... Bad Astronomy . Misconceptions . ... Bad Astronomy : "That's as remote as the dark side of the Moon!" ... As the tired, hackneyed refrains went on, one in particular caught my ear: " Fly me away to the bright side of the moon, and meet me on the other side." ... As the Moon orbits the Earth, different parts of it get illuminated by the Sun. ... Bad Addendum : At the end of the album "Dark Side of the Moon" by Pink Floyd, there is a voiceover that actually says "There is no dark side of the moon. ...

12feb07 Measuring the SEFD around 1100 Mhz . ... bandpass filter low frequency falloff around 1130 Mhz . ... A 500 Mhz bandpass centered on 1100 Mhz (via the spectrum analyzer) showed a 6 db difference between 1100 Mhz and the noise floor at 1000 Mhz. ... The interim correlator was used with 25 Mhz bands centered at: 1040, 1060, 1080, and 1100 Mhz. ... 1040 Mhz cfr trking src(.gif) There is probably not very much sky signal getting into this band so it looks better than it should. ...

Bridge World Standard Bridge World Standard (BWS) is a system based on the majority preferences of approximately 125 leading experts and thousands of Bridge World readers. ... Jacoby transfers (splinter rebids; game raise is slam try; two diamonds plus two spades forcing only one round); two spades shows minors; three hearts invitational, major two-suiter; Texas transfers; Stayman (two-spade rebid invitational; two-heart rebid weak; minor rebid forcing); Smolen; three of a minor invitational; Gerber. ...

... A full set of flatfield frames was taken with the NICMOS arrays during the System Level Thermal Vacuum test, conducted on the ground in August 1996. ... Users are encouraged to recalibrate their data with on-orbit flatfields if the pipeline calibration used thermal vacuum flatfields. Preliminary results from SMOV indicate that variations in the large scale structure of the on-orbit flatfields relative to the thermal vacuum flatfields are of the order of 1-2% in Camera 2, and up to 5% in Camera 1. ...

... 11/09 - Dave's response . Some of you have probably seen this original letter floating around the internet. Read Dave's (whoever he is) response below. ... I don't know who David is, but his response is hilarious!! ... At first I rolled my eyes....then I read Dave's response and I couldn't have said it better if I had all day to do it." ... September 11th is the 254th day of the year: 2 + 5 + 4 = 11 . ... Wait a sec ... just realized "YOU CAN'T HIDE" also has 11 letters! ... Help me!! ...

... More on 51 Peg: . The discovery of a Jupiter--mass planet in orbit around the solar--type star 51Peg has been reported by Michel Mayor and Didier Queloz (Geneva Observatory) on October 6th at the 9th Cambridge workshop on "cool stars, stellar systems, and the sun" held at Florence (Italy). ... Recall that the measurements of radial velocity only yield v sin i which in turn gives us M sin i. For most values of i, sin i will be greater than 0.5 and this gives a mass estimate of 0.5 Jupiter masses. ...

... 1 Time (UT) 11:50 X-ray BP behaviour Magnetic fragment behaviour A small bipolar region locates at northwest of a positive dominant region. Both positive and negative fragments move toward each other in the bipolar region. ... A few strong negative fragments from southeast move toward the dominant positive fragments. Both polarities in the bipolar region become less and weaker. ... The negative fragments in the bipolar region become very weak and have a certain distance from the positive one. ...

Next: Geometric Corrections Up: Raw to Calibrated Previous: Artifacts . ... The majority of modern detectors (e.g. CCD, diode--array or image tube) have a nearly linear response while photographic emulsions are strongly non--linear. Even for the `linear' detectors, a number of corrections must be included in the intensity calibration. ... A mathematical function is used to transform data from detectors with non--linear response to a more linear domain. ...

... Science User Portal . ... ESO, the European Southern Observatory . ... ESO's Governing Bodies . ... Travel and Contacts . Travel to ESO Headquarters . ... Travel to E-ELT Armazones . ... Survey Telescopes . ... Star Clusters . ... Stars@ESO . ... ESO Science Newsletter . ... ESO 3.6-metre telescope . ... MPG/ESO 2.2-metre telescope . ... ESO 1-metre Schmidt telescope . ... Wide view centred on the CatтАЩs Paw Nebula (NGC 6334). ... Cat's Paw Nebula , Digitized Sky Survey 2 (DSS 2) , NGC 6334 . ...

