AO Home AO Astronomy Robert Minchin Blog Publications IDL Routines . Rotang can either be run from the command line as described here or through the alfa_ang GUI . ... To run rotang at Arecibo: . Start IDL . ... Run Rotang: . rotang, Date , RA , Dec , Time , /choice . ... Rotang also calculates the Azimuth and Zenith Angle fir every source. If the Zenith Angle is greater than 20 degrees, then the program will return that the source is down and will not calculate an optimum ALFA angle. ...

... The following tools are available: 3.1 strbs: Star Tracker BoreSight calculation  SYNOPSIS strbs instrument = instr ra= ra dec = dec apos = apos odffixout= true |false bstoolsout= true |false  DESCRIPTION Given the prime instrument instr and its viewing direction in terms of Right Ascension and Declination of the boresight + astronomical ... REFERENCE See task epicbscalgen and cal documentation for de nition of boresight related coordinate frames. ...

... In the above example, the second region uses the global coordinate system (PHYSICAL by default). ... Supported systems include: name description ---- ----------- PHYSICAL pixel coords of original file using LTM/LTV IMAGE pixel coords of current file FK4, B1950 sky coordinate systems FK5, J2000 sky coordinate systems GALACTIC sky coordinate systems ECLIPTIC sky coordinate systems ICRS currently same as J2000 LINEAR linear wcs as defined in file In addition, two mosaic coordinate ...

... Each day a different image or photograph of our fascinating universe is featured, along with a brief explanation written by a professional astronomer. 2001 November 23 . Counting Falling Stardust . ... Explanation: In the clear, dark and moonless predawn hours of November 18 , Greenbelt, Maryland's local baseball field was packed. ... Some had long since lost track ... but others were keeping score, counting hundreds of Leonid meteors in a short hour's worth of skygazing. ... About APOD | ...

... Sun images . ... Active areas . November : 2015 . ... The following regions with sunspots can be now observed on the Sun's surface . Group number . ... Group length (in degrees) . ... Beta . ... Coordinates and other characteristics of active regions are issued for November 09, 2015 00:31 UT The following H-alpha plages without spots can be currently observed on the Sun's surface . ... Coordinates and other characteristics of active regions are issued for November 09, 2015 00:31 UT . ...

... I am still trying to determine the cause of a difference between the results for the new and old code with the other kernels. ... I then returned to trying to figure out the difference between the old and new drizzlepac coordinate mapping. It turns out the old drizzlepac was using its internal mapping code, so I forced it to use the wcs mapping code instead.But that did .. ... I did some more testing and code reading in drizzlepac in search of the discrepancy between the old an new version. ...

1 December 2001 . Armagh Observatory reports that last month was exceptionally dry, mild and dull compared to a normal November. ... Last month was the driest November at Armagh since 1989 (25.1mm). The average temperature for the month was 8.2 degrees Celsius, almost 2 degrees above the November average of 6.3 degrees. ... Only 35.6 hours of sunshine were recorded compared with the average of 57 hours. This makes last month the dullest November since 1983 when there were just 27.5 hours. ...

Magnetic mapping and conjugations afterflight calculations . ... The magnetic mapping polar diagram, and ASCII files for each decade of month: . ... ASCII files description | DEC 1 (ASCII file, size more then 350Kb!) ... The IB_TAIL magnetic conjugations with the others Spacecraft . ... ASCII file description | Plot description | ... ASCII file . real time plot . ... The IB_TAIL magnetic conjugations with the groundbased magnetic observatories . ... INTERBALL mission  ...

... Go to new wiki . ... LBANov2006 / . ... March 22, 2007, at 12:27 PM by . ... February 20, 2007, at 11:25 AM by . ... November 23, 2006, at 05:51 PM by breid ? ... November 19, 2006, at 07:42 PM by . ... November 19, 2006, at 12:01 PM by guest ? ... November 19, 2006, at 08:58 AM by jlovell ? ... November 18, 2006, at 03:29 PM by stingay ? ... November 13, 2006, at 08:56 AM by adeller ? ... Page last modified on March 22, 2007, at 12:27 PM ...

... Each day a different image or photograph of our fascinating universe is featured, along with a brief explanation written by a professional astronomer. November 19, 1999 . Mercury And The Sun . ... TRACE Project . Explanation: Just days before the peak of the Leonid meteor shower , skywatchers were offered another astronomical treat as planet Mercury crossed the face of the Sun on November 15. Viewed from planet Earth, a transit of Mercury is not all that rare. ... About APOD > . ...

