. XMM-Newton Science Analysis System . omsource (omsource-1.15.5) [xmmsas_20070708_1801-7.1.0] . Meta Index / Home Page / Imaging Mode Photometry Window . The background subtraction can be done in one of several different ways and these controls allow the user to select whatever method he/she wishes to use. Subsections . Annulus . User regions . Select . User value . interpolate . XMM-Newton SOC/SSC -- 2007-07-09

... Future seminars . ... On Control of vortex interaction " . D.L. Vainchtein (IKI RAN; Dept. of Mechanical and Environmental Engineering, University of California Santa Barbara, USA) . ... In the present talk I look at two different methods of controlling the interaction of two 2D vortices. ... The setback of this method is that it destroys original flow structures and is very energy consuming, as it must overcome the original dynamics. ... We call this method "adiabatic control". ...

... APOD: 2006 September 29- NGC 5905 and 5908 . ... Credit Copyright: Stefan Seip Explanation: These two beautiful galaxies, NGC 5905 (left) and NGC 5908 lie about 140 million light-years distant in the northern constellation Draco . Separated by about 500,000 light-years, the pair are actually both spiral galaxies and nicely illustrate the striking contrasts in appearance possible when viewing spirals from different perspectives. ... September 2006 . ... Publications with keywords: spiral galaxy . ...

... NASA Astronaut (former) . ... Graduated from East Detroit High School, Eastpointe, Michigan, in 1973; received a bachelor of science degree in bioscience from the U.S . Naval Academy in 1977; a doctorate in medicine from Wayne State University in 1981; a master of science degree in systems management from University of Southern California in 1988; a master of public health degree in health policy from the ... Top graduate, Naval Flight Surgeon Training and Naval Safety Officer's School. ...

... country name . ... Query " Moscow's celebrations hotel Moscow, Russia" would failed if search attributes separately, but could be succeeded if search their concatenation. ... hotel". ... Simple search for "Moscow": # select name, country, place, rank( idx, ftsquery ) as r from hotels, to_tsquery('Moscow') as ftsquery where idx @@ ftsquery order by r desc; name | ... Query "Moscow hotel" (rewritten by hand): # select name, country, place, rank( idx, ftsquery ) as r from hotels, to_tsquery('Moscow | ...

... Armagh Observatory, College Hill, Armagh BT61 9DG, +44 (0)28 3752 2928 . ... The peak of activity is expected to occur around midday on August 12th, with a possible all-sky maximum of perhaps 50тАУ100 meteors per hour visible during the nights of 11th/12th August either side of the shower maximum. ... Most meteors are produced by comets, which shed trails of dust while passing through the inner solar system on their elliptical orbits around the Sun. ... See also: . Videos of 2009 Perseid Meteors . ...

... Archives . ... If you do not mind the time predictor, it is hard to believe that this is a light curve, time dependent data. ... It?s hard to say this data set is designed for time series analysis apart from the complication in statistical inference due to measurement errors. How to design the statistical study with measurement errors, huge gaps in time, and unequal time intervals is complex and unexplored. ... The following is R output without measurement errors. ... Chandra Blog . ...

... Preprocessor Compiler Control . ... This directive includes a file into code. ... include <file> or #include ``file'' . ... As another example if running program on MSDOS machine we want to include file msdos.h otherwise a default.h file. ... This is most often used with programs that translate other languages to C. For example, error messages produced by the C compiler can reference the file name and line numbers of the original source files instead of the intermediate C (translated) source files. ...

XmCCD ----- The programs provided here offer a Linux graphical user interface to astronomical and scientific CCD cameras. ... SBIG has provided the library used here. It is essentially the same library used by commercial software for control of their cameras under Windows. ... This distribution includes source code to utilize the Santa Barbara Instrument Group (SBIG) shared library libsbigudrv.so with a Motif-based graphical user interface program to control SBIG astronomical CCD cameras. ...

