This directory contains prototypes for scripts that may be called by the camera driver. ... The script set_camera_filter should take a filter number as an argument and send a command to a filter wheel. The SBIG filter wheel is supported internally and does not use this script. If you have another filter wheel, then a script such as this would allow you to use XmCCD to control the filter wheel. ... Simply "make" the routine in the ifw directory, and then "make install". ...

... If you hope that aliens could be somewhere then meet with first Children's Message to Extraterrestrial! ... Message to . ... An idea of contact with unknown life forms unite different specialist like: astronomers, physicists, cyberneticians, radio technicians, linguists, philosophers, and historians. Take a look at page prepared by the SETI Science and Culture Center of the Tsiolkovsky Academy of Cosmonautics and by the SETI Section of the Radio Astronomy Council, Russian Academy of Sciences. ...

... ARTICLE: The Adventurous Search For The Astronomical Unit . ... Kepler himself had suggested to use the rare occasions of Venus transiting (crossing) the solar disk to measure our distance to the planet. ... Due to the orbital inclination of Venus against the ecliptic of 3.5°, a Venus transit is so rare that it happens only at intervals of 121.5 years, 8 years, 105.5 years, 8 years and so on. ... Crabtree witnessing the transit of Venus 1639 . ... Transits of Venus - The Quest for the Solar Parallax...

The lost world: Pluto and Haron. Pluto . ... Mass . ... The period of rotation . ... Pluto is the ninth from the Sun big planet of the solar system. ... The careful processing of the snapshots with the images of the star sky parts, where the new planet was thought to be found was not successful at that time (later on when Pluto had been discovered the snapshots of 1991 were processed again and there were the four very weak and invisible earlier imeges of the planet seen). ...

. MASTER supernova search . 2006 02 08.96 UT . Klick for full image .

Mark your calendars to reserve Tuesday, December 13 for a sensational astronomy meeting! The Amateur Astronomers Association of Princeton is presenting astronomer and author Kim Weaver for a presentation titled: "New Eyes on the Universe: Observing Beyond Hubble with the Chandra and Spitzer Space Telescopes," and will highlight violent processes and dust-enshrouded objects revealed only by searching for signatures in x-ray and infrared light. ...

Pulkovo Photographic Plate Database . To find a certain plate, type its number, choose instrument and click button FIND Instrument: Normal Astrograph 26-inch refractor Plate number: . To find plates with a certain sky area: choose instrument, type coordinates (R.A. and Dec.) of the center of this area, type radius of this area, type (optionally) names of required objects, and click button FIND . ...

... Master . ... SAI MSU . Conference was supported by PLC "MO "OPTIKA" . ... Morning session . Chair Hugo Levato (ICATE, Argentina) . ... Vladimir Lipunov ( MSU , SAI ) . ... Evgeniy Gorbovskoy (MSU, SAI) & . А lexander Belinskiy (MSU, SAI) . ... Chair Claudio Mallamaci (OAFA, Argentina) . ... Using MASTER Net in the MSU educational process . ... Chair Victor Kornilov (MSU, SAI) . ... Nikolay Budnev (ISU ) . ... Excursion to the Moscow Kremlin . ... Joint MASTER and Russian Pereplet session. ...