... Annual Meeting . ... Galileo Teacher Training Program Workshop . ... Co-sponsored by the Astronomical Society of the Pacific, Fiske Planetarium, and the Lunar Science Institute . In this hands-on workshop, teachers in grades 3 - 12 will learn how to do age-appropriate, inquiry-based activities in astronomy and physical science. ... The Galileo Teacher Training Program is a new model for teacher professional development established during the 2009 International Year of Astronomy. ...

... Our Java and Python software runs anywhere on Windows, Mac, and Linux . ... Alsvid - Algorithms for visualization and processing of image data with Python . Our observatory software . PyDome - Astronomical dome control in Python . ... Software archive . ... XEphem for visual access to astronomical data and remote telescope operation (Linux and Mac OS X) . ... SAOImage DS9 for astronomical data visualization (Linux, Mac OS X, and Windows) . ... G ttingen ImageJ astronomical resources . ...

... Up: Data Processing Systems . ... We demonstrate the latest Starlink software, including ORAC-DR pipelines, new Java applications, and distributed pipeline processing. ... An example of its use is the TOPCAT application ( http://www.starlink.ac.uk/topcat ), shown in part in Figure 2. ... Of course the final result can also provide estimates of errors and data quality, pixel by pixel, because the Starlink applications, Classic as well as the new ones, automatically keep track of these. ...

... ATNF Home . ... About ATNF overview . ... Australia Telescope Steering Committee . ... Australian Square Kilometre Array Pathfinder . ... Parkes radio telescope . Australia Telescope Compact Array . ... A small (AU$30) registration fee will be charged to cover the cost of lunches and coffee breaks.б  Payment should be made in cash at the time of the workshop.б  Presenters will be exempt from paying the fee. б  Check here if you are a student (registration fees waived thanks to ATNF support). ...

... Applying the Lessons Learned from HST Operations to New Missions" , presented at SPIE's International Symposium Astronomical Telescopes and Instrumentation . ... Portable Astronomical Scheduling Tools" presented at the ADASS V Conference . A System for Long-Term Scheduling of Ground-Based Observatories" ( html , postscript ) presented at the Conference on New Observing Modes My technical papers, as well as those by STScI colleagues are available on-line. ... Spike planning and scheduling system . ...

The workshop is hosted by Cavendish Astrophysics and will be held primarily in the Ryle seminar room in the Rutherford building. ... Astrophysics Group . Cavendish Laboratory . ... Cambridge CB3 0HE, UK . Tel: +44 (0)1223 337294 . Fax: +44 (0)1223 354599 . ... Rooms have been booked at the MГеller Centre , Cambridge from Sunday 24 August to Saturday 30 August (departing on this morning.) ... Cambridge CB3 0DE, UK . Tel: +44 (0)1223 465500 . Fax: +44(0)1223 465525 . ...

... Barbara Hubal . Mike Unsold . ... Hidden Hollow 2008 . Workshops . ... The Hidden Hollow weekend Star Party at Warren Rupp Observatory will be back again this year the weekend of May 2nd - 4th! ... Mike is the developer of the ImagesPlus camera control and astronomical image processing software, which was listed as a "hot product" by Sky & Telescope in 2004. ... The Riverside Telescope Makers Conference (RTMC) has hosted Mike's workshops for the last two year, and they both sold out! ...

... Of course, the scope of chaos is vast, and we do not dare to cover it all. ... He will highly appreciate your help in compiling the list of URLs to such scientific groups and institutions. http://www.cplire.ru/win/InformChaosLab/ - InformChaos Lab (Moscow) . http://chaos.ssu.runnet.ru/ - Laboratory of Nonlinear Dynamics at Saratov State University (Saratov) . ... http://optics.npi.msu.su/sci/chaos.html - Chaos in laser systems . ... http://www.chaotic.com - Randle, Inc. ... Time: 2-6 July, 2001 . ...

... CATS is being expanded continuously. Now (March 1997) it comprises over 150 catalogs and big tables including most of the RATAN--600 catalogs, ninety the biggest world radio astronomical catalogs with number of objects more than 1500, hypertext documentation and full scientific references for every catalog (3 Mb), systems of coordinates transformations, software for spectral data processing, and occupies 450 Mb, while most of catalogs storaged in compress (gzip) files. ... 1996; Trushkin et al., ...

