Nowadays at the Department the experimental and theoretical investigations, including astronomical and ionospheric observations, active experiments with space vehicles are taking place. ... Solar Corona physics and erruptive phenomenae. ... Stellar astronomy. ... The Department has organized and put into practice more then 50 expeditions for observation of Solar ecllipces, aurorae polaris, comets, meteor streams, controlled space experiments, and also for investigations of geophysical characteristics. ...

Armagh Observatory, 21 December 2001: . ... The Armagh Observatory's contribution, led by astronomers Simon Jeffery and Gerry Doyle , is to develop new computational tools to study the atmosphere of the Sun and other stars. ... Computers will communicate with one another using the grid, and computing power will become a commodity just like electricity. ... FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Simon Jeffery or Mark Bailey at the Armagh Observatory (Tel.: ... WWW contact: webmaster@star.arm.ac.uk . ...

... The HST uses an onboard model of its orbit to perform in real-time various control functions relating to spacecraft operations and observation support. ... New coefficients for the ephemeris are updated every other day, and are archived as FITS keywords for each HST observation data set. Using these coefficients,an observer can perform a variety of calibration and characterization calculations relating to the orbital position and velocity of the telescope. ...

All these webcasts can be found at http://www.youtube.com/vpythonvideos View this webcast. Type along with it. Do the exercise at the end of the webcast (creating three spheres with arrows). You will make mistakes when writing programs. Watch this webcast to learn how to recognise, find and fix these bugs. Work through the following webcasts in order. Type along with them. Do the exercise at the end of each. Variable Assignment . Beginning Loops . Loops and Animation

... The package AMPLE (Adaptable Minor Planet Ephemerides) is dedicated to solving a number of problems concerning minor planets with the aid of IBM-type personal computer. ... Obtaining selection of orbital elements and/ or photometric parameters of minor planets in conformity with imposed restrictions. ... The orbital elements of all minor planets used in AMPLE for 2015 have been determined in IAA on the ground of available observations in the catalogue of observations of the Minor Planet Center. ...

ACS Insturment Handbook for Cycle 24 . ... Advanced Camera for Surveys Instrument Handbook for Cycle 24 > Chapter 9: Exposure-Time Calculations > 9.3 Computing Exposure Times . ... The detector background ( B det ) or dark count in units of counts/second/pixel and the read noise ( R) in counts of the CCD. ... As a consequence, in order to obtain correct estimated count rates for red targets, observers are advised to use the synphot package in IRAF /STSDAS (or Pyraf), or the pysynphot package in Pyraf. ...

The original files with the data were in different formats. ... Such files were named "standard data files" and linked to the database. They can be easily transformed to any desirable format by a code. Here we present two simple computer programs of this kind. ... When running the code, you can specify columns in the output file: wavelength, energy (eV) or wavenumber (cm -1 ) as the first column, and complex refractive index or dielectric function as the second and third columns. ...

... Plots of the 4 wapps (.ps) ( .pdf ) : . ... top plot: this is how many seconds off the wapp clocks were measured to be from the ntp servers on the network. The colors are for the 4 wapps. 2nd plot: This is the offset (in seconds) that the ntpd pll time loop was using. ... Notice that there are no changes from 9.06 till 9.31 when the loop parmeters were reset. 2nd plot: The frequency offset used in the wapp4 pll loop. 3rd plot: The time offset of wapp4 time relative to the 3 primary ntp servers. ...

... 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 | ...

... About ATNF overview . ... Australia Telescope Steering Committee . ... Australia Telescope User Committee . ... Staff list | ... Murchison Radio-astronomy Observatory . ... Parkes radio telescope . Australia Telescope Compact Array . Mopra radio telescope . ... Australia Telescope Online Archive (ATOA) . ... VLBI . ... Australia Telescope 20GHz Survey . ... This message : [ Message body ] [ More options ( top , bottom ) ] . ... radio observations for the exploration of our Solar System and . ...

The technical memorandum: Time and Time Interval Measurement with Application to Computer and Network Performance Evaluation (PostScript) describes a number of techniques for conducting experiments typical of computer network and transmission systems engineering. ... The usual data collected during a performance run of some experiment might include time offsets, time delays, frequency offsets and various error statistics. ...

