... Each day a different image or photograph of our fascinating universe is featured, along with a brief explanation written by a professional astronomer. 2000 August 28 . The Helix Nebula from CFHT . ... The Helix Nebula is the closest example of a planetary nebula created at the end of the life of a Sun-like star. The outer gasses of the star expelled into space appear from our vantage point as if we are looking down a helix . ... About APOD | ...

XMM-Newton Science Analysis System Page: 1 om at eld August 16, 2005 Abstract Creates a tracking shifted at eld and applies it to an OM OSW image. ... The tracking shifted at eld is created by extracting a window from the OM In Orbit Flat eld. This window is made slightly bigger than the OM OSW Image to accomodate the tracking shifts of pixels within the In Orbit Flat eld. ... The at elded OM OSW Image is also output for use in subsequent pipeline tasks. ... Intermediate OM In Orbit Flat eld le. ...

Motif and X-Windows . The applications described in this section are some of the many applications available. ... A DECterm session can be created by choosing the DECterm submenu item the Session Manager's Application menu or by using the CREATE/TERMINAL command at the system prompt. ... The CDA Viewer application displays the contents of compound documents consisting of graphics, images, and text. ... Ghostview is an application that displays PostScript documents using ghostscript. ... DECterm . ...

... Up: Science Software Applications . ... It has extensions for creating GUI (Tk) and object-oriented ([incr tcl]) applications. Several Tcl-based tools that may be used for astronomical and other scientific applications have been created and are discussed. One example is ptcl , which registers PGPLOT functions as Tcl commands, creating a powerful interactive plotting package. ... Both programs use the same C code, Tcl commands, and [incr tcl] classes; only the GUIs are different. ...

... ATNF Home . ... About ATNF overview . ... Australia Telescope Steering Committee . ... Next: Third: Create a session Up: Starting up correlator control Previous: First: Log on to б  Contents . Both the correlator interface and the correlator spectra display program are run from lbaccc . ... lbaccc . ... A more complete explanation of SPD, including available commands, is found in Appendix C. Next: Third: Create a session Up: Starting up correlator control Previous: First: Log on to б  Contents . ...

GTK+ / Gnome Application Development . ... Overview of a Gnome Source Tree . ... Almost all Gnome applications use the same build system based on the GNU tools automake , autoconf , and libtool . ... Beginning with this chapter and continuing throughout Part 2 of the book, a sample application called GnomeHello will be used to demonstrate Gnome features. ... Together, these tools are used to create a portable shell script called configure ; configure is distributed to users with your software package. ...

Astronomy Picture of the Day . ... 21.10.1997 . ... Sometimes a highly symmetric gaseous planetary nebula is created, as is the case in M2-9 , also called the Butterfly. Most planetary nebulae show this bipolar appearance, although some appear nearly spherical . ... October 1997 . ... 2007 . ... NASA Web Site Statements, Warnings, and Disclaimers . ... Publications with keywords: planetary nebula - butterfly nebula . Publications with words: planetary nebula - butterfly nebula . ...

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NAUTICAL ASTRONOMICAL ALMANAC for 2002-2003 (in Russian) . Foreword . Institute of Applied Astronomy (IAA) of the Russian Academy of Sciences (RAS) and Admiral Makarov State Maritime Academy (AMSMA) submit a new тАЬNautical Astronomical AlmanacтАЭ (NAA-2) biennial for deck officers. ... NAA-2 consists of two parts: one is variable parameters, computed in IAA RAS and the second one is constant parameters, made jointly by IAA RAS and AMSMA. ... Director IAA RAS . President AMSMA . ...

. The exec statement causes the command specified as its argument to be executed in place of the current shell without creating a new process. For example: exec zmail -visual . This runs just the zmail program without a shell. When you quit the application the current shell also exits.

NAME ABbuilder - DFO data organization tool SYNOPSIS ABbuilder <options> where <options> are: --raw-dir directory containing raw data --cal-dir directory containing calib data --cal-ldir directory containing symbolic links to calib files --cal-list mcalib list --vcal-dir directory containing virtual products --pro-dir where pipeline products are created --ab-dir where association blocks are created --oca-rul file containing OCA rules --instrume instrument --date YYYY-MM-DD --mode { CALIB | ...

