To: File \vertexdoc\cp581operation From: Jon Hagen Date: 1-31-02 Subject: CP581 operation Attempting to prepare working spare 581 package (cpu, lan card, irig card, storage unit). Findings: CP581-No. 2 has been working in the lab w/o ethernet or irig or storage unit. Working" means that with both running their lab test programs, the LCU screen shows no errors and the position displays advance (PLC lab test version uses "seconds since last reset" to simulate moving encoders). ...

Astronomy Picture of the Day . A Message From Earth . ... 13.03.2005 . ... Arecibo Observatory ( Cornell , NAIC ) Explanation: What are these Earthlings trying to tell us? The above message was broadcast from Earth towards the globular star cluster M13 in 1974. ... March 2005 . ... NASA Web Site Statements, Warnings, and Disclaimers . ... U. Based on Astronomy Picture Of the Day . Publications with keywords: SETI - message - Earth . Publications with words: SETI - message - Earth . ...

... Classes . ... gTime Class Reference . This class implements time calculations. ... gTime (double ai_jDays=0) . ... gTime (const gTime &timeSrc) . ... Set the time value of the time object to the julian day of year, day. ... operator= (const gTime &timeSrc) . ... Returns the time GMT value in Julian days. ... Returns the time_t value of the gTime Object. ... Returns a gTime object setted with the actual machine time. ... gTime Object assigned with real machine time. double gTime::getGmtTm . ...

... The choice of which type of electricity is called "positive" and which "negative" was made around 1750 by Ben Franklin, early American scientist and man of many talents (the stamp on the left commemorates his role as first US postmaster--and colonial postmaster before that). ... Franklin knew of two types of electric charge, depending on the material one rubbed. ... Later, when electric batteries were discovered, scientists naturally assigned the direction of the flow of current to be from (+) to (-...

... The choice of which type of electricity is called "positive" and which "negative" was made around 1750 by Ben Franklin, early American scientist and man of many talents (the stamp on the left commemorates his role as first US postmaster--and colonial postmaster before that). ... Franklin knew of two types of electric charge, depending on the material one rubbed. ... Later, when electric batteries were discovered, scientists naturally assigned the direction of the flow of current to be from (+) to (-...

Next: Building Software from Heterogeneous Environments . ... The core technologies needed to achieve this flexibility are the message bus , distributed objects , and applications frameworks . ... The message bus is a facility used to bind, at runtime, distributed objects (program components) to construct applications. ... Message bus clients (e.g., components or services) can execute on any host computer connected to the message bus, allowing distributed applications to be easily constructed. ...

... To introduce you to the Python programming language, and its Visual module (VPython), which allows 3D simulation. The computer labs are held in room BOZO 112, not in the usual physics lab. ... This lab will use the Python programming language. ... Click on the Windows button in the bottom left, select "Programs", then the "A-Z" list of programs. ... Later in the course you will need to write your own VPython programs for assessment - this lab is your chance to make sure you can do this. ...

... You can work in group sizes as large as 5. Each individual in that group could be assigned a particular question which would allow the group to complete the assignment in a more efficient manner. ... Off in the corner of the store was a small black box with a big sign that read . ... As the century turned, Africa began to emerge from a Dark Age stretching as far back as life on earth, into all the years that lay ahead - years of Renaissance, Enlightenment, Industry, and, if you will, Anxiety. ...

Each instrument on the Apache Point Observatory 3.5m telescope has an instrument control computer (ICC) which is the public "face" of the instrument. The ICC receives commands, issue replies and writes data to disk. ... Commands . ... Replies . ... The hub receives commands from commanders (e.g. TUI users) and routes them to actors (e.g. instruments). ... When a user sends a command to your instrument, the other users basically don't know about it until they see the resulting replies. ...

Next: The boot process in Up: Boots And Shutdowns Previous: Boots And Shutdowns . The act of turning on a computer system and causing its operating system to be loaded is called booting . ... During bootstrapping, the computer first loads a small piece of code called the bootstrap loader , which in turn loads and starts the operating system. ... For PC's, the computer (its BIOS) reads in the first sector (called the boot sector ) of a floppy or hard disk. ...

