... Once "point" is read, assumes all the following x,y coordinates are points. ... Program asc2dxf c reads set of x,y coordinates and writes a .dxf file for aperture plate. character*4 xop1,xop2 character*12 outfile 1 format ( 1h0 /7hSECTION/1h2/8hENTITIES/ 1h0 ) 2 format (6hCIRCLE/1h8/1h1/2h62/1h3) 3 format (4hLINE/1h8/1h1/2h62/1h3) 4 format (5hPOINT/1h8/1h1/2h62/1h3) 5 format (2h10/5h43.00/2h20/5h43.00/2h30/5h0.000/2h40/5h43.00/ 1h0 ) 6 format (2h10,/,f6.3,/,2h20,/,f6.3,/,2h30/5h0.000) 7 ...

Next: THE SCHED INPUT FILES Up: INFORMATION AND ADVICE ON Previous: Configuration Studies Contents . ... The NAIF software package from JPL is called to read the spice files and calculate positions. The NAIF software significantly increases the size of a SCHED distribution, and the satellite tracking capability is unlikely to be needed outside the AOC. ... To use the tracking capability, a Satellite Initialization section needs to be included in the main input file. ...

... How big are the Lagrangian points? I hear of telescopes orbiting at a certain Lagrangian point, but for these crafts to not interfere with one another, aren't these points more like "Lagrangian areas"? ... RELATED TOPICS: LAGRANGIAN POINTS . ... When you hear about a spacecraft orbiting at a certain Lagrangian point, it really means the probe is traveling within or near one of these extended, three-dimensional islands of orbits. ... Get instant access to subscriber content on Astronomy.com! ...

... ESO, the European Southern Observatory . ... Travel and Contacts . Travel to ESO Headquarters . ... ESO . ... Survey Telescopes . ... ESO Supernova . ... Star Clusters . ... Stars@ESO . ... ESO 3.6-metre telescope . ... MPG/ESO 2.2-metre telescope . ... ESO 1-metre Schmidt telescope . ... Future Projects . ... This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image shows the positions of the past, present and predicted future appearances of the Refsdal supernova behind the galaxy cluster€а MACS J1149+2223 . ...

... Laboratory and theoretical modelling of the UV bump on the interstellar extinction curve is a very popular topic in dusty investigations. ... feature is illustrated by Fig. 10 where the profiles were calculated using the model of graphite spheres. Figure 10: Normalized extinction efficiencies for graphite spheres. ... The lower panel shows the summary extinction of two graphite spheres with radii and (from upper panel) taken in equal proportions. ...

Introduction The suggested invention relates to attitude control system of a spacecraft. ... Systems without interaction with ambient (Systems with jet engines) Here, for instance, we can put systems, which can generate torque because of jettisoning any particles or gas. ... The main element of the suggested attitude control system is an electrical motor, which main feature is absents of a stator. ... 3 Block diagram of an attitude control system on a jet engines base. ... It is a system with| | ...

Next: Imaging Polarimetry with NICMOS Up: NICMOS Data Calibration and Previous: The Photometric Performance of . ... NICMOSlook and Calnic C . ... Extracting spectra from a large number of NICMOS grism images requires a convenient interactive tool which allows a user to manipulate direct/grism image pairs. ... NICMOSlook and Calnic-C are two programs that were designed to take advantage of the fact that the NICMOS grism mode typically consists of taking both a direct and a grism image. ...

GRANAT is the Russian x-ray sattelite launched to the high apogee orbit (200,000 km) and operated almost for 10 years (1989 -1999) , carrying out four major instruments: French SIGMA coded-mask hard x-ray telescope (30-1000 keV), Soviet ART-P coded-mask telescope (2??-60?? keV), all-sky monitor WATCH (6-150 keV), and a gamma-burst detector PHEBUS . ... Since September 1994, GRANAT is in the survey mode. ... Explore pages devoted to individual GRANAT instruments (including main scientific results): . ...

... 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. ...

