... 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. ...

The Astronomy Shop . ... AstroGuide | Calendar | ... Moon | ... Calendars | MoonDance - Moon Calendar with Daily Moon Phase Strips . ... This is the only standard form calendar to include Moon Phase Strips that illustrate the actual daily phase of the moon. ... Celestial Products has the most beautiful moon calendars; see our Gallery of Moon Calendars . ... www.astronomy.net . About Astronomy Net | Advertise on Astronomy Net | ... dbHTML," "AstroGuide," "ASTRONOMY.NET" & "VA.NET" . ...

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Астрономический календарь 2016 Какие астрономические явления подарит нам наступающий 2016 год? Наверняка он даст обильную пищу астрологам: как же - мало того, что год високосный, так еще в аккурат на 29 февраля приходится соединение с Солнцем самой далекой официальной планеты солнечной системы - Непутна.. ... Затмения: . ... В отличие от предыдущего года , в наступающем произойдет пять затмений: два солнечных (09 марта и 01 сентября) и три лунных (23 марта, 18 августа и 16 сентября). ... март . ...

... Kernel . ... This article is part of the LWN Porting Drivers to 2.6 series . ... The obvious place to start in this sort of exercise, of course, is the classic "hello world" program, which, in this context, is implemented as a kernel module. The 2.4 version of this module looked like: #define MODULE #include <linux/module.h> #include <linux/kernel.h> int init_module(void) { printk(KERN_INFO "Hello, world\n"); return 0; } void cleanup_module(void) { printk(KERN_INFO "Goodbye cruel world\n"); } . ...

... Картинка дня | ... планета Астронет | ... Модифицированая юлианская дата: MJD . ... Лилианская дата: LD . ... 6-й день 15-й недели 2016-го года . 100-й день 2016-го года; до конца года 265 дней . ... 736062-й день с начала Нашей Эры . ... 09-04-2016) Суббота, 9 апреля 2016. Високосный год. ... 27-03-2016) 27 марта 2016. ... 01-01-5776) 1 нисан 5776. ... 01-07-1437) 1 раджаб 1437. ... Введите дату как dd-mm-yyyy или dd/mm/yyyy . ...

... Go to new wiki . ... DataManagement / . ... Parkes needs plenty of bandwidth spare for pulsar data. ... UTAS V002A , internal . hovsi; /data/internal . Done . ... internal . ... CURT V001B . ... CURT V003B . ... CURT V003B , internal . ... ATNF V016B . ... data_fermi . ... ATNF V014B . ... data/internal . ... ATNF V010B . ... ATNF V013B . ... ATNF V001B . ... CURT V001A . cavsi1 . ... ATNF V002A . ... ATNF V007B . ... ATNF V004A . ... ATNF V004B . ... ATNF V002B . ... CURT V002A . ...

... 2014 February 3 . Lunar Time Lapse Panorama including Yutu Rover . ... Explanation: Where has the Yutu rover been on the Moon? ... Because it uses solar power , the mechanical Jade Rabbit goes into sleep mode to endure the two-week long lunar night. Pictured above is a digitally created time-lapse composite panorama showing the region surrounding the Chang'e 3 lander , capturing the desk-sized rover in three positions. ... Organize Your Universe: Free APOD 2014 Calendar in PDF format . ...

... Tiny Tim has been used for generating Hubble Space Telescope ( HST ) point-spread functions (PSFs) for deconvolution, algorithm testing, proposal planning, and optical studies. ... Tiny Tim is a stand-alone program for simulating HST PSFs as viewed with the on-board imaging cameras (WF/PC-1, WFPC2, FOC, COSTAR/FOC). ... The measured aberrations for FOC f/96, WF/PC-1 PC6, WFPC2, and COSTAR/FOC are used by Tiny Tim . ... Figure: FOC f/96 observed and Tiny Tim model PSFs (pre-COSTAR) at 253 nm. ...

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... Each day a different image or photograph of our fascinating universe is featured, along with a brief explanation written by a professional astronomer. 2000 February 28 . The Sombrero Galaxy from VLT . ... FORS1 , VLT ANTU , ESO . ... Reasons include the Sombrero 's unusually large and extended central bulge of stars, and dark prominent dust lanes that appear in a disk that we see nearly edge-on. Billions of old stars cause the diffuse glow of the extended central bulge. ... About APOD | ...

... Indiana Jones is a registered trademark of Lucasfilm Ltd. ... There's the intrigue of the megaliths of Stonehenge, the ancient pyramids of Egypt, the earthen figures of Britain and Peru, and the bloody rituals of the Maya. ... To make sense of these great structures and sophisticated concepts, archaeologists and astronomers have pooled their talents. ... People could use these alignments to synchronize their calendars or track the exact path of a celestial object. ... Maya glyphs of Venus. ...

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FITShdr' package contains set of utilities, that allows to display or modify FITS-file headers (FITS MEF included). ... Both source tarball (see INSTALL ) and i386 RPM are available for downloading: fitshdr-current.tar.gz size: 36379 MD5 checksum: 1e7222149ca36696797a6e0f4af41afc SHA1 checksum: 990bdf69f67d2b989d2d6e044deeaf9128d4470c fitshdr-1.0.6-1.i386.rpm size: 539101 MD5 checksum: 19e046da52b3ec8dd89aaed9e806bb5d SHA1 checksum: 07a4b4e2bd96a4c9fda7dc65127d0b80130c97e1 ...

Next: A Region mask for Up: To produce a region Previous: Select a circle around . select cursor and box . The three mouse buttons have been redefined as: . LEFT - moves the center of the box to the position of the arrow point. MIDDLE - sizes the box. ... Release the button to fix the size of the box. save the results by typing `s' while the mouse is in the display window. select region and write , to write the saved regions into a file for later use (as above). rsdc@cfa.harvard.edu . ...

... For a timeline of the exploration of the magnetic environment of the Earth, Sun and Planets, see here . ... Galileo Galilei (1564-1642) builds the first astronomical telescope and observes for the first time craters on the Moon, satellites around Jupiter, and the way Venus goes through phases like the Moon (crescent, etc.) ... 17 December--First successful flight by the Wright brothers at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina. ... 16 March--Goddard launches his first liquid-fuel rocket. ...

... Eclipses of the Moon in 2009 : . In 2009 there are four eclipses of the Moon (tree penumbral eclipses on February 9, July 7, and August 5-6 and a partial eclipse on December 31). ... Moon enters penumbra (P 1 ) . ... Moon leaves penumbra (P 4 ) . ... Eclipse, lunar : . ... It may be total (the Moon passing completely through the Earth's umbra ), partial (the Moon passing partially through the Earth's umbra at maximum eclipse), or penumbral (the Moon passing only through the Earth's penumbra ). ...

The Wideband Arecibo Pulsar Processor - File Format Page . WAPP files have three sections that appear sequentially in this order: an ASCII header description, the binary header, and finally the actual binary data. ... The WAPP realtime observation engine does not produce files larger that 2 Gbytes. At one time this represented a fundamental limit to Linux files. ... Each file will have it's own header, even when the files are simply continuations of a single observation. ... long int . ...

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