There are some variables which are set internally by the shell and which are available to the user: Name Description . ... 0 the name of the command currently being executed. $# the number of positional arguments given to this invocation of the shell. $? the exit status of the last command executed is given as a decimal string. ... For example '1 2' 3 becomes "1 2 3" . is identical to the arguments received by the shell, the resulting list of words completely match what was given to the shell. ...

A computer controlled low light photometer for nightglow observations. Hardware units of portable photometer for low light measurements, especially night glow emission is described. ... Interface card contain three channels of 24 bit counter, 4 channels of 12 bit ADC and the buffer bus for the controlled motors of the altazimuthal fork mounting and filters wheel, the position encoders. ... Where N( ) is output signal photometer generated input light flux F( l ) . ... PMT # . 599 . ...

adapted from Observe: Eclipses, published in 1979 by the Astronomical League and "Safe Solar Filters," by B. Ralph Chou, Sky and Telescope, August 1981) . ... Tape TWO pieces of film together into a sandwich, and tape this over the opening in the cardboard. ... The cardboard frame will act as a shade from the bright Sun, while you safely observe through the film sandwich. ... Undeveloped film is not safe. ... tape . ... At the end of one of the tubes, tape the aluminum foil, and make a tiny pinhole. ...

... The NATO "Science for Peace" Program , Project number SfP 973559 . ... Receiver devices based on superconducting Josephson junction dynamics provide easy and extremely sensitive way for measurements of contents of these molecules. ... Fast development of SQUIDs resulted in fabrication of number of devices for supersensitive physical experiments and production of sophisticated multichannel measurement systems used in medicine for magnetocardiography and neural investigations. ...

Statistics of sunspot activity . The sunspot indices . ... Visual indices of solar activity . ... n - number of spot groups . A - Waldmeier class of unipolar spot groups without penumbra . B - class of bipolar spot groups without penumbra . C - class of bipolar spot groups with one penumbra pole . D - class of small bipolar spot groups with two penumbra poles . E - class of middle bipolar spot groups with two penumbra poles . ... H - class of unipolar penumbrated spot groups . ...

New reduction of minor planets photographic plates obtained with Pulkovo Normal Astrograph A.A. Berezhnoy Pulkovo Observatory of RAS, Saint-Petersburg, Russia Minor Planet observations at Pulkovo Periodical observations of 14 bright asteroids named Selected Minor Planets (SMP) were performed at Pulkovo since 1948 within the international framework started by works of B.V. Numerov and D. Brouwer. ... 108 133 113 74 124 67 97 88 14 84 64 5 20 19 Epochs (YYYY.MM) 1200 Mean values of total obs. ...

... Irreducible and full set of independent orthogonal dimensionless parameters in the `velocity normalised basis' Symbol M Ma Name Mach number Magnetic Mach ( Mach ­ AlfvИn) Strouhal Trieste numbers ( set ) Velocity-emission Formula / Definition Signifiance Temperature Governing MHD equations with dissipation and radiation v v c s S V vt x Magnetic ... DOI: 10.1016/j.asr.2005.03.084 ...

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Canberra Times 07/09/2009 Page: 6 Times Region: Canberra Circulation: 34354 Type: Australian Capital City Daily Size: 348.32 sq.cms MTWTFS- Page 1 of 2 back Does the universe contain an infinite number of Kevin Rudds? The year 2009 is the interTo mark the occasion, the Astronomical Society of Australia recruited a small group of media-friendly astronomers to national year of astronomy. distance between the light and its point of origin. ... And besides, how could you possibly test such an idea?" ...

... 1 A80 Model number and parameters (in model.dat file) 3- 6 A80 Self explanatory header 7 A80 Bolometric linear coefficients 9- 376 A80 Law coefficients 378-73891 A80 Repeating the above for the 195 models -------------------------------------------------------------------------- ... ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1- 10 A10 --- bolometric comment 12- 18 F7.3 --- xLin coefficient of the linear ...

... Insert date: . Day: . Month: . ... This CGI -script calculates a day of week of the given date, Julian date of Greenwich noon JD and extracts from the database indices of solar activity: Wolf number for the day W , monthly W m and yealy means W y of Wolf number for month and year of the date. The prediction of Wolf number (which was made in 1998 and, hence, lost actuality) is also presented. The database uses solar activity data got from server of National Geophysical Data Center . ...

... After the edit, recompile the kernel and recompile the Apache server then reboot. ... If you're running a really busy BSD Apache server, the following are useful things to do if the system is acting sluggish: . ... Maximum # of processes . ... This machine is a server that handles lots of traffic, # so we crank that value. options NMBCLUSTERS=4096 # mbuf clusters at 4096 # # Misc. options # options CHILD_MAX=512 # maximum number of child processes options OPEN_MAX=512 # maximum fds (breaks RPC svcs)...

Winer Observatory P.O. Box 797, Sonoita, Arizona 85637-0797, USA . ... Irvin M. Winer . ... Roof Status . ... Winer . ... Status . ... Roof State . ... 2016.04.09 16:10:02 . ... Roof closed at 2016.04.09 16:10:02 . Roof Position . ... Weather State . ... 0D:21H:11M:24S . ... Roof Control (Software) . ... 29D:21H:27M:33S . ... Roof Control (Hardware) . ... 29D:21H:27M:34S . ... Roof UPS State . ... GPS State . Engineering Page Winer Graphical Data Server Page(s) . ... 2013 Winer Observatory. ...

... 25.01.2001 . OC "MIR") . ... Flight orbit number (day) . ... Orbit period (in min) . ... Mean orbit altitude (km) . ... solar F 10.7 flux . ... Date of the orbit parameters calculations 25.01.2001. ... Cargo ship "Progress M-43" (№243) undocked the station, burn ~ 9.5 m/s was executed to break it out from the Station "Mir" . ... 08.19.23 "Progress" 243 undocked OC "Mir". Progress" 243 breakout from the Station performed ( н V=9,5 m/sec); the Station is switched to the spinning mode. ...

SAI, graduates year 1982. ... Note: when just a 7-digit phone number is shown, it refers to a phone located in Moscow (international access 007-495). "+" in front of a number means that you must dial an international access code first (or just press "+" on your mobile phone keypad). ... 939-1672(work); . ... Ataev Sasha . 1-(703)-536-8881(home) (USA); . ... Bychkov Sergey . ... 1-(410)-740-8205(home), +1-(301)-286-2150(work) (USA); . ... 1-(412)-767-0332(home), +1-(412)-608-9339(mobile) (USA); . ...

... VaST is a software tool for finding variable objects on a series of astronomical images. ... VaST performs object detection and aperture photometry using SExtractor on each image, cross-matches lists of detected stars, performs magnitude calibration with respect to the first (reference) image and constructs a lightcurve for each object. ... VaST FITS image viewer ./pgfv . ... Part I" PZP, vol. ... K. V. Sokolovsky, S. A. Korotkiy; "New Variable Stars Discovered by the NMW Survey" PZP, vol. ...