... Tonight's Sky . ... The Magazine . ... Observing . ... Star Atlas . ... The double star 54 Leonis, spiral galaxy NGC 3198, and emission nebula NGC 3199 . ... Astronomy for Kids . ... Observing springtime deep-sky objects with a large telescope . ... Is it possible for a quark star to exist? ... QUARK STARS . ... Get instant access to subscriber content on Astronomy.com! ... Receive news, sky-event information, observing tips, and more from Astronomy's weekly email newsletter. ... Astronomy Magazine ...

The run progress pages document the execution of Service Mode and Visitor Mode observing runs carried out at the Paranal Observatory. A summary of the run's characteristics is given, as well as a time-stamped list of all Observation Blocks (OB) that were executed until now. ... If reduced data for the given run exist, those are also reported in both the OB Summary table and in the details. ... Reduced : information shown only if pipeline-processed reduced data exist for the OB . ... OB ID . ...

... The Multiple Extension FITS (MEF) file interface is an IRAF library providing facilities for general file operations upon FITS multi-extension files. ... The Multiple Extensions FITS (MEF) interface consists of a number of routines to mainly read a FITS Primary Data Unit or an Extension Unit and manipulate the data at a file level. ... Read the FITS header of a MEF file that matches the EXTNAME or EXTVER keyword values or if not specified, read the extension number `group'. ... The header filename. ...

... Specs . ... Data in folding and search modes will be output as FITS files. The DFB also has a mode that provides digitized baseband output suitable for the next generation of real-time coherent dedispersion systems. ... The output file will be a standard, pulsar folded profile with full polarisation and a given number of phase bins, frequency channels and subintegrations. ... The DFB is specified to allow 2048 frequency channels and 2048 phase bins for a 4-ms pulsar recorded with 8-bit sampling. ...

It is now possible to specify multiple log files, each with a fully customizable format. ... Multiple log files are implemented as part of the mod_log_config module which as of Apache 1.2 is the default log module. Multiple log files be created with either the TransferLog or CustomLog directive. These directives can be repeated to create more than one log file (in previous releases, only one logfile could be given per server configuration). ... Syntax: CustomLog filename "format" . ...

This is a directory of support staff and points of contact for projects at Apache Point. ... If you wish to be added to this page, please contact Suzanne Hawley/University of Washington (slh/astro.washington.edu). ... ARC 3.5-m Telescope Staff . ... New Mexico State University 1.0-meter Telescope . ... Operations Manage r: . ... mark/apo.nmsu.edu . ... Telescope Operations Specialist . ... Support Astronomer . ... Remote Operations Upgrade Project Manager : Joe Huehnerhoff (jwhueh/apo.nmsu.edu) . ...

Molniya Triplane Aircraft . At present NPO MOLNIYA is working not only in the space field but also on aircraft engineering. ... Considering this NPO MOLNIYA has chosen a "triplane" aerodynamic scheme stipulating in comparison with traditional schemes the essential increase of flying safety and fuel economy of its aircraft. The triplanes have advantages of canard and classical schemes, but are free from their faults. ... Molniya-1 . ... Heracles Triplane and Aerospace Systems . ...

... S.P. KOROLEV ROCKET AND SPACE CORPORATION ENERGIA . ... OAO RSC "Energia" . ... ISS Russian Segment . ... Research load complex (RLC) of Mini-Research Module Poisk (MRM2) is designed to conduct scientific experiments among those foreseen under the Long-Term Program of scientific-applied research (SAR) on the International Space Station Russian Segment (ISS RS), as well as handle operations with commercial payloads during Extravehicular activity (EVA). ... 2015 JSC "S.P. Korolev RSC "Energia" . ...

Astronomy Discussion Forums . ... Let Me Be More Clear . ... Post Message | ... However, if I have identified it, how do I know this 'thing' is something that exists versus only thought of as existing? ... However, by me identifying 'red' as 1 (i.e., as I originally did), I am assuming that there is 'red' as something that exists. ... www.astronomy.net . ... Forum posts are Copyright their authors as specified in the heading above the post. "dbHTML," "AstroGuide," "ASTRONOMY.NET" & "VA.NET" . ...

