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. ...

... 8, ``Celestial Mechanics'', 2002 First results of GPS orbit determination with GRAPE package using a square--root information filter M. O. Keshin Institute of Applied Astronomy, St. Petersburg, Russia The zero--differenced carrier phase measurements contain the distance be­ tween the phase centres of receiver and transmitter antennas biased by unknown integer number of cycles (phase ambiguities). ... In the case of GPS the problem of solar radiation pressure modelling is of primary importance. ...

. Computer Ephemeris. Lunar equatorial positions. Explanations. Each row contains at 0 h and 12 h of Time Dynamical Terrestrial: month, day, apparent right ascension (hours, minutes, seconds), apparent declination (degrees, minutes, seconds of arc) and geocentric distance (in Earth's radii).

XmTel ----- XmTel is a Motif-based program including a command line utility cmdtel developed by John Kielkopf (kielkopf@louisville.edu) to operate a telescope connected to a Linux computer system. ... In other words, slew to a bright or easily recognized target, center it in the field, and click Reference -> Target. ... See the main README for cautions.) ... XmTel assumes that target coordinates entered from the keyboard are in the Epoch that the telescope coordinates are currently displayed in. ...

MAKING THE PROFILES . First of all you are expected to load a FITS file ("FILE"-"LOAD"). ... By pressing the middle button you copy the profile from the first profile window to the second one. ... An example: first integral can correspond to the profile of active region and second integral can correspond to the profile of quiet chromospheric region. ... The second profile (which is subtracted from the first one) you extract after clicking on "SUBTRACT"-"MARK QUIET PROFILE" and marking the region. ...

... The previous example, Chapter 12, "Expanding Colored Squares Example," illustrates how to expand and contract the clipping region of a layer without changing the wrapping width of the layer. This example illustrates how to capture mouse events so that the user can make a layer's wrapping width wider or narrower by dragging the mouse. ... how to capture mouse events for a layer . how to change the wrapping width of a layer by using the load() function . ... Capturing Events for the Layer . ...

This groups includes about 200 communication satellites ("comsats") scattered in synchronous orbits above the Earth's equator. ... 6 Earth radii (42,000 km or 26,000 miles), these satellite make one orbit per day, and therefore as the Earth turns, they always stay above the same ground station. ... Still another application is the 24-satellite network of the "Global Positioning System" (GPS), in circular orbits at distances of about 4.1 Earth radii (26,000 km or 16,000 miles). ...

It's possible to connect RS-232 peripheral to the RS-422 port available on Macintosh computers. Use RXD- as RXD, TXD- as TXD, Ground RXD+, Leave TXD+ unconnected, GPi as CD. (at the computer) . 8 PIN MINI-DIN FEMALE at the computer. ... TXD- . Transmit Data (-) . ... RXD- . Receive Data (-) . ... GPi . ... Note: Direction is DTE (Computer) relative DCE (Modem). Note: GPi is connected to SCC Data Carrier Detect (or to Receive/Transmit Clock if the VIA1 SYNC signal is high). ...

... Prognoz Launches . ... Images . ... antenna of the low-frequency radiation receiver of the electromagnetic field . ... panel of solar batteries . magnetometer bar Prognoz is the name of the once soviet Earth research artificial satellites (ISZ for Russian) meant to study processes of solar activity, their influence on interplanetary environment and the Earth magnetosphere. ... solar wind and magnetosphere study . ... Full image is 61k . Full image is 52k . Full image is 60k . ...

... On-line calibration consists of calibration operations performed to maintain the ALMA observing system properly tuned to successfully execute the planned observations. ... Among processing operations are the calibration of the atmospheric absorption, of phase radiometric correction, of pointing scans, of phase and amplitude reference measurements, .. ... In the mean time tests of the calibration software will proceed using both simulated data and data from the antenna prototypes...?re 1 . ...

... Donate to Support Science Literacy . ... 2016 Annual Awards . The ASP is accepting nominations for the organizationтАЩs national annual awards which recognize special achievements in astronomy research, technology, education, and public outreach. ... Shop the AstroShop . ... The Astronomical Society of the Pacific (ASP) is accepting nominations for the organizationтАЩs national annual awards which recognize special achievements in astronomy research, technology, education, and public outreach.. ...

