Next: A New Field-Matching Method for Astronomical Images . ... While there are numerous libraries of publicly available IDL routines, one major drawback has been the lack of an image-display program optimized for viewing astronomical images. ... It works equally well under the Unix, Linux, Windows, and MacOS versions of IDL, and includes features such as interactive control of color stretch, zoom, and image scaling; image blinking; and creation of publication-quality PostScript output. ...

... The Post-Reduction Off-line Software (PROS) is a portable x-ray analysis software system designed to run under NOAO's Image Reduction and Analysis Facility (IRAF). The PROS system provides IRAF users with tasks that will properly access the x-ray data. ... Similarly many IRAF tasks will be useful for x-ray data. ... The IRAF system, previous to the development of the PROS software, provided many of the features needed to analyze generic astronomical data, optical data in particular. ...

This tools manages the creation and deletion of USC types, and the application and removal of USC's on visits. accepts the following as inputs: . ... a list of windows (required input) . ... a list of visits (optional input) . ... passes visit selection criteria to a TBD query tool and accept a visit list from that tool in return. inserts USC records into assist for each visit. accepts the following as inputs: . ... A visit list must be provided if the USC type does not already exist.) ...

The current Java Class Library for access to FITS files was designed for the VLT Data Flow System pipeline subsystem. ... all types of headers are decoded, . ... As the code has not been optimized, data access is slow e.g. on a 160 MHz machine and no JIT, 32-bit real images are read at 50k values/sec, 16-bit integer images at 80k values/sec while table data are read at 10k values/sec. FITS keywords are decoded at a rate of 2-3k keywords/sec depending significantly on their types. ...

... AstroImageJ (AIJ) .. ... Reads and writes FITS images with standard headers . ... Provides a time and coordinate converter tool with capability to update/enhance FITS header content (AIRMASS, BJD, etc.) ... Creates color images and with native ImageJ processing power . ... AstroImageJ_Updater . Update operation now updates AIJ version number in Info.plist CFBundleVersion and CFBundleShortVersionString (MacOSX only) . ... AstroImageJ is ImageJ with astronomy plugins and macros installed. ...

... PmWiki .Audiences$:Audience} . ... wiki administrators are the folks who install, configure, and maintain a PmWiki installation on a web server. In some senses it could be claimed that as the primary developer of PmWiki I should only have wiki administrators as my target audience, and that authors are the target audience for the administrators. ... Naive authors" are the folks who use wiki to generate content but may know next-to-nothing about HTML, much less style sheets or PHP or the like. ...

... Donate to Support Science Literacy . ... 2016 Annual Awards . The ASP is accepting nominations for the organizationтАЩs national annual awards which recognize special achievements in astronomy research, technology, education, and public outreach. ... Shop the AstroShop . ... The Astronomical Society of the Pacific (ASP) is accepting nominations for the organizationтАЩs national annual awards which recognize special achievements in astronomy research, technology, education, and public outreach.. ...

... SUN MOON MERCURY VENUS MARS, JUPITER SATURN . ... Mars . ... Supernova showered Earth with radioactive debris . ... Early Mars bombardment likely enhanced life-supporting habitat . ... Get to Know the Night Sky . ... Asteroid DayУ?т??т??s Don Yeomans: Will asteroid 2013 TX68 strike Earth? ... How do mission designers know at what angle to land on an astronomical body such as the Moon, Mars, or Earth? ... Get instant access to subscriber content on Astronomy.com! ...

Diamond's Stealth 64 Video VRAM is the perfect choice for graphics and video performance. ... The Diamond Stealth 64 Video continues our award-winning tradition, delivering the best price / performance multimedia accelerators available. ... 64-bit graphics performance . ... Designed around a solid 64-bit graphics engine, the Stealth 64 Video VRAM provides unparalleled performance in any environment. ... The Stealth 64 Video VRAM includes hardware to accelerate video playback on the Windows desktop. ...

XMM-Newton Science Analysis System . ... include changes in version 3.6.5 etc . Module name: coordinate . ... This module contains subroutines to perform a variety of coordinate transformations. Where possible the cal coordinate-transformation routines are used. The present subroutines have been designed to act as wrappers-of-convenience for one or more of the cal routines rather than to supplant them. ... XMM-Newton SOC/SSC -- 2004-03-18 ...

