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. ...

RELATIVE SUNSPOT NUMBERS Description of Data from SGD Explanation of Data Reports: Relative Sunspot Numbers -- The relative sunspot number is an index of the activity of the entire visible disk of the Sun. ... The provisional daily Zurich relative sunspot numbers, Rz, were based upon observations made at Zurich and its two branch stations in Arosa and Locarno and communicated by M. Waldmeier of the Swiss Federal Observatory. ... This indicates the uncertainty above and below the predicted number. ...

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... Where to eat close to the Independant University: see the list on the map . ... They belong to the Novikov group, one of the most famous restaurants owner in Moscow. Where to eat for 10-20 euros in Moscow: . IUM cafeteria: a cheap place with typical russian food. ... Filial ( www.filialmoscow.com/ ) is a bar close to Lubianka metro station. ... Glavpivtorg ( www.glavpivtorg.ru/ ) is a soviet-chic restaurant and bar located close to the Lubianka, where you can eat, drink, listen to live music. ...

... Class . ... This class displays a dialog box that allows the user can select a directory. ... This class consists of public fields that describe an image file. ... Saves images in tiff, gif, jpeg, raw, zip and text format. ... Opens tiff (and tiff stacks), dicom, fits, pgm, jpeg, bmp or gif images, and look-up tables, using a file open dialog or a path. ... Decodes an ImageJ, NIH Image or Scion Image ROI file. ... Saves an image described by a FileInfo object as an uncompressed, big-endian TIFF file...

... The technology needed to implement a Distributed Astronomical Data Archive (DADA) is available today (e.g., Fullton 1993). Query interface standards are needed, however, before the DADA information will be discoverable. ... These parameters would be used to index each dataset in each catalog. ... The technology is available today to perform cross-catalog queries, to fetch the data at the click of a mouse, quickly to add new observation catalogs, and to distribute the load across multiple machines. ...

The Status popup displays useful information about the state of sets, regions, and graphs. ... When the number of sets is less than 30, this button is not needed, use the scroll bars to view the status of the sets that are not shown in the display. ... Operations in the Status popup are performed by clicking on the operation, then clicking on one or more set numbers shown in the display. ... Clicking on Copy followed by clicking on a set number in the scrolled window will select the set to copy from. ...

... This program was created for correlating chosen regions in the series of fts images. ... Chosen regions' . ... In this section the program counts the integral for each region of the grid for each image. ... As a matter of fact, the integral is total brightness of the region and it is counted by 'int_tabulated' IDL function. ... In addition, the program will show the count of the regions which correlate with the corresponding region (the brighter region means the bigger count) and its contour. ...

... Exposure Time Calculator (ETC) . ... ESO - Public Surveys . ... the recommended values to use for DIT, . ... Detector on-chip integration (DIT): seconds. to your chosen value - a separate page gives recommended values to use for DIT - for modes 1 and 2 below you may wish to start with the maximum recommended values as these will minimize the effect of read noise (a total object exposure of Y secs with DIT=X secs will produce Y/X lots of read noise) and give you a lower limit on the time needed. ...

... The words are numbered according to the reference mentioned above. ... 59 WORD wSecond ; // 0 .. 59 satellite tracking start time (GMT) float fStep ; // reserved WORD wMass ; // reserved BYTE reserved [12] ; // reserved WORD wExtraBytes ; // reserved } TRAJECTORYHEADER ; NOTE: the satellite tracking start time is a hardware operating start time to follow satellite. typedef struct { // ephemeris at satellite tracking start time double time ; // Epoch time (yyddd.ddddddddd)...

... Classes . ... gTimeSpan Class Reference . ... gTimeSpan (const gTimeSpan &timeSpanSrc) . ... Operation: getDays() This method returns the integer days number stored in the gTimeSpan object. ... Operation: getHours() This method returns the integer hours number stored in the gTimeSpan object. ... Operation: getMinutes() This method returns the integer Minutes number stored in the gTimeSpan object. ... Operation: getSeconds() This method returns the integer seconds number stored in the gTimeSpan...

