IAU page . Commission 5 page . IAU WG on Libraries: Report October 2005 . ... Two long-time and enthusiastic members of the Working Group retired during the current triennium. Marlene Cummins, from the University of Toronto Astronomy Library, took early retirement in 2004 and Brenda Corbin, librarian of the US Naval Observatory Library for 32 years and one of the 'founding mothers' of this Working Group and instrumental in shaping its work, retired at the end of September 2005. ...

... Do you know why we have seasons on Earth? ... Even if you offer students the great activities developed by the Harvard researchers, or the great activities in ASP's teacher resource book, The Universe at Your Fingertips , your students still won't learn anything unless they work hard and think about their work. ... But none of these are worth a hoot unless they are also accompanied by hard work on students' part. ... The key to success in astronomy is the same as it is in everything else: hard work....

After a series of workplace accident involving window cleaners on ladders, the government has asked you to come up with a set of guidelines for safe ladder use. Most of the accidents occur when a worker is climbing up a ladder which is leaning against large plate glass window, and the base of the ladder slides sideways, causing the ladder to collapse. How far from the base of a window should the base of a ladder be placed to avoid slipping? ...

SAS home . ... List of SAS threads . Let us assume we are working in /home/user/my_work and have our XMM observation data files in /home/user/sasdata/ <my_obs>, where <my_obs> identifies a specific XMM observation. ... 2) Where are stored all the Calibration files? ... That is done by creating a Calibration Index File ( CIF ) which will tell our reduction processes which CCF s we need to use out of all available in SAS_CCFPATH , for the specific date of our observation data. ...

... Bad Astronomy . ... Mad Science . ... Site Info . ... Public Talks . ... Keep Bad Astronomy close to your heart, and help make me filthy rich. ... Who is this guy who calls himself "The Bad Astronomer?" ... First, yes, I am a real live astronomer (when people ask me what astronomers do, I tell them "They astronom !" ... These are emitted by powerful objects like black holes, exploding stars, and super-dense neutrons stars. ... Finally, am I really a bad astronomer? ... 2008 Phil Plait. ...

... This class is designed to be an up to date summary of the last 10-20 years of observations relevant to Cosmology. ... Theory today is bombarded by a vast array of observational data but there remains no clear and preferred model for the origin and evolution of structure in the Universe. ... The inflationary paradigm and the nature of the Dark Matter - Inflation solves a lot of problems that are inherent in the standard Big Bang Model. ... Kinds of Dark Matter and Observational Constraints . ...

... AstroAsciiData is a Python module to handle ASCII tables. ... The idea to develop this Python module emerged from the fact that ASCII tables continue to be one of the most popular and widely used data exchange formats in astronomy and probably science in general. ... To load this ASCII table, go into Python, load the AstroAsciiData module and read in the table with: . ... demo = asciidata.open('webexa.txt') . ... Users who only want to work with ASCII tables neeed no further python modules. ...

Storing and accessing the largest astronomical catalogues with the SAI CAS project S. Koposov1,2,3, O. Bartunov2, S. Karpov4 et al2. ... Why we want to build our own Catalogue Access Service The requirements for our CAS system The importance of the Database for the CAS (PostgreSQL & Q3C) The technical realization of CAS What has been already done Example of work TODO Storing and Accessing Astronomical Catalogues Existing projects CDS OpenSkyQuery CASjobs with SDSS They are all really great! ...

... index.php (1) | bbclone/ | ... To do you can use the following sample and point your browser to it. <?php define("_BBC_PAGE_NAME", "Test"); define("_BBCLONE_DIR", "bbclone/"); define("COUNTER", _BBCLONE_DIR."mark_page.php"); if (is_readable(COUNTER)) include_once(COUNTER); ?> ... Create the file "count.php" and add the following: <?php define("_BBCLONE_DIR", "/the/path/that/leads/to/bbclone/"); define("COUNTER", _BBCLONE_DIR."mark_page.php"); if (is_readable(COUNTER)) include_once(COUNTER); ?> ...

The main purpose of the Magnetospheric Yellow Pages is to provide links to space physics data servers. However, we also provide a list of magnetospheric physics Projects. Some of these project pages provide access to data and others do not. ... A good example is the ISTP Project Home Page which provides a starting point for information about ISTP but which requires some clicking to find how to actually access the data. ... Data Servers sorted by Data Type . ... Project Pages . ...

