Set the dimensions of the drawing area. ... Allow the drawing area to be resized to fit the main xmgr window (no scrollbars will appear). ... Set the drawing area dimensions to landscape, generally this will be larger than the window allocated for xmgr, and scroll bars will appear. ... Set the drawing area dimensions to portrait, generally this will be larger than the window allocated for xmgr, and scroll bars will appear. ...

... adass@eso.org . ... c/o Britt Sj?berg . ST-ECF/ESO . ... European Southern Observatory . ... The ADASS '97 Program Organizing Committee is comprised of the following members: Rudi Albrecht (ST-ECF/ESO), Roger Brissenden (SAO), Tim Cornwell (NRAO), R. Crutcher (Uni. of Illinois), F. Rick Harnden - Chair (SAO), George Jacoby (NOAO), Jonathan McDowell (SAO), Jan Noordam (NFRA), Dick Shaw (STScI), Richard Simon (NRAO), Britt Sj?berg (ST-ECF), Doug Tody (NOAO), and Dave Van Buren (IPAC). ...

... For HP-UX 9.X: Upgrade to 10.20 . For HP-UX 10.[ 00|01|10]: Upgrade to 10.20 . ... This will allow you to configure the size of the TCP connection lookup hash table. ... If folks are running Apache on a PA-8000 based system, they should consider "chatr'ing" the Apache executable to have a large page size. ... The change can be validated by running Glance and examining the memory regions of the server(s) to make sure that they show a non-trivial fraction of the text segment being locked. ...

... Page, C. G. 2003, in ASP Conf. ... In database terms this requires a spatial join between tables. Two algorithms for spatial joins (pixel-code and R-tree join) were compared, and the performance of three DBMS (DB2, MySQL, and PostgreSQL) was evaluated using large source catalogs. ... Join using the true spatial indexing built into some DBMS. ... 156.7 secs . ... 355 secs Spatial joins using R-tree indexing were also tested on larger datasets (3.6 million rows of USNO-B, 5 million rows of 2MASS): . ...

... Search system . ... Forget-Me-Not" information and searching system is developed to store and to work with unstructured fascimile electronic copies of paper documents (e.g., books, newspapers, incoming and outcoming business documents, etc.) as well as text documents in Windows 95/98/NT environment. ... Incoming text documents are converted by means of the Box Manager, which is a part of the "Forget-Me-Not" information system, into a dynamic archive - a storage of the text information images. ...

... Bad Astronomy . ... I think I will break from my usual format of Bad Astronomy/ Good Astronomy by saying that the way we define seasons currently is not strictly bad, but I feel (in my opinion!) that it could be better. The definition of when the seasons begin is at the moment of solstice or equinox; that is, winter (in the north) starts on December 22 nd and summer starts on June 22 nd . ... Now imagine breaking up the Sun's 46 degree up-and-down yearly swing into 1 day intervals. ...

J/AstL/vol/page SAI Open Clusters Catalog (Glushkova+, 2009) ================================================================================ Automated search for star clusters in large multiband surveys. ... Color excesses E(B-V), distance moduli and ages were determined for 141 new and 27 known, but poorly studied clusters. We present the Sternberg Astronomical Institute Open Clusters Catalog (SAI OCL Catalog) of coordinates, diameters and main physical parameters of these clusters. ...

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... Mission . ... August 18, 2009 Roscosmos (Russia) and DLR (Germany) signed an Agreement "On cooperation in the framework of Spectrum-Roentgen-Gamma orbital astrophysical project" . ... It will allow detection of about 100 thousand clusters of galaxies and discovery large scale Universe structure. ... Then it is planned to observe dedicated sky regions with high sensitivity and thereafter to perform follow-up pointed observations of selected sources. ... High Energy Dept. 2016 IKI RAN ...

