... STScI previously used Microsoft Word and Microsoft Access, a Sybase ODBC driver, and the Adobe Acrobat PDF writer, along with a substantial amount of Visual Basic, to generate a variety of documents for the internal Space Telescope Grants Administration System (STGMS). ... To create a document, the internal STGMS application invoked a VB program which launched Microsoft Word and Microsoft Access, Access extracted the required data from a Sybase database using ODBC into an Access table. ...

Astronotes Armagh Planetarium's Stellar Blog! ... Armagh Planetarium . ... Stars . ... Space Flight . ... Earth Satellites . ... Portrait of M8: This is the region of the nebula nicknamed the the т??Southern Cliffт?? and beyond it we can see the darkness of interstellar space interrupted by stars. Image credit: Julia I. Arias and Rodolfo H. BarbУЕ Departamento de FУ-sica, Universidad de La Serena (Chile), and ICATE-CONICET (Argentina)) . ... Astronotes . ... Subscribe to Astronotes . ...

Astronomy Picture of the Day . Planetary Systems Now Forming in Orion . ... 7.12.1996 . ... Credit: C. R. O'Dell and S. K. Wong ( Rice U. ), WFPC2 , HST , NASA , Explanation: How do planets form? Astronomers are finding out by studying one of the most interesting of all astronomical nebulae known, the Great Nebula in Orion . Insets to above mosaic show several planetary systems in formation. ... The Orion Nebula contains many stellar nurseries. ... Publications with keywords: Orion . ...

... Telescopes . ... The 1-m telescope ZEISS-1000 time allocation committee . ... 1-m telescope time request ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Request ...... 2000 1d half year 1m telescope Received.. ... Results of observations obtained by applicants at the 1-m telescope on other programs over the last years (publications, reports).. ... Deadline for submitting Z-1000 time requests of the 6-m Telescope Program Committee outside applications - March, 1 September, 10....

Research questions include: . The solar system probably formed about 4.5 billion years ago from a giant disk of gas, dust and ice in space. ... All forms of life on Earth require liquid water to survive, so the presence of liquid water is a good criterion for deciding whether other planets in the universe could be habitable. Earth is the only habitable planet in the solar system. ... Planets and moons in the outer solar system are too cold for liquid water. ...

... Click here to go directly to the Orion Nebula Images. ... Copies of individual figures from this paper are available from John Bally . ... Figure 1: The core of the Trapezium showing the four energetic massive stars and a plethora of Sun-like stars with surrounding extended emission. ... Click to download figure in jpeg format. Click to download figure in tiff format. ... Figure 3: A gallery of star-disk systems in Orion's Trapezium. ... To Doug Johnstone's Scientific Home Page . ...

... SPARCompiler(TM) Fortran 90 1.0 . FORTRAN 77 3.0.1 . ... important of these. -ansi: Report non-ANSI extensions. -c: Suppress linking, produce .o files -e: Recognize extended (132 character) source lines -fast: Specify common set of performance options - fixed : Interpret all Fortran source files according to fixed form rules -flags: Print summary of compiler options -fnonstd: Non-standard initialization of floating-point hardware -fnonstop: Execute without trapping on invalid, overflow ...

Next: Characteristics of the Up: The Epsilon Aurigae Previous: The Epsilon Aurigae . ... Epsilon Aurig? is an F0 Ia star with an enigmatic companion which partially eclipses the visible star for 2 years every 27.1 years. ... The eclipse light curve has a long, flat minimum (Figure ), implying that the secondary is not appreciably convex. ... We develop hydrostatic models for the Aurig? secondary in Section D.3 and present synthetic eclipse light curves calculated using these models in Section D.4. ...

