... Sighting the telescope, first at the tree and then at pole B, you measure the angle A of the triangle ABC, equal to the difference between the numbers you have read from the azimuth plate.. ... Why triangles? ... One large surveying project of the 1800s was the " Great Trigonometric Survey " of British India. ... Everest was the one who commisioned and first used those giant theodolites; they are now on display in the Museum of the Survey of India in Dehra Dum. ... Everest . ...

. In winter and early spring, this entire scene would be covered by frost. In summer, the cap shrinks to its minimum size, shown here. Polar frost (seen here as white) consists of carbon dioxide. Carbon dioxide freezes at temperatures around -125ТА C (-193ТА F). The polar cap from left to right is about 420 km (260 mi) across. JPL / NASA / Malin Space Science Systems

... This year's eclipse is unique in duration. ... Although, at the present time, there are 6 solar observatories belonging to leading space agencies in orbit around the Earth, the eclipse of 22 July, 2009, will only be seen by two of them: the Russian CORONAS-PHOTON satellite equipped with TESIS telescopes and Japan's HINODE satellite fitted with an XRT space telescope. ... TESIS will be the first of the two devices (and the very first on Earth) to witness the solar eclipse. ...

... Bad Astronomy . Misconceptions . ... Bad Astronomy : The Moon only shows one face to us because it is not rotating. Better astronomy : The Moon only shows one face because it is rotating, once every time it revolves around the Earth. ... Place the Moon model on the table about 30 centimeters (one foot) away with the X facing the Earth model. ... You'll see that to keep the X facing the Earth model, you have to rotate the Moon model as it goes around the Earth model . ... 2008 Phil Plait. ...

... Previous: A Posteriori Guidance for Astronomical Images . ... We present an original algorithm for the recognition of anomalous events in a CCD frame (i.e., cosmic hits, bad pixels etc.) The algorithm is able to distinguish between these events and real features by comparing the standard deviation and the kurtosis of a synthetic PSF, whose width is given by the user, and the corresponding values in a running window, whose size is chosen by the user, in the actual frame. ...

... Each year a few long-period comets, with orbital periods typically a million years, arrive in the planetary system. ... There should be about 5,000 such objects over 10km across, and perhaps 50,000 over a kilometre across. ... However Bill Napier, and Chandra and Janaki Wickramasinghe at Cardiff University, have shown that this explanation doesn't work: the dust so created would yield many strong annual meteor streams without parent comets, and these are not observed. ...

... Recognition of Anomalous Events S. Monai 1,2 and F.Pasian 2 1 Osservatorio Astronomico di Brera Merate, Italy 2 Osservatorio Astronomico di Trieste, Italy Abstract. We present an original algorithm for the recognition of anomalous events in a CCD frame (i.e., cosmic hits, bad pixels etc.) ... Raw images, as read from a CCD, are often a#ected by some events which are revealed by anomalous pixel values, i.e., single saturated pixels or pixels at zero intensity (also named hot or bad pixels). ...

home publications > mercury . SEARCH ASP SITE: Match ALL words Match ANY word . ... ASP Conference Series . ... Publications of the ASP (PASP) . ... Editorial: 2001 is just around the corner . ... Shuttling between "Animals That Kill for Fun" and "Astrology: Science of the Future," I came upon live coverage of construction of the International Space Station. ... The year 2001 is just around the corner, but we've a ways to go to reach the cinematic visions that make us want tomorrow here today. ...

In Actor Prolog a resident is a special mechanism that helps processes to inspect state of other processes. A resident observes the state of a specified (target) process and if the state of the process changes (for instance, after message handling) it proves a specified predicate of the process. ... Work of the resident. ... Any change of the list of target processes or arguments of resident function results in activation of the resident and repeated collection of information in the target worlds. ...

