The first character in each record (line) of formatted output defines a carriage control character to the lineprinter, often called ASA-character, for a previous name of the US Standardization Organization ANSI. ... When using VAX/VMS for output first on a file, which is to be printed later on paper, it is advisable to use the extension .DAT . ... You use the compiler switch -vms f77 -vms prog.f and get the control characters removed from the screen output. ...

... June 1, 1998 . Solar Flares Cause Sun Quakes . ... MDI , SOHO , ESA , NASA . Explanation: An 11th magnitude quake has been recorded on the Sun , immediately following a moderate solar flare . ... Dark waves from the quake can be seen in the above picture spreading out from an explosive bright flare. ... The magnitude and evolution of these quakes gives information about the physical nature of solar flares , the surface of the Sun , and even the Sun's interior. ... About APOD > . ...

Astronomy Discussion Forums . ... Post Message | ... As all my friends know, my mouth exerts a strong pull on my foot, so that the latter often ends up inside the former. ... I grew up with the distinct feeling that I'm different from most people. ... I don't believe in blindly following authority, and I believe no one should. ... www.astronomy.net . ... Forum posts are Copyright their authors as specified in the heading above the post. "dbHTML," "AstroGuide," "ASTRONOMY.NET" & "VA.NET" . ...

... Information about a variety of different calendars for different cultures (e.g., Christian, Jewish, Muslim, Chinese, Hindu etc.) ... In addition, the Chinese had two different ways of interpreting and observing celestial events. One way the Chinese used astronomy was known as lifa; it was a discipline that aimed to understand the regularities and the predictable events in the celestial system through careful, observations, measurements and records. ... back to Teachers' Newsletter Main Page ...

ERS -1,2 SAR . ... SIR-C/X SAR . ... European Remote Sensing Satellite (ERS-1) was launched on 17 July 1991, and the follow mission ERS-2 (with the same sensors and an Ozone monitoring instrument added) was launched on 21 April 1995. ... The Spaceborne Imaging Radar-C/X-band Synthetic Radar (SIR-C/X-SAR), carried in the cargo bay of the Space Shuttle Endeavour in April and October of 1994, simultaneously recorded SAR data at three wavelengths (L-, C-, and X-bands; 23.5, 5.8, and 3.1 cm, respectively). ...

... The only event-driven pieces of software were the user interface Hermes, the display server GIDS and the GDS server. ... Event-driven tasks are fundamentally different from procedural tasks. ... Using this event handling, a collection of routines has been built, which allows the programmer to construct a graphical user interface for a task. ... These are the events associated with user input keywords and one other event which is generated when a task is resumed after it was pausing. ...

... This chapter discusses values that JavaScript recognizes and describes the fundamental building blocks of JavaScript expressions: variables and literals. ... So, for example, you could define a variable as follows: . var answer = 42 And later, you could assign the same variable a string value, for example, . ... These are fixed values, not variables, that you literally provide in your script. ... A string literal is zero or more characters enclosed in double ( " ) or single ( ' ) quotation marks. ...

... This section describes how to copy a file between two VMS systems using the COPY command, and between a VMS system and another computer using FTP or Kermit. Remote file access may be made on either the file or record level, but only file level access is discussed here. To access a file, you use normal VMS commands, such as COPY or TYPE , but you specify the file name differently. ... It is also possible to automate your file transfers using scripts in conjunction with the Kermit TAKE command. ...

... Archives . ... If you do not mind the time predictor, it is hard to believe that this is a light curve, time dependent data. ... It?s hard to say this data set is designed for time series analysis apart from the complication in statistical inference due to measurement errors. How to design the statistical study with measurement errors, huge gaps in time, and unequal time intervals is complex and unexplored. ... The following is R output without measurement errors. ... Chandra Blog . ...

The database contains references to the papers, data files and links to the Internet resources related to measurements and calculations of the optical constants in the wavelength interval from X-rays to radio domain. ... References to some useful books and reviews on the subject (e.g. the classical handbooks edited by E.D.Palik) and links to Internet collections of optical constants and personal WWW pages with related software were also placed in the database. You have arrived at our welcome page. ...

