... Archive for December 2009 . ... Posted by hlee . ... Category: Algorithms , arXiv , Cross-Cultural , Jargon , Methods , Quotes , Stat , Uncertainty | Comment . ... Category: arXiv , Astro , Stat | ... Comments RSS . ... Algorithms arXiv Astro Bad AstroStat Bayesian CHASC Cross-Cultural Data Processing Fitting Frequentist Galaxies gamma-ray High-Energy Imaging Jargon Job Languages MC MCMC Meta Methods Misc News Nuggets Objects Optical Physics Quotes Spectral Stars Stat Timing Uncertainty X-ray . ...

... Astronomy Festival: 12/13 February 2010, Galway . ... Astronomy Ireland's Christmas talk: Mon 14 Dec, TCD, Dublin . ... ESO and the E ELT* . The talk will take place on Tuesday, December 15, 2009 at 9:30 am in room HG19 of the DCU School of Nursing . ... He directed the Netherlands Research School for Astronomy and Leiden Observatory, and served on oversight committees for AURA, ESA, ESO and NASA. ... Tuesday, 8 December 2009 20:12 . International Year of Astronomy, Ireland National Node . ...

... In the Center of the Omega Nebula . ... In the depths of the dark clouds of dust and molecular gas known as the Omega Nebula, stars continue to form. The above image from the Hubble Space Telescope's newly installed Advanced Camera for Surveys shows unprecedented detail in the famous star-forming region. ... Doomed Star Eta Carinae . ... Still catching the Sun's rays, the International Space Station (ISS) cruises across the early evening sky above Tomahawk, Wisconsin, USA. ...

... VLBI Schedule . ... Main / . ... Attendance: Cormac Reynolds, Hayley Bignall (Curtin); Tasso Tzioumis, Chris Phillips, Phil Edwards, Ioannis Gonidakis, Jamie Stevens (CASS); Shinji Horiuchi (ATDSCC); Jamie McCallum , Brett Reid ( UTas ); Oleg Titov(GA) . ... Need ATNF disk space (Chris,Tasso, Shaun) Continuing . ... Monitoring "check-list" for ATNF telescopes (Chris, Jamie S) Continuing . ... Implement "intents" keyword from Vex schedule into ATNF schedules for auto-phasing (Jamie, Chris) Continuing...

... ISC Kosmotras . ... Dnepr launch record 17 August 2011. Cluster Launch of Dnepr LV 22 August 2013 KOMPSAT-5 Launch 21 November 2013. ... Baikonur Cosmodrome Yasny launch base Downloads . ... Swedish Space Corporation s (SSC) PRISMA and French Space Agency s (CNES) PICARD satellites have been delivered to the Yasny launch base. ... Concurrently with the preparation of the launch from the Yasny launch base, ISC Kosmotras carries out TanDEM-X launch campaign at Baikonur cosmodrome. ... Dnepr LV . ...

... This is my nostalgic Web Site on the Nineteenth International Logic Programming Conference (Mumbai, India, December 9-13, 2003). ... The gallery: My first impressions of Mumbai. The gallery: New friends. ... Our research group started the work on the next logic programming language about 15 years ago. ... The gallery: Mumbai in the night. ... The gallery: The Mumbai town. ... I am grateful to the Association of Logic Programming ( ALP ) that supported my visit to ICLP'03 . ...

... Each day a different image or photograph of our fascinating universe is featured, along with a brief explanation written by a professional astronomer. December 23, 1996 . The Hills of Ganymede . Credit: The Galileo Project , NASA . Explanation : This computer generated 3D close-up view of Jupiter's large moon Ganymede was created using image data from NASA's Galileo spacecraft. ... It is scheduled to return to Ganymede in April next year. ... About APOD > . ... NASA Technical Rep.: ...

Date: Thu, 22 Apr 2004 10:59:32 +0100 Subject: A brief history of Finder Hi John, hi Bridget, Here's a history of improvements and bug fixes to Finder, starting from January 2003, reconstructed from the COAST logs and comments in the code. ... 2003/06/27 Random horizontal line bug fixed. 1D fast mode added. ... 2003/10/03 Bug fix when charge clearing is off in slow readout mode, finder no longer clears to the end of each readout line. ... 2004/03/12 Vertical line artefact problem fixed. ...

... Science . ... Science Users Information Paranal Science Operations Visitor Information jump to navigation jump to content . Paranal Facilities . ... Offered Instruments . ... Paranal News . ... Paranal Telescopes Overview . Telescopes and Instruments . ... Overview . ... Manuals . ... Instrument Operation Team . ... Paranal Science Operations . ... Please submit one report per observing run or telescope/instrument combination. ... About ESO in general: . ... Telescope/Instrument Manuals: . ...

