... New Eyes for the Hubble Space Telescope . ... Comet Hale-Bopp and the Dumbbell Nebula . ... Here Comet Hale-Bopp was photographed on February 11th superposed nearly in front of the picturesque Dumbbell Nebula, visible on the upper right. Mizar Binary Star . ... Betelgeuse (sounds a lot like "beetle juice"), a red supergiant star about 600 light years distant, is seen in this Hubble Space Telescope image -- the first direct picture of the surface of a star other than the Sun. ... First page ] Prev. ...

This diagram illustrates a second example of formatting an XML document. Five lines of text are displayed, all the same color. ... The second is the author's name and is in italics. ... The lines are: Fredrick the Great meets Bach Johann Nikolaus Forkel One evening, just as he was getting his flute ready and his musicians were assembled, an officer brought him a list of the strangers who had arrived. ...

MIR ORBITAL COMPLEX . ... PROGRESS M1-5 CARGO VEHICLE . ... The Progress M1-5 transport cargo vehicle launched on 24 January 2001 from Baikonur Cosmodrome following the completion of a three-day autonomous flight in a near-earth orbit to the MIR Orbital Complex, docked to it on the Kvant module side. ... At 7 hours 28 minutes 42 seconds Moscow Time the Progress M1-5 transport cargo vehicle-tanker was launched to the MIR Orbital Complex. photo-report . ... Official WEB-site of S.P.Korolev RSC Energia . ...

... SUN MOON MERCURY VENUS MARS, JUPITER SATURN . Sun . ... The Sun's Heartbeat . ... Can a 0.2-second pulse from a magnetar put out as much energy as the Sun does in 250,000 years? ... A giant magnetar flare is incredibly bright and emits as much radiation energy as the Sun does in hundreds of thousands of years. Get instant access to subscriber content on Astronomy.com! ... Much more! ... If you are already registered on Astronomy.com, please log in below. ...

... The Wingaersheek Observatory and Telescope . Mario Motta and Scott Milligan . ... For the May meeting I was hoping to show a completed telescope, but it always takes twice as much time to make over 400 parts than you think. ... A new design that has near zero aberrations (no Newtonian coma, for example), made from all spherical surfaces, and would help me build the optics, including fabricating the main mirror. ... Other Monthly Meetings . ... Copyright (c) Amateur Telescope Makers of Boston, Inc. ...

New NexStar GPS Commands Mike Swanson swanson.michael@usa.net http://www.angelfire.com/ns/nexstar Tracking Rate Commands 1. ... The tracking rate returns to the hand control default (usually sidereal) after any of the following: after approximately 20 seconds with no action from the PC or the user after pressing any of the arrow buttons on the hand control To prevent this automatic return to default tracking, you must set the tracking mode to Off prior to issuing a new tracking rate command. ...

... Bojan Nikolic web pages home . ... As an exercise to put through the new InMin library through its paces, I have looked recently at applying Nested Sampling ( Skilling2006 ) algorithm to the fitting of star-formation history as function of redshift. ... The data I used are from Figure 1 of Yuksel08 but I use only the grey data paints, which are just the data originally from Hopkins2006 . ... The next step is to define the function which is the model for the history of the SFR density. ...

... Apache HTTP Server Version 2.4 . ... Set timeout and minimum data rate for receiving requests . ... Allow 10 seconds to receive the request including the headers and 30 seconds for receiving the request body: RequestReadTimeout header=10 body=30 . ... If the client sends data, increase the timeout by 1 second for every 1000 bytes received, with no upper limit for the timeout (except for the limit given indirectly by LimitRequestBody ): RequestReadTimeout body=10,MinRate=1000 . ... mod_reqtimeout . ...

... The goal of the course is to give a complete mathematical description of Shor's algorithm which factors an N digit integer in O(NNlog(N)log(log(N))) steps on a quantum computer. ... Quantum computations and measurements, unitary operators and projectors. ... I will describe each~Z step in Shor's algorithm. ... 2) I will give the mathematical definitions of quantum-bit, quantum-memory, and quantum-computation, used in Shor's algorithm. ... This is the first step in Shor's algorithm. ...

