... 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. ...

Title : NITRO1.WAD Author : Nigel Wright (alias NiTrO) Email Address : Don't have one, but please send any comments to: raymondo@splat.paxnet.com.au mark attn: Nitro and he will pass them on to me. ... It's map size is limited due to it's construction being done with the Shareware Version of DMapedit. ... Play Information * Episode and Level # : E2M2 Single Player : Yes Cooperative 2-4 Player : Yes Deathmatch 2-4 Player : Yes Difficulty Settings : All Monsters appear in all levels. ...

... Archives . ... I?ve copied below the text of an ISBA announcement for the first workshop in a new series addressing Bayesian methods for machine learning. It builds on the model of the earlier well-known ?Bayesian case studies? workshops, where just a few applications are featured at each workshop, with the format tailored to produce a lot of back-and-forth between application scientists and statisticians. ... Workshop on Case Studies in Bayesian Statistics and Machine Learning . ...

... Watchouts . ... Installation . ... Help . Although it is possible that SAS was not correctly installed (please check the SAS installation pages ), the reason may lay in your LHEASOFT version. LHEASOFT 5.1 and SAS 5.3.0 make use of a shared version of the CFITSIO library. Unfortunately, the version distributed with LHEASOFT 5.1 is not compatible with SAS 5.3.0. ... Pages maintained by SAS librarian . Any question about SAS should be addressed to the XMM-Newton help desk . ...

... Registration Form . Please complete and return this form (even if you sent the pre-registration form) . ... Odessa Astronomical observatory Telefax : 380 482 229442 . Park Shevchenko E-mail : astro@te.net.ua 270014, Odessa-14 (Ukraine) . NAME (to appear in the badge) :.. ... LaTeX template . ... begin{document} . begin{center} . ... end{center} . ... please insert a figure, if needed. % please name Your files as "Your_name1.pcx" rather than "Odessa1.pcx" . ... begin{figure}[h] . ...

... First Level Heading (please use initial caps) Type text here. Please notice first paragraph is not indented. ... Another First Level Heading Second Level Heading Another first paragraph, not indented, using "ASP_section_para_1" style. ... Sample Figures and Tables Figures Figures may be inserted into the text using either a blank placeholder followed by a caption, as in Figure 1, or by embedding the figure into the document. ... Please use the "ASP Acknowledgements" styles for heading and text. ...

... IF YOU HAVE NOT REGISTERED, PLEASE DO SO IMMEDIATELY. ... All abstracts have now been posted online and will appear in an "abstract book" that will be distributed at the meeting. There are a total of 131 posters. ... 27-March-1995: We have received 23 abstracts for poster papers, and they are now available online via this WWW page. ... Please note that the catalog of poster abstracts is not necessarily consistent with the catalog of titles and authors, since these documents are updated separately. ...

In 2001, Westerbork observations of the disturbed galaxy named VV-29 (alias Arp-188, UGC-10214) showed that there is second smaller galaxy (named VV-29c) that appears behind the western side of the main body of the distorted galaxy. ... The galaxy was featured as the May 2, 2002 Astronomy Picture of the Day . ... When VV-29 had its 15 minutes of fame in May 2002, it appeared under the name "The Tadpole Galaxy," but based on the images above, we will always think of it as "The CHAINSAW"! ...

... Date: 5 June 2010 01:19:14 GMT+01:00 . ... Solarfest, IAA/UAS sostice event, NLCs. ... 12:00 - Tea/Coffee . ... 15:30 - Solar Imaging Workshop - Dave Gradwell (IFAS) . ... 20:00 - Evening Public Lecture - "The Power of the Sun" - Dr. David Williams (UCL, MSSL) . ... ТљТљТљ At 8pm, our Evening Public Lecture will be presented by Dr. David Williams of the Mullard Space Science Laboratory, University College London http://www.mssl.ucl.ac.uk/~drw/ who is flying over just for the event. ...

