... Tonight's Sky . ... Sky this Month . ... Imaging Basics . ... NASA's GRAIL MoonKAM returns first student-selected lunar images . ... This image of the farside of the lunar surface, with Earth in the background, was taken by the MoonKAM system onboard the Ebb spacecraft as part of the first image set taken from lunar orbit March 15т??18, 2012. ... Students will select target areas on the lunar surface and request images to study from the GRAIL MoonKAM Mission Operations Center in San Diego,...

OFFICIAL PRESS RELEASE . ... The Primary Expedition 7 crew International Space Station (ISS) - Russian cosmonaut Yuri Malenchenko (ISS-7 commander, Soyuz TMA-2 commander), American astronaut Edward Lu (ISS-7 flight engineer, Soyuz TMA-2 flight engineer-1) - and European Space Agency (ESA) astronaut, Visiting Expedition 5 (VE-5) flight engineer, Soyuz TMA-2 flight engineer-2 Pedro Duquer of Spain have returned to Earth in the Descent Module (DM) of the Soyuz TMA-2 spacecraft. ...

Astronomical Data Analysis Software and Systems X ASP Conference Series, Vol. ... 304 Subramanian and Plummer PIPELINE/ARCHIVE INTERFACE CACHING SYSTEM CACHE INACTIVE FILES VIRTUAL FILES ARCHIVE DATABASE CACHE SERVER DATA ARCHIVING SERVERS CACHE DARCH RETRIEVE DARCH ARCHIVE DARCH FILE QUEUES CACHE REQUEST RETRIEVE REQUEST ARCHIVE REQUEST FILE QUEUE FILE QUEUE FILE QUEUE L0 PIPELINES SENDS NOTIFICATIONS PIPELINES OFF KICKS L1 PIPELINES OBSERVATION STATUS TRACKER OTHER PIPELINES Figure 1. ...

Stellarium 0.12.3 . ... Classes . ... ClassљList . ... Static Public Member Functions . CLIProcessor Class Reference . ... argsGetOption (const QStringList &argList, QString shortOpt, QString longOpt) . Check if a QStringList has a CLI-style option in it (before the first ). ... Retrieve the argument to an option from a QStringList. ... Check if a QStringList has a yes/no CLI-style option in it, and find out the argument to that parameter. ... a long-form option string, e.g. "–help" . ...

OptInt PmWiki : Pm Wiki / Initial Setup Tasks . ... Most PmWiki configuration is performed in files called local/config.php and pub/css/local.css . ... When you first install PmWiki, the local/config.php file does not exist. Copy the sample-config.php file (in the docs/ directory) to local/config.php and use it as a starting point. ... When changing the configuration of your site, always change the local/config.php file or add files to the cookbook/ or pub directories. ... Just make an text-file. ...

... Long-Term Predicted Orbit . ... MBC OD Results . ... What: The ASC navigation team (in collaboration with MBC and JPL MMNAV) will generate a long-term predicted orbit which will be used by the RSOG to generate the long-term schedule. ... What: The MBC and JPL MMNAV navigation teams will work together to generate a predicted orbit for the spacecraft that will be used to generate the SRS file. ... What: The MBC and JPL MMNAV team will separately produce predicted orbit files for the GTSs. ...

... In an unprecedented space collision, a commercial Iridium communications satellite and a presumably defunct Russian Cosmos satellite ran into each other Tuesday above northern Siberia, creating a cloud of wreckage, officials said today. ... The international space station does not appear to be threatened by the debris, they said, but it's not yet clear whether it poses a risk to any other military or civilian satellites. ... International Year of Astronomy, Ireland National Node . ...

... Tour Name : __________________ Departure Date ________ Departure City ___________ Applicant #1 Mr./Mrs./Ms. Last Name : First Name : Address: City/State/Zip: Home Phone : Work Phone : Fax Number: _______________________________ _______________________________ _______________________________ _______________________________ _______________________________ _______________________________ _______________________________ Mr./Mrs./Ms. Last Name : First ...

... 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. ...

Astronomy Picture of the Day . ... First officially discovered in 1786, Comet Encke is on its 59 th documented return, making it one of the best-studied comets on the sky. Mysteriously, Comet Encke should have been discovered millennia earlier, since it likely became bright enough to see unaided many times over the past few thousand years. ... Recent observations place Comet Encke as bright as visual magnitude six during early December, making it just on the verge of unaided human vision . ...

