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. ...

... Tracking stations will be selected in accordance with the schedule issued daily by the General Operative Control Group (GOCG) in Lavochkin Association with the gaps in operations during spacecraft contact with the control stations (CS). ... Communication frequencies (carrier): high data rate information transmission downlink from the SRT ­ 15.000 GHz; uplink synchronization ­ 7.2075 GHz; downlink synchronization ­ 8.400 GHz. ...

T he Siding Spring Survey (SSS) is a Near-Earth Object search program that utilises the 0.5-m Uppsala Schmidt Telescope at Siding Spring Observatory, N.S.W., Australia. ... The mission of the Siding Spring Survey is to contribute to the inventory of near-earth objects (NEOs), or more specifically, the potentially hazardous asteroids (PHAs) and comets (PHOs) that may pose a threat of impact and thus harm to civilization. ... Based on the CSS Mission page . ... Siding Spring Survey Main Page . ...

... Research . Projects . ... The name of the project APEX is a reduction from words " Active Plasma Experiments " . The core of the project are active experiments with injection of electron and (or) plasma beams from a board of the satellite with simultaneous registration of the phenomena, produced by interaction of injected beam with background plasma. ... Active experiments utilise modulated electron beam accelerator and source of modulated xenon plasma beam on the main spacecraft APEX. ...

The Laboratory of Electronic Kinetics ( LEK ) has powerful radio-frequency, microwave , cryogenic and high- magnetic - field sets of equipment , allowing to carry out precision phase-sensitive measurements of current and voltage in a frequency range 0-10 MHz and the microwave response of crystalline materials in cm-and mm- wavelength range in the temperature interval (0.1-300) K and in magnetic fields up to 18 T. Methodical principle of ... Magnetic field up to 18 T . ... Equipment . ...

... BIK-01 digital channels . ... MSU-E (1) . ... MSU-E ( n ) - data from MSU-E instrument (channel number in brackets). ... In modes 708...712 (when both MSU-E scanners operate simlutaneously), video information from same spectral channels of both scanners is transmitted line-interlaced in single corresponding channel of BIK-01. ... 701 - all MSU-E channels, no MSU-SK data; . 703 - all MSU-E channels, MSU-SK channels 2 and 4 (line-interlaced); . 706 - all MSU-SK channels, no MSU-E data. ...

EMI test using VXD3 R20 assembly Nick Sinev, University of Oregon Outline The problem Why we want beam test? ... What do we need for test ? Conclusion January 7, 2005 Nick Sinev, MDI workshop, SLAC 2 The problem As you already know from M.Breidenbach talk, we had observed Electromagnetic Interference (EMI) effects in VXD3 operation. ... January 7, 2005 Nick Sinev, MDI workshop, SLAC 3 Why beam ? ... January 7, 2005 Nick Sinev, MDI workshop, SLAC 12 ...

... When exposure to an elevated fall hazard cannot be prevented through such control measures as permanent or semi-permanent guarded scaffolds, platforms, walkways, or other surfaces, personal fall protection must be employed and a two-person rule will apply. ... Employees assigned to work at elevated heights are responsible for thoroughly inspecting the personal fall protection system?s anchor points, connecting means (lanyard or device), and body holding devices (harness) prior to use. ...

... 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. ...

... a utility program that enables the user to interact with the UNIX operating system. Commands entered by the user are passed by the shell to the operating system which carries them out. ... The user may select which one they wish to use. a character at the start of the command line which indicates that the shell is ready to receive your commands. ... This is assumed to be the keyboard unless input is redirected or piped from a file or another command. the destination for information from a command. ...

Winer Observatory P.O. Box 797, Sonoita, Arizona 85637-0797, USA . ... 2/3-m Telescope . ... Site . ... Roof Status . ... If you select Winer to provide the site and maintenance for your remotely-operated telescope, your telescope will be housed in the modern roll-off roof observatory seen at left. ... The building computer and most customer telescope control computers are programmed to keep logs to assist in diagnosing problems in moving the roof or telescopes, or in controlling the instruments. ...

peer address [ key key ] [ version version ] [ prefer ] . server address [ key key ] [ version version ] [ prefer ] [ mode mode ] . ... The peer command specifies that the local server is to operate in symmetric active mode with the remote server. ... The broadcast command specifies that the local server is to operate in broadcast mode, where the local server sends periodic broadcast messages to a client population at the broadcast/multicast address specified. ... Options . key key . ...

Fortran 90 properties already in CF77 . ... Only the old form (fix form) of the source code is available. ... LOGICAL Default KIND number = 8 INTEGER Default int7 int15 KIND number = 6 1 2 digits = 46 7 15 radix = 2 2 2 range = 13 2 4 huge = 70368744177663 127 32767 bit_size = 46 8 16 INTEGER int31 int46 int64 KIND number = 4 6 8 digits = 31 46 63 radix = 2 2 2 range = 9 13 18 huge = 2147483647 70368744177663 9223372036854775807 bit_size = 32 46 46 REAL half Default,single double KIND ...

Super Rocket Targets . NPO MOLNIYA has been designing rockets-targets for over 30 years using the great experience in crea-ting anti-aircraft guided rockets (AGR) for C-25M. On the basis of B-300 anti-aircraft rockets which expired their service life, there were designed, tested and put into the serial production the following types of the rocket - ... The analogue of this system successfully passed the state tests with the ZVEZDA-4 rocket-target. ...

... 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. ...

... 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, . ...

... spectrum . ... sfit . ... Briefly, these refer to the type of spectrum to be computed, the method of calculation of the source function, the number of anges if specific intensities are to be computed, the choice of continuous opacity subroutine library, the broadening data for HeI lines and the approximation ito be used for untabulated diffuse HeI lines. ... Refer to the SPECTRUM documentation for more information. spc_nsource <nsource> : Switch for method used to compute source function (def: 3) . ...

The HyperNews Linux KHG Discussion Pages . ... Keywords: scheduler overhead . ... From: Jasleen Kaur < jks@cs.utexas.edu > . Hi, I am implementing a different scheduling policy in the scheduler of Linux 2.0.0. I need to measure the time taken for choosing the next task to be scheduled, i.e., the actual time spent in the schedule() function, without the actual context switch having taken place. Since I clear interrupts in schedule(), how do I measure the time? ... Thanks, Jasleen Kaur . ...

Teaching and Educational Complex No. 1838 . for the Deaf Children (Moscow, Russia) . ... By finishing a complete course (preschool branch, younger school - 1-4 classes, senior school - 5-12 classes), children get knowledge in volume of the basic comprehensive school, get skill to perceive speech of the environmental people, and also ability to articulate speech. ... The School Museum of History of Russian Deaf-and-Dumb Pedagogy . ... Phone (voice, sorry - in Russian only): +7 (095) 199-95-59 . ...

... Geoforschungszentrum Potsdam, Aussenstelle Observatorium Niemegk, Germany Magnetic and electric fields and plasma waves are generally thought to play a significant role in various processes. ... The wave instruments included hihgly sensitive sensors for measurements of fluctuations of the plasma flow, current density, electric and magnetic fields, spacecraft potential, density and temperature of the plasma and multi-channell frequency analyzers [Klimov et al., ... Magnetic field measurements . ...