. My astronomical research interests center on galaxy structure and evolution. Current topics include: . Polar-ring and interacting galaxies (see also new catalogue ) . Galaxy warps: statistics, properties and origin . Spiral galaxies at z~1: radial and vertical structure of stellar disks, statistics of interactions . Surface photometry and kinematics, dynamical modeling . Observational cosmology . Joomla Counter since Sep 1997

lsst.coordConv љ unknown . ... Files . ... include . ... physConst.h . ... 17 љ const double Pi = std::atan(1.0)*4; . 18 љ const double HoursPerDeg = 24.0 / 360.0; // hours per degree . 19 љ const double RadPerDeg = Pi / 180.0; // radians per degree . 20 љ const double KmPerAU = 149597871.0; // kilometers per astr. unit (Astr. ... 38 љ // const double JY_per_BY = 36524.2198781 / 36525.0; // Julian years per Besselian (troPical) Years (Taff) . ... Definition: physConst.h:26 . ...

Winer Observatory P.O. Box 797, Sonoita, Arizona 85637-0797, USA . ... Fees . ... 2/3-m Telescope . ... Irvin M. Winer . ... Site . ... Telescope Aperture / Mount . ... 20,000 . ... Meade 20-inch MAX on MAX Mount . ... Housing in our automatic observatory at our site near Sonoita, Arizona . ... Telescope (you provide the telescope, mount, control computer, cables, etc.) ... Long distance telephone charges for calls initiated by your computer or staff on Winer telephones . ... 2013 Winer Observatory. ...

Stellarium 0.12.3 . ... Classes . ... StelMainWindow Class Reference . ... voidљ . ... Alternate fullscreen mode/windowed mode if possible. ... boolљ . ... Get whether fullscreen is activated or not. ... It is the class in charge of switching betwee fullscreen or windowed mode. ... Get whether fullscreen is activated or not. static StelMainWindow & StelMainWindow::getInstance . ... void StelMainWindow::init . ... Set whether fullscreen is activated or not. void StelMainWindow::toggleFullScreen . ...

... The photography of the underlying surface can be directly transmitted to Earth in the course of a live communications session via ham radio. ... Conducting real-time radio communications sessions from on-board ISS RS to exchange digital images. ... Conversations of the space flight participant of Visiting Mission 15 with ground users, taking place in the course of real-time ham radio communications sessions, as well as video images uplinked/downlinked to/from ISS in real-time via ham radio. ...

... The XFreeOS2 mailing list deals with all aspects of the XFree86/OS2 port of the X Window System, including, but not restricted to . ... Please ensure that your email address is stable and reachable, so don't use for instance some PC in a university cluster which is occasionally offline, or which is good for sending mail only. To send a message to other list subscribers, send your mail to the address . ... Replies to mails from the list will be sent back to the list. ...

XmCCD ----- The programs provided here offer a Linux graphical user interface to astronomical and scientific CCD cameras. ... It is the latest one they offer and the files included allow support for Android and Mac OS X. This distribution of XmCCD includes source code to utilize the SBIG shared library libsbigudrv.so with a Motif-based graphical user interface. ... The XmCCD source package includes and will install: SAOimage ds9 xpa cfitsio SAOimage is the primary image display for XmCCD. ...

... ISS: Reflections of Earth . ... 16.01.2009 . ... Credit: Ralf Vandebergh Explanation: Remarkable details are visible in this view of the orbiting International Space Station (ISS), recorded with a small telescope on planet Earth through a clear twilight sky. ... The image also shows off large power generating solar arrays on the station's 90 meter long integrated truss structure Just put your cursor over the picture to identify some of the major parts of the ISS. ... Publications with keywords: ISS ...

... In the past month, I?ve noticed relatively frequent paper appearance in arxiv/astro-ph whose title includes Bayesian or Markov Chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) . ... astro-ph:0708.2340v1] Bayesian Galaxy Shape Measurement for Weak Lensing Surveys -I. Methodology and a Fast Fitting Algorithm by L. Miller et. al. [astro-ph:0708.1871v1] Dark energy and cosmic curvature: Monte-Carlo Markov Chain approach by Y. Gong et. al. in addition to the previous posting in this slog, [ArXiv] Bayesian Star Formation Study. ...

... Questions relevant to "The Great Magnet, the Earth" will be answered, to the extent time allows. If a question seems to be worthy of broader interest, it and its answer (suitably edited) may be added to the list appearing in "The Great Magnet." ... Please do observe the following: . ... Asking about matters which are far beyond the scope of "The Great Magnet." ... Posing a question without first checking if it was answered in the main files of "The Great Magnet" or in the question-and-answer list. ...

