... Timothy L. Kopra (Colonel, U. S. Army, Ret.) NASA Astronaut . ... In this position, he primarily served as an engineering liaison for space shuttle launch operations and International Space Station hardware testing. ... He then served in the Space Station Branch of the Astronaut Office, where he was involved in the testing of crew interfaces for two space station pressurized modules as well as the implementation of support computers and operational Local Area Network on the station. ...

Filename completion is only available if the the environment variables EDITOR and/or VISUAL are set to either emacs , gmacs or vi . For example: EDITOR=emacs . ... To complete a file or directory name with emacs or gmacs set press the ESC key twice. ls -l on<ESC><ESC> line_help . If the filename is not completed enter more characters until the filename can be uniquely identified. ... To complete a file or directory name with vi set press the \ (backward slash) key. ls -l on\ line_help . ...

... 1.7 GSC 084 Pulkovo Obs., 0.33 15 x 15' 1.0" 7 34 0.179 0.307 Normal Asgr. 3.0 UCAC 118 Slovakia, 0.57 14 x 10' 1.7" 3 12 0.090 0.145 Modra 3.3 USNO 127 Germany, 0.19 30 x 20' 2.4" 3 15 0.151 0.087 Bornheim 0.8 GSC 168 34 200 0.282 0.315 291 USA,Kitt Peak, 1.8 390 x 30' 1.0" 1 5 0.143 0.144 Spacewatch II 4.7 USNO 300 Japan, 0.5 78 x 78' 2.3" 7 36 0.420 0.447 Bisei Center 1.3 ACT 461 Hungary, JATE 0.60 28 x 19' 1.1" 6 22 0.124 0.153 Asteroid Surv. ... Polynesia 1.0 UCAC F85 Tiki Obs., ...

... In an unexpected twist, recent observations have shown that the gas in the outer regions of this photogenic spiral is rotating in the opposite direction from all of the stars! ... Space Shuttle and Space Station Photographed Together . ... Usually, pictures of the shuttle, taken from space, are snapped from the space station. Commonly, pictures of the space station are snapped from the shuttle. How, then, can there be a picture of both the shuttle and the station together, taken from space? ...

... 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 . ...

... astro-ph . ... We present the goals and preliminary results of an unbiased, near-infrared, narrow-band imaging survey of the First Galactic Quadrant (10deg<l<65deg ; -1.3deg<b<+1.3deg). ... We publish 16 Doppler imaging temperature maps for the years 1994-2002 of the active RS CVn star II Peg. ... Through Doppler imaging we want to study the spot evolution of the star and in particular compare this with previous results showing a cyclic spot behaviour and persistent active longitudes. ...

... Tonight's Sky . ... Supernova showered Earth with radioactive debris . ... Opportunityò??s devilish view from on high . ... Dave's Universe . ... Planck's High Frequency Instrument completes its survey of early universe . ... The High Frequency Instrument (HFI) on the European Space Agencyò??s (ESA) Planck mission has completed its survey of the remnant light from the Big Bang. ... Plank has been measuring these patterns by surveying the whole sky with its HFI and its Low Frequency Instrument (LFI)....

DIGITAL WDC EXCHANGE FORMAT . FOR OBSERVATORY 1.0 MINUTE VALUES 1. ... DATA-1 .. DATA-60 are 1-minute values of the given element for that hour. ... Typically, digital 1-minute values received by WDCs from organizations operating automatic magnetic observatory instruments are averages of more frequendy sampled values, e.g. 10-second point samples. ... If the method used to obtain 1-minute average values is important to a user, the WDC will assist in determining the exact procedure applied. ...

... Bondarko M.V., Vostokov S.V, Zhukov I.B., Additive Galois modules in complete discrete valuation elds// Algebra and Analysis, 1997, issue 4, 2846. ... Bondarko M.V., Vostokov S.V, Isomorphism of ideals regarded as Galois modules of complete discrete valuation elds with residue eld of positive characteristics // Trudy St. Peterburgskogo Matematicheskogo Obsh'estva, vol. 6, 2000, 4251, translation in Amer. ... Bondarko M.V., Z[ p ]-motivic resolution of singularities// Compositio Math., vol. 147, iss....

This section of library contains information about "classic" Star Catalogs. ... For a Henry Draper Catalog 272149 stars have received a total of 531,211 identifications in 7 ñatalogs: . 270456 - in Astrographic Catalogue ( "Carte du Ciel", 4M), . 251943 - in Guide Stars Catalog (GSC), . ... A file with information on the components of 1788 of multiple systems in catalog HDEC (3681 component, or a combination thereof, with 4054 recording). ... A file with information about 21971 variable stars. ...

