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Next: Navigation Pre-Observation Products . ... SRT (Space Radio Telescope) Schedule (SRS) File . ... What: GOCG generates the Space Radio Telescope (SRT) schedule file, or SRS file, from current GSTS file. The SRS file has more precise time stamps than long-term schedules, and also designates which GTS will be used when. ... The SRS file also serves as the antenna pointing schedule file, as it describes the planned orientation of the spacecraft (and solar panels) as a function of time. ...

This page contains the table of contents and select excerpts only and is not a complete reproduction of this issue. Complete content for online Mercury is available to ASP members and institutional subscribers . ... Reflections: Science Fare , Phil Plait . The Bad Astronomer (a.k.a. Phil Plait) gives a short speech to students who participated in a science fair. ... Astronomy in the News . ... Editorial, Paul Deans . ... Education Matters, David Bruning . ... Reflections, Phil Plait . ...

Microsymposium 38, MS083, 2003 (A4 format) MERCURY: LOCAL VARIATIONS OF THE PHOTOMETRIC RELIEF. ... Because of trajectory and pointing angle constraints the planet could be observed from Mariner 10 only over a small range of phase angles between about 75o and 110o. Therefore the photometric investigations are restricted to measuring the distribution of brightness on the Mercurian disk. ... Raw versions of real-time processing pictures FDS 0000984 and FDS 0000986 were used (images 196 and 202). ...

... 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 . ...

... Its apparent diameter of 18.0 arc minutes corresponds to a linear extension of about 180 light years; Kenneth Glyn Jones mentions an estimate of even 20 arc minutes from deep photographic plates, corresponding to about 200 light years linear diameter. It appears somewhat smaller in amateur instruments, perhaps about 10 minutes of arc. ... Red: 20x3 minute subs, totaling 1 hour . Green: 20x3 minute subs, totaling 1 hour . ... Copyright (c) Amateur Telescope Makers of Boston, Inc. ...

... FTP access the basic models is here . ... Below, we put short descriptions of the used SED models for the photometric redshifts providing by the current server . ... The uniqueness of this model consists in expanding to the near IR (NIR) of Rocca-Volmerange and Guiderdoni's (1988) atlas of synthetic spectra with a revised stellar library, which includes parameters of cool stars. ... Homepage of the GISSEL model). ... Another model used earlier is the model of synthetic spectra of Poggianti (1997). ...

... Satellite data ] . ... Data organization and access. ... The following data types are used for storage of information relevant to the project: . ... All data available within the Pavodok-96 project are copyright ї Space Monitoring Information Support laboratory (SMIS IKI RAN). Neither the data themselves nor any materials obtained with the use of these data can be used for commercial purposes and/or by any mass-media or public information system without prior writting permission from SMIS IKI RAN. ...

Symbolic circuit-matrix processor and evaluator . ... This software is reliable over the range of benchmark circuit complexity (both *.CIR and *.MAT file). ... SYMBOL is a symbolic-algebra package which in contrast to REDUCE, MACSYMA, MAPLE, MATHEMATICA, MathLAB, MathCAD and other known multi-purpose systems is especially intended for analysis of any lumped, linear, time-invariant circuit. ... pure ASCII text . ... CIRSYM - SYMbolic CIRcuit processor used to format ASCII text file *.out for CALCSYM. ...

... the data are described accurately enough to allow an unambiguous interpretation of the data, as well as a comprehension of the context in which the data were acquired and/or processed; a single ascii file, named ReadMe , is designed for this role. the data are in a format which allows their usage by tools currently in usage in our discipline -- normally flat ascii files ; other formats can be accepted, but are converted into flat files. ... How to prepare the Data files . ... How to deposit the data...

... From the uvby photometry and proper motions for about 5500 nearby F stars we have found the following: (i) F stars , taken in narrow ranges of metallicity , show at [fe/H] 0 rather distinct cut-off in their distribution along the Main Sequence (MS) at the blue side, which is suggested to be an indication for the MS turn-off in stellar groups of fixed metallicity ; (ii) the corresponding turn-off age from theoretical isohrones strongly correlates with the ...

