... ESO is building what will be the World's largest optical telescope array, The Very Large Telescope (VLT). The VLT Project organisation is responsible for the design and construction of the Unit Telescopes, including enclosures, optics, adapter-rotators and coating unit. ... Unit Telescopes Overview - This page is outdated, an update is in process. ... Secondary mirror (M2 Unit) - This page is outdated, an update is in process. ... Coating Unit - This page is outdated, an update is in process. ...

... In the past month, I?ve noticed relatively frequent paper appearance in arxiv/astro-ph whose title includes Bayesian or Markov Chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) . ... astro-ph:0708.2340v1] Bayesian Galaxy Shape Measurement for Weak Lensing Surveys -I. Methodology and a Fast Fitting Algorithm by L. Miller et. al. [astro-ph:0708.1871v1] Dark energy and cosmic curvature: Monte-Carlo Markov Chain approach by Y. Gong et. al. in addition to the previous posting in this slog, [ArXiv] Bayesian Star Formation Study. ...

... Press Releases . ... Release Notes . ... All of the functionality of PyFITS is now available in Astropy as the astropy.io.fits package, which is now publicly available. Although we will continue to release PyFITS separately in the short term, including any critical bug fixes, we will eventually stop releasing new versions of PyFITS as a stand-alone product. ... Prior to PyFITS version 2.0 and beginning again with PyFITS version 2.3.1 (June 3 2010) PyFITS is covered under a BSD license. ...

... Established in 1996, the goal of the NASA Johnson Space Center Oral History Project (JSC OHP) is to capture history from the individuals who first provided the country and the world with an avenue to space and the moon. ... Alphabetical List A-B C-D E-G H-J K-L M-N O-R S-T U-Z Administrators Aviatrix Herstory Ballistics JSC OHP ISS OHP NACA OHP Experts OHP Space Shuttle Program Earth System Science NASA at 50 STS Recordation Chilean Miners Rescue Shuttle-Mir OHP SCA-SRB OHP C3PO OHP . ...

... Npapers included Mopra ATCA Parkes VLBI 35 167 112 24 Cites 351 1457 1497 206 Median Average Cites/paper cites/paper 10.0 8.7 13.4 8.6 9 7 9 6 2011 APRS: PhD Students included on scheduled Mopra proposals (As given on cover sheets) Total number of Mopra proposals allocated time Total number of PhD students included on Mopra proposals with allocated time Of the 19: Three projects require ~ 700 hours, one requires 2600 hours. ...

XmCCD uses Motif for its graphical user interface. ... Most Linux distributions include Motif, but it may be built from source easily. ... XmCCD for SBIG would not have been possible without the universal driver libraries from SBIG . We have included a copy of an archival SBIG Linux Software Development package with the XmCCD source, other useful links are available from SBIG's Support page accessible here . SBIG homepage . ... Images are stored as Flexible Image Transport System (FITS) files. ...

... Topic: Library vulnerabilities in Xlib, Xt, Xmu, and Xaw Announced: 25 May 1998 Last Updated: 26 May 1998 Affects: All XFree86 versions up to and including 3.3.2 Corrected: XFree86 3.3.2 patch 2 XFree86 only: no Patches: ftp://ftp.xfree86.org/pub/XFree86/3.3.2/fixes/3.3.2-patch2 ============================================================================= I. Background Xlib, Xt, Xmu, and Xaw are libraries included as a part of the core X Window System and are also included in every XFree86 release. ...

... The Linux Documentation Project, or LDP, is a loose team of writers, proofreaders, and editors who are working together to provide complete documentation for the Linux operating system. The overall coordinator of the project is Greg Hankins. This manual is one in a set of several being distributed by the LDP, including a Linux Users' Guide, System Administrators' Guide, Network Administrators' Guide, and Kernel Hackers' Guide. ... The LDP Rhyme . ... a Linux f-a-q, . ... to start the LDP. ...

