... Can we divine anything from the Twitter stream of the 218th meeting of the AAS ? The results presented here unfortunately do not reflect all the tweets from the meeting, but only those available via the Twitter Search API . Also, unlike my AAS 215 study I am only using the #AAS218 hashtag since #AAS is no-longer particularly astronomy-related (this link may include language or links that could be considered offensive). ... An archive and analysis of #AAS218 tweets using the Archivist site; . ...

... Liyong Liu (NAOC) . Site testing on seeing conditions of the astronomical observatories over China are briefly reviewed, including Xionglong station of NAOC, Gaomeigu station of Yunnan Observatory, Delingha station of Purple Mountain Observatory. ... PDF [3.0€аMB] October 8, 09:55 10:20 . ... In this paper, we will review the site survey activities in the past years, and present the site-testing results on the Oma site, including cloud cover, seeing, water vapor, transparency and sky brightness. ...

Proceedings of Turbulent Shear Flows XI , 1997. NASA Technical Paper # 3555 , 1997. Proceedings of European Turbulence Conference VI , 1996. ESPRI Research Report # 104, 117-143 (1996) . ... Proceedings of Turbulent Shear Flows X , 1995. ASME Paper 95-GT-437 , 1995. ... Invited AIAA Paper 94-2281 presented at the 1994 AIAA Fluid Dynamics Conference, Colorado Springs, CO. AIAA Paper 94-2323, presented at the 1994 AIAA Fluid Dynamics Conference, Colorado Springs, CO. ...

... XMM-Newton SOC Home Page Conferences & Meetings . ... General User Support XMM-Newton Helpdesk Users Group . ... Data Analysis SAS News What is SAS? ... Data handling units and production of the relevant software, in collaboration with industry . ... AIV support . ... Participation in the development of the electrical ground support equipment . ... Participation in flight operations definition and in the development of data analysis software . ... Development of data analysis software . ...

The Special Astrophysical Observatory of Russian Academy of Sciences is one of the leading center of stellar magnetism study. ... Our observatory every 3-5 years holds an International Conference "Magnetic Stars" during past 30 years. ... The conference proceedings were published in book "Stellar Magnetism", Editors-in-chief Yu.V. Glagolevskij and I.I. Romanyuk (Saint Petersburg, Nauka, 1992), 270 pages. ... Conferences . History . ... Laboratory for the Stellar Magnetism Study of SAO of the RAS . ...

... On 26 October 2009 in Moscow, in the Russian Academy of Sciences (RAS) a meeting was held of the leading Russian scientists and statesmen with the Director General of the European Southern Observatory (ESO) Tim de Zeeuw and the Head of International Relations Rowena Sirey. ... Director General of the European Southern Observatory (ESO) Tim de Zeeuw. ... Balega, the Head of International Relations Rowena Sirey, Director General of the ESO Tim de Zeeuw, deputy director of the SAO RAS V.V.Vlasuyk . ...

... February 2016 Monthly Meeting - The World At Night (TWAN) . Babak Tafreshi   . Thursday, Feb 11, 2016 at 8:00 PM . This month, we are pleased to welcome Babak Tafreshi, founder and director of The World At Night (TWAN) . ... He is the founder and director of The World At Night (TWAN), a board member of Astronomers Without Borders, a contributing photographer at Sky magazine and the European Southern Observatory. ... 2016 . ... Copyright (c) Amateur Telescope Makers of Boston, Inc. ...

... Prof. L.B.F.M. Waters (University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands) . Participants: . Astronomical Institute "Anton Pannekoek", University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands . ... Sobolev Astronomical Institute, St.Petersburg University, St.Petersburg, Russia . ... Minutes of the meeting in Amstredam (ASCII file) . ... Meeting of 11 participants and several interested scientists from former Soviet Union teams during the All-Russian Astronomical Conference in St.Petersburg in August, 2001. ...

