... Charge Coupled Devices (CCD) are currently by far the most widely used type of detector in astronomy. ... After a brief introduction to the VLT Control System, the VLT CCD Detectors Control Software is presented. The VLT Control System is a distributed system consisting of a set of UNIX Workstations, dedicated to high level operations, such as coordination of sub-system activities and interface to the users, and VME-based Local Control Units (LCU), dedicated to the control of sub-systems hardware. ...

... 8, ``Celestial Mechanics'', 2002 Connection between apparent and real orbits of a binary system P. Descamps Institut de M'ecanique C'eleste et de Calcul des ' Eph'em'erides, Paris, France In a binary system, each body describes about the other an elliptical apparent orbit which is the projection of the real orbit on the tangential plane. ... 0.5 0.0 0.5 Dacosd (arcsec) ­0.5 0.0 0.5 Dd (arcsec) E N W ­0.5 0.0 0.5 Dacosd (arcsec) ­0.5 0.0 0.5 Dd (arcsec) E N W October 2001 November 2001 Fig. ...

XmCCD Copyright 2007-2012 John Kielkopf ======================================= Development Log =============== March 9, 2002 Version 1.0.0 * Support for SBIG cameras using the first public SBIG library * Basic panel for operation with ds9 +--------------------------+ May 22, 2002 Version 1.1.0 * Updated to use libudrv 4.35 +--------------------------+ May 24, 2004 Version 1.2.0 * USB support +--------------------------+ March 1, 2005 Version 1.4.0 * Full ...

... Meade Instruments Corporation . ... 505 Connector Cable Set . Operating Instructions for use with the Meade? Autostar? ... The #505 Connector Cable Set provides access to three Autostar operations: . ... 2: #505 Connector Cable Set connects between two Autostar handboxes. (1) 3-foot cable. ... If you have a question concerning use of the #505 Connector Cable Set, call the Meade Instruments Customer Service Department at (949) 451-1450, or fax at (949) 451-1460. ... Autostar Downloads . ...

Deriving the sine or cosine of an arbitrary angle takes a bit more math than is covered here. ... Note first of all that a right-angled triangle contains two angles. ... Because the side opposite to A is the one adjacent to (90њ- A), it follows that the sine of one angle is the cosine of the other, and vice versa: . ... Consider the triangle PQR (drawing) with all three angles equal to 60њ. ... If we want the angle A to grow in equal steps of 15 o , we still need the sine and cosine of 15њ and 75њ. ...

... Deriving the sine or cosine of an arbitrary angle takes a bit more math than is covered here. ... Note first of all that a right-angled triangle contains two angles. ... Because the side opposite to A is the one adjacent to (90њ- A), it follows that the sine of one angle is the cosine of the other, and vice versa: . ... Consider the triangle PQR (drawing) with all three angles equal to 60њ. ... If we want the angle A to grow in equal steps of 15 o , we still need the sine and cosine of 15њ and 75њ. ...

A. Singh Institute of Mathematical Sciences, C.I.T. Chennai, India anupamk18@gmail.com Real elements in algebraic groups Let G be an algebraic group defined over a field k . ... Let G be a connected semisimple algebraic group of adjoint type defined over a perfect field k . ... It follows that if G is connected semisimple of adjoint type, with -1 in its Weyl group, then every semisimple element in G(k ) is strongly real in G(k ). This also shows that any regular element in such a group is real. ...

... RADIATION AND ECOLOGICAL MONITORING . ... S.P.Korolev RSC Energia has designed and built the experimental model of automatic radiation and ecological station (ARES). ... Inspection control, including delivery of ARES to areas with high risk of ecological pollution and conduction of long-term (weeks, months) continuous observations in automatic mode; . ... Satellite data relay system. ... The control of automatic ecological control stations via satellite channel was developed in 1996-1997. ...

... Federal Information Processing Standards Puplication (FIBS PUB 146-1) . ... PIPS 146 adopted the Government Open Systems Interconnection Profile (GOSIP) which defines a common set of data communication protocols that enable systems developed by different vendors to interoperate and the users of different applications on those systems to exchange information. ... 4.1 USE OF THE LAYERED PROTOCOL SPECIFICATIONS 12 . ... 4.2.3.3 Network Layer Protocol Identification 15 . ... SECURITY OPTIONS / 26 . ...

... 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 . ...

The IAO-type events have to stimulte the science-educating style of the Olympiads. To follow the main science-educating principles of the IAO-type events and Schools for Young Astrophysicists , particularly: . ... The minimum duration of the IAO-type event is defined as 5 days (4 nights). ... foreign language teams for an international IAO-type event - 1 / 2. ... The full text of the current Supplementary Instructions N 4 IAO-type events and Schools for Young Astrophysicists to be presented later. ...

Pulkovo NEO Page . ... EPOS Software Package . ... EPOS ( E phemeris P rogram for O bjects of the S olar system) is the Windows PC application for study and ephemeris support of observations of the Solar system objects. ... It controls the part of common data and transfers the control to one of the programs that solve the restricted set of tasks. ... So with the EPOS software package one can calculate the accurate ephemerides for many objects and get the quick illustration of their motion as well. ...

... It?s needs solution satellite?s orientation problem for defining location of sources of ionospheric emissions above Earth?s surface with necessary accuracy. There is possibility to define orientation of photometric devices by using TV images of star background. The CCD TV camera is designed for recording of images of star sky, Earth? limb and adjoining part of Earth? surface to fix the orbit point coordinates during the measurements by FAGOT and SICH-F devices. ...

Astronomy Picture of the Day . ... 30.12.1999 . ... Credit Copyright: FORS1 , 8.2-meter VLT , ESO Explanation: As the twentieth century dawned a debate raged over whether the Milky Way was the entire universe. ... As the twentieth century closes , galaxies are seen forming across the universe , and our Milky Way is referred to as a spiral galaxy quite similar to NGC 1288 , as pictured above . ... Publications with keywords: century - Milky Way . Publications with words: century - Milky Way . ...

... Michael E. Lopez-Alegria (Captain, USN, RET.) ... After his second mission, he led the International Space Station (ISS) Operations branch of the Astronaut Office. ... In October 2014 Lopez-Alegria became an independent consultant; he is based in Washington, D.C. SPACE FLIGHT EXPERIENCE: Mission Specialist (MS)-2, STS-73 Columbia (October 20 to November 5, 1995). ... The primary mission objective was delivery of the Expedition 6 crew to the ISS and the return of the Expedition 5 crew to Earth. ...

... The default value is pointing to the parent directory. ... Link to parent directory $BBC_MAINSITE = ""; => Show no link $BBC_SHOW_CONFIG BBClone defaults to revealing the stats' settings. ... BBC_LANGUAGE = "en"; $BBC_MAXTIME This variable defines the length of an unique visit in seconds. ... BBC_NO_HITS = ""; => Show hits in time stats $BBC_NO_HITS = 1; => Show unique visits in time stats $BBC_IGNORE_IP This option can be used to exclude particular IP addresses or address ranges from counting. ...

... The European HST Archive has been moved to ESA's European Space Astronomy Centre ( ESAC ), Spain, where most of ESA's Space Science Archives are located and operated from. ... The Space Telescope European Coordinating Facility (ST-ECF), jointly operated by ESA and the European Southern Observatory ( ESO ) was, until the end of 2010, the European HST science facility, supporting the European astronomy community in exploiting the research opportunities provided by the Hubble Space Telescope. ...

... 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. ...