Astronomy Discussion Forums . ... You Are Beating A Dead Horse! ... Post Message | ... You are assuming that the things being referred to are understood; essentially, you are assuming that one cannot refer to something they do not understand. ... If that is the case then I say we cannot discuss them! You are beating a dead horse. ... www.astronomy.net . ... Forum posts are Copyright their authors as specified in the heading above the post. "dbHTML," "AstroGuide," "ASTRONOMY.NET" & "VA.NET" . ...

The File System . ... Files are identified to the system using a unique identifier called the file specification , which can include disk and directory names as well as node names for accessing files across the network. On VMS systems, file names are usually thought of as having three parts *1 : the filename , the file type , and the version number . ... The full file specification, with node name, device, directory, file name, file type, and version being specified is shown in Figure 3.1 . ...

... 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. ...

Numbering Procedures for APO 2.5m and 3.5m Drawings and Engineering/Drafting Documents . ... Document part numbers are to consist of a 7 character long "base numbe,r" which is coded to provide information about the part's intended first use. The part number becomes complete and unique only with the addition of a revision number. ... Example of a "base number": 25CSA01 . ... PART NUMBER CONVENTION . ... For Example: . ... R = "Revision" . ... Questions contact Larry Carey/University of Washington ...

... A lot Chinese names are degenerate. For example, it is hard to identify the person by just reading S. Xu. My advisor Michael Jura at UCLA and I facilitated AAS to follow APS and allow Chinese, Japanese and Korean to display their names in their original characters. It has been an option since 2010. ... Here is an example of the LaTex file and the compiled pdf . If the Chinese characters appear garbled, make sure to set the encoding of the LaTex file to be UTF 8. ...

... PmWiki . Summary: PmWiki group header. ... Summary: Styling text for colour and other attributes:) See also Wiki Styles Plus and Wiki style colors . ... PmWiki 2.0 introduced the ability to control the styling further and to even place styles on blocks. ... This text is %color=red% red, %color=blue% blue, %% and normal (black). ... For example, to define a style of %red% , one can use: . define=mystyle color=red% Here is some %mystyle% red text created using a style shortcut. ... Group . ...

OptInt PmWiki : Pm Wiki / Wiki Style Examples . Wiki styles | ... PmWiki uses WikiStyles for styling text with color and other attributes. PmWiki 2.0 introduced the ability to control the styling further and to even place styles on blocks. ... In addition, an author can define a style "shortcut" by using the define= property. For example, to define a style of %red% , one can use: . define=mystyle color=red% Here is some %mystyle% red text created using a style shortcut. ...

The integers $ a_n=\sum_{k=0}^n{\binom nk}^2{\binom{n+k}k}^2, n=0,1,2,... $ appear as denominators of rational approximations to $\zeta(3)=\sum_{k=1}^\infty k^{-3}$ in Apery's proof of the irrationality of $\zeta(3)$. The sequence satisfies a polynomial recursion, namely, $ (n+1)^3a_{n+1}-(2n+1)(17n^2+17n+5)a_n+n^3a_{n-1}=0$, where $n=0,1,2,...$, and admits several curious congruence properties. ... Site design by Paul Zinn-Justin (2005) ...

To run a process in the background as a job and carry on working add an (ampersand) at the end of the command line. ... The shell forks a child process to run the command and displays the job number ( [ n ] ) and the PID (Process IDentifier) number. ... If the command is likely to produce error messages you will need to redirect standard error. ... Do not run an interactive command that requires you to type something at the terminal as a background job. ... You will then have to kill its process . ...

... An error involving a missing tasks parameter indicates that the parameter file may have changed between the last time the task was used and the current version. ... If still in trouble, delete the parameter file in `myiraf/uparm' corresponding to the task (the names are somewhat contrived, but with a bit of imagination it is not too difficult to identify the right one). ... The imcnts task and region masks . ... A region descriptor of the kind: . CIRCLE(403, 403, 22.5) . ... See `help regions'.) ...

This diagram illustrates the effects of floating a box. A document window is shown, with 8 lines (numbered 1 to 8), each 24px high. Since the "inner" box has been floated to the right, all other text flows around it (on lines 1 through 4). ... Vertical bars represent the left edge of the floated box. The lines, as they appear in the image, contain: 1 Beginning of body contents. ... End | Inner 3 of outer contents. ... Inner contents" is blue. End of outer contents" is red. ...

OSSERVATORIO ASTROFISICO DI ARCETRI CENTRO PER L'ASTRONOMIA INFRAROSSA E LO STUDIO DEL MEZZO INTERSTELLARE LARGO ENRICO FERMI, 5 -- I­50125 FIRENZE Firenze, September 30, 1994 FROM: C. Baffa TO: Tirgo Staff SUBJECT: Data handling with Tirgo Nicmos3 instruments All data taken with Tirgo Nicmos3 instruments (Arnica and Longsp) are stored directly as standard FITS files at 16 bits integer format. ... The acquisition program never rewrites over an old file. ... An example in table 1. ...