The FITS "World Coordinate System" (WCS) standard defines keywords and usage that provide for the description of astronomical coordinate systems in a FITS image header. ... I: "Representations of world coordinates in FITS" , Greisen, E.W. & Calabretta, M.R. (2002), Astronomy & Astrophysics , 395 , 1061-1075. ... This diagram illustrating Bonne's projection with conformal latitude +35 was produced by WCSLIB , a C implementation of the coordinate transformations defined in the FITS WCS papers. ...

... Home About Meade Product Information Dealer Locator Customer Support Investor Relations Dealer Support Employment Opportunities Site Map . Meade Instruments Corp. ... Meade Autostar Supplementary Software Downloads . ... To upgrade your Autostar first click on the link below to download the Autostar Update (ASU) Client Application for Windows. ... The most recent versions of AutoStar Update automatically check for the newest versions of the AutoStar Updater and download it if necessary. ...

... Data acquisition and related software ( some results ). Local WWW . ... An innovative data acquisition system ( FASTI ) for astronomical IR array and Fast L3CCD optical AO detectors., Skysoft The new Astronomical Software Directory. Galileo IR camera ( NICS ), . Galileo second generation instrument Giano - [ Suggestions? GTC IR High-resolution spectrometer NAHUAL , ( local site ), . ... baffa at arcetri.astro.it . ... 39) 055 5609713 . ... My Astronomical image collection . ...

... Press Releases . ... Release Notes . ... All of the functionality of PyFITS is now available in Astropy as the astropy.io.fits package, which is now publicly available. Although we will continue to release PyFITS separately in the short term, including any critical bug fixes, we will eventually stop releasing new versions of PyFITS as a stand-alone product. ... Prior to PyFITS version 2.0 and beginning again with PyFITS version 2.3.1 (June 3 2010) PyFITS is covered under a BSD license. ...

Links on this page are to sites that hold information on the Sun , our nearest star . ... Big Bear Solar Observatory (BBSO) , California, USA. Mauna Loa Solar Observatory (MLSO) , Hawai'i, USA. ... Space Environment Center, Current Solar Images , Boulder, Colorado, USA. ... Solar Data Analysis Center, Latest Images , at GSFC, Maryland. ... NSSDC - National Space Science Data Center, Solar Physics (at GSFC). ... NSSDC - National Space Science Data Center, Space Physics (at GSFC). Back to Links ...

... The task also issues a number of housekeeping related messages and values and also writes several keywords to the EXPOSURE extension (the information is usually CCD-dependent and it is thus important that it is kept and propagated through the event file processing chain). ... Filter: the filter wheel position is derived from the position sensor potentiometer (housekeeping column F1122 contained in the main periodic housekeeping file PNPMH1 , HK mnemonic H_CE_FWSPOT). ...

... CIMAFITS is the name for the Arecibo FITS-file format. ... This is a list of (fairly) up-to-date documents describing CIMA and CIMAFITS: . The CIMA version history log which is the most up-to-date page listing all changes made to the different versions of CIMA . ... The CIMA user's log which chronologically lists changes made to CIMA that may be relevant to an observer. The CIMA engineering log which lists engineering changes made to CIMA that probably are of less interest to an observer. ...

... OOF . ... OOF software . ... Pages in support of ALMA memos . Algorithms and software for radiometric phase correction . ... Limits on Phase Correction Performance Due to Differences Between Astronomical and Water-Vapour Radiometer Beams: supporting materials . Simulating Atmospheric Phase Errors, Phase Correction and the Impact on ALMA Science: supporting materials, software . Inference of Coefficients for Use in Phase Correction I: supporting materials, software (in preparation) . ...

... Pre-university education . ... SSAU History . ... International relations . ... Thus, in different years the University entered into agreements with the universities of China (Harbin Politechnical Institute, Beijing Aerospace University , Beijing Politechnical University , North-West Politechnical University , Bradley University (USA), Sofia Technical University (Bulgaria), Stuttgart Technical University (Germany), Berlin Technical University (Germany), Carlow Technical ...