Catalogue of eclipsing variables (CEV) is the world's principal database of eclipsing binary systems with available classification. CEV contains identifications, classifications, photometry, periods, eclipses data, spectral types, references and notes for 7179 systems. Format of the current CEV . CEV main table (~1.0MB) . ... List of systems, erroneously classified as eclipsing binaries in GCVS (they are not included in the CEV main table) Download all files as a single archive (~0.6MB) . ...

... Let Carol Vorderman help your child succeed in Science. Science Made Easy is one of Carol Vorderman's series of workbooks packed with notes and tips to make learning about Science easy and fun! ... Each title contains a progress chart so your child can keep track of all the exercises they have completed and parents' notes explain what children need to know at each stage and what's being covered in the curriculum so you can support your child. ... Age: over 3 years old . ...

... The following lists several Chandra-related sites on the World-Wide Web (WWW). ... Chandra X-Ray Center (CXC), operated for NASA by the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory (SAO). http://wwwastro.msfc.nasa.gov/ . ... AXAF Mission Support Team (MST), at the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory (SAO). http://hea-www.harvard.edu/HRC/ . ... Chandra Low-Energy Transmission Grating (LETG) team at Space Research Organisation Netherlands (SRON). http://www.rosat.mpe-garching.mpg.de/axaf/ . ...

... Read MPEC 2008-W65 Read MPEC 2008-W67 M.P.E.C. 2008-W66 Issued 2008 Nov. ... 02138, U.S.A. Prepared using the Tamkin Foundation Computer Network MPC@CFA.HARVARD.EDU URL http://www.cfa.harvard.edu/iau/mpc.html 2008 WM61 Observations: K08W61M * K08W61M K08W61M K08W61M K08W61M K08W61M K08W61M K08W61M K08W61M K08W61M K08W61M K08W61M K08W61M C2008 C2008 C2008 C2008 C2008 C2008 C2008 C2008 C2008 C2008 ... Orbital elements: 2008 WM61 Epoch 2008 Nov. ...

My colleagues and I have recently completed a series of observations of SN1999an. ... The telescope is located at Martin Observatory in Blacksburg, VA, and is operated by the Physics Department of Virginia Tech. Our IAU Minor Planet Center Observatory Code is 841. ... Attached you will find a copy of one of our images (in .jpg format) with the supernova indicated. ... Virginia Tech Department of Physics . Back to Bright Supernovae . Back to Supernova 1999an . ...

Computer Ephemeris. Precession/nutation matrix. Explanations. Each row contains for the date specified at 0 h of Time Dynamical Terrestrial nine elements of equatorial precession/nutation matrix minus unity matrix multiplied on 10 8 . This matrix is to be used for coordinate transformation of equatorial coordinates between mean equatror and equinox J2000.0 and real equator and equinox of date. ... This is the matrix for transformation from J2000.0 to date. ...

... T he ADC 's data holdings contain the following item(s) that match the query entered - . Fill in Any or All Search Fields Below . ... J/A+AS/126/281 Solar disk spectrum (660-1175A) (Curdt+ 1997) . ... J/A+AS/103/57 Spectral coefficients of emission and absorption (MIHAJLOV 1994) . ... J/A+AS/122/51 B to G stars calibration in Geneva photometry (Kunzli+, 1997) . ... J/A+AS/113/237 Ultraviolet Spectrum of the Sun (Samain, 1995) . ... J/A+AS/141/141 8500-8750{AA} high resolution spectroscopy. ...

... The Science Operation Department is composed of Astronomers, Telescope Instruments Operators(TIOs) and Data Handling Administrators(DHAs). ... Astronomers have proposed several methods to quantitatively measure the amount of turbulence above the telescope, which the most common ones is Differential Image Motion Monitor (DIMM). In optical testing, the Hartmann test is the common method to test the quality of optical components. ... Hartmann mask consists of 48 lenses. ...