... 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. ...
... Christmas is a home and family celebration, and therefore those who live away try to get back home. Everyone is buying Christmas presents for friends and relatives; parents try to present their children with everything they want. A Christmas tree stands in the everybody's living-room at Christmas. ... On Christmas Eve, when children are asleep, their parents come into their bedrooms and leave the presents near their beds or under the Christmas tree. ...
. You can use an existing command alias within another command alias. Define a first alias: alias print=lp . This creates the alias print for the lp command used to print files to your default printer. This alias can now be used within another alias. For example: alias tree='cd; ls -R | print' . The alias tree will list the complete directory tree below the users home directory on the default printer. Multiple commands within an alias can be separated by a semicolon; just as they are on the command line .
DIGITAL IMA EXCHANGE FORMAT FOR AM,AA INDICES TREE HOURLY VALUES _____________________________________________________________ LINES WORD FORMAT 1 1 I4 MONTH (1-12 1 2 I4 YEAR 1 3 I4 CODE (18=aa, 2=am) 1 4 I4 NUMBER OF DAYS IN MONTH 2-9 1-32 I4 248 tree Hourly Values for the month. Values are in nanoTeslas A missing value is identified by -1. _________________________________________________________________
VIEW OUT OF THE WINDOW , ALASKA, USA . ... Today as I look out I see the trees bending ever so slightly in a very mild wind, as though the Birch Trees are saying hello to the Evergreen trees. ... We have just enough snow too cover the grass, and in some places bare ground is visible. ... I see a little flock of snowbirds eating seeds that have falled on the ground. I am amazing at what I see, because 36 years that I have lived in Alaska, I have never seen such warm winter with so little snow. ...
... Each day a different image or photograph of our fascinating universe is featured, along with a brief explanation written by a professional astronomer. May 5, 1998 . Aurora at Midnight . Credit Copyright: J. Curtis ( U. Alaska Fairbanks ) . Explanation: What's happening behind those trees? Aurora . This picture was taken at midnight near Fairbanks , Alaska , and captures familiar trees, common clouds, and a glowing sky markedly different than a sunset . ... About APOD > . ...
. Geminid fireball over a Christmas tree . During the 2009 Geminid meteor shower, veteran astrophotographer Tony Rowell braved below freezing temperatures at elevations above 9,000 feet in the Eastern Sierra Nevada Mountains. To light this snow covered Christmas tree near Rock Creek Lake, he used his Celestron portable power pack with a 110 converter. His efforts were rewarded by this extremely bright fireball during a 20 second exposure. Tony Rowell
... NGC 2264 - Cone Nebula and Christmas Tree Cluster Region . This is an H II region in the constellation of Monoceros (Greek for Unicorn). The cone shape is a dark absorption nebula of cold molecular hydrogen and dust in front of an emission nebula. The peak of the Christmas Tree is the star (SAO 114264) above the Cone's tip. The base of the tree is the bright variable type O7 star 15 Monocerotis (or S Monocerotis). ... Copyright (c) Amateur Telescope Makers of Boston, Inc. ...
... Bad Astronomy . ... Bitesize Astronomy . ... Bad Astro Store . ... From my vantage point, slumped in the chair, I saw a green blur of unidentifiable trees, passing me at about 100 kilometers an hour. ... I saw the tree covered with leaves, and thought: if those leaves were stars, how many trees will we pass before I see as many leaves as there are stars in the Milky Way? ... So instead of 90 days to pass as many leaves as stars in the Milky Way, it may only take 9. ... 2008 Phil Plait. ...
... Space Flight . ... Earth Satellites . ... On Christmas day the crew of Apollo 8 had a surprise when they opened their food containers and found a meal of real turkey and stuffing and three miniature bottles of brandy alongside presents from their wives. ... This venture placed the third and final crew onto the Skylab space station . ... Spending Christmas in space continues today with astronauts and cosmonauts having this holiday period onboard the International Space Station (ISS). ...
The Moon orbits around the Earth. ... To keep the Moon moving in that circle--rather than wandering off--the Earth must exert a pull on the Moon, and Newton named that pulling force gravity . ... If it was the same force, then a connection would exist between the way objects fell and the motion of the Moon around Earth, that is, its distance and orbital period. ... Newton went further and proposed that gravity was a "universal" force, and that the Sun's gravity was what held planets in their orbits. ...
Domes Forum Message . Forums: . ... Under $100.00 . ... Well, they fixed that street light across the street. ... An expensive dome wouldn't help very much because when I open the top slit, you still have street lights in front of you. ... There's nothing I can do about the light spilling into the sky, but with the tarps open I never look directly into the street light, I get no glare on the eyepiece and I get real good night vision going. ... www.astronomy.net . About Astronomy Net | ...
This module illustrates many of the aspects of the Apache 1.2 API and, when used, demonstrates the manner in which module callbacks are triggered by the server. ... Source File: mod_example.c . ... The files in the src/modules/example directory under the Apache distribution directory tree are provided as an example to those that wish to write modules that use the Apache API. ... Example . ... Uncomment the "AddModule modules/example/mod_example" line near the bottom of the src/Configuration file. ...