... Since the invention of the telescope over 400 years ago, they have been built in many shapes and sizes, and for many different uses. Not many people know this, but the first telescopes were created by the Dutch around 1600 and were used to spot far-off enemy ships. Back then, telescopes were called БЂњlooking glassesБЂќ. ... With his telescope, Galileo became the first person to see many amazing features of our Solar System, including craters on the Moon and Jupiter's four largest moons. ...

Faith-Walkin' People By Amy Grant Well, it seems with You There is something new Every time I turn around. ... Cause I know You bring Each and everything Just to teach me how to live. ... So say goodbye to the feelings, 'Cause the feelings go away. ... And say goodbye to the reasoning That's standing in the way, Oh, we've got to break away. Break away to be Faith-walkin' people, You can't rely on everything you feel. ... Daaa...da ba da dah-dat dah. Da ba dah...da ba da dah-dat dah. ...

... I enrolled in his "zero-hour" research class early in the morning [see Black Holes to Blackboards, September/October 1995, p. 8]. Peering at a sheet of vellum over a map of the martian surface, circling and measuring craters for hours, I learned that science isn't all fun and games. ... It was a dream come true: to be surrounded by other young people who were interested in astronomy, to be taught by professional astronomers, and best of all, to use large telescopes. ...

ATNF Home . About ATNF . ... About ATNF overview . ... Governance overview . Australia Telescope Steering Committee . ... Murchison Radio-astronomy Observatory . ... Parkes radio telescope . ... Mopra radio telescope . ... Parkes | ... Visiting Parkes radio telescope . ... Parkes radio telescope webcam . ... Diffuse Gas In and Around the Milky Way . ... This workshop is designed to bring together researchers working on atomic and ionised gas associated with the Milky Way and Magellanic system. ...

In this world around us, there are two things that do not belong to any one country: air and ocean water. ... People are concerned about the air and the water used by everyone, and they are also concerned about the future of the Earth. ... Many ships sail in the ocean water - fishing ships, some ships carring people, some carring oil. ... Many birds and fish die because of the pollute water. Many fish are dying in the sea, others are getting contaminated. ...

Scott's Little Corner of the Web . Welcome to my alternative page.. ... You might know me as Szyzyg, my net-pseudonym which I've adopted to avoid those nasty 'name already taken' messages. ... The Music Collection Page , in hte past this used to update automatically to tell you what I was listening to - but it only worked for CD's played on my computer :-( - Instead I've been hacking around with myplay.com and you can now use their servers to listen to some of my selections . ... Szyzyg FAQ . ...

Bad GIMP! ... It's not a comprehensive, thoughtful guide (like this one ), it's just a quick rundown of the main complaints I have with some of the blunders people make. ... So when you see these points and say "Wow, he's so full of crap!" you're probably right. ... JPEG . ... Here's an example of making a bad choice when it comes to using jpegs instead of gifs: . ... For starters, jpegs are a "lossy" format, meaning that they sacrifice some details to get good compression. ... Fonts . ...

started September 1998 There is an assumption that hides behind almost all of todays software development/engineering practices. ... For most of the history of software development, one thing was always true: computer time costs far more than people time. Twenty years ago, a top computer programmer might have cost $20/hour. At the same time, computer time cost [Need reference] $XXX/hour. ... But as we all know, not only is computer time cheaper, it's also better. ...

For a sample of 16 people, the error would be 4/16 = 25%. This a large error since the range of YES vs NO is from 0-100% if 12 people answered yes and 4 people answered no then your result would be: . Percentage yes = 75 +/- 25% . ... For a sample fo 1000 people, the error would be SQRT(1000)/1000 = 33/1000 = 3%. If 750 answered yes and 250 answered no then your result would be: . ... Conclusion: Always ask what the measuring errors are!! Previous Lecture Next Lecture Course Page ...

Astronomy Picture of the Day . The Carina Nebula in Three Colors . ... Water Found Around Nearby Star CW Leonis . ... Do worlds outside our Solar System have oceans of water like Earth? ... Recent observations with the Submillimeter Wave Astronomy Satellite (SWAS) found significant detections of light at specific colors emitted by water. ... The strangest moon in the Solar System is bright yellow. ... Solar System Web Cam . ... Air Pollution Earth . ... The Galactic Center in Infrared . ...

