... Armagh Observatory, College Hill, Armagh BT61 9DG, +44 (0)28 3752 2928 . ... This shows the Sun, Moon and Earth (not to scale) together with the . ... They have tested the technique on the Earthshine, the light reflected from the Earth by the Moon, and showed that it can reveal the presence of life in our planet. ... This technique uses the fact that the light reflected from the planet is polarised, whereas that emitted by the star is not. ... Polarised light can tell us about the reflecting surface...

... Contents . ... Sidereal time . ... Mean longitude of the Moon, mean elements of the Moon's orbit and equator . ... Ephemeris for physical observations of the Sun . ... Ephemeris for physical observations of the Moon . ... Matrix elements for conversion to CIRS . ... Conversion of mean time to sidereal time (with accuracy 0.01 s ) . ... Conversion of sidereal time to mean time (with accuracy 0.01 s ) . ... Conversion of mean time to sidereal time (with accuracy 0.001 s and 0.0001 s ) . ...

This module provides support for dynamically configured mass virtual hosting . ... Source File: mod_vhost_alias.c . ... For simple name-based virtual hosts you might use the following directives in your server configuration file: UseCanonicalName Off VirtualDocumentRoot /usr/local/apache/vhosts/%0 . A request for http://www.example.com/directory/file.html will be satisfied by the file /usr/local/apache/vhosts/www.example.com/directory/file.html . ... Module: mod_vhost_alias . ...

Many foreigners say "England" and "English" when they mean "Britain", or "the UK", and "British". ... In Northwest England, there are many beautiful lakes with green, wooden or grassy shores and gray mountains all around. The Lake District is the central mountainous area of Cumbria in the Northwest and has some of England's most beautiful scenery. ... Nearly one quarter of the Lake District National Park is owned by the National Trust . ...

. Russian Version [ MS-Win ] . [ News ] . [ Satellite data ] . [ SMIS ] . [ ] . Daily pictures of European part of Russia, Western Siberia and North-East of Europe. Three parts: the Northern Russia and North-East of Europe , Southern part of Russia and the European part of Russia and Western Siberia . WEATHER FORECAST for RUSSIA. Date / Time . North-West . South . European part . and Western Siberia . Movie . Movie . Movie . Back to SMIS Home Page .

. Analog "tholins" made in Mark Smith's chemistry lab. "Tholin" is a term coined by Carl Sagan (from the Greek "tholos," meaning mud) for the brown complex organics precipitating from Titan's stratospheric aerosol layers. Titan's natural tholins could be part of important surface chemistry leading to the next step toward life. Lori Stiles, UA News

... What is the configuration of the device driver software? ... If the software you use doesn't adequately tell you what's wrong (or automatically configure it correctly) then you need to investigate how your hardware devices and their drivers are configured. ... Another problem is that when you view configuration messages on the screen, it's sometimes not clear whether the reported configuration is that of the device driver, the device hardware, or both. ...

... Let p(n) be the number of partitions of n. Here is the table of values of p(n) for small n: n 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 p(n) 1 1 2 3 5 7 11 15 22 30 42 (The value p(0) = 1 has the following meaning: there is a unique partition of 0 into positive integers, viz. the partition into an empty set of parts.) ... Prove this formula. ... 1 Theorem 2. ... A plane partition of the number n is a set of positive integers with total sum n, arranged as a Young diagram with nonincreasing rows and columns. ...

The nasa.gov site requires that JavaScripts be enabled in your browser. ... Contact NASA . ... The term "astronaut" derives from the Greek words meaning "space sailor," and refers to all who have been launched as crew members aboard NASA spacecraft bound for orbit and beyond. Since the inception of NASA's human space flight program, we have also maintained the term "astronaut" as the title for those selected to join the NASA corps of astronauts who make "space sailing" their career profession. ...

