... 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 . ...

HUBBLE SPACE TELESCOPE DAILY REPORT #1745 PERIOD COVERED: 0000Z (UTC) 10/23/96 - 0000Z (UTC) 10/24/96 Daily Status Report as of 298/0000Z 1.0 ACTIVITIES SCHEDULED AND ACCOMPLISHED: 1.1 Completed Three Sets of FGS 6919 (3 Points of Light Calibration) The FGSs were used to make a Three Points of Light calibration by = making observations of standard star UPGREN69. ... The observations were completed as scheduled, and no problems were = reported. ...

... Stellar Evolution is driven entirely by the never ending battle between Pressure and Gravity . As imbalances are reached, the star is driven to find a new Energy source. ... Pressure and gravitational forces are equal, the star is stable and its core is sufficiently hot to fuse Hydrogen into Helium More about main sequence stars . ... The luminosity generated by the core fusion of Helium into Carbon is far greater than the shell luminosity associated with the fusion of Hydrogen into Helium. ...

These observations are aimed at fully charactering FORS1 photometric system (UBVRI zero-points, color-terms and extinction coefficients) for the Tektronix 2048x2048 pixel CCD (24µm px) . To this aim, the two Landolt/Stetson photometric fields SA95 and SA101 will be observed on a number of epochs and at different airmasses during February and March 2007. ... SA101 . ... OBs for SA101 have to be observed during evenigh twilight (exceptions are expected for the second half of March) . ...

... A total of 19 standard observing bands are defined at the VLA. ... The tables below describe the bands. ... VLA STANDARD BANDS - VLA SYNTHESIZER SETTINGS VLABAND VLAFEAB VLAFECD VLASYNA VLASYNB FLUKEA FLUKEB FEFILT CC 0.00 0.00 3860.1 3810.1 100.00000 200.00000 0000 UU 19.60 19.60 3610.1 3660.1 100.00000 200.00000 0000 KK 17.60 17.60 3860.1 3810.1 100.00000 200.00000 0000 LL - 3.20 - 3.20 3639.9 3560.1 100.00000 200.00000 0000 XX 13.40 13.40 3939.9 3889.9 ...

Next: Reduction procedure Up: Extinction and transformation Previous: Strategy . Standard stars can be included in the extinction solution, if one is careful. The problem is that there are usually appreciable ``conformity errors'' due to mismatch between the instrumental and the standard passbands [ 16 ]. ... Thus, it is wrong to assume that the transformation between the instrumental system and the standard system is exact, even if there were no measurement error in either system [ 1 ]. ...

... This routine is designed to read in the current correlator set-up, go to the chosen source, and then take data pointing directly at the specified source. This routine will automatically wait until you are on source before beginning to take data. ... Additionally, this routine allows you to take an ON/OFF calibration pair (one 10s scan with the noise diode on, followed by a 10s scan with the diode off), using the chosen noise diode configuration (see Section 1.6 . ...

... Apache HTTP Server Version 2.4 . Apache > HTTP Server > Documentation > Version 2.4 > Miscellaneous Documentation . ... This page documents all the relevant standards that the Apache HTTP Server follows, along with brief descriptions. ... http://www.rfc-editor.org/errata.php - RFC Errata . ... This document summarizes the history of HTML development, and defines the "text/html" MIME type by pointing to the relevant W3C recommendations. ... HTML documents are SGML documents. ...

... 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...

DIGITAL WDC EXCHANGE FORMAT . FOR OBSERVATORY 1.0 MINUTE VALUES 1. ... DATA-1 .. DATA-60 are 1-minute values of the given element for that hour. ... Typically, digital 1-minute values received by WDCs from organizations operating automatic magnetic observatory instruments are averages of more frequendy sampled values, e.g. 10-second point samples. ... If the method used to obtain 1-minute average values is important to a user, the WDC will assist in determining the exact procedure applied. ...

... Watchouts . ... Any XMM-Newton users, who need to convert OM count rates in the optical and UV filters into fluxes (expressed, e.g. , in erg/cm/cm/s/A), can do it by following any of the methods we outline below. OM count rates can be obtained with SAS. ... UVW1 . ... UVM2 . ... convert from count rate, obtained with SAS (files *SWSRLI*, corrected count rate in CORR_RATE column), to flux, selecting the most appropriate factor for the chosen spectral type and filter from the following Tables: . ...