... This tutorial is about how to setup typical FTS application using PostgreSQL. We create our configuration pg , which will be default for locale ru_RU.UTF-8 . ... We'll use postgresql specific dictionary using synonym template dictionary and store it under PG_ROOT/share/dicts_data directory. ... After vacuuming, we are ready to perform full-text search. =# select rank_cd(fts_index, q)as rank, title from pgweb, plainto_tsquery('create table') q where q @@ fts_index order by rank desc limit 10; . ...

This page contains the table of contents and select excerpts only and is not a complete reproduction of this issue. Complete content for online Mercury is available to ASP members and institutional subscribers . ... Reflections: Science Fare , Phil Plait . The Bad Astronomer (a.k.a. Phil Plait) gives a short speech to students who participated in a science fair. ... Astronomy in the News . ... Editorial, Paul Deans . ... Education Matters, David Bruning . ... Reflections, Phil Plait . ...

In this chapter we will consider two very simple but useful Web agents that I have written on Actor Prolog for my own needs. ... Let us start the Web agent. Fig. ... Start of the Web agent. The Context diagram consists of three blocks: "Logic Programming Sites", "Edit", and "Check". ... Some Web sites that are linked with the logic programming and Prolog are listed in the pulldown list (these addresses are transferred to the "Edit" block from the "Logic Programming Sites" block). ...

... Telescopes . ... 2013: . A new control system for the 1-m telescope with remote control possibility for the observation process . In 2013, the creation of a control system for the multitask 1-m ZEISS-1000 telescope was completed in SAO RAS, allowing the use of the telescope's observational capabilities in the modes of local and remote control. ... FITS 3.0-compatible archive of direct images with astrometric calibration . ... SAO RAS Report N329, 2013. Archive . ...

Next: Ñåéôèíà Åëåíà Âèêòîðîâíà (ÃÀÈØ) Up: abstracts Previous: Ðåâíèâöåâ Ìèõàèë Ãåííàäüåâè÷ (ÈÊÈ ÐÀÍ) . Ñòàòèñòèêà àêòèâíûõ ÿäåð ãàëàêòèê è êîñìè÷åñêèé ðåíòãåíîâñêèé ôîí ïî äàííûì îáñåðâàòîðèè ÈÍÒÅÃÐÀË The recently completed INTEGRAL hard X-ray all-sky survey provides a sample of more than 100 nearby AGN selected without regard to absorption effects. ...

... Baikonur launch site, branch office of S.P.Korolev RSC Energia . At Baikonur launch site the preparations continue for the launch of Progress M-66 cargo vehicle under the International Space Station program. Designers inspection of the Progress M-66 transport cargo vehicle was completed. ... Orbital module of the Soyuz-U launch vehicle, containing Progress M-66 spacecraft was transported from the spacecraft processing facility for the general integration with LV. ...

The engineering camera is test-mounted using the plug plate cart and lift. ... The enclosure is opened and the engineering camera is riding on the plug plate cart under the telescope. ... The telescope is rotated for position; waterproof sheathing covers the mirror. The engineering camera is maneuvered under the telescope and the lifting control is activitated. The camera is lifted to the bottom of the mirror cell, latched into place and th elift lowered. ...

... The Co­Addition Technique Applied to Images of Galaxy Cores W. W. Zeilinger Institut f˜ur Astronomie, University of Vienna, T˜urkenschanzstraúe 17, A­1180 Wien, Austria P. Crane, P. GrosbÜl and A. Renzini European Southern Observatory, Karl­Schwarzschild Straúe 2, D­85748 Garching, Germany Abstract. ... One may therefore take full advantage of the high resolution FOC images by co­adding them with (high signal­to­noise) ground­ based data. ... References Crane, P. et al. ...

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... Formation of Galactic Subsystems in Light of the Magnesium Abundance in Field Stars. ... The Thin Disk(2006) . ... I. The Thick Disk. ... A Compiled Catalog of Spectroscopically Determined Elemental Abundances for Stars with Accurate Parallaxws. I Magnesium. ... Stars of extragalactic origin in the solar neighborhood.( ... Evidence for age delay between the formation of the old halo and the thick disk(2000) . ... Tel:work(8632)433985 . home(8632)333178 . Fax:(8632)434044 . ...