... Next, the screen displays "Press 0 to align or Mode for Menu." Press "0" if you wish to begin Automatic alignment (or Easy Align, depending on your telescope model), or press Mode if you wish to choose a manual alignment method ("Automatic Alignment" displays, and you can press MODE to go through the menu to find other alignments). ... Note: If you press the "?" key while "Ctr Brightest Star" displays, the alignment star that AutoStar has chosen will display. ... Alignment successful" displays. ...

... Bad Astronomy . ... Movies . ... Mad Science . ... Keep Bad Astronomy close to your heart, and help make me filthy rich. ... Why are computers not displayed accurately in movies. In most movies I have seen, computers are not displayed accurately. ... Another thing is the sounds that a computer makes. Even in movies today, each keystroke corresponds with a beep or blip sound made by the computer. ... This isn't so much a question about computers as it is about movies. ... 2008 Phil Plait. ...

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October 14, 2006 ---------------- Version 3.1 ----------- As of this version, XmTel is considered stable for routine use. and it is useful for the control of telescopes for both amateur and professional uses. ... XmTel does not yet include the suite of pointing corrections that are already in the menu system (but disabled). ... With the offset correction a well-aligned small telescope will point to arc minute accuracy and well enough to put an object in a CCD camera field of view. ...

home education > resources . ... Education from Mercury . ... Selected Topical Bibliographies . Astronomy Education Bibliography . ... Astronomy . ... Goldman, S. "Prime Time Astronomers: The Astronomers TV Series" in Sky Telescope, May 1991, p. 472. ... Goldman, S. "Astronomy on the Internet" in Sky Telescope, Aug. 1995, p. 20. ... Marschall, L. "Virtual Professional Astronomy" in Sky Telescope, Aug. 1995, p. 92. ... Wallin, J. "Astronomy Education on the Web" in Sky Telescope, Nov. 1997, p. 68. ...

... S.P. KOROLEV ROCKET AND SPACE CORPORATION ENERGIA . ... OAO RSC "Energia" . ... Experiments and Researches from 2013 . ... Rocket Space Complexes . ... Images . ... Crew 43/44 . ... He was a member of the group that studied the technology needed to return to the moon and explore Mars (1990), and the Space Station Freedom Redesign Team (1993). ... Pettit performed his first space flight from November 24, 2002 to May 4, 2003 as a flight engineer of ISS-6 crew. ... 2015 JSC "S.P. Korolev RSC "Energia" ...

Astronomical Data Analysis Software and Systems VII ASP Conference Series, Vol. ... A Wavelet Parallel Code for Structure Detection A. Pagliaro Istituto di Astronomia dell'Universit‘a di Catania U. Becciani, V.Antonuccio and M.Gambera Osservatorio Astrofisico di Catania Abstract. We describe a parallel code for 3­D structure detection and morphological analysis. The method is based on a multiscale technique, the wavelet transform and on segmentation analysis. ... Segmentation analysis. ...

... Mission Element Points-of-Contact . The RSOG______________________________________ RSOG RSOG@asc.rssi.ru UT+3 hours Mikhail Popov mpopov@dpc.asc.rssi.ru Emergency messages RAsos@asc.rssi.ru Ph : +7-095-333-2512 Fax : +7-095-333-2378 RadioAstron Operations Room, ASC Moscow 84/32 Profsoyuznaya st. 117810 GSP-1, Moscow, RUSSIA The DIT (Data Interface ...

... Chapter 1. History of computers . ... Blocks of computer . ... Operation system . ... File system . ... Operations with files (NC) . ... File editor (NE) . ... Computer viruses . ... Windows 95/98 system . ... Computer documents (Word) . ... Answers to the questions . Appendix A. Windows 3.1 system . Appendix B. About the book for parents . ... On this page you will find the first chapter and introductions and control questions from several other chapters. ...

... Alien Life . ... Earth Satellites . ... The Lone Signal Project was founded by several entrepreneurs and scientists and is based at the Jamesburg Earth Station in California.б  You may have heard of this station before as it supported the Apollo 11 Moon landing and actually received ... televised images of the astronauts setting foot on the lunar surface. б The station will now be utilised to transmit messages into space !б  The project will beam messages in any Earth language into ...