... The material in "From Stargazers to Starships" meets several important requirements of the national standards. Pages cited below are from National Science Education Standards National Academy Press, Washington 1995. ... For example: the sections on astronomy not only describe calendars and sundials (including their construction), but also the astronomy of the ancient Greeks, including two different ways in which ancient Greeks estimated the distance to the Moon. ...

PROJECT SUMMARY (max 3000 characters) The principal goals of the project are the observational and theoretical investigation of complex cosmic objects where the processes of dust scattering, absorption and emission play significant roles. ... Development of light scattering theory and computer codes to calculate the optical properties of non-spherical inhomogeneous particles and laboratory measurements of light scattering characteristics of irregularly shaped particles. ...

... Research objects and scientific purposes . Space scientific program includes development and launch of two supersmall spacecrafts "Universitetskiy" and "Kompas-2" intended for monitoring of radiation conditions near the Earth. ... All the studies conducted in the near-Earth space are characterised by strong radiation fields. ... The circular polar orbits, which cover all the near-Earth space, are the most favorable for comprehensive studies of the radiation conditions near the Earth. ...

... The Iron Project seeks to provide new atomic data for all of the iron ions. ... For many of the ions in the CHIANTI database, energy level data has been taken from here. The CHIANTI database can be found within the SolarSoft system, a programming and data analysis environment for the solar physics community. A Package for Interactive Analysis of Line Emission written in IDL . ... This page contains some useful reviews for the analysis of emission lines and atomic data tables for several ions. ...

Since 1994, the Astronomical Society of the Pacific's (ASP) highly successful national Project ASTRO? program has been providing opportunities for professional and amateur astronomers to contribute to science education in their local communities. ... The original "classic" Project ASTRO educator-astronomer partners found tremendous interest in what they were doing among the families of their students, and thus Family ASTRO was born to continue at home what was begun in the classroom. ...

... RATAN-600 data for the BL Lacertae objects (multi-frequency catalogue, Version 1.0) . GPS radio sources . ... BL Lacertae objects . ... The difference between these objects is the peak frequency of the synchrotron component of their spectral energy distribution (HBLs: high-energy peak, LBLs: low-energy peak, IBLs: intermediate). ... The observations were carried out with the RATAN-600 radio telescope during 2006-2011 at six frequencies: 1.1, 2.3, 4.8, 7.7, 11.2 and 21.7 GHz. ...

Hide Zen home . ... November/December 2004 - The PostgreSQL Global Development group has released version 8.0 of the PostgreSQL object-relational database management system, building on its position as the most advanced open source database in the world. This release includes features previously only available in the most expensive proprietary database systems, and is expected to substantially increase the adoption of PostgreSQL by both users and software vendors. ... New features include: . ...

... Research . Projects . ... The name of the project APEX is a reduction from words " Active Plasma Experiments " . The core of the project are active experiments with injection of electron and (or) plasma beams from a board of the satellite with simultaneous registration of the phenomena, produced by interaction of injected beam with background plasma. ... Active experiments utilise modulated electron beam accelerator and source of modulated xenon plasma beam on the main spacecraft APEX. ...

... 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. ...

Next: Survey Simulations Up: Minutes of the 1st Previous: RFI at Arecibo . GALFA is really a consortium of 3 separate sub-consortia centered around different science topics: Galactic HI, Continuum and Recombination lines. ... Continuum survey . ... Recombination lines . 12 H lines are found in the ALFA band, from n=163 to 174. ... At the same time, you could make an L-band map of SNR in OTF mode, basketweaving scans in RA and in Dec (the HI map would require more time than the continuum data). ...

There are many important points before you begin compiling Apache. See Using Apache with Microsoft Windows before you begin. Compiling Apache requires Microsoft Visual C++ 5.0 or 6.0 to be properly installed. ... Directories tab (the Projects - VC++ Directories pane in Developer Studio 7.0) listing Executable file paths. ... os\win32\ApacheOS.dsp . ... To simplify the process, dependencies between all projects are defined in the Microsoft Visual Studio workspace file: src/Apache.dsw . ...

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