XMM-Newton Calibration Technical Note MOS optical loading XMM-SOC-CAL-TN-0043 Issue 1.1 B.Altieri November 13, 2003 1 Abstract The MOS optical PSF has been analyzed with diagnostic frames acquired on the RGS calibration star AB Doradus in the THIN lter, with the aim to assess the MOS optical loading. ... The MOS1 and MOS2 optical PSFs though the THIN lter are shown in gures 1 & 2 respectively (averaging of all diagnostic frames after deglitching). ...

The 2.6 kernel contains a long list of changes which affect device driver writers. As part of the task of porting the Linux Device Drivers sample code to 2.6, your humble LWN Kernel Page author is producing a set of articles describing the changes which must be made. ... November 25, 2003) The entire set of articles has been updated to reflect the 2.6.0-test10 kernel. ... Timekeeping changes (November, 2003; 2.6.0-test9); changes to how the kernel manages time and time-related events. ...

... Each day a different image or photograph of our fascinating universe is featured, along with a brief explanation written by a professional astronomer. November 8, 1999 . Lunation . ... Explanation: Our Moon's appearance changes nightly. This slow-loading time-lapse sequence shows what our Moon looks like during a lunation , a complete lunar cycle. As the Moon orbits the Earth , the half illuminated by the Sun first becomes increasingly visible, then decreasingly visible. ...

... The European HST Archive has been moved to ESA's European Space Astronomy Centre ( ESAC ), Spain, where most of ESA's Space Science Archives are located and operated from. ... The Space Telescope European Coordinating Facility (ST-ECF), jointly operated by ESA and the European Southern Observatory ( ESO ) was, until the end of 2010, the European HST science facility, supporting the European astronomy community in exploiting the research opportunities provided by the Hubble Space Telescope. ...

... support for other interferometers . ... The data selection widget . Flagging data . ... Script library files . ... Introduction . ... Data files . ... Basic widget procedures . Load data . ... Auxilliary data . ... Data and auxilliary files . ... Open the data file . ... Open a data file . Access a data file . ... Accessing data files . ... Discussion of reduction issues . ... Astrometry data reduction . ... Optical path lengths . ... NPOI raw data files . ... NPOI raw packet data files . ...

Astronotes Armagh Planetarium's Stellar Blog! ... Meteors and Meteorites . ... Stars . ... Monthly Sky Notes . ... This famous depiction of the Leonids was based on a first hand account of a meteor storm by a minister, Joseph Harvey Waggoner. ... In the autumn the Great Square of Pegasus is visible in the southern night sky. ... I hope this guide to the November night sky is helpful and have fun star sight-seeing! ... Tweets that mention The Leonid meteors: highlights of the November night sky | ...

NATURE|Vol 450|15 November 2007 NEW S D. VAN RAVENSWAAY/SPL WHAT TO DO WITH A WORMHOLE OPTICAL CABLES: the wormhole could act as a perfect optical fibre that is invisible from the outside -- but only at a single wavelength, the one the tube is designed to carry. OPTICAL COMPUTERS: dataprocessing elements for conducting logical operations on light signals could be placed inside the wormhole, so that all one would see of the computer is input and output sockets. ... Science 314, 977­980 (2006). ...

... X-Rays from the Galactic Plane . ... Its target was a spot in the small constellation Scutum, within the Milky Way's zone of avoidance where galactic gas and dust clouds block visible light, making a poor window for optical telescopes. A Piece of Interplanetary Dust . ... Tycho and Copernicus: Lunar Ray Craters . ... Farewell Jupiter . ... Next stop: Saturn. The Cassini spacecraft, launched from Earth four years ago, has now swung past Jupiter and should arrive at Saturn in the year 2004. ...

