... Fitting the observed dependence includes calculations of the polarization cross-sections averaged over particles orientation and size distribution, their normalization and the comparison of obtained dependencies with Serkowski's curve representing observational data for a chosen star. ... Variations of the polarization factors with wavelength are shown in Fig. 16 for homogeneous spheroidal particles with PF orientation. ... The distinction between prolate and oblate spheroids is also clearly seen. ...

Next: Restoring files with tar Up: Simple backups Previous: Simple backups . A full backup can easily be made with tar љ : # tar -create -file /dev/ftape /usr/src . ... If your backup doesn't fit on one tape, you need to use the -multi-volume ( -M ) option: # tar -cMf /dev/fd0H1440 /usr/src . ... usr/src/ . ... usr/src/linux-1.2.10-includes/ .. ... An incremental backup can be done with tar љ using the -newer ( -N ) option: # tar -create -newer '8 Sep 1995' -file /dev/ftape /usr/src -verbose . ...

ARI USEFUL LINKS modified and/or upgraded by YP (Jul 1, 2015) . Astronomy . ... Astronomy related journals . ... Go to TOP . ADS ( UK , US or French site) . Abstracts from the major Astronomy journals. ... Astronomy Picture of the Day . ... Astronomy and Astrophysics (Bertout's site). status of a paper . ... of Stellar Spectra by R.O.Gray and VISUAL atlas (as pdf) . ... A list of Astronomy databases from the well organised canadian site. ... Astronomy jobs.../courses Go to TOP . ...

At the end of December 2004, the CCD was removed from the telescope and returned to Spectral Instruments in Tucson. The existing thick chip will be replaced with a thinned chip and the readout changed from 2-channel to 4-channel. ... Additional changes being made during this period include the installation of a compress air drier, collimating camera and cloud monitoring camera. Back to Recent News List . Siding Spring Survey Main Page . ... Follow-up Astrometry with the 1.0-m at SSO . ...

... 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....

... During and after the project, the student response was tremendous. ... I invite you to view what the class did with the terraforming project. ... These pages contain only portions of the entire project, since some of the presentations were purely verbal, and I was remiss in collecting all the speeches. The Mars Project student website . ... I think that it can be stressful to students to have such a large project to work on when they don't know what it's worth to them. ... previous page | ...

... The International Space Station Expands Again . ... Beagle Crater on Mars . ... What have we found on the way to large Victoria Crater? Smaller Beagle Crater. The robotic Opportunity rover rolling across Mars stopped at Beagle Crater early last month and took an impressively detailed 360-degree panorama of the alien Martian landscape. ... Eris: The Largest Known Dwarf Planet . ... Currently, the largest known dwarf planet is (136199) Eris, renamed last week from 2003 UB313. ...

Supernova 2004aw in NGC 3997 . This page is devoted to information on Supernova 2004aw in NGC 3997 . ... Information on the original web pages for many of these images can be found on the updates and links web pages. This discovery is shared by Tom Boles (UK) and Koichi Itagaki (Japan) This was at first classified as a type Ia found vary young, but this later got changed to type Ic. ... 2004/03/19.851 . ... vsnet-campaign-sn 842] spectral types of recent SNe (2004aw, ax, bh, bi, bh, bk) . ...

... Changed format option parsing routine in bp-p-options. added opt_reverseauthor to bp-refer, and added options parsing. 0.1.1 perl5/ad425.ref->ad425.bib in 25.3 seconds perl5/timetest.pl 2.31s total, 1.03, 1.01, 3.52 Added p-output.pl. ... No noticible change in running time, which means the debugging statements aren't slowing us down enough to worry about dropping them. 0.0.11 perl5/ad425.ref->ad425.bib in 22.7 seconds perl5/timetest.pl 1.98 total, 1.02, 1.01, 3.39 Added format registration. ...

National Aeronautics and Space Administration . ... Bruce McCandless II (Captain, USN, Ret.) NASA Astronaut (former) . ... He was a member of the astronaut support crew for the Apollo 14 mission and was backup pilot for the first manned Skylab mission (SL-1/SL-2). ... A veteran of two space flights, McCandless has logged over 312 hours in space, including 4 hours of MMU flight time. ... With the completion of this flight McCandless logged 191 hours in space (including 4 hours of MMU flight time). ...

