... Next, the screen displays "Press 0 to align or Mode for Menu." Press "0" if you wish to begin Automatic alignment (or Easy Align, depending on your telescope model), or press Mode if you wish to choose a manual alignment method ("Automatic Alignment" displays, and you can press MODE to go through the menu to find other alignments). ... Note: If you press the "?" key while "Ctr Brightest Star" displays, the alignment star that AutoStar has chosen will display. ... Alignment successful" displays. ...

... 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. ...

... Because of the need to schedule observations as efficiently as possible, the order in which exposures are executed may be different from the order in which they appear in the observer's Phase II submission-unless an explicit special requirement dictates otherwise. ... Data files can then be associated with the corresponding exposure line in the Phase II proposal by comparing exposure information in the Phase II proposal with data file header keywords. ... Time_Per_Exposure . ...

... In the early reduction stages it is recommended to create a display with the same number of pixels as the CCD frame, so that one can easily check for defects. ... The first command will create a display with identification 0 and axes of 520 and 337 pixels. The second command creates a graphic window with the default setting which can be used in most cases. ... which loads the image ech0011 in the active channel, using cuts values 500 and 2000 to define the range of represented intensities. ...

... This appendix describes how to use the JavaScript console to evaluate expressions and display error messages to the user. ... Displaying Error Messages with the Console JavaScript 1.2 and earlier versions. ... You can specify whether to automatically open the console when a JavaScript error occurs or to display a dialog box for each JavaScript error. ... To open a dialog box each time an error occurs, add the following line to prefs.js : user_pref("javascript.classic.error_alerts", true); . ...

The Status popup displays useful information about the state of sets, regions, and graphs. ... When the number of sets is less than 30, this button is not needed, use the scroll bars to view the status of the sets that are not shown in the display. ... Operations in the Status popup are performed by clicking on the operation, then clicking on one or more set numbers shown in the display. ... Clicking on Copy followed by clicking on a set number in the scrolled window will select the set to copy from. ...

... User Guide ] Task: tvall Purpose: Interact with a previously displayed image Categories: visual display TVALL is a WERONG/MIRIAD task which allows interactive modification of the TV lookup tables, etc. ... A menu for operations to be performed will appear on the TV screen. ... Blink between two channels (The mouse y-coordinate determines the blink rate. ... Hit any button to stop blinking). Fiddle the lookup tables (The transfer function is governed by the mouse position. ...

... Armagh Observatory received many telephone and internet reports from members of the public regarding sightings of a bright meteor or fireball which crossed over Northern Ireland in the early morning of Sunday, 10th October. ... Account: I was driving on the main Armagh/Portadown Road travelling towards Richhill when the sky in front of me was lit up by a couple of very bright flashes of light which were followed by a trail of white light. ... The trail faded over approximately 20 seconds. ...

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. ...

SciSim home . ... This thread contains a step-by-step recipe to simulate PN SciSim data and how to procede to analyze this data using SAS. ... The column density and the redshift were set to 0. ... Set SCISIM_DIR varaible to the path where SciSim is located: . ... Run the set up script. ... For tcsh shell execute: source $SCISIM_DIR/setup . ... Select the Source menu and the Edit... option. ... To create a source, hit the New button at the bottom dialogue. ... Analysing SciSim data with SAS . ...