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... The Magnetic Sun . ... Earth's Core . ... Magnetic Reversals . Moving Continents . ... Most dry land has a modest elevation above sea level, while most of the ocean floor is about 3 kilometers (or 2 miles) lower down. ... Its magnetization is in the direction of the local magnetic force at the time when it cools down. ... Ocean floor magnetization (USGS figure) . ... Every half million years, on the average, the Earth's magnetic polarity reverses, and so does the magnetization of the ocean floor. ...

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... Spectrograph corrector removed and safely stowed. ... TCC commands are listed as such. ... This is especially helpful while moving mirrors with setmir, as the TCC window will show you how long each move will take. ^z means control-z; similarly for ^\, etc. ... Relax M1 using TCC command "queue run=relax" . ... Use setmir to move the primary to its nominal mechanically collimated orientation 0 0 0 0 0: . ... Relax M1 using TCC command "queue run=relax" (always relax the mirror after moving D, E or F)...

... The European HST Archive has been moved to ESA's European Space Astronomy Centre ( ESAC ), Spain, where most of ESA's Space Science Archives are located and operated from. ... The Space Telescope European Coordinating Facility (ST-ECF), jointly operated by ESA and the European Southern Observatory ( ESO ) was, until the end of 2010, the European HST science facility, supporting the European astronomy community in exploiting the research opportunities provided by the Hubble Space Telescope. ...

Winer Observatory P.O. Box 797, Sonoita, Arizona 85637-0797, USA . ... 2/3-m Telescope . ... Site . ... Commanding . ... In a typical robotic observing scenario, each afternoon, a telescope control computer obtains a set of objects to observe from its home institution from a command or script file. ... The file is then transferred to the telescope control computer at the Winer Observatory in Sonoita. ... The Iowa control computer then begins processing the telrun.sls file. ... 2013 Winer Observatory. ...

This module provides for the customization of HTTP response headers. ... This module provides a directive to control the sending of HTTP headers. ... Header . ... Syntax: Header set|append|add header value . ... Module: mod_headers . This directive can replace, merge or remove HTTP response headers during 1xx and 2xx series replies. ... set . The response header is set, replacing any previous header with this name . ... The response header is appended to any existing header of the same name. ...

Check out the new images (Jan 18-25) and (Jan 26-Feb 05) of the comet by Rob McNaught. ... Every few years a comet becomes bright enough to be easily seen with the naked eye but only every decade or so are these comparable with comets like Halley. ... Before Jan 13, the comet is not visible in the Australian sky after sunset. ... SOHO images . ... On Jan 12 at approximately 09:00 UT (8pm NSW time), comet C/2006 P1 McNaught appears at the 11 o'clock position in the images. ... STEREO images . ...

... Stellar Evolution is driven entirely by the never ending battle between Pressure and Gravity . As imbalances are reached, the star is driven to find a new Energy source. ... Pressure and gravitational forces are equal, the star is stable and its core is sufficiently hot to fuse Hydrogen into Helium More about main sequence stars . ... The luminosity generated by the core fusion of Helium into Carbon is far greater than the shell luminosity associated with the fusion of Hydrogen into Helium. ...

... Summary page . ... Printable page . ... This article is part of the LWN Porting Drivers to 2.6 series . ... If you have a char driver which needs direct user-space access (a high-performance streaming tape driver, say), then you'll want to map user-space pages yourself. ... int get_user_pages(struct task_struct *task, struct mm_struct *mm, unsigned long start, int len, int write, int force, struct page **pages, struct vm_area_struct **vmas); . ... Driver porting: Zero-copy user-space access . ...

... The Astrophysics Data System (ADS) is moving towards public domain access software for its data holdings. Several ADS services are already accessible through the World Wide Web (WWW) (e.g., abstract service, catalogs, Einstein archive) and more are planned. ... The main emphasis of the restructured ADS Project will be the operation and development of the ADS Astrophysics Science Information and Abstract Service (ASIAS) (formerly the ADS Abstract Service). ... Figure: ASIAS query result. ...

Russian Space Science Internet (RSSI) is a successful result of RSSI Project. ... space oriented organizations; . ... RSSI offers for its members : . ... videoconferences via MBONE Internet protocol (there are 2 tunnels available now through the general IP network: one to NASA Internet, and another to Moscow State University); . ... It is designed so that all organizations connected to the RSSI gain access to the resources of Russian computer networks as well as world wide Internet. ... nic@rssi.ru ...

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... AAS 221 . AAS 219 . AAS 218 . AAS215 . ... Can we divine anything from the Twitter stream of the 215th meeting of the AAS ? The results presented here unfortunately do not reflect all the tweets from the meeting, but only those available via the Twitter Search API . ... For the period January 1, 2010 to January 8, 2010, I found there were 352 tweets that contained the #aas215 hash tag, and 895 that used the #aas hash tag. ... Here's the word cloud from the 1247 tweets: . ...

The Status popup displays useful information about the state of sets, regions, and graphs. ... When the number of sets is less than 30, this button is not needed, use the scroll bars to view the status of the sets that are not shown in the display. ... Operations in the Status popup are performed by clicking on the operation, then clicking on one or more set numbers shown in the display. ... Clicking on Copy followed by clicking on a set number in the scrolled window will select the set to copy from. ...

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Astronotes Armagh Planetarium's Stellar Blog! ... Colin Johnston . ... Milky Way . Stars . ... Monthly Sky Notes . ... June . ... This red supergiant is the brightest star in the constellation Scorpius and is of awesome size. ... Returning to Vega (which will be the pole star in about 12 000 years from now), follow an imaginary line between it and Arcturus, this line will cross two more constellations, faint and sprawling Hercules and that celestial smile Corona Borealis. ...

... Earth at Twilight . ... It looks like a double comet, but Comet PanSTARRS (C/2011 L4) is just offering skygazers a Messier moment. Outward bound and fading in this starry scene, the well-photographed comet is remarkably similar in brightness to M31, the Andromeda Galaxy. ... Comet PANSTARRS and the Andromeda Galaxy . ... Currently, comet PANSTARRS is passing nearly in front of the galaxy Andromeda. Coincidentally, both comet and galaxy appear now to be just about the same angular size. ...