... SMIS : Space Monitoring Information Support laboratory . Russia's Weather : State Meteorological Center Weather Forecast . Space Weather service : ACE real time solar wind data and simple geomagnetic activity forecast. ... World Fire Web : Space Research Institute (IKI) node . Sputnik : Joint project of SRC Planeta, Rosgidromet and Space Research Institute (IKI) . ... Today's Space Weather : Presented by the Space Environment Center . ... Back to the Space Research Institute Home Page ...

... The Astronomical Data Analysis Software and Systems (ADASS) conference is held each year at a different hosting astronomical institution. The conference provides a forum for scientists and programmers concerned with algorithms, software and software systems employed in the acquisition, reduction, analysis, and dissemination of astronomical data. ... The 26th annual ADASS conference will be held from October 16th to 20th, 2016 at the Stazione Marittima Conference Centre , Trieste, Italy. ...

The FITS "World Coordinate System" (WCS) standard defines keywords and usage that provide for the description of astronomical coordinate systems in a FITS image header. ... I: "Representations of world coordinates in FITS" , Greisen, E.W. & Calabretta, M.R. (2002), Astronomy & Astrophysics , 395 , 1061-1075. ... This diagram illustrating Bonne's projection with conformal latitude +35 was produced by WCSLIB , a C implementation of the coordinate transformations defined in the FITS WCS papers. ...

The XPA messaging system provides seamless communication between many kinds of Unix programs, including X programs and Tcl/Tk programs. It also provides an easy way for users to communicate with these XPA-enabled programs by executing XPA client commands in the shell or by utilizing such commands in scripts. ... A program becomes an XPA-enabled server by defining named points of public access through which data and commands can be exchanged with other client programs (and users). ...

Pulkovo NEO Page . ... EPOS Software Package . ... EPOS ( E phemeris P rogram for O bjects of the S olar system) is the Windows PC application for study and ephemeris support of observations of the Solar system objects. ... It controls the part of common data and transfers the control to one of the programs that solve the restricted set of tasks. ... So with the EPOS software package one can calculate the accurate ephemerides for many objects and get the quick illustration of their motion as well. ...

... adass@eso.org . ... c/o Britt Sj?berg . ST-ECF/ESO . ... European Southern Observatory . ... The ADASS '97 Program Organizing Committee is comprised of the following members: Rudi Albrecht (ST-ECF/ESO), Roger Brissenden (SAO), Tim Cornwell (NRAO), R. Crutcher (Uni. of Illinois), F. Rick Harnden - Chair (SAO), George Jacoby (NOAO), Jonathan McDowell (SAO), Jan Noordam (NFRA), Dick Shaw (STScI), Richard Simon (NRAO), Britt Sj?berg (ST-ECF), Doug Tody (NOAO), and Dave Van Buren (IPAC). ...

... In order to realize the optimal scientific return from the VLT, ESO has undertaken to develop an end-to-end data flow system from proposal entry to science archive. The VLT Data Flow System (DFS) is being designed and implemented by the DFS Group (ESO Internal access only) in collaboration with VLT Division and Instrumentation Division . ... VLT Control System Interface . ... OBs are the quantum of data that flows within the DFS, collecting state, data and status information as they flow. ...

The software package ERA (Ephemerides for Research in Astronomy) is a problem-oriented software system for solving heterogeneous calculating tasks of Ephemeris and Dynamical Astronomy. The package makes it possible to produce ephemeris calculations needed for both planning various observational programs and processing the resulting observations. ... The system includes packages of processing the position observations by both the Least Squares Method and by Kalman filtering. ...

... Data . ... Description . Release Notes . Download . ... STSDAS . ... Download STSDAS/TABLES . ... It is our desire that this toolkit be used to promote scientific research through the effective and efficient use of ground- and space-based astronomical observatories. ... Spike is a general framework for planning and scheduling. ... Multi-Mission Planning and Scheduling System used for HST and other astronomical missions. ... STSDAS is a software package for analyzing astronomical data. ...

