Lessons learned from the Thirty Meter Telescope site testing Tony Travouillon Sebastian Els, Angel Otarola, Reed Riddle, Matthias Schoeck, Warren Skidmore TMT.XXX.PRE.05.0XX.DRF01 1 Introduction TMT and its Site testing. Important choice before going on site. ... Considerations during analysis of the data. TMT.XXX.PRE.05.0XX.DRF01 2 Some Background about the TMT Site Testing TMT is a 30m, segmented, RitcheyChretien telescope design. ... ASCA Cloud Cover Analysis So how do we do it in practice? ...

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... 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 ...

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. ...

Individual papers from the VSOP Symposium Proceedings, "Astrophysical Phenomena Revealed by Space VLBI", eds H. Hirabayashi, P.G. Edwards and D.W. Murphy (ISAS), can be downloaded as gzipped postscript files by clicking on the links below. ... Multi-Epoch Global+VSOP/HALCA Observations of Virgo A at lambda 6 cm . ... Space-VLBI Observations of the Core-Jet in the Nearby Spiral Galaxy M81 . ... H. Hirabayashi, P.G. Edwards, B.G. Piner et al. ... Pentachromatic VSOP and VLBA Survey of GPS Sources . ...

... Bad Astronomy . ... Every few months, one of a series of questions comes up on the USENET group sci.astro involving tides, or the rotation of the Moon, or the recession of the Moon from the Earth. ... Why the Moon's rotation period is the same as the length of time it takes to orbit the Earth (same as number 1, but phrased differently). ... But when this happens, the time it takes for the Earth to rotate once will be slowed to exactly the same time it takes for the Moon to go around the Earth once! ...

... Heracles Triplane and Aerospace Systems . The key characteristics of two-stage aerospace systems are determined according to speed and carrying capacity of the aircraft-carrier used . ... So the SPIRAL system hypersonic carrier was expected to launch the second stage by weight 63 tons at a speed corresponding to 6M; whereas launching weight of the MAKS system orbital stage with the use of the An-225 MRIYA heavy subsonic aircraft reaches 275 tons, and the HERACLES aircraft - 450 tons. ...

Astronotes Armagh Planetarium's Stellar Blog! ... Colin Johnston . ... Space Flight . ... By admin January 28, 2011 Posted in: Colin Johnston . ... I wasnтАЩt watching the television but looked up when a newsflash interrupted the gameshow Countdown. тАЬThe space shuttle Challenger has explodedтАЭ were the chilling first words from the solemn newsreader, followed by footage of the terrible yet eerily beautiful fireball which ended seven lives. ... The disaster also ended an age of innocence. ...

Supernova 2007uy and 2008D in NGC 2770 . This page is devoted to information on Supernova 2007uy and Supernova 2008D in NGC 2770 . ... Information on the original web pages for many of these images can be found on the updates and links web pages. 2007uy was discovered by Yoji Hirose (Japan)). ... 2008D was discovered by the Swift/XRT satellite which was then observing 2007uy , and announced by Lick Observatory Supernova Search (USA). ... SNWeb has a 2007uy page and 2008D page . ... JM Llapasset . ...

Khrutskaya E, Berezhnoy A, Kalinin S. Title:Old photographic plates in the Gaia era: archive plates of Pulkovo observatory, its digitization, results of astrometric reduction, error analysis. ... The results of astrometric reductions for 1800 plates with asteroids, digitized by a flatbed scanner, and the results for the 223 plates with asteroids and Pluto, digitized by the Damian digitizer in the ROB, are shown. ...

... 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. ...

Russian Space Science Internet (RSSI) is a successful result of RSSI Project. ... space oriented organizations; . ... RSSI offers for its members : . ... videoconferences via MBONE Internet protocol (there are 2 tunnels available now through the general IP network: one to NASA Internet, and another to Moscow State University); . ... It is designed so that all organizations connected to the RSSI gain access to the resources of Russian computer networks as well as world wide Internet. ... nic@rssi.ru ...

Lutsenko Olena L. (PhD, Psychology, Associate Professor) Filonenko Anna (Master, Psychology, Lecturer) School of Psychology V. N.Karazin Kharkiv National University COURSE DESCRIPTIONS ­ PSYCHOLOGY OF LEADERSHIP Title and N of module 1­ Leadership Theories Themes 1. ... Ethical leadership. ... Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, 95 , 140-155. ... Socializing the newcomer: The mediating role of leader-member exchange.Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, 119, 114-125. ...

... The event, a Type II supernova explosion, would have briefly dominated the night sky on Earth. ... Popularly known as the Veil Nebula, NGC 6960, NGC 6992, and NGC 6995 together constitute the corpse of a single supergiant star that perished in that supernova explosion. ... Such stars age about 1,000 times faster than does our Sun. ... Each nuclear-fusion stage releases energy and helps the star fight the ever-present pull of gravity. ... Copyright (c) Amateur Telescope Makers of Boston, Inc. ...

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... РЕШЕНИЕ ЗАДАЧ СФЕРИЧЕСКОЙ АСТРОНОМИИ . ... Вычисление точных топоцентрических эфемерид планет . ... В качестве примера в нем приведены исходные данные сервера для расчета эфемерид Марса. Ниже списка располагаются четыре кнопки для модификации исходных данных. ... Через некоторое время, которое в основном определяется скоростью передачи данных по сети, на экране появиться большая таблица рассчитанных значений параметров, снабженных многочисленными комментариями. ...

SAI VO . ... SAI CAS . ... Web Services . Catalog Access Services . ... SAI VO Wiki . ... Program Access . SAI CAS Wiki . SAI Web Services . ... DSS Mirror . ... We provide an implementation of IVOA standard Simple Image Access Protocol interface to our DSS mirror. Service metadata is available here . Currently, we provide the atlas service only, which returns the list of original DSS images intersecting the requested sky area. ... SAI MSU | ...

Introduction The suggested invention relates to attitude control system of a spacecraft. ... Systems without interaction with ambient (Systems with jet engines) Here, for instance, we can put systems, which can generate torque because of jettisoning any particles or gas. ... The main element of the suggested attitude control system is an electrical motor, which main feature is absents of a stator. ... 3 Block diagram of an attitude control system on a jet engines base. ... It is a system with| | ...

... Specialists from the TESIS Control Centre, at the FIAN Laboratory of Solar X-ray Astronomy, have succeeded in fixing a malfunction in one of the observatory's central telescopes, which occurred in the second half of May. ... The main version of events pointed to a malfunction in the drive mechanism's reducer, which is responsible for the rotational power from the main shaft of the motor to its output shaft, which is connected to the shutter. ... The TESIS observatory ї TESIS: www.tesis.lebedev.ru . ...

... Здесь собраны функции, необходимые для работы программы. #ifndef VIGG0_H #define VIGG0_H int FindMatrix( string InputString, string SearchString1, string SearchString2); void Invert ( string In); void ComplementaryStr( string In); void Swap( string objA, string objB); class Integer_Node { int Node_handles; Integer_Node * Node_next ; public: Integer_Node( int new_carry): Node_handles(new_carry), ... NO=0)\t"; cin>>ComplementScanActive; cout<<"Want new locus scan start signal? ...