Astronotes Armagh Planetarium's Stellar Blog! ... Space Flight . ... Mixing the theme of space and Christmas we have had Santa giving present to aliens, Christmas trees blasting off into space, reindeers landing on the Moon and even Santa getting a brand new rocket sleigh! ... Foundation Level Winner: Benjamin Ritchie тАУ Portaferry Integrated Primary School . ... Enniskillen Integrated Primary School, Drumcoo . ... Omagh Integrated Primary School . ... Portaferry Integrated Primary School . ...

For the Australian ­ 7 June 2014 ­ Brian P Schmidt Along with Education and Infrastructure, Investing in Research and Development is the key way in which Governments invest in the long-term future prosperity of the country. ... This money is distributed to the higher education sector through a complicated set of government grants for research and student fees. ... In theory, deregulation of student fees will allow universities to differentiate on the type of education they provide. ...

What follows is a brief list of benchmarks and discoveries that shaped our ideas on atoms and nuclei. ... Discovery of electrons . ... Comparing this to Faraday's results, one could get " Avogadro's number ", the number of (say) hydrogen atoms in one gram of hydrogen--an enormously large number. ... Similarly, energized atoms are only allowed to exist in one of a number of energy levels. ... By the way, Avogadro's number is 602,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 (6.02 10 23 ) molecules in 1 gr hydrogen. ...

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There are six possible ways of object description: . a) by number(s) . ... d) by list . e) by orbital elements . ... They should be introduced as year, month, day with tenth (e.g. 20021104.1). d) Computations are performed for all objects listed in the file whose path and name should be introduced into assigned data field. ... On pressing Edit file button user has a possibility to look through the list of object elements or their coordinates and velocities to add or to change it. ...

... According to the big bang theory, huge amounts of energy were released, giving rise to matter, antimatter and dark matter. ... The Big Bang Theory has enabled scientists to make certain predictions. ... These particles are the building blocks of matter, antimatter and dark matter. ... This could theoretically happen if the hydrogen was shockheated to over 100000 C. The Big Bang Theory is only a theory and so there is no concrete evidence to suggest that it is entirely correct. ...

... Hale-Bopp: Climbing Into Southern Skies . ... Fighting the glow of the setting sun and the city lights of Cape Town, South Africa, comet Hale-Bopp is just visible near the center of this panoramic view - photographed on May 3rd. Hale-Bopp's Fickle Ion Tail . ... Apollo 15's Home on the Moon . ... This enhanced composite image detailing structure in the coma and dust tail of Hale-Bopp was recorded May 5 - one day before the comet's passage from north to south across the plane of Earth's orbit. ...

... The main periodicity in the Sun 's activity is the 11-year cycle called the solar cycle. ... During the cycle, changes occur in the Sun's internal magnetic field and in the surface disturbance level. ... At the beginning of a cycle the solar magnetic field resembles a dipole which axis is aligned with Sun's rotation axis. ... The sunspot number - and Sun's activity - is at maximum in the middle of a cycle, when the Sun's internal magnetic field is most chaotic. ... Space Physics Text Book of Oulu ...

... xxxxL#.html for the spread sheet application and . xxxxL#.gif for the graphing or whiteboard applications. where xxxx is the last 4 digits of your SS# and L# is the number of the lab exercise under the homework area on the main course page. So if the last 4 digits of your SS# were 4561 then for the first lab you would name the file: . ... For the spreadsheet application you can look at the file that you created. ... http://jersey.uoregon.edu/~crew/spsheet/4561L1.html (for example) . ...

... Astronomy for Kids . ... Since the discovery of the "Pillars of Creation," what changes have occurred within them and the surrounding area? ... The Hubble Space Telescope s iconic image of the Eagle Nebula s Pillars of Creation heralded the instrument s rebirth in 1995 and showed the public just how incredible astrophotography could be above Earth s atmosphere. ... Get instant access to subscriber content on Astronomy.com! ... If you are already registered on Astronomy.com, please log in below. ...

