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... Annual Meeting . ... Galileo Teacher Training Program Workshop . ... Co-sponsored by the Astronomical Society of the Pacific, Fiske Planetarium, and the Lunar Science Institute . In this hands-on workshop, teachers in grades 3 - 12 will learn how to do age-appropriate, inquiry-based activities in astronomy and physical science. ... The Galileo Teacher Training Program is a new model for teacher professional development established during the 2009 International Year of Astronomy. ...

... Here at Arcetri we are studying its use as a wideband digital receiver. ... Maximum instantaneous bandwidth of 4 GHz (8 GS/s) . ... Up to 64 output sub-bands, independently tunable over the input band . Bandwidth of each sub-band selectable from 1 to 128 MHz . ... Output connection: UDP jumbo packets (one packet per VDIF frame) over 10G IP links Receiver architecture is based on a parallel polyphase filter bank, dividing the input band into 32 overlapping bands of 256 MHz each. ...

... The purpose of the meeting was to review the current status of project development and to discuss working plan for international cooperation on the stage of preparation to the launch. 22 foreign specialists participated in the meeting representing Australia, Canada, China, Finland, Japan, the Netherlands, Ukraine, United Kingdom, and USA. ... To define personal content of proposed working groups and to develop plan of their activity for 2003 year (15 November 2002, chairmen of working groups). ...

... Tonight's Sky . ... The Magazine . ... Observing . ... The double star 54 Leonis, spiral galaxy NGC 3198, and emission nebula NGC 3199 . ... Astronomy for Kids . ... Observing springtime deep-sky objects with a large telescope . ... Bright planets meet at dusk . ... Astronomy magazine subscribers can read the full article for free. ... Get instant access to subscriber content on Astronomy.com! ... Receive news, sky-event information, observing tips, and more from Astronomy's weekly email newsletter....

Next: A VBA Desktop Database for Proposal Processing at National Optical Astronomy Observatories . ... The National Optical Astronomy Observatories hosted a Telescope Proposal Process Workshop in Tucson in mid-August in which representatives of several observatories met to discuss common issues and goals related to proposals for astronomical telescopes. ... Observatories receiving large quantities of proposals found a well-formed database critical to the proposal process. ... Observatories 1 . ...

... Satellite data ] . ... The SCANOR system provides receiving and processing of the Earth-surface pictures made in visible and infra-red bands and transferred by satellites of the NOAA polar orbiter series (in the HRPT mode). ... The SCANOR system includes the desktop receiving device connected to an IBM AT 386 type computer, and the parabolic antenna with the guiding mechanism. The SCANOR system possesses the state-of-art software providing registration and processing of the received data. ...

... Posts tagged ?JSM? ... The Section on Bayesian Statistical Science (SBSS) of the American Statistical Association (ASA) would like to announce its 2010 student paper competition.б  Winners of the competition will receive partial support for attending the 2010 Joint Statistical Meetings (JSM) in Vancouver, BC. ... The candidate must have separately submitted an abstract for JSM 2010 through the regular abstract submission process,б  to present applied, computational, or theoretical Bayesian work. ...

Russian SHAREABLE DATA CENTER Institute of Solar-Terrestial Physics SB RAS . ... Antenna system . ... The Irkutsk incoherent scatter radar is one of the world's nine active radars which give the opportunity to investigate ionosphere by the incoherent scatter method. ... Antenna gain coefficient . ... Antenna . ... Two antennas . ... To get an idea what station "Dnepr" antenna system looks like, let us consider some of the radar views which are given by the photographs General view and Side view . ...

RADIOASTROPHYSICAL DEPARTMENT • INSTITUTE OF SOLAR-TERRESTRIAL PHYSICS RAS SB . ... SSRT - Receiving systems . The SSRT has two independent receiving systems for recording solar observational data, and several ancillary receivers for checking, setting up and adjusting the instrument. The base receiving systen is a multichannel filter receiver for a simultaneous recording in 180 channels with the 500 kHz band each, adjusted at steps of about 600 kHz. ... Channel's band . ...

