... 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. ...

Home About Meade Product Information Dealer Locator Customer Support Investor Relations Dealer Support Employment Opportunities Site Map . Meade Instruments Corporation . ... Meade Pictor XT-Series CCD Autoguider/Imagers . ... The status bar provides tool tips for each menu item, communication status information, the current x and y coordinates of the mouse on the active image, and the temperature of the CCD chip. (left to right): . ... File Save: Saves the current active image. ... about meade | ...

... It runs on unix, MacOS and possibly on Windows. ... On MacOS or Windows, double-click TUI. If MacOS complains that the application is unsigned then right-click TUI and select Open. ... If you have never run TUI before, set up your preferences before proceeding (for help on any item, right-click on the control and select Help from the menu that appears): . ... To save your window positions and remember which windows to open at startup, select Save Window Positions from the TUI menu. ...

Start CIMA from the right-mouse-button menu on the Observer machine. ... This window will now vanish. Next go to the CIMA main menu window, seen on the left of the screenshot above.Before starting observing, it is a good idea to restart the WAPPs (the spectrometers used by AGES). ... From the main menu, select Command File Observing to bring up the Command file observing window (below). ... Hit the Run button at the bottom of the command file observing window to run the file. ...

... The Eagle Nebula from Kitt Peak . ... A closer look at the Eagle Nebula, however, shows the bright region is actually a window into the center of a larger dark shell of dust. Through this window, a brightly-lit workshop appears where a whole open cluster of stars is being formed. ... On another April 12th, in 1961, Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Alexseyevich Gagarin became the first human to see planet Earth from space. ... Stars in the sky will typically appear to rise and set as the Earth turns. ...

... The SAS task especget has been designed to allow extraction of source+background and background spectra, redistribution matrices, and effective area vectors from an EPIC event list with a single command. especget can be launched from the main xmmselect window, in which case an extraction region size optimization algorithm is also ran, which maximizes the signal-to-noise of the net source spectrum. ... When you are happy with your definition, click the button 1D region in the xmmselect window. ...

... Data Reduction FAQ > The reduced science spectrum displayed in the Reflex window appears good but when I try to plot it, it is quite different. How can I get it? ... Observing with ESO Telescopes . ... ESO-MIDAS . ... Reflex . ... ESO Data . ... ESO HST Image Galleries . ... ESO Data Access Policy . ... ESO Science Newsletter . ... ESO Annual Reports . ... Seminars at ESO Santiago . ... Seminars at ESO Garching . ... ESO Telescope Bibliography . ... Last Update: 01.04.14 ESO . ...

... emacs . ... an emacs window should appear on the terminal screen. In the emacs window, type the following in response to the prompts: . ... unixp