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The Database of Close Binary Systems . ... Team . ... This web-based interactive database is being developed and maintained by a team at the Sternberg Astronomical Institute of the Moscow State University . The project is an on-line extension of our catalogue on "Highly Evolved Close Binary Stars" (volumes I, II) published by Gordon and Breach in 1996. As of September 2009, the database (both the software and the content) is in its development/testing phase. ...

Stellarium 0.12.3 . ... Classes . ... Public Slots | ... ShortcutsDialog Class Reference . voidљ . ... restore colors of all items it TreeWidget to defaults. ... prefixMatchKeySequence (const QKeySequence &ks1, const QKeySequence &ks2) . ... called when apply button clicked. virtual void ShortcutsDialog::createDialogContent . ... called when editors' state changed. void ShortcutsDialog::initEditors . ... checks whether one QKeySequence is prefix of another. void ShortcutsDialog::resetCollisions . ...

Astronotes Armagh Planetarium's Stellar Blog! ... Space Flight . ... One spacecraft seen from another (Image credit: NASA/ESA) . ... It shows the Automated Transfer Vehicle (ATV) Johannes Kepler soaring into orbit in the nose of an Ariane 5 from the Guiana Space Centre in French Guiana. Currently, the ISS is supported by five spacecraft: the Space Shuttle and Soyuz (which carry people too), the Russian Progress , Japanese HTV and ESAтАЩs ATV. Each ATV carries seven tonnes or so to the ISS. ...

The International Space Station (ISS) has recently become the second brightest object in the night sky тАФ even brighter than the planet Venus, and second only to the Moon. ... But what is special now is that the Space Station has just become brighter than ever before. ... The International Space Station is now the biggest, brightest man-made object orbiting the Earth. ... The extra area increases the luminosity of the ISS as viewedтАФ by means of the sunlight it reflects тАФ from the Earth. ...

... Abstract Determine the set of osculating conic orbital elements that corresponds to the state (position, velocity) of a body at some epoch. ... In general, the elements found by this routine can have two kinds of problems: - The elements are not accurate but still represent the input state accurately. ... One recommended "sanity check" on the outputs is to supply them to the CSPICE routine conics_c and compare the resulting state vector with the one supplied to this routine. ...

Russian SHAREABLE DATA CENTER Institute of Solar-Terrestial Physics SB RAS . ... Since the Irkutsk IS radar is based on station "Dnepr", which was not intended for IS measurements, we made a serios effort to modernize this station in order to carry out ionospheric observations. Four main directions of the development of the radar experimental base: . modernization of the radar receiving system; . development of primary processing and measurement control methods; . ...

... A special program called the session manager notifies applications when they should save their state. The Gnome desktop environment comes with a session manager called gnome-session , but Gnome uses the X session management specification, which is several years old. ... client = gnome_master_client (); gtk_signal_connect (GTK_OBJECT (client), "save_yourself", GTK_SIGNAL_FUNC (save_session), argv[0]); gtk_signal_connect (GTK_OBJECT (client), "die", GTK_SIGNAL_FUNC (session_die), NULL); . ...

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