... Stellar Evolution is driven entirely by the never ending battle between Pressure and Gravity . As imbalances are reached, the star is driven to find a new Energy source. ... Pressure and gravitational forces are equal, the star is stable and its core is sufficiently hot to fuse Hydrogen into Helium More about main sequence stars . ... The luminosity generated by the core fusion of Helium into Carbon is far greater than the shell luminosity associated with the fusion of Hydrogen into Helium. ...

... Charge Coupled Devices (CCD) are currently by far the most widely used type of detector in astronomy. ... After a brief introduction to the VLT Control System, the VLT CCD Detectors Control Software is presented. The VLT Control System is a distributed system consisting of a set of UNIX Workstations, dedicated to high level operations, such as coordination of sub-system activities and interface to the users, and VME-based Local Control Units (LCU), dedicated to the control of sub-systems hardware. ...

Open Systems Handbook: A Guide to Building Open Systems . ... This book is designed to provide interested individuals and organizations with an overview of open systems and the work being done to achieve them. ... This section is organized using a descriptive model of an open systems environment developed by the IEEE PI 003.0 Working Group, which is developing the Guide to POSIX-based Open System Architecture. ... Standards for open systems 13 . Chapter 3: The open systems environment (OSE) 15 . ...

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... ABBREVIATIONS . ... ASTO (Archive Storage System) . ... COMMON . Common components . ... Common Pipeline Library . ... Data Base Browser . DFS . DFS (Data Flow System) . DHS . DHS (Data Handling Server) . ... DHS SUBRIBE . ... DFS Department general level . ... ISAAC pipeline . ... MIDAS (Munich Image Data Analysis System) . ... Next Generation Archive System . ... OLAS (On-Line Archive System) . ... SAF (Science Archive Facility) . ... VLT Control Software On-Line Archive Client . ...

Info on software packages that i may have messed with: . ... livedata . predict : satellite prediction software . ... share/megs/phil/x101/fftw/ . ... share/megs/phil/x101/fftw/idl . ... Neither of these will work with the zoa data. /share/megs/phil/predict . ... Idl routines to access predict is in /pkg/rsi/local/libao/phil/sat . ... Gives the az, za, time and ra,dec of the satellites. /share/megs/phil/x101/sigproc/sigproc . ... share/megs/phil/svn/pdev/pdev/psrfits/sigproc/ . ... home_~phil ...

... Binary large object. ... CGI is a popular interface used to create server-based web applications with languages such as Perl or C. A web browser, such as Netscape Navigator. ... Core JavaScript contains a core set of objects, such as Array , Date , and Math , and a core set of language elements such as operators, control structures, and statements. ... A JavaScript primitive value is a member of one of the following types: undefined , null , Boolean , number , or string . ... World Wide Web . ...

... System . By using software standards provided by most computer manufactures, ESO-MIDAS runs on VMS and OpenVMS systems (Trademarks of Digital Equipment Corporation) =, a large variety of UNIX (Trademark of AT ) platform, as well as one personal computers (386, 486, Pentium) running Linux. ... IBM/AIX RS/6000 systems; . ... The full MIDAS system requires of the order of 20 Mbyte of disk storage if shared libraries ( e.g. SUN, PC/Linux) are available, otherwise up to 100 Mbyte may be needed. ...

... Using UNIX System Calls and Library Functions . ... To use system calls and library functions in a C program we simply call the appropriate C function. Examples of standard library functions we have met include the higher level I/O functions -- fprintf() , malloc() .. ... For most system calls and library functions we have to include an appropriate header file. e.g. stdio.h, math.h . ... Information on nearly all system calls and library functions is available in manual pages. ...

The preferred way to document an SAS package is via LaTeX. If you created the package directory structure with the SAS package maker pkgmaker , a subdirectory called doc will have been created with partially filled out LaTeX templates. ... Also, the new structure is seamlessly integrated in the overall SAS make file mechanism so that it becomes possible to generate HTML or PostScript documentation for the whole SAS. ... The BibTeX file is called sas.bib and is pat of the package sas . ...

... Astrophysics Group . ... Optical Interferometry . OIFITS: A Data Exchange Standard for Optical (Visible/IR) Interferometry . ... OIFITS is a standard for exchanging calibrated, time-averaged data from astronomical optical interferometers , based on the FITS Standard (OIFITS is a registered FITS convention ). ... The OIFITS standard is used in the biennial optical interferometry Imaging Beauty Contests: . ... A data exchange standard for optical (visible/IR) interferometry. ...

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... HST . ... Data . ... HST Overview . ... Phase I Proposing . ... The absolute photometry for the three NICMOS cameras is derived by observing two primary absolute standards (G191-B2B and P330E) in all available filters and grisms. ... In the near-infrared a model spectrum of this star normalized to Landolt V magnitude is used for the calibration. ... Details about the model spectrum of G191-B2B and accuracies can be found in Bohlin, Colina & Finley (1995; AJ 110, 1316) and Bohlin (1996; AJ 111, 1743)...

SUBROUTINE TAP_ERMES ( TEXT, TEXLEN, STATUS ) . Return an error message associated with a TAP status value. SUBROUTINE TAP_ERROR ( TAP_ROUTN, NAME, TEXT, STATUS ) . Report an error message. ... Report an error message associated with a TAP status value. ... Purpose: return an error message associated with a TAP status value. ... TEXT = CHARACTER * ( * ) (Given) TAP error message text. ... Invocation: CALL TAP_REP( NAME, TEXT, STATUS ) Description: An error message is built in the form: !! ...

... Axis Controllers . ... Guider Image Controller Commands . ... Multiple controllers (except the guide image controller) may co-exist in one box and share one serial interface. ... Some of these rules only apply to commands that the TCC may execute, and so may be relaxed for engineering commands. ... The command echo should be in the same case as the received command. ... Note: The Galil motion controllers output a semicolon for each command that appears on a line (as part of the command echo). ...

... For many ATMs, having a good ray trace program on hand is pretty valuable. ... http://www.willbell.com . ... It is a slick Windows package with great graphics, but my most recent machine (Win95 OSR2) now encounters many error messages. ... OSLO LT : This is the freeware Windows version of OSLO - it is limited to 12 surfaces, but is otherwise amazing. ... KDP : This is another powerful, freeware Windows raytrace package. ... ZEMAX : This is yet another powerful, Windows raytrace package. ...

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... FIELD | ... static int . ... Field Detail static final int AREA . ... Constant Field Values . static final int MEAN . ... static final int STD_DEV . ... static final int MODE . ... static final int MIN_MAX . ... static final int CENTROID . ... static final int CENTER_OF_MASS . ... static final int PERIMETER . ... static final int LIMIT . ... static final int RECT . ... static final int LABELS . ... static final int ELLIPSE . ... static final int INVERT_Y . ... static final int CIRCULARITY . ...

Weaving together Astronomy+Statistics+Computer Science+Engineering+Intrumentation, far beyond the growing borders . ... Posts tagged ?standard procedure? ... statistician learning astronomy ? ... In two years of this slog?s life, there?s no posting by a statistician, except one about BEHR . Statisticians are busy and well distracted by other fields with more tangible data sets. ... Comment . ... Entries RSS . ... vlk on [MADS] Parallel Coordinates . ... Entries (RSS) and Comments (RSS) . ...

... The material in "From Stargazers to Starships" meets several important requirements of the national standards. Pages cited below are from National Science Education Standards National Academy Press, Washington 1995. ... For example: the sections on astronomy not only describe calendars and sundials (including their construction), but also the astronomy of the ancient Greeks, including two different ways in which ancient Greeks estimated the distance to the Moon. ...