CFITSIO Interface Library CFITSIO is a library of ANSI C routines for reading and writing FITS format data files. ... The CFITSIO library is built on Unix systems by typing: > ./configure [--prefix=/target/installation/path] > make (or 'make shared') > make install (this step is optional) at the operating system prompt. The configure command customizes the Makefile for the particular system, then the `make' command compiles the source files and builds the library. ...

... Article text . ... Article should be formatted according to the present rules, using the styles containing in the attached file example.doc . ... For example, article name should be typed in string Here Is the Paper Title , using style "title paper", etc. ... Title part of article Paper Title (style Title Paper . ... It is necessary to use style text paper for the body of article. ... In the text of article there should be links to every Figure and Table: Fig. 1 and Tab. 1 accordingly. ...

... The default display type is Auto (ScanDisk ; adjusts to the current display). ... ScanTimeOut Determines whether ScanDisk should detect disk timeouts ; while performing a surface scan. ... Surface Determines whether ScanDisk will perform a surface scan: ; Never (Default) Does not perform a surface scan. ... The Prompt value causes ScanDisk to prompt you for a disk. ... The next five settings accept any of the following values: ; Prompt Causes ScanDisk to prompt you before fixing this problem. ...

... 21.12.2005 Baikonur Cosmodrome. From the Baikonur cosmodrome at 21:38:20 Moscow time a Progress M-55 Transport Cargo Vehicle has been launched. ... At 4:00 a.m. Moscow Time, the transporter with the Soyuz-U launch vehicle and the Progress M-55 spacecraft left the Assembly and Testing Facility and arrived to the launch pad for the final pre-launch processing. ... Photo-report . ... The Russian Soyuz TMA-7 manned transport spacecraft docked to the International Space Station Orbital Complex. ...

... 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.. ...

Mammatus Clouds Over Saskatchewan . ... The flatness is caused by moist warm air that rises and cools and so condenses into water droplets at a specific temperature, which usually corresponds to a very specific height. As water droplets grow , an opaque cloud forms. Under some conditions, however, cloud pockets can develop that contain large droplets of water or ice that fall into clear air as they evaporate. ... Resulting mammatus clouds can appear especially dramatic if sunlit from the side. ...

... AstroAsciiData is a Python module to handle ASCII tables. ... The idea to develop this Python module emerged from the fact that ASCII tables continue to be one of the most popular and widely used data exchange formats in astronomy and probably science in general. ... To load this ASCII table, go into Python, load the AstroAsciiData module and read in the table with: . ... demo = asciidata.open('webexa.txt') . ... Users who only want to work with ASCII tables neeed no further python modules. ...

... Director of the RAS ISR . RAS Academician . ... Astrophysics module Kvant of the orbital complex Mir launched in 1987 contains the largest on the station complex of the scientific equipment named the orbital observatory Roentgen. Observatory Roentgen consists of 4 X-ray telescopes, jointly exceeding the range of energies from 2 to 800 keV. ... Among the most significant results that were received in the observatory Roentgen are: . ... measurement of the periods of 9 X-ray pulsars; . ...

... Bad Astronomy . ... On Thursday, February 15th 2001 (and replayed on March 19), the Fox TV network aired a program called ``Conspiracy Theory: Did We Land on the Moon?'', hosted by X-Files actor Mitch Pileggi. ... Dust around the lander . ... However, it appeals to our common sense: when the sky is black here on Earth, we see stars. ... Bad: The program claims that when the top half of the lander took off from the Moon to bring the astronauts back into orbit, there was no flame from the rocket. ...

As an obligatory preparing for the application to participate in the IAO a short report of National Olympiad of the current year with a set of all problems used on the Olympiad has to be presented by the applicating team. ... The final minutes (protocols written in Latin or Cyrillic in form of tables) of the Olympiad (evaluating of solutions of the students participated in the last stage of the Olympiad) should be included as well. ... Historical data of the National Astronomy Olympiad: . ...

... CodingљStyle . ... Plugins . ... Building Plugins . ... dynamic plugins are stand-alone dynamic libraries (separate files with .so extension on Linux, .dll in Windows or .dylib on Mac OS X) that are loaded at run-time (on start-up) by Stellarium. This allows dynamic plugins to be distributed separately from Stellarium. static plugins are linked statically at build-time. ... For the rest of this discussion, I will assume you downloaded the source code in the directory /home/me/builds/stellarium . ...

