Russian SHAREABLE DATA CENTER Institute of Solar-Terrestial Physics SB RAS . ... The algorithm and appropriate program for decametric radiosignal propagation conditions prediction for paths from 500 to 9000 km have been developed at ISTP SB on the basis of normal wave method (AltyntsevaB.I,Iliyin N.V., Kurkin V.I. and others //Decameters channel simulation on the base of normal wave method . ... Solar activity indices are chosen automatically from the prediction date from the database . ...

... Spiral galaxies viewed face-on display a grand design, with graceful spiral arms traced by bright star clusters and glowing stellar nurseries. ... Space Station Shows Off New Robot Arm . ... GRO J1655 40: Evidence for a Spinning Black Hole . ... In the center of a swirling whirlpool of hot gas is likely a beast that has never been seen directly: a black hole. ... The Orion Nebula is a nuturing stellar nursery filled with hot young stars and their natal clouds of gas and dust. ...

Past Maria and Eric Muhlmann Award recipients . ... The Maria and Eric Muhlmann Award of the ASP is given annually for recent significant observational results made possible by innovative advances in astronomical instrumentation, software, or observational infrastructure. ... Nominations . ... Letters of nomination must be received in the office of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific on or before 1 January of 2013 . ... The Award . ... Submitting Nominations . ... Maria and Eric Muhlmann Award . ...

... Next, the screen displays "Press 0 to align or Mode for Menu." Press "0" if you wish to begin Automatic alignment (or Easy Align, depending on your telescope model), or press Mode if you wish to choose a manual alignment method ("Automatic Alignment" displays, and you can press MODE to go through the menu to find other alignments). ... Note: If you press the "?" key while "Ctr Brightest Star" displays, the alignment star that AutoStar has chosen will display. ... Alignment successful" displays. ...

... We publish 16 Doppler imaging temperature maps for the years 1994-2002 of the active RS CVn star II Peg. ... Through Doppler imaging we want to study the spot evolution of the star and in particular compare this with previous results showing a cyclic spot behaviour and persistent active longitudes. ... The derived temperature maps are quite similar to the ones obtained earlier with a different methods, the main differences occurring in the spot latitudes and relative strength of the spot structures....

... Print list Prints the contents of the the drop-down list. ... Add sources Allows user to select new sources from the image by positioning the cursor over the source and clicking the left mouse-button. ... The button is disabled if the source-list is not empty- The source-list can be deleted using the Delete list button, allowing omdetect to be run. photometry Displays the window for performing aperture photometry on the selected source. ... Delete Deletes the currently selected source from the list....

... Previous: SDImager: An Imaging Tool for Single Dish Observations in AIPS++ . ... We present a short description and update of the single dish analysis environment in AIPS++, called DISH. ... DISH and AIPS++ are the primary analysis tools for data from the Green Bank Telescope and are also in use at several other observatories. ... DISH is a collection of Glish scripts and clients which provide an environment within AIPS++ intended to be used for single dish radioastronomy data analysis. ... Data...

Astronotes Armagh Planetarium's Stellar Blog! ... Space Flight . ... Earth Satellites . ... Leonid meteors seen from 13 km altitude aboard an aircraft during the 1999 Leonids Multi-Instrument Aircraft Campaign (Leonid-MAC). Comet Tempel-Tuttle provides the cometary debris for the Leonid meteor shower. ... Every 17-19 November Earth crosses Tempel-TuttleтАЩs orbit and the Leonids become visible. With clear, dark skies observers may see 10 to 15 Leonid meteors every hour on those mornings. ...

... Perform a search for the words 'database' or 'query'. ... SELECT *, headline(line, to_tsquery('database | query')), rank(ts_vec, to_tsquery('database | ... query') ORDER BY rank(ts_vec, to_tsquery('database | ... 44 line | documents could be stored in file system), database and query engine. ts_vec | ... documents could be stored in file system), database and query engine. rank | ... tsearch2 as a storage, while database engine is used as a query executor ts_vec | ...

RTT150 . ... This search system is designed for generating the necessary information on series of pointings (observations of each source consist of sets of exposures with different filters and sometimes with different exposure times) for observed sources. Search results appear at the separate page as a table with the following data: . DATE - real (not evening!) observations date (in YYYY-MM-DD format); . ... Bin - minimal CCD binning mode (may vary during the observations); . ...

