... A prominent politician was recently walking past a block of apartments in Civic when they were narrowly missed by a falling flower pot. ... Nobody saw who dropped the flowerpot, or where it came from. ... The impact of the flowerpot was, however, caught on a security camera. ... The flowerpot is clearly visible in two consecutive frames from the security camera. ... In the first frame, you estimate that the pot is 1.2 m 2cm above the pavement, while in the second frame the height is 16 2cm. ...

... Doug's Home Page . ... In the examples below we show a number of ways that data can be moved back and forth between S-Lang and Perl . ... Source code typeof : "undef"; __END__ __SLang__ variable foo = Any_Type [3]; foo[0] = "a string"; foo[1] = 23; define getfoo(x) { return foo[x]; } message( "In S-Lang:" ); vmessage( "typeof(foo[0]) = %s", string(typeof(foo[0])) ); vmessage( "typeof(foo[1]) = %s", string(typeof(foo[1])) ); vmessage( "typeof(foo[2]) = %s", string(typeof(foo[2])) ); . ...

... ESO is building what will be the World's largest optical telescope array, The Very Large Telescope (VLT). The VLT Project organisation is responsible for the design and construction of the Unit Telescopes, including enclosures, optics, adapter-rotators and coating unit. ... Unit Telescopes Overview - This page is outdated, an update is in process. ... Secondary mirror (M2 Unit) - This page is outdated, an update is in process. ... Coating Unit - This page is outdated, an update is in process. ...

The sort command is a simple database tool. It allows you to specify the field to be sorted on and the type of sort to be carried out on it. sort filename . Lines are sorted into the following order: lines starting with numbers come first, followed by lines starting with upper-case letters, which are followed by lines starting with lower-case letters and finally symbols such as % and ! ... Saving the results of a sort to a file . Checking if a file has been sorted . ...

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 . ...

Astronotes Armagh Planetarium's Stellar Blog! ... Stars . ... Space Flight . ... Some 13.7 billion years ago, a mere millionth of a second after the Big Bang, the first hydrogen and helium nuclei condensed out of a hot, dense soup of quarks and gluons. ... In the very last few kilometres some of the light was scattered by a myriad of water droplets (containing hydrogen nuclei which had existed almost since the Big Bang) slowly descending through the air following a rainshower. ...

... Statistic files are managed using file generation sets and scripts in the ./scripts directory of this distribution. ... Each valid update appends a line of the following form to the current element of a file generation set named peerstats : . ... This keyword allows the (otherwise constant) filegen filename prefix to be modified for file generation sets, which is useful for handling statistics logs. filegen name [ file filename ] [ type typename ] [ flag flagval ] [ link | ...

... CoordConv is written in C++ and Python, using SWIG as the C++ wrapper. ... In Python the following will convert an FK5 J2000 position to apparent topocentric coordinates at a specified TAI date: import coordConv taiDate = 4916391905 # TAI date in MJD, seconds site = coordConv . Site (-105.822616, 32.780988, 2788) # Apache Point Observatory 3.5m telescope # For better accuracy you may also specify UT1- TAI and pole wander in site ; # these may be obtained from IERS Bulletin B fk5Sys = ...

... Bad Astronomy . ... Every few months, one of a series of questions comes up on the USENET group sci.astro involving tides, or the rotation of the Moon, or the recession of the Moon from the Earth. ... Why the Moon's rotation period is the same as the length of time it takes to orbit the Earth (same as number 1, but phrased differently). ... But when this happens, the time it takes for the Earth to rotate once will be slowed to exactly the same time it takes for the Moon to go around the Earth once! ...

... Author(s) (name or initials are given before family name); . ... Every entry in the list should give full list of authors (initials are printed after names) (for collections editor(s)), full title of book, collection and paper. ... Type - Times New Roman 12 pt (for the exceptions indicated below: title, list of authors, names of Institutions, names of sections should be printed in bold). ... Title of paper, list of authors, names of Institutions, formula, tables and pictures are centered. ... Name ....