... Bad Astronomy . ... I think I will break from my usual format of Bad Astronomy/ Good Astronomy by saying that the way we define seasons currently is not strictly bad, but I feel (in my opinion!) that it could be better. The definition of when the seasons begin is at the moment of solstice or equinox; that is, winter (in the north) starts on December 22 nd and summer starts on June 22 nd . ... Now imagine breaking up the Sun's 46 degree up-and-down yearly swing into 1 day intervals. ...

There is an obligation of team leaders to translate these rules and regulations to native language of participants in advance. Starting since 2004 this translation has to be done in written form as an obligatory part of application to the International Astronomy Olympiad.) ... Don't write the conditions of problem in rough copy or clean copy. ... All additional information for participants to be done in both official languages of the Olympiad: in Russian and in English. ... Rough copy. ...

... For Teachers . ... Gilbert' Terrella Gilbert carried out many experiments, but the most famous one was his explanation, why the compass pointed north. ... Over the surface of the terrella he moved a magnetic compass. ... It then recounts the later history of the Earth's magnetism, including.. ... Teaching about the Earth's Magnetism in Earth Sciences , a one-hour illustrated talk given by the author 18 November 2000 before the regional meeting of the National Association of Science teachers (NSTA). ...

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Astronomical Data Analysis Software and Systems XIII ASP Conference Series, Vol. ... Until recently, a typical FITS file was composed of a single image less than 100Mb in size. Now FITS files composed of mosaics images, multiple-extension FITS images, FITS data cubes, and RGB composite images are common. ... And along with this explosion of new data file representations comes demands for more flexibility in visualization, support for external and remote analysis, and seamless Web integration. ...

Russian SHAREABLE DATA CENTER Institute of Solar-Terrestial Physics SB RAS . ... To improve the quality of ionograms and to carry out on automatic ionogram processing we have developed a special software, which can be arbitraly devided into the following main parts: . ... Ionogram processing software on the basis of image processing; . Interactive ionogram processing software. ... Here we present ionogram samples for different kinds of chirp sounding . ... Capabilities and samples | ...

... Meade Instruments Corporation . ... Section 3: File Menu . ... Displays the dialog to open an existing image: . ... Saves the current image as a new file name or new file type, or both. ... This can be useful to prevent having 20 or more images open at once, and saves having to close them manually. ... This is done by creating a text file with the same name as the image file. ... Note that Image Information is saved within the FITS file, so there will not be a text file to accompany these files. ...

... The Wingaersheek Observatory and Telescope . Mario Motta and Scott Milligan . ... For the May meeting I was hoping to show a completed telescope, but it always takes twice as much time to make over 400 parts than you think. ... A new design that has near zero aberrations (no Newtonian coma, for example), made from all spherical surfaces, and would help me build the optics, including fabricating the main mirror. ... Other Monthly Meetings . ... Copyright (c) Amateur Telescope Makers of Boston, Inc. ...

... renamed as QC group, part of DMO department (head: Reinhard Hanuschik) . ... renamed as QC group, part of Back-end Operations Department, restructured with 4+1 QC scientists . The Quality Control Group is part of the Back-end Operations Department which has been re-structured from the former Data Products Department (DPD) in 2011. ... ASG (Archive Science group) . ... The Back-end operations Department (BOD) is responsible for the archive, for data products and for data processing. ... DMO Twiki . ...

Part 1 of the course: . describes various data types available in computer languages (on the base of Pascal ), . introduces basic data structures used in programming and . shows program realization of the structures. ... This part is available in Russian as LaTeX and PostScript files. ... presents a set of typical algorithms of non-numerical programming and . ... The text of this part is in preparation. The authors are thankful to V.Titov and A.Shneewais for useful discussions. ...

... Телескопостроение, оптика (Модераторы: I.A.R. , Ivan7enych ) ? Интервью с Thomas M. Back . ... CN: Who does the lens figuring for your TMB scopes? Why did you choose them? ... Their master opticians do the final hand figuring, that is so important for sharp and high contrast images. ... They make their own glass, curve generate, polish, figure, multicoated all glass surfaces, and finally make a custom temperature compensated cell, that has been a proven performer over the last 9 years. ...