Next: File Manipulation Routines Up: File and Directory Manipulation Previous: File and Directory Manipulation . This basically involves calling appropriate functions. int chdir(char path) - changes directory to specified path string. ... NOTE: rindex() is a string handling function that returns a pointer to the last occurrence of character c in string s , or a NULL pointer if c does not occur in the string. ( index() is similar function but assigns a pointer to 1st occurrence.) ...

... To help answer this, scientists instructed the robot spacecraft Galileo to take hourly pictures of this moon of Jupiter prior to its most recent encounter. The most obvious changes in Io are due to the changing amount of sunlight reflected from the moon to the spacecraft. X-Ray Earth . ... Dark Bok Globules in IC 2944 . ... The dark spots in the above picture are not photographic defects but an unusual type of interstellar cloud known as a Bok globule. ... CG4: A Ruptured Cometary Globule . ...

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... Auroral Currents . ... 25c. Space tether . ... Aurora from Space . ... But the best view is still from space. ... The Canadian scientific satellite Isis-2 (1971) carried an auroral imaging camera and discovered the diffuse aurora, a broad ribbon around the auroral oval, too spread-out to be noticed from the ground. ... Currently, NASA's Polar (1996) collects images of the polar aurora using three cameras--in visible light (sometimes as frequently as 12 seconds apart), in ultra-violet and in x-rays. ...

... Bad Astronomy . ... I think I will break from my usual format of Bad Astronomy/ Good Astronomy by saying that the way we define seasons currently is not strictly bad, but I feel (in my opinion!) that it could be better. The definition of when the seasons begin is at the moment of solstice or equinox; that is, winter (in the north) starts on December 22 nd and summer starts on June 22 nd . ... Now imagine breaking up the Sun's 46 degree up-and-down yearly swing into 1 day intervals. ...

As it proposed by the Statutes/Regulations of the International Astronomy Olympiad, the first part of preparing application to participate in the coming IAO is presenting of a short report of National Astronomy Olympiad of the current year for the Advisory Committee. ... Date of receiving report from the country . ... July 18 - August 7 . ... August 31 . ... Date of receiving draft report (or not full report) . ... Date of receiving official application . ... Done after receiving ANRAO application) . ...

... selected="selected"' : ''; $menu .= '<option value="' . ... SERVER['REQUEST_URI'],$trans)); return $urls[0]; } /* get the internal configuration */ global $ cfg ; /* check if we been asked to render a feed */ $ feed = get_get(' feed ',NULL); /* check if we been asked to render a PDF */ $pdf = get_get('pdf',NULL); $ templates = array(); $output = ''; $ file = get_post('db',NULL); if (!$ file ) $ file = get_get('db',Property::get($ cfg ['config'],'default')); /* if the request does not ask for a...

Next: Future plans Up: Electronic database Previous: Electronic database . The JPDOC gives access to references to the papers, data files and links to the internet resources related to measurements and calculations of the optical constants in the wavelength interval from X-rays to the radio domain. ... The database also provides links to internet collections of optical data files and personal WWW pages with relevant software and includes some other useful information. ...

fitshdr_edit - FITS-file headers interactive editor fitshdr_edit [options] FITSfile_name . fitshdr_edit utility allows to modify FITS headers' lines interactively (FITS MultiExtentionsFiles included). fitshdr_edit is just simple shell script around fitshdr utility. ... It means, that You can't remove line from header! ... 560:CRDELT2 = 21.0 / this is example 640: 720:HISTORY header No.0: 1st history line 123456789012345678901234567 880:COMMENT Sat Sep 25 21:17:34 CEST 2004 / by fitshdr_edit . ...

SPECTRUM - bug reports and modification history 1993 - 1997. C.S.Jeffery --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Executive Summary Major changes: - U: Partition functions tidied up - HEI: improved wavelength sampling in HeI profiles (4026,4388,4471,4921) - VCS: new hydrogen data from VCS, incl. ... 17-AUG-1995 ATDATA altered read format 101 (line data) to free format (*) in order to accommodate variable length precision in the wavelength (and other) data. ...

... 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. ...

Apache Tutorial: Introduction to Server Side Includes . ... Basic SSI directives . ... SSI (Server Side Includes) are directives that are placed in HTML pages, and evaluated on the server while the pages are being served. ... You can tell Apache to parse any file with a particular file extension, such as .shtml , with the following directives: AddType text/html .shtml AddHandler server-parsed .shtml . ... XBitHack tells Apache to parse files for SSI directives if they have the execute bit set. ...

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MATSYM - symbolic matrix processor . ... To use the program you will need a MAT file (liked CIR file: "User manual for CIRSYM program") of your system. ... In first string of MAT file enter any text you want to be the title of your system. ... Starting from string 2 (if is not comments - "*") enter the system element name, incident row and column and, optionally, its value. ... To generate a solution, run MATSYM.exe and enter "system_file_name.CIR" or click on the "ENTER" (in "MAT" case). ...

To see the manner in which position of planets and their coordinates vary with time click on icons with arrows Right or Left in menu bar. ... The current moment of time and object coordinates are therewith displayed. ... Clicking on icons with symbols of sun or crescent leads to appearance of images of the Sun or the Moon in that point of the sky which correspond to their coordinates in current moment unless it lies within not displayed region; see below). ...

... To go back in time, archaeoastronomers and teachers can turn to personal computers and any of a number of software packages. ... Examples include the Long Man of Wilmington, England and the Owl Man of Peru (see figure 8 and figure 9 ). ... Deciphering the unique number system of the Maya is another archaeoastronomy topic that involves a minimum of math. ... Several collections of early writing of the Maya survive; numbers from them can be read and in some cases interpreted (see figure 12 ). ...

Next: Mission Element Points-of-Contact . Previous: Mission Operations Data Transfer . ... Each mission element should ensure that their contact information remains current and notify the RSOG of any changes. ... Non-RSOG mission elements will also use the "dit" list to notify the RSOG (and all other mission elements) of unexpected events that may impact operations elsewhere, e.g., if a tracking station discovers that the spacecraft is in an unexpected configuration. ...