... International Astronomy Olympiad 2002 . ... The 7th International Astronomy Olympiad will be held on October 22-29, 2002 at the Special Astrophysical Observatory of Russian Academy of Sciences (SAO RAS) in North Caucasus. ... Authorized National Representative Astronomy Organizations (ANRAO) of the participating countries are authorized to form the teams of the Olympiad member-states. ... VII IAO . ... Information about the International Astronomy Olympiad 2003 will be known in the late 2002. ...

... The European HST Archive has been moved to ESA's European Space Astronomy Centre ( ESAC ), Spain, where most of ESA's Space Science Archives are located and operated from. ... The Space Telescope European Coordinating Facility (ST-ECF), jointly operated by ESA and the European Southern Observatory ( ESO ) was, until the end of 2010, the European HST science facility, supporting the European astronomy community in exploiting the research opportunities provided by the Hubble Space Telescope. ...

home support . ... ASP Endowed Funds . ... The following funds support specific ASP activities: . Established in 1983 in memory of Bart J. Bok (1906 ? ... His extensive work in popularizing astronomy was recognized with the Society's 1982 Klumpke-Roberts Award. ... Upon the deaths of Eric and Maria Muhlmann the fund was converted by the ASP Board to endow an annual award recognizing important contributions in the development of astronomical instrumentation, software, or supporting infrastructure. ...

... solar system . ... Solar eclipse travelogue: Sulawesi delivers a spectacular eclipse . ... Observe the Solar System . ... Tour the Solar System . ... Do the paths of totality during solar eclipses follow a pattern that repeats after a certain period? ... RELATED TOPICS: SOLAR ECLIPSE . Total eclipses follow a period known as the saros, which is 18 years and 11 1/3 days long. ... Get instant access to subscriber content on Astronomy.com! ... Join Astronomy for America's 2017 total solar eclipse! ...

For solar wind dials without any explanatory text, see this page . ... There are three logs, one for each condition index ( K P , Solar Wind ,and NOAA/SEC .) ... More about the solar wind's recent behavior can be found on my Current Solar Wind Conditions page. ... Other items of interest include NOAA/SEC Current Conditions , my composite current Auroral Images page, Windows on the Universe: Space Weather , and Public Outreach Index, Department of Space Physics and Astronomy, Rice University . ...

The following activities are included in the Universe at Your Fingertips guide. ... Clicking on each activity will take you to a "reviews" page where you can post a review, or read reviews posted by others who have used the activity. ... Activity Online . ... MOON AND PHASES . ... Observing Phases and Features . ... Modeling Moon Phases . ... SUN AND SEASONS . ... Observing the Sun Safely . ... Observing Where the Sun Sets . ... Making Pictures of Motion . ... Morning Star and Evening Star . ...

... File Structure . ... There are five basic types of files (FITS tables) we use with the STSDAS software package Synphot and its successor pysynphot. component throughput tables (usually "_syn"): each such table gives the transmission curve for an individual element or "component" in the optical path of HST+SI. ... Master tables (For the most up-to-date files in use by pysynphot please check here ): . ... Since the set of pysynphot data files is rather large, they are distributed in separate tar files...

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Next: Test Commands Up: CCD Test Commands Previous: CCD Test Commands . In order to monitor all CCDs available on La Silla, to ensure the quality of the data delivered by the CCDs, and to serve the user community with that information, ESO runs programme of CCD tests at the Observatory. ... Although the composition of the calibration data of the user is most not identical to ESO's test data set, the same CCD commands can still be executed to check the quality of the user's calibration data. ...

Peremennye Zvezdy", . ... Star Name: . GSC 3710-00312, USNO-A2.0 1425-04252279 . ... Variability type: . ... USNO-A2.0 1425-04252279 is located at the distance of 15?.7 from the X-ray source 1RXS J031707.9+572942, which is larger than the position error of the source (12?), but its hardness ratio HR1 = 0.03 0.29, typical of chromospherically active stars, and its character of variability allow us to assume that the star is related to the X-ray source. ... Eclipsing variability . Sine wave 1 . ...

... Mark C. Lee (Colonel, USAF, Ret.) NASA Astronaut (former) . ... EDUCATION: Graduated from Viroqua High School, Viroqua, Wisconsin, in 1970; received a bachelor of science degree in civil engineering from the U.S. Air Force Academy in 1974, and a master of science degree in mechanical engineering from Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1980. ... NASA EXPERIENCE: Lee was selected as an astronaut candidate by NASA in May 1984. ... Lee retired from NASA and the Air Force effective July 1, 2001. ...

... The following tools are available: 3.1 strbs: Star Tracker BoreSight calculation  SYNOPSIS strbs instrument = instr ra= ra dec = dec apos = apos odffixout= true |false bstoolsout= true |false  DESCRIPTION Given the prime instrument instr and its viewing direction in terms of Right Ascension and Declination of the boresight + astronomical ... REFERENCE See task epicbscalgen and cal documentation for de nition of boresight related coordinate frames. ...

... Observatory . ... Science Users Information > Science and Technical Meetings > Conferences 2011 > ALMA Community Days 2011 . ... While Full Science Operations are estimated to begin in 2013, the increasing capabilities of the growing array will become available to the astronomical community following the start of Early Science Operations in the second half of 2011. ... With the ALMA Community Days, the ESO ARC aims to prepare the European astronomical community for ALMA Early Science operations. ...

... All significant tables, images, and spectra published in journals should appear in the astronomical data centres. ... Journals, data centres, and users should collaborate to define formats, table descriptions, and metadata that are easy for authors to adhere to, and can automatically be entered by the data centres into their databases. ... Major astronomical journals and data centres should provide free or reduced-cost electronic access to institutions in developing countries. ...

Next: Definition of Scientific Misconduct Up: scientific Previous: Introduction . ... This Code of Good Practice closely follows the Statement on Safeguarding Good Scientific Practice issued by the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC) in 1998. ... The Observatory expects the highest standards of scientific integrity to be adhered to by the researchers, students and other staff that it funds, whether they are employees or associates of other institutions. ...

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Not on-site at APO, but can be obtained on loan--contact Jeff Morgan at UWash, morgan/astro.washington.edu . CENTER( ) PASSBAND( ) NEBULAR LINE (OR CONTINUUM) . 4861 60 Hbeta 5007 60 [O III] 6301 10 [O I] -- [S III]6312A line is supressed 6563 10 Halpha -- [N II]6584 and 6583 lines are suppressed 6583 10 [N II] -- Halpha line is suppressed 6728 80 [S II]6717+6731 4686 60 He II 4760 100 blue cont or Fe II 8290 195 red cont. See also the Hodge filter set below. ... APO Filters Homepage ...

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Next: Search and Retrieval of the AXAF Data Archive on the Web using Java . ... ESA Villafranca . ... The International Ultraviolet Explorer (IUE) mission has produced a large collection of spectroscopic data containing about 104,000 spectra of ca. 9,600 different objects. ... This contribution describes the IUEFA project at Villafranca, and the plans to make the archive available to the scientific community under through the INES (IUE New Extracted Spectra) project. ... Data set . ... 2D spectra . ...