... Bad Astronomy . ... Bitesize Astronomy . ... Keep Bad Astronomy close to your heart, and help make me filthy rich. ... Last week, our tour outwards made a stop at our own home planet. Permit me to hold our tour a bit longer, to linger and gaze upon the Moon. ... Complex molecules floated in the water, but the concentration of these compounds wasn't high enough for them to get any further along than making amino acids and the like. ... 2008 Phil Plait. ... Subscribe to the Bad Astronomy Newsletter! ...

Direct images gallery. Here we have presented some images obtained on SAO telescopes by using SCORPIO. ... NGC 6951 . ... This color image are combined from the frames in the filters V ("blue"), R ("green") and middle-band filter SED755 ("red"). ... The true color image is constructed from three frames in B (Texp=600 sec), V (Texp=480 sec) and R (Texp=400 sec) filters. ... The true color image is constructed from three frames in B (Texp=180 sec), V (Texp=120 sec) and R (Texp=90 sec) filters. ...

Direct Electron Imaging Using Back Thinned CCD's . ... where, Vim is the maximum radial emission energy of photoelectrons from the cathode (eV), Vs is the cathode to anode voltage (V), k is the spatial frequency (2 p lp/mm), L is the cathode to anode spacing of the proximity focused diode (mm), d is the field-free region thickness(mm), h is the backscattering coefficient, (G/G 0 .) is the ratio of the average EBS gain of the secondary electrons to the primary gain, and W is the CCD pixel pitch (mm). ...

... Apache HTTP Server Version 2.4 . Apache > HTTP Server > Documentation > Version 2.4 > Modules . ... Base . ... User . ... This directive tells the server to chroot(8) to the specified directory after startup, but before accepting requests over the 'net. ... In order to use this directive, the server must be run initially as root . If you start the server as a non-root user, it will fail to change to the specified group, and will instead continue to run as the group of the original user. ...

This module provides for mapping different parts of the host filesystem in the document tree, and for URL redirection. ... The directives contained in this module allow for manipulation and control of URLs as requests arrive at the server. ... The ScriptAlias directive has the additional effect of marking the target directory as containing only CGI scripts. The Redirect directives are used to instruct clients to make a new request with a different URL. ... Syntax: Alias URL-path file-path | ...

Contract NAS5-26555 has various deliverable requirements. ... Contract NAS5-26555 has received various technical directives. ... Regulations regarding the use of printing and duplicating/copying at ST ScI under NASA contract NAS5-26555 are found at NASA FAR Supplement Clause 18.52.208-81 Restrictions on Printing and Duplicating (August 1993). ... End of clause) . ... Contracts and Sponsored Programs will work with the Travel Coordinator in submitting the request to the Contracting Officer. ...

Domes Forum Message . Forums: . ... Under $100.00 . ... Well, they fixed that street light across the street. ... An expensive dome wouldn't help very much because when I open the top slit, you still have street lights in front of you. ... There's nothing I can do about the light spilling into the sky, but with the tarps open I never look directly into the street light, I get no glare on the eyepiece and I get real good night vision going. ... www.astronomy.net . About Astronomy Net | ...

... Users . ... The first thing to note is that Twitter does not guarantee to return all matching Tweets, whatever method is used (unless you have direct access to their "fire hose", which I don't). ... Note that case does not matter, that I am not actually searching on the hash tags, and having the middle term means that I would select a tweet saying "The 223rd meeting of the AAS was awesome!" ... As with the AAS 221 meeting , my primary analysis was based on a search using the Twitter Streaming API . ...

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... Guests seated under a Chinese Elm planted byтАж . ... Title: Guests seated under a Chinese Elm planted by Mrs Doris Duffield in the mid-1920s . ... Guests seated under a Chinese Elm planted by Mrs Doris Duffield in the mid-1920s Image: Kim Rawlings . ...

. You can compare any two versions of a file that is under the control of SCCS with the sccsdiff command: /usr/sccs/sccsdiff -r version -r version s. filename . Using this command produces a line by line difference between the two versions of the file. Results are shown in the same format as that produced by the diff command. Examples .

... To run SCHED on a UNIX machine such as a SUN or a PC under LINUX, prepare the keyin file without system level commands. Then type, for example, sched < input.key Alternatively, if plotting is wanted, for example, type: sched <SCHED will write a number of instructive lines> * plot schedule=input.key / where the SCHED executable file is assumed to be in the default directory or path and the SCHED input commands are in input.key in the default directory. ... The ``*'' is the prompt from SCHED. ...

... S.P. KOROLEV ROCKET AND SPACE CORPORATION ENERGIA . ... On 15 May 2003 the Russian Aviation and Space Agency, S.P. Korolev Rocket and Space Corporation Energia and European Space Agency (ESA) concluded a contract to fly Spanish astronaut Pedro Duque, member of the European astronauts team as the transport spacecraft Soyuz TMA-1 flight engineer as the visiting crew VC-5 member to the International Space Station (ISS) and perform science research and experiments under Cervantes SSM Project (ESA). ...

... Science . ... Science Users Information > Science Publications > Science Announcements > GRAVITY VLTI Instrument Under Integration on Paranal . ... Observing Facilities . ... Paranal Facilities . ... Observing with ESO Telescopes . ... Science Archive Facility . ... The VLTI 2nd generation instrument GRAVITY provides a four way beam combination facility with laser metrology for micro-arcsecond astrometry and high resolution imaging and spectroscopy in the K -band, described in Eisenhauer et al 2011 ...

... April 9, 1997 . Oceans Under Jupiter's Europa? Credit: Galileo Project , JPL , NASA . Explanation : Is there life beneath Europa? Today, new results are being announced (at about 2 pm EST) about the possibility of oceans under Jupiter 's moon Europa . The existence of such oceans increases the likelihood that some sort of life exists beneath the fractured ice planes of Jupiter's smoothest satellite . ... Tomorrow's picture: Europa's Ice Rafts . ... About APOD > . ...

... Io's Surface: Under Construction . ... 21.03.1997 . ... Io's surface is constantly under construction . This moon of Jupiter holds the distinction of being the Solar System's most volcanically active body -- its bizarre looking surface continuously formed and reformed by lava flows. Generated using 1996 data from NASA's Galileo spacecraft, this highest resolution composite image of Io is centered on the side of Io that always faces away from Jupiter. ... Publications with keywords: Io . ...

Atmospheric influence on the different radio-engineering system functioning . ESTIMATION OF ATMOSPHERIC OPTICAL CHARACTERISTICS AND REMOTELY SANSED IMAGE CORRECTION . ... Direct transmittance estimation results for 12 channels of the spectrometer CHRIS. ... We have managed to develop a direct method of estimating the discrete Normalized Atmospheric Point Spread Function (NAPSF) from available images alone, not using any external sources of information about the atmosphere. ... IRE RAS 1996-20 11 ...

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