... Using UNIX System Calls and Library Functions . ... To use system calls and library functions in a C program we simply call the appropriate C function. Examples of standard library functions we have met include the higher level I/O functions -- fprintf() , malloc() .. ... For most system calls and library functions we have to include an appropriate header file. e.g. stdio.h, math.h . ... Information on nearly all system calls and library functions is available in manual pages. ...

... Astronomy Letters . ... Since January 2000 our English translation (Astronomy Letters) is available on-line !!! . ... Scanned copies of Astronomy Letters for 1975-2000 can be found on-line in free access in ADS . ... The journal is translated in English under the name Astronomy Letters . ... 1995 , 1996 - the Grand prize (full story) , 1997 (full story) , 1998 (full story) , . ... LANL / ITEPh astrophysics preprints . ... E-mail: pazh@hea.iki.rssi.ru . ... 2016 IKI RAN ...

... Parameters of the Moon-perturbed orbit . ... From orbits consistent with this limitation and with the date of the launch October 1, 2000 as an example, an orbit was selected with apogee directed to the North Galactic pole at the begining and rotation of orbit plane was maximized. The initial state vector is given in the inertial coordinate system in epoch J2000.0. ... The orbit has initial perigee radius Rp=7000.0 km, initial apogee radius Ra=343000.0 km and initial period T=8.453 days. ...

Please check the protocol.h file to be sure it selects your preference for a camera filter wheel. By default the system will expect the STL internal filter wheel with 5 filters. An external filter wheel option is available. Select #define FILTER_WHEEL EXT_FILTER_WHEEL and see the included directory for the IFW3 filter wheel for an example of how this is implemented.

... 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 ...

Human Powered Clock Drive . Articles | ... There are 86,400 seconds in a day and, if you, arbitrarily, want to rotate a knob once a minute like the second hand on a clock then you need a reducing gear ratio (or ratio of radii) of 1 to 1440. ... The "hour hand", which will naturally rest at the 6 o'clock(12hr clock military)position, is driven at the bottom of the hand by riding over a small diameter steel rod mounted at a 45 degree angle on the baseplate. ... www.astronomy.net . ...

Giant Jupiter. Jupiter . ... Jupiter has no solid surface that is why speaking about its dimensious point the radius of the upper border line of the clouds, where the presseru is about 10 KPa; radius of Jupiter on the equator is 71400 km. ... The Jupiter satellites. ... Nowadays 16 satellites of the Jupiter are known: Adrastea, Mitis, Amaltea , Phina,then 4 Galilei satellites: Io , Europe , Hanimed , Callisto , Leda, Aimalia, Zicitea, Elara, Ananke, Carme, Pasipe and Sinope. ... Jupiter's ring. ...

Trudy GAISH, vol. LXV, 1996 . Abstracts . The global distribution of average (5 O x 5 O ) depths . of Mohorovicic discontinuity on the Earth . ... Such analysis allows detecting whether the sources of the largest anomalies reside within the Earth's core. This is possible if the limit depths of the sources exceed the depths of the core-mantle boundary. ... by Pasinok S.L. Influence of the Earth’s cover on the polar free oscillation of the Earth’s inner core is considered. ...

... Exposure Time Calculator (ETC) . Survey processing . ... VISTA is a 4-m class wide field survey telescope for the southern hemisphere, equipped with a near infrared camera (1.65 degree diameter field of view at VISTA's nominal pixel size) containing 67 million pixels of mean size 0.34 arcsec and available broad band filters at Z,Y,J,H,K s and a narrow band filter at 1.18 micron. A wide field visible camera, if constructed, could also be used on VISTA. ... Tile . ... ESO VISTA Public Surveys . ...

The 2dF QSO Redshift Survey (2QZ) . ... Before jumping into all the finer details of teh survey, a brief non-astronomer's guide to redshift surveys is available. ... The primary scientific aims of the QSO survey are: (1) to obtain the primordial fluctuation power spectrum out to COBE scales, (2) to determine the rate of QSO clustering evolution in the non-linear and linear regimes and hence obtain new limits on the value of and the bias parameter, (3) to apply a powerful geometric method to measure . ...

