... SEARCH ASP SITE: Match ALL words Match ANY word . ... ASP in the News . July 21, 2009 . The Astronomical Society of the Pacific (ASP) will present its 2009 annual meeting September 12-16 in the San Francisco Bay Area at the Westin San Francisco Airport Hotel, 1 Old Bayshore Highway in Millbrae, California. The theme of the 2009 gathering will be "Science Education and Outreach: Forging a Path to the Future." ... education | ... Copyright 2001-2012 Astronomical Society of the Pacific ...

Spacecraft ephemeris , or more generally, location of an observer, given as a function of time. ... The ephemeris data for spacecraft and target bodies are normally combined in a single file called the SPICE SPK file. ... Attitude data is contained in the SPICE CK file. ... Several miscellaneous kernel files - spacecraft clock (SPICE SCLK file) and leapseconds (SPICE LSK file) - are also part of SPICE; these are used in converting time tags between various time measurement systems. ...

... 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/ . ...

... The Arecibo RFI Environment : . ... This page shows the present environment for RFI at Arecibo. the web page is: http://www.naic.edu/rfiuser . The Northern VLA Sky Survey (NVSS) : . ... The NASA/IPAC Extragalactic Data Base (NED) : . This is built around a master list of extragalactic objects for which cross-identifications of names have been established, accurate positions and redshifts entered to the extent possible, and some basic data c collected. ...

... Search . ... Astrophysics Group . Research . ... Research and Instrumentation . ... While this seems an extraordinary endeavour, in light of what we have learnt about Solar System planets, only a handful of key ingredients are required to start characterising an exoplanet. ... The NGTS project is a partnership between the University of Cambridge, Queen?s University Belfast, University of Warwick, University of Leicester, Observatoire de Geneve, DLR (Berlin) and Universidad Catolica de Chile. ...

Procedure to Plug a Plate . ... Procedure . ... Data cartridge ; Location : stored on racks inside elevator bay, plugging station, or mapping station; Appearance : approx 4.5' dia X 3' thick., fiber optic wire interior, plate top, protected sides, top, and bottom; nine total; 400 lbs. each. ... Each plate is marked in groups of twenty holes; the fiber optic wires are in bundles of twenty wires. ... An additional eleven guide fiber optic wires (marked with black tape around wire) must be plugged. ...

... Appearance of the transequatorial microwave chain. (a) - Only some blobs and small chains are present near the complex of ARs 7496 and 7500 located westward from the transequatorial coronal hole observed with the Yohkoh/SXT (d) . b)-(c) - After the C2.1 soft X-ray LDE event , peaked on May 11 at 21:52 UT in AR 7500, a transequatorial microwave chain 1-2-3 is being developed (b) along the narrow part of the coronal hole (e,f) . ... Evolution of the microwave chains of May 11-12, 1993. ...

... In asmooth at present sources can be removed and the local background interpolated over their positions. ... To create such a map, the user should supply asmooth , via the parameters withsrclistset and srclistset , with a list of sources produced by either eboxdetect or emldetect . ... For each source, asmooth calculates an elliptical boundary, being the locus at which the point spread function (PSF) of the source decreases to some constant value times the value of the local background. ...

... February 25, 1998 . The Solar Neighborhood . ... The orange dot in the above false-color drawing represents the current location of the Sun among local gas clouds in the spiral Milky Way Galaxy . ... The purple filaments near the Sun are gas shells resulting from star formation 4 million years ago in the Scorpius-Centaurus Association, located to the Sun's lower left. The Sun has been between spiral arms moving through relatively low density gas for the past 5 million years. ... About APOD > . ...

... To get access to the software you must be registered at the ASC RadioAstron Server "ra.asc.rssi.ru" ------------------------------------------------------ IMPORTANT: At present the software "FAKERAT" runs only under 32 bit Linux workstation in X windows with C shell script. ... All procedure runs under C shell. ... Copy all files from the given directory to your computer. ... Then, copy txt-file representing the current version of orbit to the "orbit" subdirectory located in "fakerat_07041020". ...