... Space Contents 1-2 YEAR 3-4 MONTH 5-6 DAY 7-8 BLANK 9-12 N (THE NORTHERN HEMISPHERE aa DAILY VALUE ) 13-15 BLANK 16-19 S (THE SOUTHERN HEMISPHERE aa DAILY VALUE ) 20-22 BLANK 23-26 M1 (HALF DAILY VALUE OF aa INDICES FOR THE GREENWICH DAY ) 27-29 BLANK 30-33 M2 (SECOND HALF DAILY VALUE OF aa INDICES FOR GREENWICH DAY ) 34-36 BLANK 37-38 CC_OR_K (QUIET DAYS CLASSIFICATION) 39-41 MONTHLY MEAN DATA: Loacated after the last day of the month. ...

ROCKETS . Rocket R1 . ... Work on a new rocket further designated as R-5 was a continuation of theoretical design and experimental work on a far-range ballistic rocket of improved performance. ... Rocket R-11A . ... The Government Decree of February 13, 1953 obliged to work out a preliminary design of a two-stage ballistic rocket 170 t in mass with a separable warhead 3000 kg in mass capable to be launched to a range of 8000 km. ... SEA LAUNCH . ... Official WEB-site of S.P.Korolev RSC Energia . ...

Astronotes Armagh Planetarium's Stellar Blog! ... Space Flight . ... Posted on October 30, 2014 | 5 Comments Humans have been exploring mysterious lands and faraway civilizations for hundreds of years ever since they had the ability and knowledge to do so.€а A curiosity and a desire to [ ] . Continue Reading.. Posted on May 28, 2014 | ... 1 Comment Comets are frozen lumps of ice (often called volatiles) and rock that come from distant parts of our Solar System. ...

... Astronomical Observatory, Shevchenko Park, Odessa, 65014, . ... The XVI -th G. Gamow's Odessa Astronomical Summer Соnference-School, 14-20 August, 2016, Odessa, Ukraine . ... The XV -th G. Gamow's Odessa Astronomical Summer Соnference-School, 16-23 August, 2015, Odessa, Ukraine . ... The XIV -th G. Gamow's Odessa Astronomical Summer Соnference-School, 17-23 August, 2014, Odessa, Ukraine . ... The XIII -th G. Gamow's Odessa Astronomical Summer Соnference-School, 19-25 August, 2013, Odessa, Ukraine . ...

. A Happy New 2009 Year ! The time is rolling so fast . that it is hard to believe. Our team (Zaitsev-Oditsov-Amiantov) still alive and continues the search of high latitude phenomena. We are working with digital magnetometers and riometers also. My e-mail as changed to zaitsev<at>izmiran.ru. We are open for coopeartion in any directions including . some educational projects - see http://rk3dxb.narod.ru. Have a nice time and good health ! . Cordially Alexander N.Zaitsev .

... Some changes concerning conference fee and social program were caused by financial instability. The Conference Fee is deducted to 200 Euro for foreign participants and includes issue of Official Invitation Letter approved by Russian Emigration Authorities, coffee-breaks and abstract and program books. The reduced Conference Fee is deducted to 1500 Russian rubles for participants from Russia and includes coffee-breaks and abstract and program books. ...

Title: A New Model of the Gravitational Lens 0957+561 and a Limit on the Hubble Constant . Authors: Norman A. Grogin , Ramesh Narayan (Harvard Univ.) ... Title: ROSAT/PSPC observation of the distant cluster CL0939+472 . ... Title: Interaction in the Bimodal Galaxy Cluster A3528 . ... Title: Cosmological Implications of Galaxy Cluster Evolution . ... Title: Galaxy Cluster Virial Masses and Omega . ... Matches 201 to 222 from a total of 222 matches for the search pattern galaxy cluster . ...

... News . ... NASA's New Horizons detects Pluto surface features, including possible polar cap . ... New Horizons scientists interpreted the data to reveal that the dwarf planet has broad surface markings some bright, some dark including a bright area at one pole that may be a polar cap. ... These latest New Horizons images allow the mission science team to detect clear differences in brightness across Pluto s surface as it rotates. ... NASAт??s New Horizons nears historic encounter with Pluto . ...

... Despite the use of counterweights, I have had ongoing problems with preventing unwanted motion in altitude, particularly during star parties when everyone seems to want to lean on the telescope while observing. ... After some difficulties at a windy star party a few years ago at the Boston Museum of Science, I designed a simple and very effective altitude brake and slow motion control which can be assembled very quickly and at minimal cost. ... The other end of the arm attaches to a turnbuckle*. ...

Russian Space Science Internet (RSSI) is a successful result of RSSI Project. ... space oriented organizations; . ... RSSI offers for its members : . ... videoconferences via MBONE Internet protocol (there are 2 tunnels available now through the general IP network: one to NASA Internet, and another to Moscow State University); . ... It is designed so that all organizations connected to the RSSI gain access to the resources of Russian computer networks as well as world wide Internet. ... nic@rssi.ru ...