MAKING THE PROFILES . First of all you are expected to load a FITS file ("FILE"-"LOAD"). ... By pressing the middle button you copy the profile from the first profile window to the second one. ... An example: first integral can correspond to the profile of active region and second integral can correspond to the profile of quiet chromospheric region. ... The second profile (which is subtracted from the first one) you extract after clicking on "SUBTRACT"-"MARK QUIET PROFILE" and marking the region. ...

... Bad Astronomy . ... Bitesize Astronomy . ... Last week's Snack talked about how black holes can affect the environment around them in such a way as to be very bright . ... It's a common misconception that black holes always have matter swirling into them. ... As this matter gets closer and closer to the black hole it piles up and a large, fairly flat disk forms. This is called the accretion disk , because matter from this disk accretes (that is, falls in) on the black hole. ... 2008 Phil Plait. ...

XMM-Newton Science Analysis System . deceit (deceit-1.15.2) [xmmsas_20030110_1802-5.4.1] . ... deceit is an interpreter, and its functionality can be completely described with a grammar. This is available in . In the remainder of this section, the syntax of a deceit template is explained through a number of examples that cover most of the available functionality. ... A simple dataset . A dataset with an array (image) block . ... XMM-Newton SOC/SSC -- 2003-01-10 ...

... After delivery of all engineering models and SRT test sets to LA main ASC activities were moved to LA as well. ... Special attention was paid to the problem of tests on the electromagnetic compatibility between service and scientific on-board payload. ... The SRT was attached to special supporting frame, and LNA cooling system (NSOTR) was installed on the Focal Container. ... FC Focal Container - hermetic package with the scientific payload; it contains receivers, . ... TVT Thermo-Vacuum Tests . ...

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Since the days of Sputnik and Explorer 1, thousands of spacecraft have gone into space, some of them carrying human passengers. The first person to orbit the Earth was the Russian Yuri Gagarin, on April 12, 1961. The first American to do so was John Glenn, who completed three orbits on February 20, 1962; more than 26 years later, at age 77, Glenn returned to space aboard the space shuttle. ... in orbit. ... Manned satellites include various " space stations " intended for long-term residence. ...

VSOP: The VLBI Space Observatory Programme . Released data. VSOP Survey Publications . ... The VSOP Survey Data Reduction Handbook. ... Data reduction in Difmap in postscript (447 kb) or gzipped postscript (77 kb). ... Template Checklist and Worksheet for reduction and analysis of Survey data. ... Changes to Difmap for VSOP data analysis. ... Difmap macros needed for the processing of survey data. ... VSOP Survey Working Group Data Reduction Meeting , July 10, 12, 13 1999 . ...

Operating Instructions Starlock PEC Utility Tool For use with Meade Starlock Equipped Telescopes Only PEC Utility The PEC Utility Tool allows you greater control over the Periodic Error Correction functions of your Starlock equipped telescope. ... Sharpening: The sharpening function makes the error corrections determined by Starlock be applied more aggressively while chasing small variations in the tracking. ... Sharpening, on the other hand, tends to increase the magnitude of the corrections applied. ...

... Another significant contribution to the crystal energy of metals is the electron-ion interaction or the electron bandstructure energy (E BS ) which is defined by the interaction of valence electrons and the Brillouin zone (BZ) planes. ... The program BRIZ has been developed for 3D visualization of Brillouin zone configurations and intersections of BZ planes with a Fermi sphere[4]. ... 1.75 (electrons/atom). ... 4] Degtyareva V.F., Smirnova I.S.: BRIZ: a vizualization program for Brillouin zone ? ...

Stellarium 0.12.3 . ... Classes . ... Pulsars Class Reference . ... displayMessage (const QString &message, const QString hexColor="#999999") . ... virtual voidљ . ... It also creates the default pulsars.json file from the resource embedded in the plugin lib/dll file. void Pulsars::saveSettingsToConfig . ... virtual void Pulsars::update . ... Download JSON from web recources described in the module section of the module.ini file and update the local JSON file. void Pulsars::updateStateChanged . ...

... В книге объединены три повести: "Призрачные провода" ("Phantom wires") Артура Стрингера, "Модные приключения Джошуа Крейга" ("Fashionable adventures of Joshua Creig") Девида Грехема Филлипса и "Второй побег" ("The second elopement") Герберта Флауердью. ...