... Rocket-Space Complex N1-L3 . ... launch vehicle N1 . and Lunar Complex L3 . designed under . ... Launch vehicle N1 was designed of three stages (A, B, V) connected with transfer compartments of a truss type and a core stage. ... The rocket was a package design with suspended, single-unit, spherical fuel tanks and multi-engine propulsion units on stages I, II, and III. ... Mass of payload delivered to the Earth orbit, . ... Launch mass, t . ... Official WEB-site of S.P.Korolev RSC Energia . ...

Winer Observatory P.O. Box 797, Sonoita, Arizona 85637-0797, USA . ... 2/3-m Telescope . ... Site . ... Commanding . ... In a typical robotic observing scenario, each afternoon, a telescope control computer obtains a set of objects to observe from its home institution from a command or script file. ... The file is then transferred to the telescope control computer at the Winer Observatory in Sonoita. ... The Iowa control computer then begins processing the telrun.sls file. ... 2013 Winer Observatory. ...

Full-Text Search . ... astro-ph . ... SAI VO . Search sort results by Date Relevance . ... Whitespace-separated words are treated as AND ed. Show 10 50 100 articles per page in Full Compact mode . ... Allen, W.. ... Dunham, David. ... Giles, A. B.. ... Herald, David. ... Hooper, Dan. ... Kerr, Stephen. ... Parker, Stephen. ... Pennell, Alison. ... Todd, Stephen P.. ... Watson, Dan M.. ... SAI MSU . ...

... Dubna (24-28, 01,2005); . ... Representation Theory and Quantum Inverse Scattering Method: The Open Toda Chain and the Hyperbolic Sutherland Model, (together with A. Gerasimov, S. Kharchev), International Mathematical Research Notices (2004), no.17, 823--854. arXiv:math.QA/0204206; Preprint MPI. ... On a class of representatios of quantum groups (together with A. Gerasimov, S. Kharchev and S. Oblezin) Contemporary Mathematics v. 391 (2005) 101--110. arXiv:math.QA/0501473 Preprint MPI 2005(17); . ...

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Stellarium 0.12.3 . ... Classes . ... FileљStructure . ... Protected Member Functions | ... StelSkyPolygon Class Reference . ... StelSkyPolygon (const QString &url, StelSkyPolygon *parent=NULL) . ... StelSkyPolygon (const QVariantMap &map, StelSkyPolygon *parent) . ... voidљ . ... initFromUrl (const QString &url) . ... initFromQVariantMap (const QVariantMap &map) . ... loadFromQVariantMap (const QVariantMap &map) . ... Definition at line 31 of file StelSkyPolygon.hpp . ... const QString &љ . ...

... We computed the permanently shadowed areas and temperatures inside the craters for the variation of the position of the lunar pole of rotation with respect to the ecliptic pole with a period of 18.6 years. ... According to our results, the total permanently shadowed area in the polar craters of the Moon is equal to 50428.7 km2, or 0.13% of the total area of the lunar surface [3]. ... The area of permanently shaded part of a crater makes 59 % from all area of a crater [3]. ...

... Satellite data ] . ... The SCANOR system provides receiving and processing of the Earth-surface pictures made in visible and infra-red bands and transferred by satellites of the NOAA polar orbiter series (in the HRPT mode). ... The SCANOR system includes the desktop receiving device connected to an IBM AT 386 type computer, and the parabolic antenna with the guiding mechanism. The SCANOR system possesses the state-of-art software providing registration and processing of the received data. ...

Russian version of HP . ... StarCalc is the fastest professional astronomy planetarium & star mapping program for Windows 9x/ME/NT/2000/XP (StarCalc version for PocketPC computers you can found here ). ... Extensibility : This program is based on common "Plugin StarCalc interface to catalogs and object groups", which allows program to add new modules as Plugins. ... Welcome to the Pocket StarCalc Home Page: . ... Some bugfixes in eclipses" and line" plugins - see the new versions in downloads page. ...