... Each day a different image or photograph of our fascinating universe is featured, along with a brief explanation written by a professional astronomer. November 11, 1997 . The Annotated Galactic Center . ... Constellations of nearby stars include Sagittarius , Libra , Scorpius , Scutum , and Ophiuchus . ... Open clusters include M6 , M7 , M18 , M21 , M23 , M24 , M25 . Globular clusters include M9 , M22 , M28 , M54 , M69 , M70 . ... About APOD > . ... NASA Technical Rep.: ...

Flight software uses checksum to validate the uplinked data . Executive (40 Hz process) sends command to proper destination, either hardware or software . Each block load contains the address in memory to place the data . ... Checksum on block load is verified before block is stored in memory . Block loads can be designated for any one of three stored command processors . ... Most stored commands are uplinked from the ground and executed once . ... Previous slide . Next slide . ...

The ultimate load . ... During next several days project “Send your name to Mars” ( http://spacekids.hq.nasa.gov/2003 ) will stop taking names. The last day will be on November 15, 2002. ... Step 1 . ... Write your name, mark time and click the button “add my name”. ... Please write down time and certificate number exacting it can be in its last days. ... Calculate the difference between End and Start time (in minutes), and the difference between your last and first Certificate’s Number. ...

Regions designation | Regions models | ASCII files description . The real time visibility of the IB_TAIL relative to the Evpatoria and Panska Ves . ... The real time regions passing . ... The IB_TAIL geocentric distance as a function of the Moscow time (MT = UT + 3h) (Plot) . Geomagnetic local time in the IB_TAIL position as a function of the MT (Plot) . The IB_TAIL orbital data ASCII files . Updated 19 October, 1999 . ... INTERBALL mission  ...

... S.P. KOROLEV ROCKET AND SPACE CORPORATION ENERGIA . ... OAO RSC "Energia" . ... Company's History . ... ISS Russian Segment . ... Sea Launch . ... Launches Chronology . ... Land Launch . ... OSC of processing equipment complex and pre-launch processing system under the control of LP ACC; . ... ILV dry roll-out (installation on the launch pad and critical launch readiness checklist). ... OSC of processing equipment complex (PEC) and pre-launch processing systems (PLPS) under the control of LP ACC; . ...

Next: The boot process in Up: Boots And Shutdowns Previous: Boots And Shutdowns . The act of turning on a computer system and causing its operating system to be loaded is called booting . ... During bootstrapping, the computer first loads a small piece of code called the bootstrap loader , which in turn loads and starts the operating system. ... For PC's, the computer (its BIOS) reads in the first sector (called the boot sector ) of a floppy or hard disk. ...

... 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 . ... Bright planets meet at dusk . ... Astronomy magazine subscribers can read the full article for free. ... Get instant access to subscriber content on Astronomy.com! ... Receive news, sky-event information, observing tips, and more from Astronomy's weekly email newsletter....

NMW survey overview . Access image archive . ... The New Milky Way survey aims to detect bright (V<13.5) optical transients near the Galactic plane using an automated wide-field (8x6 deg.) system capable of surveying the whole Milky Way area visible from the observing site in one night. ... All images obtained during the transient search survey are available online (please use the image archive access form ). ... Images per field: . ... Images per night: . ... Milky Way imaging time: . ...

... A pixmap is an off-screen buffer you can draw graphics into. After drawing into a pixmap, you can copy it to a window, causing it to appear on the screen (when the window is visible). ... In GDK, the pixmap type is called GdkPixmap . ... Drawables include windows, pixmaps, and bitmaps. ... GdkDrawable is used in function declarations when either a window or a pixmap is an acceptable argument. ... GdkPixmap* gdk_pixmap_new (GdkWindow* window , gint width , gint height , gint depth ); . ...

... With a load of iron ore - 26,000 tons more Than the Edmund Fitzgerald weighed empty That good ship and crew was a bone to be chewed When the gales of November came early The ship was the pride of the American side Coming back from some mill in Wisconson As the big freighters go it was bigger than most With a crew and the Captain well seasoned. ... And farther below Lake Ontario Takes in what Lake Erie can send her The iron boats go as the mariners all know With the gales of November remembered. ...

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