Next: The Transmission Gratings Up: The Instruments Previous: The Instruments . ... A conventional cross-grid charge detector reads out the photo-induced charge cloud and the electronics determine an arrival time to 16s, and the position with a resolution of about 18 m or 0.37 arcsec. ... The Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Center for Space Research, in collaboration with Lincoln Laboratories, developed the detector system and manufactured the CCDs; Lockheed-Martin integrated the instrument. ...

MIR ORBITAL COMPLEX CONTENT . S.P. Korolev Rocket and Space Corporation Energia was the Prime Contractor for MIR Orbital Station, developer of the Core Module and the Station Modules, developer and manufacturer of the major systems supporting their on-orbit operation; responsible for the integrated electrical interface of the onboard systems and integrated ground electrical tests of the Station Modules; developer and manufacturer of the Soyuz and Progress space vehicles. ... Docking Compartment . ...

Stellarium 0.12.3 . ... Classes . ... FileљStructure . ... ClassљIndex . ... StelIndexBuffer Class Reference abstract . Generic index buffer interface usable with all Renderer backends. ... virtualљ . ... voidљ . addIndex (const uint index) . ... virtual voidљ . ... index . ... virtual void StelIndexBuffer::addIndex_ . ... virtual void StelIndexBuffer::clear_ . ... virtual void StelIndexBuffer::lock_ . ... virtual void StelIndexBuffer::setIndex_ . ... virtual void StelIndexBuffer::unlock_ . ...

The National Astronomy and Ionosphere Center/Arecibo Observatory is seeking a programmer for the astronomy (radio and radar) program. Under general supervision, develop, maintain, and document spectral line data reduction and analysis software for astronomical research at the Arecibo Observatory. ... The National Astronomy and Ionosphere Center/Arecibo Observatory is operated by Cornell University under a cooperative agreement with the U.S. National Science Foundation. ... Arecibo Observatory . ...

Next: Library, Archive and Historic Up: Buildings, Grounds, Library and Previous: Disposal of the Schmidt . Mark Bailey, Apostolos Christou and David Asher have developed ideas for a new outdoor exhibit in the Observatory grounds, called `The Human Orrery'. ... The position of the proposed new Library, Archive and Historic Scientific Instruments building is shown in outline. ... Next: Library, Archive and Historic Up: Buildings, Grounds, Library and Previous: Disposal of the Schmidt M.E. Bailey . ...

... Advises . Contact Advises . As an advise for amateurs we would like to underline: if it's possible, try to observe 3 asteroid positions per night and do not neglect to observe the Numbered Minor Planets in your telescope field of view as a "by product" of your observational programs. ... We think such estimations ought to be produced every morning after CCD observations of the moving celestial objects by observer himself. ...

... The INTEGRAL Science Data Centre Roland Walter, Alain Aubord, Paul Bartholdi, Jurek Borkowski, Pierre Bratschi, Tomaso Contessi, Thierry Courvoisier, Davide Cremonesi, Pierre Dubath, Donnald Jennings, Peter Kretschmar, Tim Lock, St’ephane Paltani, Reiner Rohlfs and Julian Sternberg 1 INTEGRAL Science Data Centre, Chemin d' ’ Ecogia 16, CH--1290 Versoix, Switzerland Abstract. INTEGRAL is a gamma­ray observatory mission of the Eu­ ropean Space Agency to be launched in 2001. ...

USING THE CORRELATION BETWEEN ISGRI SURVEY RESULTS AND OTHER CATALOGUES TO AID SOURCE IDENTIFICATION John B. Stephen, A. Malizia and L. Bassani IASF-INAF, Via P. Gobetti 101, 40129 Bologna, ITALY, E-mail: stephen@iasfbo.inaf.it ABSTRACT In order to help in the identification of INTEGRAL/ISGRI sources, we have developed a software package which allows a rapid and detailed cross-correlation to be performed between various source catalogues. ... We show below some preliminary results from this analysis. ...

STEP INTO THE BLUE - MEADE INSTRUMENTS PRODUCT GUIDE . ... Telescopes . LX850 Series . ... Superb optical performance coupled with time proven computerized pointing and tracking has made the LX200 ACF series a best-seller in the high-performance telescope class. ... Meade's revolutionary LS LightSwitchтДв series of telescopes use advanced technologies to do what no other consumer telescopes have done before: take all the hassle out of using a telescope. ... Coronado€о Solar . ... Spotting Scopes . ...