... Armagh Observatory, College Hill, Armagh BT61 9DG, +44 (0)28 3752 2928 . ... Three sixth-form students from St Patrick's Grammar School, Armagh , used the Faulkes Telescope South in Australia in April to observe and measure HW Virginis , an unusual "binary" or double star system suspected to host one or two extrasolar planets orbiting the central stellar pair. ... Armagh Observatory and associated researchers hope to develop this work to look for further evidence of planet-hosting binary star...

The computed band passes. ... The interim correlator input is filtered by 8 analog filters (50 Mhz wide at the 260 Mhz IF... one for each sub correlator). ... For bandwidths of 25 Mhz and below the real data stream is digitally down converted to complex samples I, Q streams. ... The Top figure is the halfband filter bandpass computed from the filter coefficients. ... The computed filter has aliased power, extra IQ filtering, and two applications of the filter on the resulting real bandpass. ...

... Apache HTTP Server Version 2.2 . ... Allows the setting of environment variables based on characteristics of the request . ... setenvif_module . ... The mod_setenvif module allows you to set internal environment variables according to whether different aspects of the request match regular expressions you specify. ... Environment Variables in Apache . ... The BrowserMatch is a special cases of the SetEnvIf directive that sets environment variables conditional on the User-Agent HTTP request header. ...

From Herschel's catalog, the first accurate stellar parallax measurement of 0.32 seconds of arc for the star 61 Cygni was published by the F.W. Bessel in 1838. ... This distance is equivalent to 3.26 light years. ... The Universe was now a large place and the intrinsic energy output of the stars had to be huge in order that their light could reach us. ... An Orbit in Curved Space This is a prediction made by General Relativity and confirmed by direct observation of Mercury. ...

... Team . ... The main goal of observations of GRB host galaxies is accumulation of statistics of their spectroscopic and photometric properties. ... The Hubble diagram for 22 GRB host galaxies with known magnitudes and redshifts (GRB 970228, GRB 970508, GRB 970828, GRB 971214, GRB 980613, GRB 980703, GRB 990123, GRB 990510, GRB 990712, GRB 9912008, GRB 991216, GRB 000131, GRB 000210, GRB 000301C, GRB 000418, GRB 000911, GRB 000926, GRB 001109, GRB 010222, GRB 010921, GRB 011121 and GRB011211). ... 600...

TUI supports the following offsets: . Object Arc offset by a given amount on the sky (i.e. along the arc of a great circle). ... Arc offsets are useful for moving a different portion of your object or a different nearby object onto the boresight . ... Object Arc XY this is identical to an Object offset except that it has been rotated to align along the instrument x-y axes. ... This is just like the Calibration XY offset, except that it is typically cleared when you slew to a new object. ...

Stellarium 0.12.3 . ... Classes . ... ClassљMembers . ... StelMainScriptAPIProxy Class Reference . Because the core API runs in a different thread to the main program, direct function calls to some classes can cause problems - especially when images must be loaded, or other non-atomic operations are involved. ... Connect signals from the StelMainScriptAPI to the instance of this class running in the main thread and let the slots do the work which is not possible within StelMainScriptAPI itself. ...

... 8, ``Celestial Mechanics'', 2002 High precision parallel algorithms of numerical integration of celestial mechanics problems N. V. Batkhina, A. B. Batkhin Volzhsky Institute of Humanities, Volgograd State University, Volzhsky, Russia We investigate different scenarios of dynamical chaos origin in Hamiltonian systems generated by some celestial mechanics problems. ... 22 We compiled these algorithms to C programming language with free multiple precision library GMP (GNU MP library) [5]. ...

This thread illustrates how to evaluate if your RGS observation is affected by pile-up; if so, how to deal with it in some special cases; and how to prevent it occurring. ... Pile-up will cause two coincident first order . ... Thus, pile-up may differ between RGS1 and RGS2 and may abruptly vary between CCD locations due to the nominal event pattern distribution variations over the detectors. ... Migration of photons from 1st to 2nd order (or from 2nd order to 3rd order) . ...

Distribution of the analyzed SEPs with different >100 MeV proton fluxes ( J 100 ) at the microwave flux density plane ' S 9 vs. ... 1) General correspondence takes place between intensities of microwave bursts and proton fluxes - J 100 increases when S 9 and S 15 rise. ... 3) Powerful microwave bursts ( S 9 , S 15 >3000-10000 sfu ) with hard radio spectra ( S 9 < S 15 ) correspond to majority of powerful proton fluxes ( J 100 >10 pfu ). ...