The Equatorial Inertial (GEI) coordinate system: . The X GEI axis is directed to the point of the spring equinox, . The Z GEI axis is coincide with the Earth's rotation axis, . The Y GEI supplements the right three. The Geographic (GEO) coordinate system: . ... The Solar Magnetic (SM) coordinate system: . ... About space physics coordinate transformation see Russel [1971] and Hapgood [1992] . ... M.A. Hapgood , Space physics coordinate transformations: A user guide // Planet Space Sci. ...

. Dedicated to 40th anniversary of the . first artificial Earth satellite launch . Russian (Win) .

Stellarium - free GPL software which renders realistic skies in real time with openGL. the University of California's Melvyl System on the World Wide Web - a computer-based library system . ... Handbook of Space Astronomy and Astrophysics . ... Astronomical Data Analysis Center, NAO Japan . ... Space Movie Archive . ... Aips - the Astronomical Image Processing System is a software package for calibration, data analysis , image display, plotting, and a variety of ancillary tasks on Astronomical Data . ...

... Software requirements . ... The Science Analysis Software (SAS) is an extensive suite of software tools developed to process the data collected by the XMM-Newton Observatory . SAS is released periodically. ... The XMM-Newton SAS is developed and maintained by the Science Operations Centre at the European Space Astronomy Centre (ESAC), Madrid, Spain and the Survey Science Centre at the University of Leicester, Leicester, UK. ... Pages maintained by SAS librarian . ...

... Coordinate system . It is necessary to specify the coordinate system for the drilling of plug-plates so that the drilling file (currently named plPlugMap), plate drilling, cartridge, rotator wrap and the rotator itself are compatible. ... The TCC rotator angle (object system) is defined to be 0 degrees for this orientation. ... Thus, the rotator angle gives the conventional astronomical position angle on the sky of the y axis (although Russell won't acknowledge this necessarily). ...

NIST Spetial Publication 500-220 . Guide on Open System Environment (OSE) Procurements . ... An Open System Environment encompasses the functionality needed to provide interoperability, portability, and scalability of computerized applications across networks of heterogeneous, multi-vendor hardware/software/communications platforms. ... The Open System Environment concept has become ubiquitous throughout both the public and private sectors. ... ACQUIRING AN OPEN SYSTEM ENVIRONMENT 11 . ...

... The ESO-MIDAS system is built along lines which should allow easy integration of complex analysis algorithms as well as allowing greater flexibility in interactive use and in the creation of user specific procedures from the basic building blocks. The first design proposal for ESO-MIDAS, made late 1980, used some ideas from the UK STARLINK project for the software interface definitions. ... It consists of the following three parts, the monitor, the applications, and the interfaces. ...

... Capability of space means for the solution of problems of military character . ... Classification and functions of space systems of military purpose(assignment) . ... Ground complex of maintenance of launch and control of space vehicles . ... Capability of space systems of optical reconnaissance . ... Complexes topographical and earthresource shooting on base of "Zenit" space vehicle . ... Space vehicle for optical-electronic reconnaissance . ... System with space vehicle on low-altitude orbits . ...

. An operating system is the program that controls all the other parts of a computer system - both the hardware and the software. Most importantly, it allows you to make use of the facilities provided by the system. Every computer has an operating system. The UNIX operating system has three important features; a kernel, the shell and a filesystem. The Kernel . The Shell . UNIX file system . More about the UNIX operating system .

home education > family astro . SEARCH ASP SITE: Match ALL words Match ANY word . ... Family ASTRO Resource Guides . ... In the last few decades, the planets and moons in the solar system have been revealed as wonderfully individual worlds that we are beginning to explore in detail. ... For more readings and web sites (including the best resources on individual planets and moons), see our Solar System Resource Guide on the web at: http://www.astrosociety.org/education/resources/solarsys.html . ...

... Iowa Robotic Telescope | ... Talon is based on OCAAS, a software suite developed by software engineer Elwood Downey ( Clear Sky Institute ) for use at the University of Iowa ?s first remote facility (the ATF, or Automated Telescope Facility). ... XObservatory : Telescope Control Interface . ... This program calls upon and coordinates much of the interrelated portions of the Talon architecture, and forms the primary control panel for the telescope, dome, and peripheral systems when used locally. ...