Stellarium 0.12.3 . ... Classes . ... LabelMgr Class Reference . ... intљ . labelObject (const QString &text, const QString &objectName, bool visible=true, float fontSize=14, const QString &fontColor="#999999", const QString &side="E", double labelDistance=-1.0, const QString &style="TextOnly") . ... labelScreen (const QString &text, int x, int y, bool visible=true, float fontSize=14, const QString &fontColor="#999999") . ... setLabelText (int id, const QString &newText) . ... virtual voidљ . ...

... This year SSAU provides 1429 state-funded places for admission in all kinds and directions of educational programs. ... In addition, SSAU Admission Committee notes the substantial increase in interest from the foreign applicants this year. The number of applications from foreign countries has already surpassed last year's totals - 76 applications. Based on the experience of admission campaigns of previous years, SSAU expects summer 2014 to enrol about 150 foreign students in the university. ...

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... start : ranking . ... SAI VO Projects . ... Help on Wiki search . ... Ranking search results ====== ==== tf-idf ==== code CREATE OR REPLACE FUNCTION my_rank (tsvector, tsquery, int ) RETURNS float AS $$ use List::Util qw(min max); my ($string, $ query ) = @_; my $maxpos = 0; # Parse tsvector, taking into account positional information foreach (split / /, $string){ if(/^'(\w+)'(:([0-9,]+))?$/){ foreach(split /,/, $3){ $ vector {$_} = $1; $maxpos = max($maxpos, $_); } } } my @ vector = map {$ ...

... ACQMODE Acquisition mode AIRMASS Air mass for current object observation BIASSEC OVERSCAN AREA BITPIX Number of bits per data pixel BSCALE Default scaling factor: REAL = TAPE*BSCALE + BZERO BZERO Offset data range to that of unsigned short CALIB Calibration CCD-TEMP CCD temperature at start of exposure in C COMMENT Comment text DATATYPE Data type DATE File creation date (YYYY-MM-DDThh:mm:ss UTC) DATE-OBS YYYY-MM-DD observation start date, UT DEC OBJECT DEC, deg:arcmin ...

... Exposure Time Calculator (ETC) . Survey processing . ... VISTA is a 4-m class wide field survey telescope for the southern hemisphere, equipped with a near infrared camera (1.65 degree diameter field of view at VISTA's nominal pixel size) containing 67 million pixels of mean size 0.34 arcsec and available broad band filters at Z,Y,J,H,K s and a narrow band filter at 1.18 micron. A wide field visible camera, if constructed, could also be used on VISTA. ... Tile . ... ESO VISTA Public Surveys . ...

... This program was created for correlating chosen regions in the series of fts images. ... Chosen regions' . ... In this section the program counts the integral for each region of the grid for each image. ... As a matter of fact, the integral is total brightness of the region and it is counted by 'int_tabulated' IDL function. ... In addition, the program will show the count of the regions which correlate with the corresponding region (the brighter region means the bigger count) and its contour. ...

... The Mosaic Data Capture Agent (DCA) plays a central role in connecting the raw data stream from the NOAO CCD Mosaic controller system to the rest of the data handling system (DHS). ... The major subsystems of the DCA at present are the message bus interface, an event loop and event handlers for processing message requests, a distributed shared object implementation, a keyword database system, the TCL interpreter, and a TCL­based keyword translation module. ...

... ISC Kosmotras . ... Comments, Opinions Publications Dnepr Program . Dnepr launch record 17 August 2011. ... Dnepr Cluster Mission 2013 19 June 2014. Dnepr Cluster Mission 2014 6 November 2014. ... On June 28, 2007, a converted SS-18 rocket commercially known as Dnepr successfully launched Genesis-2 satellite into its target 550 km orbit inclined 64.5 degrees. ... Dnepr Program operations are under control of the Federal Space Agency of Russia and National Space Agency of the Ukraine. ...

... To save time, I will only provide ephemerides in 2000 coordinates. ... Note: most the orbital elements used to create these ephemerides were obtained from the International Astronomical Union Circulars (IAUCs), Minor Planet Circulars (MPCs) or the ICQ Comet Handbook. ... The following 1-day ephemeris (March 1, 1997 - October 1, 1997) is from Donald Yeomans of JPL and is based on Reference Orbit #55 (March 4, 1997). 2000 coordinates (March - September, 1997) [3/4/97] . ... Epoch: 1997 Feb. 1.0 . ...