... The technology needed to implement a Distributed Astronomical Data Archive (DADA) is available today (e.g., Fullton 1993). Query interface standards are needed, however, before the DADA information will be discoverable. ... These parameters would be used to index each dataset in each catalog. ... The technology is available today to perform cross-catalog queries, to fetch the data at the click of a mouse, quickly to add new observation catalogs, and to distribute the load across multiple machines. ...

. Next: Directory handling functions Up: UNIX and C Previous: Using UNIX System Calls and Library Functions . There are many UNIX utilities that allow us to manipulate directories and files. cd, ls, rm, cp, mkdir etc. are examples we have (hopefully) already met. We will now see how to achieve similar tasks from within a C program. Directory handling functions . File Manipulation Routines . errno . Dave.Marshall@cm.cf.ac.uk . Wed Sep 14 10:06:31 BST 1994

The Preferences window allows you to specify various application preferences (surprise!) It is brought up by selecting Preferences from the TUI Menu. ... Each preference may be edited by clicking on it. If the value is changed to anything other than the current value then an exclamation mark is shown between the name and the value. ... Seq By File : controls whether whether images are numbered in the order taken (unchecked) or are numbered separately for each image name (checked). ...

... Photos of the conference are available here . ... The current conference fee is 3000 Russian rubles for a participant and 1000 Russian rubles for an accompanying person or a young scientist. ... The Organizing Committee of CC-2010 has pleasure to invite students, PhD students and young researchers (under the age of 35 years) to participate in the School of Young Scientists. ... Conference ends on July 31 at 13:00 . See 2nd Announcement of the 8th Conference on Cryocrystals and Quantum Crystals . ...

In this chapter we will consider two very simple but useful Web agents that I have written on Actor Prolog for my own needs. ... Let us start the Web agent. Fig. ... Start of the Web agent. The Context diagram consists of three blocks: "Logic Programming Sites", "Edit", and "Check". ... Some Web sites that are linked with the logic programming and Prolog are listed in the pulldown list (these addresses are transferred to the "Edit" block from the "Logic Programming Sites" block). ...

... FileљStructure . ... After downloading all the catalogues, the paths to the various files should look like this: Installation Data Directory / stars / default / stars _0_0v0_1.cat Installation Data Directory / stars / default / stars _1_0v0_1.cat Installation Data Directory / stars / default / stars _2_0v0_1.cat Installation Data Directory / stars / ... In this case, all the files would be in the <Installation Data Directory>/stars/default directory. ...

NAME ABbuilder - DFO data organization tool SYNOPSIS ABbuilder <options> where <options> are: --raw-dir directory containing raw data --cal-dir directory containing calib data --cal-ldir directory containing symbolic links to calib files --cal-list mcalib list --vcal-dir directory containing virtual products --pro-dir where pipeline products are created --ab-dir where association blocks are created --oca-rul file containing OCA rules --instrume instrument --date YYYY-MM-DD --mode { CALIB | ...

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 . ...

... Iowa Robotic Telescope | ... Talon is based on OCAAS, a software suite developed by software engineer Elwood Downey ( Clear Sky Institute ) for use at the University of Iowa ?s first remote facility (the ATF, or Automated Telescope Facility). ... XObservatory : Telescope Control Interface . ... This program calls upon and coordinates much of the interrelated portions of the Talon architecture, and forms the primary control panel for the telescope, dome, and peripheral systems when used locally. ...

... Views of the Solar System is maintained at several different sites on the Internet. ... This is the primary site for "Views of the Solar System." ... This site is maintained by Lee Burnside ; see also their home page . ... You are permitted to set up a Views of the Solar System mirror site as long as you follow the following guidelines: Views of the Solar System may be distributed on the World Wide Web as long as it is used for non-profit applications and the pages are not modified. ...

... The Science Operation Department is composed of Astronomers, Telescope Instruments Operators(TIOs) and Data Handling Administrators(DHAs). ... Astronomers have proposed several methods to quantitatively measure the amount of turbulence above the telescope, which the most common ones is Differential Image Motion Monitor (DIMM). In optical testing, the Hartmann test is the common method to test the quality of optical components. ... Hartmann mask consists of 48 lenses. ...

... Registration form . ... Institute of Applied Astronomy of the Russian Academy of Sciences invites you to participate in the all-Russian scientific conference "Asteroid-Comet Hazard-2005" which will be held 3-7 October 2005 in St. Petersburg. ... Batrakov Yu.V. Institute of Applied Astronomy of RAS, St.Petersburg . ... Institute of Applied Astronomy of RAS . ... Finkelstein A.M. Institute of Applied Astronomy of RAS, St.Petersburg . ... Institute of Applied Astronomy of RAS, St.Petersburg . ...

... NASA History . ... NASA Oral History Project: Administrators . This ongoing NASA Oral History Project captures information from the individuals who were involved in key positions with the Space Agency. ... Deputy Director , Mission Operations and Data Systems Directorate, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, 1989-1990 . Associate Director for Hubble Space Telescope Flight Projects, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, 1990-1994 . Deputy Center Director , NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, 1995 . ...

... VaST is a software tool for finding variable objects on a series of astronomical images. ... VaST performs object detection and aperture photometry using SExtractor on each image, cross-matches lists of detected stars, performs magnitude calibration with respect to the first (reference) image and constructs a lightcurve for each object. ... VaST FITS image viewer ./pgfv . ... Part I" PZP, vol. ... K. V. Sokolovsky, S. A. Korotkiy; "New Variable Stars Discovered by the NMW Survey" PZP, vol. ...

... 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. ...

... Uniformity of size and appearance of all the illustrations of the same type should be strictly observed. ... The numbers of curves, straight lines, etc., should be written in italics without any brackets both at an illustration and in text. ... In inscriptions, when the parameters of a curve are listed, the numbers of curves and notations of the parts of an illustration (a, b, etc.) should be placed in brackets prior to the corresponding parameters (a dash is not used). ...

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... Events . ... Pre-university education . ... Web of Science database ( http://webofknowledge.com ) is available since 2 October. This database is the most competent analytic and citation database of journal articles, including 3 bases: Science/Social Sciences/Arts&Humanities Citation Index. To rate citation index, impact-factor, Hirsch index scientists and specialists of all subject areas are recommended to use Web of Science database since it is the most important one for the researchers. ...

CALCSYM - complex evaluator . ... CALCSYM.exe and CALCSYMi.exe will allow you to obtain numeric solution for *.out file generated by both CIRSYM and MATSYM programs (computation of freqency responces, unknowns, determinants, sensitivity analysis etc.. ... Setup file name for CALCSYM is "setup.cal". ... CALCSYMi.exe will allow you to work with long double over the range from 3.4*E-4932 to 3.4*E+4932. ... To calculate, run CALCSYM.exe and enter "file_name.OUT" or click on the "ENTER" (in "OUT" case). ...

... Set this to where you want bp installed. Choices include: # 1) your standard perl library path, usually /usr/lib/perl. # 2) your site-specific perl library path, often /usr/lib/perl/site_perl # 3) a completely new place, such as /usr/local/lib/bp # 4) leave them here in the source directory # options 3 and 4 will require that the environment variable BPHOME be set # to run any bp programs, but I prefer them. ... BINDEST = /usr/local/bin # This is the prefix that will be used for the perl scripts. ...