... Stargazers' in the Classroom . Other material for Teachers --guide, problems, inventory of concepts, article about this site. ... Kepler's 3 Laws of Planetary Motion ," a one-hour overview lecture presented to teachers 23 March 2005. Guide to the sections on Kepler's Laws, discussed below. ... 11a. Ellipses and Kepler's First Law . ... Mass Includes: . ... Kepler's Third Law Includes: . ... From Stargazers to Starships" follows an earlier site "The Exploration of the Earth's Magnetosphere" . ...

... Astronomy of the Earth's motion in space. ... For easier reading, view this site with size 14 font (but print out with size 10 or 12 ). ... Stargazers" files are also available as a TARed and GZIPed file via anonymous FTP . ... Discovery of the Solar System . ... Kepler's First Law of Planetary Motion . ... 29a. Satellites observing the Sun, solar system and the universe . ... Orbits in Space . ... From Stargazers to Starships" follows an earlier site "The Exploration of the Earth's Magnetosphere" ....

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... While much high spatial frequency information in the image is permanently destroyed by smearing with the response of the "fat" pixels, the quality of the image can nevertheless be greatly improved by combining sub-pixel dithered images. ... Another standard simple linear technique for combining shifted images, descriptively named "shift-and-add", has been used for many years to combine dithered infrared data on a finer grid. ... Drizzle runs under the NOAO image processing software IRAF. ...

Next: Data analysis and Spatial Up: Spatial Corrections of ROSAT Previous: Spatial Corrections of ROSAT . ... We start with an observation for which the PRF is much worse than it should be; caused by residual wobble errors or other causes. ... Spatial analysis of ROSAT HRI observations are often plagued by poor aspect solutions, precluding the attainment of the potential resolution of about 5''. ... A recent example showed one obi for which the source was 10 north of its position in the other 17 obis. ...

How Do Children Learn? ... Here we propose an innovative approach to children's learning, one that integrates the transmission, constructivism, and social constructivism models by having teachers present some of the fundamental concepts involved in astronomy education at the elementary level. ... learn the story . ... Before presenting sample stories and curricular ideas, we must discuss some of the impediments, pedagogical and professional, to teaching and learning astronomy at the elementary level. ...

... N.A.Bobylev, Yu.M.Burman, Morse lemmas for functionals of the variational calculus, Func.Anal.Appl., ... N.A.Bobylev, Yu.M.Burman. ... N.A.Bobylev, Yu.M.Burman, A.B.Shubin, Algorithms for control with a minimal number of switchings, Automation and remote control , V.53, 5:619, 1992. ... TeX file ) . ... Quadratic Poisson brackets compatible with an algebra structure . ... Yu.M.Burman. ... Yu.M.Burman, Whitney's index formula in higher dimensions and Laplace integrals , Preprint math.DG/9801044 . ...

... ATNF Home . About ATNF . ... About ATNF overview . ... Australia Telescope Steering Committee . ... Australia Telescope User Committee . ... Australian Square Kilometre Array Pathfinder . Murchison Radio-astronomy Observatory . ... Parkes radio telescope . Australia Telescope Compact Array . Mopra radio telescope . ... Australia Telescope Online Archive (ATOA) . ... Visiting Parkes radio telescope . Visiting Australia Telescope Compact Array . ... Parkes radio telescope webcam . ...

... The Australian National University] [Department of Physics] [Paul Francis] [Main Roleplay Page] . These exercises are my attempt to adapt the technique of Problem Based Learning to the context of introductory astronomy and astrophysics classes. ... As students grapple with the puzzle, they are forced to learn the subject matter of the course. ... This exercise is designed for 1st year University students with a reasonable high-school background in Maths and Physics. ...

It is a matter of common knowledge that in processes of genesis and evolution of many solar phenomena participate magnetic fields of sunspots. ... As a basis for formation of the database we take data on magnetic fields, collected by set of observatories during many years of observations. ... Section "Magnetic field data" contains data of magnetic field observation for separate sunspots, presented in standard text format (ASCII). ... Description of structure of these files is presented here . ...