A new Advanced Instruments and Engineering Facility will be established on Mt Stromlo, establishing new capability for precision optics manufacture and an expanded research and development program. ... ANU has signed an agreement with commercial aerospace partner Auspace to rebuild the Near-infrared Integral-Field Spectrograph, (NIFS) for the Gemini Observatory in Hawaii. ... This first Australian instrument for the Gemini telescopes is of enormous importance to Australian science and Stromlo staff. ...

... Dept. for Astrometry & Space Geodynamics . ... History of MAO . ... 2016,MNRAS, 2016MNRAS.tmp.. ... Team . ... All Pages . ... Position: Senior Scientist Research, Main Astronomical Observatory of NASU . ... E-mail: This email address is being protected from spambots. ... Position: Senior Scientist Research MAO NASU . ... Position: Research Associate MAO NASU . ... We also give a special thanks to the whole MAO NASU and Lisnyky Observatory staff for their constant help and support! ... MAO NASU . ...

Computer Ephemeris for 2016 from DE200/LE200. Longitude of central meridian of Uranus. ...

... 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. ...

User should choose the type of coordinates and type of positions by marking corresponding radio button, first in the column headed Type and then in the column headed Positions . Rectangular coordinates are compatible only with choice Geometric . ... Remember that photographic or CCD observations are comparable with astrometric positions, whereas meridian observations are comparable with apparent ones. Observations made in horizontal coordinate system also are linked to apparent positions. ...

... The body of photometric and astrometric data on stars in the Milky Way Galaxy has been growing very fast in recent years (Hipparcos/Tycho, OGLE-3, 2-Mass, DENIS, UCAC2, SDSS, RAVE, Pan Starrs, Hermes, ...) and at the time of the General Assembly the launch of ESAтАЩs Gaia mission, which will measure astrometric data of unprecedented precision for ~ 10 9 stars, will be less than three years away. ... Producing models and fitting them to the available data will involve complex software. ...

... Telescopes . ... 2013: . A new control system for the 1-m telescope with remote control possibility for the observation process . In 2013, the creation of a control system for the multitask 1-m ZEISS-1000 telescope was completed in SAO RAS, allowing the use of the telescope's observational capabilities in the modes of local and remote control. ... FITS 3.0-compatible archive of direct images with astrometric calibration . ... SAO RAS Report N329, 2013. Archive . ...

Natural Satellites Service. ... Apparent Encounters . of the Tycho-2 Catalogue stars and the main natural planetary satellites . ... Suggestions . ... Here we present the precalculated circumstances of the apparent encounters of the stars of the Tycho-2 Catalogue with the main satellites of Saturn (S1-S8) for the period from November 2004 to February 2010, and with the Galilean satellites of Jupiter for the period from November 2004 to October 2010. ...

... We have compared visualized fields of GSC and USNO A1.0 catalog with unpublished photographic finding charts that were sent by L. Plaut to the compilers of the GCVS. ... 7-15 A9 --- GCVS GCVS or NSV name 17-25 F9.4 --- GSC GSC number 26 A1 --- NoteFlag *Nonstar (GSC) flag 28-29 I2 h RA2000GSC.h Hours RA (GSC), equinox 2000.0 31-32 I2 min RA2000GSC.m Minutes RA (GSC), equinox 2000.0 34-38 F5.2 s RA2000GSC.s Seconds RA (GSC), equinox 2000.0 40 A1 --- DE2000GSC.- ... Plaut, L., 1966, Bull. ...

... 248, 2007 W. J. Jin, I. Platais & M. A. C. Perryman, eds. c 2008 Intern atio nal A stro nom ical U nion doi:10.1017/S1743921308018838 A compiled catalogue of reference stars around the selected ERS in the northern sky V. P. Ryl'kov1 , N. Narizhna ja1 , A. Dement'eva1 , N. Maigurova2 , G. I. Pinigin2 and Y. I. Protsyuk2 1 Main Astronomical Observatory of RuAS, MAO RuAS, Russia email: vryl@gao.spb.ru; 2 Nikolaev Astronomical Observatory, NAO, Ukraine email: pinigin@mao.nikolaev.ua Abstract. ... Pul...

SAI VO . ... SAI CAS . ... main [?] . ... Cross-match your data with our catalogue! User table: Must be valid VOTable or CSV file . Format of the input file: . VOTable - XML-based format . CSV (Comma-Separated Values) - simple text format . CSV format requires names of columns with coordinates. Name of RA column: Dec: . Hint: CSV is a simple text format where the data columns are separated by the comma and the first line contains the names of the corresponding columns. ...