It has been a busy time farewelling old and welcoming new staff members. ... Debbie has joined us as a cleaner and Lodge assistant, while Eric will work on the antenna drives and other power control systems. ... Millimetre observing during January (summer!) term was restricted to four 12-mm proposals (one of which experienced rain) and various tests. ... During the May term, millimetre observations at Mopra will be jointly run by the ATNF and UNSW, with each allocated six weeks of observing time. ...

HUBBLE SPACE TELESCOPE DAILY REPORT #849 PERIOD COVERED: 0800 EST Daily Status Report as of 082/1200Z. 1.0 ACTIVITIES SCHEDULED AND ACCOMPLISHED: 1.1 Completed FOS/BL 4222 (Mass Exchange Binaries- Cycle 1, Final Piece) The Faint Object Spectrograph (Blue Side) was used to make two spectral observations of the binary star system HZ Herculis. ... The first observations was received and displayed. ... It was reported to look okay. ... The observations complete as scheduled, and no problems were reported. ...

... Science Users Information > Observing with ESO Telescopes > Phase 2 Preparation > Phase 2 Submission . ... Service Mode Philosophy . ... Service Mode OB Rules . ... Readme File . ... Checking OBs and README files in the ESO Database . ... These checks will be automatically performed also at the time of checking the Phase 2 material in the ESO Database, and non-compliant OBs or README files will be rejected. ... All Service Mode OBs and README files must be submitted to the ESO Database from P2PP. ...

GALFACTS MEMO: # 10 ALFA RFI Saturation Problem J. S. Dever 20 Decemb er 2006 1 Overview Observations made with ALFA can be partially or completely lost due to strong RFI saturating a component in the receiver chain. ... A determination of where the saturation is occuring should be made, and the problem solved. ... 1 Radar RFI 1.35 1.3 1.25 Power 1.2 1.15 1.1 16750 16800 16850 16900 Time 16950 17000 17050 Figure 1: Band average plot for 135 seconds showing the effect of Radar RFI in the continuum. ...

... Pre-university education . ... Facilities and equipment . ... SSAU History . SSAU roadmap . ... Contacts . ... The scientists of Samara State Aerospace University have completed dynamic tests of the first Russian university nanosatellite SamSat-218D created by SSAU students. ... It has already passed the whole set of tests and transferred to the Rocket and Space Centre Progress . ... The whole test cycle of the nanosatellite SamSat-218D (Module Contact-Nanosatellite") will be completed in July. ...

... In this activity, students will observe that the faintest stars which they can see in the sky are affected by many things: the adaptation of their eyes to the dark, the presence of clouds or haze, the time of year, and the presence of light pollution. General Information . ... After completing this activity, students should have a better understanding of the practical processes for dealing with the light pollution problem and with other environmental and societal issues. << previous page | ...

... Observing . ... The double star 54 Leonis, spiral galaxy NGC 3198, and emission nebula NGC 3199 . ... Problems posed by massive stars . ... These questions were at least part of the motivation when CУЕssio Barbosa of Brazil's University of SУ?o Paulo and Donald Figer of the Space Telescope Science Institute in Baltimore surveyed observers and theorists to see what they believed were the most pressing problems concerning massive stars. ... Get instant access to subscriber content on Astronomy.com! ...

... Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center . ... Boris V. Morukov (M.D., Ph.D.) . Russian Cosmonaut at the State Research Center RF-Institute for Biomedical Problems (IBMP) . ... EDUCATION: Graduated from high school in 1967; received a doctorate in medicine from the 2nd Moscow Medical Institute (now Moscow Medical University) in 1973; joined the professorate in space, aviation and naval medicine at the Institute for Biomedical Problems in 1978; received a Ph.D. in the disciplines listed above in 1979. ...

... Space Research Institute . ... Main research and development work completed in 2009 and ready for implementation . ... Development of the Northern Eurasia land cover map based on medium spatial resolution satellite data. ... The research and development has been completed of the first in Russia and in the whole world high-speed digital streams decoder for space and satellite channels with extremely high noise levels. ... Main research and development work completed in 2008 and ready for...

EMI test using VXD3 R20 assembly Nick Sinev, University of Oregon Outline The problem Why we want beam test? ... What do we need for test ? Conclusion January 7, 2005 Nick Sinev, MDI workshop, SLAC 2 The problem As you already know from M.Breidenbach talk, we had observed Electromagnetic Interference (EMI) effects in VXD3 operation. ... January 7, 2005 Nick Sinev, MDI workshop, SLAC 3 Why beam ? ... January 7, 2005 Nick Sinev, MDI workshop, SLAC 12 ...

