... June 7, 1996 . Apollo 16: Exploring Plum Crater . Credit: NASA , Apollo 16 , John W. Young . ... The fifth lunar landing mission out of six, Apollo 16 was famous for deploying and using an ultraviolet telescope as the first lunar observatory , and for collecting rocks and data on the mysterious lunar highlands . ... Duke stands by Plum Crater while the Lunar Roving Vehicle waits parked in the background. ... Tomorrow's picture: The First Lunar Observatory . ... About APOD | ...

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Astronomy Picture of the Day . Apollo 16: Exploring Plum Crater . ... Credit: John W. Young, Apollo 16 Crew , NASA Explanation: Apollo 16 spent three days on Earth's Moon in April 1972. The fifth lunar landing mission out of six, Apollo 16 was famous for deploying and using an ultraviolet telescope as the first lunar observatory , and for collecting rocks and data on the mysterious lunar highlands . ... Publications with keywords: apollo program - Apollo 16 - Earth's moon . ...

Next: Order Extraction Up: Background Definition Previous: Background estimate by . ... The sky background component can be measured in spectra taken with an extended slit using the two commands DEFINE/SKY and EXTRACT/SKY . ... The command EXTRACT/ECHELLE performs an average extraction of the sky background using these offsets, optionally fiters for cosmics, and provides an extracted spectrum in a format similar to the one resulting from EXTRACT/ECHELLE . ...

To suspend the execution of a command for a specific amount of time use the command: sleep time_in_seconds ; command . The second command will not be carried out until the amount of time specified as an argument to the sleep command has elapsed. ... You can also enclose the commands in parentheses to group them together and then run the combined command in the background, allowing you to carry on working at the shell prompt: (sleep time_in_seconds ; command ) . ...

... October 9, 1997 . Hale-Bopp and the North American Nebula . ... Explanation: Comet Hale-Bopp 's recent encounter with the inner Solar System allowed many breath-taking pictures. Above, Comet Hale-Bopp was photographed on March 8th in the constellation of Cygnus . ... The North American Nebula is about 1500 light years away, much farther than the comet, which was about 8 light minutes away. ... About APOD > . ...

... sfit . ... commands . scl . ... Define parameters for controlling performance of genetic algorithm . ... generations . The maximum number of generations the program will go through, before stopping, if the solution is not within the given tolerance. 10 . ... The number of parents randomly generated in the first generation, and in each subsequent generation. 50 . ... This is multiplied by the number of parameters being varied to give the total string length for each parent. 16 . ... elitism . ...

... HST . Are autoparallel observations allowed for ACS and what is their policy? ... Missions . ... Data . ... Future Missions and . ... Missions Office . ... HST Peer Review Process . ... HST Overview . Overview . ... Servicing Missions . ... Cycle 24 Announcement . Cycle 23 Results . ... Retrieving HST Data . ... Policies### * Are autoparallel observations allowed for ACS and what is their policy ? ACS is indeed able to make simultaneous observations using the WFC and the HRC. ...

... Milky Way . ... Space Flight . ... The maiden flights onboard Virgin Galactic?s spaceplanes are scheduled to take place early next year (however this date has been changed around for a few years after multiple delays). €аRegardless of the wait over 700 people are now ticket holders and are hoping to become space tourists paying just $250,000 for the pleasure. ... He has already done flights to the edge of space in a Mig 21, and done weightless flights in the Russian cosmonaut traing eircraft ? ...

... Bad Astronomy . ... Mad Science . ... Site Info . ... Public Talks . ... Keep Bad Astronomy close to your heart, and help make me filthy rich. ... Who is this guy who calls himself "The Bad Astronomer?" ... First, yes, I am a real live astronomer (when people ask me what astronomers do, I tell them "They astronom !" ... These are emitted by powerful objects like black holes, exploding stars, and super-dense neutrons stars. ... Finally, am I really a bad astronomer? ... 2008 Phil Plait. ...

... Allowed values : integers n Special case: n=9: iterate until convergence NPRNT Print every 10^n TOA line in file tempo.lis Allowed values : integers n PSR Pulsar name (normally without the leading B or J) Allowed values : up to 12 characters BINARY Binary model to use (see BINARY MODELS, below) Allowed ...

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... ftools (ftools-1.2) [xmmsas_20080701_1801-8.0.0] . ... Please note the following limitations: . FTOOLS do not allow string parameters to be assigned an empty string on the command line. ... The GUI does not use the PFILES environment variable to locate FTOOLS parameter files. ... When run from the GUI, an FTOOL uses its own parameter file to determine the type of each parameter, but ignores the default values in its parameter files, because the GUI specifies all paraeters on the command line. ...

... If you could point a telescope anywhere in the sky, where would you look? The Personal Space web application allows you to make a direct and personal connection to the universe by linking significant events in your own life with what was above you in the sky at that moment. ... Personal Space is an online invitation to connect with and explore the universe in an intuitive way by presenting beautiful astronomical images of the sky overhead at key moments and places of personal significance. ...

Although there are no set rules for running Family ASTRO Astronomy Events, extensive testing with our Leader Kits and activities has allowed us to develop suggested agendas (found in each kit's "Leader Guide") and some general guidelines. ... Stations: These are stand-alone activities that can be explored by participants without much instruction from Event Leaders . In a "classic" Family ASTRO event, one or more of these self-guided activities are set up in the room before participants arrive. ...

... Archives . ... It is a very powerful tool, but I can never remember how to use it, and I have an amazing knack for not finding what I need in the documentation. ... Often for Chandra spectra, the background is included in that same file. ... Q: how in god?s name does one avoid plotting those damned error bars? ... it is much easier to update and make changes there than in the blog format. 06-12-2010, 11:11 pm . ... vlk on Everybody needs crampons . Doug Burke on Everybody needs crampons . ...

Displays the current status of NICFPS spectrograph and allows you to change the configuration. ... Once the instrument builders have more time with the instrument we plan to refine the controls. ... Select TUI:Save Window Positions to remember the state of this checkbutton. ... The contextual menu on each control can return that control to the current setting of the instrument. ... the current set of filters. ... Current : reset all configuration widgets to the current state of the instrument. ...

... Tonight's Sky . ... The Magazine . ... Observing . ... 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 . ... Cosmic Adventures . ... Exploring the cosmic microwave background . ... 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 . ...

130705 ephemeris tracking . The pnt command has been added to the aotcl interpreter in vxWorks (used for online datataking). within the online tcl interpreter pnt ? ... Load ephemeris file with pnt ephm ld . Track the ephemeris file . Ephemeris tracking was added to the pnt command on 05jul13. ... The new command includes loading an ephemeris file and then tracking using this file. ... The user then starts the ephemeris tracking by issuing the pnt track command: . ... cR current ra,dec . ...

... We have measured this "redshift" for the pink black holes, and allowed for it in our calculations. ... We see this effect in the emission from gas around these pink black holes, but it is far too small an effect to account for the pinkness. Thus the swirling motions of gas around or into the black holes cannot produc the colour. ... At first we thought that these things were normal blue black holes hidden behind clouds of interstellar dust, that absorbed the blue light and made them appear pink. ...