... DEPENDENCIES # ------------ # sys is the most-used module which contains a set of system-level components. # os provides functions like os.path.join() and os.environ[var] for interacting ... a specified pattern according to the shell rules. # re provides regular expression tools re.sub() and re.search() for advanced string processing. # the Sybase module provides Describe the main role of the function ...> <par1>: <explain what is par1> (<type>). <par2>: <explain what is par2> (<type>). ...

Astronotes Armagh Planetarium's Stellar Blog! ... Armagh Planetarium . ... Space Flight . ... Monthly Sky Notes . ... April . ... By admin March 16, 2015 Posted in: Armagh Planetarium . ... Stargazing the Night Sky is a short and very informal course is for complete beginners who want to know more about the wonders of the cosmos. ... If you want to experience the amazing objects we can all see at night, this is the course for you. ... Copyright Armagh Planetarium 2014 All Rights Reserved. ...

Blog . ... Bad Astronomy . ... Bitesize Astronomy . Book Store . Bad Astro Store . ... Site Info . ... I just came back from "Superman Returns", the long-awaited sequel, kinda, of the Superman movie series of the 1980s. The movie was OK; I would say it was fun and all but hardly the equal of the original with Christopher Reeve. ... So let's find the nearest phone booth so we can go up, up, and review! ... My review of "Superman Returns" . ... Check out my book "Bad Astronomy" . ...

... It was done. ... Agenda of the RadioAstron teleconference August 25, 2010 Corrections to the Agenda 1 2 3 N. Kardashev N. Kardashev N. Babakin Project status Present status of tests of science payload in LA Brief review of Pushchino TS verifications with Venus Express: current status and outlook Current status and activities related to TS in South Africa and in New Zealand Action items L.Gurvits S.Likhachev S.Gulyaev M.Popov 4 5 Chairman: N.Kardashev List of ...

... The Chandra Data Archive team at the Chandra X-ray Center has developed middle tier services that are used by both our search and retrieval applications to uniformly access our data repository. ... Programs can call the services to retrieve observation data such as a single FITS file, a proposal abstract or a detailed report of observation parameters. ... Given an observation ID, filetype and data-processing level, this service returns the content of a single file from the Data Archive. ...

... Tonight's Sky . ... SUN MOON MERCURY VENUS MARS, JUPITER SATURN . ... Mars . ... The Magazine . ... Observing . ... Gravitational wave search provides insights into galaxy evolution and mergers . ... The double star 54 Leonis, spiral galaxy NGC 3198, and emission nebula NGC 3199 . ... Astronomy for Kids . ... Mars returns to glory . ... Get instant access to subscriber content on Astronomy.com! ... Receive news, sky-event information, observing tips, and more from Astronomy's weekly email newsletter...

PRESS-RELEASE . ... The Descent Module (DM) of the Soyuz TMA-10 spacecraft has returned to Earth the commander and flight engineer of the 15th expedition of the International Space Station (ISS), as well as the space flight participant Malaysia?s national Sheikh Muszaphar Shukor who in the period from October 12 to October 21 2007 worked under the 13th visiting expedition program (VE-13). ... The Flight Director is RSC Energia First Deputy General Designer V.A. Soloviev. ...

SAI VO . ... Web Services . Catalog Access Services . ... SAI Web Services . ... This service aims to automatically match stars in FITS image provided with catalogue and add the correct WCS keywords to its FITS header. ... Service Web Interface . ... The service is available here To use it, you has to provide the image as a Base64-encoded string, along with the rough information on image field of view size and center (the latter may be deduced from FITS header keywords like 'RA' and 'DEC'). ...

Crews of the Space Station "Mir" . ... First main crew on the Station Mir. ... Soyuz TM-2" . ... Second main crew on the Station Mir. ... Third main crew on the Station Mir. ... Fifth main crew on the Station Mir. ... Sixth main crew on the Station Mir. ... Tenth main crew on the Station Mir (175 days). ... Twelfth main crew on the Station Mir. ... Thirteenth main crew on the Station Mir (179 days). ... Copyrigth © The People's Charity Foundation for the Preservation of the Space Station "Mir", 1999 . ...

