Astronomy Picture of the Day . ... 20.08.1997 . ... Credit Copyright: W. Pacholka Explanation: Has Orion the Hunter acquired a new weapon? ... Actually, the bright streak is a meteor from the Perseid Meteor Shower , a shower that put on an impressive display last Tuesday morning, when this photograph was taken. ... NASA Web Site Statements, Warnings, and Disclaimers . ... Publications with keywords: meteor . Publications with words: meteor . ... Geminid Meteor Shower over Dashanbao Wetlands . ...

... August 9, 1996 . The Perseid Meteor Shower . ... Explanation: From a radiant point in the constellation of Perseus, Comet Swift-Tuttle presents -- The Perseid Meteor Shower -- coming to your night sky this weekend! ... Dramatically illustrated in this composite video image made using MOVIE , meteors from the 1994 Perseids streak across the sky framed by the three bright stars of the asterism known as the "Summer Triangle" . ... What's the best way to enjoy a meteor shower? ... About APOD | ...

Motif and X-Windows . It is possible to execute a Motif application on a computer around the corner or around the world and redirect the input and output for the application to your workstation. There are files located on the Science Cluster to help you position and display windows from a remote VMS system. ... Copy two command files: . ... From one of the workstation windows, have the remote system execute the x command file and create the display on your workstation by using this command: . ...

See also: 2004 Perseids . This year's annual Perseid meteor shower takes place between the dates 17th July and 24th August, peaking on the night of 12/13th August, with a formal maximum in the small hours of Wednesday 13th August. ... This is the most famous of all meteor showers and rarely fails to provide an impressive display. ... Comet Swift-Tuttle takes approximately 130 years to make one circuit around the Sun, and sheds particles when closest to the Sun in its orbit. ...

Astronotes Armagh Planetarium's Stellar Blog! ... Space Flight . ... Earth Satellites . ... Leonid meteors seen from 13 km altitude aboard an aircraft during the 1999 Leonids Multi-Instrument Aircraft Campaign (Leonid-MAC). Comet Tempel-Tuttle provides the cometary debris for the Leonid meteor shower. ... Every 17-19 November Earth crosses Tempel-TuttleтАЩs orbit and the Leonids become visible. With clear, dark skies observers may see 10 to 15 Leonid meteors every hour on those mornings. ...

... 13th European VLBI Network Symposium . and Users Meeting . on September 20-23, 2016. ... 13th European VLBI Network Symposium and Users Meeting on September 20-23, 2016. ... Year book "Ephemerides of Minor Planets for 2016" on-line . ...

... Bad Astronomy . ... Bitesize Astronomy . ... Last week's Snack talked about how black holes can affect the environment around them in such a way as to be very bright . ... It's a common misconception that black holes always have matter swirling into them. ... As this matter gets closer and closer to the black hole it piles up and a large, fairly flat disk forms. This is called the accretion disk , because matter from this disk accretes (that is, falls in) on the black hole. ... 2008 Phil Plait. ...

The Astronomical Society of Australia has been asked by STANDARDS AUSTRALIA to compile a list of "designated" optical observatories that are valuable resources for (i) research, (ii) education and (iii) community use. The ASA is the final arbiter of whether any particular observatory is so designated. ... Upon receipt of your application form, your observatory will be entered on a list of "Pending Designated Observatories" on the ASA Home Page. ... It will be emailed for you. ... Email . ...

ATNF Home . ... About ATNF overview . News | ... Australia Telescope Steering Committee . ... Australian Square Kilometre Array Pathfinder . Murchison Radio-astronomy Observatory . ... Parkes radio telescope . Australia Telescope Compact Array . ... While early stages of commissioning continue at the Murchison Radio-astronomy Observatory (MRO) , the ASKAP Computing team has meanwhile been refining processing pipelines by running simulated observations on the ASKAP Central Processor. ...

