... Pointers to Pointers . ... Pointers to a Function . ... We have introduced some advanced pointer issues already. This chapter brings together some topics we have briefly mentioned and others to complete our study C pointers. ... main(int argc, char **argv) . ... These are the only arguments main accepts. argc is the number of arguments typed -- including the program name. argv is an array of strings holding each command line argument -- including the program name in the first array element. ...

Turning the Camera Skyward . A reconfigured camera can take wide-field exposures of astronomical objects (constellations, the Milky Way, zodiacal light, moving artificial satellites, meteor showers, variable stars, etc.) to reveal much fainter objects and structures than seen by naked eye. ... This picture reveals objects more than 2.5 times fainter than can be seen by the naked eye, including not only stars but also the Orion nebula (M42), where new stars are being born. ...

2001 Leonids: Meteors in Perspective . ... Credit Copyright: Christophe Marlot Explanation: The 2001 Leonid storm was so intense that the meteor shower's radiant, the point on the sky from which the fleeting trails seemed to diverge , was easy to spot. ... During the 2001 Leonid storm , while the radiant was above the horizon from SoBaekSan Observatory in South Korea, astronomer Christophe Marlot made this single time exposure recording star trail arcs and a number of meteors. ...

RTT150 . ... This search system is designed for generating the necessary information on series of pointings (observations of each source consist of sets of exposures with different filters and sometimes with different exposure times) for observed sources. Search results appear at the separate page as a table with the following data: . DATE - real (not evening!) observations date (in YYYY-MM-DD format); . ... Bin - minimal CCD binning mode (may vary during the observations); . ...

Official IAUC guidelines in case of discovery. ... 6 UT the Central Bureau received two reports---purportedly independent---of the CCD discovery of an alleged supernova in NGC 772. ... Each observer noted that the alleged supernova was not present on images from earlier nights and that it did not move over the course of an hour or two; furthermore, the first observer remarked that two different checks for known minor planets in the vicinity did not reveal a match. ...

... Predicted "landing point" coordinates . ... The prediction based on the state vector of epoch 06/09/2000 give the results as follows: . ... 14.25 deg. ... W - geographical coordinates of the "landing point" . The estimated accuracy of this prediction looks as follows: the RMS error of the time is 2 min, the RMS errors of the latitude and longitude are .5 deg. and 1. deg. ... The more precise prediction will be done later. Modified 19 September, 2000 . ... IKI RAN | ... INTERBALL mission ...

... Exposure Time Calculator (ETC) . Survey processing . ... VISTA is a 4-m class wide field survey telescope for the southern hemisphere, equipped with a near infrared camera (1.65 degree diameter field of view at VISTA's nominal pixel size) containing 67 million pixels of mean size 0.34 arcsec and available broad band filters at Z,Y,J,H,K s and a narrow band filter at 1.18 micron. A wide field visible camera, if constructed, could also be used on VISTA. ... Tile . ... ESO VISTA Public Surveys . ...

... part 2 | ... Part 1 . The new concept of formation and development of the Solar system. ... Thus, the initial pulse of the rotation of a protosolar cloud of the solar system was determined as a result of the diversion of a part of the moment of the rotational pulse of the Galaxy. ... Besides this new approach to the pre-solar system as a system of the destroyed vortex structure, we can understand now a number of other peculiarities of the Solar system's structure. ...

... Telescopes . ... The LX850 combines innovative concepts like StarlockтДв fulltime automatic guiding and high-precision pointing, f/8 ACF OTAs with internal Crayford-style two-speed focuser and a portable precision German equatorial mount. ... Superb optical performance coupled with time proven computerized pointing and tracking has made the LX200 ACF series a best-seller in the high-performance telescope class. ... Meade Green Laser Pointer- a great item for star parties and backyard astronomy. ...

OptInt PmWiki : Pm Wiki / Page List Templates . ... template first:) . ... template last ...:) sections to specify output for the first or last page in the list or a group. ... template]] (:template defaults order=name:) (:template first:) Pages ordered by group (:template first {=$Group}:) Pages in group [[{=$Group}/]] (:template each:) * [[{=$FullName}]] (:template last {=$Group}:) {=$Group} contains {$$GroupPageCount} pages. (:template last:) {$$PageCount} pages total. [[#templateend]] . ...