... In the median ; function of IDL, the higher of the two values is returned. ... Felix Stoehr, [ST-ECF] xxx = xx(sort(xx)) n = n_elements(xxx) if ((n mod 2) eq 0) then begin return , 0.5 * (max([0,xxx(n/2-1)])+xxx(n/2)) endif else begin return , xxx((n-1)/2) endelse end ;----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ; ;***************************************************************************************** function DER_SNR , ...

NAME htpasswd - Create and update user authentication files SYNOPSIS htpasswd [ - c ] [ - m | ... p ] passwdfile username password htpasswd - n [ - m | ... p ] username password DESCRIPTION htpasswd is used to create and update the flat-files used to store usernames and password for basic authentication of HTTP users. ... Resources available from the httpd Apache web server can be restricted to just the users listed in the files created by htpasswd. ... The user is prompted for the password. ...

... NASA Astronaut . ... NASA EXPERIENCE: Selected by NASA in April 1996, Dr. Pettit reported to the Johnson Space Center in August 1996. ... He lived aboard the International Space Station for 5-1/2 months during Expedition 6, was a member of the STS-126 crew, and again lived aboard the station for 6-1/2 months as part of the Expedition 30/31 crew. ... Expedition 30/31 (December 21, 2011 to July 1, 2012) launched to the International Space Station aboard the Soyuz TMA-03M craft from Kazakhstan. ...

grdvolume - Calculating volume under a surface within a contour grdvolume grdfile [ -C cval or -C low / high / delta ] [ -L base ] [ -R west / east / south / north [ r ] ] [ -S [ k ] ] [ -T ] [ -V [ l ] ] [ -Z fact [/ delta ] ] grdvolume reads a 2-D binary grd file and calculates the volume contained between the surface and the plane specified by the given contour (or zero if not given). ... Alternatively, search using all contours from low to high in steps of delta . ... Default is no scaling]. ...

The Equatorial Inertial (GEI) coordinate system: . The X GEI axis is directed to the point of the spring equinox, . The Z GEI axis is coincide with the Earth's rotation axis, . The Y GEI supplements the right three. The Geographic (GEO) coordinate system: . ... The Solar Magnetic (SM) coordinate system: . ... About space physics coordinate transformation see Russel [1971] and Hapgood [1992] . ... M.A. Hapgood , Space physics coordinate transformations: A user guide // Planet Space Sci. ...

... This applet generates an observing list based on an observer's location and time. ... To use this program, enter in your location, and the local times at which you wish to begin and end observing. The date you enter should correspond to the calendar day at the time at which you begin observing. For example, if you wish to observe from 9:37 PM October 23, 2007 until 3:21 AM October 24, 2007, you would enter 21:37 for the starting time, 03:21 for the finish time, and 10/23/2007 for the date. ...

... Get Object Information Returns: <string># Returns a string containing the current target object's name and object type. ... Returns: Nothing. ... LX200GPS AutoStar ґ Performs no function Select deep sky Library where D specifices 0 - Objects CNGC / NGC in Autostar LX200GPS 1 - Objects IC 2 ґ UGC 3 ґ Caldwell (Autostar LX200GPS ) 4 ґ Arp (LX200 GPS) 5 ґ Abell (LX200 GPS) Returns : 1 Catalog available 0 Catalog Not found LX200GPS AutoStar ґ Performs no function always ...

Since the days of Sputnik and Explorer 1, thousands of spacecraft have gone into space, some of them carrying human passengers. The first person to orbit the Earth was the Russian Yuri Gagarin, on April 12, 1961. The first American to do so was John Glenn, who completed three orbits on February 20, 1962; more than 26 years later, at age 77, Glenn returned to space aboard the space shuttle. ... in orbit. ... Manned satellites include various " space stations " intended for long-term residence. ...

... Yerga Expedition . ... Novaya Yerga Expedition . ... I n 1662 a meteorite shower fell near the village of Novaya Yerga. ... In 2002, the Meteoritics Laboratory of the Vernadsky Institute of Geochemistry And Analytical Chemistry of the Russian Academy of Sciences (GEOKHI) organized an expedition to search for the location and any traces of the Novaya Yerga meteorite shower. ... After visiting the town of Kirillov, the expedition returned to Novaya Yerga, i.e. to near the village of Nekrasovo. ...

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... 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...