... Charge Coupled Devices (CCD) are currently by far the most widely used type of detector in astronomy. ... After a brief introduction to the VLT Control System, the VLT CCD Detectors Control Software is presented. The VLT Control System is a distributed system consisting of a set of UNIX Workstations, dedicated to high level operations, such as coordination of sub-system activities and interface to the users, and VME-based Local Control Units (LCU), dedicated to the control of sub-systems hardware. ...

... Astronomical Observatory, Shevchenko Park, Odessa, 65014, . ... The XVI -th G. Gamow's Odessa Astronomical Summer Соnference-School, 14-20 August, 2016, Odessa, Ukraine . ... The XV -th G. Gamow's Odessa Astronomical Summer Соnference-School, 16-23 August, 2015, Odessa, Ukraine . ... The XIV -th G. Gamow's Odessa Astronomical Summer Соnference-School, 17-23 August, 2014, Odessa, Ukraine . ... The XIII -th G. Gamow's Odessa Astronomical Summer Соnference-School, 19-25 August, 2013, Odessa, Ukraine . ...

. ОГЛАВЛЕНИЕ . Предисловие к четвертому изданию . Введение . § 1. Предмет и задачи астрономии . § 2. Подразделение астрономии . § 3. Возникновение и основные этапы развития астрономии . § 4. Практическое и идеологическое значение астрономии . § 5. Основа и источник астрономических исследований . § 6. Краткий очерк строения Вселенной . Глава I . Основные сведения из сферической астрономии . § 7. Видимые положения светил. Созвездия . § 8. Видимые движения звезд, Солнца, Луны и планет . § 9. Географические

This page contains the table of contents and select excerpts only and is not a complete reproduction of this issue. Complete content for online Mercury is available to ASP members and institutional subscribers . ... Posters from Boulder . The Society s annual meeting in Boulder this past August brought together the ASP s Education and Public Outreach component with the tri-annual gathering of Cosmos in the Classroom. ... Astronomy in the News . ... First Word, James G. Manning . ...

Table of Contents -- Index . ... Part 1. ... Robots Are Us'': Automated Information Discovery . ... Electronic Publications: The Library at the User's Fingertips . ... Welcome Address to LISA III . ... Following the Road to Effective International Sharing of Astronomical Information: an End-User's View . ... Information Extraction: New Developments in Astronomical Information Retrieval for Electronic Publications . ... Licensing Electronic Content in Today's Information Marketplace . ...

... orbitdump [tstep=<value>] [offsett=true|false] >orbit.dat . ... The tasks dumps the contents of the orbit file in the current ODF (pointed at via environment variable SAS_ODF ) to stdout in the format t x y z d vx vy vz vabs where t time in Mission-Elapsed-Time [s] . x, y, z components of S/C position vector in Earth-centeredJ2000 reference frame [km] . d norm of vector (x, y, z) [km] . vx, vy, vz components of S/C velocity vector in Earth-centeredJ2000 reference frame [km/s] . ...