... IR-Light Emitters & Detectors . Russian High Technologies . ... Infrared detectors and light emitters are key components that are used for applications including radiometry, guidance, gas analysis, medicine etc. ... Devices are operating in spectral range of 1.0-5.0 um and have high efficiency. ... Light Emitters . ... Spectral response of PRX 27.. ... Applications . ... Among the features there are high speed response, high efficiency, wide temperature range. ... IR-Light Emitters and Detectors | ...

OptInt PmWiki . ... Edit Page | Page History | Attach | ... MROI Delay Line Design Contract . ... Document Management . ... Design Documentation . ... Released FDR Documents . ... MROI DL Production SW Contract . ... MROI Fast Tip-Tilt Contract . ... Design Documents . ... MROI . ... MROI FTT Contract Private Material . Contract Documents . ... MROI DL Design Contract Private Material . ... AP local page . ... Include Other Pages . ... Page last modified on December 01, 2009, at 06:39 AM . ...

... SFIT is a general-purpose code designed to optimize theoretical stellar spectra to an observed spectrum. ... While the programme expects input from "stdio", it is more natural to save commands in a file (eg "sfit_input") and run the code simply by . ... If the spectra to be fitted have a filename "star_spectrum", then the best fit spectrum will be written out, together with the renormalized input spectrum, to a file called "star_spectrum.fit". ... sets up model spectrum grid (and for 2nd star) . ...

SAI 175 anniversary . ... Moscow University . Search for in SAI Moscow University Search for in Russian astronomical resources . ... SAI Astronomical Databases . ... Browse SAI Software archive(ftp.sai.msu.su) . ASTRONET.RU - Russian Astronomical Network (available in translit also) . ... SAI Supernovae Research Group . ... Department of the Galaxy and Variable Stars (in Russian) . Sternberg Astronomical Institute Seminars . ... All-Russian Astronomical Olympiad (in Russian) . ...

The AstroGuide . ... AstroGuide | ... AstroGuide Listing . ... See many more Astronomy Listings by: Category or Alphabet . ... The software run under Windows 95, 98 NT, including Paraxial and Seidel . ... and Energy Distribution, Optical Layout, Optimization, Tolerancing etc. ... Listed Since August 20, 2005 . ... Web Site . ... Web . ... Unless otherwise specified, web site content Copyright 1994-2016 John Huggins All Rights Reserved . dbHTML," "AstroGuide," "ASTRONOMY.NET" & "VA.NET" . ...

... Satellite data ] . SMIS ] . The program is designed to process the specific AVHRR instrument data for calculation and analysis of temperature fields on the sea surface and upper level of clouds. It performs brightness correction for visible channels with regards to clouds altitude. ... The program features a wide variety of classification algorithms (including two-dimensional histogram analysis) and enables to construct personal procedures for classification. ... Back to SMIS Home Page . ...

Modules | Directives | ... Apache HTTP Server Version 2.2 . Apache > HTTP Server > Documentation > Version 2.2 . ... This document describes some of the major changes between the 1.3 and 2.0 versions of the Apache HTTP Server. ... On Unix systems with POSIX threads support, Apache can now run in a hybrid multiprocess, multithreaded mode. ... Also, new calls have been added that provide additional module capabilities without patching the core Apache server. ... New module in Apache 2.0. ...

... Sprint the Flying Space Camera . ... The ball near the middle of the above photograph is actually a robotic camera designed to float about a Space Shuttle and the International Space Station and take pictures. ... A big bright star near the center of the red region appears white hot and emits light so energetic . A Distant Cluster of Galaxies . ... Oddly - most of them are spiral galaxies. This rich cluster of galaxies, named CL 0939+4713, is almost half way across the visible universe. ...

... Astronomy and Astrophotography - amateur tips and ideas from personal experience. ... CNES : CLEMENTINE data Server - Access to 1.8 million lunar images . ... Astrofili on the Web - Dr. Fabio Marino's CCD images and links. Astronomical Images - Deep-sky astronomical photographs. ... Astronomy Page - collection of amateur astrophotographs, along with observatory and Hubble images. ... Igor's Astronomy Page - with thumbnail links to images from observatories, including the Hubble Space Telescope. ...

. My astronomical research interests center on galaxy structure and evolution. Current topics include: . Polar-ring and interacting galaxies (see also new catalogue ) . Galaxy warps: statistics, properties and origin . Spiral galaxies at z~1: radial and vertical structure of stellar disks, statistics of interactions . Surface photometry and kinematics, dynamical modeling . Observational cosmology . Joomla Counter since Sep 1997