IV International Astronomy Olympiad . ... Text of these problems is available also . ... To solve every problem you may use constants and well-known values you know by heart. ... The apparent diameter of the Moon, as seen from the Earth, is 31'. ... Can you observe a star with magnitude . ... Consider the stars as black bodies. ... Estimate the diameter of a black hole constructed using this patent from a ship with the mass of 5000 tn (1 tn = 1000 kg). ... What stars would you observe this nigth? ...

The HyperText Markup Language (HTML) is composed of a set of elements that define a document and guide its display. This document presents a concise reference guide to Version 1 of HTML, listing almost all of the Version 1 elements, and giving a brief description of each one. ... An HTML element may include a name, some attributes and some text or hypertext, and will appear in an HTML document as . ... a href="argument"> text </a> An HTML document is composed of a single element: . html> . ...

Using XPA remotely ================== XPA starts by default using network communication with access control. ... Copy and append id_dsa.pub to $HOME/.ssh/authorized_keys on the system you are connecting to. ... If you are connecting from an observer's computer to a telescope computer that is not on a local area network, you may also need to change the firewall settings to enable SSH. ... The ssh command forward the port 5901 on your local computer to the same port on the telescope computer. ...

Next: Running CONSTRICTOR Up: How to use CONSTRICTOR Previous: Parameters Contents . ... OutputBeam.BiasMod(07:12) = 1, 7, 10, 8, 3, 5 OutputBeam.StationID(01:04) = 1, 3, 4, 6 OutputBeam.StationID(05:08) = 1, 2, 4, 5 OutputBeam.Wavelength (01:04) = 849.4e-9, 820.9e-9, 793.9e-9, 768.3e-9 OutputBeam.Wavelength (05:08) = 744.2e-9, 722.9e-9, 701.5e-9, 683.1e-9 OutputBeam.Wavelength (09:12) = 664.6e-9, 648.9e-9, 617.7e-9, 603.5e-9 OutputBeam.Wavelength (13:16) = 590.7e-9, 577.9e-9, 566.5e-9, 556.6e-9 ...

... 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 .. ...

... SSAU History . ... The first Russian symposium on nanosatellites RusNanoSat-2015 will take place in Samara State Aerospace University from June 2 to June 4. ... The first SSAU nanosatellite SamSat-218 (the first Russian students nanosatellite) will be sent into orbit in the first launch campaign from the space-launch complex Vostochniy, together with a small spacecraft Aist-2 . ... The first Russian symposium on nanosatellite RusNanoSat-2015 will be attended by the leading Russian and foreign . ...

Next: The Portable-CGS4DR Graphical User Interface . ... 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. ... A survey of the Revision Control software available led to the choice of the GNU Revision Control System (RCS) as the method of revision control. ... The part of the system that the user sees is the Graphical User Interface. ...

... General Information . ... The French-Russian Poncelet Laboratory organizes a conference on "Global fields", October 25-28, 2011, to take place at the Independent University of Moscow. ... It involves many research areas such as analytic number theory, algebraic number theory, arithmetic geometry or algebraic geometry, and it has got many applications to very concrete problems, for example to problems coming from information theory (coding theory and cryptography). ... Poncelet Laboratory home page ....

... This experiment makes use of a novel an sophisticated CCD imaging design whereby by 4 2048x2048 detectors are butted together to form a single 4096x4096 pixel detector system. ... Figure 4 (1.1 Megs) shows an example image from one of the LMC fields that is searched for gravitational microlensing amplification of stellar brightness. ... Figure 5 (124 Kbytes) shows an image of NGC 253, taken with this camera and a 320x512 RCA CCD which has 30 micron size pixels. ... Page 5 . ...

... Of course, the scope of chaos is vast, and we do not dare to cover it all. ... He will highly appreciate your help in compiling the list of URLs to such scientific groups and institutions. http://www.cplire.ru/win/InformChaosLab/ - InformChaos Lab (Moscow) . http://chaos.ssu.runnet.ru/ - Laboratory of Nonlinear Dynamics at Saratov State University (Saratov) . ... http://optics.npi.msu.su/sci/chaos.html - Chaos in laser systems . ... http://www.chaotic.com - Randle, Inc. ... Time: 2-6 July, 2001 . ...

grdedit - Modifying the header in a 2-D grdfile grdedit grdfile [ -A ] [ -D xunit / yunit / zunit / scale / offset / title / remark ] [ -R west / east / south / north [ r ] ] [ -S ] grdedit reads the header information in a binary 2-D grdfile and replaces the information with values provided on the command line [if any]. ... Older gridfiles (i.e., created prior to GMT 3.1) often had excessive slop in x _ inc , y _ inc and an adjustment is necessary. Newer files are created correctly. ...

... VaST is a software tool for finding variable objects on a series of astronomical images. ... VaST performs object detection and aperture photometry using SExtractor on each image, cross-matches lists of detected stars, performs magnitude calibration with respect to the first (reference) image and constructs a lightcurve for each object. ... VaST FITS image viewer ./pgfv . ... Part I" PZP, vol. ... K. V. Sokolovsky, S. A. Korotkiy; "New Variable Stars Discovered by the NMW Survey" PZP, vol. ...