... Computer Communications [Setup VLBA Hardware] . MCB Protocol [MCB Protocol] . check - modules to be checked by chekr [SNAP Commands] . ... mcb - MCB Communications [SNAP Commands] . ... form - formatter setup (VLBA rack) [SNAP Commands] . ... peak - peak up tape reproduce power [SNAP Commands] . ... bit density - recording bit density (VLBA drive) [SNAP Commands] . ... rec - tape recorder control (VLBA drive) [SNAP Commands] . ... tape - tape recorder parameters (VLBA drive) [SNAP Commands] . ...

... Meta Index / Home Page / Output Files / Summary File specification from The proposal summary record follows the very last configuration record and contains a summary of the proposal information asssociated with the observation. ... Only the first line of the proposal summary record will be present in the slew summary file. ... Note . ... Mailing address Line 1 . ... Mailing address town/ city . ... Comment . ... A78 . ... EPIC MOS 1 priority . ... Identifies the record as a Proposal Summary Record. ...

... S.P. KOROLEV ROCKET AND SPACE CORPORATION ENERGIA . ... OAO RSC "Energia" . ... ISS Russian Segment . Steps of ISS Assembly . ... Five new devices of the total mass of ~42 kg (instead of 6 devices of the total mass of ~101 kg) are installed in the guidance, navigation and control system of the new series vehicle. ... liquid thermostatting of GN OC devices is provided by installation of three cold plates in the vehicle instrument module (IM); . ... 2015 JSC "S.P. Korolev RSC "Energia" . ...

... I fixed the bugs that caused the map_point changes to fail tests. Then I removed the no longer needed dimensional variables from the p structure and got those changes to pass all the tests. ... I put the code under subversion control in a new branch called refactor. ... The code change which processes each drizzle kernel over an entire image rather than a line at a time now passes the unit tests and was checked in. ... I got the keywords argument changes done and got the tests to pass. ...

... Educational programs (Russian) . ... Additional training . ... Samara region . ... International relations . ... Space-flight trainers are tested simultaneously on Earth and in orbit during the whole year. A running path, as it is called by specialists is the newest and most advanced space-flight trainer. ... There are training plans of all astronauts on the station in the computer memory. ... However, in fact the strikes do not reach the International Space Station. ...

... When the computer loads a boot sector on a normal Linux system, what it loads is actually a part of lilo, called the ``first stage boot loader''. ... This reads the configuration file /etc/lilo.conf and writes the boot loaders, and information about the operating systems it can load, to the hard disk. ... The configuration file for lilo is /etc/lilo.conf . ... It is easy enough to get something wrong and screw up your master boot record and make your system unuseable. ... Set up lilo on a floppy...

National Aeronautics and Space Administration . ... James H. Newman (Ph.D.) . NASA ASTRONAUT (FORMER) . ... Recipient of the American Astronautical Society Flight Achievement Award (1994, 1999) for his work as a member of the STS-51 and STS-88 crews. ... That same year he came to work at NASA s Johnson Space Center, where his duties included responsibility for conducting flight crew and flight control team training for all mission phases in the areas of Orbiter propulsion, guidance, and control. ...

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Astronotes Armagh Planetarium's Stellar Blog! ... Space Flight . ... Posted on July 20, 2011 | 5 Comments Once exoplanets, worlds orbiting other stars, were the stuff of science fiction but now we know of literally hundreds of real alien planets circling other stars. ... Continue Reading.. ... Posted on June 29, 2011 | No Comments Space technology is transforming archeology. ... Posted on May 27, 2011 | ... In our regular guide to the night sky, Martina Redpath tells us [ ] . ...

... Higgs, 1989; DRAO 1991. ... 12-13 RA (hours) 15-16 RA (min) 18-22 RA (sec) (XX.XX) 24-28 RA error (sec) (XX.XX) ( blank = unknown ) 30 Sign of declination 31-32 DEC (degrees) 34-35 DEC (arcmin) 37-40 DEC (arcsec) (XX.X) 42-45 DEC error (arcsec) (XX.X) ( blank = unknown ) 47 Epoch of coordinates (1=B1950, 2=J2000, 3= unknown ) 49 Type of position determination (1=rough estimate, 2=centroid, 3=peak, 4=fitted Gaussian, 5= unknown ) 51-56 Flux #1 ( variable format ) 58-62 Error in ...

Main Sections LabIR main page . ... On January 23, 1998 the space probe NEAR was on its way to its closest approach to Earth. ... However, we were able to record a series of images of the space probe shortly before the sunglint event, and we have assembled them into a movie. At the TIRGO observatory, an observation of the space probe NEAR was organized for the night of January 22-23, 1998. ... We show here a preliminary movie (MPEG format, 412kb) made from 74 frames, each lasting 5 seconds. ...