This is a copy of a Press Release from E.S.O. The most recent ESO observations of bright Comet Hyakutake have shown rapid changes in the innermost coma, within a few hundred kilometres from the cometary nucleus. This result has only become possible because of the unusual combination of a bright comet being near the Earth, together with the excellent imaging quality of the ESO 3.5-metre New Technology Telescope (NTT). ... Go to the ESO Homepage for Comet Hyakutake . ESO/La Silla | ...

... 01.10.2008 (VNY) Added some run-time messages . 09.11.2007 (VNY) Restoring the omgsource flag when extracting the target spectrum: in the case when omgrism is called from the interactive tool omgsource the target spectrum shouldn't be extracted (fixing the SSC-SPR-3702) . ... 15.04.2007 (VNY) More improvements in the field spectra extraction . ... 15.07.2004 (VNY) The target spectrum is placed in the first position in the output file with spectra (SSC-SPR-3356) . ...

Astronomy Picture of the Day . ... 13.04.1998 . ... Credit: Learmonth Solar Observatory , IPS , USAF , NOAO Explanation: Our Sun changes every day. ... Dark spots that might appear on the image are usually sunspots , dark magnetic depressions that are slightly cooler than the rest of the Sun's surface. ... Over the next few years the average number of sunspots and plages will increase until "Solar Maximum" occurs in 2001. ... April 1998 . ... 1997 1998 . ... Publications with keywords: Sun - sunspot . ...

... Bad Astronomy . ... I think I will break from my usual format of Bad Astronomy/ Good Astronomy by saying that the way we define seasons currently is not strictly bad, but I feel (in my opinion!) that it could be better. The definition of when the seasons begin is at the moment of solstice or equinox; that is, winter (in the north) starts on December 22 nd and summer starts on June 22 nd . ... Now imagine breaking up the Sun's 46 degree up-and-down yearly swing into 1 day intervals. ...

... Tonight's Sky . ... The Magazine . ... Observing . ... The double star 54 Leonis, spiral galaxy NGC 3198, and emission nebula NGC 3199 . ... Astronomy for Kids . ... Observing springtime deep-sky objects with a large telescope . ... Bright planets meet at dusk . ... Astronomy magazine subscribers can read the full article for free. ... Get instant access to subscriber content on Astronomy.com! ... Receive news, sky-event information, observing tips, and more from Astronomy's weekly email newsletter....

For Cycle 9 the Science Program Selection Office (SPSO) has changed the selection process to ensure that HST will continue to perform the best possible science with the best return for the astronomical community. This report summarizes the changes to the selection process and offers suggestions on writing an effective proposal that accounts for these changes. ... Fewer panels: With more orbits to allocate, each panel will have more flexibility, especially to approve the somewhat larger proposals. ...

... Return to the Kernel page . ... Kernel . ... This article is part of the LWN Porting Drivers to 2.6 series . One might be tempted to think that the basic task of keeping track of the time would not change that much from one kernel to the next. ... One change which shouldn't be problematic for most code is the change in the internal clock rate on the x86 architecture. In previous kernels, HZ was 100; in 2.6 it has been bumped up to 1000. ... Driver porting: Timekeeping changes . ...

... The Raw Images . Table 1: List of Viking Orbiter Images of the "Face on Mars" . ... Processing the Face Images . ... In July, 1976, Viking Orbiter 1 was acquiring images of the Cydonia region of Mars as part of the search for potential landing sites for Viking Lander 2. ... Using the height field, it is also possible to view the "Face" from different look directions, by mapping the Viking Orbiter image directly on the the topography and then placing the "viewer" at different locations. ... Mars . ...

The Face on Mars . ... The Raw Images . Table 1: List of Viking Orbiter Images of the "Face on Mars" . ... Processing the Face Images . Table 2: Dimensions of Mercator Projected Images of "The Face on Mars" . Map Projected Images . ... Processing the "Face on Mars" Images . ... This page will provide interested persons with both the raw Viking images, transformed to GIF format, and a brief tutorial (with examples) of image processing techniques applied to create "better looking" images. ...

... Description: SUBROUTINE PGCTAB(L, R, G, B, NC, CONTRA, BRIGHT) INTEGER NC REAL L(NC), R(NC), G(NC), B(NC), CONTRA, BRIGHT Use the given color table to change the color representations of all color indexes marked for use by PGIMAG. ... In the following, the term 'color table' refers to the input L,R,G,B arrays, whereas 'color ramp' refers to the resulting ramp of colors that would be seen with PGWEDG. ... CONTRA (input) : The contrast of the color ramp (normally 1.0). ...

