... Science User Portal . ... ESO, the European Southern Observatory . ... ESO's Governing Bodies . ... Travel and Contacts . Travel to ESO Headquarters . ... Weekend Visits to the ALMA OSF . ... Survey Telescopes . ... Star Clusters . ... Stars@ESO . ... ESO Science Newsletter . ... ESO 3.6-metre telescope . ... MPG/ESO 2.2-metre telescope . ... Herbert Zodet, ESO Video Coordinator takes some distance shots from ALMA, high on the Chajnantor Plateau.€аTaken€аduring the€а ESO Ultra HD Expedition . ...

Communications For Your Astronomy Event . ... Pick a set of FRS radios for communications one mile or less - At less than $10 per radio plus a sack of AA or AAA batteries, this inexpensive approach is prudent for the vast majority of events. ... GMRS is good for communications across town. ... Good ol' CB Radio has its place on the highways, but there really is no point in using it for event comms since FRS, MURS and GMRS exist. ... Star Party Radio Coordination Frequency . ... www.astronomy.net . ...

... http://www.nineplanets.org . ... Activities to Enliven the Voyage . ... This activity, suitable for students from middle school through high school, is available online at http://www.pbs.org/deepspace/classroom/activity3.html . Finding Your Way in the Milky Way . ... In this online activity created by educationists associated with the Chandra X-Ray Observatory mission, high school teachers and students learn a little about navigating and mapping in the Milky Way Galaxy. ...

... Two computers in the same network are usually linked via a single physical cable. When they communicate over the network, the programs in each computer that take part in the communication are linked via a virtual connection , a sort of imaginary cable. ... When it notices an incoming network login (i.e., it notices that it gets a new virtual connection to some other computer), it starts a new process to handle that single login. ...

National Science Foundation The Primary Purpose of the School or Why Are We Here? Tomas Gergely 4th IUCAF School on Spectrum Management for Radio Astronomy JAO, Santiago, Chile April, 2014 1 National Science Foundation To Make it Possible the Continued Exploration of the Radio Universe, Free of Interference (as Much as Possible) 2 National Science Foundation Tools · · Take stock of where we are (lay of the land): · · · · Telescopes Basics of ... Electromagnetic theory, Vol. ...

HEARTACHE TONIGHT Somebody's gonna hurt someone before the night is through. ... Everybody wants to touch somebody if it takes all night. ... There's gonna be a heartache tonight, a heartache tonight, I know. There's gonna be a heartache tonight, a heartache tonight, I know, Lord, I know. ... We can beat around the bushes, we can get down to the bone, we can leave it in the parkin' lot but either way there's gonna be a heartache tonight, a heartache tonight, I know, oh, I know. ...

... The Round Earth . ... Aristarchus around 270 BC derived the Moon's distance from the duration of a lunar eclipse (Hipparchus later found an independent method). ... Let R be the radius of that circle and T the time it takes the Moon to go around once, about one month. ... Viewed from Earth, a "new Moon" (occuring between the time a thin crescent is last seen before sunrise and the time one is seen shortly after sunset) happens when the Moon in its apparent motion around the sky overtakes the Sun. ...

... Up: Future Instruments and Telescopes, Tools . ... New Generation Astronomical Telescopes (NGAT), a class of telescopes designed to be operated remotely and robotically, require efficient methods for communicating images over heterogeneous and low-bandwidth data networks such as the Internet. ... Methods researched thus far involve the classification of astronomical images based on object parameterisation, progressive image transmission, and evaluation of existing image compression schemes. ...

... 50 Weirdest Objects . ... Get to Know the Night Sky . ... Picture of the Day . ... Observing springtime deep-sky objects with a large telescope . ... How can the Hubble Space Telescope (HST) take pictures of objects light-years away but not get a good picture of Pluto? ... At its distance, it subtends a smaller angle on the sky than does a galaxy at a distance of billions of light-years. Get instant access to subscriber content on Astronomy.com! ... Get full access to StarDome PLUS . ...

