apomask -- Create an apodizing mask image with zero background and a circular central mask with rounded off edge apomask output xdim ydim radius sigma k xpos ypos . output = "" [image] . ... The X dimension of the input image. ydim = 512 [integer] . The Y dimension of the input image. radius = 12.0 [real] . The radius of the central disk of the output image which is to be set to one. sigma = 2.0 [real] . The sigma of the roll-off region around the central disk. k = 0.5 [real] . ...

Stellarium 0.12.3 . ... Classes . ... Quasars Class Reference . ... displayMessage (const QString &message, const QString hexColor="#999999") . ... virtual voidљ . ... It also creates the default pulsars.json file from the resource embedded in the plugin lib/dll file. void Quasars::saveSettingsToConfig . ... virtual void Quasars::update . ... Download JSON from web recources described in the module section of the module.ini file and update the local JSON file. void Quasars::updateStateChanged . ...

Next: Scientifically discovered God Up: No Title Previous: Simple Universe . ... As a matter of fact, it stands already for several centuries. ... The characteristic time, t , of civilization development, was known already. ... Indeed, the expansion of the Universe was not yet discovered, and, the Universe was believed to be eternal! ... If the Universe has lived for an infinitely long time then the Tsiolkovskii's paradox can be solved only with this key, the key of ``Superintelligence''. ...

Star Party Reports There were so many good reports of star parties this month supplement. ... As can be seen fro m school children really do appreciate our Morey School Star Party Over 100 school children, grades 1st thru 4th, enjoyed the the fifth annual Morey School Star Party on Tuesday, February 15th. ... Jack Drobot Butler Middle School Star Party We finally got a break with the weather to participate at the Butler Middle School Star Party on Wednesday, March 30th. ...

... The begining of program -- Target function: a * b with TEXT_IO ; use TEXT_IO ; procedure EXAMPLE is package IO_INT is new INTEGER_IO ( INTEGER ) ; use IO_INT ; r,b,a: INTEGER ; begin put ( Enter unsigned number 'b', please ... unsigned number 'a', please: ) ; get ( a ) ; declare VAR0 , VAR1 : INTEGER ; begin VAR0 := a; VAR1 := b; declare VAR3 , VAR2 , VAR4 : INTEGER ; begin VAR3 := 0 ; VAR2 := VAR0 ; VAR4 := VAR1 ; while VAR2 /= 0 loop begin if ...

... For new participaing countries and the countries, starting their activity at the International Astronomy Olympiad (see the Supplementary Instructions N 3 ), presenting the short report is optional. ... May 18 , 2013. moved to 15 weeks before the Olympiad (according to common solution of OAC and LOC): . ... The (age) groups are defined by rules 4.5.2-4., i.e.: . ... Participants of the both groups must be not younger than 14.00 years on December 31, 2013 (i.e. born in 1999 or earlier). ...

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Next: Polarization efficiency: size/shape/orientation effects Up: Optical properties of cosmic Previous: The 2175? feature . To model the interstellar polarization one needs to calculate the forward-transmitted radiation for an ensemble of non-spherical aligned dust grains. ... Let non-polarized stellar radiation passes through a dusty cloud with a homogeneous magnetic field. ... The angle between the line of sight and the magnetic field is ( ). ... where the angle is connected with and ( ). ...

... 1st Announcement IAU Symposium 312 Star Clusters and Black Holes Across Cosmic Time, Beijing, China, Aug. 25-29, 2014 . ... SUBJECT: 1st Announcement IAU Symposium 312 Star Clusters and Black Holes Across Cosmic Time, Beijing, China, Aug. 25-29, 2014 . ... which will be held in Beijing, P.R. China, from August 25-29, 2014, hosted by Chinese Academy of Sciences . ... China), . ... 1st Announcement IAU Symposium 312 Star Clusters and Black Holes Across Cosmic Time, Beijing, China, Aug. ...

... Go to This section of the glossary . ... APHELION : The point in a planet's orbit where it is farthest from the sun. ... It melts at 83.95 K, and boils at 87.45 K. Many people don't realize that argon makes up a full 1% of our atmosphere, while carbon dioxide is only a fraction of a percent of our atmosphere. ... COMET: An object moving about the sun in an eccentric orbit and composed of materials which, on warming up near the sun, form a "tail" which always points away from the sun. ...

