... 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. ...

... Description of e-Mail Commands . Abstract and Paper preparation for Put . ... Physics hep-th @ xxx.lanl.gov High Energy Physics - Theory, 8/91 hep-lat @ xxx.lanl.gov High Energy Physics - Lattice, 2/92 hep-ph @ xxx.lanl.gov High Energy Physics - Phenomenology, 3/92 cond-mat @ xxx.lanl.gov Condensed Matter, 4/92 astro-ph @ xxx.lanl.gov Astrophysics, 4/92 gr-qc @ xxx.lanl.gov General Relativity Quantum Cosmology, 7/92 nucl-th @ xxx.lanl.gov Nuclear Theory, 10/92 chem-ph @ ...

... A prominent politician was recently walking past a block of apartments in Civic when they were narrowly missed by a falling flower pot. ... Nobody saw who dropped the flowerpot, or where it came from. ... The impact of the flowerpot was, however, caught on a security camera. ... The flowerpot is clearly visible in two consecutive frames from the security camera. ... In the first frame, you estimate that the pot is 1.2 m 2cm above the pavement, while in the second frame the height is 16 2cm. ...

Working in Space . ... Credit Copyright: STS-103 Crew , NASA Explanation: High above planet Earth, a human helps an ailing machine. The machine, in this potentially touching story, is the Hubble Space Telescope , which is not in the picture. The human is Astronaut Steven L. Smith , and he is seen above retrieving a power tool from the handrail of the Remote Manipulator System before resuming work on HST in 1999 December. ... NASA Web Site Statements, Warnings, and Disclaimers . ...

... 125, 1997 Gareth Hunt and H. E. Payne, eds. An ExpectTk/Perl Graphical User Interface to the Revision Control System (RCS) R. L. Williamson I I Space Telescope Science Institute, Baltimore, MD 21218, E-mail: ramon@stsci.edu Abstract. In order to track changes in the TABLES/STSDAS code, as well as for Quality Assurance and to simplify the code release process, the GNU Revision Control System (RCS) was chosen as the method of revision control. ... RCS Graphical User Interface. ...

Astronotes Armagh Planetarium's Stellar Blog! ... Planets . ... Alien Life . ... Space Flight . ... Prof. Pinklepot and the Aliens (Image credit: D-Signs and Displays ) . ... A sing-song concludes our visit to Planet Alien and the time-machine begins to start up again.€а We make our way back to Planet Earth and Professor Pinklepot thanks us for coming on this massive journey with him.€а The images used during the fly through space are stunning and we get a real sense of moving through the Cosmos. ...

... It runs on unix, MacOS and possibly on Windows. ... On MacOS or Windows, double-click TUI. If MacOS complains that the application is unsigned then right-click TUI and select Open. ... If you have never run TUI before, set up your preferences before proceeding (for help on any item, right-click on the control and select Help from the menu that appears): . ... To save your window positions and remember which windows to open at startup, select Save Window Positions from the TUI menu. ...

The Space Shuttle Discovery is pictured here docked to the Destiny laboratory of the International Space Station. It's going to be hard to top this mission," NASA Administrator Michael Griffin said. ... The crew got phone calls from two world leaders. ... Commander Eileen Collins and the crew of the STS-114 mission, Jim Kelly, Charlie Camarda, Wendy Lawrence, Steve Robinson, Andy Thomas and Soichi Noguchi of Japan, landed at Edwards Air Force Base, Calif., at 7:11 a.m. CDT on Aug. ...

... program; Dell PCs: "Plug and Play Configuration Error", clarity on telling BIOS if your OS is PnP, "Intro to PnP" had truncated sentence, routing IRQs on PCI clarified, Change of emphasis in entire doc: Linux is now a PnP OS (sort of), PCI has almost replaced ISA v1.04 March 2002 finding a device driver, PCI serial ports, v1.04 March 2002 finding a device driver, PCI serial ports, alias example in modules.conf, PnP needed for linmodems v1.03 August 2001: error messages, boot-prompt parameters . ...