... Sky Telescope editor Robert Naeye presents a whirlwind and colorfully illustrated trip through this amazing scientific story. ... Bob is editor in chief of Sky Telescope magazine and SkyandTelescope.com , and a proud member of the American Astronomical Society, the Astronomical Society of the Pacific, the Amateur Telescope Makers of Boston, and the Astronomical Society of Harrisburg, which is based near his hometown of Hershey, Pennsylvania. ... Copyright (c) Amateur Telescope Makers of Boston, Inc....

ASTRONOMY . ASTRONOMY is a science, which studies solids and occurrences in the sky. ... They built the picture of the world according to their knowledge. With the course of time the world picture was being changed because there appeared new facts and information and new theories on the celestial occurrences and what is more impotant there appeared an opportunity to check up the correctness of ideas through the observation and measuring using the new achievements of the sciences. ...

... Bad Astronomy . ... Bad Astronomy: The North Star, Polaris, is a very bright star. Good Astronomy: Polaris is a middling-bright star, easily missed. ... He said it was close to Polaris, the North Star, but he also said it was in the East. ... It's natural, I suppose, to think that such an important star should be bright, but really, that's a conceit, like thinking that the Earth is at the center of the Universe. If more people knew just why Polaris is the North Star, this Bad Idea would stop. ...

Participants about project . ... makes the world a welcoming place. ... we see it shared by those who love it. ... us more aware of our own community when we shared it . with the schools around the world. ... pleased my students chose to share the feelings of . ... Our town cannot grow much as it is like an island with . other communities growning around it. ... diverse, with many Mexican people recently adding to . ... Our town is old and the new City Building looked a bit . ... city. ...

... 11/09 - Dave's response . Some of you have probably seen this original letter floating around the internet. Read Dave's (whoever he is) response below. ... I don't know who David is, but his response is hilarious!! ... At first I rolled my eyes....then I read Dave's response and I couldn't have said it better if I had all day to do it." ... September 11th is the 254th day of the year: 2 + 5 + 4 = 11 . ... Wait a sec ... just realized "YOU CAN'T HIDE" also has 11 letters! ... Help me!! ...

... I'm attempting to get Hans Boehm's gc to run under Linux. ... Apparently it has been ported to older versions of Linux, but the port appears broken. ... One major problem has to do with pthread support. GC needs to be able to stop a thread an examine it's stack for potential pointers, and there's no defined way in the pthreads API to do this. On SunOS, gc uses the /proc primitives to accomplish this task, unfortunately the Linux /proc lacks the ability to stop a process. ...

... Space Flight . ... Earth Satellites . ... On Christmas day the crew of Apollo 8 had a surprise when they opened their food containers and found a meal of real turkey and stuffing and three miniature bottles of brandy alongside presents from their wives. ... This venture placed the third and final crew onto the Skylab space station . ... Spending Christmas in space continues today with astronauts and cosmonauts having this holiday period onboard the International Space Station (ISS). ...

Astronomy Discussion Forums . Forums: . ... Nothing Started Here . ... Post Message | ... Posted by Harvey on November 3, 2002 21:31:28 UTC . ... He loves bickering. So, he uses this forum to engage in bickering. ... You bicker instead of answering my content posts - quiet - November 5, 2002 - 01:02 UTC . ... www.astronomy.net . About Astronomy Net | ... Forum posts are Copyright their authors as specified in the heading above the post. "dbHTML," "AstroGuide," "ASTRONOMY.NET" & "VA.NET" . ...

... You are presented with a series of places, people and situations, and by typing commands on the computer can influence what happens. ... Time only passes in response to your commands п you can spend as much time as you like thinking about things. ... In this game, you type commands in plain English every time you see the prompt >. ... Type Drop to get rid of stuff. ... Unless specifically prompted by the game, donуt tell anyone too much п just type something like рtell Fred about my new carс. ...

... A rough estimation is that in the United States there is one planetarium per 100,000 population, ranging in size from the Hayden Planetarium's 20-meter dome seating 430 people, to three-meter inflatable portable domes where children sit on the floor. ... Together dblo associates make a huge impact in the architecture, interior design and development arena in London. ... With the holidays around the corner what better way to spoil your family than with your very own private home cinema. ...