Trace: ranking . ... CREATE OR REPLACE FUNCTION my_rank (tsvector, tsquery, int ) RETURNS float AS $$ use List::Util qw(min max); my ($string, $ query ) = @_; my $maxpos = 0; # Parse tsvector, taking into account positional information foreach (split / /, $string){ if(/^'(\w+)'(:([0-9,]+))?$/){ foreach(split /,/, $3){ $ vector {$_} = $1; $maxpos = max($maxpos, $_); } } } my @ vector = map {$ vector {$_}} sort {$a = $b} keys(% vector ); # Parse tsquery, assuming it to be ORed only $ ... SAI VO | ...

Independent University of Moscow . ... Moscow, August 25-30, 2007 . ... Registration . ... To participate please fill in the following registration form and return it to our contact addresses by the deadline May 15, 2007. REGISTRATION FORM . ... Name (as in the passport) . ... Your passport number . ... If you need a RUSSIAN VISA, please, indicate this in the registration form and send us the scanned copy of your passport (including the page with photo) before May 15, 2007 by e-mail. ...

So what is "Code Blue" and what does it mean? It's no great secret that several years ago we had the mirror re-coated on the 31" Blue Beast at Warren Rupp Observatory, and within a few short weeks, portions of the coating began to fail. ... These are the fellows that showed up at the Observatory on February 20th to help with the gargantuan and nail-biting task of getting mirror out of the telescope safely, out of the cell safely, into the box safely, and put into the truck safely. ...

... source code A class to hold information by fitting multi-component Gaussians to a NIFS data cube. Attributes: restwavl - The rest wavelength used to determine line velocities. vmin - The minimum velocity value used for generating the spectrum to fit to. vmax - The maximum velocity value used for generating the spectrum to fit to. scidata - The scidata from the fitscube, trimmed down so that it only includes the data between vmin and vmax vars - The variance ... Instance Methods . ...

... The Chinese would certainly not have invented the magnetic compass. ... Chemically and mineralogically, the lodestone is magnetite, a massive type of iron ore, an oxide of iron, a mineral related the the brown stuff coating the magnetic disks and tapes used by computers. ... But even then, just resting a few million years in the Earth's magnetic field would produce no magnetization. ... Still, as Gilbert observed, in a long iron rod that magnetism was channeled to the ends, where it could be noted. ...

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. ...

Russian SHAREABLE DATA CENTER Institute of Solar-Terrestial Physics SB RAS . ... November 9, 10, 11, 12 and 13 . December 6, 7, 8 and 9 March 24, 25, 26, 27 and 28 . ... December 3, 4 and 5 February 13, 14 and 15 . ... December 10, 11, 12, 13 and 14 . Incoherent Scatter Radar ionospheric parameters measurements are carried out on coordinated days determined by the International Geophysical Calendar. ...

... ISC Kosmotras . ... Cluster Launch of Dnepr LV 22 August 2013 KOMPSAT-5 Launch 21 November 2013. ... Being the 8th commercial launch for Dnepr, this is also its first 'return to flight' mission since the failure encountered on July 27, 2006 during liftoff from Baikonur. In parallel with the successful completion of its first launch campaign in 2007, ISC Kosmotras continues preparations for the next two Dnepr launch missions scheduled to fly from Baikonur and Yasny launch bases. ... Dnepr Program . ...

Astronotes Armagh Planetarium's Stellar Blog! ... No Comments Armagh Planetarium?s great balloon race has ended.€а The results are in and they have been checked and verified.€а There were balloon reports on the Cathedral Road, the Battleford Road and [ ] . Continue Reading.. ... Posted on August 24, 2011 | ... No Comments Have you ever wondered how to build a solid fuel space rocket? €аHave you ever wanted to witness a rocket launch? €аIf the answer is yes, then Armagh Planetarium is [ ] . ...

grdedit - Modifying the header in a 2-D grdfile grdedit grdfile [ -A ] [ -D xunit / yunit / zunit / scale / offset / title / remark ] [ -R west / east / south / north [ r ] ] [ -S ] grdedit reads the header information in a binary 2-D grdfile and replaces the information with values provided on the command line [if any]. ... Older gridfiles (i.e., created prior to GMT 3.1) often had excessive slop in x _ inc , y _ inc and an adjustment is necessary. Newer files are created correctly. ...