The Astronomical Society of Australia has been asked by STANDARDS AUSTRALIA to compile a list of "designated" optical observatories that are valuable resources for (i) research, (ii) education and (iii) community use. The ASA is the final arbiter of whether any particular observatory is so designated. ... Upon receipt of your application form, your observatory will be entered on a list of "Pending Designated Observatories" on the ASA Home Page. ... It will be emailed for you. ... Email . ...

Motif and X-Windows . It is possible to execute a Motif application on a computer around the corner or around the world and redirect the input and output for the application to your workstation. There are files located on the Science Cluster to help you position and display windows from a remote VMS system. ... Copy two command files: . ... From one of the workstation windows, have the remote system execute the x command file and create the display on your workstation by using this command: . ...

Next: CCD Scientific Performance Up: CCD Operation Previous: CCD Operation . A visible light photon releases only one electron-hole pair, and consequently many photons must be collected in each pixel for a measurable signal to be produced. ... This use as an imaging X-ray spectrometer requires that no more than one photon is incident on each pixel in any image frame, which imposes a requirement that image collection times be limited to ~seconds for typical astronomical applications. ...

... ASSOCIATE/RANK table col1 col2 [action] . ... BIN/TABLE table col1 col2 [bin] [min] [max] [sigma] . creates a table, bin.tbl with averages of col2 in bins of col1 . COMPARE/2SAM table col1 col2 . ... COMPUTE/FIT image[,error] [= function[(refima)]] . ... COMPUTE/FIT table y[,error] [= function[(ind)]] . ... COMPUTE/FUNCTION image = function[(refima)] . compute function values, result as image . COMPUTE/FUNCTION table y = function[(ind)] . ... define user functions for fitting . ...

... We describe a simple method to annotate shell scripts and have a preprocessor extract a set of variables, present them to the user in a GUI (using Tcl/Tk) with context sensitive help, and run the script. ... When individual applications are (tightly) integrated into the scripting language, this offers very powerful scripts, fully graphical user interfaces and a result sometimes indistinguishable from applications. ... Here is an example header from a C-shell script with which Figure 1 was made. ...

Tasks in GIPSY are the application programs which do useful work for the user. ... To start a task without parameters, only the name of the task needs to be supplied. taskname To specify parameters, any number of keyword-value pairs separated by blanks can be added to the taskname: taskname keyword1 = value1 keyword2 = value2 .. ... The user can set a parameter in the task context to change requests for hidden keywords into requests for defaulted keywords. ... Tasks all run in a context . ...

SETHI & Astropulse: Astronomical applications of the SETI@home dataset . ... SETI@home data recorder . ... About 65% of the total data is usable . ... Close-up #1: The Galactic Plane . Slide 10 . Close-up #2: High Latitude . Outreach through the SETI@home and Planetary Society web sites . ... AstroPulse: A search for ms scale dispersed pulses with Paul Demorest, Eric Heien, Shauna Sallmen & Dan Werthimer . Uses the SETI@home data set . ... BOINC . AstroPulse/BOINC . ...

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. ...

... ArXiv] Special Issue from Annals of Applied Statistics? ... Category: arXiv , Cross-Cultural , Stat | ... Nflation: observable predictions from the random matrix mass spectrum by Kim and Liddle . ... Algorithms arXiv Astro Bad AstroStat Bayesian CHASC Cross-Cultural Data Processing Fitting Frequentist Galaxies gamma-ray High-Energy Imaging Jargon Job Languages MC MCMC Meta Methods Misc News Nuggets Objects Optical Physics Quotes Spectral Stars Stat Timing Uncertainty X-ray . ... SAMSI AstroStat Prog...

... The general­purpose data reduction package FIGARO is now available to be run from the IRAF CL, and more Starlink applications will follow in due course. ... A system has been developed to enable packages written for the Starlink Software Environment to be run from the IRAF CL so that an IRAF user can mix and match application tasks from the two environments as required to process data, all under the control of the IRAF CL. ... Mixing IRAF and Starlink Applications -- FIGARO under IRAF 179 3. ...

... Basic time functions . ... Example 2: Set a random number seed . ... Uses of time functions include: . ... time_t time(time_t *tloc) -- returns the time since 00:00:00 GMT, Jan. 1, 1970 , measured in seconds. ... timer.c */ #include <stdio.h> #include <sys/types.h> #include <time.h> main() { int i; time_t t1,t2; (v