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... Observing . ... Observers Wiki . ... The following notes assume all 4 ATNF telescopes (Parkes, ATCA, Mopra and ASKAP) are being monitored. ... You must be appropriately qualified for remote observing with Parkes and ATCA, even if observing from the SOC. ... Make sure you register as as OIC at Parkes and ATCA and you "book" the observing beforehand . ... Refer to http://www.atnf.csiro.au/vlbi/wiki/index.php?n=LBAObservingNotes.VNCNotes for notes on setting up ssh tunneling if observing remotely. ...

... Please note the following problems and workarounds: . ... Arrow keys . Arrow keys are used in SAOtng to move the mouse or markers. ... Unfortunately, error messages are generated if both sets are defined in the SAOtng code but are not supported by X. To get around this problem, we have added the -kbprefix command switch (and the SAOTNG_KBPREFIX environment variable) to SAOtng. This switch allows you to specify which arrow keys you want to use (assuming your version of X supports both). ...

Please understand this is all the information that will be released on Quake until further notice! A fter a long wait, here's a set of screenshots form an early version of the game. Click an image to receive a full size picture, or download quakepix.zip from our FTP site. ... T he following two are .gif renderings of true color screenshots. ... The following hosts are now mirroring ftp.idsoftware.com:/idstuff . quake.best.com/pub/idsoftware . ... ftp.inner.com/pub/games/quake . ...

... Listed below are questions submitted by users of "The Great Magnet, the Earth" and the answers given to them. ... In "The Exploration of the Earth's magnetosphere" on the magnetic environment of the Earth in space (a few Q duplicated here) . ... 11) Magnetic Shielding . ... 51) Can electricity be generated from the Earth's magnetic field? ... 9) Measuring Earth's magnetic field . ... 6) Reversals of the Earth's field (4 queries) . ... 42) Could generated electricity affect Earth's magnetic field? ...

These notes summarize an informal HDF-S session at the Joint ESO/Australia workshop ``Looking Deep in the Southern Sky,'' which was held in Sydney, Australia, on 10-12 December 1997. ... AAT: 1 night imaging in broad and narrow (20 Angstrom) bands on HDF-S + environs using the Taurus tunable filter. ... NTT: HDF-S + surrounding region to be imaged under the auspices of the ESO Imaging Survey (EIS). 15 x 15 arcminute field of view imaged in U, g, r, I, J and K. 13 nights allocated for Sept/Oct 1998? ...

... Meta Index / Home Page This section documents warnings and errors generated by this task (if any). ... This means that there is no GTI for this ccd. corrective action: No action. wrapAround . ... This means that there is no GTI for this ccd. corrective action: No action. allFramesTooRapidPixels . ... This means that there is no GTI for this ccd. corrective action: No action. badAbortFlagAllFrames . ... This means that there is no GTI for this ccd. corrective action: No action. eventsLostAllFrames . ...

... We present 5GHz high resolution VLA observations of 2,127 radio-- and X-ray--emitting sources found in both the Green Bank (GB) 5GHz radio catalog and the ROSAT All-Sky Survey (RASS). We report core flux densities and positions accurate to =-0.5". ... This table has 1861 rows and 9 columns giving: Catalog source name, RA and DEC (J2000), observation code, S/N ratio, VLA core flux density at 5 GHz (mJy), Green Bank flux density at 5 GHz (mJy), error in Green Bank flux density (mJy), and Notes. ...

... Older browser versions had the nice feature that MIME types (related to the extensions .esh and .ash) and the corresponding actions could be managed directly by the user. For security reasons, this has been disabled for newer browser generations, including the firefox installed on the muc blades. ... 2.1 Heritage accounts and profiles . ... Search for the string 'wrapper': all profiles with a mimeTypes.rdf file containing 'wrapper' are heritage profiles, and you can use them for your browser. ...

Sloan Digital Sky Survey Telescope Technical Note 19970527 Walter Siegmund . ... Pointing Error Budget . ... The interleaved strips and adjacent stripes overlap about 1 arc minute. ... However, a 2-D pointing accuracy of 3 arc seconds RMS leads to acceptibly uniform overlap and minimises the number of cases that require special handling (Table 3). ... A guide fiber bundle diameter of 16.5 arc seconds and a pointing accuracy of 3 arc sec RMS results in 99% initial success in acquiring guide stars. ...