... Practical Guide for Osi Management (Open Systems Guide) . ... Recommendation X.213 provisionally approved : network service definition for open systems interconnection (OSI) for CCITT applications . ... Technical Guide to Posix : Open Systems Technology Transfer (Applications Portability Technical Guides) . ... Working Implementation Agreements for Open Systems Interconnection Protocols Part 1 Vol 2 . ... X/Open Portability Guide : Xsi System Interface and Headers Vol 2 . ...

... For the past years I have been working on the problem of synthesis of light curves of close binary systems, consisting of a normal star and a compact object (point object with fixed X-ray luminosity). ... Possible existence of a bright spot on the disk's lateral surface is taken into account. ... The last of then will be published in Gordon and Breach Publishers ( Cherepashchuk A.M., Katysheva N.A., Khruzina T.S., Shugarov S.Yu. ... Cherepashchuk A.M., Katysheva N.A., Khruzina T.S., Shugarov S.Yu. ...

... Newton's Laws . ... If object A exerts a force F on object B, . then object B exerts an equal and opposite force ?F on object A" . ... There exists a whole set of situations where two equal and opposite forces act on the same object, canceling each other so that no acceleration (or even no motion) occurs. ... It is all in Newton's third law: as your legs propel your body towards the dock, they also apply to the boat an equal force in the opposite direction, which pushes it away from the dock. ...

... To get access to the software you must be registered at the ASC RadioAstron Server "ra.asc.rssi.ru" ------------------------------------------------------ IMPORTANT: At present the software "FAKERAT" runs only under 32 bit Linux workstation in X windows with C shell script. ... All procedure runs under C shell. ... Copy all files from the given directory to your computer. ... Then, copy txt-file representing the current version of orbit to the "orbit" subdirectory located in "fakerat_07041020". ...

CALCSYM - complex evaluator . ... CALCSYM.exe and CALCSYMi.exe will allow you to obtain numeric solution for *.out file generated by both CIRSYM and MATSYM programs (computation of freqency responces, unknowns, determinants, sensitivity analysis etc.. ... Setup file name for CALCSYM is "setup.cal". ... CALCSYMi.exe will allow you to work with long double over the range from 3.4*E-4932 to 3.4*E+4932. ... To calculate, run CALCSYM.exe and enter "file_name.OUT" or click on the "ENTER" (in "OUT" case). ...

NASA JOHNSON SPACE CENTER ORAL HISTORY PROJECT BIOGRAPHICAL DATA SHEET NAME: Henry Warren "Hank" Hartsfield, Jr. Work, Air Force Institute of Technology, Wright-Patterson AFB, Dayton, OH M.S. in Engineering Science, University of Tennessee Space Institute, Knoxville, TN, 1971 PRE- NASA EXPERIENCE: United States Air Force (1955-1977) · Fighter Pilot, 53rd Tactical Fighter Squadron, Bitburg, Germany · Attended, USAF ... Johnson Space Center Oral History Project Henry W. "Hank" Hartsfield, Jr. ...

The participants have to be familiarized in advance with the site of the round during the daytime in the case the round (part of the round) organized during the night. In the case the round have a task with a telescope (except for observations with the already adjusted and guided telescope) every participant has to be familiarized with that actual telescope, on which one the participant will work during the round . ... APAO 2005 Irkutsk , IAO 2006 Bombay, APAO 2006 Vladivostok, IAO 2007 Crimea, . ...

... Cygnus X: The Inner Workings of a Nearby Star Factory . ... Credit Copyright: NASA / JPL-Caltech / Harvard-Smithsonian CfA Explanation: How do stars form? ... Visible are large bubbles of hot gas inflated by the winds of massive stars soon after they form. ... The star factory Cygnus-X spans over 600 light years, contains over a million times the mass of our Sun, and shines prominently on wide angle infrared panoramas of the night sky. ... Publications with keywords: Cygnus - star formation . ...

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The Russian Parliament will soon consider a bill that would restructure the Russian space program, 35 years after the launch оf Sputnik. ... But the legislation's most striking and controversial feature is a provision that would ban testing and deployment оf space weapons ? including anti-satellite weapons and space-based missile interceptors. ... A draft bill was written by a group of experts within the Moscow Space Club, several of whom now work on space issues with the Russian Parliament. ...