... 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. ...

... The front screen contains a link to the Connections screen, a list of Frequently Used connections, a link to Unlock Pro Features (not necessary for remote observing), and a link to Settings for the app. There ate two options for making an SSH cpnnection: Quick Connect or New Connection. ... The Quick Connect button at the bottom-left of the screen brings up a quick connection dialogue with a couple of settings. ... Under Connection Type , you shoul select Secure VNC over SSH . ...

... Run Specview In Applet Mode . ... Press Releases . ... Release Notes . ... You don't have to install Specview in your computer to have a taste of it, you can just run it in your Web browser as a Java applet. ... Clicking on the "Demonstration" link below will download the applet version of Specview. ... To run an "empty" (no pre-loaded data) version of the Specview applet, use the "Run" link instead. ... The applet requires that your Web browser be equipped with version 1.6 of the Java Plug-in. ...

... It runs on unix, MacOS and possibly on Windows. ... On MacOS or Windows, double-click TUI. If MacOS complains that the application is unsigned then right-click TUI and select Open. ... If you have never run TUI before, set up your preferences before proceeding (for help on any item, right-click on the control and select Help from the menu that appears): . ... To save your window positions and remember which windows to open at startup, select Save Window Positions from the TUI menu. ...

Yesterday I got a fragment (first 12 disks of 43 total) of Merlin beta 9.014 (string appeared in kernel and drivers; cmd.exe reports 9.012). ... Those 12 disks appeared to be sufficient to pass 1st phase of installation and run Merlin off Maintenance Desktop. ... 1) HPFS 2MB cache limit is still there. ... InfoPM shows about the same graphics performance as on Warp 3.0 (slightly worse on some operations). ... Looks like at least keyboard layout will be easily customizable in Merlin. ...

GTK+ / Gnome Application Development . ... static GnomeUIInfo help_menu [] = { GNOMEUIINFO_HELP ("gnome-hello"), GNOMEUIINFO_MENU_ABOUT_ITEM(about_cb, NULL), GNOMEUIINFO_END }; . ... gchar* helpfile; helpfile = gnome_help_file_find_file("gnome-hello", "gnome-hello.html"); if (helpfile != NULL) { gchar* url; url = g_strconcat("file:", helpfile, NULL); gnome_help_goto(NULL, url); g_free(url); g_free(helpfile); } else { gnome_error_dialog(_("Couldn't find the GnomeHello manual!")); } . ...

Next: Installing Up: General information Previous: About this guide Contents . In order to facilitate reading this manual, various fonts are used. Responses you are asked to type in at the command level appear in these fonts: hds_open, filename . ... Procedure names in the text appear like this: average , whereas widget buttons are typed like this: OPEN or D ISP C ORR , depending on whether or not they bring up a new widget or take immediate action, respectively. ...

... 08.May.95 verify.tar.Z # MIDAS verification procedures (optional) calib.tar.Z # All calibration data already installed (optional) demo.tar.Z # All demo data already installed (optional) 97NOVpl2.0.tar.gz # MIDAS 97NOV patch level 2.0 already installed and # without sources, for Linux 2.0.28 (Slackware # distribution but also verified to run on RedHat 4.2) [00-13].97NOVpl2.0.tar.gz # The previous file in 1.44 MB chunks. ... Select NAME to DELETE: - Optional: Calibration and Demo data already...

... Mars to Appear Normal this August . ... October is the best month to see Mars this year. ... As Earth catches up to Mars in their respective orbits around the Sun, Mars will keep rising earlier in the night. On 2005 October 30, Earth will have caught up to Mars and the planets will be the nearest to each other in their orbits -- this time around. On October 30, Mars will be nearly opposite to the Sun, rise at sunset, set at sunrise, and appear highest and brightest around midnight. ...

... 2005 August 8 . Mars to Appear Normal This August . ... Regardless of numerous urban legends circulating, Mars will appear relatively normal in August. October is the best month to see Mars this year. ... As Earth catches up to Mars in their respective orbits around the Sun, Mars will keep rising earlier in the night. On 2005 October 30, Earth will have caught up to Mars and the planets will be the nearest to each other in their orbits -- this time around. ... About APOD | ...

... sed 's/-t=//'` shift continue;; -b=*) transformbasename=`echo $1 | sed 's/-b=//'` shift continue ;; *) if [ x $ src = x ] then src =$1 else # this colon is to work around a 386BSD /bin/sh bug : dst =$1 fi shift continue ;; esac done if [ x $ src = x ] then echo $0: no input file specified 2 exit 1 else : fi if [ x $dir_arg != x ]; then dst =$ src src = if [ -d $ ... IFS='%' set - `echo "$dstdir" | ...

M1 image More About M1 Nice Color Picture . ... M16 image More About M16 HST image . ... M31 image More About M31 Nice Color Picture . ... M42 image ; M43 image More About M42/43 Nice Color CCD Picture . M51 image More About M51 Color Image of M51 M51 Supernova . M57 image More About M57 Nice Color CCD Picture Very Deep M57 Image . ... M81 image More About M81 M81 Supernova Ultraviolet Image of M81 More about Ultraviolet Imaging . M82 image More About M82 M82 False Color M82 True Color . ...

... 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 . ...

UNIXhelp is available for anybody to use on the World Wide Web . However if you are based outside Edinburgh, you may find each page slow to load across the network. We would recommend installing a copy at your local site. ... The main distribution site appears below but there may be an mirror of the distribution closer to you. ... Contact the UNIXhelp maintainer if you can help. The Copyright for the UNIXhelp deliverables rests with the Computing Services of the University of Edinburgh. ...

... Structure of Data . ... Catalog . ... The SAI OCL Catalog site provides several VO-enabled modes of operation: . VO-enabled catalog data analysis from a browser . ... Endpoint URL is http://ocl.sai.msu.ru/catalog/conesearch/ . ... VO-enabled catalog analysis from a browser . Presently, this recipe works with Firefox (Windows, MacOS, Linux), Internet Explorer (Windows) and Opera (Windows) browsers with Java plugin 1.6 installed. ... Main TOPCAT window with SAI OCL catalog loaded will appear. ...