... The Astronomical Data Analysis Software and Systems (ADASS) conference is held each year at a different hosting astronomical institution. The conference provides a forum for scientists and programmers concerned with algorithms, software and software systems employed in the acquisition, reduction, analysis, and dissemination of astronomical data. ... The 26th annual ADASS conference will be held from October 16th to 20th, 2016 at the Stazione Marittima Conference Centre , Trieste, Italy. ...

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The XPA messaging system provides seamless communication between many kinds of Unix programs, including X programs and Tcl/Tk programs. It also provides an easy way for users to communicate with these XPA-enabled programs by executing XPA client commands in the shell or by utilizing such commands in scripts. ... A program becomes an XPA-enabled server by defining named points of public access through which data and commands can be exchanged with other client programs (and users). ...

The FITS "World Coordinate System" (WCS) standard defines keywords and usage that provide for the description of astronomical coordinate systems in a FITS image header. ... I: "Representations of world coordinates in FITS" , Greisen, E.W. & Calabretta, M.R. (2002), Astronomy & Astrophysics , 395 , 1061-1075. ... This diagram illustrating Bonne's projection with conformal latitude +35 was produced by WCSLIB , a C implementation of the coordinate transformations defined in the FITS WCS papers. ...

Space missions have shown that among the most abundant elements in the Universe, three of them, hydrogen, oxygen and nitrogen, present isotopic enrichments (abundances larger than those of the Solar nebula) in comets, carbonaceous chondrites, and other pristine small Solar System bodies. ... Fractionation in solar system bodies . ... Maite BeltrУЕn, INAF-Osservatorio di Arcetri (co-chair) . Francesco Fontani, INAF-Osservatorio di Arcetri (co-chair) . ... Home . ...

... NASA Web Site Statements, Warnings, and Disclaimers . NASA Official: Jay Norris. ... A service of: LHEA at NASA / GSFC . ... Publications with keywords: planets - Earth - Gliese 876 . Publications with words: planets - Earth - Gliese 876 . ... Hurricane Paths on Planet Earth . A Dark Earth with a Red Sprite . Happy People Dancing on Planet Earth . Looking Back at an Eclipsed Earth . ... All the Water on Planet Earth . ... All publications on this topic >> ...

... The Linux Documentation Project, or LDP, is a loose team of writers, proofreaders, and editors who are working together to provide complete documentation for the Linux operating system. The overall coordinator of the project is Greg Hankins. This manual is one in a set of several being distributed by the LDP, including a Linux Users' Guide, System Administrators' Guide, Network Administrators' Guide, and Kernel Hackers' Guide. ... The LDP Rhyme . ... a Linux f-a-q, . ... to start the LDP. ...

Diamond's Stealth64 Video 3200 is the perfect, cost-effective choice for excellent graphics and video performance on PCI systems. ... Accelerated video playback provides smooth viewing of popular multimedia applications and digital video clips at full screen resolution at up to 30 frames per second. The Diamond Stealth64 Video 3200 continues our award-winning tradition, delivering the best price/performance multimedia accelerator available. ... 64-bit Graphics Performance . ... Video Connector: . ...

... I am involved in Project Astro, a program to bring astronomers into public schools to assist with teaching students about science and astronomy. ... While there are all sorts of scale model of the Solar System type exercises ( Mitchell Charity's page has a good listing of what's available), none were really tailored towards discovering the spatial relationships of the planets, and in a way that could be done at night as part of a Star Party. ...

... Coordinate system . It is necessary to specify the coordinate system for the drilling of plug-plates so that the drilling file (currently named plPlugMap), plate drilling, cartridge, rotator wrap and the rotator itself are compatible. ... The TCC rotator angle (object system) is defined to be 0 degrees for this orientation. ... Thus, the rotator angle gives the conventional astronomical position angle on the sky of the y axis (although Russell won't acknowledge this necessarily). ...

... 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...

... Iowa Robotic Telescope | ... Talon is based on OCAAS, a software suite developed by software engineer Elwood Downey ( Clear Sky Institute ) for use at the University of Iowa ?s first remote facility (the ATF, or Automated Telescope Facility). ... XObservatory : Telescope Control Interface . ... This program calls upon and coordinates much of the interrelated portions of the Talon architecture, and forms the primary control panel for the telescope, dome, and peripheral systems when used locally. ...

... The channel of digital data transmission can operate with the rate up to 40 Kbit/s and the channel of analog information makes it possible to transmit the data with the band width up to 60 KHz. ... The onboard data collecting unit, STS, is installed to collect the analog and digital information from the complex of scientific payload and from the subsatellite service systems. ... STS unit has the following features: . ... The following organizations took part in design of the data collecting system: ...

The project of the informational system creation on the problem of evolution of radio galaxies, as a part of the "Big Trio" project aimed on studing of distant radio galaxies, is designed. This system allows a user to operate with simulated curves of spectral energy distributions (SED) to estimate ages and redshifts by photometry data. Authors use SEDs of several models for different types of galaxies. ... The HTTP and e-mail access is organized to this system. ...

The first version of UNIX was created in 1969 by Kenneth Thompson and Dennis Ritchie, system engineers at AT 's Bell Labs. It went through many revisions and gained in popularity until 1977, when it was first made commercially available by Interactive Systems Corporation. At the same time a team from the University of California at Berkeley was working to improve UNIX. ... The 1978 release of Version 7 included the Bourne Shell for the first time. ... Modern variants of UNIX . ...

The AstroGuide . ... AstroGuide | ... AstroGuide Listing . Login . See many more Astronomy Listings by: Category or Alphabet . Southern Stars provides professional software for the Amateur Astronomer. Platforms include Windows 3.1, Windows 95 and Macintosh System 7.x. Last Update August 28, 2005 . ... Web Site . ... Web . ... Unless otherwise specified, web site content Copyright 1994-2016 John Huggins All Rights Reserved . dbHTML," "AstroGuide," "ASTRONOMY.NET" & "VA.NET" . ...

Open Systems Handbook: A Guide to Building Open Systems . ... This book is designed to provide interested individuals and organizations with an overview of open systems and the work being done to achieve them. ... This section is organized using a descriptive model of an open systems environment developed by the IEEE PI 003.0 Working Group, which is developing the Guide to POSIX-based Open System Architecture. ... Standards for open systems 13 . Chapter 3: The open systems environment (OSE) 15 . ...

Astronotes Armagh Planetarium's Stellar Blog! ... Earth Satellites . ... Continue Reading.. ... 2 Comments The space programmes of the USA and USSR began in a spirit of bitter Cold War rivalry but by the early 1970s internation tensions had eased a little into a [ ] . ... Posted on June 20, 2014 | ... 2 Comments The year 2014 could see the first 3D printer brought into space, the first fare-paying passengers leave Planet Earth on the Virgin Galactic and the first test mission of a [ ] . ...

... Using UNIX System Calls and Library Functions . ... To use system calls and library functions in a C program we simply call the appropriate C function. Examples of standard library functions we have met include the higher level I/O functions -- fprintf() , malloc() .. ... For most system calls and library functions we have to include an appropriate header file. e.g. stdio.h, math.h . ... Information on nearly all system calls and library functions is available in manual pages. ...

home education > family astro . SEARCH ASP SITE: Match ALL words Match ANY word . ... Family ASTRO Resource Guides . ... In the last few decades, the planets and moons in the solar system have been revealed as wonderfully individual worlds that we are beginning to explore in detail. ... For more readings and web sites (including the best resources on individual planets and moons), see our Solar System Resource Guide on the web at: http://www.astrosociety.org/education/resources/solarsys.html . ...