... They have been used to describe the content of the 105 columns available in the different VizieR tables. ... We present different applications of UCDs: selection of catalogues, based on their content; identification of catalogues having similar fields; automated data conversion allowing direct comparison of data in cross-identifications. ... Metadata for the VO: The Case of UCDs 71 Figure 2. Example of statistics on the different column names and units used in all VizieR tables for one UCD. ...

ASTRONOMICAL YEARBOOK (in Russian) . ... It contains the ephemerides of the Sun, the Moon, major planets, and stars computed with the maximum precision in the accordance with the resolutions approved by the International Astronomical Union (IAU). From AY-2016 the ephemerides EPM2011 developed at IAA RAS was used as a ephemerical basis for the calculation of ephemerides of the Sun, the Moon and major planets with accuracy adequate to DE ephemerides. ... ASTRONOMICAL YEARBOOK . ...

The database contains references to the papers, data files and links to the Internet resources related to measurements and calculations of the optical constants in the wavelength interval from X-rays to radio domain. ... References to some useful books and reviews on the subject (e.g. the classical handbooks edited by E.D.Palik) and links to Internet collections of optical constants and personal WWW pages with related software were also placed in the database. You have arrived at our welcome page. ...

Next: General Information Up: No Title Previous: Commands in the . This chapter describes the use of commands which produce an inventory of astronomical objects present in an analysed two dimensional image. ... These commands taken together constitute what is known as the INVENTORY program. ... Setting the Low and High Cuts . Setting the Keywords used by SEARCH/INV Command . ... Setting the Keywords used by the ANALYSE Command . ... Formats of Tables . ... Inventory Commands Summary . ...

... Describes the pn filter transmission vs energy. The CCF contains one extension of transmission values per filter, and one extension containing the common energy bins. The filter extensions include a region expression to cover cases where there are known spatial variations. ... Thin1 filter transmission values. ... The description of the region in which the transmission values are valid. ... Variable length vector containing the transmission values corresponding to each energy bin datum. ...

... CIMAFITS is the name for the Arecibo FITS-file format. ... This is a list of (fairly) up-to-date documents describing CIMA and CIMAFITS: . The CIMA version history log which is the most up-to-date page listing all changes made to the different versions of CIMA . ... The CIMA user's log which chronologically lists changes made to CIMA that may be relevant to an observer. The CIMA engineering log which lists engineering changes made to CIMA that probably are of less interest to an observer. ...

... Donate to Support Science Literacy . ... 2016 Annual Awards . The ASP is accepting nominations for the organizationтАЩs national annual awards which recognize special achievements in astronomy research, technology, education, and public outreach. ... Shop the AstroShop . ... The Astronomical Society of the Pacific (ASP) is accepting nominations for the organizationтАЩs national annual awards which recognize special achievements in astronomy research, technology, education, and public outreach.. ...

Status of the RadioAstron project development . The engineering model of the Space Radio Telescope (SRT) was assembled in Lavochkin Association (LA) in the configuration consisting of 10-m parabolic radio astronomical antenna made of carbon-fiber, F ocal and Device cabins of the scientific payload and on-board and ground complex of high data rate up-down radio link (VIRK). ... Then,radio astronomical tests were conducted using real radio sources. ... Space Radio Telescope . ... Data Processing . ...

SAI 175 anniversary . ... Moscow University . Search for in SAI Moscow University Search for in Russian astronomical resources . ... SAI Astronomical Databases . ... Browse SAI Software archive(ftp.sai.msu.su) . ASTRONET.RU - Russian Astronomical Network (available in translit also) . ... SAI Supernovae Research Group . ... Department of the Galaxy and Variable Stars (in Russian) . Sternberg Astronomical Institute Seminars . ... All-Russian Astronomical Olympiad (in Russian) . ...

... This API (Application Programming Interface) document has pages corresponding to the items in the navigation bar, described as follows. The Overview page is the front page of this API document and provides a list of all packages with a summary for each. ... Each package has a page that contains a list of its classes and interfaces, with a summary for each. ... Each of these pages has three sections consisting of a class/interface description, summary tables, and detailed member descriptions: . ...

... every new catalog of objects has to be contained in the UNIX directory having the same name as the catalog of objects; . ... the programs for local operations (programs of low level) with the catalog of objects are also in the same directory; . brief characteristics and names of the programs and file with the description of the catalog are stored in the file cats_descr ; . ... All astronomical catalogs have a different format and list different observables. ...

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Observational data on solar activity is a basement for investigation of processes that take place on the Sun and interplanetary space, with data of long-term observations being of special importance. ... Subsection "Sunspot groups" is the catalogue of all sunspot groups that were observed in the given year. ... For every day of observation of the group the area of the group, the area of the largest spot (both areas - in millionths of solar hemisphere) and number of spots in the group are presented. ...

Package . Class . ... This API (Application Programming Interface) document has pages corresponding to the items in the navigation bar, described as follows. Each package has a page that contains a list of its classes and interfaces, with a summary for each. ... Each of these pages has three sections consisting of a class/interface description, summary tables, and detailed member descriptions: . ... These links take you to the next or previous class, interface, package, or related page. ...

... Bojan Nikolic web pages (r. 329) . Out-Of-Focus (OOF) Holography . ... The architecture of the OOF data reduction software can be summarised in following points: . ... A well defined set of external libraries is used and generally newer versions of these libraries are adopted quickly after release . ... Routines for simulating OOF data-sets . ... OOF ? ... Description of the OOF software architecture . ... OOF Reduction Software . ... Copyright 2005 -- 2016, Bojan Nikolic feedback welcome ...

... The GHRS has the usual components of an astronomical spectrograph: entrance apertures, a collimator, dispersers, camera mirrors, and detectors. ... The collimator and camera mirrors are unexceptional and need no further description here (see ``The HST Focal Plane and the GHRS Apertures'' on page 73 for details). ... The first two first-order gratings, G140L and G140M, have their spectra imaged by mirror Cam-A onto detector D1, which is optimized for the shortest wavelengths. ...

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This document is the Table of Contents for Funtools. ... The Funtools library provides simplified access to a wide array of file types: standard astronomical FITS images and binary tables, raw arrays and binary event lists, and even tables of ASCII column data. ... funimage: create a FITS image from a Funtools data file . ... funtable: copy selected rows from a Funtools file to a FITS binary table . ... Funtools Data Files . ... Binning FITS Binary Tables and Non-FITS Event Files . ...

... So the data structure on a real tape can be completely simulated on disk, as is shown below: Structure on tape Structure on disk tape.descriptor BLOCK of fb11 bytes "@file000001.mt" "fb11" BLOCK of fb12 bytes "fb12" .. BLOCK of fb1n bytes "fb1n" TAPE MARK "0" BLOCK of fb21 bytes "@file000002.mt" "fb21" .. ... Whenever a disktape is opened with MTOPEN, it will check whether the tape descriptor file exists. ... A tape device, be it a tapeunit or a disk file, is opened with function MTOPEN. ...

... Documentation for the Python objects defined by the project is divided into separate pages for each package, module, and class. The API documentation also includes two pages containing information about the project as a whole: a trees page, and an index page. ... A description of the package. ... A summary of the classes defined by the package. ... The module contents frame contains a list of every submodule, class, type, exception, function, and variable defined by a module or package. ...