... What is there beyond the edge of the universe? ... This is often illustrated by newspaper headlines: "Scientist sees face of God, confirms Big Bang model" (a reference to results from the Cosmic Background Explorer satellite), "Is the cosmos younger than some of the stars it contains? ... The Lone Universe . ... We cannot reproduce it; we cannot take another one and see what happens to it; we cannot compare it to anything else, as astronomers routinely do with planets, stars, and galaxies. ...

From XEphem running the Soft03Cmt database of 20121002, for the date and time of the observation: RA: 08:16:04.25 Dec: 27:48:13 2012-09-30 UT 09:45 UTC Measured: RA: 08:16:04.4 Dec: 27:48:12.9 Header listing for HDU #1: SIMPLE = T / This is a FITS file BITPIX = -32 / NAXIS = 2 / NAXIS1 = 4341 / NUMBER OF ELEMENTS ALONG THIS AXIS NAXIS2 = 4355 / NUMBER OF ELEMENTS ALONG THIS AXIS EXTEND = T / This file may contain ...

... Posts tagged ?weighted mean? ... Is there an objective method to combine measurements of the same quantity obtained with different instruments? ... Q] Objectivity and Frequentist Statistics? Tags: Bayesian , Frequentist , Ping Zhao , question for statisticians , weighted mean . Category: Bad AstroStat , Fitting , Frequentist , Stat , Uncertainty | 18 Comments . ... Entries RSS . Comments RSS . ... vlk on [MADS] Parallel Coordinates . ... Entries (RSS) and Comments (RSS) . ...

Astronotes Armagh Planetarium's Stellar Blog! ... Monthly Sky Notes . ... By admin January 20, 2012 Posted in: Armagh Planetarium . To coincide with the television programme, Armagh Planetarium held a special night on Wednesday 18 January with the fantastic amateur astronomers from the Northern Ireland Amateur Astronomy Society (NIAAS) joining us. At the fore of night sky observing.... the NIAAS (Image credit: NIAAS) . ... Image credit: Julie Thompson, Armagh Planetarium) . ...

GTK+ 2.0 Tutorial . ... This program will create a 200x200 pixel window and has no way of exiting except to be killed by using the shell. #include <gtk/gtk.h> int main( int argc, char *argv[] ) { GtkWidget *window; gtk_init (&argc, &argv); window = gtk_window_new (GTK_WINDOW_TOPLEVEL); gtk_widget_show (window); gtk_main (); return 0; } . ... All programs will of course include gtk/gtk.h which declares the variables, functions, structures, etc. that will be used in your GTK application. ... gtk-debug . ...

... The classical Beltrami theorem says that any metric whose geodesics are straight lines has constant curvature. But what can we say about geometries whose geodesics are circles (to be more precise --- parts of circles; by a circle we always mean a circle or a line)? ... We prove that a rectifiable simple bundle of circles containing sufficiently many circles in general position is the image of a bundle of lines under some left or right quaternionic fractional transformation. ...

. Aristarchus was extremely clever and also figured out a way to determine the ratio of distances between the earth and the moon and the earth and the sun. While wrong, at least he reasoned that the sun was much farther from the earth than the moon. Just Try and Follow this! . Summary of Greek Science .

... SSAU History . SSAU roadmap . ... The participants got unique knowledge during the four very busy days of training at the School of Astronautics, they heard firsthand about the life at the International Space Station and the work in space, they even were able to try on the suit for the spacecraft flight and the gloves, in which Oleg Artemyev worked in open space. ... If I lived another life, I would have studied in SSAU at the Engine Building Department , - shared his thoughts Oleg Artemyev. ...

18oct05 When 100 Mhz 3 level data centered at 1384 Mhz is taken (a2010), radar birdies appear in the band. ... The birdie at 1350 Mhz is the Faa radar. ... The table below shows where the 1350 Mhz birdies sits in the 1st IF and at baseband. It also includes the location of the baseband 2nd and 3rd harmonics of the 1350 Mhz birdie. ... When the center frequency is 1380 Mhz, both the 2nd and 3rd harmonics at baseband alias down to 1390 Mhz. ... The 1380 radar birdie comes from the 1350 Mhz birdie. ...

