... Having quite low efficiency at this pilot stage it is natural to try to improve the selection criteria. The analysis of all accumulated data discussed here, shows that in order to improve the selection of BCGs the following additional criteria and selection procedures should be applied to the preselected lists of candidates: . ... The results of follow-up spectroscopy have shown that even part of the prominent first priority candidates turned out non-emission objects. ...

Follow-up astrometry and recoveries are made with the ANU 40 inch (1.0-m) f/8 reflector at Siding Spring Observatory (IAU code 413). ... A routine follow-up of 2003 WY153 on 2003 Dec 15 became much more than routine when a faint object with unusual motion vector was found close to the target asteroid. ... During routine astrometry with the 1.0-m to improve the orbit of the Apollo asteroid 2004 CB, the asteroid was found on March 30 to have a short tail! ... Siding Spring Survey Main Page . ...

... Team . ... conferences . Holding conferences: . GRB mini-workshop 2006 . ... Here we present the V and Rc images of the GRB 021004 optical transient field. ... Below is the text of our telegram in GCN circular TITLE: GCN GRB OBSERVATION REPORT NUMBER: 1717 SUBJECT: GRB021004, late time optical observations DATE: 02/12/02 16:51:59 GMT FROM: Vladimir Sokolov at SAO RAS 23.9 ------------------------------------------ At this stage it is not clearly whether the object is the pure host galaxy. ...

... Virginia Kilborn's program gfinder was run on 388 luthered and edge-masked HIPASS cubes , covering the whole southern sky, over all 1024 channels (i.e. -1281 to 12741 km/s), with an HI peak flux cutoff of 60 mJy/beam. ... The large number of candidates is mostly due to artifacts generated in areas of strong continuum flux, mostly the Galactic Plane, (causing a baseline ripple), the HI emission in our Galaxy, and lots of interference (1408 MHz birdie, GPS etc.) ... Number of galaxies: . ... galaxies ...

SAS home . SAS Watchout items . ... This thread contains a step-by-step recipe to extract a light curve of a point-like source for all the X-ray cameras, subtracting the background and correcting for exposure loses. ... The SAS task barycen performs this correction. ... If the following files are available: a) RGS event list; b) RGS source list, a call to the task performing light curve extraction, correction and background subtraction rgslccorr allows a user to create the light curve. ...

According to the # 7.1. of the Acting Statutes/Regulations on the International Astronomy Olympiad there should be an Authorized National Representative (Astronomical) Organization (ANRAO) in every participating state: A national astronomical society, a department (section) of the EAAS or IAU in the state, a leading observatory, an astronomical department of a leading university, a ministry of education or another appropriate competent institution. ...

... Each DFS Department official document has to be issued according to the following internal procedure. Documents to be distributed outside DMD division must also be issued according to the Technical Archive procedure . ... Several documents are also available as complete templates defined internally for DFS Department documentation (e.g. template for Test Plan, for Test Report, .. ... Define the internal document number as: dfs-volxx-yyy-zzzz . ... Document title, . ... Issue number (e.g. 1). ...

Russian SHAREABLE DATA CENTER Institute of Solar-Terrestial Physics SB RAS . ... The real-time radiosignals characteristics calculation algorithm from current VS data is carried out according to the following scheme (V.P.Grozov ,G.V.Kotovitch,V.E.Nosov,S.N.Ponomartvhuk, S.V.Pushkarev,L.P.Sergeeva,V.V.Khakhinov. Real time decameters radio systems characteristics calculation by ionosphere vertical sounding data. ... ionogram and calculation results display on monitor; . ...

OptInt PmWiki : MROI Fast Tip Tilt / Tech Meet 10 . The objective of this meeting was to decide which *one or two* layouts from the four candidates (OAP, DLT, Zoom, DT - see TechMeet6 ) should be identified as preferred in the CoDR document. Taking into account at least the following: . ... If we reduce the focal length, this layout allows the baseplate to be pinned close to the camera. ... Printable View of http://www.mrao.cam.ac.uk/projects/OAS/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/MROIFastTipTilt/TechMeet10) ...