... In particular, members of the project regularly organize events dedicated to various interesting astronomical phenomena and events - solar and lunar eclipses, transit of Venus, etc. On November 3rd a team of astronomers will venture deep into Turkana National Park, Kenya and attempt to broadcast the magic of a total solar eclipse to the world. ... Solar eclipse . A solar eclipse occurs when the Moon passes between the Sun and Earth, and the Moon fully or partially blocks the Sun from our view. ...

... Pre-university education . ... On August 24, the Tenth International Summer Space School Future Space Technologies and Experiments in Space will be opened in Samara State Aerospace University. Its participants will be 40 students and young scientists from universities and scientific and research centres in Sweden, Italy, Germany, Belgium, Great Britain, France, Peru, Belarus, Kazakhstan and Russia. ... It is expected that participants of SSAU Summer Space School 2014 will be the students from: . ...

User catalogs allow you enter positions for your objects into a file, to save time during an observing run. ... Before diving into the details, here is an example: # default coordinate system and object # (these are the standard defaults, so if you like them you can omit this line) CSys=FK5; Date =2000; RotType= Object ; RotAng=0 # some random objects # Name Pos1 (e.g. RA) Pos2 (e.g. Dec) Options in keyword-value format NGC6543 rot 90 ... Object Data . Defaults . Catalog Options . ...

CREW 21/22 . ... Participant of space flight, Canada . ... Circus actors took part in ceremonies of giving Oscar and Grammy prizes. ... In 2009 this circus performance opened in Moscow musical contest "Eurovision". ... The fund seeks to draw attention to the problem of clean drinking water deficit and secure free access of the world population to uncontaminated sources of water. ... On June 2, 2009 the Space Adventures Company announced that Canadian national would be the next space tourist. ...

fitshdr_edit - FITS-file headers interactive editor fitshdr_edit [options] FITSfile_name . fitshdr_edit utility allows to modify FITS headers' lines interactively (FITS MultiExtentionsFiles included). fitshdr_edit is just simple shell script around fitshdr utility. ... It means, that You can't remove line from header! ... 560:CRDELT2 = 21.0 / this is example 640: 720:HISTORY header No.0: 1st history line 123456789012345678901234567 880:COMMENT Sat Sep 25 21:17:34 CEST 2004 / by fitshdr_edit . ...

Pulkovo NEO Page . Central Astronomical Observatory at Pulkovo . ... Control of Observations . ... NEA Accuracy Estimation . ACCURACY OF THE WORLD NEA OBSERVATIONS . Pulkovo method of accuracy estimation was applied to NEA observations. ... 2005 . 2006 . ...

... SUPER RATIO . ... On this page I will present the most important (on my opinion) idea on Intellegence Life in the Universe . ... On the problem of the Super Ratio in astrophysics" . ... As a matter of fact, this is the main problem of the modern natural science. ... Here I shall try to speak about the most important problem of the modern natural science, the problem which is undoubtedly, of more importance than discovery of Blacks Holes, creation of Grand Unification Theory or Artificial...

... For the past years I have been working on the problem of synthesis of light curves of close binary systems, consisting of a normal star and a compact object (point object with fixed X-ray luminosity). ... Possible existence of a bright spot on the disk's lateral surface is taken into account. ... The last of then will be published in Gordon and Breach Publishers ( Cherepashchuk A.M., Katysheva N.A., Khruzina T.S., Shugarov S.Yu. ... Cherepashchuk A.M., Katysheva N.A., Khruzina T.S., Shugarov S.Yu. ...

... Observing . ... Home Articles Observing Resources for Amateur Astronomers ? Part 1: Beginning Observers . ... High Line - Solar Observing . ... Beyond New York City . ... Observing Resources for Amateur Astronomers - Part 1: Beginning Observers . Observing Resources for Amateur Astronomers - Part 2: Intermediate Observers . Observing Resources for Amateur Astronomers - Part 3: Advanced Observers . Observing Resources for Amateur Astronomers - Part 4: Magazines and Miscellany . ...

... The ancient chronical said about the colour rings around the Sun and the Moon, about three suns in the sky, light columns, bright lightning, different "comets" rushing to the Earth, moving among the stars or round the Earth with the sky. All these occurrences may be divided into three categories: one that occur in the near or far space, processes going on in the Earth atmosphere under the influence of cosmic factors and at last the occurrences connected with the Earth atmosphere. ... Rainbow . ...