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". ...

... 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. ...

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 . ...

... SUPER RATIO . ... On this page I will present the most important (on my opinion) idea on Intellegence Life in the Universe . ... On the problem of the Super Ratio in astrophysics" . ... As a matter of fact, this is the main problem of the modern natural science. ... Here I shall try to speak about the most important problem of the modern natural science, the problem which is undoubtedly, of more importance than discovery of Blacks Holes, creation of Grand Unification Theory or Artificial...

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). ...

... 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...

SETI = Search for Extraterrestrial Inteligence . Поиск Внеземного Разума . Данная страница содержит материалы, относяющиеся к деятельности в области SETI в СССР и России. ... В литературе по проблеме "Внеземные цивилизации", наряду с термином SETI (Search for Exstraterrestrial Intelligence - поиск внеземного разума), используется также термин CETI (Communication with Extraterrestrial Intelligence - связь с внеземным разумом). Исторически первым появился термин CETI. ...

... 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. ...