Up: Software Systems and Tools . Previous: CIRSI Data Reduction System - CIRDR . ... A parallel algorithm applicator has recently been added to the AIPS++ system. ... This demonstration will show the first use of this class to deconvolve a large spectral line cube within AIPS++. ... The Algorithm (Clark CLEAN) processes receive a plane from the dirty image and deconvolution parameters from the Applicator, deconvolves the image, and send the results back to the Applicator. ...

... It's a Meteor Shower Smaller than grains of sand, meteors vaporize in a bright streak of light as they hit Earth's atmosphere. Meteor showers come from comets, but the sporadic meteors on other nights are mostly asteroid bits. ... Meteor Showers Come From Comets Jupiter Earth Sun Comet Mercury Tips: A bright Moon can wash out meteors, making them hard to see. ... But the comet bits hit Earth's atmosphere so fast, the pieces vaporize in bright streaks -- making a meteor shower! ...

... Research areas . ... Events III All-Russian Research and Application Conference 'Actual Issues of Research in Avionics: Theory, Service, Development' - 'AVIATOR' . ... e-mail: aviator.vrn@mail.ru . ... State and development trends of electrical equipment and electro-optical systems of aircraft. ... Current state and development trends of information and management complex for aircraft. ...

... The TRACE images may be used without restrictions in publications of any kind. ... These two images, taken on 18 November 2000 at 15:54UT and 16:11UT, respectively, show such an event: the red circle in the image to the left shows a region where many loops are cooling, with bright loop tops (the intensity scales with the square root of the image to reduce the dynamic range). ... See also a collection of images related to the Sun, other cool stars, and solar-terrestrial effects . ... Images | ...

Figure 10. The circles show the thermal defocus corrections that were observed on August 15, 2000. These data were derived by combining the defocus measurements seen in Figure 6 with the thermal measurements of the truss seen in Figure 7. ... I then fit the thermal defocus data given by the circles above using only the thermal time constant and an arbitrary "zero-point" constant as fit parameters. ... M1 corresponds to a thermal time constant of 0.37 hours (22 minutes) for the rods. ...

... Science . ... Science Users Information > Science Publications > Science Announcements . ... Observing Facilities . ... Observing with ESO Telescopes . ... Instrument Pipelines . ... Data Handling and Products . ... Science Data Products Forum . ... ESO Data . ... Science Announcements . ... Published: 05 Oct 2015 . ... New data products resulting from the VST Public Survey ATLAS are now available via the dedicated Phase3 query interface at the Science Archive Facility . ... Published: 31 Aug 2015 ....

Next: About this document Up: Recommended reading Previous: I. Daubechies1992, . For a learn-from-the-practitioners approach, the reader might consult recent literature in his or her own field. Databases such as ISI Science Citations show over a hundred articles annually, and any recommendation we would make is bound to be obsolete by the time this pamphlet reaches the reader. ... Finally, as for many things, learn-by-doing may be the best approach. ... Mon Nov 13 10:51:25 EST 1995 ...

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O ptimal transport : T heory and A pplications . ... Geometric applications of optimal transport (A. Kolesnikov) . Optimal probabilistic search (L. Lokutsievski) . ... Local matching indicators for concave transport costs ( J. Salomon , with J. Delon et A. Sobolevski ) . In this talk, we introduce a class of indicators that enable to compute efficiently optimal transport plans associated to arbitrary distributions of N demands and N supplies in R in the case where the cost function is concave. ...

... Институт прикладной математики им. М.В.Келдыша . БАЛЛИСТИЧЕСКИЙ ЦЕНТР . О Центре . ... Баллистический Центр Института прикладной математики им. М.В.Келдыша РАН . Баллистический центр (БЦ) ИПМ им. М.В. Келдыша создан по предложению С.П. Королева и М.В. Келдыша в 1965 году. На него были возложены работы по баллистико-навигационному обеспечению (БНО) управления полетом пилотируемых кораблей и автоматических космических аппаратов научного и народно-хозяйственного назначения. ...