... The J, H and K bands are characterized by a bright background, such a background is mainly due to the emission of atmospheric lines and of thermal radiation. ... If the source cover a large fraction of the slit, spectra off-source must be observed to adequately sample the sky background. ... The on chip integration time (time spent in each position of the slit) must not exceed 40 seconds in J and H bands and 60 seconds in K band. ... We suggest a sequence of 10 for each elementary integration time. ...

... SIXA FM ACCEPTANCE TESTS . ... In accordance to plan of the Acceptance Tests for Flight Models which was agreed in March 2000 in Moscow, the Acceptance Test of SIXA FM was carried out between 28 August and 2 September at VTT Automation, Finland. ... GOUCH for electronics box of SIXA-FM, Remark: not updated after changes made in 1994. ... Ground Test Program of SIXA-FM. ... Integration Test of SIXA FM, BIUS, ISS, DSS, and MPMI . ... Test data were written to MPMI, DSS-F, DSS-S and GSE SIXA-FM, . ...

... The TESIS is a set of solar imaging instruments developed by the Lebedev Physical Institute of the Russian Academy of Science, and launched aboard the Russian spacecraft CORONAS-PHOTON on January 30, 2009. The main goal of the TESIS is to provide complex observations of solar active phenomena from the transition region to the inner and outer solar corona with high spatial, spectral and temporal resolution in the EUV and Soft X-ray spectral bands. ... Solar activity hits a new low . ...

... The zeta function of the classical monodromy transformation of the germ $f$ is a topological invariant of it. Let us consider a parametrization (uniformization) of the curve $(C,0)$. The order of a function on $(C,0)$ as a function in the uniformization parameter defines a decreasing filtration on the ring of functions on the curve singularity. It appears that the Poincare series of this filtration (considered as a rational function) coincides with the zeta function mentioned above. ...

Welcome to the XMM-Newton Helpdesk . ... General User Support XMM-Newton Helpdesk Users Group . ... Data Analysis SAS News What is SAS? ... Questions can be submitted to the XMM-Newton Helpdesk via two interfaces: . Helpdesk web interface . Email to xmmhelp@sciops.esa.int For both of the above submission methods the question, and later its answer, will always be visible via the web interface , unless the message is marked as PRIVATE (if via email, including the word PRIVATE in the subject). ...

... B=Command, 12AB=Azm, comma, 4000=Alt. ... Example: if the desired position is 220°, then POSITION_24BIT = (220/360)*224 = 10,252,743 Separate POSITION_24BIT into three bytes such that (POSITION_24BIT = PosHigh*65536 + PosMed*256 + PosLow). Exampe: PosHigh = 156, PosMed = 113, PosLow = 199 Send the following 8 bytes: a. Azm Slow Goto: 80, 4, 16, 23, PosHigh, PosMed, PosLow, 0 b. Alt Slow Goto: 80, 4, 17, 23, PosHigh, PosMed, PosLow, 0 The number 35 is returned from the handcontrol 4. ...

Nowadays at the Department the experimental and theoretical investigations, including astronomical and ionospheric observations, active experiments with space vehicles are taking place. ... Solar Corona physics and erruptive phenomenae. ... Stellar astronomy. ... The Department has organized and put into practice more then 50 expeditions for observation of Solar ecllipces, aurorae polaris, comets, meteor streams, controlled space experiments, and also for investigations of geophysical characteristics. ...

... Julian Date Flux Densities (mJy) Julian Date Flux Densities (mJy) 2440000:0 A1 A2 B C 2440000:0 A1 A2 B C 8930.9968 153.8 134.6 59.8 22.6 9021.6846 154.0 137.0 59.0 22.9 8939.7717 163.7 146.0 66.1 22.9 9024.6766 151.4 134.6 58.4 22.1 8940.8936 153.2 135.8 59.2 22.6 9030.5334 156.7 139.1 59.0 22.4 8944.7380 161.7 142.2 63.7 23.1 9032.6650 151.8 136.5 57.7 22.6 8951.8637 148.4 131.3 58.3 21.7 9036.7067 155.1 137.1 58.8 ...

The sort command is a simple database tool. It allows you to specify the field to be sorted on and the type of sort to be carried out on it. sort filename . Lines are sorted into the following order: lines starting with numbers come first, followed by lines starting with upper-case letters, which are followed by lines starting with lower-case letters and finally symbols such as % and ! ... Saving the results of a sort to a file . Checking if a file has been sorted . ...

