... First of all, I should say that you cannot guarantee user-mode processes to have exact control of timing because of the multi-tasking nature of Linux. ... However, for most applications using I/O ports, this does not really matter. To minimise this, you may want to nice your process to a high-priority value (see the nice(2) manual page) or use real-time scheduling (see below). ... Linux 2.x kernels have soft real time support; see the manual page for sched_setscheduler(2) for details. ...

The following images of the icy surface of Ganymede, the Solar System's largest moon, were made by the Galileo spacecraft during its ongoing mission to explore Jupiter and the Jovian system. ... This image was taken when Galileo was 7,448 kilometers (4,628 miles) away from Ganymede; north is to the top of the picture, and sunlight illuminates the surface from the lower left nearly overhead (77 degrees above the horizon). ... The image was taken June 27 at a range of 7,448 kilometers (4,628 miles). ...

... public class TiffDecoder . ... static int . ... Field Detail public static final int NEW_SUBFILE_TYPE . ... public static final int IMAGE_WIDTH . ... public static final int IMAGE_LENGTH . ... public static final int BITS_PER_SAMPLE . ... public static final int COMPRESSION . ... public static final int PHOTO_INTERP . ... public static final int IMAGE_DESCRIPTION . ... public static final int STRIP_OFFSETS . ... public static final int ORIENTATION . ... public static final int SAMPLES_PER_PIXEL . ...

... Telescopes . LX850 Series . ... Superb optical performance coupled with time proven computerized pointing and tracking has made the LX200 ACF series a best-seller in the high-performance telescope class. ... Meade's revolutionary LS LightSwitchтДв series of telescopes use advanced technologies to do what no other consumer telescopes have done before: take all the hassle out of using a telescope. ... LightBridgeтДв dobs give you high quality Meade optics, premium components, and ultra portability. ...

Posting Observations . ... You will need to subscribe to vsnet-acc (to allow you access to post your observations). ... VSNet has several different e-mail sigs, and sub sigs. ... These list are controlled by a software package called " Majordomo ", which allows you to subscribe and unsubscribe yourself from these list with an e-mail message (automated). ... Once you have subscribed to vsnet-acc (which will only send you a welcome message back and nothing else) you can post to the other list. ...

... For SIMS (Secondary Ion Mass Spectrometry) analysis, a solid surface is bombarded by primary ions of some keV energy. ... The subsequent mass analysis of the emitted ions provides detailed information on the elemental and molecular composition of the surface. ... Extremely short ion pulses with a duration below . ... By rastering a fine-focussed ion beam over the surface, like an electron beam in an electron microprobe, mass resolved secondary ion images (chemical maps) can be obtained...

... Searching for the Universe, from an Iron Mine . ... On large scales, its gravitational effects dominate that of the ordinary matter. ... This allows us to set up detectors here on earth and search for dark matter signals. ... Steve Leman presently works on the Cryogenic Dark Matter Search (CDMS) and Micro-X Microcalorimeter X-ray Telescope experiments at the Experimental Cosmology and Astrophysics Laboratory at MIT. ... Copyright (c) Amateur Telescope Makers of Boston, Inc. ...

Software Forum Message . ... Astronomy Software Discussion | ... Detailed Moon Map For HandMap And Handheld PCs (Palm Or Pocket) . ... Detailed Moon Map for HandMap . The first vectorised Moon Map for Pocket PC and Palm devices. ... Palm site: http://www.handmap.net/Palm/Moon-Map.htm . ... Pocket PC site: http://www.handmap.net/WinCE/Moon-Map-W.htm . ... Forum posts are Copyright their authors as specified in the heading above the post. "dbHTML," "AstroGuide," "ASTRONOMY.NET" & "VA.NET" . ...

The HyperNews Linux KHG Discussion Pages . Forum: The Linux Kernel Hackers' Guide . Keywords: vm86 . Date: Thu, 06 Aug 1998 14:53:02 GMT . From: Sebastien Plante < sebasp@cae.ca > . I have a project of emulating 8086 card processor. I think that I can do it under Linux by using VM86. Where can I get enough information on VM86 to be able to use it ? .

National Aeronautics and Space Administration . ... James H. Newman (Ph.D.) . NASA ASTRONAUT (FORMER) . ... Recipient of the American Astronautical Society Flight Achievement Award (1994, 1999) for his work as a member of the STS-51 and STS-88 crews. ... That same year he came to work at NASA s Johnson Space Center, where his duties included responsibility for conducting flight crew and flight control team training for all mission phases in the areas of Orbiter propulsion, guidance, and control. ...

