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... Credit: ISS Expedition 22 Crew , Shuttle Endeavour STS-130 Crew , NASA Explanation: This space job was almost complete. Floating just below the International Space Station , astronaut Nicholas Patrick put some finishing touches on the newly installed cupola space windows last week. ... NASA Official: Jay Norris. ... Publications with keywords: international space station - ISS . Publications with words: international space station - ISS . ... Sunset from the International Space Station . ...

... Tonight's Sky . ... Supernova showered Earth with radioactive debris . ... Opportunityт??s devilish view from on high . ... Dave's Universe . ... Planck's High Frequency Instrument completes its survey of early universe . ... The High Frequency Instrument (HFI) on the European Space Agencyт??s (ESA) Planck mission has completed its survey of the remnant light from the Big Bang. ... Plank has been measuring these patterns by surveying the whole sky with its HFI and its Low Frequency Instrument (LFI)....

... A growing collection of images showing progress with the Telescopes and Telescope Domes restoration project is available on the Armagh Observatory web-site (see star.arm.ac.uk/history/Domes/ ). The project has been progressed satisfactorily and close to its original budget. ... The outer copper skin of the dome has been replaced with new pre-patinated copper sheeting. ... The Sinden Optical Company has made considerable progress with the restoration of the 1835 Grubb 15-inch reflector. ...

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XmCCD ----- This distribution includes source code to utilize the Santa Barbara Instrument Group (SBIG) shared library libsbigudrv.so with a Motif-based graphical user interface program to control SBIG astronomical CCD cameras. ... The latest SBIG library is available from http://www.sbig.com However, the version included here is known to work with this program. ... The sources for these programs are available from the XmCCD home at http://www.astro.louisville.edu/moore/software. ...

... Professor Yurii Naumovich Lipsky oversaw the preparation of the first ever maps of the far side of the Moon, of the whole Moon, and cartographic globes of the Moon. ... He was a professor, a doctor of physico-mathematical sciences, the founder of the Department of Lunar and Planetary Physics in GAISh and its first head. ... The first photographs of the far side of the Moon . ... He was the scientific supervisor of the study of the first photographs of the far side of the Moon. ...

Filename completion is only available if the the environment variables EDITOR and/or VISUAL are set to either emacs , gmacs or vi . For example: EDITOR=emacs . ... To complete a file or directory name with emacs or gmacs set press the ESC key twice. ls -l on<ESC><ESC> line_help . If the filename is not completed enter more characters until the filename can be uniquely identified. ... To complete a file or directory name with vi set press the \ (backward slash) key. ls -l on\ line_help . ...

... Research of an atmosphere of the Earth and other planets of Solar system by optical methods . ... The long-term experience of study of atmospheres of planets of Solar system in a department of physics of planets has defined directions and methods of researches spent for laboratory . ... The tasks of laboratory are researches by optical methods of structure of a Terrestrial atmosphere, namely study of spectra of absorption of its compound radiation of natural and artificial sources. ...

DIGITAL WDC EXCHANGE FORMAT . FOR OBSERVATORY 1.0 MINUTE VALUES 1. ... DATA-1 .. DATA-60 are 1-minute values of the given element for that hour. ... Typically, digital 1-minute values received by WDCs from organizations operating automatic magnetic observatory instruments are averages of more frequendy sampled values, e.g. 10-second point samples. ... If the method used to obtain 1-minute average values is important to a user, the WDC will assist in determining the exact procedure applied. ...

... Image Quality of the VLT . Total Optical Control . First light for the ESO VLT unit telescope 1 occurred during the workshop. ... The image shown (Figure 1 ) here was obtained with the VLT on May 16, 1998, in red light (R band), i.e. while the mirror was still uncoated. ... In this diagram (FIgure 2), the measured image quality of the VLT UT1 astronomical images is plotted versus the ``seeing", as measured by the Seeing Monitor, a small telescope also located on top of the Paranal Mountain. ...