... The word "algebra" comes from a phrase (in bold below) in the title of an Arab book " Kitab al muhtasar fi hisab al gabr w'al muqubalah ." ... When Al-Khorezmi's book on the new system reached Europe, the Europeans called its use "algorism" or "algorithm," a corruption of the author's name. Today "algorithm" means method of calculation, and the rise of computers has led to extensive work on developing efficient computer algorithms. More about Al-Khorezmi's work, here . ...

Channel ops are one of the most powerful and simple tools available to you with the GIMP. ... Channel ops are operations that typically involve two images. Each channel operation compares and does some sort of manipulation based on the pixels in two images. ... Add takes two images, and adds the RGB or greyscale values of the pixels. ... If you have a completely black canvas, all the values are zero. ... This channel operation compares two images and results in the darkest values from each image. ...

... Deutsch . ... Did you know that sugar contains some of the essential ingredients for life? ... However, sugar is made up of a simple recipe of chemicals called carbon, hydrogen and oxygen. ... Now, using a powerful telescope, a team of astronomers has spotted sugar in the gas surrounding a young star that is like our Sun. ... And since sugar contains the ingredients for life, finding it near a Sun-like star is very exciting maybe life could exist on another planet in the Universe! ...

Program: RFITS Purpose: Load FITS files from tape into a GIPSY set. ... Keywords: *** AUTO= Try to run in automatice mode [Y]. ... NODATA= Create only set headers [N]. ... Example: USER RFITS ,AUTO=N USER RFITS ,INTAPE=IMPORT USER RFITS ,INFILES=31 USER RFITS ,OUTSET=NGC4214 USER RFITS ,CTYPE1=RA-NCP USER RFITS ,CUNIT1= USER RFITS ,LIMITS1= USER RFITS ,GRID1= USER RFITS ,CTYPE2=DEC-NCP USER RFITS ,CUNIT2= USER RFITS ,LIMITS2= ...

... Bad Astronomy . ... Mad Science . ... Site Info . ... Public Talks . ... Keep Bad Astronomy close to your heart, and help make me filthy rich. ... Who is this guy who calls himself "The Bad Astronomer?" ... First, yes, I am a real live astronomer (when people ask me what astronomers do, I tell them "They astronom !" ... These are emitted by powerful objects like black holes, exploding stars, and super-dense neutrons stars. ... Finally, am I really a bad astronomer? ... 2008 Phil Plait. ...

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... Hanisch provided me with the ``right'' answers for the stars in the simulated cluster, so it's easy to determine the error of each magnitude determination: find the star in the truth file that falls nearest to the position of each star in my photometric output, and compute the difference between their magnitudes. The question of how to encapsulate these magnitude differences in an overall figure of merit for the reduction procedure deserves some thought. ...

The rotation type specifies the meaning of the rotation angle. Only Object and Horizon are typically used for science (or None if your instrument does not have a rotator). ... Mount is typically used for engineering. ... Mount: rotator angle used by the rotator axis controller. ... For an instrument with a rotator: if you specify a rotation type of None and the rotator is moving then it will be halted at approximately its current position; this feature use used to implement a controlled stop. ...

OptInt PmWiki : Pm Wiki / Wiki Wiki Web . WikiWikiWeb is an "open-editing" system where the emphasis is on the authoring and collaboration of documents rather than the simple browsing or viewing of them. ... The basic concept of a WikiWikiWeb (or "wiki") is that (almost) anyone can edit any page. ... To learn more about adding pages to this Wiki site, see basic editing , then try editing pages in the WikiSandbox . ... Meatball:SoftSecurity -- how open editing can result in good Web sites . ...

... Friends is a flexible course with two entry points - Friends Starter is for complete beginners and Friends 1 for false beginners. ... Captivate young students with four fantastic worlds: The Londoners, Crazy Gang, Friends' Club and Story Time - they'll always want to learn more. ... You know where you are with Friends. ... Making friends around the world. Friends' Club units feature interviews, articles and quizzes showing children's lives all over the.. ...

The word "algebra" comes from a phrase (in bold below) in the title of an Arab book " Kitab al muhtasar fi hisab al gabr w'al muqubalah ." ... When Al-Khorezmi's book on the new system reached Europe, the Europeans called its use "algorism" or "algorithm," a corruption of the author's name. Today "algorithm" means method of calculation, and the rise of computers has led to extensive work on developing efficient computer algorithms. ...