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grdgradient - Compute directional derivative or gradient from 2-D grd file representing z(x,y) grdgradient in _ grdfile -G out _ grdfile [ -A azim [/ azim2 ] ] [ -D [ c ][ o ][ n ] ] [ -L flag ] [ -M ] [ -N [ e ][ t ][ amp ][/ sigma [/ offset ]] ] [ -S slopefile ] [ -V ] grdgradient may be used to compute the directional derivative in a given direction ( -A ), or the direction ( -S ) [and the magnitude ( -D )] of the vector gradient of the data. ... If amp is not given, default amp = 1. ...

... Column Fmt Description ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 1 A1 Blank 2- 5 I4 Year (19__) 6- 8 A3 Blank 9-10 I2 Month 11-13 A3 Blank 14-15 I2 Day 16-17 A2 Blank 18-20 F3.1 Time in tenths of hour 21-24 A4 Blank 25 I1 Code number of the ssc in the N collection (0, 1, 2 or 3 -- the number 9 occurs when no record was available) 26-29 A4 Blank 30 I1 Code number of the ssc in the T ... 181-182 A2 Blank 183-185 I3 Order number of ssc in the year. ...

... Description . Catalog . ... In the Catalog, we publish equatorial (ЮБ 2000 , ЮД 2000 ) and galactic (l,b) coordinates of cluster centers derived as the position of overdensity in 2MASS catalog (Koposov et al. ... Distances, color-excesses and ages are the mean-square values calculated using all available evaluations from different color-magnitude diagrams. ... There are individual pages for every cluster where all available plots and parameters are published. ... 2002). ...

STScI . ... You can install this with easy_install or pip. ... If you will be installing on Linux or Macintosh, you also need pip and the compiler packages for your system. ... To install stsci_python, type these commands into a cmd window: c:\python27\Scripts\easy_install stsci.distutils . ... STSCI_PYTHON is now distributed as several separate packages, so that it can more readily fit into the pypi/pip/easy_install ecosystem. ... On Linux or Macintosh, use this command: pip install --download . ...

. There are several different shells available for Unix; the most popular are described here. You can use any one of these shells if they are available on your system. And you can switch between the different shells once you have found out if they are available. Bourne shell (sh) . C shell (csh) . TC shell (tcsh) . Korn shell (ksh) . Bourne Again SHell (bash) .

Armagh Observatory, 21 December 2001: . ... The Armagh Observatory's contribution, led by astronomers Simon Jeffery and Gerry Doyle , is to develop new computational tools to study the atmosphere of the Sun and other stars. ... Computers will communicate with one another using the grid, and computing power will become a commodity just like electricity. ... FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Simon Jeffery or Mark Bailey at the Armagh Observatory (Tel.: ... WWW contact: webmaster@star.arm.ac.uk . ...

... Meade Instruments Corporation . ... Autostar Computer Controllers . 497 Autostar . ... One of the most important advances in telescope control in the past 25 years, the Meade #497 Autostar Computer Controller turns the ETX into an automatic celestial object locating system. ... The #497 Autostar Computer Controller plugs into the control panel of ETX-90EC, ETX-105EC, and ETX-125EC telescopes and enables automatic location of more than 30,000 celestial objects. ... about meade | ... Meade 4M | ...

The Equatorial Inertial (GEI) coordinate system: . The X GEI axis is directed to the point of the spring equinox, . The Z GEI axis is coincide with the Earth's rotation axis, . The Y GEI supplements the right three. The Geographic (GEO) coordinate system: . ... The Solar Magnetic (SM) coordinate system: . ... About space physics coordinate transformation see Russel [1971] and Hapgood [1992] . ... M.A. Hapgood , Space physics coordinate transformations: A user guide // Planet Space Sci. ...

Next: The course and unit level Up: Ceilidh - On Line C Tutoring System Previous: Introduction . ... To enter the system at the general level, the appropriate command (which should have been set up by your computer systems administrator) is . ... q quit this session fs find student | ... text ceilidh only) in X the courses available appear on main window.This command tells you which courses are available and supported by the Ceilidh system, their full title and their abbreviation. vp . ...

