... Also the help file was renamed the manual, formated for LaTeX and html, and to a large degree, rewritten. ... Increase maximum number of setup files to 50. ... 1995 July) . ... Also, only put pointing request in VLBA control files if this is not a DAR-only station (1995 October 4) . ... Allow in-line setup files much like the source and station catalogs. ... Allow specification of schedule input file name from main input. ... Adding SUMITEM input to allow specification of what is in the summary file...

... Thus the FTE described below must be added to the AOF FTE budget. ... Activity Scientist overview of changes (R7M) Observing preparation tool ( section 15.1) Instrument Control Panel ( section 15.2) Modification of AOF / Hawk-I acquisition template ( section 15.3) Site quality monitoring and display ( section 15.5) Exposure Time Calculator ( section 15.6) Modification Observing Tool (OT3) ( section 15.8) TOTAL FTE effort 1 0.1 0.3 0.3 0.3 0.2 0.3 2.5 ...

March 23, 2007 MEMORANDUM To: ALFA Survey Principal Investigators From: R. L. Brown Subject: Scheduling the Surveys in the Post-Senior Review Era As you know, it is the NAIC plan to make substantial changes in the science operations model of the Arecibo Observatory in response to the recommendations of the NSF Astronomy senior review. ... Final approval of the telescope schedule, every telescope schedule, is the responsibility of Bob Kerr, the Observatory director. ...

... Behemoth black hole found in an unlikely place . ... black holes . ... Observing springtime deep-sky objects with a large telescope . ... Could large numbers of black holes account for much of the "dark matter" estimated to exist in our universe? ... NASA, ESA, M.J. Jee and H. Ford (Johns Hopkins University) No, because the universe never had the raw material to grow enough black holes to account for current estimates of dark matter. Get instant access to subscriber content on Astronomy.com! ...

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... They are concerned with Attitude Control System of the spacecraft, satellite visibility from tracking stations, limits on the satellite autonomous operations during the orbit, and needs for auxiliary operations with the spacecraft. ... Among the operational constraints the most important one is the number of programmed slews per orbit, which determines the maximum number of radio sources to be observed during one orbit. ... System temperature (K) . ... Progress of the RadioAstron Project in Pictures...

... Kashyap, V., Drake, J., Smith, R., & Wargelin, B., 2014, 15 Years of Science with Chandra Symposium, Spectrum Ultimum Capellae: XV Years of Chandra Observations of Capella . ... Kashyap, V.L., Connors, A., Drake, J., Lee, T., Posson-Brown, J., Saar, S., Scargle, J., van Dyk, D., & Wong, R., 2014, AAS/HEAD 14, 119.05 TANAGRA: Timing Analysis of Grating Data . ... Audard, M., G del, M., Drake, J.J., & Kashyap, V.L., 2000, ApJ, 541, 396 . Audard, M., G del, M., & Guinan, E.F., 1999, ApJ, 513, L53 . ...

CONTENTS Volume 24 Number 1 (January 1997) . ... CHROMOSPHERIC LINE BLANKETING AND THE Ca I 4227 LINE IN M DWARFS . ... RADIO AND OPTICAL OBSERVATIONS OF INTERMEDIATE VELOCITY GAS TOWARDS THE M15 REGION . ... ROSAT PSPC OBSERVATIONS OF THREE SCULPTOR GROUP GALAXIES: NGC 55, NGC 247 AND NGC 300 . ... 1995-1999 Irish Astronomical Journal, Downshay, 12 Heather Lea Avenue, Dore, Sheffield S17 3DJ, S. Yorkshire, United Kingdom WWW Contact: Alastair G Gunn Back to IAJ Home Page ...

GrIm II . ... The MC has been modified to change the way GRIM images are stored to disk when FITS format is selected. ... The solution the Grim team has come up with is to internally add a constant of 10000 to every pixel of the 'bias subtracted' grim image which makes it conform to the unsigned 16-bit number standard, in that all pixel values after this addition of 10000 are in the range 0-65535. ... We have now implemented this for storage of GRIM files in FITS format. ... filetype fits . ...

... History-NASA Centers . ... STS Recordation Oral History Project . This effort involved the collection of history from key individuals formerly and currently associated with the agency?s Space Shuttle Program (SSP), focusing on the Space Shuttle Orbiter and its related components. ... Space Shuttle Main Engines Chief Engineer and Project Manager, Marshall Space Flight Center, Huntsville, AL . ... Space Shuttle Main Engines Project Manager, Marshall Space Flight Center , Huntsville, AL . ...

