... HST . NICMOS STScI Analysis Newsletter 14 . ... Since last month, the following items have been newly posted: * NICMOS Photometry Update, Last Updated: 2 September 1998 * NICMOS Parallel Program, Last Updated: 1 September 1998 * NICMOS Calibration Resources, Last Updated: 6 August 1998 * NICMOS Focus Update, Last Update: 17 September 98 * NICMOS PlateScale Update, Last Update: 25 August 98 * NICMOS Coronographic Hole Update, Last Update: 25 August 98 * NICMOS Unit Conversion Tool has been updated. ...

... Up: Telescope and Instrument Control Systems . Previous: CFH12K: Control Software and Data Handling . ... The MERLIN 1 array is being upgraded with new correlator hardware and improved monitoring, operating and control software. ... The project aims to improve the reliability and efficiency of MERLIN operations by upgrading the real-time correlator control computer and providing new software for aiding astronomical data-quality and array subsystem monitoring. ... Display lag data in real time. ...

National Aeronautics and Space Administration . Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center . ... JOHN M. "MIKE" LOUNGE . NASA ASTRONAUT (DECEASED) . ... EXPERIENCE:€а Lounge entered on active duty with the United States Navy following graduation from the U.S. Naval Academy and spent the next nine years in a variety of assignments.€а He completed Naval flight officer training at Pensacola, Florida, went on to advanced training as a radar intercept officer in the F-4J Phantom, and subsequently ...

... WISE is achieving 5sigma point source sensitivities better than 0.08, 0.11, 1, and 6 mJy in unconfused regions on the ecliptic in bands centered at wavelengths of 3.4, 4.6, 12, and 22 mum. ... The WISE All-Sky Release Source Catalog is available in compressed (gzip or bzip2) ascii form. ... Users should be aware that the Catalog table is extremely large. ... For complete documentation of the WISE All-Sky Release Source Catalog and the All-Sky Data Release, please see the Explanatory Supplement . ...

ATNF ATUC Memorandum To: ATUC From: Jim Lovell Date: 2005 June 3 Subject Tidbinbilla report 1. 70m Observing statistics for Jan to July 2005. ... Spectroscopy: 240 h 2. 70m Antenna Maintenance. ... The first is an implementation of on-the-fly (OTF) mapping. ... A further advantage of this switch is that the antenna controller on DSS34 is of the same type to be installed on the 70m. Therefore the 70m downtime can be used to update and test observing software, including OTF mapping, on DSS34. ...

... In some cases where memory space is at a premium, it is possible to tailor the configuration to remove such features as reference clock driver support, debugging support, and so forth. ... The following lines are used in this file: . ... The DEFS_LOCAL line defines global flags that apply to all machines. Ordinarily, the only flags included are the -DDEBUG , which includes the debugging code, and -DREFCLOCK , which includes basic reference clock support. ... D_INCLUDE_BSD_SOURCE . ...

... Bojan Nikolic web pages home . ... For some numerical experiments with CASA , I have recently been recompiling some parts of this package. ... That is before even touching the code! ... I used the SCons build system to build the CASACORE libraries. ... Apparently missing include for strlen: --- a/code/display/Display/Options.cc +++ b/code/display/Display/Options.cc @@ -30,6 +30,7 @@ #include <sys/stat.h> #include <iostream> #include <dirent.h> +#include <string.h> namespace casa { namespace viewer {...

Next: Definition of Scientific Misconduct Up: scientific Previous: Introduction . ... This Code of Good Practice closely follows the Statement on Safeguarding Good Scientific Practice issued by the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC) in 1998. ... The Observatory expects the highest standards of scientific integrity to be adhered to by the researchers, students and other staff that it funds, whether they are employees or associates of other institutions. ...

... new: . ... Python 2.6.2 + most up-to-date modules (December 2009) . ... pyQC script structure . ... The current installation of python and its associated modules on our DFO machines is extremely old (i.e. python 2.4.2 was released in Sept. ... The new python executable lives in: /qcdp/bin/python . ... The first figure shows the execution times for the old python installation, while the second figure shows the execution times based on scripts running the python 2.6.2 installation with the new modules...

