... The predictive power of current models (the so-called meteor forecasting) has given us the exact timing of the Leonid storms of 2001 and 2002 to the nearest hour and are now used to predict the arrival times of major annual showers such as the Perseids . ... Towards this goal, the Observatory has installed a sky-monitoring system, consisting of one medium angle (MA) and two wide-angle (WA) video cameras linked to software designed to detect motion. ... Bright Taurid Meteor . ... Meteors on Mars . ...

The database contains references to the papers, data files and links to the Internet resources related to measurements and calculations of the optical constants in the wavelength interval from X-rays to radio domain. ... References to some useful books and reviews on the subject (e.g. the classical handbooks edited by E.D.Palik) and links to Internet collections of optical constants and personal WWW pages with related software were also placed in the database. You have arrived at our welcome page. ...

... In both formats there are active links to related or more detailed information, both within the document itself and within other STScI documents. ... You can consult the HTML versions of the documents using your favorite internet browser. Depending on your browser, you may obtain a nicer layout if you instruct your browser to use its default fonts, instead of the document-specific fonts (which were not chosen to optimize on-screen browsing). ... a) choose `Preferences' from the `Edit' menu; . ...

... This is possible at modest cost due to the low moments of inertia of the telescope and enclosure. ... This same performance will be achieved in higher winds when the telescope enclosure is facing away from the wind, or by using wind screens. ... The telescope system (MILT) will be remotely operable with an on-site operator's assistance by an astronomer located at one of the ARC member institutions. ... Mean Wind Speed . ... Offsets > 10 deg: 1 arc sec rms max . ... 5 sec max, tracking to tracking . ...

... A clear description of El Nino Southern Oscillation and of its consequence on climate in Australia and South America is available at El Nino or ENSO theme pages of the NOAA climate diagnosis center. ( historical comparison of previous elninos with soi indices ) . This image shows cold water upwelling near the coast of Peru (purple) and joining the South Equatorial Current, which flows westward across the Pacific Ocean. ... July 16, 1998 : Satellite image shows pacific stabilizing . ...

... It provides long range planning information to the scheduling team; it provides bright object, timing, and orientation information to the observation planning team; and it provides graphical description of the observations and their constraints. ... The GUI graphically displays the constraints that are computed by Spike and stored in the description files and in the database. ... BOAS processes all bright objects that have entered the database since the last time BOAS was run. ...

... Structure of Data . ... Catalog . ... The SAI OCL Catalog site provides several VO-enabled modes of operation: . VO-enabled catalog data analysis from a browser . ... Endpoint URL is http://ocl.sai.msu.ru/catalog/conesearch/ . ... VO-enabled catalog analysis from a browser . Presently, this recipe works with Firefox (Windows, MacOS, Linux), Internet Explorer (Windows) and Opera (Windows) browsers with Java plugin 1.6 installed. ... Main TOPCAT window with SAI OCL catalog loaded will appear. ...

... Since I began to subscribe arxiv/astro-ph abstracts, from an astrostatistical point of view, one of the most frequent topics has been photometric redshifts . This photometric redshift has been a popular topic as the catalog of remote photometric object observation multiplies its volume and sky survey projects in multiple bands lead to virtual observatories (VO ? ... Typically, measuring redshifts requires spectral data, which are quite expensive in many aspects compared to photometric data. ...

... Annual Report . ... 2011 Annual Report (pdf, 2 MB) . ... The ASP is pleased to provide a summary of our mission-based activities and events through the 2010 ASP Annual Report. ... 2009 Annual Report, screen resolution (pdf, 2.3 MB, best for viewing online) . 2009 Annual Report, print resolution (pdf, 4.5 MB, best for printing) . ... 2008 Annual Report, screen resolution (pdf, 3.4 MB, best for viewing online) . 2008 Annual Report, print resolution (pdf, 5.2 MB, best for printing) . ...

... Classes . Files . ... casa . casa::SymLink . ... The default constructor creates a SymLink with path "." SymLink (const Path &name) . ... SymLink (const File &name) . ... create (const Path &target, Bool overwrite= True ) . ... copy (const Path &target, Bool overwrite= True ) const . ... The class SymLink handles SYMbolic LINKs in the file system. ... An exception is thrown if the path exist and is no symbolic link or if it does not exist, but cannot be created. casa::SymLink::SymLink . ...