National Aeronautics and Space Administration . ... Gregory Errol Chamitoff (Ph.D.) . NASA Astronaut (Former) . ... NASA EXPERIENCE: In 1995, Dr. Chamitoff joined Mission Operations at the Johnson Space Center, where worked as a Guidance and Control Flight Controller. ... SPACE FLIGHT EXPERIENCE: Expedition 17/18 - In 2008, Dr. Chamitoff served as the flight engineer and science officer for a 6-month mission aboard the International Space Station during Expeditions 17 and 18. ... OCTOBER 2013 . ...

General Information . ... We'd like to announce the forthcoming IAU Conference: . ... A conference organized by Sternberg Astronomical institute (Moscow, Russia) and Working group "Site-testing Instruments" of the International Astronomical Union on various aspects of site-testing techniques, approaches and results. RUSSIA, Kislovodsk (Caucasus Mineral Waters region), 4-9 October 2010. ... Victor Kornilov, Sternberg Astronomical Institute . ... 3-4 October: Registration and accommodation . ...

... 9) Oknyanskij V.L. 1994, "Optical-radio time delays in Q0957+561", Odessa Astronomical Publ., ... 11) Oknyanskij V.L. 1994, "Connection between X-ray and optical variability in NGC4151", in Proceedings of Int. Conf. ... 1994. 12) Oknyanskij V.L. 1994, "Connection between X-ray and optical variability in NGC4151", Astrophys. and Space Science, 222, p.157. ... 14) Oknyanskij V.L., van Groningen E., 1997, "Optical spectral variability of NGC4151 in 1990", Astronomical and Astrophys. ...

... International relations . Scientific Publications . ... Events International Conference "Scientific and technological experiments on automatic space vehicles and small satellites" . ... The influence of the factors of the space environment on the results of scientific and technological experiments. Lessons learned of organization and holding of piggy back launches and space experiments, problems of realization of international scientific and educational space projects. ...

... VLSS Redux version, 2012 . We present details of improvements to data processing and analysis which were recently used for a re-reduction of the Very Large Array (VLA) Low-frequency Sky Survey (VLSS) data. Algorithms described are implemented in the data-reduction package Obit, and include smart-windowing to reduce clean bias, improved automatic radio frequency interference removal, improved bright-source peeling, and higher-order Zernike fits to model the ionospheric phase contributions. ...

... Preprocessor Compiler Control . ... This directive includes a file into code. ... include <file> or #include ``file'' . ... As another example if running program on MSDOS machine we want to include file msdos.h otherwise a default.h file. ... This is most often used with programs that translate other languages to C. For example, error messages produced by the C compiler can reference the file name and line numbers of the original source files instead of the intermediate C (translated) source files. ...

Nowadays at the Department the experimental and theoretical investigations, including astronomical and ionospheric observations, active experiments with space vehicles are taking place. ... Solar Corona physics and erruptive phenomenae. ... Stellar astronomy. ... The Department has organized and put into practice more then 50 expeditions for observation of Solar ecllipces, aurorae polaris, comets, meteor streams, controlled space experiments, and also for investigations of geophysical characteristics. ...

... Moscow, August 25-30, 2007 . ... Main topics: . Idempotent and tropical mathematics including: . Idempotent analysis, . ... Tropical and idempotent convex geometry, . Mathematics of idempotent semirings, . ... Quantization, dequantization, and related topics of mathematical physics . Official languages of the workshop: English and Russian. ... To participate please fill in the following registration form and return it to our contact addresses by the deadline May 15, 2007. ...

In this gallery are many images of Low Surface Brightness Galaxies which have recently been discovered and analyzed. ... The central surface brightness of this galaxy is 24.28 . Malin 2 This galaxy is another huge disk galaxy with a scale length of 15 kpc and a redshift of 15000 km/a. The high surface brightness knot in one of its spiral arms actually has the same color, luminosity and H-alpha equivalent width as the entire Large Magellanic Cloud . ... Truly it is a Low Surface Brightness Galaxy. ...

European Astronomical Society(EAS): NEWS Dear Colleagues, Please find enclosed some information of interest. ... We would also like to remind you that the time is appropriate to renew your membership for 2006 (see our Web page for procedures). ... And do'nt forget that, in between messages, the latest news can always be found on our Web page: http://www.iap.fr/eas/index.html With kind regards, Michel Dennefeld ************************************************************ Content 1. ...