STScI . Guidelines for Preparing Viewgraphs and Computer based Presentations to be used in an STScI Webcast . ... Us . ... To reach the largest possible audience with the greatest understanding of your material, ITSD has prepared a few guidelines for preparing viewgraphs and computer based presentations. ... Avoid using colors that appear at the same level of brightness (e.g., red text on a blue background), viewgraphs appear quite different on a projected screen compared to the computer. ...

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Discover the cosmos! ... 2005 July 31 . Solar System Object Larger than Pluto Discovered . ... A faint, slowly moving dot discovered by computer shows clear signs of being a deep Solar System object at least as large as Pluto . The object, designated 2003 UB 313 , is currently situated nearly 100 times the Earth-Sun distance -- over twice the average Pluto-Sun distance. ... Since 2003 UB 313 is surely not completely reflective , it could be substantially larger. ... About APOD | ...

... Credit: M. Brown ( Caltech ), C. Trujillo ( Gemini ), D. Rabinowitz ( Yale ), NSF , NASA Explanation: Is that a tenth planet? A faint, slowly moving dot discovered by computer shows clear signs of being a deep Solar System object at least as large as Pluto . The object, designated 2003 UB 313 , is currently situated nearly 100 times the Earth-Sun distance -- over twice the average Pluto-Sun distance. ... Since 2003 UB 313 is surely not completely reflective , it could be substantially larger. ...

... It is shown that this approach allows one to qualify and visualize some major trends characterizing the current astronomical literature: multi-author collaborative work, the impact of observational projects and thematic maps of publishing authors. ... 1997). The latter functionalities (called data mining functionalities) result from data analysis, data evolution analysis and data correlation principles and allow one to discover a priori unknown knowledge or information (Shapiro et al. ...

Supernova 2009js in NGC 918 . This page is devoted to information on Supernova 2009js in NGC 918 . Basic information on this SN, including the last reported brightness, on this Supernova can be found on the main page . Information on the original web pages for many of these images can be found on the updates and links web pages. Discovered independently by Lick Observatory Supernova Search (USA) and Koichi Itagaki (Japan). ... 2009/10/11.44 . 17.2 . ... Joseph Brimacombe . ...

... Posts tagged ?Ptolemy? ... Hyunsook once lamented that astronomers seem to be rather trigger happy with correlations and regressions, and everyone knows they don?t constitute proof of anything, so why do they do it? ... Tags: astrostatistics , curve fitting , Earth , ellipses , epicycles , Galileo , history , inference , iTunesU , Kepler , Mars , Owen Gingerich , planetary motion , Ptolemy , Quotes . ... Recipe [ 1 ] is no more suitable as a statistical bible than Ptolemy is for astronomy. ...

Nowadays at the Department the experimental and theoretical investigations, including astronomical and ionospheric observations, active experiments with space vehicles are taking place. ... Solar Corona physics and erruptive phenomenae. ... Stellar astronomy. ... The Department has organized and put into practice more then 50 expeditions for observation of Solar ecllipces, aurorae polaris, comets, meteor streams, controlled space experiments, and also for investigations of geophysical characteristics. ...

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Armagh Observatory, 21 December 2001: . ... The Armagh Observatory's contribution, led by astronomers Simon Jeffery and Gerry Doyle , is to develop new computational tools to study the atmosphere of the Sun and other stars. ... Computers will communicate with one another using the grid, and computing power will become a commodity just like electricity. ... FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Simon Jeffery or Mark Bailey at the Armagh Observatory (Tel.: ... WWW contact: webmaster@star.arm.ac.uk . ...

The ALFA Pulsar Survey has discovered and confirmed 38 new pulsars to date. ... This program, developed by Duncan Lorimer and David Champion, searches for new pulsars in real time. ... The P-ALFA consortium plans to reduce all the data using its full frequency and time resolution, a far more computer-intensive job. ... From the confirmation and timing observations made to date, it is clear that this millisecond pulsar (MSP) is in a binary system with an orbital period of several hundred days. ...

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... ATNF Home . ... About ATNF overview . ... Australia Telescope Steering Committee . ... Next: Third: Create a session Up: Starting up correlator control Previous: First: Log on to б  Contents . Both the correlator interface and the correlator spectra display program are run from lbaccc . ... lbaccc . ... A more complete explanation of SPD, including available commands, is found in Appendix C. Next: Third: Create a session Up: Starting up correlator control Previous: First: Log on to б  Contents . ...

The aim of this section of the course is to enable you to use simple computer programs to solve a variety of common astronomical tasks. ... I have (somewhat arbitrarily) decided to use Python for this course, because it seems to be gaining popularity fast for astronomical data handling, and because some of you will have encountered it at the ATNF course. ... We've put Python (plus all relevant libraries) on the Stromlo Linux computers moron and maggot. ... Now log in to moron (or maggot). ...

... Cost­E#ective System Management Skip Schaller Steward Observatory, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ 85721 Abstract. Quality system management of computer workstations for as­ tronomy can be achieved with relatively small manpower requirements, if the right cost­e#ective administrative design decisions are made. ... The system is designed so that one doesn't depend on four or more hosts, (such as a software server, cpu server, data file server, font server, etc.) to get work done. ...

Castalia . Asteroid 4769 . Asteroid 4769 Castalia is a near-Earth crossing asteroid that was discovered by Eleanor F. Helin (Caltech) on August 9, 1989. Scientists used radio astronomy and computer modeling to generate this image of Castalia. They obtained the data for the computer model in 1989 using the Arecibo radar/radio telescope in Puerto Rico when the asteroid passed within 5.6 million kilometers (3.5 million miles) of the Earth. ... Topographic Map of Castalia . ...

Castalia . Asteroid 4769 . Asteroid 4769 Castalia is a near-Earth crossing asteroid that was discovered by Eleanor F. Helin (Caltech) on August 9, 1989. Scientists used radio astronomy and computer modeling to generate this image of Castalia. They obtained the data for the computer model in 1989 using the Arecibo radar/radio telescope in Puerto Rico when the asteroid passed within 5.6 million kilometers (3.5 million miles) of the Earth. ... Topographic Map of Castalia . ...

The Richland Astronomical Society is a nonprofit organization formed in 1960 to promote the advancement of amateur astronomy. ... Mike Romine - President/Board Member . ... Bob Kocar - Treasurer/Board Member/Grant Coordinator . ... Eric Heintz - Assistant Observatory Director/Board Member . ... Tammy Plotner - President Emeritus/Webmaster (www.wro.org)/Astronomical League ALCor. ... Site content is maintained by Webmaster Tammy Plotner and Assistant Webmaster Greg DeChant All rights reserved. ...

Computers become more and more popular nowadays. That means that the amount of people who are able to work with computer programmes and play computer games has increased. In many cases computer games are the only thing that a person is accustomed to. ... As a result of this epidemic "homo playing" may put on the isoreality helmet which makes a person, crazy about games, forget about food, slumber and all other components of real life: "homo playing" becomes isolated from community. ...

... Meade Instruments Corporation . ... Autostar Computer Controllers . 497 Autostar . ... One of the most important advances in telescope control in the past 25 years, the Meade #497 Autostar Computer Controller turns the ETX into an automatic celestial object locating system. ... The #497 Autostar Computer Controller plugs into the control panel of ETX-90EC, ETX-105EC, and ETX-125EC telescopes and enables automatic location of more than 30,000 celestial objects. ... about meade | ... Meade 4M | ...