... Conjunction Over Armagh . ... Comet and Pleiades . ... Pleiades . ... Antares Region . Helix and Cat's Eye Nebulae . Orion Nebula . Lagoon and Eagle Nebulae . Crab Nebula . ... Our Galaxy Core . Andromeda Galaxy . Wide-field and Zoomed-in Galaxies . Interacting Typhoons and Galaxies . Spiral Galaxy M106 . Sombrero Galaxy . Whirlpool Galaxy . Colliding Galaxies . ... й Miruna Popescu, Armagh Observatory ...

... xxxxL#.html for the spread sheet application and . xxxxL#.gif for the graphing or whiteboard applications. where xxxx is the last 4 digits of your SS# and L# is the number of the lab exercise under the homework area on the main course page. So if the last 4 digits of your SS# were 4561 then for the first lab you would name the file: . ... For the spreadsheet application you can look at the file that you created. ... http://jersey.uoregon.edu/~crew/spsheet/4561L1.html (for example) . ...

... MICROSOFT ANNOUNCES < insert new M$ application name > REDMOND, WASHINGTON -- In an effort to < insert M$'s lame idea about what user's need >, Microsoft announced today that < insert M$'s lame answer to lame idea >. ... This is precisely why < insert competing software application's name > is failing in the marketplace -- they have failed to deliver a < enter quality that only a Business Major turned computer journalist could dream up >." ...

... Created: 23 February 2001 . ... SOFTWARE MAINTENANCE MANUAL . ... 9 January 2001 . ... Note: in the final document, the table of contents will be to third level] . The Software Maintenance Manual describes the procedures for installation and maintenance of the software for the Gemini Near-infrared Integral Field Spectrograph (NIFS). ... Section 19.4.3 of the document “Programmatic Requirements for Gemini Instrumentation Development” states the requirements for the Software Maintenance Manual . ...

... Table files like the ones created in the section on imcnts can be displayed, printed and manipulated using the tasks contained in the stsdas.ttools package. ... sp> tables # Load the relevant package ta> tprint rp90_cnt prpar=yes # .tab extension assumed # the hidden parameter prpar is set to display the header # as well as the data ta> tprint rp90_cnt # Displays only the data info ta> tprint rp90_cnt prdata- prpar+ # Displays only the header info ta> tprint rp90_cnt prparam=yes | ...

... Its companion is a hot, white dwarf, a stellar zombie of a burned-out star. ... Image and illustration files are available on the Internet at: http :// oposite.stsci.edu / pubinfo /pr/ 1999 /32 or via links in http :// oposite.stsci.edu / pubinfo /latest.html and http :// oposite.stsci.edu / pubinfo /pictures.html Higher resolution digital versions (300 dpi JPEG and TIFF) are available at: http :// oposite.stsci.edu / pubinfo /pr/ 1999 /32/pr-photos.html http :// oposite.stsci.edu / pubinfo /pr...

... We study in this paper the effect of shock excitation of leaky and surface modes by the p-polarized electromagnetic wave incident on the rapidly ionized gaseous or solid layer. ... For example, if [pic] (solid density, multiple ionized plasma), the basic frequency [pic], [pic], [pic] we find, that the wavelength of leaky wave [pic] is in soft x rays band. ... If [pic] (low density gaseous plasma), the basic frequency [pic], [pic], [pic] we find, that the wavelength of leaky wave [pic] is in THz band...

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... Our Galaxy . ... Stars . ... Space Flight . ... NGC 2841: a spiral galaxy some 46 million light years away. ... It is especially hard to explain this process of star birth in some spiral galaxies. ... Targets include both star clusters and galaxies, and star formation rates seen range from the starburst galaxy M82 (the Cigar Galaxy) which is creating about ten new stars in its core alone every year to the much less fecund star producer NGC 2841. ... Tweets that mention Baby stars of NGC 2841 | ...