Альтернативный форум . Scientific.ru Все форумы . Постоянные участники форумов [ .. ... The second law of Newton - Zhivotov, kinetic energy and work of forces. ... It is scarlet - work of tangential forces. ... Re: Второй закон Ньютона - Животова (Редактированное) (То) . ... Второй закон Ньютона - Животова, кинетическая энергия и работа сил. ... снова все то же Munin, 11.12.2007 13:39 . ... Re: Второй закон Ньютона - Животова, кинетическая энергия и работа сил. v_rtex, 08.12.2007 17:34 . ...

... SUN MOON MERCURY VENUS MARS, JUPITER SATURN . Sun . ... The Sun's Heartbeat . ... Can a 0.2-second pulse from a magnetar put out as much energy as the Sun does in 250,000 years? ... A giant magnetar flare is incredibly bright and emits as much radiation energy as the Sun does in hundreds of thousands of years. Get instant access to subscriber content on Astronomy.com! ... Much more! ... If you are already registered on Astronomy.com, please log in below. ...

... Michael E. Lopez-Alegria (Captain, USN, RET.) ... After his second mission, he led the International Space Station (ISS) Operations branch of the Astronaut Office. ... In October 2014 Lopez-Alegria became an independent consultant; he is based in Washington, D.C. SPACE FLIGHT EXPERIENCE: Mission Specialist (MS)-2, STS-73 Columbia (October 20 to November 5, 1995). ... The primary mission objective was delivery of the Expedition 6 crew to the ISS and the return of the Expedition 5 crew to Earth. ...

... INTERNATIONAL SPACE STATION . VIDEOARCHIVE . THE SECOND PRIME MISSION . TO THE INTERNATIONAL SPACE STATION . 04/30/2001. ... Being launched from Baikonur cosmodrome on April 28, 2001, the Russian Soyuz TM-32 transport spacecraft has been docked with the International Space Station (ISS) following a 2-day free flight in near-earth orbit and upon completion of all the required rendezvous and berthing operations in an automated mode with respect to the Orbital Complex. ... SEA LAUNCH | ...

... IC 1396 . IC 1396, better know as the Elephant's Trunk. ... LGB (no red)and H filters as follows: . L - 25 images, G and B - 15 images each, all with a subframe of 180 seconds. Halpha (Used Halpha in place of Red filter) - 20 images of subframe 360 seconds. Processed/stacked with CCDStack. Combined and stacked with PS CS5. ... Copyright (c) Amateur Telescope Makers of Boston, Inc. ...

asncombine -- Process and combine images in one or two NICMOS associations asncombine association . ... set to yes to include error planes in co-added images error. background . ... This is useful to use different background subtractions for different images. fheader . set to yes in order to multiply the background by the value of keyword "factor" in the image header. ... Set to yes to use quadrants statistics save in the image header from previous runs of asncombine. regquad1 . ...

... Next, the screen displays "Press 0 to align or Mode for Menu." Press "0" if you wish to begin Automatic alignment (or Easy Align, depending on your telescope model), or press Mode if you wish to choose a manual alignment method ("Automatic Alignment" displays, and you can press MODE to go through the menu to find other alignments). ... Note: If you press the "?" key while "Ctr Brightest Star" displays, the alignment star that AutoStar has chosen will display. ... Alignment successful" displays. ...

Canadian Paper Money] . This page will attempt to answer questions pertaining to Canadian Paper Money.љ ... 4) What does the "*" beside the serial number represent? ... Following the creation Canada's central bank, the Bank of Canada introduced its first paper money issue.љ ... Starting with the 1954 Bank of Canada issue, defective notes produced during the printing process were replaced by these 'replacement notes' which carried the asterisk before the serial number.љ ...

... We address a question if globular clusters (GC) in a protogalaxy could for some time evolve chemically as isolated systems, enriching themselves with heavy elements produced in first supernova events that follow initial star formation. We determine both the critical mass of a protoglobular cluster that is needed to retain the ejecta of the very first supernova, and the critical energy (i.e., number of supernovae) that is needed to expel the residual gas from a cluster of a given mass. ...

Proposing a METI Institute . ... Those who propose, or oppose, sending Messages to Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence (METI) must contemplate the Hamlet-like question: тАЬTo send or not to send?тАЭ The science known as SETI deals with searching for messages from aliens. ... A radio message to ETI message could employ a three-section structure and incorporates three specific languages, which we can call "the language of nature", "the language of emotions", and "the language of logic". ... Arecibo Message . ...