This animation shows a binary star being lensed by a binary lens. ... The sharp changes in the size of the lensed images of the stars lead to sharp changes in the brightness of the stars, which can be analyzed to determine many parameters about the objects doing the lensing, even though they are not bright enough to be seen. ... The graph shown above gives the predicted and observed brightness of a star in the Small Magellanic Cloud being magnified by a binary lens. ... Tutorial : Part 1 | ...

... Astronomical Observatory, Shevchenko Park, Odessa, 65014, . ... The XVI -th G. Gamow's Odessa Astronomical Summer Соnference-School, 14-20 August, 2016, Odessa, Ukraine . ... The XV -th G. Gamow's Odessa Astronomical Summer Соnference-School, 16-23 August, 2015, Odessa, Ukraine . ... The XIV -th G. Gamow's Odessa Astronomical Summer Соnference-School, 17-23 August, 2014, Odessa, Ukraine . ... The XIII -th G. Gamow's Odessa Astronomical Summer Соnference-School, 19-25 August, 2013, Odessa, Ukraine . ...

. Sitemap . Contact . Search . Armagh Observatory, College Hill, Armagh BT61 9DG, +44 (0)28 3752 2928 . by . Enric Pall . Big Bear Solar Observatory . A colloquium presented at Armagh Observatory on 2006 February 1st. The slides from this presentation are available in the following formats. HTML in your browser . PDF file - 14MB . Quicktime movie - 9MB . Macromedia Flash - 9.7MB . MS Powerpoint - 12MB . Last Revised: 2009 December 17th .

... The Great Nebula in Carina . ... Eta Carinae , the most energetic star in the nebula, was one of the brightest stars in the sky in the 1830s, but then faded dramatically. Eta Carinae is the brightest star near the image center, just left of the Keyhole Nebula . While Eta Carinae itself maybe on the verge of a supernova explosion, X-ray images indicate that much of the Great Carina Nebula has been a veritable supernova factory . Tomorrow's picture: open space . ...

... B.1 New functionality . ... B.3 Semantic changes from CSS1 . ... CSS2 builds on CSS1 and all valid CSS1 style sheets are valid CSS2 style sheets. The changes between the CSS1 specification (see [CSS1] ) and this specification fall into three groups: new functionality, updated descriptions of CSS1 functionality, and changes to CSS1. ... Several internationalization features, including list numbering styles , support for bidirectional text , and support for language-sensitive quotation marks . ...

Next: Special Cases: Supernova Explosion Up: Change of Binary Parameters: Previous: Mass change . The binary separation a changes differently depending on the mass exchange mode. ... If the mass transfer is conservative ( , i.e. const) and one may neglect the redistribution of the intrinsic angular momenta of the components, the total orbital momentum conservation law implies . ... the orbital separation always increases in such systems). ...

OptInt PmWiki : Pm Wiki / Changes From Pm Wiki 1 . This page is intended to describe features of PmWiki 1.0 that have been changed or eliminated in PmWiki 2.0. ... ThisGroup:SideBar&action=edit Edit menu]] . ... action=post no longer exists -- posting a new page is now performed by using ?action=edit with the post control set to a true value. ... PmWiki's ReadPage() function no longer supplies default text for non-existent pages -- this is now decided by whatever functions need the page. ...

... title=' Hartmann Bel Baby Changing Mats Впитывающие пеленки 60х60 см 10 шт. Hartmann - HartmannBel Baby Changing Mats Впитывающие пеленки 60х60 см 10 шт.' border='0' align='left' width='120' style='margin-right: 20px;' hspace='7' vspace='5'/> Детские впитывающие пеленки Hartmann Bel Baby Changing Mats используются для дополнительной защиты постельного белья, обеспечивая максимальную степень впитываемости. ... Надежную защиту от протекания также обеспечивает непромокаемый внешний слой пеленки. ...

To change to using another printer for the current login session: PRINTER=ps2 . ... To change to using another editor for the current login session and inform (export) this value to other programs which use it: EDITOR=vi export EDITOR . This changes the user's default editor to vi and exports this value to other programs - such as electronic mail - which make use of it. To change to using another pager for viewing files the user adds the following lines to their .profile file. ...

An Ancient Universe: How Astronomers Know the Vast Scale of Cosmic Time . THE CHANGING UNIVERSE: EVOLUTION HAPPENS! ... Luckily nature has left a wide range of clues about evolution for us - at every scale of the universe - which we can uncover with some good astronomical detective work. a) Changes in the Solar System . ... An Ancient Universe - Table of Contents . ... The Universe: An Overview | ... The Changing Universe - Changes in the Solar System - Changes in Stars - Changes in the Universe | ...