... HST . ... Data . ... News and . ... HST Peer Review Process . ... HST Overview . ... Retrieving HST Data . ... STIS/GHRS/FOS | October/November 2006 +----------------------------------------------------------+ Visit the "New in the Last 45 Days" section of the STIS website at http://www.stsci.edu/hst/stis for new information about STIS. ... New Reference File Deliveries A number of new STIS calibration reference files have recently been delivered as part of the STIS calibration closeout effort. ...

... ESO Science Newsletter November 2015 . 18 Nov 2015 . ... This newsletter is a summary of recent ESO Science Announcement items. Follow the links or visit ESO Science Announcements to read more. ... An integral part of the commissioning of a new instrument at the VLT is the Science Verification ( SV ) phase. ... Joint ESO, ALMA, NAOJ, NRAO Workshop: . ... Science Operations 2015: Science Data Management . ESO/ESA Workshop, ESO Headquarters, Garching, Germany, 24тАУ27 November 2015 . ...

... Tiny Tim has been used for generating Hubble Space Telescope ( HST ) point-spread functions (PSFs) for deconvolution, algorithm testing, proposal planning, and optical studies. ... Tiny Tim is a stand-alone program for simulating HST PSFs as viewed with the on-board imaging cameras (WF/PC-1, WFPC2, FOC, COSTAR/FOC). ... The measured aberrations for FOC f/96, WF/PC-1 PC6, WFPC2, and COSTAR/FOC are used by Tiny Tim . ... Figure: FOC f/96 observed and Tiny Tim model PSFs (pre-COSTAR) at 253 nm. ...

XMM-Newton Science Analysis System Page: 1 specadd November 22, 2004 Abstract It creates a multiple X-ray spectrum FITS le either by stacking or putting to- gether two single spectrum les or by stacking a single spectrum on top of an existing multiple spectrum le. ... This type of spectral les is particularly useful when the user wants to simultaneously analyse di erent observations of the same object carried out with the same instrument or with di erent instruments. ...

... 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. ...

Astronotes Armagh Planetarium's Stellar Blog! ... Meteors and Meteorites . ... Stars . ... Monthly Sky Notes . ... This famous depiction of the Leonids was based on a first hand account of a meteor storm by a minister, Joseph Harvey Waggoner. ... In the autumn the Great Square of Pegasus is visible in the southern night sky. ... I hope this guide to the November night sky is helpful and have fun star sight-seeing! ... Tweets that mention The Leonid meteors: highlights of the November night sky | ...

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For calculating model spectra of early-type helium stars in LTE, we maintain a database of atomic data for, mostly, blue-visual absorption lines of light elements. The data is sorted with one file for each ion. ... III = ++ . ... It will work on both complete linelists (including the atomic data at the start and references at the end) or raw ion files (such as Ni2.d). ... A Fortran utility to convert linelists downloaded from the Vienna Atomic Line Database into the new QUB format. synspec_qub . ...

... NASA Web Site Statements, Warnings, and Disclaimers . NASA Official: Jay Norris. ... A service of: LHEA at NASA / GSFC . ... Publications with keywords: planets - Earth - Gliese 876 . Publications with words: planets - Earth - Gliese 876 . ... Hurricane Paths on Planet Earth . A Dark Earth with a Red Sprite . Happy People Dancing on Planet Earth . Looking Back at an Eclipsed Earth . ... All the Water on Planet Earth . ... All publications on this topic >> ...

Describes how funtools can be integrated into the ds9 Analysis menu. SAOImage/DS9 is an astronomical imaging and data visualization application used by astronomers around the world. DS9 can display standard astronomical FITS images and binary tables, but also has support for displaying raw array files, shared memory files, and data files automatically retrieved via FTP and HTTP. ... It can be manually loaded into DS9 from the Load Analysis Commands ... option of the Analysis menu. ...

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). ...

Next: Echelle Reduction Method Up: No Title Previous: Example . This Chapter provides the basic information necessary to understand the echelle љ package implemented in MIDAS . ... Tutorial examples are available in the system (command TUTORIAL/ECHELLE ) and are also included in the Appendix so that users without previous experience in MIDAS could become familiar with the calibration procedures. ... Reduction steps which are not specific to echelle spectra are described in more detail in Chapter . ...

... It was designed to observe the solar wind approaching Earth, from a position near the Lagrangian point L1, and it is part of the International Solar-Terrestrial Physics (ISTP) Initiative . ... The original plan called for "Wind" to approach its final station over two years, undergoing two close encounters with the Moon to boost its speed. ... If however the object is moving , the encounter is not symmetric, and in the end the spacecraft may have gained or lost speed, depending on its trajectory. ...

... Short reports. ... For the countries, starting their activity at the International Astronomy Olympiad (see the Supplementary Instructions N 3 ), the requirements for the short report are not strong. ... According to the information above the regular deadline for receiving the short reports of Nationals Olympiads of the current year (with a set of all problems used on the National Olympiads) is defined as 13 plus 5 = 18 weeks before the Olympiad: July 04 , 2009. ... Personal data for visas. ...

Here is a description of the Filter/Driver Pack Plus release from Aldus. ... The Macintosh Filter/Driver Pack Plus includes several new and updated filters, including import filters for Microsoft Works 3.0 and MacWrite Pro files, as well as the most recent LaserWriter driver, version 8.1.1. ... The Filter/Driver Pack Plus also includes a patcher utility which will update PageMaker 5.0 to version 5.0a. This patcher corrects a handful of reported customer problems. ...

ANTHONY LASENBY - COSMIC MICROWAVE BACKGROUND . The Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) provides some of our best and most accurate information about the universe and its evolution. I have been involved in CMB research since 1978, and have worked on experiments including Tenerife, CAT, the VSA and most recently Planck and QUIJOTE . ... In addition, I am interested in several theoretical topics in CMB and early universe research. Planck at Launch . ... Cosmic Microwave Background . ...

... 2001 November 29 . Coronal Inflow . Credit: N. R. Sheeley, Jr. and Y.-M. Wang ( NRL ), SOHO - LASCO Consortium, ESA , NASA . Explanation: The active Sun has thrown a lot our way lately, including storms of particles streaming outward in the solar wind and clouds of plasma which triggered awesome auroral displays. ... Fighting against a solar wind outflow of about 120 kilometers per second the cloud seems to be moving inward at 50-100 kilometers per second. ... About APOD | ...

... Iowa Robotic Telescope | ... Talon is based on OCAAS, a software suite developed by software engineer Elwood Downey ( Clear Sky Institute ) for use at the University of Iowa ?s first remote facility (the ATF, or Automated Telescope Facility). ... XObservatory : Telescope Control Interface . ... This program calls upon and coordinates much of the interrelated portions of the Talon architecture, and forms the primary control panel for the telescope, dome, and peripheral systems when used locally. ...

The Wind spacecraft. ... It was designed to observe the solar wind approaching Earth, from a position near the Lagrangian point L1, and it is part of the International Solar-Terrestrial Physics (ISTP) Initiative . ... The original plan called for "Wind" to approach its final station over two years, undergoing two close encounters with the Moon to boost its speed. ... For additional details and updates, see the home page of the "Wind" mission. Exploration" home page (index) Glossary . ...

The conference program included eleven one-hour talks and four free discussions. ... The talk also discussed different models for Internet traffic and quality of Service measures. ... The talk by Nikolai Vereschagin (Moscow State University) "The Kolmogorov complexity of approximate descriptions" discussed different notions of descriptive complexity of computable sequences which can be used in Internet measurements. ... What mathematics does Internet need?" ...