... New IRAF tools for the photometric calibration of optical/IR images are presented. The new tools are standard star catalog and world coordinate driven, requiring both accurate standard star catalog coordinate and accurate image coordinate data. Network access to standard star catalog servers is supported. ... The photometric calibration software will automatically convert the standard star coordinates from the standard star coordinate system to the image coordinate system. ...

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. ...

... Stellar Evolution is driven entirely by the never ending battle between Pressure and Gravity . As imbalances are reached, the star is driven to find a new Energy source. ... Pressure and gravitational forces are equal, the star is stable and its core is sufficiently hot to fuse Hydrogen into Helium More about main sequence stars . ... The luminosity generated by the core fusion of Helium into Carbon is far greater than the shell luminosity associated with the fusion of Hydrogen into Helium. ...

... Astrophysics Group . ... Optical Interferometry . OIFITS: A Data Exchange Standard for Optical (Visible/IR) Interferometry . ... OIFITS is a standard for exchanging calibrated, time-averaged data from astronomical optical interferometers , based on the FITS Standard (OIFITS is a registered FITS convention ). ... The OIFITS standard is used in the biennial optical interferometry Imaging Beauty Contests: . ... A data exchange standard for optical (visible/IR) interferometry. ...

... The New 1997 IEEE Standards Products Catalog features the complete listing of standards publica-tions and services IEEE Standards offers, along with the information you need to place your order. ... Books and Other Products on Standards - contains a detailed listing of informative print and electronic publications relevant to standards and their implementation in areas of electrical engineering, electronics and computer technology. ... IEEE Standards Products Listing 22 . ... Power Electronics 41 . ...

SAI 175 anniversary . ... Moscow University . Search for in SAI Moscow University Search for in Russian astronomical resources . ... SAI Astronomical Databases . ... Browse SAI Software archive(ftp.sai.msu.su) . ASTRONET.RU - Russian Astronomical Network (available in translit also) . ... SAI Supernovae Research Group . ... Department of the Galaxy and Variable Stars (in Russian) . Sternberg Astronomical Institute Seminars . ... All-Russian Astronomical Olympiad (in Russian) . ...

DFS Department . Standard and recommended development tools . ... This tool is available on request from Helpdesk (except for the following machines: dfs3, dfs4 and dfs5, for which you have to contact Carlos ). ... Source Navigator IDE is recommended as a source code analysis and navigator tool for C, C++, Java, Tcl, [incr Tcl], FORTRAN and even COBOL on Linux:. ... webcheck is the DFS standard tool for archiving/retrieving DFS documents, web pages, Release Notes, schedules and ToDo lists. ...

... There are two ways to produce flat fields for use with IR data. The standard method is to take 'LAMP ON' and 'LAMP OFF' exposures of the calibration spot on the telescope dome. The 'LAMP ON' exposure contains light from both the calibration lamp, which should provide the even illumination needed for the flat field, together with potentially uneven illumination from the telescope and instrument environments. ... In MIDAS, you may directly use COMPUTE/IMAGE to perform the subtraction. ...

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 . ...

HST Call for Proposals and HST Primer for Cycle 24 . ... Hubble Space Telescope Primer for Cycle 24 > Chapter 7: Data Processing and the HST Data Archive > 7.1 Routine Science Data Processing . ... Routine Science Data Processing . ... All the existing calibration pipeline programs used by STScI to process all HST data can found in the HSTCAL package, a package which allows users to compile and run the calibration software originally written in C without using or running IRAF . ...

... SAI CAS . ... Catalog Access Services . ... This site is about the Virtual Observatory project at the Sternberg Astronomical Institute, Moscow University ( SAI MSU ). We provide a public access to the growing set of astronomical services developed by the SAI RVO development team in accordance with the Virtual Observatory standards. ... We provide access (programmatic and interactive) to the all major and biggest astronomical catalogs (about 4 billions objects total) as well as other web-services. ...

... 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. ...

... Posts tagged ?FITS? ... Category: Astro , Cross-Cultural , News | Comment . ... In two years of this slog?s life, there?s no posting by a statistician, except one about BEHR . Statisticians are busy and well distracted by other fields with more tangible data sets. ... 1 ] Continue reading ?data analysis system and its documentation? ... These tools might be useful for statisticians who want to convert astronomers? data format called fits into ascii quickly for a statistical analysis. ...

... The Theoretcial Astrophysics subroutine library provides constants and functions commonly used in astrophysical modelling. It began in 1992 as a joint project between CCP7 and Starlink, initiated by Simon Jeffery and Paul Rees. ... SUBROUTINE TAP_ESYMB ( IZ, SYMBOL, STATUS ) . ... SUBROUTINE TAP_ENAME ( IZ, NAME, STATUS ) . ... SUBROUTINE TAP_ABINI ( TAP_ABUND, STATUS ) . ... SUBROUTINE TAP_ERROR ( TAP_ROUTN, NAME, TEXT, STATUS ) . ... SUBROUTINE TAP_ERREP ( TAP_ROUTN, STATUS ) . ...

... Although many of the images are used for teacher-driven activities, students do have the opportunity to work with scientists on original research projects. ... The primary goal is to have teachers experience astronomy research and then to bring the research data into their classrooms via the internet. ... They also learn how to process their data, build a solar telescope to take home to their classrooms, and learn background information from astronomers in each of the three research areas. ...

... New Developments in the FITSIO and Fv Software Packages W. Pence NASA/GSFC, Code 662, Greenbelt, MD 20771, Email: pence@tetra.gsfc.nasa.gov Abstract. This paper describes recent improvements to the FITSIO subroutine library and the fv FITS file viewer and editor, both of which were initially described at previous ADASS conferences. ... Introduction The FITSIO subroutine library for reading and writing FITS format files was last described in the ADASS IV conference proceedings. ...

... Apache HTTP Server Version 2.4 . Apache > HTTP Server > Documentation > Version 2.4 > Miscellaneous Documentation . ... This page documents all the relevant standards that the Apache HTTP Server follows, along with brief descriptions. ... http://www.rfc-editor.org/errata.php - RFC Errata . ... This document summarizes the history of HTML development, and defines the "text/html" MIME type by pointing to the relevant W3C recommendations. ... HTML documents are SGML documents. ...

The National Astronomy and Ionosphere Center/Arecibo Observatory is seeking a programmer for the astronomy (radio and radar) program. Under general supervision, develop, maintain, and document spectral line data reduction and analysis software for astronomical research at the Arecibo Observatory. ... The National Astronomy and Ionosphere Center/Arecibo Observatory is operated by Cornell University under a cooperative agreement with the U.S. National Science Foundation. ... Arecibo Observatory . ...

Digital Equipment Corporation has announced DEC Fortran 90/High Performance Fortran, which is a native Fortran 90/HPF compiler that includes support for parallel execution. ... For parallel execution, a package including DEC Fortran 90 V2.0 together with Digital's PSE is available for Alpha systems running Digital UNIX (OSF/1). For serial execution, DEC Fortran 90 V2.0 is available for Alpha systems running either Digital UNIX (OSF/1) or OpenVMS. ... DEC Fortran 90 V2.0 (for Digital UNIX) . ...

This section of library contains information about "classic" Star Catalogs. ... For a Henry Draper Catalog 272149 stars have received a total of 531,211 identifications in 7 сatalogs: . 270456 - in Astrographic Catalogue ( "Carte du Ciel", 4M), . 251943 - in Guide Stars Catalog (GSC), . ... A file with information on the components of 1788 of multiple systems in catalog HDEC (3681 component, or a combination thereof, with 4054 recording). ... A file with information about 21971 variable stars. ...