... Apr 14, 2016 - Monthly Meeting . ... The Amateur Telescope Makers of Boston, Inc. ATMoB) is an astronomy club devoted to telescope making, observing, and studying the heavens. ... CURRENT MOON . ... April Sky . ... Lyrids Meteor Shower . ... Sources: NASA JPL Space Calendar , StarDate Online , Sky Telescope , Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics , RASC Observer’s Handbook , Abrams Planetarium Sky Calendar and Astronomy Magazine . ... Copyright (c) Amateur Telescope Makers of Boston, Inc. ...

... Archives . ... Discontinuation of weekly [arXiv] series . ... For a discipline that relies so heavily on images, it is rather surprising how little use astronomy makes of the vast body of work on image analysis carried out by mathematicians and computer scientists. ... images. ... Images may be Opened and Closed with different structure elements. ... Tags: close , dilate , EotW , Equation , Equation of the Week , erode , Morphological operator , open , set theory . Category: Imaging , Jargon | ...

Astronotes Armagh Planetarium's Stellar Blog! ... Armagh Planetarium . ... Monthly Sky Notes . ... We will be open from 7pm-9pm with a screening of our Digital Theatre show тАЬBeyond the Blue: A Stargazing JourneyтАЭ at 7.30pm. This Theatre show is a tour around the night sky as seen from Ireland at this time of the year. ... This open night is ideal for anyone starting out in astronomy or wanting to learn more about the night sky and donтАЩt forget to wrap up warm!* ... Cost: Free . ...

Motif and X-Windows . It is possible to execute a Motif application on a computer around the corner or around the world and redirect the input and output for the application to your workstation. There are files located on the Science Cluster to help you position and display windows from a remote VMS system. ... Copy two command files: . ... From one of the workstation windows, have the remote system execute the x command file and create the display on your workstation by using this command: . ...

... overview of pyQC . ... output used by . ... All pyQC scripts and modules share a similar structure. Python offers to group functions, classes, etc. into modules which can be imported by different scripts. ... In order to avoid confusion if names are used by different (especially external) modules, the QC scripts use the 'from' statement only for pyQC modules, i.e.: . ... For other modules, the simple 'import' statement is used: . ... Python modules are also used for keeping script configuration. ...

... Invoking a CGI Program . ... To open a document in your browser, use a URL that specifies an absolute or relative location for the document. An absolute location has the form: . ... To open a local file in your web browser, use a URL that has the form: . ... mailto: address For example: . ... http://hoohoo.ncsa.uiuc.edu:80/cgi/overview.html To specify a URL that invokes a CGI program, specify the location of the CGI program, followed by a query string which contains the arguments for the program. ...

adapted from Observe: Eclipses, published in 1979 by the Astronomical League and "Safe Solar Filters," by B. Ralph Chou, Sky and Telescope, August 1981) . ... Tape TWO pieces of film together into a sandwich, and tape this over the opening in the cardboard. ... The cardboard frame will act as a shade from the bright Sun, while you safely observe through the film sandwich. ... Undeveloped film is not safe. ... tape . ... At the end of one of the tubes, tape the aluminum foil, and make a tiny pinhole. ...

... This appendix describes how to use the JavaScript console to evaluate expressions and display error messages to the user. ... Displaying Error Messages with the Console JavaScript 1.2 and earlier versions. ... You can specify whether to automatically open the console when a JavaScript error occurs or to display a dialog box for each JavaScript error. ... To open a dialog box each time an error occurs, add the following line to prefs.js : user_pref("javascript.classic.error_alerts", true); . ...

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... Plugins that acquire images or display windows should implement this interface. ... This plugin implements the Help/About ImageJ command by opening the about.jpg in ij.jar, scaling it 400% and adding some text. ... This plugin implements the File/Batch/Convert command, which converts the images in a folder to a specified format. ... This plugin implements the File/Batch/Measure command, which measures all the images in a user-specified folder. ... This plugin implements the Image/Duplicate command. ...

