... The predictive power of current models (the so-called meteor forecasting) has given us the exact timing of the Leonid storms of 2001 and 2002 to the nearest hour and are now used to predict the arrival times of major annual showers such as the Perseids . ... Towards this goal, the Observatory has installed a sky-monitoring system, consisting of one medium angle (MA) and two wide-angle (WA) video cameras linked to software designed to detect motion. ... Bright Taurid Meteor . ... Meteors on Mars . ...

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Astronomical Data Analysis Software and Systems VII ASP Conference Series, Vol. ... OPUS­97: A Generalized Operational Pipeline System J. Rose CSC: Computer Sciences Corporation, Inc. ... OPUS is the platform on which the telemetry pipeline at the Hubble Space Telescope Science Institute is running currently. ... The OPUS platform handles communication with the OPUS black­ board; individual processes within this pipeline need have no knowledge of OPUS, of the blackboard, or of the pipeline itself. ...

This version offers .. Remote or local operation of the Santa Barbara Instrument Group SG-4 Autoguider . Automatic selection of high speed serial communication . Expose, download, and display on ds9 images taken with the device . Calibrate and autotrack on command . All-in-one standalone version . ... Recorded using XmGuider with an SBIG SG-4 on a 0.5-meter corrected Dall-Kirkham telescope at Moore Observatory. ... Last version 1.0.5 updated June 18, 2010 . ...

Lab . Main page News People . ASA . Master . Master net Homepage . ... MASTER . ... About Space Monitoring Laboratory, scientific directions, instruments, contacts . People, who work in lab . Latest news and news archive . ... ведущий инженер . ... инженер . ... All news ...

... Launch Date/Time: 1959-10-04 at 02:24:00 UTC . ... Luna 3, an automatic interplanetary station, was equipped with radio communication and telemetering systems, a television system with an automatic film processing unit, a set of scientific instruments, systems for orientation relative to the sun and moon, solar cells for electric power supply, and a temperature control system. This spacecraft was controlled by radio command from Earth. ...

... The Science Operation Department is composed of Astronomers, Telescope Instruments Operators(TIOs) and Data Handling Administrators(DHAs). ... Astronomers have proposed several methods to quantitatively measure the amount of turbulence above the telescope, which the most common ones is Differential Image Motion Monitor (DIMM). In optical testing, the Hartmann test is the common method to test the quality of optical components. ... Hartmann mask consists of 48 lenses. ...

Communications For Your Astronomy Event . Articles | ... The FCC agreed and in 1996 created the Family Radio Service (FRS) as one of the Citizens Band Radio Services. ... You are provided authority to operate a FRS unit in places where the FCC regulates radio communications as long as you use only an unmodified FCC certified FRS unit. ... Frequencies Used 462.5625-467.7125 MHz . FRS Channel Plan . ... 0.5 Watts . ... www.astronomy.net . ... dbHTML," "AstroGuide," "ASTRONOMY.NET" & "VA.NET" . ...

... 05.03.2001 . ... March 05 2001 09:00 (Moscow time) . The OC "Mir" operations scheduled for March 4 are complete. ... The OC "Mir" onboard systems were checked out and orbit radio monitoring performed during the recent communication sessions. The recent telemetry data confirmed that the complex remains pressurised, the thermal mode is normal, the onboard systems perform norminal. ... The next status report is expected on March 6, 2001. ...

... IRIG-B available for FTT Actuators and tellbacks for FTT optics (TBD) FLC FTT /NAS GUIs: Common Requirements Capability to display and operate from: ­ ­ NMT-supplied Linux computer in the MROI control room NMT-supplied laptop in UTE Display -only mode , when controlled by ISS FTT GUI (i) Control of all FTT /NA system functions, including diagnostic functions; Live display of acquisition ...

... Samara State Aerospace University Staff Belokonov Igor Vitalevich . ... Belokonov I.V. , Timbai I.A. The selection of the design parameters of the aerodynamically stabilized nanosatellite of the CubeSat standard // 3rd IAA-RACTs Conference on Scientific and Technological Experiments on Automatic Space Vehicles and Small Satellites, SPEXP 2014, 9- 11 September 2014, Samara; Russian Federation, Elsevier, 2015, P. 88-96 . ... Shakhmatov E.V. , Belokonov I.V. , Timbai I.A. and others. ... I.V. Belokonov...

