... This handle is used to identify the file in subsequent calls to other DAF routines. ... Exceptions 1) If the specified file has already been opened, either by the DAF routines or by other code, an error is signaled by routines in the call tree of this routine. ... 4) If the specified file is not a DAF file, an error is signaled by routines in the call tree of this routine. ... 7) If an I/O error occurs in the process of opening the file, routines in the call tree of this routine signal an error. ...

... 2006 February 25 . SOFIA's Window Seat . ... Explanation: Earlier this month, a 2.5-meter diameter infrared telescope was permanently assigned a window seat , looking through this opening in the fuselage of a historic Boeing 747 aircraft. ... Known as the Stratospheric Observatory For Infrared Astronomy ( SOFIA ), the airborne observatory is intended to fly at altitudes up to 45,000 feet - above more than 99% of the atmospheric water vapor. ... About APOD | ... NASA Official: Jay Norris. ...

... ESO, the European Southern Observatory . ... VLT/Paranal . ... Survey Telescopes . ... The VLT Survey Telescope (VST) is the latest telescope to be added to ESOтАЩs Paranal Observatory in the Atacama Desert of northern Chile. ... It is the largest telescope in the world dedicated to sky surveys in visible light. The VST was designed and built by the INAFтАУOsservatorio Astronomico di Capodimonte, Naples, Italy as part of a joint venture between INAF and ESO. €а . ... VLT Survey Telescope . ...

Name: PGQID Purpose: inquire current device identifier Category: GRAPHICS File: pgplot.src Author: T.J. Pearson Use: see description below. Description: SUBROUTINE PGQID (ID) INTEGER ID This subroutine returns the identifier of the currently selected device, or 0 if no device is selected. The identifier is assigned when PGOPEN is called to open the device, and may be used as an argument to PGSLCT. Each open device has a different identifier. ...

... 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 | ...

... 2000 January 12 . NGC 6791: An Old, Large Open Cluster . ... Explanation: NGC 6791 is one of the oldest and largest open clusters of stars known. ... Open star cluster NGC 6791 , however, contains thousands of stars recently measured to be about 8 billion years old. ... This enigma makes NGC 6791, pictured above , one of the most studied open clusters and a possible example of how stars might evolve in the centers of galaxies. ... About APOD | ...

... Tonight's Sky . ... The Magazine . News . Observing . ... Gravitational wave search provides insights into galaxy evolution and mergers . ... The double star 54 Leonis, spiral galaxy NGC 3198, and emission nebula NGC 3199 . ... Globular cluster NGC 2808, elliptical galaxy NGC 2986, and the Sextans Dwarf . ... Open cluster NGC 2818, spiral galaxy NGC 2964, and spiral galaxy NGC 2976 . ... Receive news, sky-event information, observing tips, and more from Astronomy's weekly email newsletter. ...

OptInt PmWiki : Pm Wiki / Pm Wiki . ... PmWiki pages look and act like normal web pages, except they have an " Edit " link that makes it easy to modify existing pages and add new pages into the website, using basic editing rules. ... Access control : PmWiki password protection can be applied to an entire site, to groups of pages, or to individual pages. ... This page may have a more recent version on pmwiki.org : PmWiki:PmWiki , and a talk page: PmWiki:PmWiki-Talk . ...

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 . ...

... Next: Star Finding and Up: Image Restoration and Previous: Multiresolution and Astronomical . ... Design improvements continue to be made in the filter developed using mathematical morphology principles for the Infrared Astronomical Satellite ( IRAS ) images. The purpose of this filter is to eliminate Galactic cirrus emission from extragalactic fields. ... With an appropriate normalization, the filter curve was applied to each pixel in the image to remove the Galactic cirrus. ...

... Many stars like our Sun were formed in open clusters. ... This exciting photo by the Hubble Space Telescope is one of the deepest ever taken, and shows galaxies as far away as ever before photographed. ... A Distant Cluster of Galaxies . ... This rich cluster of galaxies, named CL 0939+4713, is almost half way across the visible universe. ... Many believe that the Hubble Space Telescope's recent distance measurement to this galaxy accurately calibrates the expansion rate of the universe. ...

