Astronomical Society of the Pacific Announces 2009 Award Winners in Astronomy Research and Education . The Astronomical Society of the Pacific (ASP) today announced the winners of its 2009 awards for excellence in astronomy research and education. ... The Thomas J. Brennan Award for excellence in the teaching of astronomy in grades 9-12, has gone to Ardis Herrold , astronomy and Earth sciences educator at Grosse Pointe North High School in Grosse Pointe Woods, Michigan. ...

... We propose that the bimodal nature of the kick velocity distribu­ tion of radio pulsars is connected to the dichotomy between hadronic stars (i.e. neutron stars with no quark matter content) and quark stars. ... Here we propose a scenario in which the low­velocity part of the distribution is connected with normal (hadronic) compact stars, and high­velocity part is formed by objects with some amount of quark matter inside (hybrid or strange stars). ...

... Feeding the Monster: Gas Caught in its Death Spiral into a Massive Black Hole . ... Stromlo Professor Mike Dopita have used the Hubble Space Telescope to discover how a massive Black Hole in a nearby galaxy feeds itself. ... Earlier Hubble Telescope data obtained by another team member, Professor Holland Ford of Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland, had found a disk of gas rushing around the Black Hole at a speed of 500 kilometers a second. ...

OFFICIAL PRESS RELEASE . ... Soyuz TMA spacecraft being a modification of Soyuz spacecraft for operation in the frame of the ISS Project were developed by S.P. Korolev RSC Energia staff in cooperation with the subcontractors of the Russian rocket and space industry, and have been flying since November 2002. ... P. Semenov, Technical Director of Russian Manned Space Programs, General Designer of S.P. Korolev RSC Energia, V.V.Tsibliev, Head of RGNII of Yu. ... www.energia.ru/eng/iss/iss10/res.html , . ...

... Time calculated from Fermi GBM Trigger Time = 14:12:08.67 ( Connaughton, GCN 9230 ). 1% coincident with our start zero image time. 3x3 degrees around Swift XRT position . ... SUBJECT: GRB 090424 : MASTER-Net prompt optical limit DATE: 09/04/25 20:29:42 GMT FROM: Vladimir Lipunov at Moscow State U/Krylov Obs E. Gorbovskoy, V. Lipunov, V.Kornilov, A.Belinski ... Our observations results: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Fermi GRB Trigg.* ...

SciSim 4.0.4 is the latest official release of the software. ... The release contains both programs, data as well as full reference help documentation in both HTML and PostScript format. If you are currently using a previous version of SciSim, it may be worthwhile to view the list of changes . ... i686 PC with Linux RedHat 9.0 . ... You can send general questions to the help desk . ... Please send your questions to the help desk instead. Questions should be sent to: XMM-Newton help desk ...

. Main . Turbina . Rs485 driver . Microcodes . Documentations . CVS . Feedback . ASM Kislovodsk . Name . Latest release date . Download link . MASS counters microcode . Sat, 19 Jun 2004 18:13:35 MSD . bicounter.tgz [13738] . MASS auxiliary module microcode . Sat, 19 Jun 2004 18:13:47 MSD . massdimm.tgz [11851] . MASS scanning mechanism . Sat, 19 Jun 2004 18:13:56 MSD . motor_eso.tgz [12629] . Copyright 2004-2012.

... Tonight's Sky . ... The Magazine . News . Observing . ... Magazine . ... Press Room . ... The double star 54 Leonis, spiral galaxy NGC 3198, and emission nebula NGC 3199 . ... Astronomy for Kids . ... Press Releases . ... Astronomy magazine editors are here to help enrich media and blogger coverage of meteor showers, space missions, and night-sky events. ... Receive news, sky-event information, observing tips, and more from Astronomy's weekly email newsletter. ... Astronomy Magazine . ...

... Image Quality of the VLT . Total Optical Control . First light for the ESO VLT unit telescope 1 occurred during the workshop. ... The image shown (Figure 1 ) here was obtained with the VLT on May 16, 1998, in red light (R band), i.e. while the mirror was still uncoated. ... In this diagram (FIgure 2), the measured image quality of the VLT UT1 astronomical images is plotted versus the ``seeing", as measured by the Seeing Monitor, a small telescope also located on top of the Paranal Mountain. ...