AMPLE 3 - Multi-purpose Software Package for Asteroids and Comets . ... AMPLE 3 v0.7.2 contains data base of 31.03.2011. ... OS Windows, Linux. ... New icons. ... To download the archive of new data base (for example, dbfiles-2011apr.zip ) click on necessary zip-file from list below. ... Replace directory dbfiles in "C:\Documents and Settings", where the part of AMPLE 3 is installed (for example, C:\Documents ans Settings\Username\Application Data\Ample 3), by new directory dbfiles from the archive. ...

... 4 November 1994 . orbit . ... 0.0128 . ... orbit period . ... satellite mass . 1950 kg . scientific payload mass . 550 kg . ... For more information send a mail to: info@sputnik.infospace.ru . 1997-2002 SMIS IKI RAN and SRC "PLANETA" Moscow, Russia. ...

Description and Technical Details . In 1980s two medium-size horizontal solar telescopes 50/35000 cm with large spectrographs Czerny-Turner made by Carl Zeiss Jena were installed in the Ondњejov observatory. The Czerny-Turner-spectrographs in the Ondњejov observatory called HSFA1 and HSFA2 according to the German name Horizontal-Sonnen-Forschungs-Anlage ("horizontal device for solar research") have been explored for more than two decades. ... Diffraction grating - Richardson, Spectra-Physics . ...

... It is generally accepted that the mechanism, widely known as the Antikythera mechanism, was made in Rhodes at the height of the Roman Republic, as the island was known as the source of interesting mechanical automata. You can tell just by looking at it that the device is part of a larger object, and it is also obvious that there are geared wheels and other rotational elements within it. The device undoubtedly is an early computer and could be seen as the first planetarium. ...

... Optical constants of Fe 2 O 3 in the infrared spectral region. ... Optical constants: . amorphous Fe 2 O 3 . ... The Reflectance of polarized radiation at the incidence angle 12 deg was measured in the range from 1400 to 200 cm -1 for monocrystalline hematite (alpha-Fe 2 O 3 ) and amorphous Fe 2 O 3 samples. Special technique applied allowed to reduce the relative errors downto 1% for the reflectance values of 0.005-0.8. The optical constants were obtained by the Kramers-Kronig method. ...

USING THE CORRELATION BETWEEN ISGRI SURVEY RESULTS AND OTHER CATALOGUES TO AID SOURCE IDENTIFICATION John B. Stephen, A. Malizia and L. Bassani IASF-INAF, Via P. Gobetti 101, 40129 Bologna, ITALY, E-mail: stephen@iasfbo.inaf.it ABSTRACT In order to help in the identification of INTEGRAL/ISGRI sources, we have developed a software package which allows a rapid and detailed cross-correlation to be performed between various source catalogues. ... We show below some preliminary results from this analysis. ...

The sections <Directory> , <Location> and <Files> can contain directives which only apply to specified directories, URLs or files respectively. Also htaccess files can be used inside a directory to apply directives to that directory. ... The order of merging is: . ... If multiple <Directory> sections apply to the same directory they are processed in the configuration file order. ... Using the options in question is only possible inside a <Directory> section (or a .htaccess file). ...

ENERGOSPECTROMETER OF IONOSPHERIC PLASMA P3-3 . ... The major objective of the P3-3 experiment is complex investigation the main parameters of ionospheric plasma with high time and spatial resolution. ... Measured parameters: . ... The experiment produce regular data - measured with fixed time interval and «packet» data - measured once per specific time interval and producing blocks of TM-information. ... If all parameters will be measured once per second, the experiment will produce 10 MB per orbit. ...

SITE 2010 Comprehensive Characterization of Astronomical Sites Kislovodsk, Russia, 49 October 2010 Conference Summary Marc S. Sarazin*a a European Southern Observatory, Garching, Germany Abstract The main topics discussed during the Site 2010 conference are outlined and the outcome is described. Keywords: Astronomical Site testing, precipitable water vapor, atmospheric turbulence, cloudiness, seeing 1. ... Site surveys for National observatory projects in China, India, and Iran benefit from this. ...

The 2dF QSO Redshift Survey (2QZ) . ... Before jumping into all the finer details of teh survey, a brief non-astronomer's guide to redshift surveys is available. ... The primary scientific aims of the QSO survey are: (1) to obtain the primordial fluctuation power spectrum out to COBE scales, (2) to determine the rate of QSO clustering evolution in the non-linear and linear regimes and hence obtain new limits on the value of and the bias parameter, (3) to apply a powerful geometric method to measure . ...