... We summarize the discussions that took place during the FITS Birds of a Feather (BoF) session, which was held Monday, September 23, 1996 at 16:00. For completeness we also include a summary of the 1995 FITS BoF, which was never published. ... Oral papers by Clarke, Allen, Mink, Mandel, and Wells were presented in a special FITS afternoon session, and posters were presented by Pence, Farris, Tripicco, and Stobie; see the papers by these authors elsewhere in this volume. ... CFITSIO (Pence) . ...

... Stellar Evolution is driven entirely by the never ending battle between Pressure and Gravity . As imbalances are reached, the star is driven to find a new Energy source. ... Pressure and gravitational forces are equal, the star is stable and its core is sufficiently hot to fuse Hydrogen into Helium More about main sequence stars . ... The luminosity generated by the core fusion of Helium into Carbon is far greater than the shell luminosity associated with the fusion of Hydrogen into Helium. ...

The preliminary version of documentation of the format for the interchange of calibrated optical/IR data being developed by Tom Pauls of NRL and John Young of COAST was presented and a number of issues discussed. The proposed format is in the general form of a relational database with different components stored in FITS binary tables. ... Should there be a single data table type that includes all data types, or multiple table types, one per data type? What data types are needed? ...

... News Latest News News Archive Newsletter Quarterly Status Report . ... Calibration strategy, status and factors limiting success: Chandra . ... Calibration strategy, status and factors limiting success: XMM-Newton . ... Calibration strategy, status and factors limiting success: Swift . ... Calibration strategy, status and factors limiting success: RXTE . ... Calibration strategy, status and factors limiting success: Suzaku . ... Calibration strategy, status and factors limiting success: Integral . ...

... The material in "From Stargazers to Starships" meets several important requirements of the national standards. Pages cited below are from National Science Education Standards National Academy Press, Washington 1995. ... For example: the sections on astronomy not only describe calendars and sundials (including their construction), but also the astronomy of the ancient Greeks, including two different ways in which ancient Greeks estimated the distance to the Moon. ...

These notes summarize an informal HDF-S session at the Joint ESO/Australia workshop ``Looking Deep in the Southern Sky,'' which was held in Sydney, Australia, on 10-12 December 1997. ... AAT: 1 night imaging in broad and narrow (20 Angstrom) bands on HDF-S + environs using the Taurus tunable filter. ... NTT: HDF-S + surrounding region to be imaged under the auspices of the ESO Imaging Survey (EIS). 15 x 15 arcminute field of view imaged in U, g, r, I, J and K. 13 nights allocated for Sept/Oct 1998? ...

... PPTA timeline . ... PPTA_MEETINGS . ... Meeting minutes . ... List of projects . PPTA tasks . ... Data release 2 discussion . Editing this wiki . ... Ppta3 . ... Aim: To highlight results from the Parkes Pulsar Timing Array (PPTA) project, to discuss astrophysical sources of gravitational waves and to discuss future issues . ... Data have been collected for the Parkes Pulsar Timing Array (PPTA) project over the past 4 years. ... Time . ... The Parkes data archiving project (only 10 minutes) . ...

... Annual Meeting . Past Meetings . Other Workshops, Conferences and Events . ... Daily Oral Session Schedule (pdf) . ... Daily Poster Schedule . ... Saturday, September 12, 2009 . ... 9:30am - 5:00pm . ... 6:30pm - 9:15pm . ... Annual Members' Meeting . 6:30pm - 9pm . ... Parallel Sessions: 10-minute orals and 45-minute sessions . ... Parallel Sessions: 90-minute Sessions . ... Parallel Sessions: 45-minute sessions and 90-minute sessions (Part 1) . ... Parallel Sessions: 45-minute sessions . ...

... Meetings . ... List of all meetings from first one and up to present. Agenda of the session: eng version . ... Agenda of the meeting: eng version . Summary of the meeting: eng version . ... List of RISC members . ... List of participants . ... Agenda of the meeting: eng / rus version . ... Formal minutes: eng version . ... Lists of participants: eng / rus version . Formal minutes: eng / rus version . ... Agenda of the meeting & List of participants . ... Agenda of RISC's meeting . ...

... The frames, as they appear on the monitor with the command LOAD/IMAGE , are in general not oriented properly. ... This means that the frames have to be rotated in such a way that: . ... ROTATE/ECHELLE inputspec outframe mode . ... The command ROTATE/ECHELLE sets descriptor values START and STEP to 1.,1. for all images and updates the session keyword CCDBIN to the original steps of the images. These operations must be performed by the user if another command than ROTATE/ECHELLE is applied. ...

