... Imaging of the core of the OMC-1 region using NICMOS camera 2 through the F212N and F215N filters shows a wide variety of interesting structure on scales of 0.2" at a very high dynamic range (Stolovy et al. ... The application of image restoration techniques, including multi-channel variants of the Richardson-Lucy technique, offers the chance to enhance structure on the finest scales and also to suppress the prominent and richly structured point-spread functions of the many bright stars in the...

... chm_manage . ... This routine is called when new input occurs on a channel. chm_PROTO_close_func . ... KManagedChannel chm_manage ( Channel channel, void *info, flag (*input_func) (), void (*close_func) (), flag (*output_func) (),flag (*exception_func) () ) . ... channel : The channel object to manage. info : The arbitrary information pointer associated with the managed channel. ... The close_func will be called if this routine returns FALSE. void chm_PROTO_close_func (Channel channel, void *info) ....

... IC443 is thought to have been formed between 30,000 and 35,000 years ago, and most likely is the remains of the pulsar, G189.6+3.3. Located about 5,000 light years away, the pulsar’s X-ray emissions excite the material of the nebula, causing the chemical components to emit light in their characteristic wavelengths. ... TAK FSQ . ... FSQ: 12x30 minute subs plus 14x5 minute subs, totaling 7 hours, 20 minutes . ... Copyright (c) Amateur Telescope Makers of Boston, Inc. ...

... The function is accessible, if the file with the image is open, and Ю identification of a star field is made. ... a) Load a first image by the command " Open ", and others by the command " Open +". b) Make an identification of the field. c) Open the menu " File ", select " Next " or press . ... It is necessary tree or more images. a) Load the first image by the command " Open" , and others by the command " Open + ". b) Open the menu " Marking ", select "Detect moving objects" or press - . ...

... What is an intelligence or an intelligent life? ... Various particular cases, new regimes, original approaches etc. being attractive as they could, all this is a pale shade of a real process of cognition. ... May an infinitely complicated object be indeed so simple? ... An intelligence could not arise in an infinitely complicated universe! ... There are two possibilities: whether our imagination of infinitely complicated object is incorrect or the surrounding world is not infinitely complicated. ...

Microsymposium 34, MS047, 2001 SOME PROBLEMS OF THE EVOLUTION OF ASTEROIDS ­ RUBBLE PILE. ... Evidently, we can distinguish two processes: distant interactions, where there is no direct contact between separate fragments, and close contact interactions, where the fragments collide with one another. ... Such a rubble pile with a dust atmosphere differs from a cometary nucleus only in the absence of a volatile gas component, which is usually considered the cause of the appearance of cometary dust. ...

... Radiation mechanisms of astrophysical objects: classics today . ... Studies of radiation mechanisms and processes of spectra formation in astrophysical objects are among the fundamental tasks of modern astrophysics. ... On this occasion the Saint-Petersburg State University organizes an international conference Radiation mechanisms of astrophysical objects: classics today , which will be held in St. Petersburg from September, 21 to September, 25, 2015. ... Scientific rationale . ... Conference venue...

... Class . ... METHOD . ... java.lang.Object ij.plugin.filter.Binary . ... Binary () . ... This method is called by ImageJ to inform the plugin-filter about the passes to its run method. int . ... This method is called after setup(arg, imp) unless the DONE flag has been set. ... The method should return a combination (bitwise OR) of the flags specified in interfaces PlugInFilter and ExtendedPlugInFilter . ... This method is called by ImageJ to inform the plugin-filter about the passes to its run method...

Blackholes Forum Message . Forums: . ... Black Holes And RedShift . ... Perhaps black holes really are the reproductive means of the universe.Could the black hole of a Quasar red-shift the electromagnetic energy trying to escape it? ... Perhaps black holes treat electromagnetic energy the same way. ... No one really knows enough about Quasars and black holes to say for sure but ask yourself this: Why would all the Quasars in the universe be moving away from the Milky Way? ... www.astronomy.net . ...

... Asteroid . ... In case you didn't hear about it, which you probably didn't: On Jan. 7, an asteroid 1,000 feet across -- nearly three times the current diameter of Marlon Brando -- barely missed the Earth, which is most likely your planet of residence. ... What if this asteroid had hit the Earth? ... As it happens, the American Astronomical Society was holding a conference in Washington AT THE VERY SAME TIME as the asteroid nearly hit the Earth. ...