You can also sort on a specific part of a field if necessary. To define which part of a field to sort on you give the position in the field at which to start the sort followed by the position in the field at which to end the sort. The position at which to start the sort is given as the number of fields to skip followed by the number of characters to skip. ... tells sort to skip the first two fields and the first three characters of field 3. ...

... Kernel . ... This article is part of the LWN Porting Drivers to 2.6 series . ... In fact, there are only about a dozen atomic kmap slots available on each processor (the actual number is architecture-dependent), and users of atomic kmaps must specify which slot to use. ... void *kmap_atomic(struct page *page, enum km_type type); . The return value is a kernel virtual address which may be used to address the given page. kmap_atomic() will always succeed, since the slot to use has been given to it. ...

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... Telescopes . ... The LX850 combines innovative concepts like StarlockтДв fulltime automatic guiding and high-precision pointing, f/8 ACF OTAs with internal Crayford-style two-speed focuser and a portable precision German equatorial mount. ... Superb optical performance coupled with time proven computerized pointing and tracking has made the LX200 ACF series a best-seller in the high-performance telescope class. ... Meade Green Laser Pointer- a great item for star parties and backyard astronomy. ...

... Ж.Ф. Родионова, А.А.Карлов, Т.П. Скобелева и др. ... Sternberg State Astronomical Institute, 119899, Moscow, Russia; jeanna@sai.msu ru. ... Moscow State University, Vorobjovy Gory, 119899, Moscow, Russia. Brown University - Vernadsky Institute Microsymposium 34, October 8-9, 2001, Moscow, Russia . ... Rodionova J1., ... Sternberg State Astronomical Institute, Moscow University, jeanna@sai.msu.ru . ... 1 Sternberg State Astronomical Institute Lomonosov Moscow University, Russia; marss8@mail.ru . ...

Russian Academy of Sciences Pulkovo Observatory On systematic and stochastic errors of radio source position catalogues Zinovy Malkin Pulkovo Observatory and St. Petersburg State University malkin@gao.spb.ru JournИes 2013, Paris, France, September 2013 Topics to discuss The following topics related to the radio source position catalogues are considered: 1. ... A new approach to assess the external stochastic errors of radio source position catalogues has been presented. ...

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VOSKHOD SC FLIGHTS . Voskhod SC Flights . ... flight . Flight . ... Flight specific features . ... min. Voskhod . ... Voskhod-2 SC main specific feature is the availability of a soft-type airlock to provide cosmonaut egress into open space without spacecraft depressurization. ... He stayed outside SC for 20 min., outside the airlock in space for 12 min. 9 s. The maximum distance from the airlock was 5 m. Flights of Voskhod unmanned SC . ... Official WEB-site of S.P.Korolev RSC Energia . ...

. Mars is "behind" the sun from the earth's point of view and is therefore not visible in the nighttime sky (i.e. its up in the daytime). Venus it at greatest elongation and appears in the western sky as a bright object for 2-3 hours after sunset .

Электронная библиотека астронома-любителя. ... архив RSN . ... Апрель 1998 . ... Дата: 10 апреля 1998 (1998-04-10) От: Alexander Bondugin Тема: Galileo Update - April 9, 1998 Привет всем! ... Дата: 10 апреля 1998 (1998-04-10) От: Alexander Bondugin Тема: Mars Global Surveyor Update - April 9, 1998 Привет всем! ... The feature known as the "Face on Mars" in the Cydonia region was imaged quite successfully on April 5th and its image was released in raw form and in an enhanced form on April 6th. ...

The 24-inch (0.6-meter) Ritchie-Chretien research telescope was manufactured by RC Optical Systems and installed in August 2006. ... Spacers are used to put the camera or other instruments at the proper position, and an encoded focus motor moves the focal plane 5 microns per encoder count. ... The telescope uses an Apogee U16M CCD camera with a 4096x4096 array of 9 micron pixels which oversample the seeing and permit very accurate photometry and imaging over a wide dynamic range. ...