... Submitted by Joseph Kristl on 01/22/2007 11:11:43 . ... 16:54:59 local 1/100 sec, f/5.6, ISO 400, fl = 400 mm . While Venus appeared somewhat brighter, it was much higher and thus in a considerably darker sky (and not through thin clouds). My impression at the time was that the comet was brighter than Venus (using calibrated eyeballs.. ... Copyright (c) Amateur Telescope Makers of Boston, Inc. ...

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The database contains references to the papers, data files and links to the Internet resources related to measurements and calculations of the optical constants in the wavelength interval from X-rays to radio domain. ... References to some useful books and reviews on the subject (e.g. the classical handbooks edited by E.D.Palik) and links to Internet collections of optical constants and personal WWW pages with related software were also placed in the database. You have arrived at our welcome page. ...

... This program was created for correlating chosen regions in the series of fts images. ... Chosen regions' . ... In this section the program counts the integral for each region of the grid for each image. ... As a matter of fact, the integral is total brightness of the region and it is counted by 'int_tabulated' IDL function. ... In addition, the program will show the count of the regions which correlate with the corresponding region (the brighter region means the bigger count) and its contour. ...

... Listed below are questions submitted by users of "The Great Magnet, the Earth" and the answers given to them. ... In "The Exploration of the Earth's magnetosphere" on the magnetic environment of the Earth in space (a few Q duplicated here) . ... 11) Magnetic Shielding . ... 51) Can electricity be generated from the Earth's magnetic field? ... 9) Measuring Earth's magnetic field . ... 6) Reversals of the Earth's field (4 queries) . ... 42) Could generated electricity affect Earth's magnetic field? ...

... After the edit, recompile the kernel and recompile the Apache server then reboot. ... If you're running a really busy BSD Apache server, the following are useful things to do if the system is acting sluggish: . ... Maximum # of processes . ... This machine is a server that handles lots of traffic, # so we crank that value. options NMBCLUSTERS=4096 # mbuf clusters at 4096 # # Misc. options # options CHILD_MAX=512 # maximum number of child processes options OPEN_MAX=512 # maximum fds (breaks RPC svcs)...

... A1: APOD stands for the Astronomy Picture of the Day . ... The text and links for rerun pictures will make use of this newly available information. ... Will you use it? A5: We can't promise to use it but we do strongly encourage picture submissions to APOD. ... Q6: Can I use an APOD picture for my computer-screen background? ... NASA has archived literally hundreds of thousands of space and astronomy related pictures and APOD readers have come to submit many images for our consideration. ...

... The Sun has come all of one day away from breaking its record for the longest period of inactivity for the last decade - reaching a mid-summer low and falling into yet another state of "hibernation". Yesterday, on the first day of autumn, new sunspots appeared on the surface of the Sun following an absence of almost 50 days. ... The first low lasted 51 days, from 21 July until 11 September last year. ... Now, almost a year later, it seems the Sun has hit a new low almost as "deep" as the first. ...

HTML is an application conforming to International Standard ISO 8879 -- Standard Generalized Markup Language (SGML). ... Every SGML document has three parts: . SGML declaration . ... For example, the SGML declaration in the HTML DTD specifies that the string that opens an end tag is </ and the maximum length of a name is 72 characters. ... Most HTML elements are identified in a document as a start tag, which gives the element name and attributes, followed by the content, followed by the end tag. ...

ADASS Home . ... e-Proceedings . ... Papers that are presented at ADASS conferences are required to conform to the following policies. ... Authors may request a presentation type of: oral, display, or demonstration. ... Submission Deadline . ... Authors of all presentation types are encouraged to submit their papers for inclusion in the conference proceedings. ... All presentation types (oral, display, demonstration), as well as BoF summaries, are eligible to be included in the conference proceedings. ...

