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Next: CCD Scientific Performance Up: CCD Operation Previous: CCD Operation . A visible light photon releases only one electron-hole pair, and consequently many photons must be collected in each pixel for a measurable signal to be produced. ... This use as an imaging X-ray spectrometer requires that no more than one photon is incident on each pixel in any image frame, which imposes a requirement that image collection times be limited to ~seconds for typical astronomical applications. ...

Astronomy Picture of the Day . APOD Turns 17 . ... 16.06.2012 . ... Credit Copyright: Judy Schmidt Explanation: The first APOD appeared seventeen years ago today, on 1995 June 16. ... We again thank our readers and NASA for their continued support, as well as the folks who created the great pictures -- many times with considerable effort -- that APOD has been fortunate enough to feature over the years. ... APOD Retrospectives: Anniversary day today and every day . ... APOD is 15 Years Old Today . ...

... Pour des orbites circulaires autour de la terre, nous venons de trouver . ... La distance d'un satellite au centre de la terre en m?tres est un nombre incommod?ment grand, m?me avant d'?tre port? ? ... Nous pouvons par contre multiplier l'expression de droite par (R E 3 / R E 3 ) = 1 et r?arranger alors les termes : . ... SQRT (25 638 838) = 5063.5 . ... C'est la forme pratique de la 3?me loi de Kepler pour les satellites de la terre. ... Prochaine ?tape: #22 Les cadres des r?f?rences : Les Bases . ...

The technical memorandum: Time and Time Interval Measurement with Application to Computer and Network Performance Evaluation (PostScript) describes a number of techniques for conducting experiments typical of computer network and transmission systems engineering. ... The usual data collected during a performance run of some experiment might include time offsets, time delays, frequency offsets and various error statistics. ...

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... Bad Astronomy . ... Bitesize Astronomy . ... Last week's Snack talked about how black holes can affect the environment around them in such a way as to be very bright . ... It's a common misconception that black holes always have matter swirling into them. ... As this matter gets closer and closer to the black hole it piles up and a large, fairly flat disk forms. This is called the accretion disk , because matter from this disk accretes (that is, falls in) on the black hole. ... 2008 Phil Plait. ...

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... The NATO "Science for Peace" Program , Project number SfP 973559 . ... Receiver devices based on superconducting Josephson junction dynamics provide easy and extremely sensitive way for measurements of contents of these molecules. ... Fast development of SQUIDs resulted in fabrication of number of devices for supersensitive physical experiments and production of sophisticated multichannel measurement systems used in medicine for magnetocardiography and neural investigations. ...

... The general­purpose data reduction package FIGARO is now available to be run from the IRAF CL, and more Starlink applications will follow in due course. ... A system has been developed to enable packages written for the Starlink Software Environment to be run from the IRAF CL so that an IRAF user can mix and match application tasks from the two environments as required to process data, all under the control of the IRAF CL. ... Mixing IRAF and Starlink Applications -- FIGARO under IRAF 179 3. ...

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... Институт прикладной математики им. М.В.Келдыша . БАЛЛИСТИЧЕСКИЙ ЦЕНТР . О Центре . ... Баллистический Центр Института прикладной математики им. М.В.Келдыша РАН . Баллистический центр (БЦ) ИПМ им. М.В. Келдыша создан по предложению С.П. Королева и М.В. Келдыша в 1965 году. На него были возложены работы по баллистико-навигационному обеспечению (БНО) управления полетом пилотируемых кораблей и автоматических космических аппаратов научного и народно-хозяйственного назначения. ...

... Basic time functions . ... Example 2: Set a random number seed . ... Uses of time functions include: . ... time_t time(time_t *tloc) -- returns the time since 00:00:00 GMT, Jan. 1, 1970 , measured in seconds. ... timer.c */ #include <stdio.h> #include <sys/types.h> #include <time.h> main() { int i; time_t t1,t2; (void) time(&t1); for (i=1;i<=300;++i) printf(``%d %d %d n'',i, i*i, i*i*i); (void) time(&t2); printf(`` n Time to do 300 squares and cubes= %d seconds n'', (int) t2-t1); } . ...