... Radio Astronomy . ... ASRAS Board Members . ... To see the most up to date news and events happening with ASRAS log in with your user name and password and then click on the Activities page. ... Messier Marathon (Member Observing) CANCELLED Saturday, April 9, 2016 9:00 PM Location:Farash Center Ionia NY . ... ASRAS Members meeting - Friday May 6 at Farash Center - Ionia NY . ... ASRAS Board members meeting - monday May 9 @ Farash Center Monday, May 9, 2016 7:00 PM Location:Farash Center Ionia NY . ...

... Directives | ... Apache HTTP Server Version 2.4 . Apache > HTTP Server > Documentation > Version 2.4 > Modules . ... Core Authentication . ... This module provides core authentication capabilities to allow or deny access to portions of the web site. mod_authn_core provides directives that are common to all authentication providers. AuthName . AuthnProviderAlias> . ... The example below creates two different ldap authentication provider aliases based on the ldap provider. ... Directory> . ...

Data and Phase Links . The maximum scientific data rate of downlink is 128 Mbit/s (total rate 144 Mbit/s). Data transmission is being done by VIRK communicationsystem through the high gain antenna at frequency 15.000 GHz. The downlink data stream is divided into frames each being 20 000 bytes long. ... Ground Support of the RadioAstron . ... Data Processing . ... Progress of the RadioAstron Project in Pictures . ...

... When are new sefd curves made . ... The fit types used . ... When the new sefd curve is installed it contains two dates: . The starting date for this sefd curve. ... yyyy ddd This is the start of a sefd curve set of data. yyyy ddd is the start date for the sefd curve. yyyy is a 4 digit year (2004) and ddd is the day number of the year counting from 1. all other lines are sefd curve data. ... azterms1 : c4*cos(az) +c5*sin(az) + c6*cos(2az) + c7*sin(2az) + c8*cos(3az) +c9*sin(3az) . ...

... Content Model: %text, but no nested anchors . The anchor <A> element is used to define the start and/or destination of a hypertext link. In previous versions of HTML it provided the only means for defining destination anchors within documents, but you can now use any ID attribute as a destination anchor so that links can now be made to divisions, paragraphs and most other elements. ... CLASS . ... This attribute is used to define a named anchor for use as the destination of hypertext links. ...

... Astrophysics Group . ... VLSS . ... To facilitate access for UK and European users, MRAO is providing a UK Mirror of the VLA Low-frequency Sky Survey (VLSS), which is being produced in the US jointly by NRAO and the Naval Research Laboratory (NRL). ... A catalog of discrete sources on these images created by fitting a elliptical Guassians to all sources detected at the 5 sigma level or higher. ... This survey contains publicly available images and catalog information on over 1.8 million radio...

... The files describe the PSFs of the flight mirror modules xrt1, xrt2 or xrt3 vs field angle, energy and field azimuth. ... Each file will consist of a header, a table section and an image section. an alignment correction table is provided. ... Theses images can be interpolated by the CCF access layer to any energy, field angle or field azimuth. table KING_PARAMS provides the parameters of the King function tabulated against Energy and off-axis angle. ENERGY . Photon energy in eV. ...

SAI VO . ... Web Services . Catalog Access Services . ... SAI Web Services . ... This service aims to automatically match stars in FITS image provided with catalogue and add the correct WCS keywords to its FITS header. ... Service Web Interface . ... The service is available here To use it, you has to provide the image as a Base64-encoded string, along with the rough information on image field of view size and center (the latter may be deduced from FITS header keywords like 'RA' and 'DEC'). ...

... This API (Application Programming Interface) document has pages corresponding to the items in the navigation bar, described as follows. The Overview page is the front page of this API document and provides a list of all packages with a summary for each. ... Each package has a page that contains a list of its classes and interfaces, with a summary for each. ... Each of these pages has three sections consisting of a class/interface description, summary tables, and detailed member descriptions: . ...

... Stromlo before the 2003 fires . ... The gardens at the Director's ResidenceтАж . Sidebar Left . Sidebar Top . No Sidebar . ... Title: The gardens at the Director's Residence on Mt. Stromlo often provided the setting for observatory visitor-receptions . ... Stromlo often provided the setting for observatory visitor-receptions Pricilla Bok walks a guest around the gardens which in 1957 reflected former Director Richard Woolley's botanical designs. €й Copyright Helen Bailey Bayly. ...