java.io.IOException . ... public ImageProcessor open16bitRawImage (java.io.InputStream is, int width, int height) throws java.io.IOException . ... public ImageProcessor open16bitAsciiImage (java.io.StreamTokenizer tok, int width, int height) throws java.io.IOException . ...