Next: TAPE HANDLING at SCAN Up: Tape Management Previous: Tape Management Contents . ... This section provides some detail on various aspects of tape management. ... For projects only including stations that use automatic tape allocation (eg VLBA, VLA, and GBT), that should be the only concern other than providing occasional gaps for readback tests, as described later, and not stopping the tape too often. ... The maximum bit rate that can be recorded on a VLBA tape is 256 Mbps. ...

Next: SettingStoring, and Up: CCD Reductions Previous: Nature of CCD . The CCD package provides a set of basic commands that perform the various calibration steps. ... When the context CCD is enabled, a keyword structure is created which contains the parameters for the calibration steps and to control these. ... Finally, keywords are created to contain the names of important frame descriptors, like the standard MIDAS descriptor for the exposure ( O_TIME ). ...

Next: Photometry Up: Regions and Source Parameters Previous: *imcnts* - Find counts . This task (developed for use with optical images, but also useful with x-ray data) will quickly compute location, size, ellipticity, and position angle of sources. ... User can generate contour plots of any portion of the image and count rates in slices through the image. The program is advertised as ``quick [optical] photometry''. input file: rp110590_im1.imh . output file: logfile . ... Photometry . ...

... ISC Kosmotras . Top Management Founder of ISC Kosmotras - Dr. Vladimir A. Andreev News . ... Mr. Vladimir Andreev, Director General of ISC Kosmotras , held a meeting with His Excellency Mr. Omar Saif Ghobash, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the United Arab Emirates to the Russian Federation on April 16, 2009. ... Both sides expressed mutual interest in the development of cooperation between ISC Kosmotras and UAE companies. ... E-mail: info@kosmotras.ru . ...

Next: FOURTH Example - a9999d.sls Up: SETUP & PROCEDURE FILES Previous: SECOND Example - a9999b.sls . ... a9999.log srcfile src.list # Source the standard procedure which is invoked as 'dosrc' source /share/obs4/usr/a9999/onoff.tcl # Set correlator board and mean RF center frequencies set sbfr1 1350.0 set sbfr2 1370.0 set sbfr3 1390.0 set sbfr4 1410.0 set rfcfr 1380.0 # Setup Doppler corrections dopsetfrq $rfcfr $sbfr1 $sbfr2 $sbfr3 $sbfr4 dopsetvel 0 hel dopsetrfonly dopsetdoit # ...

... Recent Topics . ... MAO main . ... Message from the General Secretary to the IAU membership . ... Тема: Message from the General Secretary to the IAU membership . ... IAU Directory for World Astronomy and NameExoWorlds contest . ... The IAU Directory for World Astronomy ( directory.iau.org/ ) has been created not only for astronomy clubs and organisations, but also more generally for associations having an interest in astronomy (history, culture, etc.) ... www.iau.org/ . ... MAO NASU . ...

General Information . ... The conference is organized by the Sternberg Astronomical Institute (SAI) of Moscow University and the IAU Working group "Site-testing Instruments" . ... Use of site data in telescope operation and adaptive optics. ... Recent conferences on this subject (2007, 2008) demonstrated great interest of the community, hence the need for a new meeting. ... Unlike previous recent conferences, this meeting will cover all aspects of site monitoring for optical/IR astronomy. ...

. ОГЛАВЛЕНИЕ . Предисловие к четвертому изданию . Введение . § 1. Предмет и задачи астрономии . § 2. Подразделение астрономии . § 3. Возникновение и основные этапы развития астрономии . § 4. Практическое и идеологическое значение астрономии . § 5. Основа и источник астрономических исследований . § 6. Краткий очерк строения Вселенной . Глава I . Основные сведения из сферической астрономии . § 7. Видимые положения светил. Созвездия . § 8. Видимые движения звезд, Солнца, Луны и планет . § 9. Географические

It is a matter of common knowledge that in processes of genesis and evolution of many solar phenomena participate magnetic fields of sunspots. ... As a basis for formation of the database we take data on magnetic fields, collected by set of observatories during many years of observations. ... Section "Magnetic field data" contains data of magnetic field observation for separate sunspots, presented in standard text format (ASCII). ... Description of structure of these files is presented here . ...

... IAU General Assembly XXVII - Joint Discussion #12 . ... IAU General Assembly XXVII . ... Recent observational and theoretical results show that the period between recombination and the end of the reionization era is very dynamic in terms of star and galaxy formation. ... Formation of the first galaxies . ... Joint Discussion 12 was part of the scientific programme of the XXVII General Assembly of the International Astronomical Union, which took place in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, August 3-14 2009. ...