The FITS "World Coordinate System" (WCS) standard defines keywords and usage that provide for the description of astronomical coordinate systems in a FITS image header. ... I: "Representations of world coordinates in FITS" , Greisen, E.W. & Calabretta, M.R. (2002), Astronomy & Astrophysics , 395 , 1061-1075. ... This diagram illustrating Bonne's projection with conformal latitude +35 was produced by WCSLIB , a C implementation of the coordinate transformations defined in the FITS WCS papers. ...

... This thread contains a step-by-step recipe to extract MOS spectra of a point-like source observed in Imaging mode and to create associated response matrices, starting from a calibrated, concatenated event list (either produced with emproc or available as PPS product; here it has the assumed file name MOS.fits ). ... The users should note that the SAS metatask xmmselect allows them to interactively define source and background regions (via ds9) and to run backscale on the fly. ...

RTT150 . ... HEAD IKI . This page is a search interface through RTT150 observationsdatabase which is stored at IKI. According to the agreement between participantsof RTT150 project, observational data fully belong to the institution which hascarried out this observation for one year, are available to all three partiesinvolved (IKI, KSU and TUG) during the second year and become freely accessibleto the whole astronomical community starting two years after observation date. ...

Project ASTRO BOSTON is hosted by two lead institutions: the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics and the Boston Museum of Science . Together these institutions are pooling their vast resources to make this exciting program available to selected teachers and their students throughout the Greater Boston Area. The Boston area is fortunate to be headquarters to many organizations who strive to further astronomy education around the world, such as: . ...

NAUTICAL ASTRONOMICAL ALMANAC for 2005-2006 (in Russian) . ... The Institute of Applied Astronomy of the Russian Academy of Sciences submits the next issue of тАЬThe Nautical Astronomical Almanac for the years 2005-2006тАЭ (NAA-2) biennial. NAA-2 is based on тАЬ The Nautical Astronomical Yearbook тАЭ (NAY) also prepared by IAA RAS. ... The structure of тАЬThe Nautical Astronomical Almanac for the years 2005-2006тАЭ has not undergone essential changes in comparison with the previous issue of NAA-2. ...

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National Aeronautics and Space Administration . ... JOHN E. BLAHA (COLONEL, USAF, RET.) NASA ASTRONAUT (FORMER) . ... EDUCATION: Graduated from Granby High School in Norfolk, Virginia, in 1960; received a bachelor of science in engineering science from the United States Air Force Academy in 1965 and a master of science in astronautical engineering from Purdue University in 1966. ... NASA EXPERIENCE: Selected as an astronaut in May 1980, Blaha has logged 161 days in space on 5 space missions. ...