SOME RESULTS FROM INTMINS . The experiment can be performed when the electron beam (instrument ISTOCHNIK ) and plasma blobs (instrument ARIEL ) are injected approximately along or perpendicular to the Earth's magnetic field. ... The pulses of frequency of 1000 Hz will generate EM waves and its harmonics. ... To increase the electron gun pulse duration up to D t = 0.5 f -1 ( D t = 5x10 -4 s) and to stabilise their frequency as good as possible. ... Back to the INTMINS Main Page ...

Solar Large-Scale Chains: Some Events . ... The chains appear to light up separators or quasi-separatrix layers between different interacting large-scale magnetic flux systems in the global solar magnetosphere and, in particular, to outline large-scale coronal structures involved in the CME process. ... Some features of the chains and their relations to CMEs are illustrated for a number of halo CME-associated events. 23 events of 1997-2000 . ... Halo-CME-associated events of November 1997 . ...

Reciprocity relation in checking calculations of the optical properties of non-spherical particles V.G. Farafonov St.Petersburg University of Aerocosmic Instrumentation, St.Petersburg, 190000, Russia and V.B.Il'in Astronomical Institute, St.Petersburg University St.Petersburg, 198504, Russia ABSTRACT There are many methods to solve the problem of light scattering by non-spherical particles , but only the separation of variables method ( ... Michel B., Farafonov V.G. (2000) J. Quant. ...

... It adds together the first two of these numbers. If the result is greater than the # third number, it prints all three numbers out (to a file called results.d) # Otherwise it prints out a rude message # First , open the files inhandle = open ('data.d', 'r') outhandle = open ('results.d', 'w') # Now loop through all the lines in the input. for line in inhandle: allarray = line .split() # Split the line you've just read in into its component bits n1 = float ( ...

An Actor Prolog program may consist of concurrent processes. ... The processes and messages in Actor Prolog are designated very simply. ... We shall use this process as an elementary brick during explanation of information transmission mechanisms between processes in Actor Prolog . ... The # constant is used in Actor Prolog as an initial value of processes common variables and for other auxiliary purposes. ... For sending switching direct messages the " <- " infix is used in Actor Prolog . ...

DIS Slitviewer for Beginners: Basic Usage Information . ... DIS Slitviewer User's Manual . ... The Apogee slit viewing camera is made by Apogee Instruments and uses an 512x512 thinned, back-side illuminated SITe CCD for imaging the DIS slit. ... Once you take your first exposure, a display window will appear with the image. ... DISPLAY/-DISPLAY . ... The first time an image is taken, the program opens an Image Display window on the console, and loads a color map as well as displaying the image. ...

The Apache HTTP Server provides a mechanism for storing information in named variables that are called environment variables . ... For additional flexibility, the directives provided by mod_setenvif allow environment variables to be set on a per-request basis, conditional on characteristics of particular requests. ... As discussed above, the environment passed to CGI scripts includes standard meta-information about the request in addition to any variables set within the Apache configuration. ...

As an obligatory preparing for the application to participate in the IAO a short report of National Olympiad of the current year with a set of all problems used on the Olympiad has to be presented by the applicating team. ... The final minutes (protocols written in Latin or Cyrillic in form of tables) of the Olympiad (evaluating of solutions of the students participated in the last stage of the Olympiad) should be included as well. ... Historical data of the National Astronomy Olympiad: . ...

... The obtained results lead to the following conclusions: a) the heavy element enrichment had taken place in the Galaxy in a few bursts of its activity rether than in a continuons manner; b) these bursts occured during the callapse of the early Galaxy; c) the star formation had been inhibited in the time of the bursts; d) the metal enrichment did not proceed in the periods of star formation, between these bursts of activity. ...

... VaST is a software tool for finding variable objects on a series of astronomical images. ... VaST performs object detection and aperture photometry using SExtractor on each image, cross-matches lists of detected stars, performs magnitude calibration with respect to the first (reference) image and constructs a lightcurve for each object. ... VaST FITS image viewer ./pgfv . ... Part I" PZP, vol. ... K. V. Sokolovsky, S. A. Korotkiy; "New Variable Stars Discovered by the NMW Survey" PZP, vol. ...