You can also see this page in Russian with using KOI8 (X Windows) or CP1251 (MS Windows) Cyrillic coding. The Laboratory supports the space TV experiments, mainly in the planetary exploration missions. ... Image Co-registration . ... PHOBOS mission - Martian satellites investigations. Phobos on the Martian limb, the image from Phobos-2 probe from 02/28/89. ... Russian Space Bulletin. ... Last modified at June,26 1997 Alexey Kuzmin: akuzmin@mx.iki.rssi.ru . Back to IKI home page ...

National Aeronautics and Space Administration . ... Bruce McCandless II (Captain, USN, Ret.) NASA Astronaut (former) . ... He was a member of the astronaut support crew for the Apollo 14 mission and was backup pilot for the first manned Skylab mission (SL-1/SL-2). ... A veteran of two space flights, McCandless has logged over 312 hours in space, including 4 hours of MMU flight time. ... With the completion of this flight McCandless logged 191 hours in space (including 4 hours of MMU flight time). ...

Calvin J. Hamilton received his bachelors and masters degrees in electrical engineering from Brigham Young University. He graduated in 1988, and since that time has pursued his interest of image processing. ... Hamilton's image processing expertise combined with his interest in astronomy led to the creation of Views of the Solar System . ... At that time he found that the Internet lacked quality images and information on astronomical bodies. ... Multiresolution Image Browsers . ...

... 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. ...

... Prognoz Launches . ... Images . ... antenna of the low-frequency radiation receiver of the electromagnetic field . ... panel of solar batteries . magnetometer bar Prognoz is the name of the once soviet Earth research artificial satellites (ISZ for Russian) meant to study processes of solar activity, their influence on interplanetary environment and the Earth magnetosphere. ... solar wind and magnetosphere study . ... Full image is 61k . Full image is 52k . Full image is 60k . ...

... Sometimes a background process or a process without a controlling terminal hangs up and you will need to destroy this process by killing it. To kill a process use the kill command. kill [-signal] process_identifier (PID) . ... Always try to kill a process with a simple kill command. kill process_identifier . ... If this does not work use the -1 (one) signal. kill -1 process_identifier . ... As a last resort use the -9 signal: kill -9 process_identifier . ... Using the shell built-in kill command . ...

Radio Interferometry Principles . Radio Interferometry Signal Processing . ... A radio interferometer consists of a pair of directional antennas that are tuned to receive radio emissions from a source in a desired RF band. ... The antennas are pointed at the radio source of interest and are set up to receive the signal and process it into a form suitable for transmission to the correlator. ... In connected element interferometry, the digital signal goes directly to the correlator. ...

... 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. ...

... Basic Editing . ... Go to new wiki . ... TidNotes / . The NMC log contains information about when a new pointing command if received and when the antenna Az and El coordinates are within tolerances. The times of these messages can be used to prepare a FLAG file for AIPS which an astronomer can use to edit out data when the antenna was off point. ... The flag file can be created from the NMC log with the NMC_to_flag.pl script: . NMC_to_flag.pl [NMC_log_file] [day_number] > [output_file] . ...

... Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, Chilton, Didcot, Oxon OX11 0QX, U.K. љ This paper describes how Tcl and the Tk toolkit have been extended to send and receive Adam inter-task messages, and how it has been used to build graphically-oriented user interfaces for various data reduction tasks. ... The user interface uses the message system to control the task. ... adam_init . ... The user interface sends messages to the relay task using the Adam message system, which forwards them to the Adam tasks. ...

The Python programs offered here result from the development of methodology for processing image data with high precision, in a flexible command line system useful for astronomical and laboratory image processing. ... Alsvid is efficient in robotic and automated or scripted server processing of astronomical images, and also in interactive command line processing for research and visualization. ... In large part it replaces IRAF and IDL when scripted image processing is required. ...

April 28, 2009. Baikonur launch site, branch office of S.P.Korolev RSC Energia . Progress M-02M spacecraft filled with propellants and compressed gases has been delivered to the processing facility for final processing operations. After that, some additional cargo for the ISS crew was stowed into the logistics spacecraft. ... Official WEB-site of S.P.Korolev RSC Energia . ...

Ground Support of RadioAstron . Control and Tracking Stations . RadioAstron satellite control (command transmission, telemetry, orbit measurements) will be conducted from Evpatoria and Bear Lake control stations. ... Coarse orbit measurements will be carried out from control stations. Each measurement takes ten minutes. ... Orbit measurements at tracking stations give only radial component of spacecraft velocity but the measurements are going continuously during observing sessions. ...

Information Processing Using Dynamical Chaos . Yuri V. Andreyev, Yuri L. Belsky, Alexander S. Dmitriev, and Dmitri A. Kuminov . ... IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks , 1996, vol. 7, pp. ... In this work, we study information processing applications of complex dynamics and chaos in neural networks. We discuss mathematical models based on piecewise-linear maps which enable us to realize the basic functions of information processing using complex dynamics and chaos. ...

This document explains some of the directives provided by the core server which are used to configure the basic operations of the server. ... Process Creation . Network Configuration . ... User . ... A single control process is responsible for launching child processes which listen for connections and serve them when they arrive. ... The User and Group directives are used to set the privileges of the Apache child processes. ... The child process creates multiple threads to serve requests. ...

... LP-Moon.pdf - 26KB . ... A. A. Berezhnoy1,2, N. Hasebe1, M. Kobayashi1, G. Michael3 and N. Yamashita1 1Advanced Research Institute for Science and Engineering, Waseda University, Tokyo, Japan 2Sternberg Astronomical Institute, Moscow, Russia 3German Aerospace Center, Institute for planetary research, Berlin, Germany . Brown University - Vernadsky Institute Microsymposium 40, 2004, Moscow, Russia . ... 3Now at: Sternberg Astronomical Institute, Moscow University, Moscow, Russia . ...

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 . ...

This set of images from NASA's Cassini spacecraft shows Saturn's moon Titan glowing in the dark. Titan was behind Saturn at the time, in eclipse from the sun. ... Some light appears to be emanating from high in the atmosphere (noted by the outer dashed line at about 625 miles [1,000 kilometers] in altitude). But more surprisingly, most of it is diffusing up from lower down in the moon's haze, from about 190 miles (300km) above the surface. ...

Download Izmccd (~2.7 MB). ... If you want to calculate equatorial coordinates of object: . Click the " File " menu, and then click " Open " ; or press  on toolbar. Choose a file with image. ... Also see section " Viewing of image ". ... Before, if it is necessary, you must make an account dark current and flat field (See section " Preliminary processing of images ".) ... Measure the marked stars. ... Click the " Calculations " menu, and then click " Coordinates " or . ...

... Director of the RAS ISR . RAS Academician . ... Astrophysics module Kvant of the orbital complex Mir launched in 1987 contains the largest on the station complex of the scientific equipment named the orbital observatory Roentgen. Observatory Roentgen consists of 4 X-ray telescopes, jointly exceeding the range of energies from 2 to 800 keV. ... Among the most significant results that were received in the observatory Roentgen are: . ... measurement of the periods of 9 X-ray pulsars; . ...