... Aurora from Space . ... Magnetic Storms . ... Solar fast Particles . ... Currently more than 200 communication satellites circle the Earth in synchronous orbit . ... Another effect of magnetic storms (and to lesser extent, of substorms) is a greater intensity of the electric currents circulating between Earth and distant space. ... One spacecraft would orbit near Earth, the other would be stationed elsewhere in the Earth's orbit around the Sun, capturing a sideways view of solar eruptions. ...

... ALMA . ... OOF software . ... Software . ... We present a framework for modelling atmospheric phase errors and their correction by both the fast-switching and water vapour radiometeric techniques. Notable features are simulating three dimensional turbulent volumes instead of flat phase screens, considering three representative configurations of ALMA and parametrisation in terms of phase fluctuations on a 300m baseline, allowing referencing to the site-testing interferometer data. ...

This module supports ISAPI Extensions within Apache for Windows. ... This module implements the Internet Server extension API. It allows Internet Server extensions ( e.g. ISAPI .dll modules) to be served by Apache for Windows, subject to the noted restrictions. ISAPI extension modules (.dll files) are written by third parties. ... Review the Additional Notes and the Programmer's Journal for additional details and clarification of the specific ISAPI support offered by mod_isapi. ...

... Since founding of the Olympiad] The Olympiad participants are not supposed to study at any institutions of higher education (university or school which can be considered technical colleges). ... Note: Exception may be done for the second time participating in IAOs students not older than 14.00 years on January 1st of the year of the Olympiad (i.e. born after January 01, 1999). ... Team of region, city, town: . ... of the XVIII International Astronomy Olympiad (2013), . ...

... Spider scans ( heiles calibration scans ) were taken with alfa on 24,26may14 using beams0.. ... The alfa rotation angle was set to 0 degrees. ... Page 4: Pointing error (all beams) . Page 5: Pointing error (beam0). beam0 mean offsets will increase the rms of all beams. ... Compute the change in the pointing error if the alfa rotation error was off by -5 to +5 degrees in .1 degree steps. ... rotating by + 1.1 degrees reduces the non beam 0 rms from 14 to 12 asecs. rms Error asecs . ... all Beams . ...

Astronomy Picture of the Day . An Active Sunspot Viewed Sideways . ... Credit: Hinode , JAXA , NASA Explanation: Why are there dark spots on the sun? Although noted for thousands of years, sunspots have been known for decades to be regions of the Sun that are slightly depressed and cooled by the Sun's complex and changing magnetic field . ... NASA Official: Jay Norris. ... Publications with keywords: sunspot - magnetic field - Sun . Publications with words: sunspot - magnetic field - Sun . ...

... Each day a different image or photograph of our fascinating universe is featured, along with a brief explanation written by a professional astronomer. 2007 April 2 . An Active Sunspot Viewed Sideways . Credit Copyright : Hinode , JAXA , NASA . Explanation: Why are there dark spots on the sun? ... In the center of the above image is a sunspot, but not seen in the usual orientation --this sunspot is seen sideways. ... About APOD | ... NASA Official: Phillip Newman Specific rights apply . ...

... Sun images . ... Sun flares . ... Active areas . September : 2015 . ... The following regions with sunspots can be now observed on the Sun's surface . Group number . ... Group length (in degrees) . ... Coordinates and other characteristics of active regions are issued for September 09, 2015 00:31 UT The following H-alpha plages without spots can be currently observed on the Sun's surface . ... Coordinates and other characteristics of active regions are issued for September 09, 2015 00:31 UT . ...

Canadian Paper Money] . This page will attempt to answer questions pertaining to Canadian Paper Money.љ ... 4) What does the "*" beside the serial number represent? ... Following the creation Canada's central bank, the Bank of Canada introduced its first paper money issue.љ ... Starting with the 1954 Bank of Canada issue, defective notes produced during the printing process were replaced by these 'replacement notes' which carried the asterisk before the serial number.љ ...

... 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); . ...