Next: IRAF/PROS Up: PROS USERS GUIDE Previous: Contents . This guide is designed to aid the new user in deriving scientific results from reduced x-ray data using the SAO PROS software system which runs under IRAF as package ``xray". ... If you are using the IRAF/PROS system at SAO, you will find the siteguide , by Belinda Wilkes, a useful guide to site-specific procedures. ... Spatial analysis . ... Next: IRAF/PROS Up: PROS USERS GUIDE Previous: Contents rsdc@cfa.harvard.edu . ...

General Information . ... We'd like to announce the forthcoming IAU Conference: . ... A conference organized by Sternberg Astronomical institute (Moscow, Russia) and Working group "Site-testing Instruments" of the International Astronomical Union on various aspects of site-testing techniques, approaches and results. RUSSIA, Kislovodsk (Caucasus Mineral Waters region), 4-9 October 2010. ... Victor Kornilov, Sternberg Astronomical Institute . ... 3-4 October: Registration and accommodation . ...

... The MIDAS system is built along lines which should allow easy integration of complex analysis algorithms as well as allowing greater flexibility in interactive use and in the creation of user specific procedures from the basic building blocks. ... The present version which became available in 1984 follows a similar philosophy in its application program interfaces, but has been expanded to the new Standard Interfaces which have a broader base than previously. ...

... Department of Electrical Engineering, Auburn University, Auburn, AL 36849-5201 . This paper presents a criterion for stopping non-linear iterative algorithms, specifically the Richardson-Lucy algorithm that is widely used to restore images from the Hubble Space Telescope. The criterion is based on generalized cross-validation and is also computed iteratively. ... The Randomized Generalized Cross Validation (RGCV) Criterion . ... Using the RGCV Criterion as a Stopping Rule . ... Caveat . ...

... Astro Space Center, Profsojuznaya 84/32, GSP-7, 117997, Moscow, Russia . ... The algorithm allows to work easily with the first and the second derivatives of a visibility function phases and amplitudes. This approach is important for high orbiting Space VLBI data processing. ... where is a measurements of the visibility function and is an approximating function. ... If is a 2-D complex function (a model), the bi-orthogonal approximation is known in VLBI as a self-calibration algorithm. ...

... Will there be interactive user accounts (telnet/SSH)? Will users be using it as a workstation or is it a server? ... The main difference in today's world between computers is usually not the hardware, or even the OS (Linux is Linux, NT Server and NT Workstation are close family, etc.), it is in what software packages are loaded (Apache, X, etc) and how users access the machine (interactively, at the console, and so forth). ... Keep users off of the servers. ... Restrict physical access to servers. ...

The following general subroutines belong to the category UTILITY: . ... Converts an integer to a character string. ... Decodes a string of characters into character strings. ( herinp.c ) . ... Decodes a string of characters into doubles. ( herinp.c ) . ... Decodes a string of characters into integers. ( herinp.c ) . ... Decodes a string of characters into logicals. ( herinp.c ) . ... Decodes a string of characters into reals, integers, logicals, characters or bytes. ( herinp.c ) . ...

... Recent Topics . ... MAO main . ... Message from the General Secretary to the IAU membership . ... Тема: Message from the General Secretary to the IAU membership . ... IAU Directory for World Astronomy and NameExoWorlds contest . ... The IAU Directory for World Astronomy ( directory.iau.org/ ) has been created not only for astronomy clubs and organisations, but also more generally for associations having an interest in astronomy (history, culture, etc.) ... www.iau.org/ . ... MAO NASU . ...

... Gas in Thermodynamic Equilibrium Conditions. Stellar Spectrums. Physical Basis of Spectral Classification of Stars. ... The Sun. General Stellar Feature of the Sun. ... Distribution of Brightness in Solar Disc. ... Chromosphere - Observations on Limb and Disc of the Sun, Basic Elements of Structure, Spectrum, Physical State. ... Solar Corona - Observation, Structure, Spectrum, Polarization, Dynamics, Rotation, Physical Condition. ... Interstellar Dust. ... Two Groups of Big Planets. ...

... For given geographical longitude and time zone show the current data and time, Universal data and time, current local star time. ... Accept 10 different data formats (data&time, data with decimal day of month, data with decimal day of year, decimal year, some Julian dates), calculate from any formate to others, show day of week. Current data and time di