... April 3 , and we have been allocated a slot for an AstroStatistics session. ... When you submit an abstract, be sure to indicate a category of ?Other? and in the comments field state that it belongs with the AstroStatistics special session.If you have questions, please contact Aneta or me. There is also a page for this session on the astrostat google groups site. ... Tags: 2008 , AAS , April , astrostatistics , HEAD , Los Angeles , March , Methods , Omni , special session , techniques , workshop . ...

... ESO wide review 18-23 January. ... Karim briefly describes new QA rules and recommendations: . for managing To-Do lists : should be updated by each DFS project manager, and regularly reviewed. a DFS integration procedure : specific schedule, standard Release Note, standard Test Report, .. ... centralize all internal DFS Department documents: original paper copies and corresponding files in one unique place, up-to-date documentation repository directly accessible from our DFS Department website. ...

Arecibo Observatory, Puerto Rico . ... Morning Session . Welcome to the Observatory: Introduction to ALFA D. Altschuler . The Arecibo Antenna and ALFA Performance G. Cortes (via telecon) & P. Goldsmith . ... Implications for GALFA Observations C. Heiles . ... Report from the Pulsar Consortium J. Cordes . ... Overview of Large Surveys and Data Access Issues R. Brown . ... Arecibo HI Survey T. Bania . ... Canadian Galactic Plane Survey R. Taylor . ... New Galactic SNRs? ... Working Groups Meet . ...

... Thursday, Apr 14, 2016 at 8:00 PM . The 2012 discovery of the Higgs Boson completed the “Standard Model” of particle physics. But where does particle physics go from there? ... Please join us for a pre-meeting dinner discussion at Changsho, 1712 Mass Ave, Cambridge, MA at 6:00pm. Please join us for a pre-meeting dinner discussion at Changsho, 1712 Mass Ave, Cambridge, MA at 6:00pm before the meeting. ... Apr . ... Copyright (c) Amateur Telescope Makers of Boston, Inc. ...

... Pre-university education . ... The works on optimization of Samara State Aerospace University Development Programme are scheduled until the end of 2014 and include four strategic sessions to be held in SSAU. Programme of Strategic Session 2 . ... Session goal: working out strategic initiatives and actions on SSAU s development until 2020 . ... discussion of strategic initiatives for SSAU s development, aimed at solving problems and eliminating gaps defined on the results of Strategic Session 1; . ...

4th General Meeting of Euro-Asian Astronomical Society . ... Astronomy in Moscow and Moscow Area: Past, Present, Prospective ------------------- Main Program of the EAAS 4th General Meeting Saturday, Nov.22 16:30 Sectional sessions : - Stars ------------------- Monday, Nov.24 10:00 Registration EAAS Council Board Meeting 15:00 Official opening of the Meeting ------------------- Tuesday, Nov.25 10:00 Discussion of the Council Board Report 16:30 sectional sessions : - Panel ...

Next: IAA Summer Solstice BBQ Up: Events Previous: Terry Moseley Asteroid Event . The Dublin National Astronomy Meeting and UK Solar Physics Meeting 2003 was the largest astronomy meeting ever held in Ireland with the exception of the IAU General Assembly in 1955. ... The Armagh Observatory played a leading role in the arrangements for the meeting together with the Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies (DIAS) and five universities through the island of Ireland. ...

... Fortranљ66 . ... Fixed form . ... Whole Fortranљ66 . ... Continuation line indicated in column 6 . ... Blank line as comment . ... Extension in Unix .f .f .f .f90 .f .f90 . Extension in DOS .FOR .FOR .FOR .F90 .FOR .F90 . ... This applies to both fixed form and free form source code. ... Fixed form of the source code is discouraged in Fortran 95! ... In UNIX there is no concept called extension, and the extensions are not specified in the Fortran standard, but in informal manufacturer standards. ...

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... Standard Commands . ... TwistedActor.Actor is core code for writing an actor: an instrument control computer (ICC) or hub-based script that does something useful. This manual describes the standard commands and keywords that any actor based on TwistedActor.Actor will support. All actors based on TwistedActor typically support the following standard commands (plus additional device-specific commands documented in that actor's manual). ... Connect one or more devices (if not already connected). ...