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... Proposing for VLBI Time at Arecibo . ... Documentation (Field System, VLBA4 terminal, Mark 5 system) . ... In 2001, the Arecibo Observatory received its hybrid VLBA-MARK IV (VLBA4) data acquisition system, and currently NAIC commits Arecibo to support VLBI observing up to a maximum of 4% of the 305-m's observing time. ... Tracking Time (h:mm) . ... The inclusion of the 305-m Arecibo radio telescope can dramatically boost the sensitivity of VLBI observations, even with its limited source tracking...

... Observing . ... Select Pulsar, Expert mode and if desired an appropriate Recall state file (click on the arrow to browse). ... TCS may be operated in local mode or schedule mode. ... Schedule files are stored in @@$HOME/tcs/sched/. Select a schedule file (Sched file/Own). ... TCS maintains two log files in $HOME/tcs/logs/ giving a history of the observations. ... Parameters for polyco files ( TEMPO1 ) or pred files ( TEMPO2 ) generation should be entered in $HOME/runtime/psrcat/obscat.db . ...

... R. E. Jackson . ... H.-M. Adorf . ... D. C. Wells . ... AstroWeb is a World Wide Web (WWW) interface to a collection of Internet accessible resources aimed at the astronomical community. ... The goal of AstroWeb is to be the most complete, up to date, and useful listing of Internet accessible astronomical resources available anywhere. ... Jackson, Wells, and Adorf noticed that they and others had created largely overlapping lists of Astronomical resources. ...

... The GHRS Instrument Handbook is the single most useful reference about the GHRS except for this data handbook; it describes instrument operating modes as well as observing strategies. ... GHRS Instrument Handbook Versions . ... The Goddard High Resolution Spectrograph: In-Orbit Performance," 1995, PASP , 107, 871. ... Ebbets, D.C., J.C. Brandt, and the HRS Investigation Definition Team, "Ultraviolet High-Resolution Spectroscopy from the Space Telescope," 1983, PASP , 95, 543-549. ...

... Chapman, R. and Brandt, J.: The Comet Book: A Guide for the Return of Halleys Comet (1984, Jones and Bartlett) ? ... Branley, F.: Comets (1984, T.Y. Crowell) ? good picture book for students in grades K-3. ... Schatz, D.: The Comet Cometh: An Activity Book for the Return of Comet Halley ? ... Glenn, W.: "Halley's Comet Makes a Comeback'' in The Science Teacher Jan. 1984, p. 38. ... To construct a model of an Alien Being that could exist on another planet or satellite in our solar system. ...

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... The method to be used for a given source is set by the parameter `` phototype ''. ... If no background image is given the input image will be used instead. phototype =1 Aperture photometry using the specified aperture and inner and outer background annulus radii and the background subtracted using the given value for the background counts per pixel ( parameter background ? ). phototype =2 Least-squares fit to the point-spread function , excluding a constant term, using a ...

Lectures . ... Home Lectures Lecture Series 2010-2011 Lecture Series 2010-2011 ? Greening the Earth Using Space Resources? by Greg Matloff . ... Lecture Series 2010-2011 . ... Beyond New York City . ... Observing Resources for Amateur Astronomers - Part 1: Beginning Observers . ... A History of the First Forty Years of the Amateur Astronomers Association . ... Amateur Astronomers Medal . ... 2016 Amateur Astronomers Association of New York Designed by Press Customizr Powered by . ...

... The essence of the solution is to generate a virtual PC on your desktop PC and install an old Linux distribution, circa 2006, in that. ... There are two major free virtual machines available for Linux, these are VirtualBox and KVM. ... Boot the virtual machine. ... Install a Linux 2.6 kernel if it isn't installed by default (you'll need to reboot the virtual machine after this step): . ... Printable View of http://www.mrao.cam.ac.uk/projects/OAS/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/MROIDelayLine/TrolleySoftware) ...

... The stars examined here were primarily culled from two lists of X--ray sources in Orion. ... The second region is two degrees in extent east--west and ten degrees north--south with Orionis being near the northern edge. ... In the end, two main regions were chosen for monitoring: stars near Orionis and stars northwest of the belt of Orion. ... The PSPC identified 22 sources within 15 of Orionis in addition to the sources listed in Table 1 , giving a total of 85 X--ray sources in the Orionis region. ...

... Tonight's Sky . ... The Magazine . ... Observing . ... Gravitational wave search provides insights into galaxy evolution and mergers . ... The double star 54 Leonis, spiral galaxy NGC 3198, and emission nebula NGC 3199 . ... Astronomy for Kids . ... January 2006 resources . FROM THE January 2006 ISSUE . ... Get instant access to subscriber content on Astronomy.com! ... Receive news, sky-event information, observing tips, and more from Astronomy's weekly email newsletter. ... Astronomy Magazine . ...

... AstroGrid Registry . ... 3.Get/Find New Registries . ... Below you will find sections about information about eXist and how it works with the Registry. eXist embedded (Moving your Data Out) . ... You could of course make backups of the data directory and after doing an upgrade or deploy simply copy back over the data directory and restart your servlet/j2ee container. ... Change the JNDI property of "reg.custom.exist.configuration" and point to this directory plus conf.xml ex: /exist/db/conf.xml. ...

... Contact John Barentine (primary) or your Observing Specialists (secondary) for additional information. Contact Jack Dembicky for web page errors, corrections, ommisions, or additions. Last updated 14 July 2003 by JMD . Last link checked 14 July 2003 by JMD . The following are offered as primary near-infrared spectrophotometric standard stars ( Bohlin, Dickinson and Calzetti, AJ 122, 2118 (2001) ): . ... RA 2000.0 . ... ARNICA Near-Infrared Standard Stars from Lick Observatory . ...

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... Clubs . ... PUBLIC Telescopic observing is conducted at the Wheaton College Observatory every clear Friday (call for times) when college is in session. ... The College has a 12.5 " Newtonian/cassegrain telescope. ... For more information see the North Shore Amateur Astronomy Club page. ... For more information see the North Shore Amateur Astronomy Club page and the college's page . ... Aldrich Astronomical Society Paxton, MA . ... Copyright (c) Amateur Telescope Makers of Boston, Inc. ...

... The Network Time Protocol (NTP) is used to synchronize the time of a computer client or server to another server or reference time source, such as a radio or satellite receiver or modem. ... Information on the NTP architecture, protocol and algorithms can be found in the Further Information and Bibliography page. The Building and Installing the Distribution page presents an overview of the procedures for compiling the distribution and installing it on a typical client or server. ...

... They are concerned with Attitude Control System of the spacecraft, satellite visibility from tracking stations, limits on the satellite autonomous operations during the orbit, and needs for auxiliary operations with the spacecraft. ... Among the operational constraints the most important one is the number of programmed slews per orbit, which determines the maximum number of radio sources to be observed during one orbit. ... System temperature (K) . ... Progress of the RadioAstron Project in Pictures...

... A comparison of the computed and experimental relations F max ( H), as well as comparison of drift scans of point sources across different horizontal cross-sections of the BP with the corresponding computed cross-sections were made. ... The drift scans of the point source 3С84 (H=87 o ) at the wavelength 7.6 cm across the horizontal cross-sections of the BP (black lines) and the computed horizontal cross-sections of the BP corresponding to them (red lines). ...