The ASSIST implements a uniform graphical interface to software and information for the X Window System. ... 1996, E. Mandel and M. S. Ackerman, The ASSIST: Unified Management of Public and Private Information , published in Astronomical Data Analysis Software and Systems V (ed. George H. Jacoby and Jeannette Barnes) . 1996, E. Mandel and M. S. Ackerman, The ASSIST: Bringing Software and Information Together for Scientists , published in Science Information Systems Newsletter, issue 13 ) ...

... ISC Kosmotras . ... Dnepr launch record 17 August 2011. ... A Ministerial Committee (hereinafter the Committee) chaired by a member of the Russian Academy of Sciences Nikolay A. Anfimov has been set up by the state authorities of Russia to investigate the cause of the Dnepr LV mission failure. ... The conclusions made by the Committee were delivered to the State Committees of Russia and Kazakhstan established with the aim to investigate the Dnepr launch failure consequences. ... Mission profile . ...

... Image Quality of the VLT . Total Optical Control . First light for the ESO VLT unit telescope 1 occurred during the workshop. ... The image shown (Figure 1 ) here was obtained with the VLT on May 16, 1998, in red light (R band), i.e. while the mirror was still uncoated. ... In this diagram (FIgure 2), the measured image quality of the VLT UT1 astronomical images is plotted versus the ``seeing", as measured by the Seeing Monitor, a small telescope also located on top of the Paranal Mountain. ...

Winer Observatory P.O. Box 797, Sonoita, Arizona 85637-0797, USA . ... 2/3-m Telescope . ... Site . ... Commanding . ... In a typical robotic observing scenario, each afternoon, a telescope control computer obtains a set of objects to observe from its home institution from a command or script file. ... The file is then transferred to the telescope control computer at the Winer Observatory in Sonoita. ... The Iowa control computer then begins processing the telrun.sls file. ... 2013 Winer Observatory. ...

A Smoke Angel from Airplane Flares . ... Credit Copyright: Russell E. Cooley IV, USAF Explanation: What type of cloud is that? ... Looking perhaps a bit like a gigantic owl monster, the cloud pictured above resulted from a series of flares released by an air force jet over the Atlantic Ocean in May. ... The flares release smoke and the resulting pattern is sometimes known as a smoke angel. ... NASA Web Site Statements, Warnings, and Disclaimers . NASA Official: Jay Norris. ...

... 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. ...

XEphem Forum Message . Forums: . ... God and Science ћ SETI ћ Software ћ UFO ћ XEphem . ... Discussion Forums | ... Post . ... AVD: XEphem 3.6 Released . ... Post Message | ... Posted by Elwood Downey on June 7, 2004 17:40:08 UTC . XEphem 3.6 has just been released. ... www.astronomy.net . About Astronomy Net | Advertise on Astronomy Net | ... Forum posts are Copyright their authors as specified in the heading above the post. "dbHTML," "AstroGuide," "ASTRONOMY.NET" & "VA.NET" . ...

... Measurement of the MASS detectors parameters with mass program January 24, 2015 [112707] . MASS/DIMM electronics. ... Turbina-core(D): Dimm User Guide. ... N.Shatsky, V.Kornilov, The revision of the MASS/DIMM star catalogue. ... О.Возякова, В.Корнилов, Н.Шатский, Новое программное обеспечение прибора MASS/DIMM. ... V.Kornilov, N.Shatsky, S.Potanin, O.Voziakova, B.Safonov Preliminary results of astroclimate parameters measurements at the Sternberg 2.5m telescope installation site. ...

Minsk bibliography on light scattering . What's new . ... New text in some database sections. ... Release of the alpha version of the WWW database. Extension of database sections. ... Release of a test version of the WWW database (only local use). ... Start of developement of the WWW database. ... New version of the original FOXPRO database. ... 1990,2001 Victor Babenko (Bibliography compiling) . 2001 Serge Beletsky (Design & Programming) . ...

