The following page provides access to several SVM codes developed by us. ... Several our codes realizing some other exact and approximate methods are also available. The codes are provided by rather small (sorry) comments and test run results. ... Another page contains links to other collections of light scattering software (under construction). Our overview of the ranges of applicability of different codes is under preparation. ... Created by V.I. Last modified: 10/05/03, V.I. ...

Chapter 20. Configuring Flipping and UBB . ... The NVIDIA Accelerated Linux Graphics Driver supports Unified Back Buffer (UBB) and OpenGL Flipping. ... Unified Back Buffer (UBB): UBB is available only on the Quadro family of GPUs (Quadro4 NVS excluded) and is enabled by default when there is sufficient video memory available. ... When there are many windows, the back, stencil and depth usage will never exceed the size of that used by a full screen window. ...

... Tonight's Sky . ... Observing . ... solar system . ... The double star 54 Leonis, spiral galaxy NGC 3198, and emission nebula NGC 3199 . ... Observe the Solar System . Astronomy for Kids . ... Observing springtime deep-sky objects with a large telescope . ... Solar corona revealed in super-high definition . ... Only registered members of Astronomy.com are allowed to comment on this article. ... Receive news, sky-event information, observing tips, and more from Astronomy's weekly email newsletter. ...

... Our Galaxy . ... Stars . ... Image credit: ESO, Acknowledgement: VST/Omegacam Local Group Survey) . First observed in 1909, the WLM galaxy is part of the Local Group, about 10 million light years (3.1 Mpc) across, this is the set of more than 35 galaxies which includes our own Milky Way. ... I compared this little galaxy to a living fossil because looking at it gives us an insight into a past era in the UniverseтАЩs history. ... Distances and metallicities for 17 Local Group galaxies? . ...

Next: RadioAstron Mission Element Overview . ... The aim of this document is to describe the interfaces among the various elements of the RadioAstron Mission. For each item exchanged by mission elements, this handbook details: . ... the how (the format and naming convention), . ... File formats, naming, and structure of FTP sites for operation elements used in VSOP are conserved, but new features, related to satellite control and orbit determination are introduced into the document. ...

Astronomy Discussion Forums . Forums: . ... Here's A Definition Of 'possible' . ... Post Message | ... Posted by Harvey on October 21, 2002 18:48:54 UTC . ... Oops - harvey1 - October 21, 2002 - 18:50 UTC . ... I hope Stafford doesn't mind my intruding his forum - mrsouza - November 8, 2002 - 14:55 UTC . ... www.astronomy.net . About Astronomy Net | ... Forum posts are Copyright their authors as specified in the heading above the post. "dbHTML," "AstroGuide," "ASTRONOMY.NET" & "VA.NET" . ...

... Polar Magnetic Storms . ... Birkeland studied them in 1902-1903 using a network of four stations--in Norway and on Iceland, Spitzbergen (Svalbard), and Novaya Zemlya [ Birkeland, 1908, 1913; Bostr?m 1968]--and concluded that there existed a distinct type of magnetic storm, the "elementary polar magnetic storm" with a typical time scale of less than an hour, associated with the aurora and with electric currents which descended along auroral field lines and flowed horizontally along auroral arcs. ...

XmTel is intended for interactive remote telescope operation. ... The command set provides for several basic functions that enable slewing, pointing, fine guiding, and control of the telescope focus, reticle, and fans. ... XmTel is actively being used and developed with the Celestron Corrected Dall-Kirkham C20 telescope. ... Some NexStar features of the C20 -- the fan, temperature reading, and focus control -- are not presently available on other Celestron telescopes. ...

... Created: 23 February 2001 . ... SOFTWARE MAINTENANCE MANUAL . ... 9 January 2001 . ... Note: in the final document, the table of contents will be to third level] . The Software Maintenance Manual describes the procedures for installation and maintenance of the software for the Gemini Near-infrared Integral Field Spectrograph (NIFS). ... Section 19.4.3 of the document “Programmatic Requirements for Gemini Instrumentation Development” states the requirements for the Software Maintenance Manual . ...

... Coming Soon to a Channel Near You: Oracle.. ... But now users are discovering that this beefy class of multiprocessing, "fault-tolerant" PC servers handle databases just as well as mainframes and minicomputings. ... Programmers at four competing Unix software vendors are working together on what may be the last chance for Unix on the corporate desktop. ... COSE's Common Desktop Environment goes a long way toward establishing a standard Unix interface that's easy enough for novice users to master. ...

