... ATNF Home . ... About ATNF overview . ... Australia Telescope Steering Committee . ... Australia Telescope User Committee . ... Murchison Radio-astronomy Observatory . ... Parkes radio telescope . Australia Telescope Compact Array . ... Visiting Parkes radio telescope . ... Parkes radio telescope webcam . ... PULSE@Parkes . ... The project does not assume any detailed prior knowledge of pulsar astronomy though students should have studied astronomy as a component of Stage 4 Science (Years 7-8). ...

... The `apparent sub-observer point' is the point on the target body at time t-Tau that is closest to the observer at time t. SUBPT demonstrates the use of the following high-level SPK subroutines: . ... Enter the name for the observing body: sun Enter the name for a target body: earth Enter the number of points to calculate: 24 Enter the beginning UTC time: jul 1 1990 Enter the ending UTC time: jul 2 1990 Planetocentric coordinates for the nearest point on the target body to the observing body (deg). ...

GRANAT is the Russian x-ray sattelite launched to the high apogee orbit (200,000 km) and operated almost for 10 years (1989 -1999) , carrying out four major instruments: French SIGMA coded-mask hard x-ray telescope (30-1000 keV), Soviet ART-P coded-mask telescope (2??-60?? keV), all-sky monitor WATCH (6-150 keV), and a gamma-burst detector PHEBUS . ... Since September 1994, GRANAT is in the survey mode. ... Explore pages devoted to individual GRANAT instruments (including main scientific results): . ...

function flux _to_em, emis , flux = flux , logT = logT , wvl = wvl ,Z=Z,NH=NH,defEM=defEM,$ noph=noph, thresh = thresh , _extra=e ;+ ;function flux _to_em ; return emission measures (-1 where undeterminable) at various ; temperatures consistent with given line fluxes and line emissivities. ; ; for each temperature, assume a delta-function emission measure, ; compute ...

... Program to run on guppimaster reading "scramNet" multicast packets and then loading the information into guppi shared memory. scramnet "multicast" packets: . ... The multiscram program on observer reads the scramnet shared memory once a second and multicasts this info onto aonet. ... It is controlled by keyword values stored in "guppi status" shared memory on puppimaster. scramPuppi attaches to this shared memory and updates the variables whose state is defined in the scramnet packets. no options: ....

... The scheduling routines assist in creating an observing list (stored in the startable) from scratch or from another list stored on disk, and computing the visibility of the stars in a specific night and array configuration. The date of observation is taken from the variable date , and the array name from the variable systemid . If these are not defined, defaults are used for date (the next night) and for array (NPOI). ... addstar , stars _char Add one or more stars to the startable. ...

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... In a report on a recent information technology conference at Columbia University (Chronicle of Higher Education, 16 January 1998, p. A25), questions are raised with respect to the efficacy of computers in the classroom. ... The Summer Science Program is once again being held at The Thacher School in Ojai, California. ... The Consortium for Undergraduate Research and Education in Astronomy announces the Mount Wilson Summer Program for Undergraduates, August 12-25, 1998. ...

... Searching for Far Out and Wandering Worlds . ... The Real Reality Show: Would aliens be anything like us? ... The SETI Institute is after alien signals. Assuming another world is beaming a 1-million-watt radio signal in our direction, how far away can that source be before the signal is lost in intergalactic noise? ... Get instant access to subscriber content on Astronomy.com! ... If you are already registered on Astronomy.com, please log in below. ...

... 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. ...

... Site User's Guide (revised January 2015) . General Observing Information . ... An area map is available, as well as detailed directions from regional airports. ... APO does not recommend using GPS for directions to the site; please use the written directions below. ... APO/SDSS/NMSU Purchasing, Travel, Receiving, and Shipping Procedures . APO Site Safety Plan, V2.31 (current); APO Sprinkler and Shutter Procedures (pdf) . ... Roads to APO are all paved but are subject to heavy snow and ice. ...

... Spacecraft . 29b. Satellites looking down . ... 29e. Explorers of distant space . ... The Hubble orbiting telescope. ... The Hubble telescope , in low Earth orbit, overcomes such limitations, in the visible range and in part of the UV. ... So fruitful was this observation that a second "deep field" exposure of such length, near the southern pole of the heavens, was recently conducted. ... Some satellites specialize in observing the Sun, such as the Japanese Yohkoh and NASA's SOHO . ...

... A Star Where Photons Orbit . ... A Wolf-Rayet Star Blows Bubbles . ... Wolf-Rayet stars can blow bubbles. ... All extremely massive stars will eventually evolve though a Wolf-Rayet phase. ... Wolf-Rayet stars generate bubbles because they continually eject their outer atmosphere as a stellar wind. ... Aurora Over Circle, Alaska . ... Although Aurora might first appear to be moonlit clouds, they only add light to the sky, and hence can not block background stars from view. ... X-Ray Earth . ...

Next: Star Formation Rate and Up: No Title Previous: Calculation of Evolutionary Tracks . To start calculations, we choose the distributions of the initial binary parameters: the mass of the primary ZAMS component, , binary mass ratio, , orbital separation a . ... whereas the mass ratio distribution is not. ... The zero assumption often made is that the mass ratio distribution has a flat shape, that is binaries with a high mass ratio occur as frequently as those with equal masses. ...

The Hubble orbiting telescope. The Earth's atmosphere, while transparent to visible light, absorbs most "electromagnetic radiations" which belong to the same family as light: parts of the infra-red (IR) and all of the ultra-violet (UV), X-rays and gamma rays. ... The Hubble telescope , in low Earth orbit, overcomes such limitations, in the visible range and in part of the UV. ... Some satellites specialize in observing the Sun, such as the Japanese Yohkoh and NASA's SOHO . ...

Although it is possible por an observer to carry away his/her data, and reduce them at home, we ask all observer to leave a copy of their data in the Arcetri spectroscopic archive. ... Intellectual property of these data remains to the project PI, for up to five years. Data older than five years are assumed to be public, unless differently stated with the project PI. ...

... Broadening is due both to the natural width of the transition and to the velocity spread of the absorbing atoms along the line of sight. In the ideal case of atoms at rest. ... In the program the velocity is assumed to be gaussian, thus: . velocity of the cloud relative to the observer. ... An absorption is measured in the spectrum at = corresponding to a rest wavelength . ... In practice the program computes the absorption profile in the cloud reference frame . ...

... The following charts/text are intended as tools for monitoring the Type Ia supernovae ( SNe ) event visually or photographically (utilizing telescope equipped CCD equipment).The files include: A replication of The Type Ia SNe , V- magnitude (with data point checks from other cited references)and color index (B-V) templete (to indicate a general color-related trend of the type Ia ... I believe this might help alleviate some of the problems involving the making of acceptable amateur light curves...

... commands . ... data_spectrum <name> : data in "spectrum" format . ... Repeat command to add additional mask regions. sigma is the s.d. to apply to the data within the region to be masked. ... Repeat command to add additiona continuum regions. ... cont_reg_clear : Clear current continuum regions . ... The observed spectrum is then multipled by this filter to obtain a new spectrum for use by SFIT. cont_sigma : Computes standard deviation of data in continuum regions and applies it to current data . ...