I'm glad you're interested in collaborating on the ConcepTests for Astronomy WWW database project! ... I'm looking forward to your contributions! ... a) high luminosity, high temperature to low luminosity, low temperature . b) high luminosity, low temperature to low luminosity, low temperature . c) high luminosity, low temperature to low luminosity, high temperature . d) high luminosity, high temperature to low luminosity high temperature. ... Back to Paul Green's Peer Instruction page. ...

... The Observatory, the cupola of which is 480 cm wide, is equipped with a Ritchey-Cretien 500 mm f/7.5 telescope, a 200 mm f/7.5 guide telescope, and a 250 mm f/13 Baker-Schmidt, a ST4 and a ST6 CCD cameras and four computers. ... Up until now we have archived about 600 images from the first observation, and 100 from the second, thanks to the automatic telescope aiming control program written by Vairo Risoldi. ... A.Nakamura, Japan, took CCD image of NGC5775. ...

Armagh Observatory, 21 December 2001: . ... The Armagh Observatory's contribution, led by astronomers Simon Jeffery and Gerry Doyle , is to develop new computational tools to study the atmosphere of the Sun and other stars. ... Computers will communicate with one another using the grid, and computing power will become a commodity just like electricity. ... FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Simon Jeffery or Mark Bailey at the Armagh Observatory (Tel.: ... WWW contact: webmaster@star.arm.ac.uk . ...

... To introduce you to the Python programming language, and its Visual module (VPython), which allows 3D simulation. The computer labs are held in room BOZO 112, not in the usual physics lab. ... This lab will use the Python programming language. ... Click on the Windows button in the bottom left, select "Programs", then the "A-Z" list of programs. ... Later in the course you will need to write your own VPython programs for assessment - this lab is your chance to make sure you can do this. ...

... Bojan Nikolic web pages (r. 329) . Out-Of-Focus (OOF) Holography . Below are some fully worked out solutions for building the OOF package on computer installations. ... Script to build the OOF software on ALMA "red" computers, i.e., the # reduction machines osf-red and sco-red # This is the installation directory export INSTALLDIR = /users/bnikolic/p/bnoof # Pre-requisites. ... Building the OOF package: worked solutions . ... Copyright 2005 -- 2016, Bojan Nikolic feedback welcome ...

Railroad Tycoon (RRT) Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) Compiled and Edited by David Mitton Rev 1 Draft 9-Feb-1994 Scope & Disclaimer: Not a complete treatis on RRT or RTD. ... Microprose information - Game Limitations (README.DOC) - Known Bugs - Version info - Hints and Strategy books - "The Computer Cheats!" ... Read the Tech Supplement - Why only 32 stations? ... Railroad Tycoon (RRT) and Railroad Tycoon Deluxe (RTD) are exciting strategy games of empire building, operation, and market manipulation. ...

This general purpose telescope enclosure offers simple access to the sky for small instruments. Its truss roof rolls back on the steel I-beams and tracks that extend to the north of the building. A chain drive attached to the underside of the trusses provides the power that makes opening the observatory simple. Heavy steel pins secure the roof when it is closed. ...

... New ac units were installed in buildings I and II sometime in 2011 (need exact dates). ... Tests showed that most of the rfi comes from the "cpu" inside the roof enclosure. 28jan13: rfi coming from building 2 A/C unit using a spectrum analyzer at the unit. 24jan13: building 2 power shutdown shows rfi coming from A/C unit atop building 2. 29sep11: looking at the 1408 MHz birdie while the cabinet doors were opened,closed. 18-26 sep11: 1408 MHz rfi reported by a2010 (alfalfa). ...

... LILO . ... You can pass LILO arguments at boot time, the most damaging (from a security point of view) being "image-name single" which boots Linux into single user mode, and by default in most distributions dumps you to a root prompt in a command shell with no prompting for passwords or other pesky security mechanisms. ... requires user to input a password, used in conjunction with restricted, also make sure lilo.conf is no longer world readable, or any user will be able to read the password. ...

... AstroGrid, a three year, PPARC-funded, e-Science project, which forms the UK's contribution to world-wide efforts to build a Virtual Observatory based on Grid technologies, announces the availability of several new, web-based, collaboration tools. The static pages of the project portal, now located at http://www.astrogrid.org , present background information about the project plus links to core documents and the new collaboration tools. ... European AVO Project: http://www.eso.org/projects/avo/ . ...

