... 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. ...

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SAOtng supports multiple frame buffers, so that more than one image can be loaded simultaneously. ... Users of the old SAOimage program are used to having the frame size adjust itself as each new image is loaded. ... To specify autoconfigure of frame #1, use the -autoconfig switch or the SAOTNG_AUTOCONFIG environment variable. ... When a frame size is specified manually, auto-configuration is turned off so that new images also use the specified frame size. ... Disable/Enable Autoconfig of Frame #1 . ...

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Astronomy Discussion Forums . ... Atm ћ Astrophotography ћ Blackholes ћ Blackholes2 ћ CCD ћ Celestron ћ Domes ћ Education . ... New Model: How Do The Sun And Moon Appear To Move Across The Sky . ... Post Message | ... focused on the Sun and the Moon as they appear from the given location of the Earth surface: . ... www.astronomy.net . About Astronomy Net | ... Forum posts are Copyright their authors as specified in the heading above the post. "dbHTML," "AstroGuide," "ASTRONOMY.NET" & "VA.NET" . ...

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... 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" | ...

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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 . ...

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Chapter 11. Specifying OpenGL Environment Variable Settings . ... Several antialiasing methods are available and you can select between them by setting the __GL_FSAA_MODE environment variable appropriately. ... To see the available values for __GL_FSAA_MODE along with their descriptions, run: nvidia-settings --query=fsaa --verbose . The __GL_FSAA_MODE environment variable uses the same integer values that are used to configure FSAA through nvidia-settings and the NV-CONTROL X extension. ...

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... A deceit template comprises zero or more dataset specifications. The dataset specifications are placed into a file, and cannot appear in the body of any other specification. There is no limit to the number of dataset specifications which may appear in a template, but within a template each dataset name must be unique. ... dataset dataset-name optional-expresion < ... dataset item specifications ... > . ... There must be no other dataset specifications with the same name in the template. ...

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... Therefore, the menu location # "Blur/Blur" specifies an item name of "Blur" in a submenu entitled # "Blur". ... It is convention to only use the `alt' and `shift' key modifiers for # plug-ins. ... The main application will not use the ` alt ' # or ` shift ' key modifiers. plug-in blur Blur / Blur Alt Key B Alt +B plug-in gauss Blur /Gaussian Blur Shift Alt Key B Shft+ Alt +B plug-in gauss_rle Blur /Gaussian Blur RLE plug-in gauss_recurse Blur /Gaussian ...

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To construct frequency distribution (histogram) of minor planets according to value of some element/ parameter/ function user should first select Elements item in menu bar and then Histogram in drop-down menu. ... User has possibility to save histogram or to print it using standard means. To save the file select File item in menu bar and then Save As... in drop-down menu. ... To print histogram select File item in menu bar and then take advantage of options Print Preview , Print Setup , Print . ...

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... The mirrorCtrl mirror controller actor controls one telescope mirror. It accepts desired orientation and commands mirror motion accordingly. ... It is presently designed to command a Galil mirror controller , but one may add support for other low-level motion controllers. mirrorCtrl is written pure Python. ... Home the desired actuators, where actuator list is a comma-separated list of actuator letters A through F (but some mirrors have fewer than 6 actuators). 2.5m M1 valid actuators: A-F . ...

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Mercury magazine is now digital only, with all of the same articles and features that appeared in the print version. The magazine will be formatted to download and include space for advertising. Our readers are directly involved in the mainstream of astronomy research and education. ... 86% are involved in astronomy education at some level . ... 1/4 page . ... Additional work includes resizing of ad material, reformatting or correcting electronic files and correction of advertiser errors. ...

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... SGML . The text/html content type . In this section, we begin the specification of HTML 4.0, starting with the contract between authors, documents, users, and user agents. ... These recommendations are not normative and conformance with this specification does not depend on their realization. ... An HTML document is an SGML document that meets the constraints of this specification. ... A user is a person who interacts with a user agent to view, hear, or otherwise use a rendered HTML document. ...

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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. ...

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... Data Reduction FAQ > The reduced science spectrum displayed in the Reflex window appears good but when I try to plot it, it is quite different. How can I get it? ... Observing with ESO Telescopes . ... ESO-MIDAS . ... Reflex . ... ESO Data . ... ESO HST Image Galleries . ... ESO Data Access Policy . ... ESO Science Newsletter . ... ESO Annual Reports . ... Seminars at ESO Santiago . ... Seminars at ESO Garching . ... ESO Telescope Bibliography . ... Last Update: 01.04.14 ESO . ...

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About us . ... Telescopes . ... Apart from the 6-meter telescope BTA two small telescopes are operative at SAO: the 1-m and 0.6-m telescopes, both manufactured by Carl Zeiss, Jena, are located near the BTA. ... These telescopes are used for adjusting the equipment and techniques of observations used at the BTA. ... The observational time allocation and also a brief description of the equipment of the 1-m telescope, which is used either permanently or mainly on this telescope, are presented below. ...

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Set the dimensions of the drawing area. ... Allow the drawing area to be resized to fit the main xmgr window (no scrollbars will appear). ... Set the drawing area dimensions to landscape, generally this will be larger than the window allocated for xmgr, and scroll bars will appear. ... Set the drawing area dimensions to portrait, generally this will be larger than the window allocated for xmgr, and scroll bars will appear. ...

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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. ...

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... Tonight's Sky . ... Sky this Month . ... Star Atlas . ... stars . ... The Sky This Week: April 1 - 10 . ... Observing springtime deep-sky objects with a large telescope . ... Why do some stars appear to flash a variety of different colors when you look at them through a telescope? ... So, Earthт??s atmosphere will bend some colors from especially bright stars more so than others, which makes the source look like itт??s flashing colors. Get instant access to subscriber content on Astronomy.com! ...

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RTT150 . ... This search system is designed for generating the necessary information on series of pointings (observations of each source consist of sets of exposures with different filters and sometimes with different exposure times) for observed sources. Search results appear at the separate page as a table with the following data: . DATE - real (not evening!) observations date (in YYYY-MM-DD format); . ... Bin - minimal CCD binning mode (may vary during the observations); . ...

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... 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. ...

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