Astronotes Armagh Planetarium's Stellar Blog! ... Armagh Planetarium . ... Space Flight . ... Monthly Sky Notes . ... April . ... By admin March 16, 2015 Posted in: Armagh Planetarium . ... Stargazing the Night Sky is a short and very informal course is for complete beginners who want to know more about the wonders of the cosmos. ... If you want to experience the amazing objects we can all see at night, this is the course for you. ... Copyright Armagh Planetarium 2014 All Rights Reserved. ...

. Discovery returns to the Orbiter Processing Facility bay 3 where Raffaello, the Multi-Purpose Logistics Module, sits inside. The module, which contains trash and equipment removed from the International Space Station, will be removed from Discovery's payload bay and transferred to the Space Station Processing Facility. NASA/KSC

... ISC Kosmotras . ... Cluster Launch of Dnepr LV 22 August 2013 KOMPSAT-5 Launch 21 November 2013. ... Being the 8th commercial launch for Dnepr, this is also its first 'return to flight' mission since the failure encountered on July 27, 2006 during liftoff from Baikonur. In parallel with the successful completion of its first launch campaign in 2007, ISC Kosmotras continues preparations for the next two Dnepr launch missions scheduled to fly from Baikonur and Yasny launch bases. ... Dnepr Program . ...

PRO cleandata , model = model ;; removes spikes from data, replaced with continuum ;; use: cleandata ;; cleandata ,/ model ; COMMON fileblock COMMON fitsblock COMMON procblock ; Define processed spectra specf = spec specr = spec ; Compute mean spectrum specm = fltarr(nwave) FOR iw = 0,nwave-1 DO specm (iw) = mean ( ...

What about Energy Storage? ... Battery Farms: . Acres of batteries; charged by transmission lines during periods of low demand . Returned to transmission lines during periods of high demand . ... Fused Silica has 25 times the energy storage per kg than lead-acid batteries . ... Very high energy density storage per kg . ... Not economically viable unless shipped large distances from point of production . Compressed Air . ... Have to cool the air as its compressed energy intensive . ...

Turning the Camera Skyward . A reconfigured camera can take wide-field exposures of astronomical objects (constellations, the Milky Way, zodiacal light, moving artificial satellites, meteor showers, variable stars, etc.) to reveal much fainter objects and structures than seen by naked eye. ... This picture reveals objects more than 2.5 times fainter than can be seen by the naked eye, including not only stars but also the Orion nebula (M42), where new stars are being born. ...

... Meade Instruments Corporation . ... Autostar Computer Controllers . 497 Autostar . ... One of the most important advances in telescope control in the past 25 years, the Meade #497 Autostar Computer Controller turns the ETX into an automatic celestial object locating system. ... The #497 Autostar Computer Controller plugs into the control panel of ETX-90EC, ETX-105EC, and ETX-125EC telescopes and enables automatic location of more than 30,000 celestial objects. ... about meade | ... Meade 4M | ...

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. ...

Next: File Manipulation Routines Up: File and Directory Manipulation Previous: File and Directory Manipulation . This basically involves calling appropriate functions. int chdir(char path) - changes directory to specified path string. ... NOTE: rindex() is a string handling function that returns a pointer to the last occurrence of character c in string s , or a NULL pointer if c does not occur in the string. ( index() is similar function but assigns a pointer to 1st occurrence.) ...

... When NASA's Genesis spacecraft returns samples of the solar wind to Earth in September, those samples will be brought to JSC. ... Genesis Searching for Genesis of the solar system by Bill Jeffs Solar wind samples coming to JSC may hold clues Pat Rawlings continued on page 14 Roundup 13 Genesis To accomplish these tasks, JSC built two ultra-clean class 10 cleanrooms in 1999. ... Apollo Flight Director Gene Kranz spoke of the earliest days of flight control before hanging the Apollo 1 plaque. ...

Since the days of Sputnik and Explorer 1, thousands of spacecraft have gone into space, some of them carrying human passengers. The first person to orbit the Earth was the Russian Yuri Gagarin, on April 12, 1961. The first American to do so was John Glenn, who completed three orbits on February 20, 1962; more than 26 years later, at age 77, Glenn returned to space aboard the space shuttle. ... in orbit. ... Manned satellites include various " space stations " intended for long-term residence. ...

