OFFICIAL PRESS RELEASE . ... the International Space Station . The Russian Soyuz TMA-4 manned transport spacecraft docked to the International Space Station (ISS) Orbital Complex. ... P. Semenov, Technical Director of Russian Manned Space Programs, General Designer of S.P. Korolev RSC Energia, Academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences), as well as representatives of the Russian enterprises and organizations participating in the implementation of the ISS program. ...

... JWST . ... Early Release Science Program . ... The Space Telescope Science Institute, following the recommendations of the JWST Advisory Committee , is now defining the parameters for an Early Release Science (ERS) program. The primary objective of the Early Release Science (ERS) program is to provide community access to a broad suite of JWST science observations as early as possible in Cycle 1. ... The key elements of the nascent Early Release Science program are currently as follows: . ...

... CentralProcessor 0.11 documentation . ... The Central Processor Manager is the local monitoring and control agent for the Central Processor sub-system. ... At the moment the Central Processor Manager only controls the acquisition phase; that is, it only controls the ingest pipeline. ... In addition to the CP manager specific parameters, any parameters that begin with ice_properties are passed directly to the ICE Communicator during initialisation. ... string . ... Central Processor Manager . ...

... Display of FITS image extensions and binary tables . SAOtng now can display FITS image extensions, FITS binary tables and raw event files. See Loading an Image for more information. ... Display of compressed FITS and WWW FITS files . SAOtng now can display compressed FITS files by automatically decompressing them on the fly. ... SAOtng now will search for image files in directories specified by the IMAGE_PATH environment variable. ... See the SAOtng XPA List for more information. ...

Next: Program use Up: Description of program searchdup Previous: Description of program searchdup . Parameter input is done with a graphic user interface. ... Input file: Name of the input catalog file. It has to be formatted, one record per source/observation, according to the format used in the Arcetri observations and source archives. ... Minimum number of observations per source Source with less than this number of independent observations are not included in the output file . ...

OptInt PmWiki . ... Edit Page | ... Markup Expressions . ... The {(...)} "expression markup" allows for a variety of string and formatting operations to be performed from within markup. Operations defined by this recipe include substr , ftime , strlen , rand , toupper / tolower , ucfirst , ucwords , pagename and asspaced . The "substr" expression extracts portions of a string. ... ftime "fmt" "when")} . ... The "ucfirst" expression converts the first character of a string to uppercase. ...

... Figure 1 shows the line positions of Al and Mn for CCD4 with EPN CTI 0014.CCF and EPN CTI 0015.CCF. ... XMM­Newton CCF Release XMM­ CCF ­REL­203 Page: 3 Mn­K position FF old and new 200 400 600 800 1000 revolution 1160 1170 1180 1190 1200 energy in ADU old new nominal position slope old 0.000126819 slope_ new 0.000133674 res effect at rev 1000 ( old ) [%] 0.0107547 res effect at rev 1000 ( new ) [%] 0.0113360 Mn­K position EFF old and new 200 400 600 800 ...

... Press release for Feb.9, 2001 09.00 (Moscow time) . The "Mir" station and the cargo ship "ProgressM1-5" operations scheduled for 8-9 Feb. completed. The Station and the cargo ship onboard systems checkout performed. The Station is pressurized keeps in spinning mode with the MCS (motion control system) in free drift. The next checkout of the vehicle and the Station onboard systems is scheduled for 9-10 Feb. The Station "Mir" parameters for 8 Feb. - average altitude - 286,9 km; . ...

... 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...

... Summary page . ... Printable page . ... This article is part of the LWN Porting Drivers to 2.6 series . ... If you have a char driver which needs direct user-space access (a high-performance streaming tape driver, say), then you'll want to map user-space pages yourself. ... int get_user_pages(struct task_struct *task, struct mm_struct *mm, unsigned long start, int len, int write, int force, struct page **pages, struct vm_area_struct **vmas); . ... Driver porting: Zero-copy user-space access . ...

... 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 ...

