... see also previos version 1991 VII/158 A REVISED AND UPDATED CATALOG OF QUASI-STELLAR OBJECTS ================================================================================ HEWITT A., BURBIDGE G.: 1993 Astrophys. ... A standardization of the files and their description was performed at CDS to allow automatic conversions to FITS tables. The paper contains a catalog of all known quasi-stellar objects (QSOs) with measured emission redshifts, and BL Lac objects, complete to 1992 December 31. ...

... Armagh Observatory, College Hill, Armagh BT61 9DG, +44 (0)28 3752 2928 . ... Risks Comparable to NEOs . ... The Increasing Rate of Discovery of Asteroids . ... Comet and Asteroid Collision Probabilities . ... Extreme albedo comets and the impact hazard (PDF Format) . ... Asteroid Impact Animations . ... Workshop on Scientific Requirements for Mitigation of Hazardous Comets and Asteroids - 2002 . ... The Spaceguard Survey Report, 1992 (PDF) . Tsunami from Asteroid/Comet Impacts . ...

... The Network Time Protocol (NTP) is used to synchronize the time of a computer client or server to another server or reference time source, such as a radio or satellite receiver or modem. ... Information on the NTP architecture, protocol and algorithms can be found in the Further Information and Bibliography page. The Building and Installing the Distribution page presents an overview of the procedures for compiling the distribution and installing it on a typical client or server. ...

Stellarium 0.12.3 . ... Classes . ... LabelMgr Class Reference . ... intљ . labelObject (const QString &text, const QString &objectName, bool visible=true, float fontSize=14, const QString &fontColor="#999999", const QString &side="E", double labelDistance=-1.0, const QString &style="TextOnly") . ... labelScreen (const QString &text, int x, int y, bool visible=true, float fontSize=14, const QString &fontColor="#999999") . ... setLabelText (int id, const QString &newText) . ... virtual voidљ . ...

M1 image More About M1 Nice Color Picture . ... M16 image More About M16 HST image . ... M31 image More About M31 Nice Color Picture . ... M42 image ; M43 image More About M42/43 Nice Color CCD Picture . M51 image More About M51 Color Image of M51 M51 Supernova . M57 image More About M57 Nice Color CCD Picture Very Deep M57 Image . ... M81 image More About M81 M81 Supernova Ultraviolet Image of M81 More about Ultraviolet Imaging . M82 image More About M82 M82 False Color M82 True Color . ...

... It was designed to observe the solar wind approaching Earth, from a position near the Lagrangian point L1, and it is part of the International Solar-Terrestrial Physics (ISTP) Initiative . ... The original plan called for "Wind" to approach its final station over two years, undergoing two close encounters with the Moon to boost its speed. ... If however the object is moving , the encounter is not symmetric, and in the end the spacecraft may have gained or lost speed, depending on its trajectory. ...

... It was designed to observe the solar wind approaching Earth, from a position near the Lagrangian point L1, and it is part of the International Solar-Terrestrial Physics (ISTP) Initiative . ... The original plan called for "Wind" to approach its final station over two years, undergoing two close encounters with the Moon to boost its speed. ... If however the object is moving , the encounter is not symmetric, and in the end the spacecraft may have gained or lost speed, depending on its trajectory. ...

The steps in making a pointing model are listed below. ... While tracking the source rise to set, the tiedowns are pulled through a range of about 14 inches (taking 14 minutes) . ... We need a strong point source as sband because we want to measure the peak even when we are out of focus (so we can determine the best za location). ... Time: this takes about 80 hours (averaging 2 hours/source with wait time.. ... so 4 days 12 hours a day will probably work when you include the time for the source. ...

... After a brief leave in Bangalore to work on astronomy (and holiday in Nepal), Dave will be continuing in management positions within the ATNF. ... We have also hosted an observing project visit from a contingent of ATNF and CTIP vacation scholars, who observed h Carina with the new 12-mm system (see article elsewhere in this issue), observed new HIPASS galaxies, and studied interference from microwave ovens. ... Currently we are testing this system with a single antenna. ...

... The spectrograph is designed for detailed studies of extended objects - galaxies and HII regions with a moderate spectral resolution. ... The updated Universal Astronomical Grating Spectrograph (UAGS, Carl Zeiss Jena) with a fast Schmidt camera is a base of the Long Slit Spectrograph (LSS). A cryostated Charge Coupled Device (CCD) detector is built inside the Schmidt camera. ... It was realized in the Laboratory of Spectroscopy and Photometry of Extragalactic Objects of SAO RAS. ... Camera . ...

