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... Bad Astronomy . ... Bitesize Astronomy . ... The Nine Planets . ... The Sun stays at the center and the planets orbit it serenely, each in its place. ... Tiny Pluto, orbiting the Sun an average of nearly 40 times the Earth's orbital radius, has an odd orbit. Most planets orbit the Sun in nearly perfect circles, but Pluto's orbit is noticeably elliptical. ... The orbits of Pluto and Neptune have a coincidental timing to them: Pluto orbits the Sun twice for every three times Neptune does. ...

... Title page . ... What's new . ... New page for global change started. ... New page for heliosphere (incl. heliopause and helio-sheath) started. ... New pages about ring current and coronal mass ejections created. ... I created a new Content page, as both the alphabetic page listing and (especially) the "index" listing were getting seriously out of my hands. ... Page for sunspots was created. ... New page for geomagnetic activity written, and another one for 1.3 year periodicity of the sun started. ...

... Linux systems will usually have the Python core (Version 2.7) available. ... ALSVID Python Utilities for Processing FITS Images ================================================== file _renumber.py Renumber files in a directory fits _1d_to_dat.py Extract a 1-dimensional FITS array as data fits _absolute_value.py Absolute value of an image fits _background_remove.py Fit and subtract a background fits _bias.py Subtract a bias frame fits _bin.py Bin a stack of images one by one ...

Bright Supernova - Archives On these pages you will find references to Supernovae which have faded into oblivion. ... Finally, in 1999, when I took over the International Supernova Network's Latest Supernovae page I retitled the main page "Latest Supernovae", BUT, it's the "Latest Supernovae" page of the "Bright Supernovae" pages which are also sub-pages of ISN. ... Brightest supernova in 2005 . ... Brightest supernova in 2002 . ... Brightest supernova in 2000 . ... Brightest supernova in 1999 . ...

filter1d - Time domain filtering of 1-D time series filter1d [ infile ] -F < type >< width > [ -D increment ] [ -E ] [ -H [ nrec ] ] [ -I ignore _ val ] [ -L lack _ width ] [ -N n _ cols / t _ col ] [ -Q q _ factor ] [ -S symmetry _ factor ] [ -T start / stop / int ] [ -V ] [ -bi [ s ][ n ] ] [ -bo [ s ] ] filter1d is a general time domain filter for multiple column time series data. The user specifies the number of columns of input and which column is the time. ...

RADIOASTROPHYSICAL DEPARTMENT  INSTITUTE OF SOLAR-TERRESTRIAL PHYSICS RAS SB . ... Radioastrophysical Department , Institute of Solar-Terrestrial Physics, Siberian Division, Russian Academy of Science. ... Head of Laboratory dr. Gubin A.V. LABORATORY of INFORMATION SUPPLY and METHODOLOGY of RESEARCH . ... Head of Observatory Kitsanov S.V. SIBERIAN SOLAR RADIO TELESCOPE . Siberian solar radio telescope data at 5.7 GHz in I SOHO EIT 171 SOHO EIT 195 SOHO EIT 304 MDI Continuum MDI Magnetogram . ...

... The first step is to open and inspect the camera body. ... Notice that there are snap locks on both sides of the camera body, one of which should already be open since it contained the film removed by the developer. To open the camera body, peel back some of the yellow sticker identifying the camera as KODAK on the top and bottom of the camera and unsnap the plastic pieces. ... You should now have four pieces: the front cover, back cover, middle (main camera with lens), and a cylindrical spool. ...

... Tonight's Sky . ... Observing . ... Sky this Month . ... An artificial comet holds secrets to Earths life . ... The Real Reality Show: Would aliens be anything like us? ... The Real Reality Show: All about the Drake Equation . ... The Real Reality Show . ... The Real Reality Show: How Did Life Start on Earth? ... Only registered members of Astronomy.com are allowed to comment on this article. ... Receive news, sky-event information, observing tips, and more from Astronomy's weekly email newsletter. ...

... Pre-university education . ... Samara region . SSAU History . SSAU roadmap . ... Samara State Aerospace University improved its position in the third annual ranking of higher education institutions in Russia. ... Besides Samara State Aerospace University entered the top twenty of the national higher education institutions, as their graduates are in demand by employers. ... Samara State Medical University also rose from the 57th to the 49th place in the ranking of higher education institutions. ...

