... The problem turned out to be that I was always using the same background in Photoshop, and when I made it transparent, the edge pixels, having been anti-aliased to merge with that color, did not turn transparent. Now I always use the same background color in Photoshop that I intend to use on my web page. ... Now, one of the big tricks here involves the translation from RGB mode to Indexed Colors. ... Note down the 2 colors it chose to dither together and hit Command-Z to undo the mode change. ...

... About ATMoB . ... The Observing Committee is starting an Observing Awards Program to promote observing among the membership of the Amateur Telescope Makers of Boston. ... Participant must be a current member of the Amateur Telescope Makers of Boston . ... To qualify for your Observing Award Certificate, turn in your worksheet and drawings to an ATMoB Observing Committee member or observing@atmob.org . ... This Excel sheet has useful macros. ... Copyright (c) Amateur Telescope Makers of Boston, Inc. ...

OptInt PmWiki : Pm Wiki / Drafts . ... Multiple interim edits to a page can be temporarily saved in a "-Draft" copy of a page until the draft is ready to be published to the original. When the site administrator sets $EnableDrafts in a local customization file, the "Save" button on the edit page is split into separate "Publish" and "Save draft" buttons. ... The "Publish" button saves back to the original non-Draft copy of the page, removing any -Draft page that may have been created. ...

... The caption to Color Figure 3 refers to the source 1928+734, which should be 1928+738. In the summary section on page 49 (Murphy et al.), the sentence "In that time, we have observed a variety of structural changes in the inner jet region near the region." should read "In that time, we have observed a variety of structural changes in the inner jet region near the core." In the references on page 175 (Fomalont et al.) and page 182 (Moellenbrock et al.) ...

... STScI previously used Microsoft Word and Microsoft Access, a Sybase ODBC driver, and the Adobe Acrobat PDF writer, along with a substantial amount of Visual Basic, to generate a variety of documents for the internal Space Telescope Grants Administration System (STGMS). ... To create a document, the internal STGMS application invoked a VB program which launched Microsoft Word and Microsoft Access, Access extracted the required data from a Sybase database using ODBC into an Access table. ...

... The following changes have been initiated by user feedback: . ... SAOtng command line options can be stored as csh-style environment variables in the ~/.saotng file. ... See SAOtng Command Line Options for more information. ... See SAOtng Colormap Considerations for more information. ... We have added the ability for SAOtng to resize image frame #1 each time a new image is loaded (as did SAOimage). ... See Autoflip of Images for more information. ... See Marker Analysis in SAOtng for more...

A study of Role-playing Games in Undergraduate Astronomy Classes . ... Classroom Role-playing Games . PPT Slide . ... Minute Papers . ... How many students mentioned, in their minute papers, that the most important thing they had learned that week was about the nature of science? Minute paper responses . ... More Detailed Conclusions. Conclusions . ...

... Any water on Mars is locked up in the ice caps. ... The most recent successful mission to Mars is the Mars Science Laboratory better known as the Curiosity rover. ... CuriosityтАЩs primary role is to search for conditions that may have once been able to harbour any sort of bacterial life concealed beneath the Martian surface. ... Using what we know about life on Earth, where there is water, there is life, signs of water may help us understand what Mars was like billions of years ago. €а . ...

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... This is a preliminary summary of the event on November 24, 1996, considered during the INTERBALL Workshop in Kiljavanranta, Finland, February 1998. ... Pronounced plasma sheet thinning (Bz decrease) . ... Particle burst observed inside the Polar Cap and in tail lobes . A short burst of particles detected by the Auroral Probe particle detectors during the Polar Cap crossing at 21:45 UT, almost simultaneously with the Tail Probe detectors registration of the particle burst inside the North Lobe. ...

This module provides mmap()ing of a statically configured list of frequently requested but not changed files. Status: Experimental . ... Compatibility: Available in Apache 1.3 and later. ... You can easily create a broken site using this module, read this document carefully. mod_mmap_static maps a list of statically configured files (via MMapFile directives in the main server configuration) into memory through the system call mmap() . ... Context: server-config . ... Module: mod_mmap_static . ...