... New IRAF tools for the photometric calibration of optical/IR images are presented. The new tools are standard star catalog and world coordinate driven, requiring both accurate standard star catalog coordinate and accurate image coordinate data. Network access to standard star catalog servers is supported. ... The photometric calibration software will automatically convert the standard star coordinates from the standard star coordinate system to the image coordinate system. ...

The following are useful tcsh completions I use, which should mostly be fairly standard for any unix platform, so you can just drop them into place. # directories complete cd 'C/*/d/' complete rmdir 'C/*/d/' complete lsd 'C/*/d/' # signal names # also note that the initial - can be created with the first completion # but without appending a space (note the extra slash with no # append character specified) ...

Follow-up astrometry and recoveries are made with the ANU 40 inch (1.0-m) f/8 reflector at Siding Spring Observatory (IAU code 413). ... A routine follow-up of 2003 WY153 on 2003 Dec 15 became much more than routine when a faint object with unusual motion vector was found close to the target asteroid. ... During routine astrometry with the 1.0-m to improve the orbit of the Apollo asteroid 2004 CB, the asteroid was found on March 30 to have a short tail! ... Siding Spring Survey Main Page . ...

NEUTRON MONITOR DATA FOR JUNGFRAUJOCH AND BERN DURING THE GROUND-LEVEL SOLAR COSMIC -RAY EVENT ON 29 October 2003 R. Buetikofer and E.O. Flueckiger Physikalisches Institut, Universitaet Bern Sidlerstrasse 5, CH-3012 Bern , Switzerland This report includes information on the processing and use of the data for the ground-level solar cosmic ray event on 29 October 2003 obtained by the following three ... Section 3 of the IGY neutron monitor at Jungfraujoch is the central section. ...

... The material in "From Stargazers to Starships" meets several important requirements of the national standards. Pages cited below are from National Science Education Standards National Academy Press, Washington 1995. ... For example: the sections on astronomy not only describe calendars and sundials (including their construction), but also the astronomy of the ancient Greeks, including two different ways in which ancient Greeks estimated the distance to the Moon. ...

Astronotes Armagh Planetarium's Stellar Blog! ... Space Flight . ... Earth Satellites . ... Leonid meteors seen from 13 km altitude aboard an aircraft during the 1999 Leonids Multi-Instrument Aircraft Campaign (Leonid-MAC). Comet Tempel-Tuttle provides the cometary debris for the Leonid meteor shower. ... Every 17-19 November Earth crosses Tempel-TuttleтАЩs orbit and the Leonids become visible. With clear, dark skies observers may see 10 to 15 Leonid meteors every hour on those mornings. ...

... Superb optical performance coupled with time proven computerized pointing and tracking has made the LX200 ACF series a best-seller in the high-performance telescope class. ... MeadeтАЩs new LX70 Series offers high-quality German equatorially mounted telescopes with slow-motion controls and heavy-duty steel tripods. ... For crisp wide-field observing and imaging, few optical designs match the performance of a true triple-element apochromatic refractor. ... Meade Standard Field Tripod #07020. ...

... Fortranљ66 . ... Fixed form . ... Whole Fortranљ66 . ... Continuation line indicated in column 6 . ... Blank line as comment . ... Extension in Unix .f .f .f .f90 .f .f90 . Extension in DOS .FOR .FOR .FOR .F90 .FOR .F90 . ... This applies to both fixed form and free form source code. ... Fixed form of the source code is discouraged in Fortran 95! ... In UNIX there is no concept called extension, and the extensions are not specified in the Fortran standard, but in informal manufacturer standards. ...

Next: Definition of Scientific Misconduct Up: scientific Previous: Introduction . ... This Code of Good Practice closely follows the Statement on Safeguarding Good Scientific Practice issued by the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC) in 1998. ... The Observatory expects the highest standards of scientific integrity to be adhered to by the researchers, students and other staff that it funds, whether they are employees or associates of other institutions. ...