... 18apr06 power supply fault contactor not closing. 20apr06: Solution: problem was the digital i/o board. POWER1 signal not arriving. ... At 49880 the master contactor is open so there is no power to the power supplies. ... The problem turned out to be the digital i/o board that drove the POWER1 signal to the master contactor relay. ... The master contactor relay is now being driven through the power supply fault contactor relay and then the little star POWER2 relay. ...

... What's New? Bad Astronomy . ... News . ... Bad Astro Store . ... The Nine Planets . ... Keep Bad Astronomy close to your heart, and help make me filthy rich. ... When two objects in the sky are as close as they can get, we say they have reached appulse . ... Venus and Jupiter are the third and fourth brightest objects in the sky, and this was a particularly close appulse; they got within a quarter of a degree of each other. ... 2008 Phil Plait. ... THE BIRDCAGE: ARCHIVE OF OTHER BAD NEWS ITEMS . ...

... You can boot Linux either from a floppy or from the hard disk. ... When booting Linux from a floppy disk, the boot sector contains code that just reads the first few hundred blocks (depending on the actual kernel size, of course) to a predetermined place in memory. On a Linux boot floppy, there is no filesystem, the kernel is just stored in consecutive sectors, since this simplifies the boot process. ... For example, when I boot, I it looks like this: љ љ љ љ LILO boot: Loading linux. ...

... Get to Know the Night Sky . ... If you could get close enough to the Sun and hang out a microphone that wouldn't melt, would it pick up any sound from our star? ... The Sunт??s music reaches us not as sound but as . ... Get instant access to subscriber content on Astronomy.com! ... Get full access to StarDome PLUS . ... If you are already registered on Astronomy.com, please log in below. ...

... 2000 January 17 . V4641 Sgr: The Closest Black Hole Candidate . ... Explanation: An object many astronomers believe is a black hole has been found only 1500 light-years from Earth, making it the closest black hole candidate . ... Astronomers are working to understand why V4641 acts strangely even for a black hole , as the explosions it creates fade within minutes, and appear at different times in different bands of light . ... About APOD | ...

The following are some standard questions that observers have about their fixed target confirmation charts. ... Why doesn't my target appear to be centered on the cross hairs? ... How is proper motion handled? ... Target well centered . If your target is not perfectly centered in the cross hairs, see the questions below for why it may not be centered and how well centered it must be . ... So, targets to be acquired by STIS should appear well centered in the cross hairs on the confirmation chart. ...

XMM-Newton Science Analysis System . odfcheck (odfcheck-0.18.2) [xmmsas_20050815_1803-6.5.0] . ... This check processes the Attitude History File in order to determine the stability of the attitude reconstruction. odfcheck estimates the stability of the attitude reconstruction by calculating the r.m.s. of the parameters DIFFVRA and DIFFVDEC in the AHF, during the stable pointing period (after the completion of the closed loop slew where VALTIME PTTIME ). ... XMM-Newton SOC/SSC -- 2005-08-16 ...

OptInt PmWiki : MROI Delay Line SW / VME . One RT task for all delay lines, triggered by single interrupt source. RT task performs somewhat different functions when seeking datum switch (always in slew mode). Want capability to run software in an emulator mode, on VME platform under Xenomai, but without any interface boards. ... Algorithm for step pre-filter. ... Printable View of http://www.mrao.cam.ac.uk/projects/OAS/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/MROIDelayLineSW/VME) ...

... Origin Meeting name/review/date during which the action item was originated. ... Description Detailed description. ... 0005 GASGANO v.1.3.X MZ CHANGE MEDIUM 28022001 MZ Closed Implement capability to import other rule files in the current one 0007 GASGANO v.1.3.7 MZ CHANGE HIGH 28022001 MZ Closed Envelope-extension: working on database observations and integration for special-ops in CD packing context (aid to dp-packer) 0008 GASGANO v.1.4.1 MZ CHANGE LOW 28022001 MZ ...

