... Gauging the impact of executing science program across different COS/FUV lifetime positions . ... Changing Programs & Resolving Problems . ... The first such move occurred on 23 July 2012, when the COS FUV spectrum was moved to the COS FUV Lifetime Position 2 (LP2). ... It now appears that the move to COS/FUV Lifetime Position 3 will not occur until early 2015, and so a substantial fraction of Cycle 22 observationsare likely to occur at the COS FUV lifetime position 2, prior to the change. ...

... Analysis of in-orbit data closely follow the CSL data analysis. Stars with known astrometric positions are matched with their image centroids. ... The measured position, the expected position and the offset between the measured and expected positions are calculated and written into a file. ... select catalogued positions for different observations/pointings (e.g. positions of objects in photometric sequence) . ... The new distortion map was generated from in-flight observations of the G153 field. ...

... the time of observation . ... Observing the Changing Position of the Sun To Establish Cardinal Directions . ... Observations of the Sun's apparent movement across the sky and its pattern of rising and setting in the east and west horizon helped to establish the cardinal directions. ... The final stage of the Sun's return was marked by the observation that the Sun had reached its highest altitude when the full width of your mitted hand could fill the gap between the Sun and the horizon. ...

... Images obtained using the Faulkes Telescope South, operated by Las Cumbres Observatory. ... The Faulkes Telescope Project and Las Cumbres Observatory Global Telescope Network had kindly given us the opportunity to use these telescopes and the observatory had booked us four sessions of controlling the telescope in order for us to make some observations on NEOs. ... Just before our first observing session on Friday, we were given a tour of the observatory building and its telescopes, by John McFarland...

... Each day a different image or photograph of our fascinating universe is featured, along with a brief explanation written by a professional astronomer. 2015 May 31 . Supernova 1994D and the Unexpected Universe . Image Credit: High-Z Supernova Search Team , HST , NASA . Explanation: Long ago, far away, a star exploded. ... Supernova 1994D was not of interest for how different it was, but rather for how similar it was to other supernovae . ... About APOD | ...

... The bandpass can be removed by using a smoothed or fitted version of the on data. ... caldif=calon-caloff = Tcal*Filfo . ... calOn-calOff spectra . 5 minuteOn/(calon-caloff) . Fig 2: smoothing (calOn-caloff) to increase signal to noise . ... Fig 4: Fitting polynomials to CalOff . ... The shorter integration time of the cal could be compensated by smoothing the calDif spectra or fitting polynomials. Polynomial fitting of calOn-calOff does a better job than smoothing of calOn-calOff. ...

Astronomy Picture of the Day . ... 31.05.2015 . ... Credit Copyright: High-Z Supernova Search Team , HST , NASA Explanation: Long ago, far away, a star exploded. Supernova 1994D , visible as the bright spot on the lower left, occurred in the outskirts of disk galaxy NGC 4526 . Supernova 1994D was not of interest for how different it was, but rather for how similar it was to other supernovae . ... Publications with keywords: supernova - cosmology . ... A Supernova through Galaxy Dust . ...

... December 30, 1998 . Supernova 1994D and the Unexpected Universe . Credit: High-Z Supernova Search Team , HST , NASA . Explanation: Far away, long ago, a star exploded. ... Supernova 1994D was not of interest for how different it was, but rather for how similar it was to other supernovae . ... The large number and great distances to supernovae measured in 1998 have been interpreted as indicating that we live in a previously unexpected universe . ... About APOD > . ... NASA Technical Rep.: ...

... 314 Astronomical Data Analysis Software and Systems XIII, eds. F. Ochsenbein, M. Allen, & D. Egret (San Francisco: ASP), 812 . ... Abstract: The calculation of flux upper limits in the source-free ("background") regions of photon-limited images is complicated by instrumental and statistical modeling and requires non-trivial computational effort. ... The principal component in this is the time taken to pre-process and handle the 30 GB of RASS data rather than the calculation of each upper limit. ...

... The only event-driven pieces of software were the user interface Hermes, the display server GIDS and the GDS server. ... Event-driven tasks are fundamentally different from procedural tasks. ... Using this event handling, a collection of routines has been built, which allows the programmer to construct a graphical user interface for a task. ... These are the events associated with user input keywords and one other event which is generated when a task is resumed after it was pausing. ...