MSSSO Annual Report 1997 . The Stromlo Exploratory was opened to the public on 25 July 1997 by the Chief Minister of the ACT, Mrs. Kate Carnell. The Stromlo Exploratory is an interactive science centre, purpose-built to cater for the community's fascination with astronomy, but, in addition, to be a display case for the ANU's powerhouse of scientific research generally. ... The Plateau is both the coldest and driest place on the Earth. ...

Open Systems Handbook: A Guide to Building Open Systems . ... This book is designed to provide interested individuals and organizations with an overview of open systems and the work being done to achieve them. ... This section is organized using a descriptive model of an open systems environment developed by the IEEE PI 003.0 Working Group, which is developing the Guide to POSIX-based Open System Architecture. ... Standards for open systems 13 . Chapter 3: The open systems environment (OSE) 15 . ...

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Arecibo Observatory . ... All participants will take part in a Hands-on Project at the single-dish school. Mentored by a member of the NAIC or NRAO staff, each of you will join a team of 3 or 4 participants to perform a short pre-planned research-style observation. ... Hence, while summer clothing is appropriate, a light sweater may be needed for the evenings, and also in the air-conditioned rooms, lecture theater and control room of the Observatory. ...

One of the world's largest optical telescopes, the Southern African Large Telescope (SALT), in which the Armagh Observatory has a share, was officially unveiled today by the South African President Thabo Mbeki in Sutherland, a small town in the Northern Cape Province, South Africa. SALT Dome . ... Speaking at the official opening, South African President Thabo Mbeki said: "SALT means that our country will remain at the forefront of cutting-edge astronomical research. ... SALT Mirrors . ...

... Massive Stars in Open Cluster Pismis 24 . ... 19.12.2006 . ... Explanation: How massive can a normal star be? Estimates made from distance, brightness and standard solar models had given one star in the open cluster Pismis 24 over 200 times the mass of our Sun, making it a record holder. ... APOD Editor to Discuss "Best of APOD 2006" Pictures in NYC on January 5 . ... Publications with keywords: massive stars . Publications with words: massive stars . ... Massive Stars Of 30 Doradus . ...

ChangeLog for srcmatch =============================== Version 3.15.1 - 2004-03-16 (GL) --------------------------------- Correction to documentation Version 3.15 - 2003-07-01 (GL) --------------------------------- Closed SPR: SSC-SPR-3107 (Incorrect flux units in merged source list) Version 3.14 - 2003-02-24 (GL) --------------------------------- Close SSC-SPR-3033: Copy ID colums and "TOT" columns also for single band input lists. ... Close SSC-SPR-3084: Included flag columns in copylist routine. ...

... Since 2011 our observatory is a member of GLORIA (GLObal Robotic telescopes Intelligent Array for e-Science) project - wide international collaboration of 13 scientific institutions from 8 countries aiming at opening public access to robotic telescopes, as well as propagating astronomy in general. The GLORIA Project offers Internet users the possibility of studying the sky from professional observatories. ... The experiments are available at the users site of GLORIA. ... About GLORIA . ...

... SUN MOON MERCURY VENUS MARS, JUPITER SATURN . ... Mars . ... An artificial comet holds secrets to Earths life . ... Comet to make close flyby of Red Planet in October 2014 . ... COMETS | ... Comet C/2013 A1 (Siding Spring) will make a close approach to Mars in October 2014. ... During the close Mars approach, the comet likely will achieve a total visual magnitude of 0 or brighter, as seen from Mars-based assets. ... Only registered members of Astronomy.com are allowed to comment on this article. ...

... Bad Astronomy . ... Book Store . ... My book has been getting a fair share of positive reviews , but it has now garnered a negative one. I should have expected it: it's from a mailing list about UFOs. ... Note added May 21, 2002 : It was brought to my attention by several people that in the article below, I say that amateur astronomers "never" report UFOs. ... My point remains: if amateurs watch the sky far more than laymen, then they should see far more UFOs. ... 2008 Phil Plait. ...