Astronotes Armagh Planetarium's Stellar Blog! ... Armagh Planetarium . ... Stars . ... Space Flight . ... This image of the Tarantula Nebula comprises one of the largest mosaics ever assembled from Hubble photos and includes observations taken by HubbleтАЩs Wide Field Camera 3 and Advanced Camera for Surveys, combined with observations from the European Southern ObservatoryтАЩs MPG/ESO 2.2-metre telescope which trace the location of glowing hydrogen and oxygen. ... Subscribe to Astronotes . ...

Drawing and Part Configuration Management and Release Procedures: . ... Context: This procedure is intended for use by APO Telescope Drafting and Engineering personnel for the development, release and maintenance of telescope related models, drawings, and other controlled documents to facilitate the sharing of information between the various institutions and personnel that have need of technical information and engineering files regarding APO telescope design and development. ... Release Procedure: . ...

... The ``Post-Operational Archive'' (POA) project at the Space Telescope European Coordinating Facility (ST-ECF) has recently released an upgraded version of the HST Faint Object Spectrograph (FOS) calibration pipeline. ... In July 2000, the POA project team released STPOA, a new IRAF external package. ... The ST-ECF HST archive now supports FOS data retrieval with On-The-Fly (OTF) calibration using either the new pipeline `poa_calfos' or the old pipeline `calfos'. ...

... Survey processing . ... ESO - Public Surveys . ... 21/12/2009 Release of Science Verification Data . ... 11/12/2009 Press release about VISTA (Text, Images and Videos) . The ESO press release is at www.eso.org/public/outreach/press-rel/pr-2009/pr-49-09.html . ... 10/12/2009 15:00+ Ownerhsip of VISTA accepted by ESO from STFC (UK Goverenment representative) . ... 15/10/2009 Science Verification period started (see 21/12/9 for release) . ... 17/04/2008 Press releases om M1 from ESO , STFC and QMUL . ...

. To begin a new release for a file you "get" it with the next release number. sccs get -e -r release_number filename . For example for a file with a version of 2.4 you would want the new release to be 3. sccs get -e -r3 sect1.txt s.sect1.txt: 2.4 new delta 3.1 20 lines .

To Do List ========== November 10, 2007 =============== Progress in base code not yet on this site will appear in the next beta version released here. ... Features in development for the next stable release include TDI with absolute timing Binning and subarea readout Autoguiding with the tracking control and adaptive optics features XML based server/client for remote use Command line version Browser version Connection to XmTel and XEphem for coordinate information in FITS headers ...

... The RAS Meteorite Collection: State on the 1 st of June, 1999 . ... About the laboratory . ... Chondrite . ... Find 1934. Several masses totaling 25 kg . ... One mass of about 320 kg . ... One mass of 510 kg . ... One mass of 2347 g . ... One mass of 331 g . ... Many masses, 12 kg collected . ... One mass of 75.75 kg . ... One mass of about 26 kg . ... Find 1962. 2 masses 22.7 kg and 9.0 kg . ... One mass of 1250 g . ... Find 1858-1964. 13 masses totaling about 505 kg . ... One mass of 150 kg . ...

... Trade name: Zinc selenide . ... Employers should use this information only as a supplement to other information gathered by them, and should make independent judgement of suitability of this information to ensure proper use and protect the health and safety of employees. This information is furnished without warranty, and any use of the product not in conformance with this Material Safety Data Sheet, or in combination with any other product or process, is the responsibility of the user. ...

... В четверг, 14 апреля 2016 г., состоится семинар кафедры астрофизики. Повестка дня . ... Начало в 11 час.15 мин. Ауд. ... В четверг, 31 марта 2016 г., состоится семинар кафедры астрофизики . ... В четверг, 24 марта 2016 г. , состоится семинар кафедры. ... В четверг, 17 марта 2016 г. , состоится заседание кафедры. ... ОСП НИИ ПММ Национального исследовательского Томского государственного университета) . ... Copyright 2016 Астрономия в Санкт-Петербургском университете . ...

... 03.03.2001 . ... March 03 2001 09:00 (Moscow time) . The operations scheduled on OC "Mir" for March 2-3 are complete. The onboard systems of the Station and the cargo ship checked out, the orbit monitoring performed. The Station remains pressurized, the onboard systems perform norminal. ... The OC "Mir" onboard systems will be checked out and orbit monitoring is scheduled for 3-4 March. The next press release will be issued on 04 March 2001. ...