... Your main research interests concern neutral hydrogen. ... That means that there must be enormous quantities of gas lying around, waiting for the chance to collapse under its own weight into lumps and form stars and galaxies. If we could actually observe this gas, as it moves around and assembles itself into lumps, we would be directly observing the process of galaxy formation. ... Optical astronomers seem to think that they can observe galaxy formation by taking optical images. ... In galaxies. ...

... 1st Announcement IAU Symposium 312 Star Clusters and Black Holes Across Cosmic Time, Beijing, China, Aug. 25-29, 2014 . ... SUBJECT: 1st Announcement IAU Symposium 312 Star Clusters and Black Holes Across Cosmic Time, Beijing, China, Aug. 25-29, 2014 . ... which will be held in Beijing, P.R. China, from August 25-29, 2014, hosted by Chinese Academy of Sciences . ... China), . ... 1st Announcement IAU Symposium 312 Star Clusters and Black Holes Across Cosmic Time, Beijing, China, Aug. ...

grdcut - Extract a subregion out of a . grd file grdcut input _ file . grd -G output _ file . grd -R west / east / south / north [ r ] [ -V ] grdcut will produce a new output _ file . grd file which is a subregion of input _ file . ... The subregion is specified with -R west / east / south / north as in other programs; the specified range must not exceed the range of input _ file . ... grd this is the input . grd format file. G output _ file . grd this is the output . ...

When entering Plates section user should open the file with information on moments of observations, plate centers, angular dimensions of sky regions covered by plates and numbers of observatories (the file can be created for the first time or can be prepared according to bellow described format in advance). ... It is supposed that the position of plate center and half-dimensions of plate are specified in right ascension and declination (the edge of rectangular plate is oriented to the equator). ...

... Several HTML elements, most notably the A element , may contain an attribute which takes a URL as value. URLs, Uniform Resource Locators, are addresses of Web documents. More generally, URLs can be used on the Web to refer to "objects" on the Web or in other information systems. ... http . a Web document (to be accessed using Hypertext Transfer Protocol, HTTP ) . ... file . ... In particular, the specifications say that within a URL only a limited set of characters can be used as such : . ...

When Apache starts, it connects to some port and address on the local machine and waits for incoming requests. By default, it listens to all addresses on the machine, and to the port as specified by the Port directive in the server configuration. ... There are two directives used to restrict or specify which addresses and ports Apache listens to. ... Listen can be used to make a single Apache server listen to more than one address and/or port. ... Syntax: Listen [ port | IP-address:port ] . ...

... Space flight . Crew training . ... honing the skills of performing the tasks of operating the orbital (suborbital) spaceship in a normal autonomous flight and in case of occurrence of off-optimum situations; . ... preparing for conducting visual observations, photographing and video filming envisaged by the flight program; . ... preparing the astronaut's body to the effect of space flight factors, honing the skills of operating the spaceborne medical facilities, rendering self and mutual aid; . ...

. Figure 3. Dark dimmings and bright post-eruption arcades in solar sources of the severest FDs over the solar cycle 23 in SOHO/EIT 195 е fixed-base difference images. The FD magnitude of the strongest disturbances and the dates and time of their registration are specified in the upper right corner of each panel. The dates and time of EIT images subjected to the subtraction are specified at the bottom of each panel.

... FOR THE MIR SERVICE LIFE CHARACTERISTICS . ... The station operated nearly 3 times as long (its service life reached more than 15 years). ... Below are given the actual operating periods of the Modules as part of the Orbital Complex (as of December 31, 2000). ... Most of the onboard systems have significantly exceeded service life characteristics specified in the log books for assemblies, instruments, units and systems as a whole. ... Official WEB-site of S.P.Korolev RSC Energia . ...

... The most important tool you have to see the universe is not the large light buckets that are proliferating, but rather your eyes. ... Light enters the eye through the cornea, passes across the aqueous humor (the liquid behind the cornea), passes through the pupil and through the lens. ... After passing the lens, the light then crosses the "vitreous Humor" a jelly-like substance that fills the inner eye, and reaches the retina, the light sensitive tissue at the back of the eye. ...

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