Flexible frame grabbing to PC over PCI bus from area & line scan cameras . ... Analog input up to 20 MHz and digital input up to 32 Mbytes/Sec. ... The LPG-132 will easily interface to virtually any analog or digital camera and provides lightning fast PCI transfers at an amazingly attractive price. The LPG-132 will interface with any camera or sensor at data rates up to 32 Mbytes/Sec. ... The LPG-132 comes in two configurations - one for analog input and the other for digital inputs. ...

... Pre-university education . ... On March 16 a meeting with Raymond Murphy - the author of the world famous series of English grammar textbooks: English Grammar in Use and Essential Grammar in Use took place in Samara State Aerospace University within the framework of the conference Peculiarities of grammatical skills formation in various stages of English language teaching (Innovative Approaches to ELT). ... The textbook of Raymond Murphy is a practical guide to learning English as a foreign language...

... future plans, including descriptions of files described below. Developing a Strategy for Magnetospheric Research" . by David P. Stern .. ... The "Profile" Mission . ... Planning the "Profile" Multiprobe Mission . ... for Constellation Class Missions " (V. Angelopoulos and P.V. Panetta, . ... Magnetospheric Missions: 1. ... p.559-583, October-December 2001. ... The "Profile" Constellation. by David P. Stern, J. Astronaut. ... Identification of Preferred Orbits for Magnetospheric Missions." ...

MORPHOLOGICAL CATALOGUE OF THE CRATERS OF THE MOON . ... Coordinates, diameters and morphological features of 14 923 craters of the Moon in diameters 10 km and more are available in the catalogue. ... A lunar morphological crater catalogue was compiled by the Sternberg State Astronomical Institute in collaboration with the Unified institute of Nuclear Research, Dubna. ... 4. the presence of central peaks, ridges and mountains on the floor . ... peak and many mountains . ... many peaks, 1 mountain . ...

... Natalya V. Raguzova and Sergei B. Popov . ... We present a compilative catalogue of Be/X-ray binaries and candidates in the Galaxy and in the Large and Small Magellanic Clouds. This catalogue contains 160 sources and provides information on names and spectral types of optical components, distances, on spin characteristics of neutron stars, and on orbital and X-ray properties of binary systems. ... Be/X-Ray Binaries and candidates in the Galaxy . Galactic sources: comments to the Table 1 . ...

Trace: dokuwiki . start : wiki : dokuwiki . ... SAI VO Projects . ... User Space . ... Download . ... DokuWiki is a standards compliant, simple to use Wiki , mainly aimed at creating documentation of any kind. ... Check out the user forum . ... The DokuWiki engine is licensed under GNU General Public License Version 2. ... The content published in the DokuWiki at http://www.splitbrain.org/dokuwiki/ is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike License Version 2.0. ...

SITE 2010 Comprehensive Characterization of Astronomical Sites Kislovodsk, Russia, 49 October 2010 Conference Summary Marc S. Sarazin*a a European Southern Observatory, Garching, Germany Abstract The main topics discussed during the Site 2010 conference are outlined and the outcome is described. Keywords: Astronomical Site testing, precipitable water vapor, atmospheric turbulence, cloudiness, seeing 1. ... Site surveys for National observatory projects in China, India, and Iran benefit from this. ...

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... CVS . ... ASM Kislovodsk . ... Anonymous CVS access through CVS protocol: . cvs -d :pserver:anonymous@curl.sai.msu.ru:/srv/cvs/cvsroot . Anonymous CVS browse through ViewVC: . ... Rs485 CVS . ... ASM Dome demon CVS . ... CVSROOT at curl.sai.msu.ru is located in /srv/cvs/cvsroot . You may access to CVS repository via SSH only using your curl's account login/password. ... export CVSROOT=curl.sai.msu.ru:/srv/cvs/cvsroot . ... CVS_RSH=ssh cvs -d user@ curl.sai.msu.ru:/srv/cvs/cvsroot command . ...

... HTML as an Application of SGML . ... HTML Public Text Identifiers . ... HTML as an Internet Media Type . text/html media type . ... Undeclared Markup Error Handling . ... Input Field: INPUT . Text Field: INPUT TYPE=TEXT . Password Field: INPUT TYPE=PASSWORD . Check Box: INPUT TYPE=CHECKBOX . Radio Button: INPUT TYPE=RADIO . Image Pixel: INPUT TYPE=IMAGE . Hidden Field: INPUT TYPE=HIDDEN . Submit Button: INPUT TYPE=SUBMIT . Reset Button: INPUT TYPE=RESET . ...