... Top Attractions of Russia . ... We sincerely hope the situation will improve and we are planning to include these regions as soon as it becomes possible. ... Southern Urals (including Bashkir State Reserve) . ... Eastern Sayan Mountains (including Tunka Range) . ... Altai Mountains (including Lake Teletskoe, Altai State Reserve, Katun Range) . ... Sub-Polar and North Urals and virgin forests of North of European Russia (including Yugyd-Va National Park and Pechora-Ilych National Reserve) . ...

... Tonight's Sky . ... The Magazine . ... Observing . ... Magazine . ... Gravitational wave search provides insights into galaxy evolution and mergers . ... The double star 54 Leonis, spiral galaxy NGC 3198, and emission nebula NGC 3199 . ... Astronomy for Kids . ... Observing springtime deep-sky objects with a large telescope . ... large (8 inches or larger) . ... Receive news, sky-event information, observing tips, and more from Astronomy's weekly email newsletter. ... Astronomy Magazine . ...

STARTEST IMAGES GALLERY . STARTESTING TELESCOPES WITH AN AUTOCOLLIMATOR . ... This website is a joint effort of Markus Ludes from APM-Telescopes and Cor Berrevoets ( Aberrator free startesting Software ). The site aims at explaining the different aspects of star-testing telescopes. ... Markus Ludes (APM telescopes) used a high quality 10" Maksutov Newtonian (Zygo tested at 632,8 nm with the following errors: 1/10.1 wavefront p.t.v. and 1/51 wavefront RMS) as collimator in single pass scheme. ...

Winer Observatory P.O. Box 797, Sonoita, Arizona 85637-0797, USA . ... Irvin M. Winer . ... Site Map . ... Hint : Find and stay on Arizona State Route 83, which bounds our property). Use the interactive map below or use our GPS position N31 39' 56.08" W110 36' 06.42" (or 31.665578N, 110.601783W). ... From Tucson, take I-10 east about 20 miles to Exit 281, which is marked "State Route 83 Sonoita/Patagonia". ... Go three miles, staying on the paved road of State Route 83. ... 2013 Winer Observatory. ...

. Russian Version [ MS-Win ] . [ News ] . [ Satellite data ] . [ SMIS ] . [ ] . Fires in Omsk Region . NOAA 14 2/05/2001 10:35 GMT . Data has been processed for the information system "Russian Forest Fires" . Fires near Chernobyl . 23/04/1996, NOAA 14, 10:16 GMT. True-color image . Image of a large fire in Israel, . 2/06/1996 NOAA 14 10:00 GMT . Back to SMIS Home Page .

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... IAU planet classification Observing with a Telescope Large Scale Structure The observables: Local Group (size 1 Mpc) Virgo cluster (size 2+ Mpc) Virgo supercluster (size ~33 Mpc) Voids (size ~ 10-150 Mpc), Walls and sheets, aka filaments (size ~ 50-80+ Mpc) 1 parsec The nearest star is 1.2 parsecs away (Proxima Centuri). ... Virgo supercluster Voids, Sheets Filaments The Virgo Cluster is a cluster of galaxies at a distance of about 18.0 Mpc away in the constellation Virgo. ...

This is a progress report on the 2dF QSO Redshift Survey as was presented at the Second Coral Seas Cosmology Meeting on Dunk Island, September 1999. Three talks about the survey were presented at the conference. The others were.... QSO Clustering and Large-Scale Structure , Scott Croom et al . QSO Evolution and the Luminosity Function , B.J. Boyle et al . | << - Meeting Proceedings | Talk Overview - >> | . Robert J. Smith, ">rsmith@mso.anu.edu.au Last modified: Fri Sep 24 11:39:02 EST 1999 .

Microsymposium 34, MS015, 2001 TO THE DISCOVERY OF THE "SOUTH POLE - AITKEN " BASIN. ... Head [2] and Spudis [1] suggested in their reviews that the existense of the structure identified later as the South Pole - Aitken baasin was first predicted on the basis of a relief analysis of the mountain ridges observed in the libration zone be Hartman and Kuiper [7], i.e. after the first images of the lunar far-side had been obtained. ... SOUTH POLE-AIKEN BASIN: V.I.Chikmachev et al. ...