... In the framework of a collaboration between ESO and OAT concerning the development of a data reduction pipeline and the related quality control subsystems software for UVES/VLT, a detailed feasibility study is being performed on the basis of data extracted from the EMMI/NTT archive. ... It is ESO policy to perform data reduction for VLT instruments in ``pipeline" mode, either at the observing premises or at headquarters. ... archive data were processed in pipeline mode; . ...

... LWN.net Weekly Edition for March 18, 2004 . ... LWN.net FAQ . ... This article is part of the LWN Porting Drivers to 2.6 series . Completions are a simple synchronization mechanism that is preferable to sleeping and waking up in some situations. ... When your driver begins some process whose completion must be waited for, it's simply a matter of passing your completion event to wait_for_completion() : . ... void complete(struct completion *comp); void complete_all(struct completion *comp); . ...

... 2010 February 24 . Astronaut Installs Panoramic Space Window . Credit: ISS Expedition 22 Crew , Shuttle Endeavour STS-130 Crew , NASA . Explanation: This space job was almost complete. Floating just below the International Space Station , astronaut Nicholas Patrick put some finishing touches on the newly installed cupola space windows last week. ... Pictured, Patrick floats near the outermost of seven windows on the new cupola of the just-installed Tranquility module . ... About APOD | ...

... Инновационная зубная щетка Splat "Complete" направленного действия для комплексного очищения зубов с мягкой щетиной: Утонченная щетина идеально очищает все труднодоступные места: межзубные промежутки, углубления жевательных поверхностей, придесневые участки, где наиболее часто образуется кариес. ... Текстильные коврики для автомобиля мягкие и приятные, а их основа из вспененного полиуретана не пропускает влагу.. ... Подкладка выполнена из мягкого, приятного на ощупь искусственного меха. ...

... GIANT Magellan Telescope . Dr. Dan Fabricant . ... The Giant Magellan Telescope (GMT) is a 25 meter diameter optical-infrared telescope that will be sited in Chile. ... Dr. Fabricant, a leader in the design of new instruments for optical astrophysics, led the development of the optical and instrument design for the Multiple Mirror Telescope (MMT) in Arizona. ... Copyright (c) Amateur Telescope Makers of Boston, Inc. ...

First light from the Superconducting Integrated Receiver on board Terahertz limb sounder TELIS P. Yagoubova, G. de Langea, R. Hoogeveena, A. de Langea and V. Kosheletsb a Netherlands Institute for Space Research, SRON, the Netherlands b Institute of Radio Engineering and Electronics, IREE, Russia Abstract-- We present the flight configuration and performance of the Superconducting Integrated Receiver (SIR) channel on the TELIS instrument (Terahertz and Submm Limb Sounder). ...

... Planets . ... Earth Satellites . ... The newly discovered ?mega-Earth? ... Its sibling, the lava world Kepler-10b, is in the background (the two planets? proximity is grossly exaggerated) .€а Kepler-10c has a diameter of about 29 000 km, 2.3 times as large as Earth, and weighs 17 times as much. ... The first mega-earth to be discovered is Kepler-10c which orbits a star lying about 560 light years from the Sun in the constellation Draco. ... Astronomers Find a New Type of Planet: The ?Mega-Earth? ...

... Hu ChangSong for his Chinese translation * Ciprian Manea for his Romanian translation * Neil Muller for his suggestions on making bbclone work with register_globals off * Carlos Oliva for his Spanish translation * Vilius Simonaitis for his Lithuanian translation * Chad Schmidt for his numerous corrections * Gregori Arjona for his Catalan translation * Engelbert Gruber for his suggestions on correcting fopenlock() * Josef Pinc for his Czech ...

... Checkout of EM of all devices installed in the Focal Container has been done as a preparation to deliver them to LA. ... Device Container (DC) equipped with the thermal models of scientific payload was assembled with the Thermo-Vacuum Model (TVM) of the Spacecraft Bus. ... Focal Module equipped with the thermal models of scientific payload is prepared for thermal tests of special cryogenic system which will be used for LNA cooling during Pushchino test. ... DM        - Device Module = DC + H-maser ....