... The 2008 SAO Clay Postdoctoral Fellowship Program and the 2008 CfA . Postdoctoral Fellowship Program are now accepting applications online. ... Christine . Christine Crowley, Coordinator . Fellowship Program . ... Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics 60 Garden Street, MS 67 Cambridge, MA  02138 . ...

. 2.31. This is Vishnu that guards the Tata Institute . The destination of his arms is the following: The arm number 1 is for blessing; The arm number 2 keeps a wheel weapon that designates the authority above the world; The arm number 3 keeps a conch (a sea shell); The arm number 4 gives a Prasad (the gifts).

... Effective immediately, the following telescope dust closure rules and guidelines will be followed by all users of APO telescopes, both by operations staff and visitors. ... 3.5-m Telescope: . use dust monitor in enclosure when telescope is open. when > 1 micron dust level is in the 2000 to 3000 range, operate enclosure pressurization fan and close louvers while telescope is open, checking enclosure dust level every 15 minutes. if level inside enclosure exceeds 3000, close telescope. ...

АНОНС НАУЧНЫХ КОНФЕРЕНЦИЙ 1998-99 гг. ... An AAS Electronic Announcement Dear Colleague: NASA has approved development of a Wide Field Camera 3 (WFC3) for installation in the HST on the 2002 Servicing Mission. A Scientific Oversight Committee (SOC) is being established to ensure that the broad interests of the scientific community are represented in the development of WFC3. The primary task of the SOC will be to advise the HST Project and STScI in all areas of scientific performance of WFC3. ...

... Berezhnoi A.A., Klumov B.A., Shevchenko V.V., Fortov V.E. Collision of a comet with Jupiter: Determination of fragment penetration depths from the molecular spectra, JETP Letters, V. 63, No. 6, p. 405-410, 1996 . ... Berezhnoi A.A., Klumov B.A., Shevchenko V.V., Fortov V.E. Shock chemistry in Jovian atmosphere following SL9 impacts, International Conference on the SL9-Jupiter Collision, I-2, July 3-5, 1996, Meudon, France . ... Berezhnoi A.A., Klumov B.A. Lunar ice: Can its origin be determined? ...

The direct detection of gravitational waves is one of those events long-expected by physicists that are nevertheless a significant occurrence which excites the world scientific community as if something unexpected has happened. ... Many rumors leaked ahead of the conference, and the fact that something (that is, a signal corresponding to gravitational waves) was discovered by LIGO (Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory) was discussed on the sidelines. ... arXiv:1602.03868 . ...

Next: Organization of Data Sets in Virtual Observatories . ... Pasian, F. & Benacchio, L. 2003, in ASP Conf. ... The Italian Data Grid for Astrophysical Research (DRACO: Datagrid for italian Research in Astrophysics and Coordination with the virtual Observatory) is a concept having the aim of providing the scientific community with a distributed multi-functional environment allowing the use of specialized (computing, storage, observational) Grid nodes. ...

WPLTN Technical Workshop . ... WPLTN-2012) . ... of the International Scientific Technical Conference WPLTN-2012 . ... Having an opinion that the collocation of various space geodesy measurement technologies has a fundamental role in increasing the accuracy of fundamental and applied positioning, navigation and timing provision, the International Scientific Technical Conference WPLTN-2012 has come to the following conclusions: 2.1. ... Web-page . ... Resolution of the conference WPLTN-2012 . ...

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" . ...

If you can see this, it means that the installation of the Russian Apache web server software on this system was successful. ... This page is here because the site administrator has changed the configuration of this web server. ... The Apache Software Foundation, which wrote the web server software this site administrator is using, has nothing to do with maintaining this site and cannot help resolve configuration issues. ... You are free to use the image below on an Apache-powered web server. ...

