Astronomy Picture of the Day . ... First officially discovered in 1786, Comet Encke is on its 59 th documented return, making it one of the best-studied comets on the sky. Mysteriously, Comet Encke should have been discovered millennia earlier, since it likely became bright enough to see unaided many times over the past few thousand years. ... Recent observations place Comet Encke as bright as visual magnitude six during early December, making it just on the verge of unaided human vision . ...

Astronomical Data Analysis Software and Systems XIII ASP Conference Series, Vol. 314, 2004 F. Ochsenbein, M. Al len, and D. Egret, eds. eSTAR: Astronomers, Agents and when Rob otic Telescop es aren't... ... The eSTAR Pro ject1 uses intelligent agent technologies to carry out resource discovery, submit observation requests and analyse the reduced data returned from a network of robotic telescopes. ... We can view the system as a unified information grid, within which intelligent agents live. ...

So what is "Code Blue" and what does it mean? It's no great secret that several years ago we had the mirror re-coated on the 31" Blue Beast at Warren Rupp Observatory, and within a few short weeks, portions of the coating began to fail. ... These are the fellows that showed up at the Observatory on February 20th to help with the gargantuan and nail-biting task of getting mirror out of the telescope safely, out of the cell safely, into the box safely, and put into the truck safely. ...

... The software for downloading the AE and Dst data does not have a radio button 'go' or 'submit'. ... Sometimes, we see strange data (spikes and step like level changes) in the QL-Dst. ... QL-Dst is derived from very noisy data, which is caused by local noise near the observatory. ... However, QL-Dst is made from one magnetometer, step like level changes are usually caused by change of a magnetometer. ... QL-Dst is for quick look use and urgent monitor of the geomagnetic activity. ...

OptInt PmWiki : Pm Wiki / Fmt Page Name . ... This page describes an internal function in PmWiki's engine called FmtPageName(). ... Returns $fmt , with $variable and internationalisation substitutions performed, under the assumption that the current page is pagename . ... Replace any sequences of the form $XyzFmt with value of any corresponding global variable. ... Typically this is used to handle things like $Name and $Group etc that are specific to the name of the current page. ...

... The Chinese would certainly not have invented the magnetic compass. ... Chemically and mineralogically, the lodestone is magnetite, a massive type of iron ore, an oxide of iron, a mineral related the the brown stuff coating the magnetic disks and tapes used by computers. ... But even then, just resting a few million years in the Earth's magnetic field would produce no magnetization. ... Still, as Gilbert observed, in a long iron rod that magnetism was channeled to the ends, where it could be noted. ...

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 | ...

. Once a transfer has been initiated, it is given a number to identify it and placed in the transfer queue. You can then use this number to manage the file transfer. Examining the file transfer queue . Kick a file transfer request . Cancelling a file transfer request .

Stellarium 0.12.3 . ... Classes . ... AngleSpinBox Class Reference . A spin box for displaying/entering angular values. More... #include < AngleSpinBox.hpp > . ... virtual voidљ . ... Set the value to default 0 angle. ... AngleSpinBox (QWidget *parent=0, DisplayFormat format= DMSSymbols , PrefixType prefix= Normal ) . ... Set the display format. ... the value to set, in decimal degrees. void AngleSpinBox::setDisplayFormat . ... the value to set, in radians. void AngleSpinBox::valueChanged . ...

Russian SHAREABLE DATA CENTER Institute of Solar-Terrestial Physics SB RAS . ... November 9, 10, 11, 12 and 13 . December 6, 7, 8 and 9 March 24, 25, 26, 27 and 28 . ... December 3, 4 and 5 February 13, 14 and 15 . ... December 10, 11, 12, 13 and 14 . Incoherent Scatter Radar ionospheric parameters measurements are carried out on coordinated days determined by the International Geophysical Calendar. ...

... xpaget 3 .TH xpaget 3 June 7, 2012 version 2.1.14 SAORD Documentation .SH NAME \ \fBXPAGet: retrieve data from one or more XPA servers \fR .SH SYNOPSIS .IX Header SYNOPSIS .Vb 1 \ #include xpa .h .Ve .PP .Vb 4 \ int XPAGet( XPA xpa , \ char *template, char *paramlist, char *mode, \ char ** bufs , int *lens, PP A template of the form \*(L"class1:name1\*(R" is sent to the \&\s-1XPA\s0 name server, which returns a list of at most n matching \s-1XPA\s0 servers. ...

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... 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 . ...

... Long-Term Predicted Orbit . ... MBC OD Results . ... What: The ASC navigation team (in collaboration with MBC and JPL MMNAV) will generate a long-term predicted orbit which will be used by the RSOG to generate the long-term schedule. ... What: The MBC and JPL MMNAV navigation teams will work together to generate a predicted orbit for the spacecraft that will be used to generate the SRS file. ... What: The MBC and JPL MMNAV team will separately produce predicted orbit files for the GTSs. ...

Independent University of Moscow . ... Moscow, August 25-30, 2007 . ... Registration . ... To participate please fill in the following registration form and return it to our contact addresses by the deadline May 15, 2007. REGISTRATION FORM . ... Name (as in the passport) . ... Your passport number . ... If you need a RUSSIAN VISA, please, indicate this in the registration form and send us the scanned copy of your passport (including the page with photo) before May 15, 2007 by e-mail. ...

Astronotes Armagh Planetarium's Stellar Blog! ... No Comments Armagh Planetarium?s great balloon race has ended.€а The results are in and they have been checked and verified.€а There were balloon reports on the Cathedral Road, the Battleford Road and [ ] . Continue Reading.. ... Posted on August 24, 2011 | ... No Comments Have you ever wondered how to build a solid fuel space rocket? €аHave you ever wanted to witness a rocket launch? €аIf the answer is yes, then Armagh Planetarium is [ ] . ...

SAI, graduates year 1982. ... Note: when just a 7-digit phone number is shown, it refers to a phone located in Moscow (international access 007-495). "+" in front of a number means that you must dial an international access code first (or just press "+" on your mobile phone keypad). ... 939-1672(work); . ... Ataev Sasha . 1-(703)-536-8881(home) (USA); . ... Bychkov Sergey . ... 1-(410)-740-8205(home), +1-(301)-286-2150(work) (USA); . ... 1-(412)-767-0332(home), +1-(412)-608-9339(mobile) (USA); . ...

Blog . ... Bad Astronomy . ... Bitesize Astronomy . Book Store . Bad Astro Store . ... Site Info . ... I just came back from "Superman Returns", the long-awaited sequel, kinda, of the Superman movie series of the 1980s. The movie was OK; I would say it was fun and all but hardly the equal of the original with Christopher Reeve. ... So let's find the nearest phone booth so we can go up, up, and review! ... My review of "Superman Returns" . ... Check out my book "Bad Astronomy" . ...

... Technical Information . RESURS-01 No.3 . ... Present State of RESURS Space System . ... MSU_E (Resurs O1 N3) . ... Operational Archive (MSU-E Data) . ... Data Search (MSU-E) . ... Request of Data . ... RESURS-01 Data on other Servers . For more information send a mail to: info@sputnik.infospace.ru . ...

... Third International Symposium UNIVERSAT-2009: UNIVERSITY SATELLITES IN SPACE SCIENCES EDUCATION is canceled . ... With great regret we have to inform you that the Third International Symposium UNIVERSAT-2009: UNIVERSITY SATELLITES IN SPACE SCIENCES EDUCATION scheduled to take place 28 September, 2009 - 4 October, 2009 in Moscow, Russia, has been canceled by the Organizing Committee. ... On behalf of UNIVERSAT-2009 Organizing Committee, . ...