... Bad Astronomy . ... Bad Astronomy: The North Star, Polaris, is a very bright star. Good Astronomy: Polaris is a middling-bright star, easily missed. ... He said it was close to Polaris, the North Star, but he also said it was in the East. ... It's natural, I suppose, to think that such an important star should be bright, but really, that's a conceit, like thinking that the Earth is at the center of the Universe. If more people knew just why Polaris is the North Star, this Bad Idea would stop. ...

... It is possible to change the meaning of keywords (to `overload' them), but it can be confusing, primarily because your new commands may not behave the same way that this manual claims. ... If you said box in your macro, then overloaded the keyword, you'd have a macro that called itself. ... Another example is that (when overloaded) lines saves the line numbers used, so that you can write a macro to print the top 10 lines of a file (it's called head ). ...

This plot shows the projected motion of the red dwarf star Proxima Centauri (green line) over the next decade, as plotted from Hubble Space Telescope observations. ... Because Proxima Centauri is the closest star to our Sun, its angular motion across the sky is relatively fast compared to much more distant background stars. This means that in 2014 and 2016 Proxima Centauri will pass in front of two background stars that are along its path. ...

... The delightful images from the All Around Us slipcase are now in this fun, interactive format. By lifting the big, sturdy flaps, young readers will learn new words and concepts through Eric Carle's bright, beautiful images and simple phrases. A perfect companion title for Eric Carle's ABC and Opposites. Артикул: 1470_1114 Цвет: зеленый Состав: 50% вискоза, 45% полиэстер, 5% эластан Описание: стильный брючный комбинезон зеленого цвета без рукавов. ... Коллекция: Весна-лето 2016 . ...

Birthday in Canada . Parents of children up to around 13 or 14 make a bigger show of birthday celebrations here in Canada than do people of other ages. In fact they seem to try to outdo each other in terms of providing entertainment for the kids. ... They provide food and games for the kids to play. ... I spend my birthday either at home with my friends and family, or at a restaurant with friends and family. ... On this day we usually have Pizza, cake, junk food mostly. ... Alexandra . ...

... Previous: An ExpectTk/Perl Graphical User Interface to the Revision Control System (RCS) . ... This paper describes the elements and style of the Portable-CGS4DR graphical user interface built around some extensions to Tcl and the Tk toolkit. ... Tcl (Ousterhout 1994) is an embeddable scripting language and Tk is a graphical user interface toolkit. ... It is these extensions that are the basis for the CGS4DR graphical user interface. ... Table: The Portable-CGS4DR Graphical User Interface Style. ...

The Youth Space Center of Bauman Moscow State Technical University conducts the workshop for space enthusiasts (only students) every year to provide participants with an opportunity to discuss the results of the year passed in space focusing on Russian and International programs, see and touch the real space hardware and meet people working on the front edge of space science and technology. ... You will go to Mission Control Center and see how the International Space Station is controlled. ...

... Astrophysics Group . Research . Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) . ... A significant fraction of the Astrophysics Group is involved in work on the Cosmic Microwave Background, both experimental and theoretical. We are currently operating the Arcminute Microkelvin Imager , an arcminute-scale survey telescope, and developing analysis techniques for the Planck satellite. ... 2013, Astrophysics Group, Cavendish Laboratory, JJ Thomson Avenue, Cambridge, CB3 0HE . ...

apomask -- Create an apodizing mask image with zero background and a circular central mask with rounded off edge apomask output xdim ydim radius sigma k xpos ypos . output = "" [image] . ... The X dimension of the input image. ydim = 512 [integer] . The Y dimension of the input image. radius = 12.0 [real] . The radius of the central disk of the output image which is to be set to one. sigma = 2.0 [real] . The sigma of the roll-off region around the central disk. k = 0.5 [real] . ...

My Home Page: M.A.Tarasov . Hello fellow Internet surfer and welcome to my home page. ... I graduated from Physics department of Moscow StateUniversity in 1977 and since then have been working at the Institute of Radio Engineering and Electronics of Russian Academy of Sciences. During this time I defended two thecises, the degree of Candidat of Sciences in physics and mathematics was confered in 1983, and the second of Doctor of sciences in physics and mathematics, was confered in 1997. ...

