... A small yet powerful planning and scheduling toolkit has been built for the Submillimeter Wave Astronomy Satellite ( SWAS ) Small Explorer spacecraft. ... The simple design, minimal resource requirements and easy extensibility of the SWAS planning and scheduling toolkit should make it useful for other space astronomy missions. ... The relatively severe time and manpower constraints for the development of the SWAS Planning and Scheduling toolkit have forced it to remain small and simple. ...

Workstation Software Framework A Model Driven Development Framework L. Andolfato, R. Karban European Organisation for Astronomical Research in the Southern Hemisphere PROCESS The Workstation Software Framework (WSF) is a state machine model driven generate event driven software applications. State machine models are used to provides different, versatile generation options. ... A tool provided by WSF will transform the textual representation of the model in C++ state, event, and action classes. ...

... Tonight's Sky . ... Observing . ... Sky this Month . ... Astronomy for Kids . ... Satellite to study near-Earth asteroids' wobbly signature . ... If a known asteroid passes one of the satellites and doesn't leave a signature, "that allows us to put an upper limit on the mass of that asteroid," Tricarico said. ... Only registered members of Astronomy.com are allowed to comment on this article. ... Receive news, sky-event information, observing tips, and more from Astronomy's weekly email newsletter. ...

The design of IAO-Diploma has academic (conservative) style. ... The first row consists of three cells. ... Second cell - logo of EAAS - Galaxy, negative image. ... The second row consists of one cell, two lines. ... Second line - words 'International Astronomy Olympiad'. ... There should be a text in English with the name of the awarded student, his or her team, explanation of awarding including the degree of Diploma and the Number of the International Astronomy Olympiad like: Adam Kohl . ...

... PmWiki .Audiences$:Audience} . ... wiki administrators are the folks who install, configure, and maintain a PmWiki installation on a web server. In some senses it could be claimed that as the primary developer of PmWiki I should only have wiki administrators as my target audience, and that authors are the target audience for the administrators. ... Naive authors" are the folks who use wiki to generate content but may know next-to-nothing about HTML, much less style sheets or PHP or the like. ...

... GIANT Magellan Telescope . Dr. Dan Fabricant . ... The Giant Magellan Telescope (GMT) is a 25 meter diameter optical-infrared telescope that will be sited in Chile. ... Dr. Fabricant, a leader in the design of new instruments for optical astrophysics, led the development of the optical and instrument design for the Multiple Mirror Telescope (MMT) in Arizona. ... Copyright (c) Amateur Telescope Makers of Boston, Inc. ...

... Variations in water level along coastlines can be used to drive turbines technology is the same as low-head hydro power . ... Intermittent tidal flow is major problem. Tidal facility produces about 1/3 the electrical energy of a hydro facility of the same peak capacity . Two tidal plants in the world: . ... Bottom Line: There aren't many favorable sites in the world for tidal power and the estimated capacity is 50 times smaller than the world's hydroelectric power capacity. ...

... Russian KOI8 . Scientists of Laboratory of radio astrophysics develop algorithms and software. ... design of statistical estimations methods of average and smoothing; . fitting algorithms design; . development of the data processing system FADPS (Flexible Astronomical Data Processing System); . design of visualisating and interactive data reduction programs for initial observational data ( fgr (Russian KOI-8) ) and continuum radio sources spectra (spg); . ...

... The 30" Reynolds reflector, 1917-2003 . Reynolds fitted with a spectrograph designedтАж . ... Title: Reynolds fitted with a spectrograph designed by Dr Heinz Gollnow and built at Stromlo, early 1950s . ...

... The Russian Federation State Program "Physics of Condenced Matter", the "Superconductivity" division , Project code "Generation-2" . ... The multielement josephson structures are known to allow implementation of the unique properties of the Josephson junctions as electromagnetic waves sources with high change rate of generation frequency, working in the millimeter and submillimeter wavelength diapasones. ... Even the optimal type of the junction electrodynamic interconnection isn't chosen. ...

The optical scheme of the instrument is sketched in Figure 1 , it is designed to match the F/20 focal ratio of the TIRGO telescope. We have, following the optical path, the window of the dewar, the order sorting filter (not in figure), a field lens, in Calcium Floride, and the slit, in the focal plane of the telescope. ... The resolving power is (for first order of grating) of about 600 in the center of J band and 950 in the center of the K band, using a slit of two pixel (3.46 arcsec). ...

MAGION is a name of the serial of small MAG netospheric and ION ospheric satellites manufactured in Czech Republic to be launched as Russian scientific S/C hitch-hikers. ... magnetic field . ... Institute for Terrestrial Magnetism, Ionosphere and Radioware Propagation, Russian Acad. ... Technical manager of the MAGIC project E.M.Vasilyev vasilyev@mx.iki.rssi.ru . ... Institute of Atmospheric Physics , Czech Acad. ... Subsatellite project scientist from Czech Republic P.Triska ptr@ufa.cas.cz . ...