... 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 . ...

fitshdr - FITS-file headers manipulation tool fitshdr [options] [FITSfile_name] . ... fitshdr [options] --edit FITSfile_name . ... If You want to modify headers of FITSFILE using new FITS-header lines from HEADER file (or from stdin), You have to use this option (You can skip this option, if -H or --header option is used). ... Empty header lines are not displayed (in 'dump' mode only). --line-offsets . ... In 'dump' mode: file offset will be displayed for each header line. --no-line-offsets . ...

... The address of the web page is listed as http://www.zebu.uoregon.edu/cometh . this is in correct (although it does work); please do not keep this address but use the correct one instead which is http://zebu.uoregon.edu/cometh . ... The tail of the comet was reported as being 10--20 kilometers in length. ... The tail in the sky has an angular extent of 10--20 degrees. ... The orbital period of the comets is in the hundreds of thousands of years, not 10-20,000 as reported. ...

... 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. ...

... This applet generates an observing list based on an observer's location and time. ... To use this program, enter in your location, and the local times at which you wish to begin and end observing. The date you enter should correspond to the calendar day at the time at which you begin observing. For example, if you wish to observe from 9:37 PM October 23, 2007 until 3:21 AM October 24, 2007, you would enter 21:37 for the starting time, 03:21 for the finish time, and 10/23/2007 for the date. ...

... Sun's ecliptical positions. Explanations. Each row contains at 0h of Time Dynamical Terrestrial: month, day , day of the week, julian day number at beginning of day (only last three digits is given, add head of column to form correct number ), longitude in system of mean equinox of date (degrees, minutes, seconds ), two latitudes (the first for mean equinox of date and the second for mean epoch of year; seconds ), radius-vector (astron. units), precession in ...

... Reports on progress and error are always recorded in the log file of the program. ... UT date of the measurement finish in YYYY-MM-DD format UT time of the measurement finish in hh:mm:ss format Average flux in A aperture Average flux in B aperture Average flux in C aperture Average flux in D aperture Normalized variance of flux in A aperture Normalized variance of flux in B aperture Normalized variance of flux in C aperture Normalized variance of flux in D ...

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... Configuration The dictionary accepts one obligatory parameter - RULES, which has to be set to the file describing parsing rules and output recipes. ... Each non-empty line is either a comment (when started with '#' symbol), or a conversion rule, and in the latter case has to contain whitespace-separated pattern and output recipe. Currently, pattern has to match the _integer_ (one, two or more) number of input tokens; they will be replaced with a single one. ...

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. ...

... Next Routine] [List of Routines] NAME: ADD_HEADER PURPOSE: addition information from FITS-headers MPFS-frames DESCRIPTION: The function computes the total exposure, mean value zenit distance and modified FITS header CALLING SEQUENCE: Result =ADD_HEADER( headers ) CATEGORY: reduction MPFS-data INPUTS: Headers = String array FITS-headers from the MPFS data OUTPUTS: Header = String array containing the header from the FITS file. ... OPTIONAL INPUT KEYWORD PARAMETERS: BEFORE = Keyword string name. ...

... WHERE DO DREAMS LEAD? ... Jane stayed in London with her grandparents during the summer holidays. ... She could permit herself everything she wanted. But she had only one dream: to find herself in the far future. If there was the TIME МЛС1IINK that time. ... James Thompson, in her class. ... James. ... Jane? ... His look was happy and full of love and good. ... Jane and James wanted to save him But they forgot that they were from the past, which meant they didn't lose values: love and good. ...

... Сегодня: 10 апреля 2016 г. Европейское космическое агентство объявило о начале второй стадии проектирования аппарата для отбора образцов марсианского грунта и их доставки на Землю - Mars Sample Return (MSR). В миссию MSR вовлечены ученые со всего мира, она является основной в программе ЕКА "Аврора", направленной на изучение Солнечной системы. ... Орбитальный аппарат миссии MSR (художественное представление) . ... ЕКА приступило ко второй стадии создания миссии Mars Sample Return . ...

... Yerga Expedition . ... Novaya Yerga Expedition . ... I n 1662 a meteorite shower fell near the village of Novaya Yerga. ... In 2002, the Meteoritics Laboratory of the Vernadsky Institute of Geochemistry And Analytical Chemistry of the Russian Academy of Sciences (GEOKHI) organized an expedition to search for the location and any traces of the Novaya Yerga meteorite shower. ... After visiting the town of Kirillov, the expedition returned to Novaya Yerga, i.e. to near the village of Nekrasovo. ...

ЕКА приступило ко второй стадии создания миссии Mars Sample Return . ... Европейское космическое агентство объявило о начале второй стадии проектирования аппарата для отбора образцов марсианского марсианского грунта и их доставки на Землю - Mars Sample Return (MSR). В миссию MSR вовлечены ученые со всего мира, она является основной в программе ЕКА "Аврора", направленной на изучение Солнечной системы. ... Затем, капсула отделится от основного аппарата, совершит посадку и отберет пробу. ...

Please enter the lightcurve file name and period search parameters: . Lightcurve file: . ... Apply the Heliocentric correction and convert all dates to Terrestrial Time (TT)? ... Also, the Heliocentric correction cannot be applied to such lightcurves. ... This period search service is also available at the mirror sites: Mirror 1 , Mirror 2 , Mirror 3 , Mirror 4 . You may download the latest source code distribution and install the period search service at your own web server. ...