... 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. ...

Last modified: 17 April 1999 . ... V codes are for AO1 experiments W codes are for AO2 experiments VS experiment codes are VSOP Survey Observations VT Test/Calibration Observations ------------------------------------------------------------------------ EXPNO SOURCE FRQ Corr DOY DY: DATE UT RANGE #TEL TELESCOPES W088b1 J1229+02 L* Socr 105 Th:Apr-15 00:00 - 09:00 14 VLBA RO GO EB JB W077a W066a1 J0841+70 L Socr 107 Sa:Apr-17 13:00 - 00:00 8 NT BR OV SC HN TR NL KA W066b1 J0841+70 C ...

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 ...

... Tonight's Sky . ... SUN MOON MERCURY VENUS MARS, JUPITER SATURN . ... Moon . ... Observing . ... A "totally alien" world . ... This composite of false-color infrared images from Cassini reveals the exotic surface of Titan's southern hemisphere. ... Titan's dense atmosphere is opaque, but the spacecraft captured some surface details by observing the moon with infrared wavelengths that cut through the haze. ... Only registered members of Astronomy.com are allowed to comment on this article. ...

... Hour of right ascension (alpha, h), B1950.0 6. ... Degree of declination (delta, deg), B1950.0 9. ... Unsertainty in Delta(delta), arcsec --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Year alpha delta alpha delta Unsertainties N month B1950.0 B1950.0 J2000.0 J2000.0 D(alpha) D(delta) sat day h m s deg ' '' h m s deg ' '' cos(delta) with decimals arcsec arcsec --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ...

Astronomy Discussion Forums . ... Total Lunar Eclipse May 15-16 . ... Post Message | ... A total Lunar Eclipse. On the night of May 15-16 the Earth will come between the Sun and the Moon casting a shadow that will slowly cover the Moon. ... The last total Eclipse was on a day where it snowed 10? all day. ... www.astronomy.net . About Astronomy Net | ... Forum posts are Copyright their authors as specified in the heading above the post. "dbHTML," "AstroGuide," "ASTRONOMY.NET" & "VA.NET" . ...

... Home Observing Total Lunar Eclipse ? September 27, 2015 . ... This MonthтАЩs Sky тАУ September 2015 . ... Urban Lunar Eclipses . ... Beyond New York City . ... Observing Resources for Amateur Astronomers - Part 1: Beginning Observers . ... A History of the First Forty Years of the Amateur Astronomers Association . ... Amateur Astronomers Medal . ... Lunar Eclipse Observing Locations in New York City . ... 2016 Amateur Astronomers Association of New York Designed by Press Customizr Powered by . ...

We call expert systems that implement visualization of decision making procedure with the help of graphical diagrams the visual expert systems. ... Actor Prolog is a powerful instrument of rapid prototyping and programming of visual expert systems, thanks to means of visual programming and graphical user interface development automation based on the SADT diagrams. ... Note that the program has colored the "Prepare berries and fruits" and "Boil berries and fruits with sugar" blocks red. ...

... void functions . Functions and Arrays . ... NOTE: Functions can be prototyped and variables defined on the same line of code. ... Write a function ``replace'' which takes a pointer to a string as a parameter, which replaces all spaces in that string by minus signs, and delivers the number of spaces it replaced. ... Print out the following values: Lines: * The total number of lines * The total number of blank lines (Any lines consisting entirely of white space should be considered as blank lines.) ...

... In particular, members of the project regularly organize events dedicated to various interesting astronomical phenomena and events - solar and lunar eclipses, transit of Venus, etc. On November 3rd a team of astronomers will venture deep into Turkana National Park, Kenya and attempt to broadcast the magic of a total solar eclipse to the world. ... Solar eclipse . A solar eclipse occurs when the Moon passes between the Sun and Earth, and the Moon fully or partially blocks the Sun from our view. ...

... right ascension (J2000) . declination (J2000) . 5-GHz total flux density . ... Correlated flux density (Jy) vs. projected baseline length plot . ... No image is produced. A comment is given in the VLBApls paper. Other VLBI references . 2.3 and/or 8.4 GHz: VLBI images are available in the USNO Radio Reference Frame Image Database (RRFID, Fey & Charlot 2000, ApJS 128, 17) . VLBApls reference: Fomalont et al. 2000), ApJS, 131, 95-183 . VLBApls home page . ...