... I apologize if you receive more than one copy of this note - Alan) - This is a followup to yesterday's e-mail regarding potential problems with some Mark 5 power supplies with using Maxtor or Seagate disks. ... I apologize if you receive more than one copy of this note - Alan) - Conduant Corporation has recently informed us that there may be problems with marginal power supplies in some Mark 5A units when using disk modules populated with Maxtor or Seagate disks. ...

Contacting the Roundup . To submit story ideas or inform the Roundup of a change of address, please e-mail . jsc-roundup@mail.nasa.gov . The mailing address is: . NASA/JSC . Editor, Space Center Roundup AP151 . 2101 NASA Rd. ... Distribution . The distribution department in Building 227 maintains the Roundup distribution lists. ... Retirees must call (281) 244-6397 or e-mail jsc-roundup@mail.nasa.gov for address changes or to be added to the list. ... Contact the Roundup . ...

... Questions relevant to "The Great Magnet, the Earth" will be answered, to the extent time allows. If a question seems to be worthy of broader interest, it and its answer (suitably edited) may be added to the list appearing in "The Great Magnet." ... Please do observe the following: . ... Asking about matters which are far beyond the scope of "The Great Magnet." ... Posing a question without first checking if it was answered in the main files of "The Great Magnet" or in the question-and-answer list. ...

General Information . ... Local Information . ... The city represents great cultural value because in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, Kislovodsk as a fashionable spa attracted many musicians, artists, and members of the Russian aristocracy. ... Double room with full pension (breakfast, lunch, dinner) - 2620 rubles per person per night. solnechniy . ... Citizens of most countries need visa to enter the Russian Federation. ... Victor Kornilov, Sternberg Astronomical Institute (chair) . ...

ThermoKing Refrigerator Training List . Prepared by Jon Brinkmann . Reviewed by French Leger . ... If your name does not appear on this list and you received training, please contact French Leger /2.5-m Telescope Engineer or Jon Birnkmann /2.5-m Instrument Engineer. The list is in alphabetical order by user name, including mail address to user, institution, contact phone number(s), and date placed on list. User's Name . ... Contact phone . ... 505-437-6822 . ... Leger, French . ...

Program: ROTMOD Purpose: This program calculates the rotation curve for a truncated exponential disk (Casertano, M.N.R.A.S., vol. 203, p735-p747, 1983), or for any other user supplied density law. ... USER= DISK radial surface density distribution supplied by the user [Y], or a truncated exponential surface density distribution. In case the user wants to supply his own density distribution, the following two keywords will be asked: UNITS= Enter units of radius and surface density [KPC,MSUN/PC**2]. ...

Following are instructions to build and install the programs in this distribution. Make sure that you have all necessary tools for building executables. ... The automatic build process expects a configuration file called Config.local . ... The configuration file specifies the directory in which to install the binaries, as well as control over the generation of debugging code and reference clock support. ... Cleans out object files, programs and temporary files. make distclean . ...

These are very prominent absorption lines is most all galaxies. ... These pair of absorption lines will appear in all the spectra and they should be your principle source for determining the redshift. ... When this applet opens you will see an iconic representation of galaxies in the left hand side of the applet and a target area in the right side of the applet. ... Note: What you are doing in this excercise is identical to what Hubble did in the 1920's and you are using the same galaxies. ...

... Science . ... ESO Data . ... If you wish to interface GASGANO to VLT instrument pipeline recipes build on top of the ESO Common Pipeline Library (CPL) and the qfits library , you will have to download and use the specific instrument package available here . ... To use the latest Gasgano version (2.4.8), Java 7 must be available on your system. ... Type java -version on the command line to verify that the printed java version is 1.7.x. You MUST be under your $HOME directory to install GASGANO: . ...

The HyperNews Linux KHG Discussion Pages . Forum: The Linux Kernel Hackers' Guide . Re : Problem creating a new system call . ... When I try to call my new system call, it always returns -1. I then check the error message using perror( ). The error message is always "Bad Address". Could anybody please tell me what can cause a system call to return "Bad Address" error. ...

ISSN 0236-2457 . Sincerely yours . Georgij Rudnitskij . Editor-in-Chief . gmr@sai.msu.ru . visit since March 12, 2010.