... Armagh Observatory, College Hill, Armagh BT61 9DG, +44 (0)28 3752 2928 . ... European Space Agency, ESTEC, The Netherlands . Thursday 1st April 2004 . ... MARS Express is the European Space Agency's first Planetary Mission and the first Flexi-mission, executed under tight schedule and demanding financial conditions. Built and launched within five years and with a fixed launch date, Mars Express successfully completed its seven month journey to Mars on Christmas day. ...

... The SAO ( Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory ) Summer Intern Program is a Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU) program where students work on astrophysics research with an SAO/Harvard scientist. ... On-line Application Form -- is OPEN for the 2016 SAO Summer Intern Program . ... SAO Summer Intern Program . ... Recent SAO Summer Intern Program Events . ... June 2015 . ... For more information about the SAO Summer Intern Program and other programs/opportunitities that may be of interest: ....

... The software systems are described following the forward and back­ ward data flow to/from the satellite: starting from the Observation Pro­ posal reception and archiving, the long term observation scheduling up to the detailed weekly planning and telecommands sequence uplinking, and vice versa the scientific and housekeeping raw telemetry acquisition and archiving, quick look data analysis, data reformatting and distribution as a Final Observation Tape to the Observation Proposal PI. ...

... CHECK/ROMAFOT cat_tab reg_tab err_mag . ... This is accomplished by comparing the instrumental magnitudes and positions (recorded in the catalogue file generated by ADDSTAR/ROMAFOT ) with that derived through the complete procedure and recorded in the output table. ... In addition, CHECK/ROMAFOT modifies in the catalogue table the positions setting flag to 1 for the objects that have been recovered, while this flag remains set to 0 for the undetected ones. ... Tue Mar 28 16:52:29 MET DST 1995 ...

... Comments, Opinions Publications Dnepr Program . Dnepr launch record 17 August 2011. Cluster Launch of Dnepr LV 22 August 2013 KOMPSAT-5 Launch 21 November 2013. Dnepr Cluster Mission 2013 19 June 2014. Dnepr Cluster Mission 2014 6 November 2014. ... Mission profile SHM configuration Reliability Dnepr LV Performance Launch Sites . Baikonur Cosmodrome Yasny launch base Downloads . ... Preparations for the Dnepr-DubaiSat-1 launch are well progressing at Baikonur Cosmodrome. ...

... MOUSER Over View . The design of a new generation fast spectrograph MOUSER (Multi Object Universal Spectrograph for Extragalactic Research) to be installed at the 6 m telescope is proposed. ... photometric observations in broad and narrow spectral bands with a 6'x6' field of view and an image scale of 0".30/pixel; . ... The spectrograph is to be installed on the field rotator of the 6 m telescope prime focus without a standard field corrector. ... Back to Laboratory Home Page . ...

Operating Instructions Starlock PEC Utility Tool For use with Meade Starlock Equipped Telescopes Only PEC Utility The PEC Utility Tool allows you greater control over the Periodic Error Correction functions of your Starlock equipped telescope. ... Sharpening: The sharpening function makes the error corrections determined by Starlock be applied more aggressively while chasing small variations in the tracking. ... Sharpening, on the other hand, tends to increase the magnitude of the corrections applied. ...

The VIRGO project is a physics experiment; its aim is the detection of gravitational waves. ... It has not yet been possible to detect directly the gravitational waves: it remains one of the major challenges of experimental physics. ... Interferometric antennas for gravitational waves Gravitational waves distort space-time: along two perpendicular directions, the distances between fixed points will increase (resp. decrease), at the arrival of a gravitational wave. ... Publications from our Group . ...

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Astronotes Armagh Planetarium's Stellar Blog! ... Armagh Planetarium . Colin Johnston . ... Telescopes and Observatories . ... January . ... By admin February 20, 2013 Posted in: Armagh Planetarium . ... M42, the Great Nebula in Orion, imaged through Armagh Planetarium?s telescope in January 2013. ... Image credit: Colin Johnston/Armagh Planetarium) . ... M31, the Andromeda Galaxy, imaged with the new telescope in January 2013. ... Armagh Planetarium?s new telescope in action in January 2013. ...