... Aims: Today, large ground-based instruments, like VISIR on the VLT, providing diffraction-limited (about 0.3 arcsec) images in the mid-infrared where strong PAH features appear enable us to see the flaring structure of the disks around Herbig Ae stars. Although great progress has been made in modelling the disk with radiative transfer models able to reproduce the spectral energy distribution (SED) of Herbig Ae stars, the constraints brought by images have not been yet fully exploited. ...

... Comments: 4 pages, 1 figures, appears in "Neutron Stars in Supernova Remnants" (ASP Conference Proceedings), eds P. O. Slane and B. M. Gaensler, 200 . Дается короткий обзор наблюдений остатков сверхновых на спутнике ROSAT. ... astro-ph/0208498 . ... Открытие разрешенного остатка сверхновой в M31 с борта Chandra (The Discovery of a Spatially-Resolved Supernova Remnant in M31 with Chandra) . ... Нейтронные звезды в остатках сверхновых и снаружи (Neutron Stars in Supernova Remnants and Beyond) . ...

... Mark C. Lee (Colonel, USAF, Ret.) NASA Astronaut (former) . ... EDUCATION: Graduated from Viroqua High School, Viroqua, Wisconsin, in 1970; received a bachelor of science degree in civil engineering from the U.S. Air Force Academy in 1974, and a master of science degree in mechanical engineering from Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1980. ... NASA EXPERIENCE: Lee was selected as an astronaut candidate by NASA in May 1984. ... Lee retired from NASA and the Air Force effective July 1, 2001. ...

Check out the new images (Jan 18-25) and (Jan 26-Feb 05) of the comet by Rob McNaught. ... Every few years a comet becomes bright enough to be easily seen with the naked eye but only every decade or so are these comparable with comets like Halley. ... Before Jan 13, the comet is not visible in the Australian sky after sunset. ... SOHO images . ... On Jan 12 at approximately 09:00 UT (8pm NSW time), comet C/2006 P1 McNaught appears at the 11 o'clock position in the images. ... STEREO images . ...

THE ARGUMENT AGAINST LONG EXTRAGALACTIC DISTANCE SCALE Gaseous discs of S0 -- Sd galaxies appears to be gravitationally stable or close to stability. Dependence of the gravitational stability parameter of gaseous disc $M_g/M_c$ upon the color index $(B-V)^0_T$ which reflects a relative number of young stars, is found. Here $M_g$ is total mass of gas in a galaxy, $M_c$ - mass of gas which corresponds to marginal stability of gaseous disc at distances from center. ...

... RS-232 Signals on an RJ11 Jack . ... 6-wire 6-position RJ11 (sometimes called RJ12) modular phone connectors are used for all RS-232 communications at Apache Point Observatory. ... hardware flow control transmit (optional) . ... There are two different names for the connectors we use: "6-wire 6-position RJ11" appears to be most common, but "RJ12" is, or was, also used. ... These are fine for most serial connections, but beware of special cases in which the outer pair (hardware flow control) is in...

The starting page - The catalogues page - The list of the PUL2 fields - The list of the Pul-3(Pul-3SE) fields - The list of the PUL_ERS fields . please read short description of the access form controls . ... Right Ascension (ICRF/Tycho-2) J2000 at the central epoch of obs. (hours, minutes, seconds) (Obligatory parameter) . ... proper motion in RA (*cos(DE)) (ICRF/Tycho-2). (mas/yr) . ... Check the apropriate checkbox to output these data and radiobutton to select stars within interval. ...

For the first time in Internet, Greek Lyrics from Modern Greek pop and folk music will be available, including (hopefully) their corresponding English Translations.. For the time being, the following Greek music artists will be available: Ntalaras, Glykeria, Konstantina, Alexia, Karras, Parios.. ... I hope, this Greek artists site to be a usefull source of information, for every Greek music fan. ... Comments? ... If you can help me, I'll really appreciate that.. ...

Astronotes Armagh Planetarium's Stellar Blog! ... This image combines orbital imagery with 3-D modelling to show flows that appear in spring and summer on a slope inside Mars' Newton crater. ... Warm season flows on a slope in Newton Crater, possible evidence of salty liquid water active on Mars today. Image credit: NASA) . ... Frozen water is common on and under the surface of Mars but these images are the best evidence to date for the presence of liquid water on the Martian surface today. ...