A presentation of the flight model of the Mini Research Module (MRM1) and equipment to be delivered in it was held at S.P.Korolev Rocket and Space Corporation Energia the day before their shipment to the USA for processing before the launch to the International space Station in the Space Shuttle payload bay in May 2010. ... Grapple fixtures are available on MRM1 to ensure the module unloading from the Space Shuttle and mating to Zarya module after the Space Shuttle undocking from the ISS. ...

... Satellites of the planets are assigned a provisional designation (indicating year of discovery) by the Central Bureau for Astronomical Telegrams ( CBAT ) upon satisfactory demonstration of the existence of a new object. ... In the past, Comets were first given a provisional designation, consisting of the year and a lowercase letter indicating the order of discovery in the year (e.g., 1994a was the first comet discovered or recovered in 1994, 1994b the second, etc.) ... Names .. ...

... The Stars at your Fingertips - a UNAWE Astronomy Workshop: Tuesday 15 September 2009 . ... A major exhibition collated by Deirdre Kelleghan will launch at Birr Castle, County Offaly. ... The exhibition opens on 18 September at 6pm. ... Dr Carolina Odman - International Program Manager for UNAWE ie Universe Awareness for Young Children will formally open the exhibition and give a talk on the work of UNAWE. ... International Year of Astronomy, Ireland National Node . ...

Features: Open Boundary Quad-Ridged Horn Models 3164-06 Wireless Antennas 300 MHz - 6 GHz Frequency Range Flat Gain For Upper 2/3 of Range Linear or Circular Polarization (With Hybrid Coupler) Compact Design Maintains Shielding Integrity When Wall Mounted E T S-Lindgr e n's Mo del 3164-06 Q u ad-R i dged Horn The Model 3164-06 Open Boundary Quad-Ridged Horn is the newest in a series of quad-ridged horns from ETS-Lindgren. ... The Model 3164-06 has exceptional bandwidth. ...

Title : New Day Filename : NEWDAY.WAD Author : Jason Whittington Email Address : jawhitti@mailhost.ecn.uoknor.edu Netmail Address : Misc. ... Brendon Wyber and the DEU authors. ... Play Information * Episode and Level # : E1M1 //This can be changed easily in DEU. Single Player : Yes Cooperative 2-4 Player : Yes Deathmatch 2-4 Player : Yes Difficulty Settings : No New Sounds : No New Graphics : No New Music : No Demos Replaced : None Other Info : Lots of opening windows, a few surprises. ...

Next: Imaging Polarimetry with NICMOS Up: NICMOS Data Calibration and Previous: The Photometric Performance of . ... NICMOSlook and Calnic C . ... Extracting spectra from a large number of NICMOS grism images requires a convenient interactive tool which allows a user to manipulate direct/grism image pairs. ... NICMOSlook and Calnic-C are two programs that were designed to take advantage of the fact that the NICMOS grism mode typically consists of taking both a direct and a grism image. ...

XMM-Newton Science Analysis System Page: 1 immask July 9, 2007 Abstract This task makes a mask image which includes only those pixels whose values obey the speci ed selection expression. ... The output mask image is the same size as the input image. ... The input image is expected to be in the primary array extension of the input dataset and only this extension is written to the output. The data type of the output is not actually boolean, but 8-bit integer: the values are either 0 or 1. ...

... Document Title | Document Number | ... The code uses fields: category, system, subsystem, EMA, vendor, and a sequential number. ... Previous Document Number This is a TEXT field and represents the document number that preceeds the found document in the set of original documents supplied by the engineer/vendor. ... Next Document Number This is a TEXT field and represents the document number that follows the found document in the set of original documents supplied by the engineer/vendor. ...

... Browse on Line . ... To get this to work, add a macro menu item which calls open_include() . ... Oops. ) return } # # We have a filename ; now run through our list of paths see # if we can open the file . # include_path = $g_ include _path path_separator = : bpos = 0 epos = search_string( include_path , path_separator, bpos ) while( epos bpos ) { path_bit = substring( include_path , bpos , epos ) if( open_with_test (path_bit / ...