. The following SPICE System description documents in WinWord 6.0 format are available from Mars-96 SPICE Data Archive via anonymous FTP: . SPICE System Overview (in Russian) (file naifov_r.doc), . Most Used SPICELIB Subroutines (in Russian) (file naifqr_r.doc), . SPICE System Overview (in English) (file naifov_e.doc), . Most Used SPICELIB Subroutines (in English) (file naifqr_e.doc). These documents are located in the directory pub/naif/doc . back to SPICE documentation page

... GCN 8471 | ... TITLE: GCN CIRCULAR NUMBER: 8516 SUBJECT: GRB 081102: MASTER refind and final results DATE: 08/11/11 15:50:10 GMT FROM: Vladimir Lipunov at Moscow State U/Krylov Obs E. Gorbovskoy, V. Lipunov, V.Kornilov, A.Belinski, N.Shatskiy, N.Tyurina, D.Kuvshinov, P.Balanutsa Sternberg Astronomical Institute, Moscow State University A. Tlatov, A.Parkhomenko Kislovodsk Solar Station of the Pulkovo Observatory V.Krushinski, I.Zalognikh Ural State GCN Circ 8470, Lipunov et al., ...

... Survey processing . ... ESO - Public Surveys . ... 21/12/2009 Release of Science Verification Data . ... 11/12/2009 Press release about VISTA (Text, Images and Videos) . The ESO press release is at www.eso.org/public/outreach/press-rel/pr-2009/pr-49-09.html . ... 10/12/2009 15:00+ Ownerhsip of VISTA accepted by ESO from STFC (UK Goverenment representative) . ... 15/10/2009 Science Verification period started (see 21/12/9 for release) . ... 17/04/2008 Press releases om M1 from ESO , STFC and QMUL . ...

New GCVS Versions for Three Southern Constellations Peremennye Zvezdy (Variable Stars) 27, No. ... We are currently working on a version of the General Catalogue of Variable Stars (GCVS) revised taking into account the new data accumulated since the 4th GCVS edition. ... It will contain all stars of the 4th GCVS edition plus a complete catalogue of the stars added to the GCVS in the Name Lists of Variable Stars Nos. ...

... Trade name: Zinc selenide . ... Employers should use this information only as a supplement to other information gathered by them, and should make independent judgement of suitability of this information to ensure proper use and protect the health and safety of employees. This information is furnished without warranty, and any use of the product not in conformance with this Material Safety Data Sheet, or in combination with any other product or process, is the responsibility of the user. ...

Astronotes Armagh Planetarium's Stellar Blog! ... Solar System . ... Monthly Sky Notes . ... By admin January 21, 2011 Posted in: Robot Exploration . A UFO hovers in the Martian sky (Image credit:NASA/JPL) . The car-sized Mars Science Laboratory Curiosity is too heavy to slam into the rocky plains of Mars encased in airbags like its predecessors, so this imaginative and complex system was devised instead. ... Is there a video anywhere on the internet of a test of the ?sky crane? rockets? ...

... Classes . ... TelescopeTCP Class Reference . This TelescopeClient class can controll a telescope by communicating to a server process ("telescope server") via the "Stellarium telescope control protocol" over TCP/IP. ... TelescopeTCP (const QString &name, const QString &params, Equinox eq=EquinoxJ2000) . ... getInfoString (const StelCore *core, const InfoStringGroup &flags) const . ... getEquinoxEquatorialPos (const StelCore *core) const . ... getJ2000GalacticPos (const StelCore *core) const . ...

... Search system . ... Forget-Me-Not" information and searching system is developed to store and to work with unstructured fascimile electronic copies of paper documents (e.g., books, newspapers, incoming and outcoming business documents, etc.) as well as text documents in Windows 95/98/NT environment. ... Incoming text documents are converted by means of the Box Manager, which is a part of the "Forget-Me-Not" information system, into a dynamic archive - a storage of the text information images. ...

... 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.. ...

SAI VO . ... ConeSearch . ... Access . ... CrossMatch your data with CAS catalogs . How to access the SAI CAS services . Catalogs access ( wsdl ) . ... Third release of DENIS data (20 September 2005) . ... The Naval Observatory Merged Astrometric Dataset . The DR5 data release of SDSS . Data release 6 of Sloan Digital Sky Survey catalogs . ... The Second U.S. Naval Observatory CCD Astrograph Catalog (UCAC2) . Third U.S. Naval Observatory CCD Astrograph Catalog (UCAC3) . ...

In order to assist folks upgrading we are now going to maintain a document describing information critical to existing Apache users. Note that it only lists differences between recent major releases, so for example, folks using Apache 1.1 or earlier will have to figure out what changed up to Apache 1.2 before this document can be considered relevant. Old users could look at the src/CHANGES file which tracks code changes. ... There have been numerous changes to the default config files. ...