Anderson, J, and King, I. R. 1999, Astrometric and Photometric Corrections for the 34th Row Error in HST's WFPC2 Camera , PASP 111, 1095,. ... Biretta, J. A. 1995, "WFPC2 Flat Field Calibration," in Calibrating Hubble Space Telescope: Post Servicing Mission , eds. A. Koratkar and C. Leitherer, p. 257. ... 1991, The Imaging Performance of the Hubble Space Telescope , ApJL 369, L21. ... Holtzman, J., et al. 1995a, "The Performance and Calibration of WFPC2 on the Hubble Space Telescope," PASP , 107, 156. ...

OptInt PmWiki . ... MROI Delay Line Design Contract . ... Systems Engineering Docs . ... MROI FTT Contract Private Material . ... Doc Man . ... 1100 FTT/NAS . ... 1120 Camera . ... 1170 Test Equipment . ... MRO-TRE-CAM-0000-0102 FTT/NAS Conceptual Design Report . ... MRO-ICD-CAM-1000-0109 "FTT/NAS,FLC-UTE" FTT/NAS & FLC to Enclosure ICD . MRO-ICD-CAM-1000-0110 "FTT/NAS,FLC-NOT" FTT/NAS & FLC to optical table ICD . MRO-ICD-CAM-1000-0111 "FTT/NAS,FLC-UT" FTT/NAS & FLC to UT optical ICD . ...

... Charge Coupled Devices (CCD) are currently by far the most widely used type of detector in astronomy. ... After a brief introduction to the VLT Control System, the VLT CCD Detectors Control Software is presented. The VLT Control System is a distributed system consisting of a set of UNIX Workstations, dedicated to high level operations, such as coordination of sub-system activities and interface to the users, and VME-based Local Control Units (LCU), dedicated to the control of sub-systems hardware. ...

... The European HST Archive has been moved to ESA's European Space Astronomy Centre ( ESAC ), Spain, where most of ESA's Space Science Archives are located and operated from. ... The Space Telescope European Coordinating Facility (ST-ECF), jointly operated by ESA and the European Southern Observatory ( ESO ) was, until the end of 2010, the European HST science facility, supporting the European astronomy community in exploiting the research opportunities provided by the Hubble Space Telescope. ...

... Description(Russian): [ HTML ] [ PDF ] . ... 2002 : source L A T E X and export to [ HTML ], [ PDF ], [ PS ], [ OpenOffice ], [ MSWord ] . 2003 : source L A T E X and export to [ HTML ], [ PDF ], [ PS ], [ OpenOffice ], [ MSWord ] . 2004 : source L A T E X and export to [ HTML ], [ PDF ], [ PS ], [ StarOffice ], [ MSWord ] . 2005 : source L A T E X and export to [ HTML ], [ PDF ], [ PS ], [ StarOffice ], [ MSWord ] . ... 2014 : source HTML and export to [ PDF ], [ MSWord ], [ ODT ] . ...

... Science . ... Science Users Information > Science and Technical Meetings > Conferences 2012 > Real Time Control for Adaptive Optics Workshop . ... ESO Data . ... The 3 rd Edition of the Real Time Control for Adaptive Optics Workshop is scheduled for spring 2014. The real-time control system (RTCS) is a crucial component for any astronomical adaptive optics (AO) system. ... As such, the workshop is aimed at real-time control specialists, instrument scientists and adaptive optics engineers. ...

... December 24, 1999 . Hubble Holiday . Picture Credit: STS-82 Crew , NASA . Explanation: How would you like to spend your holiday in low earth orbit? That's what the crew of the space shuttle Discovery is doing as they deliver six new gyros and a faster main computer to the orbiting Hubble Space Telescope . ... Discovery is scheduled to return to Earth after Christmas, with a December 27 landing at Kennedy Space Center - but you can e-mail season's greetings to the orbiting crew. ...

Slithead identification (which slithead is installed?) will be sensed and reported by the on-board spectrograph computer. ... Observer's software to handle spectrographic observations will be written by JHU and installed on the Fermilab supplied observatory workstation. ... UW will be responsible for the slithead latch-down control. ... Database computer at APO: The observer's software will query the observatory database for information on the currently installed fiber cartridge. ...

August 26, 2006, . ... The 2 nd Asian-Pacific Astronomy Olympiad to be held in Vladivostok and Ussurijsk (Far East of Russian Federation). Preliminary dates for the 2 nd Asian-Pacific Astronomy Olympiad are December 4-11 (a couple weeks later than the 11 th IAO in Bombay ). ... For the teams which ask for Russian visa - together with the personal data for visas (or before). E-mails for sending the applications . ... The Asian-Pacific Astronomy Olympiad 2006 - last information . ...

