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. ...

... October 29, 1999 . The USNO Millennium Time Ball . Credit: United States Naval Observatory . ... Initiating a fledgling time service for the United States , the U.S. Naval Observatory dropped a time ball at precisely noon every day begining in 1845. ... Meanwhile, don't forget ... this year, in most of the U.S. Daylight Time ends at 2:00 am on Sunday, October 31 . ... About APOD > . ...

... Research areas . ... Events III All-Russian Research and Application Conference 'Actual Issues of Research in Avionics: Theory, Service, Development' - 'AVIATOR' . ... e-mail: aviator.vrn@mail.ru . ... State and development trends of electrical equipment and electro-optical systems of aircraft. ... Current state and development trends of information and management complex for aircraft. ...

... A Web browser with Java support and an account to establish a secure Internet HTTP connection to the Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC), is everything needed in order to use the new Control Center System (CCS). Then full access to the telemetry of the Hubble Space Telescope (HST) is given (Figure 2). A public version of CCS is also available. ... Rifkin, A. 1997, Reengineering the Hubble Space Telescope Control Center System, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. ...

Pursuant to paragraph 25 of the FCCs Report and Order on a Radio Astronomy Coordination Zone in Puerto Rico, most applicants in the following services are required to coordinate their applications with NAIC: applicants for fixed or base stations below 15 GHz in Part 5,21,22,23,24,25,26,27,73,74,78,80,87,90,95,97, and 101. ... 5.70 Notification to the Arecibo Observatory. ... 1) The notification to the Interference Office, Arecibo Observatory shall be made prior to, or simultaneously with, the filing . ...

... Within the transnational Access program of SOLARNET, European investigators can apply for observing time with the European instruments IBIS and ROSA , which are installed at the Dunn Solar Telescope of the US National Solar Observatory ( DST/NSO ). ... Periodic calls for proposals will be published for requesting SOLARNET observing time with the European instruments IBIS and ROSA, installed at the Dunn Solar Telescope of the US National Solar Observatory (DST/NSO). ... SOLARNET Access . ...

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SAI VO . ... Web Services . Catalog Access Services . ... SAI Web Services . ... This service aims to automatically match stars in FITS image provided with catalogue and add the correct WCS keywords to its FITS header. ... Service Web Interface . ... The service is available here To use it, you has to provide the image as a Base64-encoded string, along with the rough information on image field of view size and center (the latter may be deduced from FITS header keywords like 'RA' and 'DEC'). ...

... IAA VLBI Analysis Center . ... First IAA SLR EOP submission to IERS Annual Report . ... Beginning of operational processing of SLR observations . ... We use several program packages for analysis mostly developed at the IAA: GROSS for processing of the SLR observations and analysis of EOP and coordinates time series, OCCAM/GROSS for computation of EOP, station coordinates, and troposphere parameters time series from the VLBI observations, GRAPE for processing of GPS observations. ...

CREW 19/20 . ... SIXTEENTH RUSSIAN VISITING CREW . ... Launch of one ISS-19/20 Russian, one NASA crewmember and one participant of the visiting crew (VC-16) (USA) by transport manned spacecraft Soyuz TMA-14 in flight 18S; . ... Operational support for loading and undocking of Soyuz TMA-13 from FGB Zarya; . ... Support of the Space Station functionality; . ... Operational support for docking of the Space Shuttle in flight 2J/A. Rotation of one NASA crewmember by the Shuttle in flight 2J/A; . ...

Astronomy Picture of the Day . ... Credit: United States Naval Observatory Explanation: In the nineteenth century , dropping a time ball from a prominent location was a practical way of communicating the time to the surrounding country side and ships at sea . Initiating a fledgling time service for the United States , the U.S. Naval Observatory dropped a time ball at precisely noon every day begining in 1845. ... Publications with keywords: time - millennium - U.S. Naval Observatory . ...