... IAU XXVIII General Assembly: Special Session #13 . ... Inferring internal rotation in stars . ... Measuring mass, radius, and age from seismology . ... Joint Discussion 13 is part of the scientific programme of the XXVIII General Assembly of the International Astronomical Union, which will take place in Beijing, China, August 27-31 2012. This website contains information directly relevant to the Special Session #13: High-Precision Tests of Stellar Physics from High-Precision Photometry. ...

home education > resources . ... Education from Mercury . ... Selected Topical Bibliographies . Astronomy Education Bibliography . ... Astronomical Pseudo-Science . ... Foothill College the Astronomical Society of the Pacific) . ... Sletteback, A. Jettner, F. "Proceedings of the Conference on Education in Astronomy, August 1969" in Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society, vol. 2, p. 254 (1970). ... Accompanied, later in the same book, by a "Catalog of National Astronomy Education Projects".) ...

Next: The Echelle Relation Up: Wavelength Calibration Previous: Wavelength Calibration . A preliminary step to the wavelength calibration consists of extracting the orders of the WLC image which can then be used to determine the dispersion relation in two steps: . ... Both methods are based on the echelle relation and therefore are not applicable if the disperser is not an echelle grating, as it is the case for EFOSC which involves a grism disperser. ...

... Telescopes . ... Method "Spectroscopy with the Main Stellar Spectrograph (MSS) of the BTA" . ... The MSS of the 6-m BTA telescope is a long-slit spectrograph, stationary installed in the rack of the Nasmyth-2 focus (Vasiliev et al. ... Design, engineering and manufacturing of the spectrograph were carried out in parallel with the creation of the BTA telescope. ... Panchuk V.E., SAO Preprint ? ... BTA telescope. ... The main stellar spectrograph, Leningrad: LOMO (1974) (in Russian). ...

... Open here the home page of a Spanish translation "La Exploraci n de la Magnetosfera Terrestre" , by J. M ndez of Algorta, Spain. Open here the home page of a French translation L'Exploration de la Magn tosph re Terrestre , by Kamil Fadel and Marielle Verg s of Paris, France. ... Both home pages list translated files in bold face . ... This is the home page of an overview of space research on the Earth's environment in space. ... A Teacher's Introduction to the Earth's Magnetosphere . ...

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... casa . casa::ArrayBase_global_functions_Array_general_global_functions . ... ArrayVolume ( uInt Ndim, const Int *Shape) . ... ArrayIndexOffset ( uInt Ndim, const ssize_t *Shape, const ssize_t *Origin, const ssize_t *Inc, const IPosition &Index) . What is the linear index into an "Ndim" dimensional array of the given "Shape", "Origin", and "Increment" for a given IPosition Index. size_t . ArrayIndexOffset ( uInt Ndim, const ssize_t *Shape, const ssize_t *Inc, const IPosition &Index) . ...

General Information This page provides some links to general information concerning the Irish Astronomical Journal. Here you will find details about our publications, a brief history of the IAJ and some details about the people involved. Publications - A description of the Publications of the Irish Astronomical Journal . History - A description of the History of the Irish Astronomical Journal . Staff - The Staff of the Irish Astronomical Journal . ...

It is a matter of common knowledge that in processes of genesis and evolution of many solar phenomena participate magnetic fields of sunspots. ... As a basis for formation of the database we take data on magnetic fields, collected by set of observatories during many years of observations. ... Section "Magnetic field data" contains data of magnetic field observation for separate sunspots, presented in standard text format (ASCII). ... Description of structure of these files is presented here . ...

... DESCRIPTION General Catalog of Variable Stars (GCVS database) . ... Kholopov P.N., Samus N.N., Durlevich O.V., Kazarovets E.V., Kireeva N.N., Tsvetkova T.M., 1990, General Catalogue of Variable Stars, 4rd ed., vol.IV, Nauka, Moscow. Kholopov P.N., Samus N.N., Durlevich O.V., Kazarovets E.V., Kireeva N.N., Tsvetkova T.M., 1992, General Catalogue of Variable Stars, 4rd ed., vol.IV, Bull. ... Kazarovets E.V., Durlevich O.V. Editor-in-Chief Samus N.N., 1998, New Catalogue of Suspected Variable Stars. ...