After filling in and submitting this form it will be processed and sent to WDC-B data manager responsible for the data of your interest. You will receive requested data by conventional or electronic mail according to your preference. ... E-mail address: . Regular postal address: . ... Low Atmosphere . ... Radiation Belts of Earth . International Geomagnetic Referece Field Model (IGRF) . ... Press button below to submit your request to WDC-B data manager or reset your selections. ...

... This program was created for correlating chosen regions in the series of fts images. ... Chosen regions' . ... In this section the program counts the integral for each region of the grid for each image. ... As a matter of fact, the integral is total brightness of the region and it is counted by 'int_tabulated' IDL function. ... In addition, the program will show the count of the regions which correlate with the corresponding region (the brighter region means the bigger count) and its contour. ...

function fmtnum, data , fmt ;Return a string containing DATA formatted according to FMT with the ;following additional rules: ; 1) strip all leading and trailing spaces ; 2) strip all trailing zeros after the decimal point ; 3) strip trailing decimal point if n_params() lt 2 then begin print, 'syntax: string = fmtnum( data , ...

... The retweet numbers are close to the values that Twitter has for the tweets, which means that I can't have messed up too much (I wouldn't expect perfect agreement since Twitter does not guarantee that any search will return all matching tweets; also, the Twitter values are updated whereas mine are fixed until the next set of tweets gets analyzed). The most re-tweeted accounts. ... Below I show the distribution of the number of times an account tweeted (this excludes retweets made by the account). ...

Astronomy Discussion Forums . Forums: . ... Discussion Forums . ... You Followed The Apology With The Same Foolish Insult . Forum List | Follow Ups | Post Message | ... www.astronomy.net . About Astronomy Net | Advertise on Astronomy Net | ... Forum posts are Copyright their authors as specified in the heading above the post. "dbHTML," "AstroGuide," "ASTRONOMY.NET" & "VA.NET" . ...

OFICCIAL PRESS RELEASE . ... At S.P. Korolev Rocket and Space Corporation Energia the regular session of the Board of Chief Designers on the Russian Segment of the International Space Station (ISS) was held under the chairmanship of N.N. Sevastianov, President, General Designer of RSC Energia. ... Charge RSC Energia (N.N. Sevastianov) with submitting this decision to the Federal Space Agency and higher-level state structures. ... Official WEB-site of S.P.Korolev RSC Energia . ...

In this chapter we will consider an example of visual expert system written on the Actor Prolog language. ... There are a lot of methods of oil field bed stimulation that increase output of the oil production: thermal, physical-chemical, gas, microbiological, and others. ... Fig. ... The Top-Most diagram consists of three blocks: the "Describe parameters of hydrocarbon field" block, the "Check adaptability of existed methods of oil production" block, and the "Display solution" block. ... Gas methods. ...

Chapter 29. NVIDIA Contact Info and Additional Resources . ... There is an NVIDIA Linux Driver web forum. You can access it by going to http://www.nvnews.net and following the "Forum" and "Linux Discussion Area" links. This is the preferable tool for seeking help; users can post questions, answer other users' questions, and search the archives of previous postings. If all else fails, you can contact NVIDIA for support at: < linux-bugs@nvidia.com > . ... Additional Resources . ...

Astronotes Armagh Planetarium's Stellar Blog! ... Armagh Planetarium . ... Space Flight . ... By admin August 17, 2015 Posted in: Armagh Planetarium . ... If you are not a regular pinner, Pinterest is a website where users can share images and media. Inside of just liking and sharing content, users can pin media onto different pin boards, arranged perhaps by theme or content. ... Here you will find the latest news and views from the fascinating worlds of astronomy and space exploration. ...

README for XFree86 on OS/2 : Checking Compatibility of Video Hardware . ... Edit your CONFIG.SYS file to contain the following line somewhere: DEVICE=Y:\XFree86\lib\xf86sup.sys Of course replace ``Y:'' with the correct drive letter. ... Refer to section Adding Variables to CONFIG.SYS below. ... Start a full screen OS/2 CMD session and enter the following command: [C:\] Y:\XFree86\bin\SuperProbe . ... SuperProbe can identify many more video cards than are supported by XFree86. ...