Do we need various assumptions to get a good FCN? A new multiple layer spectral method Cheng-li HuangMian Zhang Shanghai Astron. ... No FCN ! ... FCN,FCN,FCN.. Multiple layer spectral method (MLSM) + Linear Operator Method (LOM) Finite Element Method (FEM) · · Traditional approach solves one order ellipsoid only. ... Main Idea of FEM Boundary Surface could be described as: Let's consider how to solve the dynamic equation: Traditional Approach: Equivalent Spherical Domain . ...

LBO LBO has many unique characteristics that contribute to its wide use as a nonlinear optical crystal. ... LBO Specifications Wavefront Distortion Dimension Tolerance Clear Aperture Scattering Sites Flatness Surface Quality Parallelism Perpendicularity Angle Tolerance Damage Threshold /8 at 633nm (W: +/- 0.1mm ) x (H: +/- 0.1mm ) x (L: + 0.2mm/- 0.1mm ) 80% of central area No visible scattering centers when inspected by a 30 mW green laser /8 at ...

... Structure of Data . ... Catalog . ... The SAI OCL Catalog site provides several VO-enabled modes of operation: . VO-enabled catalog data analysis from a browser . ... Endpoint URL is http://ocl.sai.msu.ru/catalog/conesearch/ . ... VO-enabled catalog analysis from a browser . Presently, this recipe works with Firefox (Windows, MacOS, Linux), Internet Explorer (Windows) and Opera (Windows) browsers with Java plugin 1.6 installed. ... Main TOPCAT window with SAI OCL catalog loaded will appear. ...

Surface-layer turbulence measurements with lunar scintillometer Idea of the method Hardware & software Campaigns & results New horizons Andrei Tokovinin NOAO/CTIO Kislovodsk Oct. 2010 1 Turbulence measurement from scintillation of extended sources Moon's angular diameter =0.5 deg Correlated scintillation for b > z z=10m b=0.1m z=100m b=1m z=10km b=100m BI(b) = W(b,z) Cn2(z)dz Weighting functions zW(z) for b=0...0.4m and d=1cm 2 Kislovodsk Oct. ... 2010 12 Paranal: October 14, 2008 Kislovodsk Oct. ...

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A methodical and didactical complex "Sign Language" . ... ABSTRACT The process of communication of the deaf includes the wide use of the sign language. ... The aim of this work is to develop a tool that should facilitate process of sign language teaching and also give to the trainee a means for independent study of various normative variants of sign language - for example, Russian, English, International and so on. ... The process of dialogue of the deaf people includes wide use of sign languages. ...

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... 8, ``Celestial Mechanics'', 2002 The ephemerides server of the Institut de m'ecanique c'eleste et de calcul des 'eph'em'erides N. Baron, J. E. Arlot Institut de m'ecanique c'eleste et de calcul des 'eph'em'erides, Paris, France The Institut de m'ecanique c'eleste et de calcul des 'eph'em'erides (IMCCE), formerly known as Bureau des longitudes, produces, since its creation (1795), the French ephemerides for most of the bodies of the solar system. ... The code of several theoretical models is provided...

... Looking down on a storm (image credit: Robert Johnston) . Spearheaded by the Project Lead Robert Johnston of Cookstown High school, along with the support of Gerard McStocker from Holy Trinity College and the тАШhighlyтАЩ experienced High Altitude Balloonist Philip Heron , this leading edge school project has left us gazing into the sky! ... The Sun from the stratosphere just north east of Dublin (Image credit: Robert Johnston) . ... The limb of the Earth (Image credit: Robert Johnston) . ...

. N orilsk N eutron M onitor . Cosmic rays variation . Atmospheric pressure . Year . Month . Day . Hour . Minute . From . To . Resolution . Type of Data . 1 year 1 month 27 days 1 day 12 hours 6 hours 1 hour 15 min 10 min 5 min 1 min . Corrected for Pressure Atmospheric Pressure Uncorrected for Pressure . Data are also available by FTP . All Data for all Station are available by FTP . Links . Irkutsk .