... These Frontier Fields will combine the power of HST with the natural gravitational telescopes of high-magnification clusters of galaxies. ... We are soliciting gravitational lensing maps for the last four Hubble Frontier Fields clusters (MACSJ0717.5+3745, MACSJ1149.5+2223, AbellS1063, and Abell 370) based upon the exceptionally deep HST FF imaging and other new ancillary data. ... For the full set of proposal instructions and requirements, see the FY16 Frontier Fields Lensing Map Call for Proposals....

... Summary of reduced ISAAC fields . ... This data release includes eight fully reduced VLT/ISAAC fields in J,H,K s bands covering 50 arcmin 2 of the GOODS region in the Chandra Deep Field South (CDFS). ... 8 ISAAC fields) . ... The 8 ISAAC fields which are part of this data release are superimposed onto a SOFI image (J+K) (part of a previous EIS data release). ... In one case (GOODS field 11/J-band), for which not enough standard stars were available, the ZP was boostrapped from previous SOFI/EIS data...

... AstroGrid, a three year, PPARC-funded, e-Science project, which forms the UK's contribution to world-wide efforts to build a Virtual Observatory based on Grid technologies, announces the availability of several new, web-based, collaboration tools. The static pages of the project portal, now located at http://www.astrogrid.org , present background information about the project plus links to core documents and the new collaboration tools. ... European AVO Project: http://www.eso.org/projects/avo/ . ...

This is the main page for the GIMP Documentation Project. ... User's Guide . ... Style Guide for Plug-Ins . ... In the 0.54 release there were a limited set of of plug-ins in the core package so a short description of some of the contributed plug-ins will be provided. In 0.60 a large number of the contributed plug-ins have been rolled into the base package. ... The Style Guide for Plug-Ins will provide a set of guidelines that plug-in authors can use when creating their plug-in user interfaces. ...

Since 1994, the Astronomical Society of the Pacific's (ASP) highly successful national Project ASTRO? program has been providing opportunities for professional and amateur astronomers to contribute to science education in their local communities. ... The original "classic" Project ASTRO educator-astronomer partners found tremendous interest in what they were doing among the families of their students, and thus Family ASTRO was born to continue at home what was begun in the classroom. ...

OFFICIAL PRESS RELEASE . ... The VC-4 flight tasks were successfully completed. The manned transfer vehicle Soyuz TM-34, been a part of ISS orbital complex since April 27, 2002, as a rescue vehicle and been the earlier manned space vehicle modification of Soyuz type, was replaced by Soyuz TMA-1, the new modification, designed by the S.P. Korolev RSC Energia specialists in cooperation with its subcontractors from Russian rocket and space industry. ... Official WEB-site of S.P.Korolev RSC Energia . ...

... This project was my personal idea quite some time ago: to port XFree86 , the free and optimized X11R6 implementation to OS/2. ... XFree86/OS2 is now available as a public version 3.3.6, which does not expire and for which full source code is available. ... x.physics.usyd.edu.au Please send a mail to me with a complete URL if you have set up a ftp server or a mirror for XFree86/OS2. ... Available ported software . ... I'll still be available as the mediator between XFree86/OS2 and general XFree86. ...

... Astrophysics Group . ... STFC announces бе119 million contribution to The Square Kilometre Array . ... SKA AAVS0 array . ... One of these is the Square Kilometre Array telescope . ... STFC has as well announced today a contribution of бе165 million to theб European Spallation Source and бе25 millionб to participate in the M3 Space Mission (PLATO).б  Speaking ahead of an event at Jodrell Bank Observatory Science Minister David Willetts announced the funding for the two projects. ...

... user-defined data file formats . ... better integration with a user's analysis routines To add such functionality to SAOimage, we developed the XPA Messaging System that allows X programs to define points of public access through which data and commands can be exchanged with external programs. ... We have utilized XPA to develop "SAOimage: The Next Generation" (SAOtng), an extensible image display service that can cooperate with other processes and programs. ... SAOtng help pages . ...

... To move toward open analysis software, we plan to make the PROS regions subsystem available from processes outside of IRAF. We also plan to make the region descriptor parsing system available for purposes beyond the creation of masks, such as an interface to an image display program, accepting a region descriptor and generating commands to display the region on an image. ... Anticipating two kinds of new requirements, we reconsidered the design of the PROS region descriptor processing subsystem. ...