... Iowa Robotic Telescope | ... Talon is based on OCAAS, a software suite developed by software engineer Elwood Downey ( Clear Sky Institute ) for use at the University of Iowa ?s first remote facility (the ATF, or Automated Telescope Facility). ... XObservatory : Telescope Control Interface . ... This program calls upon and coordinates much of the interrelated portions of the Talon architecture, and forms the primary control panel for the telescope, dome, and peripheral systems when used locally. ...

Marc White . ... Postdoctoral Research Fellow , The Australian National University . ... 2009 - 2014 . PhD, Astronomy Astrophysics , The Australian National University . ... 2005 - 2008 . BSc (Honours) in Physics , The University of Western Australia . ... 2008 - 2009 . ... Vacation Scholar , Astronomy Group, School of Physics, The University of Western Australia . ... System Administrator Programmer (IT Officer), Research School of Astronomy Astrophysics, The Australian National University . ...

The activities of the group started at the end of 70's with the building of FIRT: the photometer of the National Infrared Telescope ( TIRGO ). The group has also developed a large amount of software and procedures in order to define all the relevant parameters of the systems. ... See also the local Labir4Giano pages. ... In addition to the development of the above instruments, we also carried some observations in collaboration with the science groups of Arcetry Observatory. ... Giano Local Page . ...

Storing and accessing the largest astronomical catalogues with the SAI CAS project S. Koposov1,2,3, O. Bartunov2, S. Karpov4 et al2. ... Why we want to build our own Catalogue Access Service The requirements for our CAS system The importance of the Database for the CAS (PostgreSQL & Q3C) The technical realization of CAS What has been already done Example of work TODO Storing and Accessing Astronomical Catalogues Existing projects CDS OpenSkyQuery CASjobs with SDSS They are all really great! ...

... 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. ...

SAI VO . ... SAI CAS . ... Web Services . Catalog Access Services . ... Astronomical Thesaurus . ... RVO . ... This site is about the Virtual Observatory project in the Sternberg Astronomical Institute, Moscow University ( SAI MSU ). We provide a public access to the growing set of astronomical services developed by the SAI RVO development team in accordance with the Virtual Observatory standards. ... At present SAI CAS provides ConeSearch, CrossMatch services and supports user uploaded data. ...

... The material in "From Stargazers to Starships" meets several important requirements of the national standards. Pages cited below are from National Science Education Standards National Academy Press, Washington 1995. ... For example: the sections on astronomy not only describe calendars and sundials (including their construction), but also the astronomy of the ancient Greeks, including two different ways in which ancient Greeks estimated the distance to the Moon. ...

... Scientific Venues American Association for the Advancement of Science meeting American Astronomical Society meeting American Association of Physics Teachers meeting American Association of Variable Star Observers meeting .Astronomy Conference. ... Worth, TX University of Nebraska, Lincoln, NE Yale University, CT Conventions/Special Interest Meetings/Other (James Randi's) "The Amaz!ng Meeting" (2003 - 2009), Las Vegas, NV, Ft. ... Diablo Astronomical Society, Concord, CA Mt. ...

... Participants . ... On the workshop, we are going to cover two years of the development of combinatorial methods in geometry and mathematical physics. ... Traditionally, the workshop takes place at three locations: the Independent University of Moscow (3 days), the Steklov Mathematical Institute (2 days) and the Higher School of Economics (1 day). ... USA), R. Kashaev (Geneve), M. Kazarian (Steklov and HSE) D. Korotkin (Concordia Univ.) ... This covers also the welcome party and the conference dinner...

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 . ...

... 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. ...

Astronomy . ... Institutions, Observatories . ... International Astronomical Union . ... Abastumani Astrophysical Observatory . Australian Astronomical Observatory . ... Byurakan Astrophysical Observatory . Hartebeesthoek Radio Astronomy Observatory . ... National Radio Astronomy Observatory . Nobeyama Radio Observatory . ... Pushchino Radio Astronomy Observatory . ... AGU journals . ... Astronomy and Astrophysics Springer . ... Astronomy Letters (ПАЖ) . ... Astrophysical Journal Letters . ...