STScI . ... Phase I Proposing . ... Astronomer's Proposal Tool . ... STScI solicits proposals for HST Observing, Archival Theoretical Research. ... HST Cycle 24 Phase II Proposal Deadline . The Call for Proposals (CP) invites the astronomical community to propose for observing time on HST in a given cycle (nominally one year in duration). It summarizes the policies and procedures for proposing in that cycle of HST observing, including requests for funding research on archival HST data. ...

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... Data Analysis SAS News What is SAS? ... Back to Calibration Homepage In order to analyze the data collected with XMM-Newton you need some calibration files (Current Calibration File, see below) and a copy of the Science Analysis System (SAS) available here . ... Mirroring the Calibration Archive . ... CCF$ or use instead: package=xmm-ccf comment="The XMM-Newton calibration archive" site=xmm.esac.esa.int mode_copy=true max_delete_files=100% remote_dir=pub/ccf/constituents local_dir=/ccf get_patt=^*.\...

Space VLBI Mission RadioAstron Announcement of Opportunity -- 1 for the period July 2013 ­ 30 June 2014 Key Science Program ( KSP ) Final Notes Proposals Due: 8 February 2013, 23:59 UT 1 RadioAstron KSP meeting follow-up Based on the fruitful discussions, questions and suggestions from the RadioAstron Key Science program meeting in Bonn (December 3-4, 2012), we would like to emphasize the following specific aspects for the preparation of the AO-1 ...

... APT Activities and Science Results 3. ... APT Secretary Philip Edwards (ISAS) reviewed the aims of the APT (http://www.vsop.isas.ac.jp/apt/DefinitionAndAims.html). ... The Australia Telescope Compact Array, and Ceduna, Hartebeesthoek, Kashima, Mopra, Parkes, and Shanghai telescopes of the Asia-Pacific Telescope participated in these observations. ... In the absence of Tetsuo Sasao, Philip Edwards briefly described results of the APT 22 GHz observations conducted from October 1st to 5th, 1997. ...

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Our group includes both theoreticians and observers working on problems related to many different aspects of star formation. You can learn more about us by following the links provided here below. We will try to keep these pages updated as frequently as possible, however do not hesitate to contact us directly if you encounter problems while browsing or do not find the specific information that you are looking for. Click on the following for more information . Our Group . ...

... Bojan Nikolic web pages (r. 329) . ... Note however that the radiospec is built in the ?build? sub-directory of the directory you installed it to and is not installed ? ... Build radiospec wget http://www.mrao.cam.ac.uk/~bn204/soft/radiospec-1.0.tar.gz tar --strip-components = 1 -xzvf radiospec-1.0.tar.gz PATH = $INSTALLDIR/bin:$PATH scons PKG_CONFIG_PATH = $INSTALLDIR/lib/pkgconfig/ . ... You will at least also need the numpy package for Python . ... Download & building of the radiospec package . ...

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... The First (Experimental) International Astronomy Olympiad . The following olympic problems were proposed for the participants on the theoretical part: Grades 8-10 . ... Why is it sometimes better to use a small telescope in orbit around the Earth than it is to use a large telescope on a mountain top? ... What will an observer looking to the Moon through the telescope see? ... Paper with a drown circle and table of maximal elongations of Mercury and Venus had been done for participants. ...

... If the star names used in data files are not exactly the same character strings as those used in star files, the reduction program will try to make cross-identifications. ... The program applies these rules in attempting to parse name strings containing multiple designations that are not separated by the `` = '' string (surrounded by blanks). ... This situation can be avoided by making sure that all star names are spelled consistently, and that names in star files agree with names in data files. ...

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On February 11-13 1998 at Kiljavanranta near Helsinki an Interball project meeting was organized by the Finnish Meteorological Institute and Russian Space Research Institute (IKI) . ... Main attention was devoted to mechanisms and manifestations of magnetospheric substorms, as observed from space and from ground observations. Four time intervals were selected for a coordinated data analysis. ... Magnetospheric storm on October 22, 1996 ( The LLBL-Driven Substorm? ... Programme of the Workshop. ...

http ://hea-www.harvard.edu/ AstroStat /slog/2008/eotw-chisq- distribution / Weaving together Astronomy+Statistics+Computer Science+Engineering+Intrumentation, far beyond the growing borders Fri, 01 Jun 2012 18:47:52 +0000 hourly 1 http ://wordpress.org/?v=3.4 http ://hea-www.harvard.edu/ AstroStat /slog/2008/eotw-chisq- distribution /comment-page-1/#comment-308 Alex Sun, 27 Jul 2008 01:52:08 +0000 http ://hea-www.harvard.edu/ ... Thanks, Aneta, very useful comment. ...

... The following charts/text are intended as tools for monitoring the Type Ia supernovae ( SNe ) event visually or photographically (utilizing telescope equipped CCD equipment).The files include: A replication of The Type Ia SNe , V- magnitude (with data point checks from other cited references)and color index (B-V) templete (to indicate a general color-related trend of the type Ia ... I believe this might help alleviate some of the problems involving the making of acceptable amateur light curves...

... The choice of the spectrograph design (Fig.2) is determined by the quantity R, the overall dimensions of the PF cage and the restrictions on the rigidity of the structure of the device. ... As the camera's objective a fast 4-lens aplanat is used having a focal distance F cam =140 mm and a relative aperture of 1:1.8, the resolution at the centre is no less than 80 gr/mm, that over the field at a distance of 3 mm from the edge along the frame ( ) diagonal is 35 gr/mm. ...