ATMoB "Open Cluster Observing Award " Guidelines Purpose: To promote observing among the membership of the Amateur Telescope Makers of Boston through participation in the Open Clusters Observing Awards program. Introduction: This awards program is oriented towards visually observing open clusters above magnitude 9.9. ... It turns out that a very unprejudiced and convenient method to dermine the limiting magnitude is to count the number of visible stars in certain areas on the sky. ...

SETUP : For service mode observations within the SOLARNET Access Program, ROSA and IBIS can be utilized either as stand alone instruments, or combined together. ... PROPOSAL STRUCTURE: Proposals should include up to max 2 pages, including a scientific rationale and technical requests (detailing i.e. spectral filters and wavelength sampling). ... For the case of joint IBIS and ROSA observations, proposals should indicate which instrument is to be considered as the primary one. ... SOLARNET Access . ...

OptInt PmWiki : MROI Fast Tip Tilt / Tech Meet 16 . ... Common baseplate pin position - thermal expansion issues . ... Assuming a temperature change of 5 degC, a coefficient of thermal expansion of 20e-6 /K, and a pinning of the baseplate under the second fold mirror, then the image moves by less than 0.02 micron. ... Right-angle layout unsuitable even with shorter f lens . ... Printable View of http://www.mrao.cam.ac.uk/projects/OAS/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/MROIFastTipTilt/TechMeet16) ...

... Second, the observatory can control the configuration, test data analysis procedures, and provide calibration solutions with the help of instrument models. This paper presents the VLT object-oriented framework for the development of ETCs (Exposure Time Calculators) and data simulators. ... Instrument simulations are being developed for the purpose of predictive calibration, instrument configuration control, and evaluation of data analysis procedures. ...

Specification: Status Data Byte(s) Description D7----D0 D7----D0 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Channel Voice Messages ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1000cccc 0nnnnnnn Note Off event. 0vvvvvvv This message is sent when a note is released (ended). (nnnnnnn) is the note number . (vvvvvvv) is the velocity. 1001cccc 0nnnnnnn Note On event. 0vvvvvvv This ... The numbers are: Local Control. ...

... The NATO "Science for Peace" Program , Project number SfP 973559 . ... Receiver devices based on superconducting Josephson junction dynamics provide easy and extremely sensitive way for measurements of contents of these molecules. ... Fast development of SQUIDs resulted in fabrication of number of devices for supersensitive physical experiments and production of sophisticated multichannel measurement systems used in medicine for magnetocardiography and neural investigations. ...

Comedi Documentation . ... Right to the source: #include <stdio.h> /* for printf() */ #include <comedilib.h> int subdev = 0; /* change this to your input subdevice */ int chan = 0; /* change this to your channel */ int range = 0; /* more on this later */ int aref = AREF_GROUND; /* more on this later */ int main(int argc,char *argv[]) { comedi_t *it; lsampl_t data; it=comedi_open("/dev/comedi0"); comedi_data_read(it,subdev,chan,range,aref,&data); printf("%d\n",data); return 0; } . ...

... Our scientific interest is an accuracy of asteroid CCD observations obtained by amateurs and professional astronomers all over in the World. ... These data help us to analyse an accuracy of real CCD positions in the MPC Database. ... Do you test your observations of the small Solar System bodies permanently before sending them to the International Minor Planets' Center? ... Do you know a real accuracy of your positional CCD-observations in comparison with the other observatories' one ? ...

... Some equations, identities or formulas contain small quantities , and these can be made much simpler and easier to use by sacrificing a little accuracy. ... When we derive squares, 3rd powers, 4th powers etc. of numbers larger than 1 , the results are always bigger , while for numbers smaller than 1 , the results are always smaller . ... power . ... number . ... The above also holds for negative numbers, if one understands "bigger" and "smaller" to refer to the absolute value (the value without sign...

Statistics of sunspot activity . The sunspot indices . ... Visual indices of solar activity . ... n - number of spot groups . A - Waldmeier class of unipolar spot groups without penumbra . B - class of bipolar spot groups without penumbra . C - class of bipolar spot groups with one penumbra pole . D - class of small bipolar spot groups with two penumbra poles . E - class of middle bipolar spot groups with two penumbra poles . ... H - class of unipolar penumbrated spot groups . ...