... Basic time functions . ... Example 2: Set a random number seed . ... Uses of time functions include: . ... time_t time(time_t *tloc) -- returns the time since 00:00:00 GMT, Jan. 1, 1970 , measured in seconds. ... timer.c */ #include <stdio.h> #include <sys/types.h> #include <time.h> main() { int i; time_t t1,t2; (void) time(&t1); for (i=1;i<=300;++i) printf(``%d %d %d n'',i, i*i, i*i*i); (void) time(&t2); printf(`` n Time to do 300 squares and cubes= %d seconds n'', (int) t2-t1); } . ...

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... The Wide Field Spectral Imager ( WISPI ) seen here in the Roll Roof Facility provides visible and near-infrared spectra of the sky across 4 degree fields. ... A computer controlled mounting automates the acquisition of 2-D rastered spectral images. ... Light from the sky enters the large 400mm lens at top center, is imaged on the slit, collimated by the smaller 180 mm lens, and diffracted by the grating at the bottom toward the 200mm lens and CCD camera on the right. ... Camera - 200mm f/2 Nikor ED ...

... In the case of the 2.5-m telescope primary mirror, the support actuators are air pistons. The 48 axial and 18 transverse air pistons support the axial and transverse components of the mirror weight vector respectively. ... Piston force . ... To measure the response of an air piston to transverse forces, a transverse piston was loaded with 11 kg lead bricks and pressurized using a syringe (Figure 3). ... Figure 4: The air piston acts like a spring with hysteresis in response to a side force. ...

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. ...

... The Military Aspects of the Soviet Cosmonautics : A Side View . This book is the first effort in an unclassified Soviet publications to provide a comprehensive overview of the Soviet military space program. Presented here are the classification of the military space systems by functions performed (Chapter 1), the analysis of the organizational evolution of the Soviet space program (Chapter 2) and the description of all observable satellite systems of military or double destination (Chapter 3). ...

The project of the informational system creation on the problem of evolution of radio galaxies, as a part of the "Big Trio" project aimed on studing of distant radio galaxies, is designed. This system allows a user to operate with simulated curves of spectral energy distributions (SED) to estimate ages and redshifts by photometry data. Authors use SEDs of several models for different types of galaxies. ... The HTTP and e-mail access is organized to this system. ...

... V.V. Busarev, Sternberg State Astronomical Institute, Moscow University, . ... V. V. Busarev1, M. N. Taran2, V. I. Fel’dman3 and V. S. Rusakov41 Lunar and Planetary Department, Sternberg State Astronomical Institute, Moscow State University, 119992 Moscow, Universitetskij pr., ... 1 Sternberg State Astronomical Institute, Moscow University, Universitetskij pr., ... V. V. BUSAREV, Sternberg State Astronomical Institute, Moscow University, Russian Federation (RF) (E-mail: busarev@sai.msu.ru); . ...

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Russian SHAREABLE DATA CENTER Institute of Solar-Terrestial Physics SB RAS . ... Chirp ionosonde main technical characteristics . ... Linear frequency modulated continuous signals sounding method is relatively simple and has wide application in various special-purpose systems. ... Chirp signals which are applying for ionosphere channel diagnostics usually have10KHz/s -- 1MHz/s. We must point out that under modulation speed increasing there is an increase in noise suppression and resolution power. ...

Class 1 Introduction, Background History of Modern Astronomy The Night Sky, Eclipses and the Seasons Kepler's Laws Newtonian Gravity General Relativity Matter and Light Telescopes Class 2 Solar System Characteristics Formation Exosolar Planets Class 3 Stars The Sun Stellar Evolution of Low and High Mass Stars Deaths of Stars Exotic Stars Class 4 Galaxies Galaxy Classification Formation of Galaxies Galactic Evolution ... So far, one planet has been studied by this method. ...

. Shell procedures may use the trap command to catch or ignore Unix operating system signals . The form of the trap command is: trap ' command-list ' signal-list . Several traps may be in effect at the same time. If multiple signals are received simultaneously, they are serviced in ascending order. To check what traps are currently set use the trap command. For example: trap . Most common signals to be caught . Handling command lists . Examples .