The left mouse button controls the creation and manipulation of region markers or cursors. ... Text When a marker type of selected, new markers of that type can be created using the left mouse button. The current default marker type is displayed below the menu. ... Set Default Marker Name (and Color) . ... Reset the fix parameter state of currently existing markers to match the global state set by the -fix command switch or by the Edit Global Fix Params For New Markers option in the Markers menu. ...

Log windows display messages from all "actors" (instruments, the TCC, the hub...) and allow you to send commands. Controls along the top allow you to filter out unwanted garbage or highlight messages of particular interest. ... Regular Expressions . ... The entry field for "+ Actors" and "+ Commands" filtering accept space-separated regular expressions . ... If you plan to send many messages to a particular actor, you may select the actor from the menu next to the command entry field. ...

Program: HELP Purpose: Display purpose lines or categories or complete documentation of tasks (subroutines and general items). ... SUBJECT=4: DOCUMENT= Give name of doc. to print: [return to menu] Send this document to a printer selected with PRINTER= The '*' character can be used as a wildcard, f.i. DOCUMENT=*gauss* prints all documents with 'gauss' in its name. ... For the subjects 4 and 5 (print documentation and purpose lines from documentation) a document name is wanted. ...

... To run the <LAYER> version of the example, select: flower.htm . ... However, if the page had several layers with absolute positions, and you wanted to place another layer in a relative position to one of the existing layers, you could use inline JavaScript to calculate the value for LEFT or TOP . ... In this example, there is really no need to use inline JavaScript to position the last flower layer, since you could just let the TOP value default to its natural value, as in the other flower layers. ...

... Tonight's Sky . ... Sky this Month . ... An artificial comet holds secrets to Earths life . ... Early Mars bombardment likely enhanced life-supporting habitat . ... The Real Reality Show: Would aliens be anything like us? ... April 2016: the historic journey to Europa . The Real Reality Show: All about the Drake Equation . ... The Real Reality Show . ... The Real Reality Show: Could Life Exist on Europa or Titan? ... Only registered members of Astronomy.com are allowed to comment on this article. ...

XmTel ----- XmTel is a Motif-based telescope control program based on INDI, the Instrument-Neutral Distributed Interface. ... See the files LICENSE and COPYRIGHT for the details. ... About Epoch ----------- XmTel assumes that the telescope is set to "Epoch of Date", which means that it is using ideal celestial coordinates precisely aligned today. ... XmTel assumes that target coordinates entered from the keyboard are in the Epoch that the telescope coordinates are currently displayed in. ...

... Field size . Object name . ... Map size . ... Field size: the approximate size of the map in the Y direction. ... Galaxies: . ... Galaxies, which size exceeds some value depending on the field and map sizes, are displayed with their real positional angles and sizes by 25m isophote. ... In the "tools" fields there are links to the several famous AVO (Astrophysical Virtual Observatory) resources: NED and Simbad databases and DSS2 (Palomar Digitized Sky Survey) images of the corresponding sky area. ...

... Hughes STX/COSSC NASA/GSFC, Greenbelt, MD 20771 . ... The exploration of hypertextual data presentation at the COSSC was facilitated by the creation of tables of data, in electronic form, which describe the BATSE and EGRET datasets available in the Compton Observatory archive. ... As our store of data continues to grow, we will continue to explore new and novel ways in which hypertext allows the data in the COSSC archive to be presented and selected. 56 kB PostScript reprint . ...

... Armagh Observatory, College Hill, Armagh BT61 9DG, +44 (0)28 3752 2928 . ... Two of the most interesting of these images, that is, a montage of last September s total lunar eclipse and a montage of a bright double rainbow that evolved into a rare spoked wheel rainbow, were recently selected for display at the exhibition of astronomical photographs, Images of Starlight , in the National Botanic Gardens of Ireland, Glasnevin, Dublin. ... Click on image for larger version. ...

... ConstellationMgr Class Reference . Display and manage the constellations. ... setFlagArt (const bool displayed) . ... Get whether constellation art is displayed. bool ConstellationMgr::getFlagBoundaries . ... Get whether constellation boundaries lines are displayed. bool ConstellationMgr::getFlagIsolateSelected . ... Get whether selected constellation is displayed alone. bool ConstellationMgr::getFlagLabels . ... Set whether constellation names are displayed. bool ConstellationMgr::getFlagLines . ...

home education > resources . ... Education from Mercury . ... Selected Topical Bibliographies . Astronomy Education Bibliography . ... Astronomical Pseudo-Science . ... Foothill College the Astronomical Society of the Pacific) . ... Sletteback, A. Jettner, F. "Proceedings of the Conference on Education in Astronomy, August 1969" in Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society, vol. 2, p. 254 (1970). ... Accompanied, later in the same book, by a "Catalog of National Astronomy Education Projects".) ...