... Questions relevant to "Exploration of the Earth's Magnetosphere" will be answered, to the extent time allows. If a question seems to be worthy of broader interest, it and its answer (suitably edited) may be added to the list appearing in "Exploration." ... Please do observe the following: . ... Asking about matters which are far beyond the scope of "Exploration." ... Posing a question without first checking if it was answered in the main files of "Exploration" or in the question-and-answer list. ...

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. ...

... Bad Astronomy . ... Bitesize Astronomy . ... Last week's Snack talked about how black holes can affect the environment around them in such a way as to be very bright . ... It's a common misconception that black holes always have matter swirling into them. ... As this matter gets closer and closer to the black hole it piles up and a large, fairly flat disk forms. This is called the accretion disk , because matter from this disk accretes (that is, falls in) on the black hole. ... 2008 Phil Plait. ...

Comment lines follow the same rules as FORTRAN. Note lines are identified by an N in column 1, the text area being columns 2 to 72. In the line printer listing the text of a Note line is printed in columns 75 to 124 and on the same line as the statement following the Note line. If the next line is also a Note, the text is printed in the same columns of an otherwise blank line. ... Eject lines are identified by an E in column 1, the text area being columns 7 to 72. ...

http://hea-www.harvard.edu/AstroStat/slog/ 2008 / arxiv - 3rd - week - feb - 2008 / Weaving together Astronomy+Statistics+Computer Science+Engineering+Intrumentation, far beyond the growing borders Fri, 01 Jun 2012 18:47:52 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4 http://hea-www.harvard.edu/AstroStat/slog/ 2008 / arxiv - 3rd - week - feb - 2008 /comment-page-1/#comment-168 hlee Mon, 03 Mar ... BTW: Any comments on the use of the word 'evidence' by the 'Cambridge' school? ...

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... timeappend (timeappend-1.5) [xmmsas_20080701_1801-8.0.0] . ... If the parameter withsettings is set to false , the OAL is initialised by timeappend using an interm version of the output dataset, which is a copy of the input dataset plus the following dataset attributes: . ... CCDID 1 . CCDNODE 0 . ... These attributes correspond to the default CCD and default node of the instrument in question. ... The value of the attribute CCDNODE , on the other hand, does. ...