Astronotes Armagh Planetarium's Stellar Blog! ... Posted on December 3, 2015 | ... Continue Reading.. ... 10 Comments On 2March 2004 the European Space Agency (ESA) launched an ambitious and exciting robotic explorer into space, and you probably have heard its quite pretty name mentioned a lot lately. ... 2 Comments The year 2014 could see the first 3D printer brought into space, the first fare-paying passengers leave Planet Earth on the Virgin Galactic and the first test mission of a [ ] . ...

... Hidden Hollow 2008 . ... inside the Lodge . ... one of the cabins . Sky High Lodge . ... Q: What about the cabins? ... Q: What should I bring if I plan on staying inside a cabin? ... Q: What are the bunkhouses? Our bunkhouses are just what the name implies - a large area filled with clean beds with flushing restrooms and hot showers in the basement area. For single guests, this is a preferred area since cabins suit large groups or families. ... Q: What is Sky High Lodge? ...

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... When it reaches 15 degrees C or around 60 degrees F. we are already feeling the cold and bundle up in blankets. ... When we walk on the beach which is about a half mile away from our school, we can hear the roar of the waves and feel the warm sea breeze. ... It is now about 72 degrees F. Carter - If I were at the beach, I would see the sun shining brightly on the beach of our glistening Kailua Bay. ... Kristina - Kailua Beach has beautiful bleached white sand which is hot from the sun. ...

Program: TRACE Purpose: TRACE plots image values at user given positions as function of distance to a plot centre (in 2-d (sub)sets). Category: ANALYSIS, PLOTTING File: trace.c Author: M.G.R. Vogelaar Keywords: INSET= Give set (, subset): Only one subset is allowed. ... XYBOX= Give size of box around one pixel: [3,3] The resulting value at a selected position is an average of the pixels in the defined box around that position. ... POSITION= Give position x, y: Physical values are allowed. ...

... 2004 April 6 . Unusually Strong Cyclone Off the Brazilian Coast . Credit: Jacques Descloitres , MODIS Land Rapid Response Team , GSFC , NASA . ... An unusually strong storm -- perhaps the strongest storm in the recorded history of the South Atlantic Ocean -- crossed the coast of Brazil last week. ... Tropical cyclones are large regions of low pressure with little vertical wind shear that typically form over regions of warm water, which power the cyclone through evaporation . ... About APOD | ...

... Credit Copyright: Jacques Descloitres , MODIS Land Rapid Response Team , GSFC , NASA Explanation: How did this huge cyclone form? An unusually strong storm -- perhaps the strongest storm in the recorded history of the South Atlantic Ocean -- crossed the coast of Brazil last week. Cyclones this powerful, classified by some as the first ever Category 1 Hurricane , are very rare in the South Atlantic. ... NASA Official: Jay Norris. ... Publications with keywords: cyclone - hurricane . ...

. To prompt for commands to run: #!/bin/sh while echo "Please enter command" read response do case "$response" in 'done') break # no more commands ;; "") continue # null command ;; *) eval $response # do the command ;; esac done . This prompts the user to enter a command. While they enter a command or null string the script continues to run. To stop the command the user enters done at the prompt.

The HyperNews Linux KHG Discussion Pages . Forum: The Linux Kernel Hackers' Guide . Re : Help with CPU scheduler! ... Keywords: scheduler . ... From: Jeremy Impson < jdimpson@syr.edu > . I wrote something for Linux kernel 2.0.30. ... It can be found at http://camelot.syr.edu/linux/scheduler.html Mr. michaelkjohnson, if you are interested, please feel free to copy it from that location to the KHG, or, if necessary, edit it to your heart's content. ... Jeremy Impson . ...

The trapping of particles by magnetic fields was first studied by Kristian Birkeland in Norway, starting around 1895. ... Poincare managed to solve the motion of charged particles near an isolated magnetic pole, showing that they spiraled around field lines and that they were repelled from regions of strong field. ... A more realistic problem, of more interest to Birkeland, was particle motion near a compact bar magnet or "dipole", which better approximated the field of the Earth or of his terrella. ...

... Orbits in Space . ... The ion rocket is another means of providing thrust, more gradually but also more efficiently than a conventional rocket. ... As in the nuclear rocket, the energy which propels the xenon jet comes from a different source; here it is electrical energy from solar cells. ... The XIPS ("zips") ion engine developed by the Hughes corporation was tested in the laboratory and then aboard a Russian spacecraft, launched 6 October 1997; it is the one shown on top of this page. ...