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The Astronomy Shop . ... AstroGuide | Calendar | ... 12 items . ... Want to add your company's astronomy related item to this store? Step 1 . Create a 150 x 99 pixel image. ... Write a good description of your product . ... Send the image and description to john@astronomy.net . ... www.astronomy.net . About Astronomy Net | ... Unless otherwise specified, web site content Copyright 1994-2016 John Huggins All Rights Reserved . dbHTML," "AstroGuide," "ASTRONOMY.NET" & "VA.NET" . ...

Deliverance from the Overlords of Calendar Inefficiency During the first few years of HST Operations, the Calendar Builders were enslaved by the Science Planning Branch (SPB) to feed the hungry spacecraft with a timeline of observations every week. ... Orderforms contained only a small subset of the hundreds of observations, a.k.a. Scheduling Units (SUs), that could schedule on a given calendar, and each SU had a priority rating between 1-100 based upon... apparently (INT(RND(1) * 100) + 1. ...

... This paper describes the main algorithms used by the Einstein Level One processing to create the exposure masks and the background maps for Einstein IPC images, and how these algorithms were recreated in the IRAF environment. Our goal was to recreate the algorithms used by the Level One Processing to create exposure masks and background maps for Einstein Image Proportional Counter (IPC) data (cf. sections 2.5 and 2.7 of Harnden et al. ...

... Subscribe Contact Site Map . ... ESO, the European Southern Observatory . ... VLT/Paranal . ... Survey Telescopes . ... ESO's Very Large Telescope has been used to create the first ever map of the weather on the surface of the nearest brown dwarf to Earth. An international team has made a chart of the dark and light features on WISE J104915.57-531906.1B, which is informally known as Luhman 16B and is one of two recently discovered brown dwarfs forming a pair only six light-years from the Sun. ...

... Table files like the ones created in the section on imcnts can be displayed, printed and manipulated using the tasks contained in the stsdas.ttools package. ... sp> tables # Load the relevant package ta> tprint rp90_cnt prpar=yes # .tab extension assumed # the hidden parameter prpar is set to display the header # as well as the data ta> tprint rp90_cnt # Displays only the data info ta> tprint rp90_cnt prdata- prpar+ # Displays only the header info ta> tprint rp90_cnt prparam=yes | ...

... Each day a different image or photograph of our fascinating universe is featured, along with a brief explanation written by a professional astronomer. 2000 February 29 . Julius Caesar and Leap Days . ... In 46 BC, Julius Caesar , pictured above in a self-decreed minted coin, created a calendar system that added one leap day every four years. ... That makes today the first leap day for a centurial year since year 1600 and the second such leap day of the Gregorian Calendar. ... About APOD | ...

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