... epframes (epframes-8.87.1) [xmmsas_20070708_1801-7.1.0] . ... epframes reads a raw event list of a single CCD and exposure from an EPIC PN ODF ([ 1 ]) . ... The auxiliary, main periodic housekeeping and spacecraft time correlation files corresponding to the selected EPIC PN raw event list are needed for the computation of event time tags. epframes flags events with faulty coordinates or times in a FLAG column. ... The PHA values are the event raw amplitudes corrected for column offsets. ...

... Third International Symposium UNIVERSAT-2009: UNIVERSITY SATELLITES IN SPACE SCIENCES EDUCATION is canceled . ... With great regret we have to inform you that the Third International Symposium UNIVERSAT-2009: UNIVERSITY SATELLITES IN SPACE SCIENCES EDUCATION scheduled to take place 28 September, 2009 - 4 October, 2009 in Moscow, Russia, has been canceled by the Organizing Committee. ... On behalf of UNIVERSAT-2009 Organizing Committee, . ...

STEP INTO THE BLUE - MEADE INSTRUMENTS PRODUCT GUIDE . ... LX850 Series . ... LX90 Series . ... Coronado Accessories . ... General Accessories . ... Autoguider Port Module for LX80/LX90 . ... Autoguider Port Module for LX80 and LX90 models with Meade AudioStar hand control. The Autoguider Port Module allows use of CCD Autoguider for long exposure astrophotography. ... Note: Meade AudioStar required- Autoguider Port Module is not compatible with 497 AutoStar equipped LX90 or other models. ...

Euro-Asian Association of Astronomy Teachers . ... General information . ... With a purpose to support the enthusiasm of the young amateurs and their teachers, to give them a possibility to test their knowledge and to help them to get in touch with their like-minded friends, the I Open Russian Astronomy Olympiad has been organized by the Euro-Asian Astronomical Society (EAAS) and Ministry of Education of Russian Federation in May 1994 in town of Yaroslavl', Central Russia. ... November 2000, SAO RAS. ...

Next: IRAF/PROS Up: PROS USERS GUIDE Previous: Contents . This guide is designed to aid the new user in deriving scientific results from reduced x-ray data using the SAO PROS software system which runs under IRAF as package ``xray". ... If you are using the IRAF/PROS system at SAO, you will find the siteguide , by Belinda Wilkes, a useful guide to site-specific procedures. ... Spatial analysis . ... Next: IRAF/PROS Up: PROS USERS GUIDE Previous: Contents rsdc@cfa.harvard.edu . ...

The VLTI Calibrator Selector Tool is a tool intended to assist in the selection of suitable interferometric calibrators for VLTI observations with MIDI and AMBER. It uses a model of the VLTI and its instruments to assess the fringe visibility, given the observed bandpass, the geometry, spectrum, and coordinates of the target and the time at which the observations are to be made. ... The tool offers an HTML/Java based interface and consists of two pages. ... The quality flag depends on LDD_chi2. ...

... A2323 Date Received: 2007-Mar-22 16:37:15 Technical Page Proposal Type: General Category: Sub-Category: Observation Category: Total Time Requested: Minimum Useful Time: Prop osal Title: Director Discretionary Time Astronomy Spectroscopy Education 4 Hours Radio Line Observations: An Educational Pro ject using the Arecibo 305 m Telescope ABSTRACT: The increased remote observing capabilities of astronomical observatories allow their use in higher education. ...

A tree for site navigation will open here if you enable JavaScript in your browser. ... ABOUT ST-ECF . ... On this page we provide implementations of the the signal-to-noise ratio estimator DER_SNR following the definition set forth by the Spectral Container Working Group of ST-ECF, MAST and CADC. A detailed description and discussion of the algorithm can be found in the Issue #42 of the ST-ECF newsletter . ...

One of the main purposes of the Department is preparation of highly skilled specialists in the fields of astrophysics, astrometry and space physics. ... Annualy 2-7 graduates of the Department become post-graduates. ... Among over 500 Department graduates there are ~30 Doctors of Science, 130 Candidates of Sciences, 2 Member-Correspondent of Russian Academy of Sciences (RAS) and 1 of Ukrainian one, 4 Ukraine State Prize laureates, Directors of science and industrial institutes. ...

National Aeronautics and Space Administration . Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center . ... William A. Anders (Major General, USAF Reserve, Ret.) NASA Astronaut (former) . ... EDUCATION: Received a bachelor of science degree from the United States Naval Academy in 1955 and a master of science degree in Nuclear Engineering from the Air Force Institute of Technology at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio, in 1962. ...