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... Iowa Robotic Telescope | ... Talon is based on OCAAS, a software suite developed by software engineer Elwood Downey ( Clear Sky Institute ) for use at the University of Iowa ?s first remote facility (the ATF, or Automated Telescope Facility). ... XObservatory : Telescope Control Interface . ... This program calls upon and coordinates much of the interrelated portions of the Talon architecture, and forms the primary control panel for the telescope, dome, and peripheral systems when used locally. ...

... 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. ...

... Bad Astronomy . Misconceptions . ... Bad Astronomy : "That's as remote as the dark side of the Moon!" ... As the tired, hackneyed refrains went on, one in particular caught my ear: " Fly me away to the bright side of the moon, and meet me on the other side." ... As the Moon orbits the Earth, different parts of it get illuminated by the Sun. ... Bad Addendum : At the end of the album "Dark Side of the Moon" by Pink Floyd, there is a voiceover that actually says "There is no dark side of the moon. ...

... 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 . ...

Supernova 2000dj in NGC 735 . This page is devoted to information on Supernova 2000dj in NGC 735 Basic information on this SN, including the last reported brightness, on this Supernova can be found on the main page . Information on the original web pages for many of these images can be found on the Supernova links web page. ... We have a DSS Photometry reference image made by Odd Trondal. ... Odd Trondal's 2000dj page . ... Odd Trondal image . ... vsnet-alert 5238 ] New KAIT SN in NGC 735 . ...

University Satellites and . Space Science Education . ... Accurate Satellite Trajectory Determination Using IGS Precise Ephemeris . ... International Global Navigation Satellite Systems Service (IGS) let users of satellite navigation systems free access to the information of rather precise coordinates of every satellite in Greenwich coordinate system with two week delay. ... As a result of applying this algorithm the trajectory of every satellite was defined as precise as IGS data. ...

... FEATURES OF OBTAINED IMAGES All images obtained by the TESIS have a number of artifacts, i.e., the dark current, flat field, blurring (related to the feature of input shutters and CCD matrices of the equipment), and frame damage caused by the entry of cosmic particles. In addition, poor accuracy of the spacecraft stabilization leads to the fact that separately taken images of the Sun have a ran dom displacement and rotation relative to the CCD matrix. ... Methods of image recording of the TESIS. ...

J2000.0 coordinates -- source coordinates in J2000.0 epoch: right ascension and declination. Currently, the proper motion is assumed to be zero for all sources.

... 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 ...

Astronotes Armagh Planetarium's Stellar Blog! ... Armagh Planetarium . ... Solar System . ... Moon . ... Space Flight . ... Earth Satellites . ... Concept Spacecraft . ... Monthly Sky Notes . ... This image of Earth (left) and the Moon (right) was taken by the Juno space probe's JunoCam, three weeks after its 5 August launch. (image credit:: NASA / JPL / MSSS) . ... Earth and the Moon form a тАЬdouble planetтАЭ unique in the Solar System. ... Subscribe to Astronotes . ...

Microsymposium 40, abstract 78, 2004 (A4 format) A TREATMENT OF DATA BANK OF MORPHOLOGIC CATALOGUE OF MERCURIAN CRATERS. ... Coordinates of craters in the catalogue are changed in accordance with [2] new data of Mercury"s North Pole. A treatment of data bank is fulfilled with the use of software in regime of "client-server" on the choice of ensemble of the objects, compiling maps of density distribution of craters. ... Flat floor of craters on Mercury is met often than on the Moon. ...

... The space station Mir is the most complex and unique vehicle of the twentieth century. ... It is in proposing to UNESCO the procedure of giving to the space station Mir a status of the object of the World cultural heritage of the mankind as a very valuable unique object of the technical culture of the 20th century, and realization of the special project of its preservation. ... Proactive organization work to get in UNESCO the status of the object of the World cultural heritage for the station Mir; ....

... We have compared visualized fields of GSC and USNO A1.0 catalog with unpublished photographic finding charts that were sent by L. Plaut to the compilers of the GCVS. ... 7-15 A9 --- GCVS GCVS or NSV name 17-25 F9.4 --- GSC GSC number 26 A1 --- NoteFlag *Nonstar (GSC) flag 28-29 I2 h RA2000GSC.h Hours RA (GSC), equinox 2000.0 31-32 I2 min RA2000GSC.m Minutes RA (GSC), equinox 2000.0 34-38 F5.2 s RA2000GSC.s Seconds RA (GSC), equinox 2000.0 40 A1 --- DE2000GSC.- ... Plaut, L., 1966, Bull. ...

Field centres for 6dF/FLAIR observations of the 6QZ survey. # 6dF fields have radius 2.844 deg. and were defined in the # J2000 system. FLAIR fields are square and are 5x5 deg # centred on UKST survey positions and defined in the B1950 # system. # 6dF : coordinates ( B1950 ) coordinates ( J2000 ) # Field hh mm ss.ss dd mm ss.s hh mm ss.ss dd mm ss.s sgp001 21 51 31.25 -30 11 45.4 21 54 25.40 -29 57 33.0 sgp002 22 10 08.35 -29 50 17.3 22 12 59.50 -29 35 25.0 sgp003 22 30 24.34 ...

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 . ...

... We use the graph description of coordinates on Teichmuller spaces of Riemann surfaces with holes due to Penner and Fock. ... The Goldman's Poisson structure can be recovered; its quantum deformation enables us to introduce noncommutative Teichmuller spaces and to construct the quantum mapping class group and quantum modular transformations. Using the geodesic spectral description, we can find a cell decomposition of Teichmuller (and moduli) spaces in the new coordinates. ...

Общая Астрономическая Конференция > Форумы общей направленности > Общий форум любителей астрономии . Как расчитывается фазовый угол космического объекта? ... Поиск . ... Кто знает, как расчитывается фазовый угол космического объекта, пожалуйста подскажите. ... Фазовой угол - угол между лучом света, падающим от Солнца на объект, и лучом, отразившимся от него в сторону наблюдателя. А) Если объект имеет форму шара (планета), то найти фазовый угол можно по тому, как планета освещена Солнцем. ...

Communications For Your Astronomy Event . ... Pick a set of FRS radios for communications one mile or less - At less than $10 per radio plus a sack of AA or AAA batteries, this inexpensive approach is prudent for the vast majority of events. ... GMRS is good for communications across town. ... Good ol' CB Radio has its place on the highways, but there really is no point in using it for event comms since FRS, MURS and GMRS exist. ... Star Party Radio Coordination Frequency . ... www.astronomy.net . ...

... The Military Aspects of the Soviet Cosmonautics : A Side View . This book is the first effort in an unclassified Soviet publications to provide a comprehensive overview of the Soviet military space program. Presented here are the classification of the military space systems by functions performed (Chapter 1), the analysis of the organizational evolution of the Soviet space program (Chapter 2) and the description of all observable satellite systems of military or double destination (Chapter 3). ...