... A new space VLBI user support software development is going on at the Satellite Geodetic Observatory (Penc, Hungary). ... The Space VLBI Assistance Software (SPAS) is being developed since 1993. ... Assistance software development in Hungary . ... First results . ... Adopting the conclusions of the tests and inter-comparisons we decided to develop a completely new version of Hungarian Space VLBI Assistance Software (abbreviated as SPAS) instead of modifying the prototype ( Noszticzius (1993) ). ...

Filename completion is only available if the the environment variables EDITOR and/or VISUAL are set to either emacs , gmacs or vi . For example: EDITOR=emacs . ... To complete a file or directory name with emacs or gmacs set press the ESC key twice. ls -l on<ESC><ESC> line_help . If the filename is not completed enter more characters until the filename can be uniquely identified. ... To complete a file or directory name with vi set press the \ (backward slash) key. ls -l on\ line_help . ...

... Donate to Support Science Literacy . ... 2016 Annual Awards . The ASP is accepting nominations for the organizationтАЩs national annual awards which recognize special achievements in astronomy research, technology, education, and public outreach. ... Shop the AstroShop . ... The Astronomical Society of the Pacific (ASP) is accepting nominations for the organizationтАЩs national annual awards which recognize special achievements in astronomy research, technology, education, and public outreach.. ...

... Copyrightї1997 Bob Yen (byen@ix.netcom.com) (http://www.comet-track.com/hb/hb.html) . ... Information on Comet Hale-Bopp for the Non-Astronomer Hale-Bopp rotates about twice a day (3/14/97) . ... The Comet Observation Home Page was been selected to receive the Griffith Observatory Star Award for the week of February 2 - 8, 1997 for excellence in promoting astronomy to the public through the World Wide Web. ... Typically, about 1,000 individual users/computers access this page every day. ...

... Tonight's Sky . ... We test Denkmeier's 3-D eyepieces . ... Discovery 's launch will be scheduled for no earlier than February 3 . ... NASA managers have targeted space shuttle Discovery 's launch for no earlier than February 3, 2011, at 1:34 a.m. EST. ... Because of Discovery 's delayed launch, the earliest opportunity for the liftoff of the final scheduled shuttle mission, STS-134 on Endeavour , is April 1, 2011. ... Only registered members of Astronomy.com are allowed to comment on this article. ...

mirroring wdcmirror ( ftp.wdc.com :/ drivers / hdutil ) completed successfully @ Thu Feb 27 00:45:37 MSK 1997 mirroring wdcmirror ( ftp.wdc.com :/ drivers / hdutil ) completed successfully @ Sun Mar 16 16:18:45 MSK 1997 Got INDEX.TXT 1613 Got allstar.exe 220223 Got wdatide.exe 72687 Got wd_diag.exe 60960 Got wd_clear.exe 54968 Got coretst.exe 33949 ...

Since the days of Sputnik and Explorer 1, thousands of spacecraft have gone into space, some of them carrying human passengers. The first person to orbit the Earth was the Russian Yuri Gagarin, on April 12, 1961. The first American to do so was John Glenn, who completed three orbits on February 20, 1962; more than 26 years later, at age 77, Glenn returned to space aboard the space shuttle. ... in orbit. ... Manned satellites include various " space stations " intended for long-term residence. ...

Maxim KAZARYAN (Steklov Institute and IUM, Moscow): Hodge integrals and the tautological ring of the moduli space of curves . The cohomology ring of the (compactified) moduli spaces of algebraic curves has extremely complicated structure and there is no hope to get its complete description. It happens, however, that cohomology classes which are interesting from the point of view of applications form a relatively small subring of the whole cohomology ring and its description is much simpler. ...

Domes Forum Message . ... Domes and Observatories Discussion | Post . ... A.S.I.G.N. Observatory (Barry's Home-made Observatory) . ... Post Message | ... I have also had a professional re-design on the website, so now it looks better and is NOT located at the old barry's home-made observatory (iinet.net) link. It has been re-named A.S.I.G.N Observatory. ... Forum posts are Copyright their authors as specified in the heading above the post. "dbHTML," "AstroGuide," "ASTRONOMY.NET" & "VA.NET" . ...

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. ...