The Agile filter wheel controller can be accessed via telnet to agile-rotator on port 4100. Close the socket when you are finished (there is no disconnect command). ... Always prefix filterwheel commands with "fw ". ... If you mistype a command that does not have an "fw " prefix then you'll get whatever the rotator controller outputs. ... Returns status . Move filterwheel slot n , where 1 n 6. ... low-level stepper motor controller status . ... high-level filter wheel controller status . ...

... Последние изменения/Last modified 12.03.2000) . БУРИМЕ КОНДУИТ КЖП ИЗБРАННОЕ СОНЕТЫ МКЛАСС . BURIME KONDUIT KZHP IZBRANNOE SONETY MKLASS . ... На странице Буриме есть ссылки и на другие публикации о Буриме и Сонетнике. ... Последние изменения/Last modified 12.02.1999.) ... КЖП Буриме 1 день 2 дня 4 дня Треп при Буриме 1 день 2 дня . KZhP Burime 1 den' 2 dnya 4 dnya Trep pri Burime 1 den' 2 dnya . Поиск в КЖП Poisk v KZHP Поиск в Трепе Poisk v Trepe . ...

METAR Wishlist Following is a list of items that I'd like to add to METAR or that others have requested. ... It'd be nice to have a lot of METARs which encompass various weather condition which we can test against. ... Sites around the world use similar (but slightly different) formats for their METARs. There is always a METAR format the parser will fail on. Calculate Heat Index and/or Wind Chill Both would be fairly easy to do, provided you get the formulas correct. ...

... A rough estimation is that in the United States there is one planetarium per 100,000 population, ranging in size from the Hayden Planetarium's 20-meter dome seating 430 people, to three-meter inflatable portable domes where children sit on the floor. ... Together dblo associates make a huge impact in the architecture, interior design and development arena in London. ... With the holidays around the corner what better way to spoil your family than with your very own private home cinema. ...

Apr 13 2015 Pyxis - The Compass MAC 0847-2003 17mmT4 Galaxy EF,ES,OVAL,PATCH,*NUC,PAIR=PGC24685,R=P Feb 09 2013 36" MINK 3-6 17mmT4 Planetary Neb 2a MB,PS,OVAL-R,UB,NO C*,BRT BLUEISH BALL,OIII HELPS LITTLE,MORE BLUE,R=G Dec 28 2008 31" NGC 2613 H266-2 Galaxy SA(s)b CB,L,VME110 Oct 22 1982 12.5" 16mm VDIF,VF,MS,ELONG,F FIELD *'S AROUND OBJECT,NND,UB NGC 2627 H63-7 Open Cluster 11.0 II 2 r CL,CL,PRI,PC,*11.. ...

... Moon Phase below . ... ARTICLE: Why the moon always shows us the same face . ... Before you continue reading, you should know that this was not always the case, i.e. the Moon once was rotating with respect to the Earth, so that on every night a terrestrial observer (if there was one, because this was long, long before mankind appeared on our planet, and even before any major animals had appeared) saw another face of the Moon. ... Figure 1 (not to scale) shows how we can imagine the system Earth-Moon...

... No need to call the Enquirer ­ this was all part of the Remote Field Site Test, a series of tests conducted by JSC spacesuit and robotics engineers. ... Among the equipment tested were the MK III spacesuit and the EVA Robotic Assistant (ERA). The MK III is an advanced demonstration suit being used to develop elements for future suits. ... E. A test subject in the MK III suit traverses the desert near Flagstaff, Ariz., accompanied by the ERA robot. ...

... Project 183B. Final Report (in ukr). Project 183B. Publications (in ukr). Project 207. Final Report (in ukr). ... Dictionaries from Rambler.ru . Dictionaries from Meta.ua . Online Dictionary: a US site . The William Strunk, Jr. guide to Stylish English . ... Ukrainian and/or semi-ukrainian:) Papers . www.pravda.com.ua in Ukrainian and in English . ... BBC ukrainian . ... Trains to/from Kyiv . Map of Kyiv (mapia.ua) . ...

... METHOD . ... java.lang.Object ij.plugin.filter.BackgroundSubtracter . ... Implements ImageJ's Subtract Background command. ... With both, rolling ball and sliding paraboloid, the image used for calculating the background is slightly smoothened (3x3 average). ... boolean . ... This method is invoked by a Generic Dialog if any of the inputs have changed (CANCEL does not trigger it; OK and running the dialog from a macro only trigger the first DialogListener added to a GenericDialog). void . ... void ....