... LWN.net FAQ . ... Read-copy-update (RCU) is a mutual exclusion technique which can operate without locking most of the time. It can yield significant performance benefits when the data to be protected is accessed via a pointer, is read frequently, changed rarely, and references to the structure are not held while a kernel thread sleeps. The core idea behind RCU is that, when the data requires updating, a pointer to a new structure containing the new data can be stored immediately. ...

... Next: FITS Checksum Verification Up: Data Models and Previous: A Proposed Convention . ... The FITSIO Subroutine Library has been available for 3 years, and has matured into a stable, full-featured interface for reading and writing FITS format files. ... The FITSIO subroutine library for reading and writing FITS files is now three years old and is used by many projects as the standard programming interface for accessing FITS format data files. ...

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... AstroImageJ (AIJ) .. ... Reads and writes FITS images with standard headers . ... Provides a time and coordinate converter tool with capability to update/enhance FITS header content (AIRMASS, BJD, etc.) ... Creates color images and with native ImageJ processing power . ... AstroImageJ_Updater . Update operation now updates AIJ version number in Info.plist CFBundleVersion and CFBundleShortVersionString (MacOSX only) . ... AstroImageJ is ImageJ with astronomy plugins and macros installed. ...

... R-FITS is an R library designed to enable reading in FITS format files into the R environment. ... You must already have R and cfitsio installed. ... To install, first download the tar file that contains all the necessary files to a suitable directory (e.g., /path/to/rfits/installation/directory/ ) and then type cd /path/to/rfits/installation/directory/ gunzip -c rfits.tar.gz | ... rfits_read_image(file,hdu=1) . rfits_read_col(file,col=1,width=1,hdu=2) . rfits_read_key(file,key,hdu=2) . ...

Present section contains two Tables: the first one lists the names of all minor planets in alphabetic order as of the last updating of the Table. ... For each minor planet the Table, apart from number represents also the name of minor planet, if any, and its principal preliminary designation. ... Apart these preliminary designations special ones are used for minor planets discovered in the course of special surveys, undertaken between 1960 and 1977. ... Survey . ... Second Trojan Survey (1973) . ...

Astronotes Armagh Planetarium's Stellar Blog! ... Solar System . ... Monthly Sky Notes . ... By admin January 21, 2011 Posted in: Robot Exploration . A UFO hovers in the Martian sky (Image credit:NASA/JPL) . The car-sized Mars Science Laboratory Curiosity is too heavy to slam into the rocky plains of Mars encased in airbags like its predecessors, so this imaginative and complex system was devised instead. ... Is there a video anywhere on the internet of a test of the ?sky crane? rockets? ...

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