... Iowa Robotic Telescope | ... Talon is based on OCAAS, a software suite developed by software engineer Elwood Downey ( Clear Sky Institute ) for use at the University of Iowa ?s first remote facility (the ATF, or Automated Telescope Facility). ... XObservatory : Telescope Control Interface . ... This program calls upon and coordinates much of the interrelated portions of the Talon architecture, and forms the primary control panel for the telescope, dome, and peripheral systems when used locally. ...

Organization of the Data Processing in the Interball Project. ... Interball Data Archive contains data produced during Interball mission: raw data, data files produced by express-analysys and preprocessing systems, orbit and attitude data files, key physical parameters, Magion-4,5 subsatellites data files and other types of data. Express-analysys data is available for Interball participants within 1 day after telemetry session, level 1 processed data - within 2 weeks. ... Attitude data files . ...

... Exposure Time Calculator (ETC) . Survey processing . ... VISTA is a 4-m class wide field survey telescope for the southern hemisphere, equipped with a near infrared camera (1.65 degree diameter field of view at VISTA's nominal pixel size) containing 67 million pixels of mean size 0.34 arcsec and available broad band filters at Z,Y,J,H,K s and a narrow band filter at 1.18 micron. A wide field visible camera, if constructed, could also be used on VISTA. ... Tile . ... ESO VISTA Public Surveys . ...

RADIOASTROPHYSICAL DEPARTMENT • INSTITUTE OF SOLAR-TERRESTRIAL PHYSICS RAS SB . ... SSRT - Receiving systems . The SSRT has two independent receiving systems for recording solar observational data, and several ancillary receivers for checking, setting up and adjusting the instrument. The base receiving systen is a multichannel filter receiver for a simultaneous recording in 180 channels with the 500 kHz band each, adjusted at steps of about 600 kHz. ... Channel's band . ...

Peremennye Zvezdy", . ... 11, N 9 (2011) . ... Min . ... min . Comm. 1 . ... MinII = 18.60. ... A very close pair of a faint variable and a brighter neighbouring star (USNO-B1.0 1272-0434523). ... During observations of a poorly studied cataclysmic variable RX J1951.7+3716 (Zubareva Antipin 2011), we discovered four new eclipsing variable stars in close vicinity of the variable. ... To search for new variable stars, we used C-Munipack and VaST (Sokolovsky Lebedev 2005) software. ...

This module provides information on server activity and performance. ... Compatibility: Available in Apache 1.1 and later. ... ExtendedStatus To enable status reports only for browsers from the foo.com domain add this code to your httpd.conf configuration file <Location /server-status> SetHandler server-status Order Deny,Allow Deny from all Allow from .foo.com </Location> . ... A machine-readable version of the status file is available by accessing the page http://your.server.name/server-status?auto . ...

... Filters and SPIcam's Filter Wheel . Mounting filters in SPIcam's Filter Wheel . Updating the filters.txt file . ... note which filters are in which slot, so you can update the filter file (next) Updating the filters.txt file . ... edit the [filters#.txt] file that corresponds to the wheel which you changed. (e.g. filters3.txt for wheel #3) . ... if this filter wheel was installed in SPIcam, replace the [filters.txt] file with the contents of the file you just updated: . ...

... will give a .\" real vertical bar. C+ will give a nicer C++. ... For example: .PP .Vb 4 \& XPA xpa1 gs 838e2f67:1262 eric \& XPA xpa2 gs 838e2f67:1266 eric \& XPA xpa1 gs 838e2f67:2523 john \& XPA xpa2 gs 838e2f67:2527 john .Ve .PP Here the users \*(L"eric\*(R" and \*(L"john\*(R" both have registered the access points xpa1 and xpa2. When either \*(L"john\*(R" or \*(L"eric\*(R" retrieves information from xpa1, they will process only the access point registered in their user name. ...

... Since 2011 our observatory is a member of GLORIA (GLObal Robotic telescopes Intelligent Array for e-Science) project - wide international collaboration of 13 scientific institutions from 8 countries aiming at opening public access to robotic telescopes, as well as propagating astronomy in general. The GLORIA Project offers Internet users the possibility of studying the sky from professional observatories. ... The experiments are available at the users site of GLORIA. ... About GLORIA . ...

SAI 175 anniversary . ... Moscow University . Search for in SAI Moscow University Search for in Russian astronomical resources . ... SAI Astronomical Databases . ... Browse SAI Software archive(ftp.sai.msu.su) . ASTRONET.RU - Russian Astronomical Network (available in translit also) . ... SAI Supernovae Research Group . ... Department of the Galaxy and Variable Stars (in Russian) . Sternberg Astronomical Institute Seminars . ... All-Russian Astronomical Olympiad (in Russian) . ...

