... 12.07.07 Nando - Test the magnitude of aperture corrections to Landoldt Apertures. ... 12.07.07 Palle - Write up some suggestions for tests to verify which FORS/UT combinations really have rotating features. Original text: Sabine's flatfield versus rotators angle look promising, but more tests should be done which do not depend on the structure looking like a finger. ... The halves could be either ordered by rot-angle (e.g. 0-180 together, 180-360 together), or totally random. ...

... ATNF Home . ... About ATNF overview . ... Australia Telescope Steering Committee . ... Australia Telescope User Committee . ... Astrophysics graduate student programs . ... Facilities . ATNF facilities . ... Australian Square Kilometre Array Pathfinder . Murchison Radio-astronomy Observatory . ... Parkes radio telescope . Australia Telescope Compact Array . ... Visiting Parkes radio telescope . Visiting Australia Telescope Compact Array . ... Parkes radio telescope webcam . ...

The silicates that produce the 10 and 18 micron features appear to be broadly similar to terrestrial minerals such as Forsterite and Enstatite. ... Where pre-solar silicate dust grains can be isolated from meteorite material, these also tend to be Mg-rich silicates rather than Fe-rich silicates. ... It has been suggested that the interstellar silicate grains have a different 10 micron feature profile than what is observed for the silicates around evolved stars. ...

... The retweet numbers are close to the values that Twitter has for the tweets, which means that I can't have messed up too much (I wouldn't expect perfect agreement since Twitter does not guarantee that any search will return all matching tweets; also, the Twitter values are updated whereas mine are fixed until the next set of tweets gets analyzed). The most re-tweeted accounts. ... Below I show the distribution of the number of times an account tweeted (this excludes retweets made by the account). ...

A press release on the Canadian Galactic Plane Survey was associated with this poster. ... Below are maps of HI emission, HISA, and 12 CO emission in the eastern 25% of the survey, given as projections along the velocity ( Figure 1 ) and latitude ( Figure 2 ) axes. ... 2000, A. J. , submitted . ... GIF | ... We are developing automated methods of locating HISA in velocity cubes by removing large-scale emission in space and velocity and flagging small-scale dark residuals. ...

GTK+ / Gnome Application Development . ... Home . ... There simply isn't space to cover all of glib's features in this book. ... Here's a brief list of features not already mentioned: . ... G_VA_COPY copies a va_list in a portable way. ... Convenience/portability routines to get the user's home directory, get the name of a /tmp directory, and similar tasks. ... If you need some generally-useful routine that's not in glib already, consider writing it in glib style and contributing it to the library! ...

... Bad Astronomy . ... Bad Astronomy : The Moon appears larger on the horizon than overhead because you are comparing it to foreground objects. Good astronomy : The Moon does appear larger on the horizon, but it is because of the way we perceive the sky. ... The most common misconception is that it is because you are unconsciously comparing the Moon to foreground objects like trees and houses, or even the horizon itself, and that makes the Moon look bigger than when it is all alone in the sky. ...

home education > activities . SEARCH ASP SITE: Match ALL words Match ANY word . ... Activities . ... Astronomy . ... Activities on the . ... This is more about space technology than astronomy, but in this interactive module, students simulate what the astronauts go through when they go up to service the Hubble Space Telescope. ... Younger students are shown a drawing that can be interpreted in two ways and then apply what they learn to planetary images. ... table of contents . ...

... Each day a different image or photograph of our fascinating universe is featured, along with a brief explanation written by a professional astronomer. 2013 March 8 . Looking Through Abell 68 . ... Explanation: Want to use a cluster of galaxies as a telescope? ... In accordance with Einstein's theory of general relativity, the cluster gravitational mass, dominated by dark matter, bends light and creates magnified, distorted images of even more distant background galaxies. ... About APOD | ...