... Educational programs (English) . Educational programs (Russian) . ... Pre-university education . ... Samara region . ... Samara State Aerospace University proposes to develop scientific and educational projects in the field of advanced space technologies together with developing countries. ... The University also took the initiative to hold in 2017 the United Nations Symposium in Samara, confined to the 60th anniversary of the space age beginning (launch of the first Earth satellite vehicle). ...

REFEREE REPORT: %% %% %% As made clear by the title of the paper and the observational %% evidence presented, the authors believe that the correct %% identification of HS1216+5032 is as a physical quasar pair, albeit %% with one component showing the rather unusual combination of %% BAL troughs and significant radio luminosity. ... Removed most of the discussion of dark lenses and cosmology, and deleted the section on BALQSOs. ... The paper now totals 5.5 pages, down from 10. ...

20-23 September 2016, St.Petersburg, Russia . ... Abstracts . Registration . ... Participants who wish to present a contribution to the conference are invited to submit title, abstract, and type of presentation (poster or 15 min talk including questions) along with the registration form. The deadline for the Abstracts and Early Registration is 30th June 2016 . ... Name and affiliation . Title: . ... Presentation . ... Yes No . ... Oral Poster . Presentation Title: . ... Poster Title: . ...

... of the final phase of the Soyuz TMA-1 mission and at Chkalovsly airfield during the meeting of the crew of ISS-6 were: for the Russian side - Director General of Rosaviakosmos Yu.N.Koptev, the Technical Manager of the Russian manned programs, Designer General of S.P.Korolev RSC Energia , a member of the Russian Academy of Sciences Yu.P.Semenov, members of the State Commission (Co-chairmen: state secretary, first deputy general ...

A prefs.ccd file should be located in /usr/local/observatory/prefs on the computer to which the camera is attached. ... Parameters that will be read by prefs.ccd are -- ccd.frame_count_multi Sets the maximum number of frames in multi mode Default is 10 Minimum is 2 No maximum ccd. filter _max Sets the number of filters in the filter wheel Should be less than or equal to the number of slots available ccd. filter _01 to ccd. filter _10 Labels for each ...

The AstroGuide . ... AstroGuide | ... AstroGuide Listing . ... See many more Astronomy Listings by: Category or Alphabet . The Boeing Employees' Astronomical Society (BEAS) is located in Seattle, Washington and represents just one of over ninety clubs and organizations available to Boeing employees and their families through the Boeing Recreation Program. ... Web Site . ... Web . ... Unless otherwise specified, web site content Copyright 1994-2016 John Huggins All Rights Reserved . ...

... 2007: . New Gravitational Lens Found. As a result of spectral observations using the SAO RAS' BTA, a new gravitational lens has been found (the Space Horseshoe), including a gigantic central galaxy with a redshift of z=0.44 and a lensed image of a more distant galaxy with vigorous star formation, located at z=2.38. ... Intergalactic Meteorite Particle Discovery. ... Stellar-wind Envelope of Massive Supernova Progenitor Star XRF060218/SN2006aj. ... Archive . ...

Main Program Travel Where to go in Moscow Information . ... We highly recommend to make hotel reservation as early as possible due to high season in Moscow. ... Short list of convenient hotels in Moscow is presented below. ... Hotel . ... Below is the list of hotels the way from which to the conference hall at IKI will be relatively simple and shouldn't take more than 30 minutes. ... International Conference: Cosmology and High Energy Astrophysics (Zeldovich-90) 20-24 Dec 2004, Moscow, Russia . ...

The Field of a Vertical Dipole in the Presence of a Perfectly Conducting Body with the Axial Symmetry Victor G. Farafonov and Andrey A. Loskutov St.Petersburg University of Aerocosmic Instrumentation, St.Petersburg, Russia Abstract A new solution to the problem of diffraction of the field of a dipole located on the axis of symmetry of a perfectly conducting axially symmetric body is presented. ... Surface integral equations for these potentials are obtained. ...

The conference will be held at the Independent University of Moscow , located in the center of Moscow city. ... Steklov Mathematical Institute , . ... The conference " Transformation Groups " is aimed to review the development of Transformation Group Theory during last decades, to present the most bright recent achievements in this area, and to discuss the perspectives of further research. ... Dmitri N. Akhiezer (Institute of Information Transmission Problems, Moscow, Russia) . ... Russia) . ...