... Up: Interrupts and Signals Previous: Sending Signals - kill() . int (*signal(int sig, void (*func)()))() - that is to say the function signal() will call the func functions if the process receives a signal sig . ... signal(SIGINT, SIG_IGN); . ... Finally lets write a program that communicates between child and parent processes using kill() and signal(). fork() creates the child process from the parent. ... The child picks up these signals with signal() and calls appropriate functions. ...

PROTOCOL OF THE INTERNATIONAL MEETING ON "WARNING" MISSION . ... According to the National Space Program of Ukraine on 1998-2002 the experimental space system WARNING has to be designed and launched in 2001. ... Composition of scientific payload is implemented in the international cooperation. ... Lviv Center of Space Research Institute (LC SRC), Ukraine. ... Space Research Institute NASU-NSAU (SRI), Kiev, UKRAINE; . ... Lviv Center of Space Research Institute (LC SRI), Lviv, UKRAINE; . ...

... Solar B XRT: The Design and Development of the X-Ray Telescope for Hinode . Peter Cheimets . ... Peter Cheimets will talk about the Solar B XRT: The design and development of the X-Ray telescope for Hinode. ... Peter has an undergraduate mechanical engineering degree from MIT and a Master’s degree in mechanical engineering with concentration in control system design, and mechanical dynamics from Stanford University. ... Copyright (c) Amateur Telescope Makers of Boston, Inc. ...

University Satellites and . Space Science Education . ... Satellite telemetry and remote sensing techniques in ecological and zoological education . ... Worldwide the spatial orientation, habitat selection, and behaviour of many animal species is already being investigated with the Argos Satellite System. ... Department of Vertebrate Zoology of Lomonosov Moscow State University (MSU) conducts research with a variety of animals that needs satellite tracking. ...

Next: Achievements Up: Astronomy at Armagh Previous: Staff Contents . The system of staff appraisal and performance-related pay (PRP) follows that of the Northern Ireland Civil Service (NICS). ... The performance of the Observatory is also assessed externally at slightly longer intervals, for example through the Quinquennial Review process and participation in the UK Research Assessment Exercise (RAE), held in 1992 and 1996 and again in 2001. ...

. Sergei and keyboard, photo by A.Yuferov .

... The reduction system of observations FADPS (description in Russian) (Flexible Astronomical Data Processing System) for data of wide-band receivers of the first observation cabin of the radio telescope RATAN-600 had been created under the Unix-like operational system DEMOS for computers of the SM-1420-type (PDP/11) in 1987 for observation analysis and estimates of coordinates and flux densities of radio sources. ... FADPS: flexible astronomical data processing system at RATAN-600 in UNIX environment....

9th European and 5-th Euro-Asian Astronomical Society Meeting . 29 May - 3 June 2000, Moscow, Russia . EUROPEAN ASTRONOMY AT THE TURN OF THE MILLENIUM . The 9th Meeting of the European Astronomical Society (EAS) will be held in Moscow, Russia, jointly with the 5th Conference of the Euro-Asian Astronomical Society (EAAS). ... Invited reviews of outstanding problems of modern astronomy are expected to be given at plenary sessions. ... December 20, 1999: Pre-registration form deadline . ...

Helpful information for users of the UNIX operating system, developed at the University of Edinburgh from work funded by the ITTI . ... UNIXhelp is mirrored around the world and freely available for local installation. ... Working with files and directories . Managing your working environment . Controlling access to your files and directories . ... Editing text files . ... Using UNIX commands . ... UNIX commands for VMS users . UNIX commands for DOS users . ... The UNIX file system . ...

... 7.09.2001 . ... Credit Copyright: Fred Espenak (courtesy of www.MrEclipse.com ) Explanation: Today's composite image was made from 22 separate pictures of the Moon and Sun all taken from Chisamba, Zambia during the total phase of the 2001 June 21 solar eclipse . ... NASA Web Site Statements, Warnings, and Disclaimers . ... Publications with keywords: solar eclipse - Solar Corona - Moon - composite image . Publications with words: solar eclipse - Solar Corona - Moon - composite image . ...