... Structure of Data . ... Catalog . ... The SAI OCL Catalog site provides several VO-enabled modes of operation: . VO-enabled catalog data analysis from a browser . ... Endpoint URL is http://ocl.sai.msu.ru/catalog/conesearch/ . ... VO-enabled catalog analysis from a browser . Presently, this recipe works with Firefox (Windows, MacOS, Linux), Internet Explorer (Windows) and Opera (Windows) browsers with Java plugin 1.6 installed. ... Main TOPCAT window with SAI OCL catalog loaded will appear. ...

Winer Observatory P.O. Box 797, Sonoita, Arizona 85637-0797, USA . ... 2/3-m Telescope . ... Site . ... Commanding . ... In a typical robotic observing scenario, each afternoon, a telescope control computer obtains a set of objects to observe from its home institution from a command or script file. ... The file is then transferred to the telescope control computer at the Winer Observatory in Sonoita. ... The Iowa control computer then begins processing the telrun.sls file. ... 2013 Winer Observatory. ...

... A New Constellation Takes Hold . ... A new constellation has taken hold of the sky, much to the surprise of many sky gazers. ... Located in Sicily, Italy, the volcano produces lava fountains over one kilometer high. ... 1006 AD: Supernova in the Sky . ... A new star, likely the brightest supernova in recorded human history, appeared in planet Earth's sky in the year 1006 AD. ... Alpha Centauri: The Closest Star System . ... The closest star system to the Sun is the Alpha Centauri system. ...

Trace: ranking . ... CREATE OR REPLACE FUNCTION my_rank (tsvector, tsquery, int ) RETURNS float AS $$ use List::Util qw(min max); my ($string, $ query ) = @_; my $maxpos = 0; # Parse tsvector, taking into account positional information foreach (split / /, $string){ if(/^'(\w+)'(:([0-9,]+))?$/){ foreach(split /,/, $3){ $ vector {$_} = $1; $maxpos = max($maxpos, $_); } } } my @ vector = map {$ vector {$_}} sort {$a = $b} keys(% vector ); # Parse tsquery, assuming it to be ORed only $ ... SAI VO | ...

LAUNCH COMPLEX . Considering the system reusability, great emphasis was placed on pre-launch processing facilities at both launch sites. To implement the Energia-Buran program, it was decided to develop a versatile complex "Stand-Start", modify and re-equip the launch site previously developed under the N1-L3 program, develop an Orbiter launch complex, and to foresee backup runways to be used for the Orbiter unplanned landing. ... SEA LAUNCH . ... Official WEB-site of S.P.Korolev RSC Energia . ...

Some notes on the "FAKERAT" software. ... In 1989/1990 D.W.Murphy (JPL) added the VSOP spacecraft constraints since they have a major impact of the science return from this missions. The program with the spacecraft constraints and several additional features was subsequently renamed fakesat. ... We continued these developments by creating a new branch of the software connected with RadioAstron mission; we call this version as "FAKERAT". ... Therefore, fakesat orbit block was completely replaced. ...

... You are presented with a series of places, people and situations, and by typing commands on the computer can influence what happens. ... Time only passes in response to your commands п you can spend as much time as you like thinking about things. ... In this game, you type commands in plain English every time you see the prompt >. ... Type Drop to get rid of stuff. ... Unless specifically prompted by the game, donуt tell anyone too much п just type something like рtell Fred about my new carс. ...

Balloon magnetic gradiometer at the starting position (Volsk, October 2003) Kamchatka, 1996 STRA TOSPHERIC BALLOON GRADIOM ETER three instrum ent al container s ( 20-40 kg each) uniformly placed along a vertical 6 km rop e Content of each container : - t he instrum ent - GPS-r eceiver - syst em of dat a tr ansf er ( Globalstar satellite link ) m easur em ent ... The pro cess of d eploym ent of gradiom eter is com pleted . ...

... Abstracts of papers published in A&A . Space instrumentation abstract service . ADS abstract service . ADS on-line article service . LANL preprint service . ... ADS Digital Library (Zombeck on-line!) . ... FITS users guide . ... Internet Astronomy starting points . ... Various FITS information . Click here for other Russian WWW servers directory . ... A classification by information by subject. ... HTTP servers . All registered WWW native "http" servers, by location. ...

SAI, graduates year 1982. ... Note: when just a 7-digit phone number is shown, it refers to a phone located in Moscow (international access 007-495). "+" in front of a number means that you must dial an international access code first (or just press "+" on your mobile phone keypad). ... 939-1672(work); . ... Ataev Sasha . 1-(703)-536-8881(home) (USA); . ... Bychkov Sergey . ... 1-(410)-740-8205(home), +1-(301)-286-2150(work) (USA); . ... 1-(412)-767-0332(home), +1-(412)-608-9339(mobile) (USA); . ...