LonGSp is a near-infrared grating spectrometer, designed for the 1.5 m Italian Infrared Telescope T.I.R.GO. ... The sky-projected pixel size along the slit is 1.73" and the maximum slit length is about 70., this means that only a 40 pixels stripe of the array is used. ... Read-out and control electonics are the same of ArNICa , based on the IRL System 2 developed by Infrared Laboratories (Tucson - AZ), with the necessary alteration to control slits and grating and for handling spectroscopic data. ...

... Recent Topics . ... MAO main . ... Division Steering Committee elections: first results . ... Тема: Division Steering Committee elections: first results . ... To: All IAU members . ... As planned, I?m communicating to you the first results of the Division Steering Committee elections. ... Division A: . April 17th Election: Membership: 1240 Votes - President/VP Election: 370 (29.8 %) . ... June 26th Election: Membership: 1237 Votes - SC members: 364 (29.4 %) . ... MAO NASU . ...

UFO Forum Message . Forums: . ... Antigravitational Experiment Results . ... When we talk about UFOs, a topic that can't be ignored is antigravitation, which should be studied through experiments. Luckily, the experiments can be made at home, and the results are as follows. ... 6. the antigravitation induced refractive index . ... www.astronomy.net . ... Forum posts are Copyright their authors as specified in the heading above the post. "dbHTML," "AstroGuide," "ASTRONOMY.NET" & "VA.NET" . ...

. English . Russian KOI8 . Current server sed.sao.ru . Dissertation of Doctor of Sciences degree ( close to German Habilitation ) . A time to cast away stones, . and a time to gather stones together . Ecclesiastes, Ch. 3 ; 5 . Full gzipped PostScript version (in Russian) is here (2005), autoreferat (short thesis in Russian) is here . Main results of dissertation work . Continue...

In Actor Prolog a resident is a special mechanism that helps processes to inspect state of other processes. A resident observes the state of a specified (target) process and if the state of the process changes (for instance, after message handling) it proves a specified predicate of the process. ... Work of the resident. ... Any change of the list of target processes or arguments of resident function results in activation of the resident and repeated collection of information in the target worlds. ...

... The perceptron structure, on the basis of which the database is built, is defined by a number of the input and output parameters and a required accuracy. ... The output perceptron data are the expansion coefficients of the scattering matrix elements in series of the generalized spherical functions. ... As the cluster structure depends on the generation conditions the expansion coefficients were averaged over 5--7 realizations of the clusters (for N . ... is the coefficient number. ...

... The Armagh Observatory web-sites now include a substantial amount of weather and related meteorological information. ... The Observatory web-site is also increasingly making available the results of astronomical observations carried out at Armagh, for example images of meteorological or space-weather events such as aurorae (see star.arm.ac.uk/images/aurora-2003-Oct/ ), and of transient astronomical events such as occultations, eclipses and transits. ...

The following programs are simple support programs included with the Apache HTTP Server which do not have their own manual pages. ... It connects to the server and downloads the status information. It reformats the information to a single line and logs it to a file. ... This Perl script will take a combined Web server access log file and break its contents into separate files. ... The combined log file is read from stdin. Records read will be appended to any existing log files. ...

... Tonight's Sky . ... SUN MOON MERCURY VENUS MARS, JUPITER SATURN . ... Venus . ... Sky this Month . ... Astronomy for Kids . ... Is the incredibly slow rotation of Venus a result of a geologic cataclysm? ... It appears unlikely that resurfacing, if it occurred, led to the slow rotation rate of Venus, but it certainly may have caused some changes to the speed. ... Get instant access to subscriber content on Astronomy.com! ... If you are already registered on Astronomy.com, please log in below. ...

... 17.1 New features . ... Pure procedures . ... A function NULL to nullify a pointer . ... Complete version of END INTERFACE Pure functions are functions without side effects, and elemental functions are pure functions with only scalar arguments and with scalar result. ... Elemental functions are pure functions with only scalar dummy arguments (not pointers or procedures) and with scalar result (not pointer). That a function is elemental can be indicated with the new ELEMENTAL prefix. ...

SAI VO . ... SAI CAS . ... Access . ... We present the results of the development of Sternberg Astronomical Institute Catalog Access Services (SAI CAS) project - the first and the only project in Russia, which provides online access to the major astronomical catalogues and different services on top of them. ... SAI CAS is an open-source implementation of the general Catalogue access service (influenced by SDSS CAS CASjobs project), based on original algorithms and open-source software. ... SAI MSU | ...