SAI 175 anniversary . ... Moscow University . Search for in SAI Moscow University Search for in Russian astronomical resources . ... SAI Astronomical Databases . ... Browse SAI Software archive(ftp.sai.msu.su) . ASTRONET.RU - Russian Astronomical Network (available in translit also) . ... SAI Supernovae Research Group . ... Department of the Galaxy and Variable Stars (in Russian) . Sternberg Astronomical Institute Seminars . ... All-Russian Astronomical Olympiad (in Russian) . ...

The activities of the group started at the end of 70's with the building of FIRT: the photometer of the National Infrared Telescope ( TIRGO ). The group has also developed a large amount of software and procedures in order to define all the relevant parameters of the systems. ... See also the local Labir4Giano pages. ... In addition to the development of the above instruments, we also carried some observations in collaboration with the science groups of Arcetry Observatory. ... Giano Local Page . ...

... Satellite data ] . ... The SCANOR system provides receiving and processing of the Earth-surface pictures made in visible and infra-red bands and transferred by satellites of the NOAA polar orbiter series (in the HRPT mode). ... The SCANOR system includes the desktop receiving device connected to an IBM AT 386 type computer, and the parabolic antenna with the guiding mechanism. The SCANOR system possesses the state-of-art software providing registration and processing of the received data. ...

... Central Astronomical Observatory of the Russian Academy of Sciences at Pulkovo organizes All-Russian annual conference "Solar and Solar-Terrestrial Physics - 2008", which will take place in Pulkovo (Saint-Petersburg) from 7 to 12 July 2008. ... Subjects of the conference include a wide range of problems of solar activity and solar-terrestrial links. ... A joint Russian-Polish seminar on solar-terrestrial physics are also supposed to be held in the frame of the conference. ... For every report) 1. ...

... 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. ...

... Registration . Registration information . ... The Workshop will be held in the Institute of Solid State Physics RAS in a small town called Chernogolovka situated about 50 km from Moscow during 12-18 August 2002 . ... The Registration fee includes a book of abstracts, meeting at the airport and travel from the airport to Chernogolovka and back, a welcome reception, a workshop barbecue, and coffee breaks. ... The Registration fee should be paid at the Workshop registration desk in Chernogolovka. ...

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... VLSS Redux version, 2012 . We present details of improvements to data processing and analysis which were recently used for a re-reduction of the Very Large Array (VLA) Low-frequency Sky Survey (VLSS) data. Algorithms described are implemented in the data-reduction package Obit, and include smart-windowing to reduce clean bias, improved automatic radio frequency interference removal, improved bright-source peeling, and higher-order Zernike fits to model the ionospheric phase contributions. ...

... New Mexico State University is seeking a technical and computer-oriented person as a Support Astronomer for nighttime astronomical observing at Apache Point Observatory (APO) with the Astrophysical Research Consortium (ARC) 3.5m Telescope. б  . ... Paper/email documents will not be accepted. ... TELESCOPE OPERATIONS SPECIALIST . ... Responsibilities include nightly operation of the 3.5m telescope and instruments, Quality monitoring the data streams and system performance and observing efficiency. ...

National Aeronautics and Space Administration . ... Bruce McCandless II (Captain, USN, Ret.) NASA Astronaut (former) . ... He was a member of the astronaut support crew for the Apollo 14 mission and was backup pilot for the first manned Skylab mission (SL-1/SL-2). ... A veteran of two space flights, McCandless has logged over 312 hours in space, including 4 hours of MMU flight time. ... With the completion of this flight McCandless logged 191 hours in space (including 4 hours of MMU flight time). ...

Date: Wed, 03 Sep 2003 17:43:40 -0400 From: Jeff Hagen To: rbrown@astro.cornell.edu, goldsmit@astrosun.astro.cornell.edu, desh@naic.edu, satorchi@naic.edu Subject: GALFA software spectrometer Hi Bob, You asked me to give a short status report on the GALFA software spectrometer. ... Current performance status: - 2.4GHz dual xenon motherboard - 8192 spectral channels - Welch weighting - overlap factor of 3 (this is up from olap=2 that I reported to Paul several weeks ago.) ... Jeff ...