... Explorers 1/3 . ... Orbit . ... Launch of Explorer 1 . ... The USSR was first, sending off its first "Sputnik" ("satellite") on October 4, followed by Sputnik II on November 3. ... The spacecraft, named Explorer 1, was launched 31 January 1958 and was designed and built by a group of scientists from the University of Iowa, led by James Van Allen . ... the launch of Explorer 1;Click . ... Explorer 2 failed to orbit, but Explorer 3, launched March 26, was successful, and it did carry a tape recorder. ...

... The DD tag element specifies a term definition, and follows one or more DT elements. ... CLASS . ... The CLASS attribute is most commonly used to attach a different style to some element, but it is recommended that where practical class names should be picked on the basis of the element's semantics, as this will permit other uses, such as restricting search through documents by matching on element class names. ... CLEAR . ... The CLEAR attribute allows you to move down unconditionally: . ...

INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITION . Space technologies - to serve the society" Kyiv, Khreschatik street, 2 24-28 August 2001 . ... About exhibition . ... NAME: International Exhibition "Space Technologies to Serve the Society". ... REASONS: International Exhibition "Space Technologies to Serve the Society" is being carried out according to the President of Ukraine Decree ? ... strengthen of the space industry enterprises' positions and ptoducts' manufacturing for domestic market needs, . ...

Next: You are the Anglo-Australian Up: You are the International Previous: Research Interests . ... Most of these facilities will not see first light for years: by then, the whole field of astronomy will have moved on. You have to make sure that whatever is funded has enough flexibility to cope with this. ... You have to make sure that these facilities can be used by young researchers, researchers at minor institutions, and from third world countries. ...

The most recent leap second was added on 2012 June 30: The protocol files in this version have been updated to UTC1-TAI = -35. The following IAU Circular describes prior leap seconds. As announced by the IAU Central Bureau for Astronomical Telegrams in Circular No. 9004 on 11 December 2008, Bulletin C36 of the International Earth Rotation and Reference Systems Service announced that a positive leap second will be added on 1 January 2009. ...

... The behaviour of the polarization efficiency (see Eq. ( 14 )) for non-absorbing and absorbing spheroids is shown in Fig. 11 for the case when a maximum polarization is expected (PF alignment, ). ... Figure 11: Polarization efficiency against for prolate and oblate spheroids with and , picket fence orientation, . The size/shape effects are illustrated. ... Figure: Polarization efficiency as a function of particle equivolume radius for prolate core-mantle spheroids with and , PF orientation, . ...

In 2002, the Division V “Geomagnetic Observatories, Surveys and Analyses” of the International Association for Geomagnetism and Aeronomy (IAGA) embarked on a new initiative to create an “Old Analogue Magnetograms Inventory”, where it was proposed to the worldwide geomagnetic community to begin converting old analogue magnetograms to the digital, computer-readable images. ... This project has successfully been completed and reported back to ICSU: . ... 2003 ICSU Grant Report . ...

... Master . Master net Homepage . ... Ten years ago it was realized that robotic observatories boost the capabilities of astronomical observations of non-stationary and short-lived phenomena in the Universe. ... The first Russian robot-telescope MASTER was developed in 2002 and installed nearby Moscow. ... OAO MO "Optica" has mastered the production of such systems. The workshop is devoted to the results achieved by MASTER-net, that recently stretch over the globe from Blagoveshensk to Argentina. ...

... Between them, the following points are touched: ICRF-2 structure, ICRF Core sources selection, and some expected user's requirements. ... Suggested total number of sources is close to the number of sources already observed in the IVS and VCS sessions, and for most of them reliable positions are derived, mostly for declination > -40 deg. ... So, results of source position time series analysis heavily depend on method used for time series computation and should be used with care. ...

Course : Social media for civil society Lecturer: Olga Guzhva, Assistant Professor, Vice dean of International cooperation department of sociology, general editor of SCS Journal( www.scsjournal.org) The course consist of main thematic chapter as I theory and practise of e-Democracy, overview of channel of communication and social media , social media tools ( practical cases)) Theme /Modules Theme 1 Introduction to the course ... Discussion involves participants in active learning. ...