Back To The Astronomy Cafe" Book Review . Articles | ... Astronomy Net . ... A review of "Back to the Astronomy Cafe" . ... Pretty much near the Genesis of the modern Internet, Sten Odenwald has set out to help folks with questions about Astronomy by actually answering them. This book is the next in a series of common questions he has taken the time to answer in years past. ... www.astronomy.net . About Astronomy Net | ... dbHTML," "AstroGuide," "ASTRONOMY.NET" & "VA.NET" . ...

... The 2P1/2 ?2P3/2 laser transition in atomic iodine and the problem of search for signals from extraterrestrial intelligence. Alexander Zaitsev . Detection Probability of Terrestrial Radio Signals by a Hostile Super-civilization. ... Proposing a METI Institute . ... Scaling law of the biological evolution and the hypothesis of the self-consistent Galaxy origin of life . ... Alexander Zaitsev and Richard Braastad . METI Art . Alexander Zaitsev, Charles M. Chafer and Richard Braastad . ...

... Bug fixes below are collected in /pub/misc/XFree86OS2/fixes at the same site. If you came here by a notice of this URL in some newsgroup article: Here is the toplevel of the XFree86/OS2 pages . ... The main archive for the distribution is ftp.xfree86.org. ... The following is the list of recent file dates and sizes from the main archive at ftp.xfree86.org/pub/XFree86/3.3.6/binaries/OS2. ... Filelist of XFree86-3.3.6 The following link(s) refers to bugs known to be present in older releases. ...

... The default display type is Auto (ScanDisk ; adjusts to the current display). ... ScanTimeOut Determines whether ScanDisk should detect disk timeouts ; while performing a surface scan. ... Surface Determines whether ScanDisk will perform a surface scan: ; Never (Default) Does not perform a surface scan. ... The Prompt value causes ScanDisk to prompt you for a disk. ... The next five settings accept any of the following values: ; Prompt Causes ScanDisk to prompt you before fixing this problem. ...

As an obligatory preparing for the application to participate in the IAO a short report of National Olympiad of the current year with a set of all problems used on the Olympiad has to be presented by the applicating team. ... The final minutes (protocols written in Latin or Cyrillic in form of tables) of the Olympiad (evaluating of solutions of the students participated in the last stage of the Olympiad) should be included as well. ... Historical data of the National Astronomy Olympiad: . ...

Next: Equations of condition Up: Extinction and transformation Previous: Extinction and transformation . Bias can also be introduced by improper fitting procedures. For example, the reduction program known as SNOPY, used for many years at La Silla and also at La Palma, uses a simple iterative technique in which some subsets of the parameters are solved for, while others are held fixed; then the ones last solved for are held fixed, while the ones previously fixed are redetermined. ...

LatexInfo.txt This file describes some important points about Latex and the ADASSCONF package. ... The AASTeX package also has a home page at URL: http://www.ferberts.com/AAS/aastex.html. % ftp aas.org # 192.102.234.112 Username: anonymous Password: your email address, please ftp> cd pubs/aastex ftp> get README ftp> get aastex.tex ftp> get aas2pp4.sty ftp> bye INSTALLING THE STYLE FILES The *.sty files must be "installed" so that LaTeX can read them. ... They are explained in the AAS instructions. ...

Next: Initial conditions Up: Old neutron star distribution Previous: Introduction . The problem to be solved is to find stationary space distribution of stars which have had certain initial space and velocity distributions and move in a given potential. ... In principle, the most straightforward way to obtain the solution is to integrate directly the equations of motion for a sufficiently large number of stars with different initial conditions. ... Then space density is given by . ...

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Multi-Wavelength investigations of the Sun and modern problems of solar activity . SAO RAS . ... Section "Physics of solar plasma" under the Council "Sun – Earth" . ... Bogod V.M., Dr.Sci (SPb Branch of SAO RAS) deputy chairman . ... SAO RAS) - chairman . Bogod V.M. (SPb Branch of SAO RAS) - deputy chairman . Mingaliev M.G. (SAO RAS) - deputy chairman . Kostjuk I.P. (SAO RAS) scientific secretary . ... Vitkovskij V.V. (SAO RAS) . Kaltman T.I. (SPb Branch of SAO RAS) . ... RAS | ...