Pulkovo NEO Page . Central Astronomical Observatory at Pulkovo . ... Control of Observations . ... NEA Accuracy Estimation . ACCURACY OF THE WORLD NEA OBSERVATIONS . Pulkovo method of accuracy estimation was applied to NEA observations. ... 2005 . 2006 . ...

... Plasma- wave complex PWC measures electromagnetic fields and plasma waves of natural and technogenic origin in the ionospheric plasma and electromagnetic parameters of space weather. ... combined wave sensors CWS-1, CWS-2 for measurements of alternating magnetic and electric fields and current fluctuations (frequency range — 0.1–40 kHz); . ... radio frequency analyzer RFA (frequency range — up to 15 MHz); . analyzer of low frequency emissions SAS3 (0.1–40 kHz); . ...

... solar system . ... Solar eclipse travelogue: Sulawesi delivers a spectacular eclipse . ... Observe the Solar System . ... Tour the Solar System . ... Do the paths of totality during solar eclipses follow a pattern that repeats after a certain period? ... RELATED TOPICS: SOLAR ECLIPSE . Total eclipses follow a period known as the saros, which is 18 years and 11 1/3 days long. ... Get instant access to subscriber content on Astronomy.com! ... Join Astronomy for America's 2017 total solar eclipse! ...

... This distance is equivalent to 3.26 light years. ... The Universe was now a large place and the intrinsic energy output of the stars had to be huge in order that their light could reach us. ... Newton implicitly assumes space is flat . ... An Orbit in Curved Space This is a prediction made by General Relativity and confirmed by direct observation of Mercury. The Ant Universe in Flat Space . ... Hubble noticed a correlation between recessional velocity and distance. ...

... Science User Portal . ... ESO, the European Southern Observatory . ... Travel and Contacts . Travel to ESO Headquarters . ... ESO . ... Survey Telescopes . ... Star Clusters . ... ESOcast . ... Stars@ESO . ... ESO Science Newsletter . ... ESO 3.6-metre telescope . ... TRAnsiting Planets and PlanetesImals Small Telescope . ... Now members of the public have a unique opportunity to go behind the scenes and follow astronomers on a planet hunt as it happens. ... ESOcast 80: Follow a Live Planet Hunt . ...

Posting Observations . ... You will need to subscribe to vsnet-acc (to allow you access to post your observations). ... VSNet has several different e-mail sigs, and sub sigs. ... These list are controlled by a software package called " Majordomo ", which allows you to subscribe and unsubscribe yourself from these list with an e-mail message (automated). ... Once you have subscribed to vsnet-acc (which will only send you a welcome message back and nothing else) you can post to the other list. ...

SAOtng supports the following scale algorithms internally: . ... Support for other scaling algorithms can be added to SAOtng by writing a program that takes a FITS image as input and generates a scaled (8-bit) FIT image as output. ... Each scale program command line takes $data as stdin and writes the scaled FITS image to stdout. When the scale algorithm is executed, $data will be replaced by a command to retrieve the unscaled data, which then is passed to the scale program. ...

Slithead identification (which slithead is installed?) will be sensed and reported by the on-board spectrograph computer. ... Observer's software to handle spectrographic observations will be written by JHU and installed on the Fermilab supplied observatory workstation. ... UW will be responsible for the slithead latch-down control. ... Database computer at APO: The observer's software will query the observatory database for information on the currently installed fiber cartridge. ...

... The following charts/text are intended as tools for monitoring the Type Ia supernovae ( SNe ) event visually or photographically (utilizing telescope equipped CCD equipment).The files include: A replication of The Type Ia SNe , V- magnitude (with data point checks from other cited references)and color index (B-V) templete (to indicate a general color-related trend of the type Ia ... I believe this might help alleviate some of the problems involving the making of acceptable amateur light curves...

Next: NOVIDAS and UVPROC II-Data Archive and Reduction System for Nobeyama Millimeter Array . ... The RATAN-600 radio telescope allows us to carry out simultaneous multi-frequency observations using wide-band radiometers. ... Using these features a flexible astronomical data processing system (FADPS), operating on different UNIX platforms, was created. ... FADPS commands may be executed directly in UNIX, in scripts, or using a special shell for our data processing system in the X-Window system. ...

... The described algorithm is suitable for measurements of complex images of stars. ... a) the zero-based number of stars in the complex (multicentric) image, . b) set of preliminary coordinates - x i , y i , for all stars, index i is number of a star, . ... i - index of a star in the complex image; . ... These parameters are calculated by a nonlinear method of a least squares.The main output parameters of this algorithm are x i , y i ; where the index i is number of a star in the multicentric image. ...