... 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. ...

... public class WindowManager . ... This class consists of static methods used to manage ImageJ's windows. ... static void . ... Adds the specified window to the Window menu. static boolean . ... Returns a reference to the active image or null if there isn't one. static ImageWindow . ... Makes the image contained in the specified window the active image. static void . ... Returns the first image that has the specified title or null if it is not found. public static void addWindow (java.awt.Frame win) ....

Russian SHAREABLE DATA CENTER Institute of Solar-Terrestial Physics SB RAS . ... Antenna system . ... The Irkutsk incoherent scatter radar is one of the world's nine active radars which give the opportunity to investigate ionosphere by the incoherent scatter method. ... Antenna gain coefficient . ... Antenna . ... Two antennas . ... To get an idea what station "Dnepr" antenna system looks like, let us consider some of the radar views which are given by the photographs General view and Side view . ...

... The Science Operation Department is composed of Astronomers, Telescope Instruments Operators(TIOs) and Data Handling Administrators(DHAs). ... Astronomers have proposed several methods to quantitatively measure the amount of turbulence above the telescope, which the most common ones is Differential Image Motion Monitor (DIMM). In optical testing, the Hartmann test is the common method to test the quality of optical components. ... Hartmann mask consists of 48 lenses. ...

... International astronauts are those individuals from international space agencies who have trained or served with NASA Astronauts. Astronaut assignments and category definitions (e.g., "active" astronauts, "management" astronauts) are contained in a separate Flight Operations Directorate (FOD) policy letter. Former astronauts are those who are no longer employed by their agency. Active and Management International Astronauts . Astronaut . ... Former International Astronauts . ...

... 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 . ...

Next: VLT First Light Up: Front Cover Previous: Participants . VLT First Light . ... Image Quality of the VLT . ... Near IR Astronomy with the ESO VLT . Introduction and Overview . Infrared instruments for the VLT . Instrument Summary . ... Performance . ... CONICA: The high resolution near-infrared camera for the ESO VLT . Introduction . Design of Imaging Optics . Analyzing Optics . Cryo-mechanical Design . ...

... Tonight's Sky . ... The Magazine . ... Observing . ... Magazine . ... Gravitational wave search provides insights into galaxy evolution and mergers . ... The double star 54 Leonis, spiral galaxy NGC 3198, and emission nebula NGC 3199 . ... Open cluster NGC 2818, spiral galaxy NGC 2964, and spiral galaxy NGC 2976 . ... Astronomy for Kids . ... active galactic nuclei . ... Receive news, sky-event information, observing tips, and more from Astronomy's weekly email newsletter. ... Astronomy Magazine . ...

Fortran 90 properties already in CF77 . ... Only the old form (fix form) of the source code is available. ... LOGICAL Default KIND number = 8 INTEGER Default int7 int15 KIND number = 6 1 2 digits = 46 7 15 radix = 2 2 2 range = 13 2 4 huge = 70368744177663 127 32767 bit_size = 46 8 16 INTEGER int31 int46 int64 KIND number = 4 6 8 digits = 31 46 63 radix = 2 2 2 range = 9 13 18 huge = 2147483647 70368744177663 9223372036854775807 bit_size = 32 46 46 REAL half Default,single double KIND ...

MIR ORBITAL COMPLEX CONTENT . S.P. Korolev Rocket and Space Corporation Energia was the Prime Contractor for MIR Orbital Station, developer of the Core Module and the Station Modules, developer and manufacturer of the major systems supporting their on-orbit operation; responsible for the integrated electrical interface of the onboard systems and integrated ground electrical tests of the Station Modules; developer and manufacturer of the Soyuz and Progress space vehicles. ... Docking Compartment . ...

MILT will be the first major telescope to utilize a very lightweight monolithic cast honeycomb Pyrex primary mirror. ... It is based on 395 rms image diameters measured from plates taken with the Solar Telescope (76 cm aperture) over a one year period. ... The consensus among ARC astronomers is that the best rms seeing disk should be sampled by no fewer than 5 detector pixels (one dimension) when the telescope is in its minimum optics 'clean' configuration (no reducing camera). ...

Establishment and Observation of Space Debris Laser Ranging Zhang Zhongping, Zhang Haifeng, Wu Zhibo, Li Pu, Meng Wendong, Chen Juping, Chen WanZhen Shanghai Observatory, Chinese Academy of Sciences Contents: Introduction Establishment of laser ranging to space debris system Observation results Summary Introduction Large amount of space debris around the earth currently. ... Laser ranging (LR) is a kind of real-time measuring technology with meter or sub-meter precision for space-debris observation. ...

... They are known: active quantum frequency standards on the ammonia molecules beams (molecular generator) on the hydrogen generator (hydrogen generator) passive quantum frequency standards on the Cs atoms’ beam (cerium atomic beam tube); active and passive quantum frequency standards with an optical pumping of Cs or Rb steams. The stability of atomic beam quantum frequency standard achieves 10^ - 14. ...

To appear in "Fourth Workshop on Robotic Autonomous Observatories (2015)"RevMexAA(SC) MASSIVE PHOTOMETRY OF LOW-ALTITUDE ARTIFICIAL SATELLITES ON MINI-MEGATORTORA S. Karpov, 1, 3 E. Katkova,2 G. Beskin, 1, 3 A. Biryukov3,4 S. Bondar,2 E. Davydov5 E. Ivanov,2 A. Perkov,2 V. Sasyuk3 RESUMEN Favor de prop orcionar un resumen en espanol. ... The nine-channel Mini-MegaTORTORA (MMT-9) optical widefield monitoring system with high temporal resolution system is in operation since June 2014. ...