... Introduction to Amateur Astronomy in Ireland - Tuesday 12 May 2009, Ballymun Library . ... From a Bang to a Whimper - Celebrating Differing Views of the Universe - Tuesday 12 May 2009, Trinity College Dublin . The travelling astronomy exhibition "From Earth to the Universe" is now on display in The Market Place, Armagh, for two weeks till Sunday 24 May 2009. Click here for more info about this fascinating exhibition. International Year of Astronomy, Ireland National Node . ...

Next: Construction of Flat Up: Off-line Reduction Previous: Off-line Reduction . Before most of the reduction process can be conducted, bad pixel values must be removed. ... The LAMP ON or LAMP OFF flat field images are a good place to start to define your bad-pixel map. ... In MIDAS, bad pixel detection is possible with the command MASK/IRAC2 ; the command CMASK/IRAC2 can be used for bad pixel removal. Refer to the MIDAS manual for further documentation of these commands. ...

OptInt PmWiki : MROI Fast Tip Tilt / Tech Meet 3 . ... FTT/NAS & FLC Software Requirements . ... Camera cooling 100W . Computing 150W . ... A single "standard" computer could run all of the FTT/NA software (under Xenomai) . However, cable length restrictions could force us to use a 2nd low-power computer near to the Andor camera . ... Printable View of http://www.mrao.cam.ac.uk/projects/OAS/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/MROIFastTipTilt/TechMeet3) ...

... Keywords: C, textbook, K%0Aamp;R replacement, reference manual . ... I suggest that you replace the K&R reference by the following much better and more up-to-date one. ... If you don't want to throw K&R out, please add at least this reference and add to the K&R review that this old book does not cover the full ISO C run-time library (e.g. the wide character and locale support is missing almost completely) nor the 1994 C language extensions. ... Author: Samuel P. Harbison and Guy L. Steele Jr. ...

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. ...

... In the calibrated events lists generated by the pipeline, the events found to be on a bad pixel have already been removed. ... But epchain and emchain allow to generate events lists in which all events flagged for rejection (including those on a bad pixel) are still present. In that case the bad pixel flagging is reversible. ... The overwrite =Y option may be used to replace the existing bad pixels with the new ones instead of adding the new bad pixels to the old ones. ...

... Faculties . Pre-university education . ... SSAU History . ... Today young scientists of SSAU and Institute of aircraft engines (ILA) of the University of Stuttgart are discussing the following issues: gas microturbines for unmanned aircraft systems and drone aircrafts, alternative types of aviation fuel and creating a virtual model of gas generator. The first Summer School on engine building takes place in Samara. ... Tags: summer school on engine building institute of aircraft engines ila . ...

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... 2013 December 11 . The Coldest Place on Earth . ... Landsat 8 , USGS , NASA . Explanation: How cold can it get on Earth? ... This is about 25 °C (45 °F ) colder than the coldest lows noted for any place humans live permanently. ... The coldest spots were found near peaks because higher air is generally colder, although specifically in depressions near these peaks because relatively dense cold air settled there and was further cooled by the frozen ground. ... About APOD | ...

... 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 . ...

IKI Seminar . Mechanics, Control and Informatics . Main page . Reports . Discussion . ... The seminar is dedicated to investigation of dynamics, control and identification of mechanical systems and use of modern computer and information technologies in order to solve these problems. The object of the seminar is theoretical research and applications including space research. Main results of works presented on the seminar are placed on this site and freely accessible. ...

Bright Supernova - Archives On these pages you will find references to Supernovae which have faded into oblivion. ... Finally, in 1999, when I took over the International Supernova Network's Latest Supernovae page I retitled the main page "Latest Supernovae", BUT, it's the "Latest Supernovae" page of the "Bright Supernovae" pages which are also sub-pages of ISN. ... Brightest supernova in 2005 . ... Brightest supernova in 2002 . ... Brightest supernova in 2000 . ... Brightest supernova in 1999 . ...

... Scope of Directives .htaccess Files . ... Apache is configured by placing directives in plain text configuration files. ... Any directive may be placed in any of these configuration files. ... Apache configuration files contain one directive per line. ... Directives placed in the main configuration files apply to the entire server. ... The server administrator further controls what directives may be placed in .htaccess files by configuring the AllowOverride directive in the main configuration files....

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... Some commands are not yet documented. bin . ... expose . ... number . ... If basename is not specified, the filenames are determined by the ICC's path , name , places , and number If neither red nor blue is specified, both images will be saved. ... Returns: basename , name , number path , places . ... For example, with path= /export/images/DD01 , name= bias. , places= 3 , and number= 11 , the blue image file would be /export/images/DD01/bias.011b.fits . ... name , number , places , path , basename ,...

... The standard science quicklook processing produces over a dozen sky maps at each downlink, and these maps are automatically searched for potential transient point sources. ... We have found that a heuristic modification of a formula derived by Li & Ma (1983) provides reasonably accurate estimates of p -values for point source detections even for very low p -value detections. ... Case 1u. The most straightforward approach uses the signal , where . ... To get a p -value, use . ...

... Comments, Opinions Publications Dnepr Program . Dnepr launch record 17 August 2011. Cluster Launch of Dnepr LV 22 August 2013 KOMPSAT-5 Launch 21 November 2013. ... The Sych-2 satellite is being developed as a part of the space optical-range Earth observation system by the State Design Office of Yuzhnoye and built by the Industrial Association Yuzhny Machine Building Plant in cooperation w ith other space industry entities upon the state order of the National Space Agency of Ukraine . ...

... replaced by Duplicator class . ... Short images are always unsigned. ij.plugin.ImageCalculator.calculate(String, ImagePlus, ImagePlus) . replaced by run(String,ImagePlus,ImagePlus) . ... ij.gui.NewImage.createUnsignedShortImage(String, int, int, int, int) . ... replaced by ImagePlus.setOverlay(Roi, Color, int, Color) . ... replaced by the Plot class. ij.gui.PlotWindow(String, String, String, float[], float[]) . replaced by the Plot class. ij.gui.PolygonRoi(int[], int[], int, ImagePlus, int) . ...

Preliminary results of astroclimate parameters measurements at the Sternberg 2.5m telescope installation site V.Kornilov, N.Shatsky, S.Potanin, O.Voziakova, B.Safonov Moscow, 2008 Acknowledgements A.Belinskiy M.Kornilov A.Tokovinin M.Kuznetsov P.Kortunov E.Gorbovskoy SAI administration some SAI students Pulkovo solar station (KHSS) staff RFBR support MAVEG Gmbh Why to study optical turbulence and some other relevant ... Mean seeing by DIMM data for this night is 1''5. ...

Astronotes Armagh Planetarium's Stellar Blog! ... Armagh Planetarium . ... Space Flight . ... Science Fiction . ... Image credit: Belfast Met) . Space Camp attendees had a jam packed week full of astronomical activities from building a rocket, to learning about the diverse career paths in space science. ... Belfast Met are grateful for the support of the Department for Employment and Learning, Invest NI and summer camp sponsors that have supported the delivery of these exciting summer sessions. ...