... In this report the measurement results are presented of the ACE Benchmark Suite, run on a variety of UNIX based systems, ranging from personal computers, through workstations, to multi-processor superminis. ... This 1988 edition of the report "Benchmarking UNIX Systems" contains the results for many new systems, besides some which were already present in the previous, September 1987 issue. ... 3.6 From the Philips Set 16 . ... Hewlett & Packard 152 . 14.1 The Hewlett & Packard HP 9000/319 152 . ...

Computer Ephemeris. Second order reduction quantities. Explanations. This page consist of four little tables. First and second tables contains J a (in 0.000001 s ) and J d (0.0001") for nothern declination, third and fourth contains the same information but for southern declination. Each table have 13 informational columns headed with right ascension values, and some amount of rows, labelled with date. ...

... Exposure Time Calculator (ETC) . ... ESO - Public Surveys . ... the recommended values to use for DIT, . ... Detector on-chip integration (DIT): seconds. to your chosen value - a separate page gives recommended values to use for DIT - for modes 1 and 2 below you may wish to start with the maximum recommended values as these will minimize the effect of read noise (a total object exposure of Y secs with DIT=X secs will produce Y/X lots of read noise) and give you a lower limit on the time needed. ...

... They are concerned with Attitude Control System of the spacecraft, satellite visibility from tracking stations, limits on the satellite autonomous operations during the orbit, and needs for auxiliary operations with the spacecraft. ... Among the operational constraints the most important one is the number of programmed slews per orbit, which determines the maximum number of radio sources to be observed during one orbit. ... System temperature (K) . ... Progress of the RadioAstron Project in Pictures...

MORPHOLOGICAL CATALOGUE OF THE CRATERS OF THE MOON . ... Coordinates, diameters and morphological features of 14 923 craters of the Moon in diameters 10 km and more are available in the catalogue. ... A lunar morphological crater catalogue was compiled by the Sternberg State Astronomical Institute in collaboration with the Unified institute of Nuclear Research, Dubna. ... 4. the presence of central peaks, ridges and mountains on the floor . ... peak and many mountains . ... many peaks, 1 mountain . ...

... Scientific Publications . ... In the autumn of 2016 the scientific journal Computer Optics is planned to be issued with original publications in English (Volume 40 No. ... The journal is included in the List of State Commission for Academic Degrees and Titles of the Ministry of Education and Science of the Russian Federation of the leading peer-reviewed scientific journals and publications, in which basic scientific results of the doctoral thesis in physics and informatics should be published. ...

RTT150 . Russian-Turkish 1.5-m Telescope . ... Until 2002 observations were mostly performed with ST-8E CCD in the 1:7.7 Cassegrain focus. ... In April, 2003 telescope was equipped with a larger-size CCD Andor DW436 . ... 2048 x 2048 pixels, . ... Since summer of 2002 the main focal detector of the RTT150 telescope was AP47p CCD in 1:7.7 Cassegrain focus. ... During September 3-13, 2002 works on installation of new autoguiding system ( photo 1 ) were carried out on RTT150 telescope. ...

which serves as the electronic discussion forum for this class. ... All assignments will be posted there as well. ... Since the course material is always available, there is no longer a need for students to incessantly take notes in class. ... Grading techniques, however, will be designed so that people with weak math backgrounds or aptitudes will not be penalized. ... 2 Midterms which will total 40% of your grade . ... a few homework assignments which will total 20% of your grade . ...

... FTP access the basic models is here . ... Below, we put short descriptions of the used SED models for the photometric redshifts providing by the current server . ... The uniqueness of this model consists in expanding to the near IR (NIR) of Rocca-Volmerange and Guiderdoni's (1988) atlas of synthetic spectra with a revised stellar library, which includes parameters of cool stars. ... Homepage of the GISSEL model). ... Another model used earlier is the model of synthetic spectra of Poggianti (1997). ...

GENERAL DESCRIPTION OF DATABASE . It is a matter of common knoledge, that solar magnetic fields and, in particular, magnetic fields of sunspots, play important role in many solar events. In Pulkovo observatory the long-term data set of daily observations of magnetic fields of solar sunspots was accumulated, which contains great potential for further researches in solar physics. ... Second section includes files containing sum data about magnetic fields for every observational day. ...