This module provides for user authentication using Berkeley DB files. ... AuthDBGroupFile . ... The AuthDBGroupFile directive sets the name of a DB file containing the list of user groups for user authentication. ... Combining Group and Password DB files: In some cases it is easier to manage a single database which contains both the password and group details for each user. ... The AuthDBUserFile directive sets the name of a DB file containing the list of users and passwords for user authentication. ...

XmCCD ----- The programs provided here offer a Linux graphical user interface to astronomical and scientific CCD cameras. ... It is the latest one they offer and the files included allow support for Android and Mac OS X. This distribution of XmCCD includes source code to utilize the SBIG shared library libsbigudrv.so with a Motif-based graphical user interface. ... The XmCCD source package includes and will install: SAOimage ds9 xpa cfitsio SAOimage is the primary image display for XmCCD. ...

The 6th INTEGRAL Workshop . The Obscured Universe . Space Research Institute, Moscow, Russia . ... Travel support . Past workshops . ... Same as for past INTEGRAL workshops, the organizers will make best efforts to provide some financial support to help participants, e.g. young (under 35 years old) scientists, attending the workshop. ... Following the traditions the organizers will waive the workshop fee for all invited participants and young scientists getting travel support from the LOC. ...

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... Now I have an occasion - Grokking the GIMP by Carey Bunks ! ... I have Linux binaries gimp-1.0.2.linux.tgz of current development version with all patches applied and plugins updated . ... I used to configure gimp with --prefix=/usr/local/gimp, so everything will go to /usr/local/gimp directory. Just make a symbolic link to make it visible ( e.g. ln -s /usr/local/gimp/bin/gimp /usr/local/bin/gimp). ... Also, you need gtk libraries installed ! ... GIMP Plugin Registry . ... figures plugin . ...

... Apache HTTP Server Version 2.2 . ... This document describes the use of filters in Apache. ... The Filter Chain is available in Apache 2.0 and higher, and enables applications to process incoming and outgoing data in a highly flexible and configurable manner, regardless of where the data comes from. ... A wider range of applications are implemented by third-party filter modules available from modules.apache.org and elsewhere. ... There are two ways to use filtering: Simple and Dynamic. ...

Quality Control: . ... ESO acronyms . ... Health Checks . ... For each VLT and VLTI instrument, and for the survey cameras, ESO provides a data processing pipeline. ... At Garching headquarters, the Quality Control and Data Processing group uses the same pipelines in optimized but automatic mode for monitoring the instrument health and for the production of certified master calibrations. ... Calibration plans The calibration plans of the VLT instruments are published on the Paranal instrument pages . ...

... In collaboration with the STScI and with the NICMOS Investigation Definition Team we have been developing software to predict aspects of NICMOS performance and to analyze NICMOS grism data. Quick look analysis software has been developed to extract spectra from NICMOS grism images and matching direct images to support ground testing and in-orbit verification. ... Software is being developed at the STScI to ensure the proper calibration of data obtained with NICMOS. ...

Next: List of PROS and Up: PROS USERS GUIDE Previous: Glossary . ... Available from SAO. ... The IRAF Data Reduction and Analysis System. ... File Structure and Formats of Processed Einstein Data [G. Fabbiano and J. McSweeney] - Details of the structure of the Einstein data files. ... User Manual for SAOimage [M. VanHilst] - Available from SAO. *documents so indicated are also available as compressed postscript files in subdir /pub/pros/docs of SAO anonftp. ftp sao-ftp.harvard.edu . ...

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Central Astronomical Observatory at Pulkovo of Russian Academy of Sciences PUL Analysis Center Pulkovo IVS Analysis Center (PUL) 2009 Annual Rep ort Zinovy Malkin, Natalia Miller, Elena Popova Abstract This report briefly presents the PUL IVS Analysis Center activities during 2009 and plans for the coming year. The main topics of the investigations of PUL staff in that period were ICRF related studies, computation and analysis of EOP series, and VLBI2010 related issues. ...