... AstroAsciiData is a Python module to handle ASCII tables. ... The idea to develop this Python module emerged from the fact that ASCII tables continue to be one of the most popular and widely used data exchange formats in astronomy and probably science in general. ... To load this ASCII table, go into Python, load the AstroAsciiData module and read in the table with: . ... demo = asciidata.open('webexa.txt') . ... Users who only want to work with ASCII tables neeed no further python modules. ...

OptInt PmWiki : Pm Wiki / Page Text Variables . Page variables | ... Page text variables are string variables automatically made available through natural page markup or explicitly with page directive markup within the wiki text of the page. ... use a definition list - the normal pmwiki markup for a definition list will create a page text variable . ... This creates a new variable that can be accessed by {$:Name} (becomes: "Crisses") in the page. use a simple colon delimiter in normal text . ...

The Family ASTRO "How-To Manual" . From 2000-2004, we tested and developed many key strategies that our Event Leaders could use to lead successful Astronomy Events with our series of Leader Kits . ... Working with Families . We first envisioned Family ASTRO as a way to expand the ASP's flagship program Project ASTRO? and bring what it was doing in the classroom to the students' families. ... what we now call our "12 Key Ideas for Working with Families." ... From Family ASTRO . ...

... 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 . ...

The ion rocket is another means of providing thrust, more gradually but also more efficiently than a conventional rocket. ... As in the nuclear rocket, the energy which propels the xenon jet comes from a different source; here it is electrical energy from solar cells. The reason an ion rocket is much more efficient than ordinary rockets is the way its jet is produced. ... As with solar sails, solar ion engines are mainly practical in the inner solar system, where ample sunlight is available. ...

Peremennye Zvezdy ( Variable Stars ) 27 , No. 8, 2007 . ... Sternberg Astronomical Institute, 13, University Ave., Moscow 119992, Russia; e-mail: antipin@sai.msu.ru . Institute of Astronomy, Russian Academy of Sciences, 48, Pyatnitskaya Str., ... We present the discovery, photographic and V-band CCD observation of a new High Amplitude Delta Scuti star USNO-A2.0 0975-09853705. ... The photographic and -band CCD phased light curves of the newly discovered High Amplitude Delta Scuti star. ...

This manual describes the details of writing an actor based on twistedActor. ... Thus, to the extent that the underlying hardware controllers support it, an actor based on twistedActor can execute multiple commands at the same time. ... One thing to keep in mind while writing your device code is: which actor commands can the device handle directly? ... Actor contains the list of devices your actor controls and code to execute certain commands called "local commands". ... Execute the command . ...

A A LTEX CLASS FILE FOR ESA PROCEEDINGS Patrick W. Daly1 , A. N. Other1 , and F. Favata 1 2 Max-Planck-Institut fur Aeronomie, 37191 Katlenburg-Lindau, Germany Ё 2 Astrophysics Division, ESTEC, 2200 AG Noordwijk, The Netherlands ABSTRACT Talks presented at an ESA sponsored conference are published by the ESA Publications Division by means of author-produced camera-ready copy. ... Figure 1. ... FIGURES AND TABLES A Figures and tables are inserted with the normal LTEX environments figure and table. ...

... Bad Astronomy . ... On Thursday, February 15th 2001 (and replayed on March 19), the Fox TV network aired a program called ``Conspiracy Theory: Did We Land on the Moon?'', hosted by X-Files actor Mitch Pileggi. ... Dust around the lander . ... However, it appeals to our common sense: when the sky is black here on Earth, we see stars. ... Bad: The program claims that when the top half of the lander took off from the Moon to bring the astronauts back into orbit, there was no flame from the rocket. ...

... Orbits in Space . ... The ion rocket is another means of providing thrust, more gradually but also more efficiently than a conventional rocket. ... As in the nuclear rocket, the energy which propels the xenon jet comes from a different source; here it is electrical energy from solar cells. ... The XIPS ("zips") ion engine developed by the Hughes corporation was tested in the laboratory and then aboard a Russian spacecraft, launched 6 October 1997; it is the one shown on top of this page. ...

Underdetermined sets is a new type of data structures (terms) developed in Actor Prolog . ... The point is that an underdetermined set can include some indefinite rest (a tail) like a list in usual Prolog . At the same time, the order of elements of an underdetermined set can be arbitrary one and it does not affect results of unification of underdetermined sets. Moreover, Actor Prolog guarantees that a rest of an underdetermined set never contains elements that are explicitly given in the set. ...