This module provides for mapping different parts of the host filesystem in the document tree, and for URL redirection. ... The directives contained in this module allow for manipulation and control of URLs as requests arrive at the server. ... The ScriptAlias directive has the additional effect of marking the target directory as containing only CGI scripts. The Redirect directives are used to instruct clients to make a new request with a different URL. ... Syntax: Alias URL-path file-path | ...

Teaching and Educational Complex No. 1838 for the Deaf Children. Short History . Ivan Arnold (1805 - 1891) . In 1860 Ivan Arnold opened up a school for the deaf in Moscow. ... After being educated in Germany he returned to Russia and opened up a school for the deaf in St. Petersburg and later in Moscow, where he moved together with five of his pupils. ... In 1918 the school became state institute and was renamed into the Moscow Institute for the Deaf. ...

... 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 . ...

PRESS-RELEASE . about the return of the ISS-13 and VC-11 crews to the Earth . The Soyuz TMA-8 descent module returned to ground the Expedition 13 crew of the International Space Station (ISS-13) consisting of Pavel Vinogradov (commander, S.P.Korolev RSC Energia test cosmonaut), and Jeffry Williams (flight engineer, NASA astronaut). ... The spacecraft descent was carried out in the nominal automatic control mode. ... Official WEB-site of S.P.Korolev RSC Energia . ...

Pulkovo Database of Observations of Visual Double Stars . ... Catalog of relative positions of visual double stars, based on photographic observations performed since 1960 in Pulkovo on the 26-inch refractor (A.A.Kiselev, O.A.Kalinichenko, O.V.Kiyaeva, N.A.Shakht, L.G.Romanenko, I.S.Izmailov, O.P.Bykov, K.L.Maslennikov, E.A.Grosheva, D.L.Gorshanov), 2010 . ... Enter either ADS or WDS number. Click here to display full list of visual double stars observed at Pulkovo. ADS . ...

fitshdr_edit - FITS-file headers interactive editor fitshdr_edit [options] FITSfile_name . fitshdr_edit utility allows to modify FITS headers' lines interactively (FITS MultiExtentionsFiles included). fitshdr_edit is just simple shell script around fitshdr utility. ... It means, that You can't remove line from header! ... 560:CRDELT2 = 21.0 / this is example 640: 720:HISTORY header No.0: 1st history line 123456789012345678901234567 880:COMMENT Sat Sep 25 21:17:34 CEST 2004 / by fitshdr_edit . ...

... It allows to store manage, comment and link a bibliographic database . h3 Find Something? /h3 You need to enter the field you searching for in the search request. e.g.: code year = 1997 / code will return all entries from year 1997 or code year =97 / code will return entries from the years 1797 997 or 2097 h3 Features /h3 - BibTeX Parser - XHTML Viewer ( ...

Crews of the Space Station "Mir" . ... First main crew on the Station Mir. ... Soyuz TM-2" . ... Second main crew on the Station Mir. ... Third main crew on the Station Mir. ... Fifth main crew on the Station Mir. ... Sixth main crew on the Station Mir. ... Tenth main crew on the Station Mir (175 days). ... Twelfth main crew on the Station Mir. ... Thirteenth main crew on the Station Mir (179 days). ... Copyrigth ї The People's Charity Foundation for the Preservation of the Space Station "Mir", 1999 . ...

Trace: ranking . ... CREATE OR REPLACE FUNCTION my_rank (tsvector, tsquery, int ) RETURNS float AS $$ use List::Util qw(min max); my ($string, $ query ) = @_; my $maxpos = 0; # Parse tsvector, taking into account positional information foreach (split / /, $string){ if(/^'(\w+)'(:([0-9,]+))?$/){ foreach(split /,/, $3){ $ vector {$_} = $1; $maxpos = max($maxpos, $_); } } } my @ vector = map {$ vector {$_}} sort {$a = $b} keys(% vector ); # Parse tsquery, assuming it to be ORed only $ ... SAI VO | ...