Next: Reading and Writing Visibilities Up: UV Data Sets Previous: General . The routine uvopen opens a uv data set and readies it for access. Here dataname is a string giving the data set's name. Status can be either 'old' or 'new' , depending whether an old data set is being read, or a new data set is being created. Tno is an integer handle passed back by the open routine (and is used for all future access to the data set). The routine uvclose closes the data set. ...

2.5m Preflight Check . ... Preparations for Science: . ... If not already done, set Az and Alt brakes. Check that nothing is around/on the telescope which would interfere with altitude or rotator motion. Make sure nothing is in the path of the rotating racks, or on/around Az drive disk. ... Re-apply Alt brake when done. ... Make an Alt move. Combine motion test with drive surface checking/cleaning to allow access to entire surface.* ... Set Alt brake. ... Set Az brake. ... Axial A 1.9315 . ...

Astronotes Armagh Planetarium's Stellar Blog! ... Armagh Planetarium . ... Solar System . ... Space Flight . ... Concept Spacecraft . ... NASAтАЩs management hopes the Orion crew module will serve as both transport and a home to a crew of four or more astronauts during future long-duration missions to asteroids, Mars and other destinations throughout the Solar System. ... A space-going Orion will be fitted to a service module derived from EuropeтАЩs successful Automated Transfer Vehicles (ATV). ...

. This is a new popup window - close it when you are done . Submitted by John Blomquist on 06/01/2012 18:35:14 . ATMOB Wild Life--Swallow at the Nest . This swallow was watching me all the while I was mowing the grass around his nest. Later,,after I had finished, he allowed me to get close enough to take this photo as he landed at his doorway. Logon to post a follow-up comment or review comments from others . Copyright (c) Amateur Telescope Makers of Boston, Inc. About Us Contact Us

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home publications > mercury . SEARCH ASP SITE: Match ALL words Match ANY word . ... Editorial: Climbing a Little Closer . ... In the late 1950s, my uncle Morgan and his best friend, Gerald, were using my uncle's small telescope to look at the night sky. ... Sputnik spurred them like so many others to build ships to climb into the sky, to join that chilly, violent Universe that embraces our little warm droplet of life. ... Yet they climbed higher each successful shot. ... Trying to climb higher. ...

... VLA , NRAO Explanation: An object many astronomers believe is a black hole has been found only 1500 light-years from Earth, making it the closest black hole candidate . ... V4641 is the fourth known microquasar , a miniature version of the massive, matter spewing black holes thought to exist in the centers of galaxies . ... Publications with keywords: black hole - radio source - X-ray source . Publications with words: black hole - radio source - X-ray source . ... Jumbled Galaxy Centaurus A . ...

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. Comedi Documentation . Prev . Next . comedi_get_board_name -- Comedi device name . #include <comedilib.h> . char * comedi_get_board_name (comedi_t * device); . The function comedi_get_board_name returns a pointer to a string containing the name of the device. This pointer is valid until the comedi descriptor it is closed. This function returns NULL if there is an error. Prev . Home . Next . comedi_get_driver_name . Up . comedi_get_subdevice_type

... The Button Widget . ... This allows a chain of buttons to be established. ... The following example creates a radio button group with three buttons . #include glib.h #include gtk/gtk.h gint close_application( GtkWidget *widget, GdkEvent *event, gpointer data ) { gtk_main_quit (); return FALSE; } int main( int argc, char *argv[] ) { GtkWidget * window = NULL; GtkWidget * box1 ; GtkWidget * box2 ; GtkWidget * button ; GtkWidget *separator; GSList * ... Check Buttons . ...

... The ``Post-Operational Archive'' (POA) project at the Space Telescope European Coordinating Facility (ST-ECF) has recently released an upgraded version of the HST Faint Object Spectrograph (FOS) calibration pipeline. ... In July 2000, the POA project team released STPOA, a new IRAF external package. ... The ST-ECF HST archive now supports FOS data retrieval with On-The-Fly (OTF) calibration using either the new pipeline `poa_calfos' or the old pipeline `calfos'. ...