... The files in this directory are for installing the latest version 3.0.0 of AstroImageJ on Linux, Windows, and Mac operating systems. ... If you have Java already installed on your system (32-bit or 64-bit), download the following version of AstroImageJ that does not include Java embedded in installation. ... To install AstroImageJ on a 64-bit Windows machine, install the following file which includes the Java 7 64-bit runtime environment ( jre ). ... Run AIJ by double-clicking AstroImageJ.exe. ...

... 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. ...

... Events . ... Samara region . SSAU History . SSAU roadmap . ... Student clubs . ... Mobile complex of the regional clinical blood transfusion station worked in SSAU for two days near the bust of Korolev. This year's event was attended by 167 SSAU students and staff. ... Also I would like to note that our volunteers themselves took part in the campaign and donated blood,"- said the Head of SSAU Centre on Facilitation of Students Health Protection Tatyana Morozova. ... e-mail: ssau@ssau.ru . ...

In this chapter we will consider two very simple but useful Web agents that I have written on Actor Prolog for my own needs. ... Let us start the Web agent. Fig. ... Start of the Web agent. The Context diagram consists of three blocks: "Logic Programming Sites", "Edit", and "Check". ... Some Web sites that are linked with the logic programming and Prolog are listed in the pulldown list (these addresses are transferred to the "Edit" block from the "Logic Programming Sites" block). ...

So what is "Code Blue" and what does it mean? It's no great secret that several years ago we had the mirror re-coated on the 31" Blue Beast at Warren Rupp Observatory, and within a few short weeks, portions of the coating began to fail. ... These are the fellows that showed up at the Observatory on February 20th to help with the gargantuan and nail-biting task of getting mirror out of the telescope safely, out of the cell safely, into the box safely, and put into the truck safely. ...

... Make a new empty directory; you'll need about 6 megabytes; . ... Customize "host.html" as described below (optional); . ... Send some mail to me ( billa@znet.com ) with the URL of your new copy so I can update the mirror list; also let me know if you would like to receive email notifications of future updates. ... Several of the mirror sites are using the "mirror" package to keep their copies of TNP up to date automatically instead of waiting for me to send these notices. ... Mirrors .. ...

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The School Museum of History of Russian Deaf-and-Dumb Pedagogy . Museum's certificate . By the year 1988 Elena Komarova, the teacher of the Russian language and Literature, with some help from other teachers managed to organise the first exposition of the museum, the grand opening of which took place on the 25th anniversary of the school's movement to a new building. ... The first hall is dedicated to the history of Russian deaf-and-dumb pedagogy. ... Second Hall . ... Russian version ...

SITE 2010 Comprehensive Characterization of Astronomical Sites Kislovodsk, Russia, 49 October 2010 Conference Summary Marc S. Sarazin*a a European Southern Observatory, Garching, Germany Abstract The main topics discussed during the Site 2010 conference are outlined and the outcome is described. Keywords: Astronomical Site testing, precipitable water vapor, atmospheric turbulence, cloudiness, seeing 1. ... Site surveys for National observatory projects in China, India, and Iran benefit from this. ...

... Space flight . ... Simulators . ... Space camp . Space Hotel . ... Virtual reality-based stand for ISS crew training is used for cosmonauts pre-training preparation at different stages of training for the space flight. ... At present cosmonauts and astronauts can work both with the SM and FGB images independently and having them in mated state. ... Info: Industry news On-line Data Company ATLAS news Events We in press Contact . Copyright 2000-2016 ATLAS Aerospace . ...

... This site requires Javascript to function correctly. ... Don't rush to buy a telescope - As Alan MacRobert of Sky & Telescope Magazine says, 'To put a telescope to rewarding use, you first need to know the constellations as seen with the naked eye, be able to find things among them with sky charts, know something of what a telescope will and will not do, and know enough about the objects you're seeking to recognize and appreciate them.' ... ASRAS can help you choose the telescope that's right for...