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Recent/forthcoming meetings/events/launches :
Meetings and Event (at NASCOM), Space Calendar (at JPL)
NASA's Missions Highlights (Launch schedule), ESA - Launchers Home, Catalogue of ISAS Missions

• AGU fall meeting 2009 : December 14-18, San Francisco, CA
  Deadlines : September 3 for abstract submission, November 12 for discounted registration
• launch(es) : SDO (to be launched on February 3, 2010)
• DST : March 8 - Nov. 1
• Total solar eclipse(s) : Jul. 11, 2010, Jul. 22, 2009, Aug. 1, 2008

Links

• research-related
  • ADS Abstract Service
    ApJ, JGR-Space Physics, GRL, Solar Physics, A&A(at Springer and at EDP), Pub.Astro.Soc.Japan, JASTP, Adv.Sp.Res. ; J.Comp.Phys., SIAM (Soc.Indust.Appl.Math) Journals online, Phys.Rev.Lett. ; Kluwer, Elsevier Science, Springer
  • AGU, AAS / SPD, Astro. Soc. Japan ; SolarNews, SPA newsletter, Tennet ;
  • NASA Science ; The Very Latest SOHO Images (real time, gif anim.), Hinode's latest images / quick-look, STERO today' Image, ACE real time plot; LMSAL forecasts, SolarMonitor.org, Spaceweather.com ; other space weather-related sites at NOAA/SEC(spaceweather.gov), NICT,Japan, and ESA
  • Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) ;
    Helioseismic and Magnetic Imager (HMI), Atmospheric Imaging Assembly (AIA), EUV Variability Experiment (EVE)
  • The Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO) ;
    MDI Data Services (at Stanford), EIT (at NASCOM), LASCO CME catalog (at NASA/GSFC/CDAW), UVCS, LASCO
  • Hinode/Solar-B at (ISAS, NAOJ, and NASA), data center at ISAS/DARTS and LMSAL
  • STEREO (gsfc's page), Ulysses (NASA/JPL's page), Yohkoh SXT (LMSAL's page), TRACE (LMSAL's page), Wind, ACE (ACE Real Time Solar Wind), RHESSI, SMEI NSO-AFRL's page and UCSD/CASS's page, IBEX ; THEMIS, GOES
  • Stanford Solar Observatories Group ;
    Wilcox Solar Observatory (WSO) (Photospheric Field Synoptic Charts, Source Surface Synoptic Charts),
    Synoptic Sun, Virtual Solar Observatory, Stanford SOLAR Center
  • NASA ;
    NAS, ARC, GSFC, JPL ; CDAWeb (Coordinated Data Analysis Web) NSSDC (of GSFC), NSSDC Master Catalog, Solar Data Analysis Center (of GSFC), OMNIWeb, COHOWeb, trajectories of spacecraft, planets and comets ; Solar Geophysical Data (SGD) ; CCMC
  • MLSO, Global High-Resolution H-alpha Network (NJIT), Mt. Wilson Solar Tower (UCLA), National Solar Observatory (SOLIS, SOLIS Full-disk Images, Vacuum Telescope data archives, ATST), HAO, NOAO , Institute for Solar Physics, Sweden
  • Interplanetary radio scintillation (IPS, STEL/Nagoya Univ., Japan), Nobeyama Radioheliograph, Japan, National Radio Astronomy Observatory, National Centre for Radio Astrophys., India
  • ISAS, ESA, Max-Planck Gesellschaft ;
    MPI für Sonnensystemforschung, Indian Institute of Astrophysics, PPARC's old page at Science and Technology Facilities Council ; Solar and Plasma Astrophysics Division of National Astronomical Observatory of Japan, STEL of Nagoya University, Kwasan and Hida Observatories (Kyoto Univ.)
  • PSI, LMSAL (sungate), NOAA/SEC, NRL/Space Sci. Div. ;
  • LEIF.org;
  • NSF
  • CISM, LWS (ILWS), MURI, CAWSES, IHY 2007
  • CHIANTI, SolarSoft(at LMSAL), IDL (at ittvis), IRAF project (at NOAO), FITS Support (at GSFC), HDFgroup.org, Vis5d,
    Netpbm (program directory), Image Magick (command line options), AniS,
    intel fortran compiler doc., gfortran (wiki), Numerical Recipes, OpenMP.org, Message Passing Interface Forum,
    htmlcodetutorial.com, html tools at w3.org (html checker),
  • My old web page at STELab
• local info. etc.
  • Stanford top page, Marguerite (time table etc. and live service map), eateries, bookstore
  • local map (maps.google), local weather (wunderground)
  • 551.org, VTA (line 22, 522), Caltrain (timetable), MUNI, BART, SamTrans
• others
  • Kyodo, Yomiuri, allatanys, NHK ; LIFE.com; bloomberg, CNN ; Day in pictures at BBC ; Photo of the day at National Geographic
  • earthquake info. at JMA and USGS (bay area)
  • wikipedia
  • yahoo.com, msn, google (language tools)
  • Sanseido web dictionary