... Tonight's Sky . ... The Magazine . News . Observing . ... Magazine . ... Gravitational wave search provides insights into galaxy evolution and mergers . ... The double star 54 Leonis, spiral galaxy NGC 3198, and emission nebula NGC 3199 . ... Open cluster NGC 2818, spiral galaxy NGC 2964, and spiral galaxy NGC 2976 . ... Astronomy for Kids . ... November 2011 . ... Receive news, sky-event information, observing tips, and more from Astronomy's weekly email newsletter. ... Astronomy Magazine . ...

... Measurement of the MASS detectors parameters with mass program January 24, 2015 [112707] . MASS/DIMM electronics. ... Turbina-core(D): Dimm User Guide. ... N.Shatsky, V.Kornilov, The revision of the MASS/DIMM star catalogue. ... О.Возякова, В.Корнилов, Н.Шатский, Новое программное обеспечение прибора MASS/DIMM. ... V.Kornilov, N.Shatsky, S.Potanin, O.Voziakova, B.Safonov Preliminary results of astroclimate parameters measurements at the Sternberg 2.5m telescope installation site. ...

The 2.6 kernel contains a long list of changes which affect device driver writers. As part of the task of porting the Linux Device Drivers sample code to 2.6, your humble LWN Kernel Page author is producing a set of articles describing the changes which must be made. ... November 25, 2003) The entire set of articles has been updated to reflect the 2.6.0-test10 kernel. ... Timekeeping changes (November, 2003; 2.6.0-test9); changes to how the kernel manages time and time-related events. ...

... InformChaos Lab took part in CeBIT-2015 (Hannover, Germany) with "Active Ultra Wideband Wireless Networks". ... Lev Kuzmin received Dr.Sci. degree for his thesis "Wireless information transmission over UWB chaotic carrier" from IRE RAS. ... Artem Nikishov received Ph.D. degree from the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology for the thesis "Generation of microwave chaotic oscillations in self-oscillating systems with several active elements". ... Our Products page is renewed. ... News | ...

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... Short reports. ... For the countries, starting their activity at the International Astronomy Olympiad (see the Supplementary Instructions N 3 ), the requirements for the short report are not strong. ... According to the information above the regular deadline for receiving the short reports of Nationals Olympiads of the current year (with a set of all problems used on the National Olympiads) is defined as 13 plus 5 = 18 weeks before the Olympiad: July 04 , 2009. ... Personal data for visas. ...

... Observatory . ... Science . ... Science Users Information > Science and Technical Meetings > Conferences 2009 > IVOA Interoperability Meeting November 2009 . ... ESO Data . ... The International Virtual Observatory Alliance ( IVOA ) organises two Interoperability meeting per year. ... The IVOA Interoperability meetings focus on the development of Virtual Observatory standards to facilitate access to, and maximize the scientific exploitation of, the worldwide collection of astronomical information. ...

Astronotes Armagh Planetarium's Stellar Blog! ... Armagh Planetarium . Colin Johnston . ... Space Flight . ... Science Fiction . ... November . ... Most witnesses seem to be in Northern Ireland but it was seem from Scotland and Letterkenny and Longford in the Republic of Ireland too.€а The fireball was captured on video by a local station of the UK Meteor Observation Network . ... Here you will find the latest news and views from the fascinating worlds of astronomy and space exploration. ...

... Video: part 1 [mp4] , part 2 [mp4] . The first part of the talk will be a short introduction the history of the study of Riemann's zeta function giving necessary (and, hopefully, sufficient) background for understanding the rest of the talk. The main part will be devoted to methods for calculating approximate values of the non-trivial zeros of Riemann's zeta functions, its values and values of its first derivative inside and outside the critical strip. ... Poncelet Laboratory web page . ...

... Classes . ... gTime Class Reference . This class implements time calculations. ... gTime (double ai_jDays=0) . ... gTime (const gTime &timeSrc) . ... Set the time value of the time object to the julian day of year, day. ... operator= (const gTime &timeSrc) . ... Returns the time GMT value in Julian days. ... Returns the time_t value of the gTime Object. ... Returns a gTime object setted with the actual machine time. ... gTime Object assigned with real machine time. double gTime::getGmtTm . ...