... These Frontier Fields will combine the power of HST with the natural gravitational telescopes of high-magnification clusters of galaxies. ... We are soliciting gravitational lensing maps for the last four Hubble Frontier Fields clusters (MACSJ0717.5+3745, MACSJ1149.5+2223, AbellS1063, and Abell 370) based upon the exceptionally deep HST FF imaging and other new ancillary data. ... For the full set of proposal instructions and requirements, see the FY16 Frontier Fields Lensing Map Call for Proposals....

Next: Release of 1 Dec. ... Fixed 04Jan98 RCW. Fix translation of VLA bandwidth code into an actual bandwidth. ... Fixed bug in SETFCAT, the routine that chooses the frequency catalog entry to use. ... Cleaning up code relating to setting scan times (before optimization). 17feb99 RCW. Count the number of times the tape stops. ... MINPAUSE causes the use of continuous tape motion if the tape stop time would between 2 scans would be less than MINPAUSE times the speed up factor. ... 26Feb99 RCW . ...

... Time calculated from Fermi GBM Trigger Time = 14:12:08.67 ( Connaughton, GCN 9230 ). 1% coincident with our start zero image time. 3x3 degrees around Swift XRT position . ... SUBJECT: GRB 090424 : MASTER-Net prompt optical limit DATE: 09/04/25 20:29:42 GMT FROM: Vladimir Lipunov at Moscow State U/Krylov Obs E. Gorbovskoy, V. Lipunov, V.Kornilov, A.Belinski ... Our observations results: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Fermi GRB Trigg.* ...

... We present the first edition of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) Quasar Catalog. The catalog consists of the 3814 objects (3000 discovered by the SDSS) in the initial SDSS public data release that have at least one emission line with a full width at half-maximum larger than 1000 km s-1, luminosities brighter than Mi*=-23, and highly reliable redshifts. ... Based on observations obtained with the Sloan Digital Sky Survey, which is owned and operated by the Astrophysical Research Consortium. ...

... Retired ETCs . Historic ETC versions: select.. P93 phase 1 (Sep.2013) P93 phase 2 (Dec.2013) P94 phase 1 (Mar.2014) P94 phase 2 (Jun.2014) P95 phase 1 (Sep.2014) P95 phase 2 (Dec.2014) P96 phase 1 (Mar.2015) P96 phase 2 (Jun.2015) P97 phase 1 (Sep.2015) P97 phase 2 (Dec.2015) . SkyCalc Sky Model Calculator . ... MUSE ETC: New seeing/IQ PSF model . ... VISIR imaging ETC: Updated sensitivity model . ... GIRAFFE, VIMOS IFU,MOS and EFOSC2 spectroscopy: . ... Paranal UT1 . ... E-ELT . ...

... While "First Light" was achieved at the second 8.2-m VLT Unit Telescope (UT2) ahead of schedule, UT1 produced its sharpest image so far. ... It had long been ESO's intention to provide "real" names to the four VLT Unit Telescopes, to replace the current, somewhat dry and technical designations as UT1 to UT4. ... The participants were left with the impression of mounting expectations, just four weeks before the first VLT Unit Telescope, Antu (UT1), will receive the first visiting astronomers. ...

XMM ­Newton CCF Release Note XMM ­ CCF ­REL­9 EPIC TIMING D LUMB October 4, 2000 1 CCF components Name of CCF VALDATE List of Blocks changed CAL VERSION XSCS flag EMOS1 TIMECORR 0003 2000 ­01­ 01T00 :00:00 FRAMETIME YES EMOS2 TIMECORR 0003 2000 ­01­ 01T00 :00:00 FRAMETIME YES EPN TIMECORR 0004 2000 ­01­ 01T00 :00:00 FRAMETIME TIMECORR YES 2 Changes First ... The timings are derived at present from a knowledge of the ground measurements of clock timings and sequences. ...

... Press release for Jan. 28, 2001 a.m. (Moscow time) . The Station "Mir" and cargo ship "ProgressM1-5"operations scheduled for Jan. 27-28 completed. ... The MCS (motion control system) is in free drift. ... The Station "Mir" and cargo ship "ProgressM1-5" onboard systems checkout is shceduled for 28-29 Jan. On Jan 25"Progress M-43' undocked the Station at 08.20 a.m. (Moscow time), its de-orbit is scheduled for Jan.29.The calculated time of jets firing for breaking - 05,12 a.m. (Moscow time) . ...

PRESS-RELEASE . ... Following two-day free flight in near-earth orbit, the Soyuz TMA-11 approached the ISS. ... The Russian part of the joint crew is represented by test-cosmonaut Fyodor Yurchikhin from RSC Energia after S.P. Korolev (ISS-15 crew commander, Soyuz TMA-10 flight engineer), two tests cosmonauts from RGNII CTC after Yu.A. Gagarin - Oleg Kotov (ISS-15 crew flight engineer, Soyuz TMA-10 commander) and Yuri Malenchenko (Soyuz TMA-11 commander, ISS-16 crew first flight engineer). ...