. Where observers see Rosetta depends on their location. At 21:51 UT, 19 minutes before closest approach, viewers in London, Paris, Berlin, and Rome will see Rosetta in different parts of the constellation Taurus. More detailed finder charts are available here. Astronomy: Roen Kelly

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IMPLEMENTATION OF THE MIR ORBITAL COMPLEX . MISSION PROGRAM . Since the launch of core module on February 20, 1986, till March, 23, 2001 Mir Orbital Complex (Mir OC) was in operational use on orbit under the Flight Test Program of the module-based permanently manned Mir station. A total of more than 100 launches of different spacecraft and modules (including the US Shuttle launches) were performed under the Mir Complex Mission Program. ... Official WEB-site of S.P.Korolev RSC Energia . ...

User has possibility to impose some restriction(s) on the Results of calculation. ... Possible set of restrictions depends on coordinates that were specified for planned run. ... The set of the quantities on which may be imposed restrictions in the next run are highlighted on marking Set restrictions . ... Dist. d(R.A.)/dt . ... Phase . ... To impose restriction on any quantity mark check box at the left of corresponding line and then click on the field where you want to introduce limitative value. ...

Stellarium 0.12.3 . ... Classes . ... Scripting . ... Scripting Engine . ... Script Console . ... Since version 0.10.1, Stellarium includes a scripting feature based on the Qt Scripting Engine . ... Prior to version 0.10.0, Stellarium used a different scripting engine called StratoScript . ... Prior to version 0.10.0, Stellarium had a simple scripting engine, known as StratoScript . ... This script prints "Hello Universe" in the Script Console output window. core.debug( "Hello Universe" ); . ...

The Apache HTTP Server provides a mechanism for storing information in named variables that are called environment variables . ... For additional flexibility, the directives provided by mod_setenvif allow environment variables to be set on a per-request basis, conditional on characteristics of particular requests. ... As discussed above, the environment passed to CGI scripts includes standard meta-information about the request in addition to any variables set within the Apache configuration. ...

... Image Quality of the VLT . Total Optical Control . First light for the ESO VLT unit telescope 1 occurred during the workshop. ... The image shown (Figure 1 ) here was obtained with the VLT on May 16, 1998, in red light (R band), i.e. while the mirror was still uncoated. ... In this diagram (FIgure 2), the measured image quality of the VLT UT1 astronomical images is plotted versus the ``seeing", as measured by the Seeing Monitor, a small telescope also located on top of the Paranal Mountain. ...

A very important stage in a story of formation of any new science is the shift from discussion of situation which are possible but do not occur in practice due to some reason to recognition of real phenomena of interest. ... We suggest to consider computer viruses as this new specific form of life which is coming in the contact with our form of life. ... Computer life has been created by human being, the role of independent evolution of computer viruses seems to be still negligible. ...

The Astronomy Shop . ... Software | Starry Night Pro - Astronomy Software . ... Great realism, detail, and depth of information are fully under your control. ... Designed for anyone who demands the utmost in realism, richness of detail and depth of information, Starry Night Pro is serious astronomy software. ... Starry Night Enthusiast - an intermediate level astronomy program. ... See the comparison sheet on all three levels of Starry Night astronomy programs at . ... www.astronomy.net . ...

... Bad Astronomy . ... Bad Astronomy: The North Star, Polaris, is a very bright star. Good Astronomy: Polaris is a middling-bright star, easily missed. ... He said it was close to Polaris, the North Star, but he also said it was in the East. ... It's natural, I suppose, to think that such an important star should be bright, but really, that's a conceit, like thinking that the Earth is at the center of the Universe. If more people knew just why Polaris is the North Star, this Bad Idea would stop. ...

This custom-made "octopus" cable connects half of one Canoga-Perkins CMX-808 fiber-optic RS-232 multiplexer to a patch panel or 8-port harmonica with 6-wire 6-position RJ11 jacks. ... Two of these octopi are required to connect an entire fiber-optic multiplexer (8 DB25 connectors, 16 channels). ... Use of twisted pair wire is optional, but if it is used, it must be used as shown in the table. ... DB25 . ... Comparing columns 2 against 4, 5... gives the resulting octopus wiring (DB25 to Telco USOC) . ...