... LOC will arrange transportation of Conference participants from the Kazan airport to the hotels. ... According to the rules, everyone has to go through passport control and customs upon arrival at their first stop in Russia (in the most cases it is Moscow). ... If you have a direct flight to Kazan then passport control will be in Kazan. ... First eROSITA International Conference: Mapping the Structure of the Energetic Universe 17-20 Oct 2011, Garmisch-Partenkirchen (Germany) . ...

This service contributes to the International Service of Geomagnetic Indices (ISGI) of the IAGA . ... The Kp numbers of the previous month are available in tabular format . ... There are available also historical and current Kp and derived indices per anonoymos FTP (see below). ... U.S.A. FTP server: ftp://ftp.ngdc.noaa.gov/STP/GEOMAGNETIC_DATA/INDICES/KP_AP/ . monthly update) . ... contains the monthly Kp / ap tables in a simple text format readable for both humans and computers (*.tab). ...

... You can use the Starlock Utility program to update your Starlock firmware. ... L X800 Telescope with Autostar II handbox Starlock wit h con necting cable Meade #507 con necting cable Meade RS232/USB adapter (if needed) Computer with Starlock Utility program Updated Starlock firmware Installation From the Meade website, download the Starlock firmware update to the computer desktop. ... If you have changed serial ports, click on the "Reset Con nection " button in the utility program. ...

The first persistent Web agent that we have created on Actor Prolog is a program that collects information about research groups that develop Prolog and projects in the field of logic programming. The agent looks through a given list of Web sites and calculates some attributes of the sites: the date of recent modification, total size, the number of figures, the number of outside links, the number of error links, the number of given keywords, etc. ... http://www.cplire.ru/Lab144/space/prolog.html . ...

Python Reference Introduction These notes contain commands useful for analysing and plotting data using the Python programming language, together with the Numpy and Matplotlib libraries. ... So for example, the plot command (from matplotlib) would be executed by typing pylab.plot(.. ... Pulling out part of an array. ... To pick out only the chosen elements, and put them in a new array, use something like: new_array = my_array[index_array] Plotting We use Matplotlib (included in pylab) to plot. ...

C SMOS IN THE CLASSROOM 2010 Applying for Scholarships Sponsored by NASA Lunar Science Institute · University of Arizona's Center for Astronomy Education The Chandra Space Telescope EPO Program · The Planck Mission UP TO $750 PER PERSON AVAILABLE FOR QUALIFIED MEETING PARTICIPANTS Who is Eligible for a Scholarship? ... Scholarships will be provided after the meeting as reimbursement for document expenses incurred. ... Be sure you include your name and the institution(s) at which you teach. ...

... Co-ordinate systems description . Directories structure . The file names' construction . The file set description . ... The orbital information for each month is presented in the separate directory. The INTERBALL orbital data are located on the STDA server, for each month in the separate subdirectory, which name consists from the year (YYYY) and month (MM) numbers. The Parent Directory of the Tail Probe orbital data is http://www.iki.rssi.ru/da/interball/tail/orbit/ . ...

... Bad Astronomy . ... News . ... In the following article, I used the wrong number to get the circumference of the Earth at the latitude of Cape Canaveral, which ironically is what I accuse Ms. vos Savant of as well! ... At the Equator, the Earth spins at 1000 miles per hour (the Earth is 24,000 miles around, and spins once every 24 hours). ... The math is a wee bit hairy, but not too bad, to calculate the circumference of the Earth at Cape Canaveral assuming the Earth is an ellipse with these numbers...

Download Izmccd (~2.7 MB). Solution of problems at identification of star field. ... 2) Scale is not correct. ... In this case algorithm of identification will revise all values of scale from twice smaller up to twice greater. ... There should be more than value of the field "Number of stars in frame". ... The star field is considered identified if number of the identified stars more or equally to this value. It is necessary to set value from 4 up to value of field "Number of stars in frame". ...