Next: Mission Operations Data Transfer . ... VLBI Tape Management . VLBI Tapes . ... When: As soon as the correlator is satisfied with the correlator output. back to top . ... What: Each correlator will maintain a data base including the status of all VLBI tapes under its control. ... The correlators will distribute tapes to mission elements based on the Observation Summary File produced by the RSOG ( Observation Summary File ) to ensure each element has enough tapes to support SVLBI observations. ...

... Minutes Group a (photocopy of the table with signatures and stamps) – one page. ... Theoretical round problems a – one page. ... Practical problem 7 ab – one page. ... Grid-lines for the practical problem 7 ab – one page. ... Picture to fill for problem 8 b – one page. ... Solutions of the practical round problems – not ready full (LOC jobs not done) – ?? pages. ... Observational round problems – one page. ... Dr. Michael G. Gavrilov, Founding Chairman of the International Astronomy Olympiad, . ...

... This is the both the simplest and the most effective option for reducing the "address already in use" error. ... A situation where this might be a problem is if my program is trying to find a reserved local port ( SO_REUSADDR , then each time I run the program on my machine, I'll keep getting the same local reserved port, even if it is stuck in TIME_WAIT , and I risk getting a "connect: Address already in use" error if I go back to any place I've been to in the last few minutes. ...

... There are still a few items on a punch list of things to be completed. ... Sometimes recovery is quick and other times the instrument self corrects itself just by sitting idle. ... As of August 30, 2013, the 3.5-m has implemented a TAI time standard in all the instrument headers. ... ARCES . ... 2015-11-30: The slitviewer computer problems appear to be intermittent but are quickly resolved by the observing specialist. ... The instrument is available again . ... 2015-10-26: Vacuum not soft. ...

... The following charts/text are intended as tools for monitoring the Type Ia supernovae ( SNe ) event visually or photographically (utilizing telescope equipped CCD equipment).The files include: A replication of The Type Ia SNe , V- magnitude (with data point checks from other cited references)and color index (B-V) templete (to indicate a general color-related trend of the type Ia ... I believe this might help alleviate some of the problems involving the making of acceptable amateur light curves...

... Next: The OPUS Pipeline: Up: Software Systems Previous: The ASC Pipeline: . ... The Extreme Ultraviolet Explorer ( EUVE ) Guest Observer (GO) Center is in its second year of data processing. ... The Extreme Ultraviolet Explorer ( EUVE ) Guest Observer (GO) Center is now in its second year of data processing. ... From its inception the GO Center expected to disseminate very complete raw data sets to GOs, calibration and reduction software, as well as the calibrated data products. ...

... Students were asked to complete a questionnaire after the end of the course. ... All students completed the questionnaire. 38% of the students commented that it forced them to thoroughly learn and understand the course material. ... Took lots of thought and made you apply lecture material. 31% of students commented that this exercise forced them to think hard. ... I conclude that the exercise succeeded in making students thoroughly think through and learn the course material. ...

... 27 May-1 June, 1993 (6 nights) Calar Alto, 1.23m. Calamai + Richichi . ... 28 June-4 July, 1993 (7 nights) Calar Alto, 1.23m. Richichi + Stecklum . ... 20-27 December, 1993 (8 nights) Calar Alto, 1.23m. Leinert + Richichi . ... 18-24 February, 1994 (7 nights) Calar Alto, 1.23m. Richichi + Stecklum . ... Photometry: only standards on 16th (SL9 run). ... 12-16 January, 1995 (5 nights) Calar Alto, 1.23m. Richichi + Stecklum . ... 18-22 November, 1996 (5 nights) Calar Alto, 1.23m. Fabbroni + Richichi . ...

A problem, that can arise when moving from Fortran 77 to Fortran 90, is dependent on a usual deviation from the standard, and has to do especially with user programs. ... With many Fortran 77 implementations we wrote PROGRAM TEST REAL X WRITE(*,10) 10 FORMAT('Give X = ',$) READ(*,*) X WRITE(*,*) X END In Fortran 90 we use "non-advancing I/O" instead. ... In some old Fortran dialects the statement TYPE was used to write on a typewriter terminal and PRINT was used to write on the line printer. ...

Experiment COLD . ... Statement of the Problem . The observer must resign himself to the fact that it is senseless to attempt to actually attain the potential sensitivity of modern radio telescopes without ever using any a priori information about the object being studied and extremely careful study of the properties of all kinds of additional sources of noise. ... The problem in Experiment Cold were formulated in just this way. ... A List of the Problems Studied in the Deep-Survey Cycles . ...