Astronomy Picture of the Day . Aurora Over a Communications Tower . ... 28.09.2004 . ... Credit: Frank Andreassen (nettfoto.no) Explanation: Higher than highest communications tower , higher than highest mountain , higher than highest airplane , lies the realm of the aurora. ... Pictured above is a particularly rare purple aurora l corona that occurred on August 30, high above Harstad , Norway . ... NASA Web Site Statements, Warnings, and Disclaimers . ... Publications with keywords: aurora . ...

DIGITELTM ION PUMP CONTROLLERS DIGITELTM ION PUMP CONTROLLERS DIGITELTM ION PUMP CONTROLLERS The DIGITEL family of Ion Pump controllers of fers the right balance of per formance, power and protection. DIGITELTM SPCe | Small Pump Controller The SPCe is a versatile way to fully operate ion pumps 0.2 ­ 75 l/s. An LCD pressure/current/voltage display along with standard serial communications makes the SPCe able to accommodate the needs of basic and advanced users. ... DIGITELTM MPCe | ...

... It will automatically identify any fuzzballs in this picture. It will then randomly select one of these fuzzballs, and get a spectrum of it. ... A declination of 90 will find you a fuzzball directly overhead. ... Once you pick a region, press the "find and measure" button and your automatic telescope will search for a fuzzball near these coordinates. ... If you hit the "find and measure" button repeatedly at the same coordinates, the telescope will keep on finding new fuzzballs near this position. ...

... IONOSPHERIC DATA IN THE INTERACTIVE SPIDR SYSTEM . ... The Ionosphere The ionosphere is that part of the upper atmosphere where free electrons occur in sufficient density to have an appreciable influence on the propagation of radio frequency electromagnetic waves. ... These regions may be further divided into several regularly occurring layers, such as F1 or F2. ... E Region: The region between about 95 and 150km above the Earth that marks the height of the regular daytime E layer. ...

... Use another operation system in IOC. ... IOC components Current ifr iocs · · · CPU ­ Motorola 68060 OS ­ VxWorks Epics core software ( support for Epics database records) R3.13.6 Board Support Package (BSP) to drive VME bus Hardware device support ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ CANbus CAEN SIAM Struck scalars VSAM Suggested ifr-mon · · · · CPU ­ PowerPC OS ­ RTEMS Epics core software R3.14.6 Board Support Package for VME bus is developed at SSRL Hardware device ...

... Space flight . Crew training . ... Space camp . ... The "Odyssey" project includes all the stages of preliminary selection and pre-flight training of the inter-planetary station crew, as well as simulates a 7-day "Earth-Moon-Earth" space mission. ... Training in crews on the "MIR" space station trainers and simulators under the interplanetary "Earth-Moon-Earth" mission program, . ... A commander (carries out a general onboard control and is responsible for the crew safety and vital activity. ...

... Currently a 50MHz 486DX PCBrand personal computer, located on the fourth floor in the warm room in lab number 443C, is used to control the charge coupled devices (CCDs). ... The PC is connected to a monitor and keyboard in the warm room and another pair in the dome itself. ... An intercom system simplifies communication between the dome and the warm room. ... The second intercom in the dome is used for two way communication between the dome and the warm room. ...

... Tonight's Sky . ... SUN MOON MERCURY VENUS MARS, JUPITER SATURN . Sun . ... Observing . ... Back Issues . ... solar system . ... STEREO-A is back in full communications . NASA's solar observatory recently emerged from behind the Sun, allowing full monitoring of our star's activity to resume. ... Only registered members of Astronomy.com are allowed to comment on this article. ... Receive news, sky-event information, observing tips, and more from Astronomy's weekly email newsletter. ...

Introduction 1 Observatory Control and Astronomical Analysis System. ... OCAAS is a complete UNIX software package for the local and remote operation of an astronomical observatory. ... It controls all aspects of the telescope mount, CCD camera, filter wheel, focuser, weather instrumentation, power supply, GPS receiver, internet or phone line communications, dome and shutter hardware. ... 1.2 Main Control Features. ... OCAAS can perform an automatic focus procedure at any time under operator control. ...