... 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. ...

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... Mark C. Lee (Colonel, USAF, Ret.) NASA Astronaut (former) . ... EDUCATION: Graduated from Viroqua High School, Viroqua, Wisconsin, in 1970; received a bachelor of science degree in civil engineering from the U.S. Air Force Academy in 1974, and a master of science degree in mechanical engineering from Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1980. ... NASA EXPERIENCE: Lee was selected as an astronaut candidate by NASA in May 1984. ... Lee retired from NASA and the Air Force effective July 1, 2001. ...

... GUI­fying and Documenting your Shell Script Peter. ... We describe a simple method to annotate shell scripts and have a preprocessor extract a set of variables, present them to the user in a GUI (using Tcl/Tk) with context sensitive help, and run the script. ... Tcl/Tk: TkRun The GUI that is created will provide a simple interface to a program that is spawned by the GUI. ... Sample Script: testscript Here is an example header from a C­shell script with which Figure 1 was made. ...

... The first two catalogues (the one has been calculated using all input catalogues and the second one using only catalogues obtained with CALC/SOLVE software) provide a stochastic improvement of the ICRF 2. and the last two of them one allow us to account also for systematic errors in the current ICRF version. ... Input Catalogues and Comparisons Table 1. ... In result, the combined catalogue PUL08C01a and PUL08C01b (only input catalogues constructed using CALC/SOLVE were used) were constructed. ...

... In the тАЬAstronomical YearbookтАЭ (AY) the ephemerides of the Sun, Moon, major planets and stars computed with the maximum precision in accordance with the resolutions approved by the International Astronomical Union (IAU) are published. ... N.I. Glebova, M.L. Sveshnikov; . ... the seasons values, coefficients of the Tchebyshov polynomials of the Moon ephemerides, the phases of the Moon, the planetary configurations, the data for the eclipses of the Sun and Moon (N.I.Glebova, M.V.Lukashova); . ...

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... In particular, members of the project regularly organize events dedicated to various interesting astronomical phenomena and events - solar and lunar eclipses, transit of Venus, etc. On November 3rd a team of astronomers will venture deep into Turkana National Park, Kenya and attempt to broadcast the magic of a total solar eclipse to the world. ... Solar eclipse . A solar eclipse occurs when the Moon passes between the Sun and Earth, and the Moon fully or partially blocks the Sun from our view. ...

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) . ...

... The storm began quite unexpectedly. The strongest geomagnetic storm for the last seven months began on Earth almost precisely at the same time as the solar eclipse reached its maximal stage, the culmination of which occurred at GMT 02:35 (06:35 Moscow time). ... Oscillations of such amplitude in the magnetic field have not been observed since October, 11th of last year, which is more than seven months ago. ... We can only add that the magnetic storm lasted approximately 9 hours. ...

... EVE : · : -2-1- Kourou ­ · ­ () · 170 kg entry mass ­ High Balloon (ESA) · 170 kg entry mass ­ Optionally: Low balloon (Japan) · 35 kg entry mass Geometric configuration Insertion orbit : 250/66000 km Period = 1 day Inclination : 90° Periapsis node : ~ - 30° Sequence : · · · · · · · · Arrival Vinf = 3 km/s Entry probe 1 separation T0 ­ 7 days Entry probe 2 separation T0 ­ 5 days Orbiter acceleration DV = 50 m/s Probe ... 2005: - 2006-2015 2015 EVE - · EVE ­ ­ , ­ ( · - ...

P.O. Box 797 Sonoita, AZ 85637-0797 June 19, 2000 Prof. David Chalmers Philosophy Department Room 213, Social Sciences Building University of Arizona Tucson, AZ 85721-0027 Dear Prof. Chalmers: Well, here's another one from Mr. At-Least-I-Thought-Of-It-Independently. ... So as a thought experiment, let's imagine that instead of having our matter transporter actually move matter, what it moves is information. ... That will make it necessary to move the matter to move consciousness. ...

... S.P. KOROLEV ROCKET AND SPACE CORPORATION ENERGIA . ... OAO RSC "Energia" . ... News . ... Interfax news agency held press conference attended by the President of OAO Rocket and Space Corporation Energia after S.P. Korolev, General Designer V.A. Lopota, the Managing Director of OAO NPO Energomash after the academician V.P. Glushko V.L. Solntsev and the Deputy Head of the Department in charge of Federal Property Management Agency MIC infrastructural industries and organizations S.A. Barinov. ...

... 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. ...