... 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) . ...

XmCCD ----- This distribution includes source code to utilize the Santa Barbara Instrument Group (SBIG) shared library libsbigudrv.so with a Motif-based graphical user interface program to control SBIG astronomical CCD cameras. ... The latest SBIG library is available from http://www.sbig.com However, the version included here is known to work with this program. ... The sources for these programs are available from the XmCCD home at http://www.astro.louisville.edu/moore/software. ...

... In some cases where memory space is at a premium, it is possible to tailor the configuration to remove such features as reference clock driver support, debugging support, and so forth. ... The following lines are used in this file: . ... The DEFS_LOCAL line defines global flags that apply to all machines. Ordinarily, the only flags included are the -DDEBUG , which includes the debugging code, and -DREFCLOCK , which includes basic reference clock support. ... D_INCLUDE_BSD_SOURCE . ...

Next: Publication Costs of Astronomical Research . ... Purple Mountain Observatory, Academia Sinica, Nanjing 210008, China, e-mail: library@nanjing.jspta.chinamail.sprint.com . This article includes a general overview of the Purple Mountain Observatory (PMO) followed by a description of the document resources held in the Observatory Library. ... The predecessor of the Observatory was the National Research Institute of Astronomy in the former Academia Sinica and its observing site, the PMO. ...

... Incremental cost is therefore limited to a simple 16-bit up down hardware counter interface buffer for the interpolator and 9 bits of a 16 bit port for the absolute encoder. Teledyne-Gurley Model 8626, 2 required @ $1400 $2800 Complete Duplicate Spares $2800 . BEI Model M25, 2 required @ $1000 $2000 Complete Duplicate Spares $2000 . ... Datacube VG-120 Multibus video interface $3000 Spare $3000 Panasonic B/W CCD camera, 2 req'd @ $1000 $2000 One spare camera $1000 . ...

... Radio source identifications . The Web-server of the Astronomical Institute of the St.-Petersburg University opens the experimental service on assignment of clusters data. At present only the data about radio sources in ACO clusters of galaxies are reasonably complete, while only restricted optical information is in our database. Later on, we also intend to include X-ray data and data about brightest cluster galaxies (BCG). ... ACO: radio optic ( for example, A0690 and " optic "), . ...

... Classes . Files . ... casa::HDF5File . ... A class representing an HDF5 file. ... HDF5File (const String &name, ByteIO::OpenOption =ByteIO::Old) . ... The ByteIO option determines if the file will be created, opened for input and/or output, or possibly deleted by the destructor. casa::HDF5File::~HDF5File . ... Open or create the file. void casa::HDF5File::flush . ... References casa::HDF5Object::getHid() . ... Reopen the file if closed (which may change the HID). void casa::HDF5File::reopenRW . ...

... 1998: . Creation of the world's largest database of radio astronomical catalogs, designated CATS was completed, which is now free and available online at the web server cats.sao.ru . It includes the data of X-ray, optical, infrared and radio wavelength ranges on 4.5 million space objects from 300 catalogs (the radio astronomical catalogs were presented in full for the first time). Archive . ... Last update: 20/02/2013 ...

Subscription Instructions The subscription form included in this WWW server can be used to make a new subscription to the Irish Astronomical Journal . ... Please note that this form can also be used to order back issues of the journal (subject to availability) by indicating the beginning and end of the subscription. ... You may indicate here when you wish the subscription to stop (by year or volume and issue number) if you are ordering back issues only. ...

... Fasti is also suitable to be used with very fast optical detectors, as those used in Adaptive Optics. ... It is suitable to be used with both DRO and CCD detector and it is also well suited for very fast optical de- tectors, as those used in Adaptive Optics. The design phase for infrared is com- pleted and we are starting to build the infrared version of Fasti. ... For Infrared version this part inherits the NICS 1 design, and for L 3 CCD uses a Marconi commercial board. ...

... Two high school students from Texas and Louisiana are the winners of the 2012 Priscilla and Bart Bok Awards for their astronomy projects presented at the Intel Science and Engineering Fair in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania in May. The awards were presented on May 18 by the Astronomical Society of the Pacific (ASP) in partnership with the American Astronomical Society (AAS), supported by funding from the National Science Foundation (NSF). ... The Bok prize is named for Bart and Priscilla Bok. ...

... Natalya V. Raguzova and Sergei B. Popov . ... We present a compilative catalogue of Be/X-ray binaries and candidates in the Galaxy and in the Large and Small Magellanic Clouds. This catalogue contains 160 sources and provides information on names and spectral types of optical components, distances, on spin characteristics of neutron stars, and on orbital and X-ray properties of binary systems. ... Be/X-Ray Binaries and candidates in the Galaxy . Galactic sources: comments to the Table 1 . ...

... Robert L. Stewart (Brigadier General, USA, Ret.) ... SPECIAL HONORS: Awarded Army Distinguished Service Medal , Defense Superior Service Medal , 2 Legion of Merit, 4 Distinguished Flying Crossed, a Bronze Star, a Meritorious Service Medal , 33 Air Medals, the Army Commendation Medal with Oak Leaf Cluster and V Device, 2 Purple Hearts, the National Defense Service Medal , the Armed Forces Expeditionary Recipient of NASA Space Flight Medal (1984 & 1985). ...

... Recent Topics . ... Astronomy in Ukraine: Past, Present and Future . ... В?д: "Cambridge Scientific Publishers" . ... Тема: FW: Astronomy in Ukraine: Past, Present and Future (MAO-2014) . ... Subject: Astronomy in Ukraine: Past, Present and Future (MAO-2014) . ... Re: Astronomy in Ukraine: Past, Present and Future (MAO-2014) . ... I read about your recent conference: Astronomy in Ukraine: Past, Present and . ... Astronomy in Ukraine: Past, Present and Future (MAO-2014) as a special issue . ...

... Meade Instruments Corporation . ... Autostar Computer Controllers . 497 Autostar . ... One of the most important advances in telescope control in the past 25 years, the Meade #497 Autostar Computer Controller turns the ETX into an automatic celestial object locating system. ... The #497 Autostar Computer Controller plugs into the control panel of ETX-90EC, ETX-105EC, and ETX-125EC telescopes and enables automatic location of more than 30,000 celestial objects. ... about meade | ... Meade 4M | ...

... 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. ...

As an obligatory preparing for the application to participate in the IAO a short report of National Olympiad of the current year with a set of all problems used on the Olympiad has to be presented by the applicating team. ... The final minutes (protocols written in Latin or Cyrillic in form of tables) of the Olympiad (evaluating of solutions of the students participated in the last stage of the Olympiad) should be included as well. ... Historical data of the National Astronomy Olympiad: . ...

... xmmtrack . ... xmmtrack is an interactive IDL application that visualizes the orbit and attitude data in an ODF in the form of a 3-D animation sequence. The presented scenery includes an astronomically accurate simulation of the Earth-Sun system plus the actual and predicted trajectory of the XMM satellite on its path around the Earth. ... Please note: XMM's orbit is highly time variable and the predicted orbit will significantly deviate from the actual trajectory if the reference epochs differ. ...

Delay Line ICD List ver 4.doc Page 1 of 4 Delay Line ICD Allocations and N2 Diagram Subset Martin Fisher 5th February 2007 Introduction The list of Interface Control Documents (ICDs) presented in version 3 of this document is now agreed between NMT and MRAO. ... Another example might be the detailed interfacing of the Interferometer Control System to the Delay Line subsystem which would require input from the system architects as well as the software and teams at NMT and MRAO. ...

... 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. ...