... Science User Portal . ... ESO, the European Southern Observatory . ... Travel and Contacts . Travel to ESO Headquarters . ... Travel to E-ELT Armazones . ... Survey Telescopes . ... Star Clusters . ... Stars@ESO . ... Press Room . ... ESO Science Newsletter . ... ESO 3.6-metre telescope . ... MPG/ESO 2.2-metre telescope . ... The VLT telescopes and instruments are controlled through a gigantic series of computers, which fill a full room underneath the control room. ... cb_computer_room_dec2004 . ...

Open Systems Handbook: A Guide to Building Open Systems . ... This book is designed to provide interested individuals and organizations with an overview of open systems and the work being done to achieve them. ... This section is organized using a descriptive model of an open systems environment developed by the IEEE PI 003.0 Working Group, which is developing the Guide to POSIX-based Open System Architecture. ... Standards for open systems 13 . Chapter 3: The open systems environment (OSE) 15 . ...

LIF Marseille and Institute for Information Transmission Problems, Moscow, Russia. E-mail: alexander.shen AT lif.univ-mrs.fr, sasha.shen AT gmail.com . ... Kolmogorov complexity, algorithmic information theory . Teaching (mathematics, computer science): Independent University of Moscow, Moscow State University, Moscow mathematical school No 57. ... Kolmogorov memorial conference, Moscow. IEEE Conference on Computational Complexity, Aarhus (Denmark), ("Kolmogorov day") . ...

... JSC Oral History . NASA History . History-NASA Centers . ... NASA Oral History Project: "Herstory" . This NASA Oral History Project captures the experiences of some of the women who contributed to the success of the Space Agency. ... Computer (Mathematician) , Dryden Flight Research Center, Edwards, CA . ... Programmer , Dryden Flight Research Center, Edwards, CA . ... Computer , Dryden Flight Research Center, Edwards, CA . Engineer , Dryden Flight Research Center, Edwards, CA . ...

... Some 60 million light-years away in the southerly constellation Corvus, two large galaxies collided. But the stars in the two galaxies cataloged as NGC 4038 and NGC 4039 don't collide in the course of the ponderous, billion year or so long event. ... Spiral Galaxy NGC 3190 Almost Sideways . ... Some spiral galaxies are seen almost sideways. ... The Coma Cluster of Galaxies . ... Virgo Cluster Galaxy NGC 4731 . ... Barred spiral galaxy NGC 4731 lies some 65 million light-years away. ...

... Garage/Shop Building . ... APO Site Safety Plan . ... When in doubt, contact the Site Manager . ... In the event of an emergency , it is best to contact the Site Manager, Safety Officer , or other APO personnel listed on the APO emergency phone lists located in all control rooms and the Supply area. ... Do not enter this area without a safety briefing ; contact the Site Manager . ... Special training and safety equipment is required before handling cryogenics; contact Site Manager . ...

Computer Ephemeris. Precession/nutation matrix. Explanations. Each row contains for the date specified at 0 h of Time Dynamical Terrestrial nine elements of equatorial precession/nutation matrix minus unity matrix multiplied on 10 8 . This matrix is to be used for coordinate transformation of equatorial coordinates between mean equatror and equinox J2000.0 and real equator and equinox of date. ... This is the matrix for transformation from J2000.0 to date. ...

... This document is copyright (c) 1999, 2000 Greg O'Keefe. ... The lastest version of this document lives at From Powerup To Bash Prompt as does its companion ``Building a Minimal Linux System from Source Code''. ... For contributing some ``ramblings'' about the kernel deamons. ... added change history . ... add more exercises, perhaps a whole section on larger exercises, like creating a minimal system file by file from a distro install. add makefile hack to bash build instructions - see easter notes. ...

... The method I use for doing this assumes that all of the contributions, and all of their PostScript figure files, are in the same directory. ... If you want to build the book in a different directory, then you will need the GNU version of make, so that files can depend on files in other directories. ... The PAPERS macro must contain an entry for each contribution, but with a .ltx extension instead of .tex. .ltx is the file extension used by the \paper macro for inclusion into the book. ...