... Earnshaw's second clock has a 5-bar compensation pendulum of steel and zinc, an 8-day movement, rated at very nearly sidereal time. ... 8 day English regulator in mahogany case, signed by Thomas Earnshaw, London, C179O. Maximum external dimensions (Cms): Height:l84 Width:45 Depth:3O.5 . ... Original five bar Zinc and Steel gridiron pendulum, suspended on a gold painted,cast iron pendulum support, firmly screwed to the backboard of the case. ... The dial is signed: "Earnshaw London" across the centre...

Winer Observatory P.O. Box 797, Sonoita, Arizona 85637-0797, USA . ... Asteroid . ... Site . ... The evening of October 26, 2011, Mark Trueblood, Robert Crawford, and Larry Lebofsky used the Kitt Peak 2.1-m telescope to observe Near Earth Asteroid (NEA) 2008 QT3. ... single still jpeg frame . ... The National Optical Astronomy Observatory (NOAO) issued a press release concerning Morgan's work on Monday, November 21, 2011 and posted it on the home page of their web site . ... 2013 Winer Observatory. ...

... PALMA Numbers 1 to 11 Observations of positions of stars and planets May 1984 to May 1998 including Extinction and Meteorological data Copenhagen University Observatory Royal Greenwich Observatory Real Instituto y Observatorio de la Armada en San Fernando 1999 http://www.ast.cam.ac.uk/~dwe/SRF/cmc1-11/readme.txt Informations ... Hour of right ascension (alpha, h) 4. Minute of right ascension (alpha, m) 5. Second of right ascension (alpha, s) 6. Degree of declination (delta, deg) 7. ...

... Near Infrared Camera and Multi-Object Spectrometer Instrument Handbook for Cycle 17 > Chapter 10: Overheads andOrbit Time Determination > 10.2 NICMOS Exposure Overheads . 10.2 NICMOS Exposure Overheads . ... Overhead times for changing cameras are given in Table 10.2 . The values in Table 10.2 include the time to perform the Small Angle Maneuver (to change from one camera to the other) and the time for Instrument reconfiguration (to change PAM position in order to refocus the Cameras). ...

Download Izmccd (~2.7 MB). ... for 1-5 bytes is number of a numbered minor planet, . ... Positions 1-80 file "mpcreportiz.txt" are similar to positions of file "mpcreport.txt". 83-95 – errors of unit weight, . ... If this tag is " 1 0 " , this record contains results of measurements of an image of object (approximation by "PSF"),  . ... 57-66 – error in X (pixels), for first star in a multicentric image, for subsequent it is error in (distance between first star in the image and this), . ...

... Data Reduction FAQ > A number of OmegaCAM filters show vignetting in their central regions. What are the causes for this and what are the dimensions of these features? ... Observing with ESO Telescopes . ... ESO-MIDAS . ... ESO Data . ... ESO HST Image Galleries . ... ESO Data Access Policy . ... ESO Science Newsletter . ... A number of OmegaCAM filters are not monolithic, but consist of four segments (each covering 8 detectors) that have a central cross-shaped support structure. ... Filter . ...

... About ATNF overview . ... Australia Telescope Steering Committee . ... Staff list | Student list | ... Australia Telescope Online Archive (ATOA) . ... VLBI . ... This message : [ Message body ] [ More options ( top , bottom ) ] . ... experiments are recorded to which disks. ... disk serial numbers that can be obtained from hdparm, and after some . ... disks, that we note all the serial numbers and label each disk/caddy . ... Next message : stingay_at_email.protected: "Re: disk serial numbers" . ...

Arecibo Observatory . ... Participant selection for the fifth NAIC-NRAO school on single-dish radio astronomy has been made and the successful applicants informed. ... All accommodation is either (a) in three-person shared rooms on-site at Arecibo Observatory, or (b) in local hotels. ... When you book your room at a hotel, please mention the "Single Dish Summer School at the Observatory", so the hotel is aware that you are a participant . ...

... The catalog contains SAO number; the right ascension and declination with a B1950.0 equinox and epoch; annual proper motion and its standard deviation, photographic and visual magnitudes; spectral type; references to sources; the Durchmusterung (DM) identifier if the star is listed in the Bonner DM (BD), Cordoba DM (CD), or Cape Photographic DM (CP); component identification; The Henry Draper (Extension) (HD or HDE) number; and J2000 positions and proper motions. ...

The starting page - The catalogues page - The list of the PUL2 fields - The list of the Pul-3(Pul-3SE) fields - The list of the PUL_ERS fields . please read short description of the access form controls . ... Right Ascension (ICRF/Tycho-2) J2000 at the central epoch of obs. (hours, minutes, seconds) (Obligatory parameter) . ... proper motion in RA (*cos(DE)) (ICRF/Tycho-2). (mas/yr) . ... Check the apropriate checkbox to output these data and radiobutton to select stars within interval. ...

