... The map shows the distances of the three clumps of galaxies from each other relative to the radio galaxy USS1558-003 located at (0,0). More specifically, the horizontal and vertical axes show relative distances in right ascensions and declinations in arcminute units with respect to the radio galaxy. ... The black dots are all galaxies selected in this field. Magenta dots show old, passively evolving galaxies. ... Large gray circles show the three clumps of galaxies. ...

The aim of this section of the course is to enable you to use simple computer programs to solve a variety of common astronomical tasks. ... I have (somewhat arbitrarily) decided to use Python for this course, because it seems to be gaining popularity fast for astronomical data handling, and because some of you will have encountered it at the ATNF course. ... We've put Python (plus all relevant libraries) on the Stromlo Linux computers moron and maggot. ... Now log in to moron (or maggot). ...

... Telescope concept . ... The Submillimetron Project is dedicated to astronomical studies at the submillimeter and far infrared wavelengths using a cryogenic telescope located on the Russian segment of the International Space Station (ISS). The Astro Space Center of the Lebedev Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences is responsible for developing the Submillimetron Project. ... Currently, the Astro Space Center is carrying out a pre-Project study under contract with the Russian Space Agency. ...

Instructions for Uploading Images and Video Related to the Columbia Accident . For anyone who has recorded video or taken photos that they believe may be of aid in the investigation of the Space Shuttle Columbia accident, NASA has established a special location on the Web where Internet users may upload their media files to be reviewed by NASA. ... Image file: johndoe_020203_0415pm.jpg . ... If you have any problems uploading your files, please e-mail Mike Koester . ...

... The calibration of astrophysical spectra in wavelength based on calibration lamp data suffers from different kinds of uncertainties. Besides inaccuracies in the observational phase, common data reduction practice adds ``pixelation'' errors, due to the fact that the centering method does not use the correct PSF. These model mismatch errors depend, for a given feature, on the sub-pixel location of the line center (David & Verschueren, private communication). ...

... The first column shows the kinematical diagrams, where is the angle between the line of sight on the object and the vector of rotation about Z -axis, and V S is objects line-of-sight velocity relative to an observer at rest at the position of the Sun. The straight lines are regression fits, whose slopes yield the subsystem’s rotation rate. The second column shows the relations between metallicity and distance from the Galactic plane. ... privious figure | next figure . ...

Running Apache on a heavily loaded web server, one often encounters problems related to the machine and OS configuration. ... Quick and detailed performance tuning hints for BSD-derived systems. ... Depending on the syntactic form of the TZ environment variable, these systems have several different algorithms to determine the local time zone (presumably compatible with something). ... This form delegates the knowledge of the time zone information to an external compiled zoneinfo file ( la BSD). ...

... Bad Astronomy . ... Bitesize Astronomy . ... Last week's Snack talked about how black holes can affect the environment around them in such a way as to be very bright . ... It's a common misconception that black holes always have matter swirling into them. ... As this matter gets closer and closer to the black hole it piles up and a large, fairly flat disk forms. This is called the accretion disk , because matter from this disk accretes (that is, falls in) on the black hole. ... 2008 Phil Plait. ...

... Institute for Cosmophysical Research and Aeronomy (IKFIA) (Yakutsk). ... IRE RAN (Moscow). Russian Foundation for Basic Research (Moscow). ... Institute for Remote Environmental Research AEN (Moscow) . ... Russian Federal Research Institute of Fisheries and Oceanography (Moscow) . ... Russian Federal Research Institute of Fishery and Oceanography KamchNIRO. ... Russian Federal Research Institute of Fishery and Oceanography. ... Russian Federal Research Institute of Fishery and Oceanography VNIRO. ...

The ESA/ESO Astronomy Exercise Series 2 . The Distance to Messier 100 as Determined by Cepheid Variable Stars . ... The small variations in distance to the individual Cepheid variable stars in the Cloud are negligible compared with the much larger distance to the SMC. ... In this way Cepheid variable stars can be used as one of the 'standard candles' in the Universe that act either as distance indicators themselves or can be used to calibrate (or set the zero point for) other distance indicators. ...

... Pirkovskii Summary My research interests are mostly in the area of "Topological Homology", which is a version of relative homological algebra in categories of locally convex topological modules over topological algebras. ... I proved that many classical Frґ het algebras do not have nonzero injective Frґ het modules. ... Moreover, the injective homological dimension of nonzero Frґ het modules over ec such algebras can take only one (strictly positive) value. ...