... Archives . ... Magnitude [Eqn] . ... Differential Emission Measures (DEMs) are a summary of the temperature structure of the outer atmospheres (aka coronae) of stars, and are usually derived from a select subset of line fluxes. ... is called the Differential Emission Measure and is a very useful summary of the temperature structure of stellar coronae. ... Tags: DEM , Differential Emission Measure , EotW , Equation , Equation of the Week , stellar coronae . ... Comment ( RSS ) | ... Chandra Blog . ...

... CorMass information (maintained by University of Virginia) . Using CorMass at APO . How to Take Lamp Calibration Spectra . CorMass Quick Start Guide . CorMassTool - Data Reduction Tool for Cormass Advanced usage . Setting up CorMass exposure parameters . Taking your Calibration lamps . Taking your Dark Frames . Focusing CorMass . ... Taking your exposure . ... Stopping an exposure (discarding data) . ... Taking Lamp Calibration Spectra with CorMass . ...

Microsymposium 40, abstract 88, 2004 (A4 format) GAMMA RAYS FROM MAJOR ELEMENTS BY THERMAL NEUTRON CAPTURE REACTIONS: EXPERIMENT AND SIMULATION FOR PLANETARY GAMMA-RAY SPECTROSCOPY. ... Then the calculation can be restarted by producing gamma rays and let them trans- GAMMA RAYS FROM MAJOR ELEMENTS BY THERMAL NEUTRON CAPTURE REACTIONS: N. Yamashita et al. port and react, with initial energies determined the outside multiplication and initial locations wh neutron capture reaction took place. ...

The above image is a computer simulation of the distribution of mass in a Dark Matter dominated Universe. ... Structure (\eg density enhancements) clearly forms at the intersection of these filaments. ... What is Dark Matter? ... Testing for the presence of dark matter in the solar neighborhood now becomes an accounting problem The possible sources of this mass in the solar neighborhood are 1) luminous stars, 2) interstellar gas, 3) stellar remnants (mostly white dwarfs) and 4) dark matter: . ...

... Dr. Ravil Nazirov is the head of the workshop, and Andrew Ananjev is the secretary of the workshop. ... The workshop is used to be held in the last decade of the month, preferably on Tuesdays. ... The next session will take place October 29, 1996 . ... There is "CONPAS" mailing list which you can join to discuss issues of problem solving and to be automatically notified of important dates and decisions with respect to the coming sessions. ... Secretary of the Workshop: Andrew Ananjev . ...

. This is BTA "indome" main server computer tb.sao.ru . It is local address in SAO's Intranet. But it is visible from Internet through our Web-site proxy as: http://www.sao.ru/tb/ . BTA TSC online Web-pages located here: http://www.sao.ru/tb/tcs/ . BTA WebCameras: . "In-Dome" TV-camera . and it's last images . "Outdor" TV-camera . and it's last images . Also, one can find here some documents: .

A very important stage in a story of formation of any new science is the shift from discussion of situation which are possible but do not occur in practice due to some reason to recognition of real phenomena of interest. ... We suggest to consider computer viruses as this new specific form of life which is coming in the contact with our form of life. ... Computer life has been created by human being, the role of independent evolution of computer viruses seems to be still negligible. ...

PRESS RELEASE 16 July, 1992 CONTACT: Synetik Systems 2210 Highway 6 & 50, Suite 204 Grand Junction CO, 81505-9406 (303) 241-1718 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: In today's personal computer marketplace, performance claims are abundant. ... IBM OS/2 Version 2.0, the industry's most advanced operating system, requires considerable computer resources to take advantage of its power. ... There are three separate disk tests, and you control whether the program uses the OS/2 system disk cache. ...

This note outlines how to configure the computers needed to run DIMMWIT. ... dimmwit : ICE (single-board computer in a box) that runs the Starlight Express CCD camera, to which it is connected by a USB interface. dimmwithost : displays the finder application via the X protocol (finder actually runs on dimmwit). Acts as a file server; both the finder software and the DIMM data are stored on dimmwithost. ... mkdir -p /data/oberon/data/finder . chown coast:coast /data/oberon/data/finder . ...