... General information . ... Eurasian Astronomical Society . Main Optional Sections (Workshops) . ... Main Deadlines . ... The conference "Astronomy - 2005: Current State and Prospects" is to be held in Moscow, Russia, on June 1-6, 2005, in the frame of the Scientific Program of the 8th General Meeting of the Eurasian Astronomical Society. The main goal of the Symposium is to analyze the current state and possible prospect of astronomical science and work out a strategy of its development. ...

Next: SettingSaving, and Up: CCD Reductions Previous: Nature of CCD . The CCDRED package provides a set of basic commands that perform the various calibration steps. ... Other keywords contain general information, e.g. about the telescope/instrument being used. ... The MIDAS CCD package works in combination with the MIDAS Data Organizer which generates, using a set of selection rules, a MIDAS table containing the science frames and their associated calibration frames. ...

Next: Modes of Operation Up: CCD Scientific Performance Previous: Field of View . Thermal excitation of charge carriers from the valence to the conduction band creates a dark current signal which may vary with position in the array, and also has temporal shot noise variation. ... In a device devoid of localized defects which give rise to individual dark current spikes , most dark current arises from electrons generated at interface states at the surface. ...

... Astrophysics Group . ... COAST . COAST Current Status . ... COAST File Archive . ... Fringes and Power Spectra from COAST . ... The first stellar fringes were obtained in June 1991. ... We obtained sufficient data to reconstruct the first infrared image from an aperture synthesis array. ... The North telescope of the COAST array was moved to a new foundation, further to the North, making the longest baseline 67 metres. ... A fifth telescope was sited on the Southwest arm of the COAST array. ...