... STScI-PRC00-10 "HUBBLE TAKES A CLOSE-UP VIEW OF A REFLECTION NEBULA IN ORION" Just weeks after NASA astronauts repaired the Hubble Space Telescope in December 1999, the Hubble Heritage Project snapped this picture of NGC 1999, a nebula in the constellation Orion. ... NGC 1999 is an example of a reflection nebula. ... The star is so young that it is still surrounded by a cloud of material left over from its formation, here seen as the NGC 1999 reflection nebula. ...

... The expansion is measured as a number called the Hubble Constant . ... Our value is about 20% lower than the one got with the Hubble Space Telescope in 1994," said Dr Jim Lovell, leader of the team that made the measurement. The Hubble Constant is named after American astronomer Edwin Hubble, who in the 1920s found that other galaxies were moving away from ours. ... The Hubble Constant links the galaxy's distance with its speed." ... A short run-down on the Hubble Constant: . ...

... Apache HTTP Server Version 2.2 . Apache > HTTP Server > Documentation > Version 2.2 > Programs . ... apachectl is a front end to the Apache HyperText Transfer Protocol (HTTP) server. It is designed to help the administrator control the functioning of the Apache httpd daemon. The apachectl script can operate in two modes. ... If your Apache installation uses non-standard paths, you will need to edit the apachectl script to set the appropriate paths to the httpd binary. ... Starting Apache . ...

XMM-Newton Science Analysis System . ... ESA. XMM Interface Control Document: Observation and Slew Data Files (XSCS to SSC) (SciSIM to SOCSIM) . Technical Report XMM-SOC-ICD-0004-SSD Issue 2.5, ESA/SSD, June 2000. ... Interface control document for the XMM current calibration file. Technical Report XMM-GEN-ICD-0005, ESA/SSD, Dec 2001. Issue 4.0. ... XMM technical note: Periodic housekeeping telemetry definition. Technical Report XMM-SOC-TN-0040-SSD 0.2, ESA/SSD, August 5 1999. ...

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Balance Sheet was approved at Annual Shareholders Meeting on April 7, 2001 (Protocol № 8). (in thousands roubles) . ... 2001 . ... the Final Report on the Corporation performance for 2000 (including the Balance Sheet, Profit-and-Loss Account, as well as the Auditing Commission and External Audit Opinions); . ... Nikologorsky, Yu.P. Semenov as the state representatives; N.I. Zelenschikov, A.F. Kozeeva, A.L. Martynovsky, V.G. Sidorovich, A.F. Strekalov from RSC Energia. ... Balance Sheet 2001 | ...

XmCCD ----- This distribution includes source code to utilize the Santa Barbara Instrument Group (SBIG) udrv.a library with a Motif-based graphical user interface camera control program. The version of the library also included here is udrv4.0 dated 28 December 2001, provided by Steve Ashe (ashe@dimensional.com and http://dimensional.com/~ashe/) through ftp.dimensional.com/users/ashe . Since the driver and camera control protocols are proprietary, source code is not available for the library. ...

Peremennye Zvezdy ( Variable Stars ) 25 , No. ... We report discovery and investigation of missed supernova 1985 on Moscow archive plates. In the course of the search for new variable stars on the plates of Moscow archive, an unknown supernova was discovered. The star is seen only on five plates taken with the Crimean 40-cm astrograph in September 1985. ... Moscow archive: b) plate A17541, 1986 Sept. 3.98 UT, without SN and with hardly visible parent galaxy; c) plate A17072, 1985 Sept. ...

... Report on Cosmic Call 1999 . ... Cosmic Call Sessions . ... This Report outlines methodology, hard- and software, which were developed to transmit first public Interstellar messages from Evpatoria Deep Space Center (EDSC), and describes four Cosmic Call Sessions, which were fulfilled in EDSC on May 24 and June 30 - July 1, 1999. ... Each Cosmic Call consists of two parts. ... Dutil Message, . ... The software for gathering all messages and creating the Cosmic Call stream, was written on C language. ...

... Steven L. Smith . NASA International Space Station Program Liaison to the European Space Agency . ... SPECIAL HONORS: NASA Distinguished Service Medals (two), NASA Outstanding Leadership Medal, NASA Space Flight Medal, NASA Exceptional Service Medal, IBM Outstanding Technical Achievement Award and IBM Outstanding Community Service Award. ... NASA EXPERIENCE: Smith is a veteran of four space flights covering 16 million miles and seven space walks totaling 49 hours and 25 minutes. ... DECEMBER 2013 ...

... Armagh Observatory, 5 January 2016: Armagh Observatory reports that December 2015 was much wetter than average, the wettest December on record at Armagh, that is, since records of daily precipitation began at Armagh in 1838. ... The month was slightly duller than average, with 15 of the 31 days having no recorded strong sunshine at all. ... The long-term (1838-2010) average December precipitation at Armagh is 77.44 mm and the most recent 30-year (1981-2010) average precipitation is 77.23 mm. ...