... I normally begin by asking the class what they think would be different if the Moon didn't exist, or if the Sun were closer to Earth, or if a star exploded nearby. ... The winds would be much stronger. ... In using what-if questions in the classroom, it is worth bearing in mind that students extrapolating the effects of new scenarios will encounter two different situations: direct changes to the new version of Earth and indirect changes resulting from the direct changes. ...

Jupiter's Europa Harbors Possible "Warm Ice" or Liquid Water . Tantalizing new images of Jupiter's moon Europa from NASA's Galileo spacecraft indicate that "warm ice" or even liquid water may have existed, and perhaps still exists today beneath Europa's cracked icy crust. ... This shows the ice crust has been or still is lubricated from below by warm ice or maybe even liquid water." ... We are interested in identifying the time and places on Europa where liquid water might exist. ...

... Multiverses: Do Other Universes Exist? ... If one or more of the multiverse hypotheses is correct, then quite possibly they do. In the above computer-enhanced illustration , independent universes are shown as independent circles or spheres . ... An entire set of parallel universes is called a multiverse . The human eye might represent the possibility that realizations of some multiverse hypotheses might only exist in the human mind . ... Publications with keywords: universe - cosmology . ...

... Astronomy index . ... This tour, of the world of astronomy, physics and spaceflight, may just as well end with a light-hearted 1878 poem by the Czech poet Jan Neruda . ... Do Frogs Exist there Too ?" . ... Like moles they dig for learning. ... They call one foot, that's all. ... Do frogs exist there too?" ... star? jim ?ab?k u?en? . ... teprv jim loket jeden. ... Foot" as used here, in Czech "loket," actually means "cubit," the distance from elbow to stretched fingertips, about a foot and a half. ...

. You may want to open an existing file to change its contents. To do this type: ue filename . So to open the file called letter you would type: ue letter . Tip ...

In this chapter we will consider an example of visual expert system written on the Actor Prolog language. ... There are a lot of methods of oil field bed stimulation that increase output of the oil production: thermal, physical-chemical, gas, microbiological, and others. ... Fig. ... The Top-Most diagram consists of three blocks: the "Describe parameters of hydrocarbon field" block, the "Check adaptability of existed methods of oil production" block, and the "Display solution" block. ... Gas methods. ...

Next: RSOG Pre-Observation Products . ... Mission Elements . ... The main mission elements (ME) are: . The RSOG, based at ASC, which is responsible for the science operation of the RadioAstron Mission. ... The Main Ballistic(Navigation) Center (MBC) belonging to Lavochkin Association coordinates preparation and exchange of orbit determination and orbit reconstraction ptoducts. ... Experiment codes of five characters are used in naming GRT related files. ... RSOG . ... Corr (GTS?) ... Corr (RSOG?) ...

... once per session, and ; that it is called _first_ ; ;history ; Vinay Kashyap (FebMMI; based on suggestion by A.Maggio) ; added ! ATOMDB and ! APECDIR (VK; Jun02) ;- ivar =0 defsysv ,'!PoA', exists = ivar if ( ivar eq 0) then defsysv ,'!PoA',2.61 ivar =0 defsysv ,'!TOPDIR', exists = ivar if ( ivar eq 0) then defsysv ,'!TOPDIR','/foo/bar/PINTofALE/' ivar =0 defsysv ,'!LDBDIR', exists = ...

... Bus Hound may be the very first product of its kind -- a software bus analyzer for capturing device I/O and protocol. ... When the capture buffer fills to capacity, Bus Hound can be configured to stop the capture process or continue capturing, keeping the most recent acquired data. ... IDE : Bus Hound captures command and data transfers for ATA and ATAPI devices. ... B us Hound captures I/O using a device driver. ... The below figure demonstrates how Bus Hound captures data for SCSI devices. ...

Overview This document addresses questions and problems with the use and installation of Windows 95 and Matrox's MGA graphics accelerator boards. ... This driver does not support Powerdesk features similar to our Windows 3.1 Powerdesk drivers for MGA. ... 3) When Windows 95 installs the drivers for your MGA card and an MGA.INF file exists (created previously by the Windows 3.1 Powerdesk or MGA DOS Setup programs), the MGA's refresh rate will be those chosen for the MGA.INF file. ...

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