VISTA Data Flow System: Status Jim Emerson*a, Mike Irwinb, Nigel Hamblyc b a Astronomy Unit, Queen Mary Universit y o f London, Mile End Road, London E1 4NS, UK Inst itute of Astronomy, Universit y of Cambridge, Madingley Road, Cambridge CB3 0HA, UK, c Inst itute for Astronomy, School of Phys ics, Universit y of Edinburgh, Edinburgh EH9 3HJ, UK ABSTRACT Data from two IR survey cameras UKIRT's WFCAM and ESO's VISTA can arrive at rates approaching 1.4 TB/night for of order 10 years. ...

Winer Observatory P.O. Box 797, Sonoita, Arizona 85637-0797, USA . ... 2/3-m Telescope . ... Site . ... Commanding . ... In a typical robotic observing scenario, each afternoon, a telescope control computer obtains a set of objects to observe from its home institution from a command or script file. ... The file is then transferred to the telescope control computer at the Winer Observatory in Sonoita. ... The Iowa control computer then begins processing the telrun.sls file. ... 2013 Winer Observatory. ...

YAMAL-200 COMMUNICATIONS SATELLITE . Spacecraft Yamal-100, Yamal-200 were developed by the Corporation based on the S.P.Korolev RSC Energia-designed Multi-purpose Satellite Bus under a contract with Gascom within the framework of the Russian Federal SpaceProgram. ... Yamal-200 satellites were launched on November 24, 2003 at 9 hours 22 minutes, Moscow Time. Proton-K launch vehicle put the orbital module into its reference orbit. ... Orbit . ... Official WEB-site of S.P.Korolev RSC Energia . ...

A methodical and didactical complex "Sign Language" . ... ABSTRACT The process of communication of the deaf includes the wide use of the sign language. ... The aim of this work is to develop a tool that should facilitate process of sign language teaching and also give to the trainee a means for independent study of various normative variants of sign language - for example, Russian, English, International and so on. ... The process of dialogue of the deaf people includes wide use of sign languages. ...

... Natalya V. Raguzova and Sergei B. Popov . ... We present a compilative catalogue of Be/X-ray binaries and candidates in the Galaxy and in the Large and Small Magellanic Clouds. This catalogue contains 160 sources and provides information on names and spectral types of optical components, distances, on spin characteristics of neutron stars, and on orbital and X-ray properties of binary systems. ... Be/X-Ray Binaries and candidates in the Galaxy . Galactic sources: comments to the Table 1 . ...

GENERAL DESCRIPTION OF DATABASE . It is a matter of common knoledge, that solar magnetic fields and, in particular, magnetic fields of sunspots, play important role in many solar events. In Pulkovo observatory the long-term data set of daily observations of magnetic fields of solar sunspots was accumulated, which contains great potential for further researches in solar physics. ... Second section includes files containing sum data about magnetic fields for every observational day. ...

... IONOSPHERIC DATA IN THE INTERACTIVE SPIDR SYSTEM . ... The Ionosphere The ionosphere is that part of the upper atmosphere where free electrons occur in sufficient density to have an appreciable influence on the propagation of radio frequency electromagnetic waves. ... These regions may be further divided into several regularly occurring layers, such as F1 or F2. ... E Region: The region between about 95 and 150km above the Earth that marks the height of the regular daytime E layer. ...

Communications For Your Astronomy Event . Articles | ... Once upon a time, communication via radio was something only government entities, commercial establishments and certain private folks could do. ... With the continuing progress of services like General Radio Mobile Service (GMRS) and the recent arrival of Family Radio Service (FRS), it has never been easier to do radio communications for your event all by yourself. ... Broad range of radio bands to utilize. ... www.astronomy.net . ...

... Space flight . Crew training . ... Space camp . ... acquiring practical habits and skills of performing all the flight operations envisaged for a flight participant; . maintaining and honing professionally required qualities and skills for a successful activity in conditions of effect of adverse factors of a space flight, as well . ... preparing for the activity outside the spacecraft; . ... preparing for professional activity in conditions of effect of the space flight factors; . ...