... Please note the scripts for configuring radio clock drivers do not work. ... Machine OS Comp Notes ------------------------------------------------------------ VAX-11/785 4.3 tahoe cc none Sun3 SunOS 4.1.1 gcc no REFCLOCK (pb 93/10/25) Sun4 SunOS 4.1.1 gcc all REFCLOCK drivers (dm 93/10/25) Sun4 SunOS 4.1.3 gcc all REFLCOCK drivers Sun4 SunOS 5.1 gcc no REFCLOCK (pb 93/10/25) Sun4 SunOS 5.2 gcc no REFCLOCK (dm 93/11/20) Sun4 ...

Russian version of HP . ... StarCalc is the fastest professional astronomy planetarium & star mapping program for Windows 9x/ME/NT/2000/XP (StarCalc version for PocketPC computers you can found here ). ... Extensibility : This program is based on common "Plugin StarCalc interface to catalogs and object groups", which allows program to add new modules as Plugins. ... Welcome to the Pocket StarCalc Home Page: . ... Some bugfixes in eclipses" and line" plugins - see the new versions in downloads page. ...

... List of Tables . ... How to use the MIDAS Manual . ... Commands . ... Executing System Commands . Some Useful Commands . Monitor and Command Language . ... Specifying Pixels in an Image . ... Command Syntax . Command Recalling . Command Line Editing . Command Line Suspension . ... MIDAS Command Language . ... Using Catalogs in MIDAS Procedures . ... MIDAS User Levels . ... Command Overview . ... Graphic and Image Display . ... Graphic Cursor Commands . ... Using Image Memories . ...

Note that these are 'General' ICDs giving information about protocols, not specific ICDs giving details of the full interfaces between specific Gemini systems. ... Document . ... The System Command Interface (PS) . ... The Baseline Attribute/Value Interface (PS) . ... Baseline DHS interface (PS) . ... System Status and Alarms Interface (PS) . ... Wavefront Sensing Information Interface (PS) . ... ICS/TCS Direct Control Interface (PS) . ... Telescope Tube Mass Balance f/16 IR Top End Config. ...

This is a primer on how to use the new AO observing system called CIMA, Control Interface Module for Arecibo. ... Spectral line observers will choose the correlator configuration to setup the correlator. ... The CIMA gui has the observing executive which receives the start and apply commands and makes them happen. ... Remember as to the control of the IF/LO system, the telescope pointing system and the interim correlator, this GUI is a house of cards on top of the old vxworks command line interface. ...

... spectrum . ... sfit . ... define >macro_name< : define a macro . ... meth_range <w1> <w2>: Set wavelength range for fit . data_spectrum <name> : data in "spectrum" format . ... data_sigma <sigma> : define mean standard error in data . ... data_line_set | ... NB: synth uses multiple calls to spectrum , so various Spectrum commands may also be required. synth : find optimum fit by adjusting abundances, v turb , v sin i , and v rad . ... save <fit> : Save the spectrum and best fit from synth . ...

... Donate to Support Science Literacy . ... 2016 Annual Awards . The ASP is accepting nominations for the organizationтАЩs national annual awards which recognize special achievements in astronomy research, technology, education, and public outreach. ... Shop the AstroShop . ... The Astronomical Society of the Pacific (ASP) is accepting nominations for the organizationтАЩs national annual awards which recognize special achievements in astronomy research, technology, education, and public outreach.. ...

... Up: Data Pipelines and Quality Control . ... The Quality Control system is needed to cope with the the large data volumes produced by VLT observations, the geographical distribution of data handling, and the parallelism of observations performed with the different VLT unit telescopes and instruments. The Quality Control system includes three main components: the calibration database is a distributed system for collecting and processing pipeline calibration data before storage in the VLT Archive. ...

... Guider functions . ... Guide Sensor Performance . ... Guide Sensor Sky Coverage/ Star Availability . Guide Star Selection Criteria . ... Guide fiber organization and reach at plug plate . ... Plug plate holes for guide stars are identical to those for science FO . ... FOV for each of 9 guide stars is 7.4 arcsec dia. (0.45 mm FO, Sumitomo IGN-05/10) . ... Selected guide stars must have no neighbor stars within TBD (5 arcsec) radius that have a brightness within TBD (5 mag.) of guide stars . ...