... Next: The PROS Big Up: Software Systems Previous: Data Reduction Software . ... The srcinten task provides PROS users with a tool to compute count rates for point sources in the ROSAT High Resolution Imager (HRI). ... Corrected upper limits are cited at locations where the count rate falls below the source detection threshold. ... Srcinten is a new PROS task that computes and applies the above correction factors to the net counts in a user-specified aperture. ...

... This is because, while one always tries and plans that such an exercise will never be needed, it often proves to be a very useful process to have undertaken, as it points out what needs to be better documented, recorded, and what tools and software are really needed for events like this. ... There was/is little quantitative data in the night logs, which is not very surprizing, given their nature (i.e. a verbal description of the night's activities. ... The effeciency of log2asc needs to be improved....

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CFITSIO Interface Library CFITSIO is a library of ANSI C routines for reading and writing FITS format data files. ... The CFITSIO library is built on Unix systems by typing: > ./configure [--prefix=/target/installation/path] > make (or 'make shared') > make install (this step is optional) at the operating system prompt. The configure command customizes the Makefile for the particular system, then the `make' command compiles the source files and builds the library. ...

Blackholes2 Forum Message . Forums: . ... Re: Cahill--being Politely Ignored . ... Posted by Richard Ruquist on May 3, 2004 12:31:45 UTC . ... As far as I can tell, he is being politely ignored. ... I referred to both Cahill and later to Moffat's work on the physics forum. ... Cahill Links - wandaqueen - May 8, 2004 - 12:43 UTC . ... www.astronomy.net . ... Forum posts are Copyright their authors as specified in the heading above the post. "dbHTML," "AstroGuide," "ASTRONOMY.NET" & "VA.NET" . ...

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As of Version 1.3, the Apache HTTP Server includes a port to (non-ASCII) mainframe machines which use the EBCDIC character set as their native codeset. ... On an EBCDIC based system, HTML files and other text files are usually saved encoded in the native EBCDIC code set, while image files and other binary data are stored with identical encoding as on ASCII based machines. ... In the case of text files of course, provisions must be made so that EBCDIC documents are always served in ASCII) . ...

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... I am involved in Project Astro, a program to bring astronomers into public schools to assist with teaching students about science and astronomy. ... While there are all sorts of scale model of the Solar System type exercises ( Mitchell Charity's page has a good listing of what's available), none were really tailored towards discovering the spatial relationships of the planets, and in a way that could be done at night as part of a Star Party. ...

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... In this case, the main vortex in the Benard cell is decomposed into smaller ones as a result of ten perioddoubling bifurcations. It is shown that the resulting turbulence is coherent and determinate; the fractal character (local selfsimilarity) of its spectrum is found. ... It is shown that the real atmospheric turbulence is the result of mixing of different coherent structures. ... COHERENT STRUCTURE IN A CLOSED ROOM The scheme of measurements in the LSVT spectrograph pavilion is shown in Fig. ...