This document explains how Apache uses the URL of a request to determine the filesystem location from which to serve a file. ... User Directories . URL Redirection . ... the URL http://www.example.com/docs/dir/file.html will be served from /var/web/dir/file.html . ... The module mod_userdir extends this idea to the web by allowing files under each user's home directory to be accessed using URLs such as the following. http://www.example.com/~user/file.html . ...

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... This space is called the torus.) ... Prove that the following spaces are homeomorphic: (a) the set of lines in Rn+1 passing through the origin; (b) the sphere S n with identi ed diametrically opposite points (every pair of diametrically opposite points is identi ed); (c) the disc Dn with diametrically opposite points of the boundary sphere S n-1 = @ Dn identi ed. III.4. ... Prove that S n+m-1 \ S n-1 Rn Ч S m-1 where S n-1 S n+m-1 is standard: S n+m-1 = {(x1 ; : : : ; xn+m ) | ...

... Spherical aberration, coma, and astigmatism are also easily observed using the star test. ... Off-axis images are complex. ... Fig. ... Diffraction by a circular aperture as a function of defocus for no aberration Airy Disk 1 wave defocus Less than 1 wave defocus Fig. ... Diffraction by a circular aperture as a function of defocus for third-order spherical aberration Paraxial Focus Small distance inside paraxial focus Moderate distance from marginal focus Immediate neighborhood of marginal focus Fig...

... Michael E. Lopez-Alegria (Captain, USN, RET.) ... After his second mission, he led the International Space Station (ISS) Operations branch of the Astronaut Office. ... In October 2014 Lopez-Alegria became an independent consultant; he is based in Washington, D.C. SPACE FLIGHT EXPERIENCE: Mission Specialist (MS)-2, STS-73 Columbia (October 20 to November 5, 1995). ... The primary mission objective was delivery of the Expedition 6 crew to the ISS and the return of the Expedition 5 crew to Earth. ...

... Pre-university education . ... Samara region . SSAU History . SSAU roadmap . ... Samara State Aerospace University improved its position in the third annual ranking of higher education institutions in Russia. ... Besides Samara State Aerospace University entered the top twenty of the national higher education institutions, as their graduates are in demand by employers. ... Samara State Medical University also rose from the 57th to the 49th place in the ranking of higher education institutions. ...

The IAO-type events have to stimulte the science-educating style of the Olympiads. To follow the main science-educating principles of the IAO-type events and Schools for Young Astrophysicists , particularly: . ... The minimum duration of the IAO-type event is defined as 5 days (4 nights). ... foreign language teams for an international IAO-type event - 1 / 2. ... The full text of the current Supplementary Instructions N 4 IAO-type events and Schools for Young Astrophysicists to be presented later. ...

... With the Moon's terminator moving almost 10 mph (16 km/h) across its equator, how long would it take for an observer using binoculars to notice a change in lunar features? ... The lunar terminator, the sunset/sunrise line that sweeps across the Moon s surface as the Moon orbits Earth, travels at a rate of 9.6 mph (15.4 km/h) along our satellite s equator. ... Get instant access to subscriber content on Astronomy.com! ... If you are already registered on Astronomy.com, please log in below. ...

... Ballistics, navigation and flight control of the spacecraft, going to the L2 point of Sun-Earth system. ... and calculation algorithms have been developed: - an algorithm, building nominal trajectories for one impulse flights to the L2 point of Sun- Earth system, including a Moon swingby maneuver or not. - an algorithm, calculating corrections of spacecraft trajectory needed for the flight from Earth to halo orbit and for stationkeeping of the spacecraft moving in halo ...

Radio Interferometry Principles . Radio Interferometry Signal Processing . ... A radio interferometer consists of a pair of directional antennas that are tuned to receive radio emissions from a source in a desired RF band. ... The antennas are pointed at the radio source of interest and are set up to receive the signal and process it into a form suitable for transmission to the correlator. ... In connected element interferometry, the digital signal goes directly to the correlator. ...