... The Drake Equation: Adding a METI Factor . ... METI (Messaging to Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence) is an activity, which I believe to be an inherent attribute of advanced civilizations. In order to account for the true prevalence of communicative civilizations (that is, those that engage in METI), I suggest we introduce a METI factor f m into the classical Drake Equation . ... f p = The fraction of those stars with planetary systems . ... Then the METI factor f m should be quite small, about 0.01. ...

TAKE PICTURES. ... Large Monolithic Mirror LMM Gary Matthews Manager, Image Collection Systems Eastman Kodak Company April 11, 2003 LMM Program Goals TAKE PICTURES. ... Mirror concept builds on successful AMSD segmented core design Mirror constructed of smaller segmented blanks joined before processing 5 LMM TAKE PICTURES. ... Large mirror core Pocket milled demonstration mirror AMSD highly segmented core 14 LMM Subscale Demonstration Mirror Design TAKE PICTURES. ...

Next: Sending Signals - kill() Up: Process Control and Management Previous: pipe() - Low level Piping . ... When a process terminates abnormally it usually tries to send a signal indicating what went wrong. ... The process uses signals which can be numbered 0 to 31. Macros are defined in signal.h header file for common signals. ... Sending Signals - kill() . Receiving signals - signal() . ... Wed Sep 14 10:06:31 BST 1994 ...

... QR Codes: Not for Human Eyes . ... What if you could fly through the universe and see dark matter? ... Tunguska: The Largest Recent Impact Event . ... Cocoon Nebula Wide Field . ... In this crowded starfield spanning some 3 degrees within the high flying constellation Cygnus, the eye is drawn to the Cocoon Nebula. ... Dry Ice Pits on Mars . ... During 2006, a large solar flare from an Earth-sized sunspot produced a tsunami-type shock wave that was spectacular even for the Sun. ...

... 2003 April 1 . A New Constellation Takes Hold . ... Explanation: A new constellation has taken hold of the sky, much to the surprise of many sky gazers . ... Happy April Fools day from the folks at APOD ! Pictured above, a bird was photographed taking the Tololo All Sky Camera (TASCA) as a perch, a situation that would be even funnier if the bird's talons hadn't scratched the plastic enclosing dome. ... About APOD | ... NASA Web Site Statements, Warnings, and Disclaimers . ...

Ground Support of RadioAstron . Control and Tracking Stations . RadioAstron satellite control (command transmission, telemetry, orbit measurements) will be conducted from Evpatoria and Bear Lake control stations. ... Coarse orbit measurements will be carried out from control stations. Each measurement takes ten minutes. ... Orbit measurements at tracking stations give only radial component of spacecraft velocity but the measurements are going continuously during observing sessions. ...

... Цвет: GLACIER BLUE . ... Модель: CRUX HOODIE . Сезон: FW15 . ... Цвет: ROYAL/HAZARD . ... Модель: TAKE THAT M HATS . Сезон: SS15 . ...

... Research . Projects . ... IZMIRAN Information and Computing Center is responsible for the main information and computing facilities of IZMIRAN as well as communication equipment. IZMIRAN ICC is also taking part in a number of IT research projects. Along with the IZMIRAN Space Information Technologies Center (CKIT) ICC takes part in space projects, such as CORONAS-I , CORONAS-F , COMPASS-2 . ICC handles data acquisition and preprocessing as well as archiving and dessimination of data. ...

How to reach Het Pand from the hotel: . The conference centre is within walking distance from the hotel (~10min). Follow the Vlaanderenstraat in NW direction and continue along the Limburgstraat and the Emile Braunplein until you reach the Korenmarkt. Cross the river via the bridge, turn around the Sint-Michiels church. Het Pand is next to the church. ... HOTEL FLANDRIA . ... How to reach the hotel from the train station Gent-Sint-Pieters: . ... HOTEL CASTEL . ...

Astronotes Armagh Planetarium's Stellar Blog! ... Space Flight . ... This has been designed for 8-12 year olds, however the challenge is for anyone and everyone who is curious about space exploration and what it takes to be an astronaut. How can I take part? ... All you need to do is complete a partnership agreement available here or alternatively contact Martina Redpath €а (email Martina(at)armaghplanet.com ) for more information and a guide to the activities. ... Take part in Mission X 2014 | ...