Main Sections LabIR main page . ... August 1997: new set tested (including the new offset/filter box and a wave generator as a clock, see messages ). ... May 1997: the new offset/filter box is being tested, and should be available at CA starting with the July 1997 run. ... February 1997: FIRPO II succesfully tested at the 6m telescope in Russia. December 1996: new versions of the FIRPO logbook sheets are now available, in two separate versions for photometry (54 Kb) and occultations (42 Kb) . ...

Электронная библиотека астронома-любителя. ... библиотека . архив RSN . ... Ru.Space.News: . Март 1998 . ... Дата: 26 марта 1998 (1998-03-26) От: Alexander Bondugin Тема: STARDUST Update - March 20, 1998 Привет всем! ... TELEPHONE (818) 354-5011 http://www.jpl.nasa.gov Galileo Europa Mission Status March 25, 1998 NASA's Galileo spacecraft is sending to Earth the final pictures and science information stored on its onboard tape recorder during the December 1997 flyby of Jupiter's moon Europa. ...

S AO's New Generation Multipurpose CCD Controller . ... In the 1990?s considerable advances have been made in the world over technology of manufacturing scientific image detectors with high photoelectric characteristics, which called for the creation of new complex array controllers to operate such detectors. ... very low readout noise; . ... Quite a few teams of researchers and engineers are ingaged in the development of controllers. ... development, SPICE modelling and design of modules; . ...

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XmCCD ----- The programs provided here offer a Linux graphical user interface to astronomical and scientific CCD cameras. ... SBIG has provided the library used here. It is essentially the same library used by commercial software for control of their cameras under Windows. ... This distribution includes source code to utilize the Santa Barbara Instrument Group (SBIG) shared library libsbigudrv.so with a Motif-based graphical user interface program to control SBIG astronomical CCD cameras. ...

... Font: Text: Variable: Symbol: Times New Roman Times New Roman Italic True Type Symbol font (Type 1 fonts only) Type Size: Paper title : Author (s): Affiliation (s): Normal text: Text in tables: Symbols: Sub/super-script: 12 10 10 10 9 10 7 pt pt pt pt pt pt pt bold ( TITLE ) bold ( Author ) italic ( Affiliation ) (regular text) ( ) (x y) GENERAL SPECIFICATIONS For Latex users, a set of macros is available on the ESA Publications www-site ... Papers must be prepared in this two-column format. ...

Proposal Identification No.: ... This proposal has not been submitted before. Proposal Type: General Category: Observation Category: Time Requested this semester: Hours Next Semester: Hours already used for this pro ject: Additional Hours required to complete pro ject: Minimum Useful Time : Expected Data Storage: Prop osal Title: ABSTRACT: The purpose of this work is conduct the characterization of near-Earth asteroids (NEAs) accessible to the Arecibo Observatory planetary ...

... Aurora Shimmer, Meteor Flash . ... Southern Geminids . ... Dust particles strung out along the orbit of extinct comet Phaethon vaporize when they plow through planet Earth's atmosphere causing the impressive display. ... In 1996, an unexpectedly bright comet passed by planet Earth. ... Created as planet Earth sweeps through dusty debris from extinct comet Phaethon, the annual Geminid meteor shower is predicted to peak on December 14th, around 0510 UT (12:10am EST). ... December 2013 . ... December ....

... Meade Instruments Corporation . ... Autostar Computer Controllers . 497 Autostar . ... One of the most important advances in telescope control in the past 25 years, the Meade #497 Autostar Computer Controller turns the ETX into an automatic celestial object locating system. ... The #497 Autostar Computer Controller plugs into the control panel of ETX-90EC, ETX-105EC, and ETX-125EC telescopes and enables automatic location of more than 30,000 celestial objects. ... about meade | ... Meade 4M | ...

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" . ...

... Planets . ... Earth Satellites . ... The newly discovered ?mega-Earth? ... Its sibling, the lava world Kepler-10b, is in the background (the two planets? proximity is grossly exaggerated) .€а Kepler-10c has a diameter of about 29 000 km, 2.3 times as large as Earth, and weighs 17 times as much. ... The first mega-earth to be discovered is Kepler-10c which orbits a star lying about 560 light years from the Sun in the constellation Draco. ... Astronomers Find a New Type of Planet: The ?Mega-Earth? ...