... Want to have really professionally retouched pictures? ... Almost usually to get precise selection around some object on photo people use magic wand or (in best case) lasso tool. ... You say you would hold Alt (Option on Mac) key down and use point-and-click method of lasso selection. ... The best tool for this is a path tool. ... Second is node move tool (used to adjust nodes and move them around). ... First we will make a draft selection around the apple (just like point and click with lasso tool)...

12feb07 Measuring the SEFD around 1100 Mhz . ... bandpass filter low frequency falloff around 1130 Mhz . ... A 500 Mhz bandpass centered on 1100 Mhz (via the spectrum analyzer) showed a 6 db difference between 1100 Mhz and the noise floor at 1000 Mhz. ... The interim correlator was used with 25 Mhz bands centered at: 1040, 1060, 1080, and 1100 Mhz. ... 1040 Mhz cfr trking src(.gif) There is probably not very much sky signal getting into this band so it looks better than it should. ...

... You can boot Linux either from a floppy or from the hard disk. ... When booting Linux from a floppy disk, the boot sector contains code that just reads the first few hundred blocks (depending on the actual kernel size, of course) to a predetermined place in memory. On a Linux boot floppy, there is no filesystem, the kernel is just stored in consecutive sectors, since this simplifies the boot process. ... For example, when I boot, I it looks like this: љ љ љ љ LILO boot: Loading linux. ...

Astronotes Armagh Planetarium's Stellar Blog! ... Colin Johnston . ... Milky Way . Stars . ... Monthly Sky Notes . ... June . ... This red supergiant is the brightest star in the constellation Scorpius and is of awesome size. ... Returning to Vega (which will be the pole star in about 12 000 years from now), follow an imaginary line between it and Arcturus, this line will cross two more constellations, faint and sprawling Hercules and that celestial smile Corona Borealis. ...

Project 183B. Final Report (in ukr). Project 183B. Publications (in ukr). Project 207. Final Report (in ukr). ... www.ukr.net . ... Dictionaries from Rambler.ru . Dictionaries from Meta.ua . Online Dictionary: a US site . The William Strunk, Jr. guide to Stylish English . Ukrainian and/or semi-ukrainian:) Papers . www.pravda.com.ua in Ukrainian and in English . ... BBC ukrainian . ...

... Bringing news from across the Universe to children all around the world . ... But when you look at space photograph, where there s no natural sense for how big objects should look, it is much more difficult to judge! ... It shows a cloud of dust and gas (shown in red) next to a bright star. ... These fake lines are called diffraction spikes . Although diffraction spikes add something to the photo that shouldn t really be there, many people like them and think that they look nice. ...

... Ryoanji Temple and around. d01. Pond in the garden of Ryoan-ji temple, where Rock Garden is. d02. In the Ryoan-ji temple garden. d03. The trees, moss and rocks look like handpainted. ... In the garden. d05. In the garden. d06. Ryoan-ji Rock Garden. ... Ryoan-ji Rock Garden. d11. Ryoan-ji Rock Garden. d12. Ryoan-ji temple, inner yard. d13. Ryoan-ji Rock Garden. d14. ... In the forest, on the hill near the temple. d17. In the forest, on the hill near the temple. ...

Getting Involved . Are you looking to get your family and/or friends more involved in astronomy? ... Either way, with Family ASTRO you can get just about anyone engaged in astronomical topics while having a lot of fun at the same time. ... Each kit or game also has its own web site with more background reading and other resources (including Frequently Asked Questions) for those who wish to explore these topics in more detail. ... Frequently Asked Questions . ...

... Credit: WMAP Science Team , NASA Explanation: The above sky map tells us the universe is 13.7 billion years old -- but how? At first look, one only sees the microwave glow of gas from our Milky Way Galaxy, coded red, and a spotty pattern of microwaves emitted from the early universe , coded in gray. The gray cosmic microwave background is light that used to bounce around randomly but came directly to us when the expanding universe became cool enough for nearly transparent atoms to form. ...

... Bad Astronomy . Misconceptions . ... Bad Astronomy : The Moon only shows one face to us because it is not rotating. Better astronomy : The Moon only shows one face because it is rotating, once every time it revolves around the Earth. ... Place the Moon model on the table about 30 centimeters (one foot) away with the X facing the Earth model. ... You'll see that to keep the X facing the Earth model, you have to rotate the Moon model as it goes around the Earth model . ... 2008 Phil Plait. ...

... Spacecraft . ... To space by cannon? Finally, the deep space explorers --spacecraft which break away from the Earth's gravity . ... The "Luna" series of the USSR conducted 7 soft landing of unmanned probes, two of them with wheeled robotic "Lunokhods," and two of those missions returned samples to Earth. Others spacecraft have visited the major planets of the Solar system. ... The Mariner series have explored Venus and Mars--and Mariner 10 even reached Mercury, for three separate encounters! ...