We would like to announce a further pre-release of a standard for the exchange of optical (visible/IR) interferometry data. ... The latest draft addresses some minor issues uncovered by John Monnier in updating his IDL reader/writer code for the previous release of the standard. The specification of the OI_TARGET table has been changed in the latest release. The apparent RA and Dec have been removed (since the epoch for these positions is potentially ambiguous). ...

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The HST images of GRB 990123. HST has observed this field in the 50CCD (open) filter on the 8 February 1999, 23 March 1999, and the 7 February 2000, or 16, 59 and 380 days after outburst. ... On the left in the above image is the February 1999 image of GRB 990123, on the right the difference between that image and the February 2000 image. ... On the left in the above image is the March 1999 image of GRB 990123, on the right the difference between that image and the February 2000 image. ... 1999). ...

... Summary of reduced ISAAC fields . ... This data release includes eight fully reduced VLT/ISAAC fields in J,H,K s bands covering 50 arcmin 2 of the GOODS region in the Chandra Deep Field South (CDFS). ... 8 ISAAC fields) . ... The 8 ISAAC fields which are part of this data release are superimposed onto a SOFI image (J+K) (part of a previous EIS data release). ... In one case (GOODS field 11/J-band), for which not enough standard stars were available, the ZP was boostrapped from previous SOFI/EIS data...

Intricately structured filaments of gas and dust compose the reflection nebula seen around the Pleiades star cluster. These multiwavelength images were presented to the American Astronomical Society meeting in San Antonio, TX on January 16, 1996. Click here for the press release text . ... The Schmidt data were processed further after this photo release; better versions are now available.] Get image: 512x512 (56k) / 1024x1024 (204k) . Pleiades Far-Infrared Heated Dust Emission . ...

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... We present the main new features of the Aladin interactive sky atlas (version 2.0, November 2003). ... Aladin is able to build a metadata tree from the description of a dataset, in order to easily browse through all data available in a sky region on a server or in a local folder. ... Version 2, released just after ADASS 2003 meeting is a major new release implementing several new features and enhancing the role of Aladin as a VO portal (Figure 1). ... VOTable has been the first IVOA standard. ...

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... APT Activities and Science Results 3. ... APT Secretary Philip Edwards (ISAS) reviewed the aims of the APT (http://www.vsop.isas.ac.jp/apt/DefinitionAndAims.html). ... The Australia Telescope Compact Array, and Ceduna, Hartebeesthoek, Kashima, Mopra, Parkes, and Shanghai telescopes of the Asia-Pacific Telescope participated in these observations. ... In the absence of Tetsuo Sasao, Philip Edwards briefly described results of the APT 22 GHz observations conducted from October 1st to 5th, 1997. ...

XMM­Newton CCF Release Note XMM­CCF­REL­120 OM Photometry Bing Chen July 5, 2002 1 CCF components Name of CCF VALDATE List of Blocks changed CAL VERSION XSCS flag OM COLORTRANS 0007 2000­01­01T00:00:00 COLORMAG No 2 Changes The zero­points and color­transformations for optical filters are set based on observations of several hundreds standard stars. ... We can see that the simulated UV color­transformation based on this new CCF can represent the observations. ...

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... March 25, 2006: Version 3.0.0 New control panel with an observing queue and a log Pointing to apparent position including proper motion precession and nutation to epoch of ... declination axis to polar axis non-orthogonality optical axis skew altitude- and azimuth-dependent mechanical effects encoder reference Control of telescope hardware August 20, 2006 Version 3.0.4 Modifications from Dan Azari adding features suported by the RC Optical Systems ...

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VRAM-based Windows and CAD Accelerator . ... 5 Year Warranty Diamond's Stealth 64 VRAM is the latest addition to the award winning Stealth family of graphics accelerators for compute-intensive Windows and DOS applications. Designed for PC/ and VESA local bus architectures,. the VRAM based Stealth 64 sets a new standard in 64-bit graphics performance. With 4MB of VRAM, the Stealth 64 displays 24-bit true color up to 1152x864 resolution and provides 65,536 colors at 1280x1024 resolution. ...

... Main . ... Software . ... The Fakerat is a software package to help planning of observations with the RadioAstron mission. This version of the software has been designed to match the technical information that appears . in the RadioAstron User's Handbook . Fakerat, version 16, Linux distribution; release on December 27, 2013: . ... fakerat file . fakerat_lib file . readme file . install file . ... package src . Software complex ASL , Windows and Linux distributions. ...

PRESS-RELEASE . about the launch of Progress M-63 logistics spacecraft . ... S.P.Korolev RSC Energia is the prime manned space flight organization in the Russian rocket and space industry, responsible for the development of the ISS Russian Segment, its integration into the Space Station and its operation, including development and operation of principal Russian modules (Zvezda, Pirs, etc.), manufacturing, launch and operation of Soyuz TMA and Progress M spacecraft. ...