... Tonight's Sky . ... Sky this Month . ... Star Atlas . ... stars . ... The Sky This Week: April 1 - 10 . ... Observing springtime deep-sky objects with a large telescope . ... Why do some stars appear to flash a variety of different colors when you look at them through a telescope? ... So, Earthт??s atmosphere will bend some colors from especially bright stars more so than others, which makes the source look like itт??s flashing colors. Get instant access to subscriber content on Astronomy.com! ...

... Baikonur launch site, . branch office of S.P.Korolev RSC Energia . At 05:14:37 Moscow Time a space logistics spacecraft Progress M-03M was launched from the Baikonur launch site. The objective of the launch is to provide support needed for further functioning in orbit of the International Space Station (ISS) in accordance with the Russian commitments under the ISS project, as well as to continue developmental testing of the logistic spacecraft of the new series. ...

... 8, ``Celestial Mechanics'', 2002 Investigation of stability of NEAs orbital resonance motions by numerical methods L. E. Bykova Tomsk State University, Tomsk, Russia The problem of orbital stability of resonance Near­Earth asteroids (NEAs) is considered. Most of NEAs have multiple close approaches to the inner ma­ jor planets. ... The technique of the investigation of NEAs orbital stability has been devel­ oped by author on the basis of the construction of possible motion domains (R) of asteroids. ...

... CATS is being expanded continuously. Now (March 1997) it comprises over 150 catalogs and big tables including most of the RATAN--600 catalogs, ninety the biggest world radio astronomical catalogs with number of objects more than 1500, hypertext documentation and full scientific references for every catalog (3 Mb), systems of coordinates transformations, software for spectral data processing, and occupies 450 Mb, while most of catalogs storaged in compress (gzip) files. ... 1996; Trushkin et al., ...

... It was designed to observe the solar wind approaching Earth, from a position near the Lagrangian point L1, and it is part of the International Solar-Terrestrial Physics (ISTP) Initiative . ... The original plan called for "Wind" to approach its final station over two years, undergoing two close encounters with the Moon to boost its speed. ... If however the object is moving , the encounter is not symmetric, and in the end the spacecraft may have gained or lost speed, depending on its trajectory. ...

КОСМИЧЕСКИЙ КАЛЕНДАРЬ ЯНВАРЯ 2000 ГОДА . ... Jan 01 - Year 2000 . Jan ?? ... Jan 01 - Asteroid 1996 AX1 Closest Approach To Earth (0.702 AU) . ... Jan 03 - Asteroid 3745 Petaev Closest Approach To Earth (1.862 AU) . ... Jan 05 - Asteroid 1999 VO11 Near-Earth Flyby (0.218 AU) . ... Jan 08 - Comet P/1998 VS24 (LINEAR) Closest Approach To Earth (2.915 AU) . ... Jan 12 -[Image][Dec 02] Asteroid 1999 WA2 Closest Approach To Earth (1.100 AU) . ... Jan 14 - Mercury Occults 53 Sgr (6.9 Magnitude Star) . ...

TUI supports the following offsets: . Object Arc offset by a given amount on the sky (i.e. along the arc of a great circle). ... Arc offsets are useful for moving a different portion of your object or a different nearby object onto the boresight . ... Object Arc XY this is identical to an Object offset except that it has been rotated to align along the instrument x-y axes. ... This is just like the Calibration XY offset, except that it is typically cleared when you slew to a new object. ...

... 4.4 Imbedding HTML in a Document . In the following discussion of SPECIAL processing
, I will assume that rtftohtml has not been customized. If it has, the text styles used to create special effects may be different. ... Normally, if your RTF document contained the text "<cite>hello</cite>", the translator would output this as: "&lt;cite&gt;hello&lt;/cite&gt;". ... If, however, you want the <cite></cite> to be interpreted as HTML markup, you must format the tags using Hidden and Shadow. ...

A methodical and didactical complex "Sign Language" . ... ABSTRACT The process of communication of the deaf includes the wide use of the sign language. ... The aim of this work is to develop a tool that should facilitate process of sign language teaching and also give to the trainee a means for independent study of various normative variants of sign language - for example, Russian, English, International and so on. ... The process of dialogue of the deaf people includes wide use of sign languages. ...

... In this report questions arising in attempts of application of nonlinear systems with complicated dynamics to image recognition are discussed, and approaches to their solution are proposed. Recognition problems are a real challenge to information processing systems. ... In this report typical questions arising in attempts of application of nonlinear systems with complicated dynamics to image recognition are discussed, and approaches to their solution are proposed. ... compressed information . ...