... ALMA . ... ARC Staff at ESO . ... The European ALMA Regional Centre (ARC) provides the interface between the ALMA project and the European science community. ... Below you can read the latest Announcements from the European ARC Network.. ... The call for 1-mm Very Long Baseline Interferometry (VLBI) proposals to use phased ALMA at Band 6 in Cycle 4, in collaboration with the Event Horizon Telescope Consortium (EHTC), will be released to coincide with the ALMA Cycle 4 Call for Proposals in March 2016...

Next: Catalog Construction Up: Observations and Analysis Previous: Source Detections . ... It was assumed that the highest signal gives the most likely position of the source. ... Comparing the summed map with the maps from the individual energy ranges, the one which produced the smallest error box was chosen to represent the source position, as long as was greater than 4, a level chosen to reflect a reasonable degree of confidence in the detection. ...

... We compare ray-traces of the HRMA response to "on-axis" observations of AR Lac and Capella as they move through their dither patterns to images produced from filtered event lists to characterize the effective intrinsic PSF of the HRC-I. A two-dimensional Gaussian, which is often used to represent the detector response, is NOT a good representation of the intrinsic PSF of the HRC-I; the actual PSF has a sharper peak and additional structure. ... Last modified: Tue May 18 14:35:55 EDT 2010 . ...

... Observing . ... Gravitational wave search provides insights into galaxy evolution and mergers . ... First galaxies were born much earlier than expected . ... Using the amplifying power of a cosmic gravitational lens, astronomers have discovered a distant galaxy whose stars were born unexpectedly early in cosmic history. ... However, the newly discovered galaxy has dramatically different features from other distant galaxies that have been observed, which generally shine brightly with only young stars...

Astronomy Discussion Forums . ... I Expected More Sense Than That. ... Post Message | ... Posted by Richard D. Stafford, Ph.D. on November 8, 2002 04:14:05 UTC . ... You are missing the point - harvey1 - November 8, 2002 - 13:10 UTC . I hope Stafford doesn't mind my intruding his forum - mrsouza - November 8, 2002 - 14:55 UTC . ... www.astronomy.net . ... Forum posts are Copyright their authors as specified in the heading above the post. "dbHTML," "AstroGuide," "ASTRONOMY.NET" & "VA.NET" . ...

... Acronyms and Abbreviations AMOS Advanced Mechanical and Optical Systems (UTM vendor) EIE FTT FLC ICD ISS European Industrial Engineering (UTE vendor) Fast Tip-Tilt First Light Camera Interface Control Document Interferometer Supervisory System NAS NMT NOT TBC TBD UT UTE UTM Narrow-field Acquisition System New Mexico Tech Nasmyth Optical ... Interface design description 2.5 FTT/NAS to ISS ICD This ICD describes the software interfaces of the FTT/NA system to the ISS. ...

... S.P. KOROLEV ROCKET AND SPACE CORPORATION ENERGIA . ... OAO RSC "Energia" . ... Company's History . ... History . Brief History of Rocket and Space Technology . ... Flights Chronology . ... Project History . ISS Russian Segment . Steps of ISS Assembly . Spaceflights Chronology . Chronology of Extravehicular Activity . ISS 45/46 . ... Rocket Space Complexes . ... Launches Chronology . ... Automatic Space Systems . ... HISTORY . ... 2015 JSC "S.P. Korolev RSC "Energia" . ...

MAKING THE PROFILES . First of all you are expected to load a FITS file ("FILE"-"LOAD"). ... By pressing the middle button you copy the profile from the first profile window to the second one. ... An example: first integral can correspond to the profile of active region and second integral can correspond to the profile of quiet chromospheric region. ... The second profile (which is subtracted from the first one) you extract after clicking on "SUBTRACT"-"MARK QUIET PROFILE" and marking the region. ...

... Between them, the following points are touched: ICRF-2 structure, ICRF Core sources selection, and some expected user's requirements. ... Suggested total number of sources is close to the number of sources already observed in the IVS and VCS sessions, and for most of them reliable positions are derived, mostly for declination > -40 deg. ... So, results of source position time series analysis heavily depend on method used for time series computation and should be used with care. ...

The close position of main satellite and subsatellite (distance between them about 1000 km) and using the similar sets of Faraday cups (VDP and VDP-S) with high resolution measurements (up to 16 Hz for the main satellite and up to 10 Hz for the subsatellite) allow us to determine the small-scale variations of the magnetopause shape and position and to estimate the velocity of the magnetopause motion. ... Two point observation of the magnetopause motion: the INTERBALL project. ...