Memo and miscellaneous

• year
  2009=M142/T98/S84/H21, 2000=S75/H12, 1989=S64/H01, 1988=S63, 1926=M59/T15/S01, 1912=M45/T01
Rat, Ox(2009), Tiger, Hare, Dragon, Snake, Horse, Sheep, Monkey, Rooster, Dog, and Pig

• DST
  2009 : March 8th - Nov. 1st
2008 : March 9th - Nov. 2nd
2007 : March 11th - Nov. 4th

• units and metric system : beautiful mks/cgs and awful ....
  1 pound = 453.59 g
1 gallon = 3.7854 l = 231 cubic inches ; 1 pint = 1/8 gallon = 473.2 ml
1 inch = 2.54 cm ; 1 foot = 30.48 cm = 12 inches ; 1 yard = 0.9144 m = 3 feet = 36 inches ;
1 mile = 1609.344 m = 8 furlongs ; 1 furlong = 220 yards = 660 feet = 201.168 m
C=(F-32)/1.8, F=C*1.8+32 ; -17.8C=0F, 0C=32F, 10C=50F, 20C=68F, 30C=86F, 37.7C=100F
170 cm = 5 ft. 7 in. ; 65 kg = 143.3 pounds
1 mile/gal. = 0.425 km/l ; 30 mpg = 12.75km/l
1 mile/hour = 0.447 m/s ; 30 mph = 13.4 m/s = 48.28 km/s
1 inch Hg = 3386.4 Pa ; 30 inHg = 1013.2 hPa

• some items at google finance
  • currency conversion
    US Dollar, Euro, British Pound in Japanese Yen
Euro, British Pound, Canadian Dollar, Chinese Yuan(renminbi), Indian Rupee in USD
USD in Euro, British Pound, Canadian Dollar, Chinese Yuan(renminbi), Indian Rupee
  • stock
    Dow Jones Industrial Ave., S&P500 ; Nikkei 255
• travel etc.
  • American, United, Northwest, SouthWest, JetBlue, ANA, JAL ; SFO, SJC, OAK ; SuperShuttle ; Expedia, Orbitz, OneTravel
  • Hertz, Alamo, National ; Yahoo Driving Directions
  • Amtrak, Greyhound ; travel.state.gov, National Park Service
  • airport-codes :
    SFO=San Francisco, SJC=San Jose, LAX=Los Angeles, SAN=San Diego, LAS=Las Vegas, SEA=Seattle/Tacoma, YVR=Vancouver, PHX=Phoenix, DEN=Denver, ORD=O'Hare/Chicago, IAD=Dulles/D.C., EWR=Newark, JFK=J.F.K./New York, BOS=Boston ; NRT=Narita/Tokyo-Chiba, HND=Haneda/Tokyo, NGO=Nagoya, KIX=Kansai/Osaka, ITM=Itami/Osaka-Hyogo, FUK=Fukuoka, KOJ=Kagoshima ; ICN=Seoul/Incheon, PEK=Beijing, DEL=Indira Gandhi/New Delhi, BOM=Mumbai(Bombay), FRA=Frankfurt, LHR=Heathrow/London

• States and territories quarters ; 49 Denver(*) and 1 Philadelphia(#) of 51 : US Mint
  *Delaware, *Pennsylvania, *New Jersey, *Georgia, *Connecticut
*Massachusetts, *Maryland, *South Carolina, *New Hampshire, *Virginia
*New York, *North Carolina, *Rhode Island, *Vermont, *Kentucky
*Tennessee, *Ohio, *Louisiana, *Indiana, *Mississippi
*Illinois, *Alabama, *Maine, *Missouri, *Arkansas
*Michigan, *Florida, *Texas, *Iowa, *Wisconsin
*California, *Minnesota, *Oregon , *Kansas, *West Virginia
*Nevada, *Nebraska, *Colorado, North *Dakota, #South Dakota
*Montana, *Washington, *Idaho, *Wyoming, *Utah
*Oklahoma, *New Mexico, *Arizona, *Alaska, Hawaii
*D.C., / Puerto Rico, Guam, Samoa, Virgin Islands, Mariana

• other links.
  • Consulate General of Japan in San Francisco
  • Visa Info. (DoS), links to U.S. Embassies and Consulates (U.S. Embassy in Tokyo, U.S. Consulate General in Osaka/Kobe)
  • California Dept. of Motor Vehicles
  • IRS, California Franchise Tax Board

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Last major modification: October, 2007
© K. Hayashi