Instructions to Authors These summary notes deal with the preparation and submission of manuscripts for the Irish Astronomical Journal . ... To avoid unnecessary delays authors are advised to follow the IAJ 's accepted format and to pay particular attention to the style as illustrated in this recent issues, i.e. in preference to earlier styles employed prior to Volume 22. ... The initial(s) and name(s) of the author(s) in the style and order in which they will appear in the Journal. ... IAJ . ...

... Next, the screen displays "Press 0 to align or Mode for Menu." Press "0" if you wish to begin Automatic alignment (or Easy Align, depending on your telescope model), or press Mode if you wish to choose a manual alignment method ("Automatic Alignment" displays, and you can press MODE to go through the menu to find other alignments). ... Note: If you press the "?" key while "Ctr Brightest Star" displays, the alignment star that AutoStar has chosen will display. ... Alignment successful" displays. ...

... The editor essentially gives you no prompts; You have to know what can be entered. ... Comments: Three types of comment can appear in your program: statement comments, segment comments, and symbolic comments. Statement comments are those that you enter while editing the program. ... See below for how to access the comment field to enter a comment). Segment comments form headings for program segments. ... Symbol comments are those that have been entered in the "assignments" file. ...

... Why don't those stars move? Stars in the sky will typically appear to rise and set as the Earth turns. ... If you look closely at the above time-lapse movie, however, there are points of light that appear stationary. ... Blue Straggler Stars in Globular Cluster M53 . ... M53, also known as NGC 5024, is one of about 250 globular clusters that survive in our Galaxy. ... Galactic or open star clusters are relatively young swarms of bright stars born together near the plane of our Milky Way Galaxy. ...

... The electronic journal Astrophysical Bulletin accepts manuscripts from authors from all over the world in Russian or in English. ... By submitting a paper to the editors, the authors assign the rights to its translation into English (for manuscripts in Russian) and into Russian (for manuscripts in English) to the founders, editorial board, and publishers of the journal but reserve the rest of the copyright. ... After a manuscript is registered, the corresponding author receives an e-mail...

... If you wish to participate in the School, please, provide the following information: 1. ... School (city, number/name) Class, or the graduation year. ... Contact coordinates: e-mail address (don't forget the postal code), phone number (please include country/city code). ... Give a few mathematical topics that you understand well. ... If someone can recommend you to the Organizing Committee to participate in the School, please give his contact coordinates (name, e-mail or address, phone number). ...

In this chapter we will consider an example of visual expert system written on the Actor Prolog language. ... There are a lot of methods of oil field bed stimulation that increase output of the oil production: thermal, physical-chemical, gas, microbiological, and others. ... Fig. ... The Top-Most diagram consists of three blocks: the "Describe parameters of hydrocarbon field" block, the "Check adaptability of existed methods of oil production" block, and the "Display solution" block. ... Gas methods. ...

Sharing the Vision Johnson Space Center employees strive every day to deliver NASA's message of exploration to the community, the country and the world. ... NASA Brain Bites Does your brain need a snack? If so, go find a NASA Brain Bite. ... NASA's Digital Learning Network brings space back to school By JSC's Education and Student Program's Branch Rocket Science at Home Rocket Science at Home (RSAH), an offshoot of NASA Brain Bites, is designed to help kids explore rocket science. ...

... SUPER RATIO . ... On this page I will present the most important (on my opinion) idea on Intellegence Life in the Universe . ... On the problem of the Super Ratio in astrophysics" . ... As a matter of fact, this is the main problem of the modern natural science. ... Here I shall try to speak about the most important problem of the modern natural science, the problem which is undoubtedly, of more importance than discovery of Blacks Holes, creation of Grand Unification Theory or Artificial...

... The European HST Archive has been moved to ESA's European Space Astronomy Centre ( ESAC ), Spain, where most of ESA's Space Science Archives are located and operated from. ... The Space Telescope European Coordinating Facility (ST-ECF), jointly operated by ESA and the European Southern Observatory ( ESO ) was, until the end of 2010, the European HST science facility, supporting the European astronomy community in exploiting the research opportunities provided by the Hubble Space Telescope. ...