... Contact Us . ... Planetarium Staff . ... Armagh Goes Digital . ... тАв Disabled parking available in close proximity to the building . ... тАв Ramp access to all parts of the ground floor of the main building . тАв A lift at the front of the building allows access to the first floor and the Digital Theatre . ... тАв Two unisex, wheelchair accessible toilets in the building, one on the ground floor and one on the first floor . ... Front entrance of Armagh Planetarium . ... 2009 ARMAGH PLANETARIUM . ...

Helpful information for users of the UNIX operating system, developed at the University of Edinburgh from work funded by the ITTI . ... UNIXhelp is mirrored around the world and freely available for local installation. ... Working with files and directories . Managing your working environment . Controlling access to your files and directories . ... Editing text files . ... Using UNIX commands . ... UNIX commands for VMS users . UNIX commands for DOS users . ... The UNIX file system . ...

... available from http://www.vsop.isas.ac.jp/ops/VSOG_doc.html . draft dated 1 July 1996. ... dated 12 March 1996. ... version 2.0, dated 14 Dec 96. ... version 2.0, dated 19 Feb 1996. ... version 1.0, dated 11 October 1996. ... version 3.0, dated 10 April 1996. ... version 1.1, dated 30 July 1996. ... version 1.10, dated 13 Nov 1996. ... version 1.0, dated 05 Sep 1997. available from http://www.vsop.isas.ac.jp/ops/VSOG_doc.html . ... draft version dated 27 November 1996. back to top . ...

... They worked out that first magnitude was on average 100 times brighter than the 6th magnitude star. ... This formed an equation of apparent magnitude Mv which is: Mv = -2.5 log f + constant were f is the flux of that star f = ( counts/ exposure) The images that we worked on were taken by the Polar Bear Telescope. ... One of these being that it will be combined with standard stars, which will be used to identify the area of stars and to also help identify other stars within the image. ...

NAUTICAL ASTRONOMICAL ALMANAC for 2005-2006 (in Russian) . ... The Institute of Applied Astronomy of the Russian Academy of Sciences submits the next issue of тАЬThe Nautical Astronomical Almanac for the years 2005-2006тАЭ (NAA-2) biennial. NAA-2 is based on тАЬ The Nautical Astronomical Yearbook тАЭ (NAY) also prepared by IAA RAS. ... The structure of тАЬThe Nautical Astronomical Almanac for the years 2005-2006тАЭ has not undergone essential changes in comparison with the previous issue of NAA-2. ...

... 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. ...

Check out the new images (Jan 18-25) and (Jan 26-Feb 05) of the comet by Rob McNaught. ... Every few years a comet becomes bright enough to be easily seen with the naked eye but only every decade or so are these comparable with comets like Halley. ... Before Jan 13, the comet is not visible in the Australian sky after sunset. ... SOHO images . ... On Jan 12 at approximately 09:00 UT (8pm NSW time), comet C/2006 P1 McNaught appears at the 11 o'clock position in the images. ... STEREO images . ...

... Its perihelion would occur on April 1, 1997, at which point the comet would be only 0.92 astronomical units from the Sun, just within the orbit of Earth. ... Taken in April 1993, the photo showed the comet over 13 astronomical units from the Sun, well beyond the orbit of Saturn. ... Hale, as in Comet Hale-Bopp, has written a book, Everybody's Comet (available through the ASP Catalog) and coordinated an Internet project, "Hale-Bopp: Live in the American Classroom." ... Anatomy of a comet. ...

SITE 2010 Comprehensive Characterization of Astronomical Sites Kislovodsk, Russia, 49 October 2010 Conference Summary Marc S. Sarazin*a a European Southern Observatory, Garching, Germany Abstract The main topics discussed during the Site 2010 conference are outlined and the outcome is described. Keywords: Astronomical Site testing, precipitable water vapor, atmospheric turbulence, cloudiness, seeing 1. ... Site surveys for National observatory projects in China, India, and Iran benefit from this. ...

... Mark C. Lee (Colonel, USAF, Ret.) NASA Astronaut (former) . ... EDUCATION: Graduated from Viroqua High School, Viroqua, Wisconsin, in 1970; received a bachelor of science degree in civil engineering from the U.S. Air Force Academy in 1974, and a master of science degree in mechanical engineering from Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1980. ... NASA EXPERIENCE: Lee was selected as an astronaut candidate by NASA in May 1984. ... Lee retired from NASA and the Air Force effective July 1, 2001. ...