MINUTES of the RadioAstron Teleconference on May 30, 2006 V. Slysh chaired the teleconference. The agenda of the teleconference and the list of participants are attached to the Minutes. ... N.Kardashev informed the participants on the status of interactions with NASA. ... Canada NRAO, USA ASC, Russia ASC, Russia NRAO, USA NRAO, USA MPIfR/ASC MPIfR, Germany NRAO, USA ASC, Russia NRAO, USA ISAS, Japan ASC, Russia JPL, USA NRAO, USA ASC, Russia ASC, Russia ESA, the Netherlands ...

... The 8th International Astronomy Olympiad will be held in the first decade of October 2003. ... Having heard the report of the Chairman of the Coordinating Council of the International Astronomy Olympiad about these two possibilities the Euro-Asian Astronomical Society Board gives a card-blanche to Local Organizing Committee of Sweden for realization the VIII IAO at the end of September, 2003 in Stockholm. ... Information about the International Astronomy Olympiad 2004 will be known in the late 2003....

... Vodka was brought to Russia in XVI century. ... It results in the feeling of intoxication, happyness and eiphoria. All these feelings attract people to alcohol. 300-450 gr of beer, half glass of spirit . ... 500-700 gr of beer, a glass of vodka, 2glasses of vine . ... light intoxication . 700-900 gr of beer, 3 glasses of whisky, 1/2 bottle of vine, 3 glasses of vodka . ... eiphoria, happiness, light mood, loss of control . 2000-2300 gr of beer, 3 big glasses of gin, a bottle of vodka . ...

... Seasonal Streaks Point to Recent Flowing Water on Mars . ... Credit Copyright: NASA , JPL , U. Arizona Explanation: What creates these changing streaks on Mars? ... After much study , including a recent chemical analyses , a leading hypothesis has emerged that these streaks are likely created by new occurrences of liquid salty water that evaporates as it flows. ... Publications with keywords: Mars - water . ... NASAs Curiosity Rover at Namib Dune (360 View) . ... A Dark Sand Dune on Mars . ...

... Exposure Time Calculator (ETC) . Survey processing . ... VISTA is a 4-m class wide field survey telescope for the southern hemisphere, equipped with a near infrared camera (1.65 degree diameter field of view at VISTA's nominal pixel size) containing 67 million pixels of mean size 0.34 arcsec and available broad band filters at Z,Y,J,H,K s and a narrow band filter at 1.18 micron. A wide field visible camera, if constructed, could also be used on VISTA. ... Tile . ... ESO VISTA Public Surveys . ...

... In less then one day "Mir" station will finish its flight. ... Besides, the operability of motion control systems will be tested to ensure further dynamic operation at the final stage of "Mir" complex. ... The final third burn is given in daily orbit 2 using the "ProgressM1-5" 8 control engines and its main engine with the trust of 300 rg/s. Thus, to peform deorbit maneuver the OC"MIr" real-time tested manuevers involving control engines and their combination with the main engine are used. ...

listing for HDU #1: SIMPLE = T BITPIX = 16 /8 unsigned int, 16 32 int, -32 -64 real NAXIS = 2 /number of axes NAXIS1 = 3056 /fastest changing axis NAXIS2 = 3056 /next to fastest changing axis BSCALE = 1.0000000000000000 /physical = BZERO + BSCALE *array_value BZERO = 32768.000000000000 /physical = BZERO + BSCALE *array_value OBJECT = ' ' TELESCOP= ' ' / telescope used to acquire this ...

Your First Telescope . Articles | ... So, which one should I buy? ... You started out with a 60 mm refractor (probably from a department store), then you upgraded to a 6" f/8 reflector from either Criterion or Meade, and if you stuck with it long enough, you eventually bought an 8" Schmidt-Cassegrain from Celestron. ... Avoid like the plague any cheap refractor sold on the basis of its magnification. ... Which one would you buy, if you could only get one? ... www.astronomy.net . ...

... The HH flow associated with young stellar object HL Tau has an exciting history and even until now the origin of some its features is not clear yet. ... Knotty structures of Herbig-Haro jets are common phenomena and knowing the origin of such structures is essential for understanding the processes of jet formation. ... In the flow detected compact knots with high (-150 km/s) and bow shape structures in front of those, with low radial velocities (-50 km/s). ...