... The Solar System from MESSENGER . ... The Sun's planets all appear as points of light, with the closest and largest planets appearing the brightest. Star Size Comparisons . ... To help illustrate the answer, a beautiful land, cloud, and skyscape was captured earlier this month over NeuchБtel, Switzerland. ... What's happened to these clouds? ... Spiral Galaxy NGC 2841 Close Up . ... Planetary Nebula Project . ... Inside the nebula lies an open cluster of bright young stars designated NGC 2244. ...

Next: SAOTk: Tcl/Tk Widgets for Imaging and Data Visualization . ... Xguiphot is a new GUI driven interactive aperture photometry tool being developed to run under the IRAF environment. Xguiphot as a new aperture photometry tool being developed to run under the IRAF environment. ... On task startup Xguiphot requests a list of images, a list of objects files, a list of output files, initial values for the algorithm parameters, and the name of the GUI definition file. ...

... Meta Index / Home Page / Algorithm . The following summarizes the way the program works for IMAGING mode data. ... FAST mode data is processed in a simpler fashion- the extended-source algorithms are not used. ... Look for largish extended sources . Look for smaller extended sources . Look for faint sources . ... If any largish extended sources have been found re-compute the background image . ... Check for faint extended-sources near much brighter sources, and delete if necessary. ...

... Pre-university education . ... On March 16 a meeting with Raymond Murphy - the author of the world famous series of English grammar textbooks: English Grammar in Use and Essential Grammar in Use took place in Samara State Aerospace University within the framework of the conference Peculiarities of grammatical skills formation in various stages of English language teaching (Innovative Approaches to ELT). ... The textbook of Raymond Murphy is a practical guide to learning English as a foreign language...

... Preprocessor Compiler Control . ... This directive includes a file into code. ... include <file> or #include ``file'' . ... As another example if running program on MSDOS machine we want to include file msdos.h otherwise a default.h file. ... This is most often used with programs that translate other languages to C. For example, error messages produced by the C compiler can reference the file name and line numbers of the original source files instead of the intermediate C (translated) source files. ...

... Coming Soon to a Channel Near You: Oracle.. ... But now users are discovering that this beefy class of multiprocessing, "fault-tolerant" PC servers handle databases just as well as mainframes and minicomputings. ... Programmers at four competing Unix software vendors are working together on what may be the last chance for Unix on the corporate desktop. ... COSE's Common Desktop Environment goes a long way toward establishing a standard Unix interface that's easy enough for novice users to master. ...

. These two side-by-side images compare a characteristic sea-floor spreading feature on Earth, known as a spreading ridge transform, to a very similar looking arrangement of "tiger stripe" rift segments in the south polar terrain region of Saturn's moon Enceladus. NASA/JPL/Space Science Institute

Next: Feature enhancement: filtering Up: No Title Previous: Commentary . A sharp contrast is seen between the `crowded' energy map of the modulated oscillations (individual minima and maxima of the signal identified by the Mexican hat wavelet) in section 13 and and the `smooth' presentation of the norm-Morlet transforms of the same data in section 15. ... construct an energy map based on individual events. smooth the map by merging the events that are `close enough' to each other. ...

As the Universe expands, gravity pulls on the Universe, and slows the expansion down over time. As we look to great distances, we are looking back in time. If we can measure how fast the Universe is expanding in the past, and compare it to how fast it is expanding now, we can see the total gravitational effect of all matter in the Universe. Here we plot the distance between two galaxies as a function of time. ... Universes with lots of material . ...

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. ...

SETI with SKA1 and SKA 2 Alan Penny1, Heino Falcke2, Mike Garrett 3 1 University of St Andrews and South African Astronomical Observatory PI: LOFAR Early Access Program LEA070 ­ 'A SETI Pilot Program' 2 Raboud University 3 ASTRON and Leiden University AAVP2010 U Cambridge 8-10 December 2010 What a radio SETI search looks for A narrow (perhaps1 Hz wide) spectral line Sections 1. SETI 2. Experience of SETI with LOFAR and WSRT 3. SETI and SKA - needs Sections 1. ...