... AstroImageJ (AIJ) .. ... Reads and writes FITS images with standard headers . ... Provides a time and coordinate converter tool with capability to update/enhance FITS header content (AIRMASS, BJD, etc.) ... Creates color images and with native ImageJ processing power . ... AstroImageJ_Updater . Update operation now updates AIJ version number in Info.plist CFBundleVersion and CFBundleShortVersionString (MacOSX only) . ... AstroImageJ is ImageJ with astronomy plugins and macros installed. ...

... Updates to the STIS Calibration Software, Reference Files, and OTFR Pipeline Products . ... Data . ... Software . ... Retrieving HST Data . ... Recent updates to the STIS calibration include changes to the CALSTIS code, updates to reference files, and revisions to rules determining the default settings for some calibration flags. ... This new version of CALSTIS was implemented in the MAST OTFR pipeline for STScI data as part of the OPUS 2006.1 release on 2005-Dec-13. ... New STIS reference files . ...

... ALMA . ... ARC Staff at ESO . ... The European ALMA Regional Centre (ARC) provides the interface between the ALMA project and the European science community. ... Below you can read the latest Announcements from the European ARC Network.. ... The call for 1-mm Very Long Baseline Interferometry (VLBI) proposals to use phased ALMA at Band 6 in Cycle 4, in collaboration with the Event Horizon Telescope Consortium (EHTC), will be released to coincide with the ALMA Cycle 4 Call for Proposals in March 2016...

... 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 ...

... TurboLinux?s inetd.conf is relatively sane, however some services like rsh and rlogin are enabled by default, I would advise turning these off. shell stream tcp nowait root /usr/sbin/tcpd in.rshd login stream tcp nowait root /usr/sbin/tcpd in.rlogind talk dgram udp wait nobody.tty /usr/sbin/tcpd in.talkd ntalk dgram udp wait nobody.tty /usr/sbin/tcpd in.ntalkd . ... SSH rpm?s are not available for TurboLinux 3.6 (that is to say I have not found any). ... ProFTPD (a better ftp server then WuFTPD) . ...

... Version 2.17.2 - 2002-07-25 (NW) ------------------------------- Removed the dependency on the STAT_ERR column, now use the square root of the counts as the error, to close the SPR 2949, `Task unable to plot total spectrum'. Revised documentation. ... Documentation has been updated. ... Graph layout changed slightly. Check added to prevent plot file overwriting an existing one if NO_CLOBBER set. + (doc/rgspecplot_description_tex) format for errors and documentation changed. ...

Supernova 2009ip in NGC 7259 . This page is devoted to information on Supernova 2009ip in NGC 7259 . ... In July 2012, CRTS noticed that this object had started to brighten again. ... Then in September of 2012 it got brigher again. ... Cornell University The Unprecedented Third Outburst of SN 2009ip: A Luminous Blue Variable Becomes a Supernova . ... UIS Henry Barber Research Observatory 2009ip page . ... 2009/08/26.11 . ... Joseph Brimacombe . ... Stan Howerton . ... Stan Howerton Light curve . ...

... We have developed a web site using HTML, Php, Python, and MySQL that extracts, processes, and displays data from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) and the Two-Micron All-Sky Survey (2MASS). The goal is to locate brown dwarf candidates in the SDSS database by looking at color cuts; however, this site could also be useful for targeted searches of other databases as well. MySQL databases are created from broad searches of SDSS and 2MASS data. ... 2002). ... 2002, AJ, 123, 3409 . ...

... Mirror hard points, Galil channels A-D, are at nominal positions for observations . Lateral link drives, Galil channels E & F, are at nominal positions for observations . Install telescope-wind baffle turnbuckles . ... Remove wind baffle (see wind baffle rem. proc.) . ... Remove remaining 2 pair of wind baffle counterweights . ... Move wind baffle + telescope to zenith "bird bath", install pin, apply telescope altitude brake, depress emergency stop button and disable wind baffle drive . ...

... Topic: Library vulnerabilities in Xlib, Xt, Xmu, and Xaw Announced: 25 May 1998 Last Updated: 26 May 1998 Affects: All XFree86 versions up to and including 3.3.2 Corrected: XFree86 3.3.2 patch 2 XFree86 only: no Patches: ftp://ftp.xfree86.org/pub/XFree86/3.3.2/fixes/3.3.2-patch2 ============================================================================= I. Background Xlib, Xt, Xmu, and Xaw are libraries included as a part of the core X Window System and are also included in every XFree86 release. ...