National Aeronautics and Space Administration . ... Frank Borman . ... A romance with airplanes that began when he was 15 years old, took Frank Borman to the Air Force and then to NASA. ... Frank Borman retired from the air Force in 1970, but is well remembered as a part of this nation's history, a pioneer in the exploration of space and a veteran of both the Gemini 7, 1965 Space Orbital Rendezvous with Gemini 6 and the first manned lunar orbital mission, Apollo 8, in 1968. ...

Python Reference Introduction These notes contain commands useful for analysing and plotting data using the Python programming language, together with the Numpy and Matplotlib libraries. ... So for example, the plot command (from matplotlib) would be executed by typing pylab.plot(.. ... Pulling out part of an array. ... To pick out only the chosen elements, and put them in a new array, use something like: new_array = my_array[index_array] Plotting We use Matplotlib (included in pylab) to plot. ...

... Exposure Time Calculator (ETC) . Survey processing . ... VISTA is a 4-m class wide field survey telescope for the southern hemisphere, equipped with a near infrared camera (1.65 degree diameter field of view at VISTA's nominal pixel size) containing 67 million pixels of mean size 0.34 arcsec and available broad band filters at Z,Y,J,H,K s and a narrow band filter at 1.18 micron. A wide field visible camera, if constructed, could also be used on VISTA. ... Tile . ... ESO VISTA Public Surveys . ...

... Tour Objects Tours can be created using objects from within the Autostar database or a user can enter in different objects (such as a newly discovered comet). ... Automatic Mode: As the user advances to each object, the title of the object appears on line 1 of the display while its descriptive text automatically starts scrolling across line 2. ... For example: STAR "Rigel" LANDMARK az alt "title" "description" Enter the azimuth (az) for the desired object in the following format xxxdxxmxxs. ...

... Newton's Laws . ... Mass . ... The most familiar force is weight, the downward force on an object due to gravity. ... In the absence of opposing forces, if a force does act on an object at rest or moving at constant speed, it accelerates in the direction of the force. ... By Newton's second law, the acceleration a of an object is proportional to the force F acting on it and inversely proportional to its mass m. Expressing F in newtons we now get a --for any acceleration, not just for free fall--as ....

... Tte tables of ionosphere and plasmasphere parameters are contained in a file param.tbl. ... Latitude Longitude Numbers of tables for (degree) (degree) Month Wm=10 Wm=100 Wm= 150 80 30 March 1 - 3 397-399 793-795 80 150 March 4 - 6 400-402 796-798 80 270 March 7 - 9 403-405 799-801 60 30 March 10 - 12 406-408 802-804 60 150 March 13 - 15 409-411 805-807 60 270 March 16 - 18 412-414 808-810 40 30 March 19 - 21 415-417 811-813 40 150 March 22 - 24 418-420 814-816 40 270 ...

Computer Ephemeris for 2014 from DE200/LE200. Apparent places of fundamental stars. ... Due to huge amount of data in this section of Computer Ephemeris, please, download zip file here. ... The first row contains FK5 number, magnitude, spectral class, name of the star. ... The second row contains date when upper culmination of star take place twice. ... Line 'J1997.5' contains seconds of alpha and delta to be added to alpha0 delta0 to form mean place at J1997.5. ...

spaceweb@oulu.fi - last update: 28 May 1995, 0800 UT . Advanced plasma theories are extremely important when one tries to explain, for example, the various waves and instabilities found in the plasma environment. ... In the kinetic theory it is necessary to know only the distribution function for the system of particles. ... The dependence of the distribution function on the independent variables r , v , and t is governed by an equation known as the Boltzmann equation . ... Hot plasma theory . ...

... Satellite data ] . SMIS ] . ... NOAA satellites . Telemetry Data Format . ... METEOR-3M Satellite Pass Schedule . Telemetry Archive Catalog . Last telemetry files . ... Data Processing Examples . ... Caspian Sea (server "SPUTNIK") . GOMS satellite (server "SPUTNIK") . Archive Directory . Latest Data . ... RESURS 01 satellite (server "SPUTNIK") . Operational Archive (MSU-E Data) . ... METEOR satellite (server "SPUTNIK") . ... OKEAN satellite (server "SPUTNIK") . ...