Atlantic 19126] [Released on January 12, 1969] 1. Good Times Bad Times 2. Babe I'm Gonna Leave You 3. ... Your Time Is Gonna Come 6. Black Mountain Side 7. ... Whole Lotta Love 2. ... The Lemon Song 4. ... Immigrant Song 2. ... Whole Lotta Love [Swan Song 16002] [Released on August 15, 1979] 1. ... I'm Gonna Crawl [Swan Song 90051] [Released on November 19, 1982] 1. ... Wearing and Tearing [Released on October, 1990] Disk 1: 1. ... All My Love [Released on September, 1993] Disk 1: 1. ...

... Want to observe? ... TO IMPACT OF THE PLANET TO THE EARTH ANGLE OF THE PLANET OF THE SUN YR MT DAY H M S S IN RJ " H M S DEG ' " AU HR DEG DEG DEG DEG 2009 7 24 0 16 46. 1 ECL 2 P 0.367 294 6.3 0.496 21 49 34.53 -14 14 7.5 4.099283 -1.865 -28.5 17.4 176.0 -15.7 2009 7 24 1 15 9. 1 OCC 2 P 0.214 446 5.8 0.525 21 49 33.49 -14 14 13.3 4.099023 -0.889 -13.8 20.5 -169.8 -15.2 2009 8 12 1 54 2. ... International Year of Astronomy, Ireland National Node . ...

... A Population of Gamma-Ray Millisecond Pulsars . ... Science Paper ) . ... NASA 's press release . ... A new technique for timing the double pulsar system! ... No press release. ... 2008/08: . ... Arecibo finds a dozen new millisecond pulsars! ... 2006/12: . ... 21 new millisecond pulsars in Terzan 5! ... First new ALFA pulsar! ... New Scientist publishes a story on some of the recent results of the GMRT, including the discovery of NGC 1851A. 2004/01: . ... No press release, but quite a cool paper! ...

... Polish scientists at the Space Research Centre, Polish Academy of Sciences, in Wroclaw, south-west Poland, have constructed an instrument called SphinX (short for Solar PHotometer In X-rays), which is an X-ray spectrophotometer, that will obtain spectra in the energy range 0.5--15 keV in 256 energy channels with frequency of up to 100 times a second. ... SphinX is part of a package of instruments known as TESIS (PI Prof. Sergei Kuzin, Lebedev Institute, Moscow). ... Space Research Centre, . ...

... This story was presented at a press conference at the American Astronomical Society meeting in Atlanta, Georgia, at 10am on 7th January 2004, US Eastern Time (2am 8th January AEST). ... The animation uses data from the Anglo-Australian Telescope (at Siding Spring Observatory) and the Blanco Telescope (at Cerro Tololo Observatory), and should be credited to NASA. NASA Website: The galaxy filament was first identified using the Blanco Telescope at Cerro Tololo Interamerican Observatory: . ...

... The following changes have been initiated by user feedback: . ... SAOtng command line options can be stored as csh-style environment variables in the ~/.saotng file. ... See SAOtng Command Line Options for more information. ... See SAOtng Colormap Considerations for more information. ... We have added the ability for SAOtng to resize image frame #1 each time a new image is loaded (as did SAOimage). ... See Autoflip of Images for more information. ... See Marker Analysis in SAOtng for more...

... This project was my personal idea quite some time ago: to port XFree86 , the free and optimized X11R6 implementation to OS/2. ... XFree86/OS2 is now available as a public version 3.3.6, which does not expire and for which full source code is available. ... x.physics.usyd.edu.au Please send a mail to me with a complete URL if you have set up a ftp server or a mirror for XFree86/OS2. ... Available ported software . ... I'll still be available as the mediator between XFree86/OS2 and general XFree86. ...

... Irregular, damped ULF range magnetic pulsations occurring in connection with magnetospheric substorms are called Pi 2 pulsations (T = 40 - 150 s; Saito, 1969). ... Since the waves can be detected with little time delay over a wide range of latitude and longitude, they have been used for the ground based determination of the substorm onset time. ... Lester, M., W. J. Hughes, and H. J. Singer, Polarization patterns of Pi 2 magnetic pulsations and the substorm current wedge, J. Geophys. Res., ...

... Exposure Time Calculator (ETC) . ... ESO - Public Surveys . ... the recommended values to use for DIT, . ... Detector on-chip integration (DIT): seconds. to your chosen value - a separate page gives recommended values to use for DIT - for modes 1 and 2 below you may wish to start with the maximum recommended values as these will minimize the effect of read noise (a total object exposure of Y secs with DIT=X secs will produce Y/X lots of read noise) and give you a lower limit on the time needed. ...

... On 4 April 2005, INTAS, the International Association for the promotion of cooperation with scientists from the New Independent States(NIS) of the former Soviet Union, launched the first stage of its Open Call for Research Projects Proposals 2005-2006. With an indicative budget of ?12 million, the INTAS Open Call 2005-2006 encompasses basic and applied research with no thematic orgeographical restrictions, but excluding market-oriented technology development. ...

... 6.06.1997 . ... Credit: STS-37 Crew , NASA Explanation: Even great observatories need a boost from time to time -- including the orbiting Compton Gamma-Ray Observatory . Sparkling reflections and the bright limb of the Earth are visible in this 1991 window view of Compton's release into orbit by the crew of the Space Shuttle Atlantis. ... This reboost (Compton's second in 6 years) should allow it to continue its voyage of exploration of the distant high-energy Universe until about 2007. ...