... Bad Astronomy . ... On Thursday, February 15th 2001 (and replayed on March 19), the Fox TV network aired a program called ``Conspiracy Theory: Did We Land on the Moon?'', hosted by X-Files actor Mitch Pileggi. ... Dust around the lander . ... However, it appeals to our common sense: when the sky is black here on Earth, we see stars. ... Bad: The program claims that when the top half of the lander took off from the Moon to bring the astronauts back into orbit, there was no flame from the rocket. ...

Counting Stars in the Infrared Sky . ... Credit Copyright: J. Carpenter , M. Skrutskie , R. Hurt , 2MASS Project , NSF , NASA Explanation: The bulging center of our Milky Way Galaxy , dark cosmic clouds, the thin galactic plane, and even nearby galaxies are easy to spot in this sky view. But each pixel in the digital image is actually based on star counts alone -- as derived from the Two Micron All Sky Survey (2MASS) database. ... U. Based on Astronomy Picture Of the Day ...

Russian SHAREABLE DATA CENTER Institute of Solar-Terrestial Physics SB RAS . ... The algorithm and appropriate program for decametric radiosignal propagation conditions prediction for paths from 500 to 9000 km have been developed at ISTP SB on the basis of normal wave method (AltyntsevaB.I,Iliyin N.V., Kurkin V.I. and others //Decameters channel simulation on the base of normal wave method . ... Solar activity indices are chosen automatically from the prediction date from the database . ...

... Инновационная зубная щетка Splat "Complete" направленного действия для комплексного очищения зубов с мягкой щетиной: Утонченная щетина идеально очищает все труднодоступные места: межзубные промежутки, углубления жевательных поверхностей, придесневые участки, где наиболее часто образуется кариес. ... Текстильные коврики для автомобиля мягкие и приятные, а их основа из вспененного полиуретана не пропускает влагу.. ... Подкладка выполнена из мягкого, приятного на ощупь искусственного меха. ...

... 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 ...

VSOP: The VLBI Space Observatory Programme . Released data. VSOP Survey Publications . ... The VSOP Survey Data Reduction Handbook. ... Data reduction in Difmap in postscript (447 kb) or gzipped postscript (77 kb). ... Template Checklist and Worksheet for reduction and analysis of Survey data. ... Changes to Difmap for VSOP data analysis. ... Difmap macros needed for the processing of survey data. ... VSOP Survey Working Group Data Reduction Meeting , July 10, 12, 13 1999 . ...

Astronotes Armagh Planetarium's Stellar Blog! ... Armagh Planetarium . ... Space Flight . Human Exploration . Robot Exploration . ... ItтАЩs strange how you wait years for an exciting free astronomy app for your iPod/Pad/Phone from Armagh Planetarium and then two of them show up in a fortnight. ... Tweets that mention Spacebrains: new astronomy app from Armagh Planetarium | ... Here you will find the latest news and views from the fascinating worlds of astronomy and space exploration. ...

... In less then one day "Mir" station will finish its flight. ... Besides, the operability of motion control systems will be tested to ensure further dynamic operation at the final stage of "Mir" complex. ... The final third burn is given in daily orbit 2 using the "ProgressM1-5" 8 control engines and its main engine with the trust of 300 rg/s. Thus, to peform deorbit maneuver the OC"MIr" real-time tested manuevers involving control engines and their combination with the main engine are used. ...

... The tracking system works in micro-step regime with a computer step of correction = 0.003 arcsec per second of time and a maximum speed of correction up to 4.6 arcsec per second of time. ... The APD module was constructed for performing experiments of receiving of 2 Mbps signals from “ARTEMIS” using the Cassegrain focus of 0.7m telescope. ... GaAs PIN photo diode. ... Laser module with thermoelectric stabilisation of laser diode. ... Electronic module for turbulence compensation system . ...

. Please use the reference to MASTER DataBase as Lipunov et al., 2010, MASTER Robotic Net, Advances in Astronomy, vol. 2010, pp. 1-7 . - days . MASTER , 2002-2016

... Research . Projects . ... The name of the project APEX is a reduction from words " Active Plasma Experiments " . The core of the project are active experiments with injection of electron and (or) plasma beams from a board of the satellite with simultaneous registration of the phenomena, produced by interaction of injected beam with background plasma. ... Active experiments utilise modulated electron beam accelerator and source of modulated xenon plasma beam on the main spacecraft APEX. ...