Astronomy Picture of the Day . ... Credit: Erich Karkoschka ( University of Arizona Lunar Planetary Lab ) and NASA Explanation: The rings of Uranus are thin, narrow, and dark compared to other planetary ring systems. ... This false-color, infrared picture from the Hubble Space Telescope taken in July 1995 shows the rings in conjunction to the planet. ... Three other planets in our Solar System are known to have rings: Jupiter , Saturn , and Neptune . ... Publications with keywords: Uranus - ring . ...

... May 17, 1999 . How to Search for Aliens . Credit: SETI@home , UC Berkeley SETI Team . Explanation: "Mom, can I use our computer to search for aliens?" Last week, the SETI@home project released free software that enables many home computers to search for signals from intelligent extra-terrestrials . ... The resulting software can work as a screensaver and so after down load ing a chunk of data, will only search for alien signals when the computer is otherwise idle. ... About APOD > . ...

The computed band passes. ... The interim correlator input is filtered by 8 analog filters (50 Mhz wide at the 260 Mhz IF... one for each sub correlator). ... For bandwidths of 25 Mhz and below the real data stream is digitally down converted to complex samples I, Q streams. ... The Top figure is the halfband filter bandpass computed from the filter coefficients. ... The computed filter has aliased power, extra IQ filtering, and two applications of the filter on the resulting real bandpass. ...

... Archives . ... If you do not mind the time predictor, it is hard to believe that this is a light curve, time dependent data. ... It?s hard to say this data set is designed for time series analysis apart from the complication in statistical inference due to measurement errors. How to design the statistical study with measurement errors, huge gaps in time, and unequal time intervals is complex and unexplored. ... The following is R output without measurement errors. ... Chandra Blog . ...

Armagh Observatory, 21 December 2001: . ... The Armagh Observatory's contribution, led by astronomers Simon Jeffery and Gerry Doyle , is to develop new computational tools to study the atmosphere of the Sun and other stars. ... Computers will communicate with one another using the grid, and computing power will become a commodity just like electricity. ... FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Simon Jeffery or Mark Bailey at the Armagh Observatory (Tel.: ... WWW contact: webmaster@star.arm.ac.uk . ...

... There are many pitfalls in these kind of comparisons, which are described in great detail in the papers I have used to compare my impact on the field. In the first comparison I use the method described by Pijpers (2006, Astronomy Geophysics, 47, 6.17) , where he compares the total normalized citation rate per paper (i.e., the number of citations of a paper divided by the number of authors) to the total number of papers for different authors in the field of space research. ... 1st year paper . ...

... Главная . ... Новости . ... Проекты . Любителям астрономии . Проект ISON . ... Подробнее . ... Категория: Новости проекта ISON . ... Метки: Космический мусор ,љ Астероиды ,љ Гамма-всплески ,љ Любителям астрономии ,љ Кометы љ . ... Метки: Космический мусор ,љ Астероиды ,љ Любителям астрономии љ . ... Новости обсерваторий проекта] - Обсерватория Кубанского государственного университета от Иванов А - 09.04.2016 11:08:49 . ... 1999-2013 Copyright "Астрономия и Телескопостроение" . ...

. Computer Ephemeris. Elements of osculating planetary orbits. Explanations. Each row contains at 0h of Time Dynamical Terrestrial of specified date in system of mean equator and ecliptic J2000.0 the ecliptic osculating elements of heliocentric orbit: inclination of orbital plane (degrees), longitude of ascending node (degrees), argument of perigelion (degrees), semimajor axis (astronomical units), mean motion (degrees per day), eccentricity (dimensionless), mean anomaly (degrees).

A very important stage in a story of formation of any new science is the shift from discussion of situation which are possible but do not occur in practice due to some reason to recognition of real phenomena of interest. ... We suggest to consider computer viruses as this new specific form of life which is coming in the contact with our form of life. ... Computer life has been created by human being, the role of independent evolution of computer viruses seems to be still negligible. ...

... Gravitational wave search provides insights into galaxy evolution and mergers . ... galaxies . ... Globular cluster NGC 2808, elliptical galaxy NGC 2986, and the Sextans Dwarf . ... Besides computer simulations, what evidence do astronomers have to support the popular hypothesis that elliptical galaxies form from merging spirals? ... When a small galaxy merges with a much more massive one, astronomers call the process a minor merger and the more massive galaxy is little affected. ...