... WISE is achieving 5sigma point source sensitivities better than 0.08, 0.11, 1, and 6 mJy in unconfused regions on the ecliptic in bands centered at wavelengths of 3.4, 4.6, 12, and 22 mum. ... The WISE All-Sky Release Source Catalog is available in compressed (gzip or bzip2) ascii form. ... Users should be aware that the Catalog table is extremely large. ... For complete documentation of the WISE All-Sky Release Source Catalog and the All-Sky Data Release, please see the Explanatory Supplement . ...

Home - News - Download - Documentation - Search - FTP . ... Download . ... Macros . ... A set of macros for handling sets of files. project.nm . The above macro package allows you to define projects and have all the files associated with the projects loaded/closed/saved etc. ... This feature can also be emulated by creating a project with no literal path to the files, therefore the files would be loaded from the current directory. ... Save Project > save_project() . ... Save All > save_all() . ...

Armagh Observatory is to lead a new effort to understand the formation of stars through a collaboration of institutes spread throughout Europe. ... In addition to the Observatory, the project involves astronomers stationed in Germany, Russia, Armenia and Spain: the Max Planck Institute for Astronomy in Heidelberg, the Special Astrophysical Observatory in Russia, Byurakan Observatory in Armenia and Calar Alto Observatory in Spain. ... Michael Smith: Armagh Observatory, N. Ireland . ...

... Established in 1996, the goal of the NASA Johnson Space Center Oral History Project (JSC OHP) is to capture history from the individuals who first provided the country and the world with an avenue to space and the moon. ... Alphabetical List A-B C-D E-G H-J K-L M-N O-R S-T U-Z Administrators Aviatrix Herstory Ballistics JSC OHP ISS OHP NACA OHP Experts OHP Space Shuttle Program Earth System Science NASA at 50 STS Recordation Chilean Miners Rescue Shuttle-Mir OHP SCA-SRB OHP C3PO OHP . ...

... In the Sahara Desert in Egypt lie the oldest known astronomically aligned stones in the world: Nabta. ... Return To Cydonia . ... Yesterday the Mars Global Surveyor project released a new close-up image of a portion of the Cydonia region on Mars. ... Mercury Astronauts and a Redstone . ... Hen 1357: New Born Nebula . ... Observations in the 1970s detected no nebular material, but this image from March 1996 clearly shows the Stingray's emerging bubbles and rings of shocked and ionized gas. ...

... Research objects and scientific purposes . Space scientific program includes development and launch of two supersmall spacecrafts "Universitetskiy" and "Kompas-2" intended for monitoring of radiation conditions near the Earth. ... All the studies conducted in the near-Earth space are characterised by strong radiation fields. ... The circular polar orbits, which cover all the near-Earth space, are the most favorable for comprehensive studies of the radiation conditions near the Earth. ...

... Linux systems will usually have the Python core (Version 2.7) available. ... ALSVID Python Utilities for Processing FITS Images ================================================== file _renumber.py Renumber files in a directory fits _1d_to_dat.py Extract a 1-dimensional FITS array as data fits _absolute_value.py Absolute value of an image fits _background_remove.py Fit and subtract a background fits _bias.py Subtract a bias frame fits _bin.py Bin a stack of images one by one ...

Scientists Discover Surface Features on Titan . ... Scientists for the first time have made images of the surface of Saturn 's giant, haze-shrouded moon, Titan. ... Peter H. Smith of the University of Arizona Lunar and Planetary Laboratory and his team took the images with the Hubble Space Telescope during 14 observing runs between Oct. ... About three weeks before Cassini's first flyby of Titan, the spacecraft is to release the European Space Agency's Huygens Probe to parachute to Titan's surface. ...

... UA SCIENTIST & TEAM DISCOVER SURFACE FEATURES COVER TITAN (Science contacts: Peter H. Smith, (602) 621-2725; Mark Lemmon, (602) 621-1485; UA Lunar and Planetary Laboratory) . Scientists for the first time have made images of the surface of Saturn 's giant, haze-shrouded moon, Titan. ... About three weeks before Cassini's first flyby of Titan, the spacecraft is to release the European Space Agency's Huygens Probe to parachute to Titan's surface. ... Upper left: hemisphere facing Saturn. ...

ARCSAT Call for Proposals for Shared-Risk Observing during May-Sept 2014 Suzanne Hawley, Director and Mark Klaene, Site Manager April 18, 2014 Updated June 14, 2014 We are happy to announce that the ARCSAT upgrade project led by APO engineers Joe Huehnerhoff and Bill Ketzeback is nearly complete. ... ARCSAT proposals will be accepted as text files using the ARCSAT proposal form (available from the website) which is similar to the 3.5m proposal form. ... Remember, the time is shared-risk! ...