... The absolute Galois group of Q, denoted Gal(\bar{Q}/Q) in the sequel, is a fundamental object in arithmetics since it carries a lot of informations about number fields. ... A classical way to study this group is to use p-adic numbers. ... firstly, we will explain the classical d vissage of Gal(\bar{Q_p}/Q_p) based on ramification theory; as a corollary, we will deduce that any finite extension of Q_p is resoluble; . ...

When entering Plates section user should open the file with information on moments of observations, plate centers, angular dimensions of sky regions covered by plates and numbers of observatories (the file can be created for the first time or can be prepared according to bellow described format in advance). ... It is supposed that the position of plate center and half-dimensions of plate are specified in right ascension and declination (the edge of rectangular plate is oriented to the equator). ...

... Basic time functions . ... Example 2: Set a random number seed . ... Uses of time functions include: . ... time_t time(time_t *tloc) -- returns the time since 00:00:00 GMT, Jan. 1, 1970 , measured in seconds. ... timer.c */ #include <stdio.h> #include <sys/types.h> #include <time.h> main() { int i; time_t t1,t2; (void) time(&t1); for (i=1;i<=300;++i) printf(``%d %d %d n'',i, i*i, i*i*i); (void) time(&t2); printf(`` n Time to do 300 squares and cubes= %d seconds n'', (int) t2-t1); } . ...

... 1.7 GSC 084 Pulkovo Obs., 0.33 15 x 15' 1.0" 7 34 0.179 0.307 Normal Asgr. 3.0 UCAC 118 Slovakia, 0.57 14 x 10' 1.7" 3 12 0.090 0.145 Modra 3.3 USNO 127 Germany, 0.19 30 x 20' 2.4" 3 15 0.151 0.087 Bornheim 0.8 GSC 168 34 200 0.282 0.315 291 USA,Kitt Peak, 1.8 390 x 30' 1.0" 1 5 0.143 0.144 Spacewatch II 4.7 USNO 300 Japan, 0.5 78 x 78' 2.3" 7 36 0.420 0.447 Bisei Center 1.3 ACT 461 Hungary, JATE 0.60 28 x 19' 1.1" 6 22 0.124 0.153 Asteroid Surv. ... Polynesia 1.0 UCAC F85 Tiki Obs., ...

The Astronomical Society of Australia has been asked by STANDARDS AUSTRALIA to compile a list of "designated" optical observatories that are valuable resources for (i) research, (ii) education and (iii) community use. The ASA is the final arbiter of whether any particular observatory is so designated. ... Upon receipt of your application form, your observatory will be entered on a list of "Pending Designated Observatories" on the ASA Home Page. ... It will be emailed for you. ... Email . ...

Astronotes Armagh Planetarium's Stellar Blog! ... Monthly Sky Notes . ... Image credit: Julie Thompson / Armagh Planetarium) . ... These seven entrants and their class have won a free trip to the Planetarium.€а All entries are on display in our Exhibition Area.€а A number have been included in a special Christmas trailer running before all shows in our Digital Theatre throughout December so why not check out the works by the countryтАЩs budding new artists this Christmas break at Armagh Planetarium? ...

RELATIVE SUNSPOT NUMBERS Description of Data from SGD Explanation of Data Reports: Relative Sunspot Numbers -- The relative sunspot number is an index of the activity of the entire visible disk of the Sun. ... The provisional daily Zurich relative sunspot numbers, Rz, were based upon observations made at Zurich and its two branch stations in Arosa and Locarno and communicated by M. Waldmeier of the Swiss Federal Observatory. ... This indicates the uncertainty above and below the predicted number. ...

... Tables for transformation from universal to sidereal time scale. Explanations. This page contains three little tables headed Hours Minutes Seconds respectively. Each the table have two columns: first of them is input column where time in whole time units of universal time is given, and second of them is output column where hours:minutes:seconds of sidereal time is presented. ... Example: transform 02 h 12 m 22.00 s from universal to sidereal time. ...

Observational data on solar activity is a basement for investigation of processes that take place on the Sun and interplanetary space, with data of long-term observations being of special importance. ... Subsection "Sunspot groups" is the catalogue of all sunspot groups that were observed in the given year. ... For every day of observation of the group the area of the group, the area of the largest spot (both areas - in millionths of solar hemisphere) and number of spots in the group are presented. ...

... In the above example, the second region uses the global coordinate system (PHYSICAL by default). ... Supported systems include: name description ---- ----------- PHYSICAL pixel coords of original file using LTM/LTV IMAGE pixel coords of current file FK4, B1950 sky coordinate systems FK5, J2000 sky coordinate systems GALACTIC sky coordinate systems ECLIPTIC sky coordinate systems ICRS currently same as J2000 LINEAR linear wcs as defined in file In addition, two mosaic coordinate ...