... Up: Archives and Information Services . Previous: Search and Retrieval of the AXAF Data Archive on the Web using Java . ... Our Web interface to the HST archive (WDB) was substantially augmented during the past few months: A seamless integration of Java applets and CGI interfaces to the database now allows basic manipulation and visualization of data. ... These applets only require a common Web browser and offer very helpful features to facilitate archive data selection. ...

... AstroImageJ (AIJ) .. ... Reads and writes FITS images with standard headers . ... Provides a time and coordinate converter tool with capability to update/enhance FITS header content (AIRMASS, BJD, etc.) ... Creates color images and with native ImageJ processing power . ... AstroImageJ_Updater . Update operation now updates AIJ version number in Info.plist CFBundleVersion and CFBundleShortVersionString (MacOSX only) . ... AstroImageJ is ImageJ with astronomy plugins and macros installed. ...

Carme . Jupiter XI . Carme [KAR-mee] is the fourteenth known satellite of Jupiter. Carme and Zeus were the parents of Britomartis, a Cretan goddess. Very little is known about Carme. Carme Statistics . ... Mass (Earth = 1) . ... Equatorial radius (km) . ... Equatorial radius (Earth = 1) . ... Mean density (gm/cm^3) . ... Mean distance from Jupiter (km) . ... Rotational period (days) . Orbital period (days) . ... Mean orbital velocity (km/sec) . ... Orbital eccentricity . ...

The next story is a Greek myth about the Big Dipper. ... Star Story . ... He sent them both up into the sky, Callisto to become the constellation of Ursa Major, the Great Bear, which we call the big dipper. ... Arcturus (son of Callisto and Zeus) . ... give students a map of the big dipper and have them determine the following: what the formation of stars represents to them personally; how the group of stars might represent a bear; and why the group of stars is also known as the big dipper . ...

... Data . ... Image Quality . ... Distortion solutions derived from data taken during SMOV with the UVIS F606W filter and the IR F160W filter have been entered into IDCTAB files to support the use of MultiDrizzle to produce distortion-corrected images. ... The MultiDrizzle software was designed to provide a seamless, integrated approach to using the various tasks in the IRAF/STSDAS dither package to correct images for distortion and to register, clean, and optimally combine dithered observations. ...

... Tonight's Sky . ... Gravitational wave search provides insights into galaxy evolution and mergers . ... Moon Maps . ... Swift produces best ultraviolet maps of the nearest galaxies . ... Astronomers at NASA and Pennsylvania State University have used NASA s Swift satellite to create the most detailed ultraviolet light surveys ever of the Large and Small Magellanic Clouds, the two closest major galaxies. ... Despite their modest sizes, the galaxies loom large in the sky because they are so close to...

... Planetarium Staff . ... Armagh Links . ... Planetariums have come a long way since they first appeared in the 1920s.€а The dream equipment then was the electromechanical star projectors brought to their developmental zenith by the famous Zeiss optical company in Germany.€а Today Zeiss still makes some of the best optical star projectors systems in the world with wonderfully sharp stars. ... World's First Successful Planetarium Video Projection at Armagh Planetarium . ... SEARCH ARMAGH PLANETARIUM . ...

... Measuring Galaxy Structure from WALLABY Gas Kinematics . ... In the above image, simulated "channel maps" -- maps of the HI distribution as a function of observing frequency -- of a typical WALLABY detection are shown on the left, while the underlying disk geometry and rotation curve for the corresponding galaxy are shown on the right. The WALLABY kinematics working group is designing the analysis pipeline that will infer these kinematic parameters from HI channel maps. ... today * ATNF | ...

OptInt PmWiki : Pm Wiki / Initial Setup Tasks . ... Most PmWiki configuration is performed in files called local/config.php and pub/css/local.css . ... When you first install PmWiki, the local/config.php file does not exist. Copy the sample-config.php file (in the docs/ directory) to local/config.php and use it as a starting point. ... When changing the configuration of your site, always change the local/config.php file or add files to the cookbook/ or pub directories. ... Just make an text-file. ...

... Previous message: [sas-uploads] eimagecombine-0.6.tgz . ... Package: utils-1.130.1.tgz - 981429 B MD5: 9fd3f1264fb6fdd32ee4eda40e3d23c2 Uploaded by: Eduardo Ojero Pascual (SAS Integration - XMM-Newton SOC) < eduardo.ojero@sciops.esa.int > Accepted on: Wed Jun 17 13:32:21 2015 UTC The most recent ChangeLog entry says: Version 1.130.1 - 2015-06-17 (EO) --------------- + leapsecdata/leapsec.dat: MJD = 57204.0 (2015-07-01T00:00:00) TAI-UTC = 36s.A MJD = 57204.0 is JD = 2457204.5. ...

... Bad Astronomy . ... Bitesize Astronomy . ... Keep Bad Astronomy close to your heart, and help make me filthy rich. ... Right now as I write this, the planet Venus shines brightly in the evening sky, getting higher with each passing day. ... Actually, when astronomers were first able to start measuring properties of Venus, it did look very much like a twin of Earth. ... 2008 Phil Plait. ... Subscribe to the Bad Astronomy Newsletter! Talk about Bad Astronomy on the BA Bulletin Board! ...