... We have developed an integrated system that performs astronomical observations in Near Infrared bands operating two-dimensional instruments at the Italian National Infrared Facility's ARNICA and LONGSP . ... The user interface is organized as widget-based X11 client. ... 1993; Di Giacomo et al. 1993). ... Moreover, if the interprocess communication interface includes support for networking, the software immediately becomes network distributed software. ... DESQview/X User Guide 1993, Quarterdeck . ...

GIPSY applications programmers should be aware of the fact that the so called undefined value (or BLANK as it is called in FITS terminology) is a fixed value which can only be different across different computer operating systems. ... The subroutine SETFBLANK can be used to set one value to BLANK; subroutine SETFNBLANK sets a whole array to BLANK. For the sake of speed it is advisable to compare data values directly with the system defined BLANK instead of using the slower function FBLANK. ...

The aim of this section of the course is to enable you to use simple computer programs to solve a variety of common astronomical tasks. ... I have (somewhat arbitrarily) decided to use Python for this course, because it seems to be gaining popularity fast for astronomical data handling, and because some of you will have encountered it at the ATNF course. ... We've put Python (plus all relevant libraries) on the Stromlo Linux computers moron and maggot. ... Now log in to moron (or maggot). ...

The original files with the data were in different formats. ... Such files were named "standard data files" and linked to the database. They can be easily transformed to any desirable format by a code. Here we present two simple computer programs of this kind. ... When running the code, you can specify columns in the output file: wavelength, energy (eV) or wavenumber (cm -1 ) as the first column, and complex refractive index or dielectric function as the second and third columns. ...

... Information about a variety of different calendars for different cultures (e.g., Christian, Jewish, Muslim, Chinese, Hindu etc.) ... In addition, the Chinese had two different ways of interpreting and observing celestial events. One way the Chinese used astronomy was known as lifa; it was a discipline that aimed to understand the regularities and the predictable events in the celestial system through careful, observations, measurements and records. ... back to Teachers' Newsletter Main Page ...

Computers become more and more popular nowadays. That means that the amount of people who are able to work with computer programmes and play computer games has increased. In many cases computer games are the only thing that a person is accustomed to. ... As a result of this epidemic "homo playing" may put on the isoreality helmet which makes a person, crazy about games, forget about food, slumber and all other components of real life: "homo playing" becomes isolated from community. ...

... Different statistical tests are used to compute the probability of a given hypotheses being correct. ... For single quantities, a confidence interval is estimated for the desired significance level. ... When the underlying distribution is normal, the ``Student's'' t and the distributions are used to estimate the confidence intervals for the mean and standard deviation, respectively. ... For this purpose the test variable . ... Special tables give the confidence interval for this test variable. ...

... This is possible at modest cost due to the low moments of inertia of the telescope and enclosure. ... This same performance will be achieved in higher winds when the telescope enclosure is facing away from the wind, or by using wind screens. ... The telescope system (MILT) will be remotely operable with an on-site operator's assistance by an astronomer located at one of the ARC member institutions. ... Mean Wind Speed . ... Offsets > 10 deg: 1 arc sec rms max . ... 5 sec max, tracking to tracking . ...

... Will there be interactive user accounts (telnet/SSH)? Will users be using it as a workstation or is it a server? ... The main difference in today's world between computers is usually not the hardware, or even the OS (Linux is Linux, NT Server and NT Workstation are close family, etc.), it is in what software packages are loaded (Apache, X, etc) and how users access the machine (interactively, at the console, and so forth). ... Keep users off of the servers. ... Restrict physical access to servers. ...

... The greater the distance, the smaller the parallax. ... That triangle has the same proportions as the much larger triangle ABC, and therefore, if the distance B'C to the thumb is 10 times the distance A'B' between the eyes, the distance AC to the far landmark is also 10 times the distance AB. ... The most distant objects our eyes can see are the stars, and they are very far indeed: light which moves at 300,000 kilometers (186,000 miles) per second, would take years, often many years, to reach them. ...