... We summarize the discussions that took place during the FITS Birds of a Feather (BoF) session, which was held Monday, September 23, 1996 at 16:00. For completeness we also include a summary of the 1995 FITS BoF, which was never published. ... Oral papers by Clarke, Allen, Mink, Mandel, and Wells were presented in a special FITS afternoon session, and posters were presented by Pence, Farris, Tripicco, and Stobie; see the papers by these authors elsewhere in this volume. ... CFITSIO (Pence) . ...

... There are 6 sections in the SGML template: . ... Updates I've made to the LinuxDoc package If you're interested in testing your SGML source, you should grab a copy of the LinuxDoc package at (put ftp site here). ... The title tag is the name of the Plug-In. ... The Features Section is an itemized list of the features that the plug-in provides. ... If the sgml parser sees the fmttag tag and it matches the output format you've requested then the format-specific text is written to the output file. ...

... The State that has the highest rate of usage of ethanol as an alternative fuel . ... The last time the Oregon Ducks beat UCLA in basketball . The participants and score of the 1980 Rose Bowl . ... An Image of Issac Newton . ... The second highest paid player in the NBA last season . ... A map of the dams that comprise the British Columbia Hydropower System . ... The current freeway traffic flow in Seattle Washington . An image of a 1966 Shelby (Mustang) . ... Dr DarkMatter's Home Page . ...

Next: General Introduction Up: PROS USERS GUIDE Previous: PROS USERS GUIDE . ... Summary of Tasks in this Section . ... IRAF/PROS Files . ... DATA I/O . ... ROSAT data and PROS . ... QPOE Utilities . Summary of Tasks in this section . qpcopy* - Manipulation of PROS/IRAF data files . ... qpsort* -- Sort a QPOE file . ... qprotate* -- Rotate a QPOE image about the origin . ... qpappend* -- Append a list of input qpoes to produce a single qpoe file . ... Image Display . ... Spectral Analysis . ...

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... Of course, the scope of chaos is vast, and we do not dare to cover it all. ... He will highly appreciate your help in compiling the list of URLs to such scientific groups and institutions. http://www.cplire.ru/win/InformChaosLab/ - InformChaos Lab (Moscow) . http://chaos.ssu.runnet.ru/ - Laboratory of Nonlinear Dynamics at Saratov State University (Saratov) . ... http://optics.npi.msu.su/sci/chaos.html - Chaos in laser systems . ... http://www.chaotic.com - Randle, Inc. ... Time: 2-6 July, 2001 . ...

Next: J.E. Chambers, Research Astronomer Up: Research Previous: Research Contents . ... Solar Variability and Climate . Other Activities . ... Applied to data of flares on Gliese866 he was able to estimate the area of hydrogen emitting flare regions as 1-13% of the stellar surface. ... As partners in the project, Armagh Observatory has been asked to contribute to the selection process in exchange for priority access to the data which will eventually flow from the satellite. ...

... This document and the attached postscript figure document an analysis that I did to determine the optimum midpoint and required ranges for both the rotator and azimuth for the 2.5 M telescope. ... I simulate a series of drift scans on the sky for tracks that cover the northern survey area. These tracks cover the range in survey latitude of -60 to +60 degrees, spaced by 10 degrees. ... Along each track the azimuth, elevation, and position angle of the CCD is computed at 1 minute intervals. ...

... The Cross-Quarter Days thus mark the middle of each season under our current system, or seasonal boundaries under the alternative system. ... Beltane / Bealtaine - Celtic bonfire festival May 4-7 2nd Cross-Quarter Day May 5 - Cinco de Mayo (Mexico) May 2nd Sunday - Mother's Day May last Monday - Memorial Day ( Decoration Day , officially May 30) June 14 - Flag Day June 3rd Sunday - Father's Day June 20-22 2nd Quarter Day - Summer Solstice June 21 - Litha (Norse/Anglo-Saxon for ...

... Title page . ... What's new . ... New page for global change started. ... New page for heliosphere (incl. heliopause and helio-sheath) started. ... New pages about ring current and coronal mass ejections created. ... I created a new Content page, as both the alphabetic page listing and (especially) the "index" listing were getting seriously out of my hands. ... Page for sunspots was created. ... New page for geomagnetic activity written, and another one for 1.3 year periodicity of the sun started. ...

Next: Presentation of the results Up: World Wide Web version Previous: WWW access . On the main page, a very short description of the program may be found. ... The first link brings the user to a very friendly interface of the main code, where all parameters can be set and the calculations can be started. The second lonk provides a list of papers containing the results of the Scenario Machine calculations beginning from 1983 untill 1996 and a short description of the code. ...

... Faculties . Pre-university education . ... SSAU History . ... Today young scientists of SSAU and Institute of aircraft engines (ILA) of the University of Stuttgart are discussing the following issues: gas microturbines for unmanned aircraft systems and drone aircrafts, alternative types of aviation fuel and creating a virtual model of gas generator. The first Summer School on engine building takes place in Samara. ... Tags: summer school on engine building institute of aircraft engines ila . ...

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... Bad Astronomy . Misconceptions . ... Keep Bad Astronomy close to your heart, and help make me filthy rich. ... What Color is Mars? ... The Glass Worm . ... Bizarre Image Analysis . ... Whatcha Dune? ... For example, does Mars host a species of giant glass worms, 50 meters across and kilometers long? ... This is how you get the simplistic (and scientifically absurd) "sand dunes" argument when geologists are confronted by true anomalies like the "Glass Tunnels of Mars" . ... 2008 Phil Plait. ...

... Third IAA Symposium on SEARCHING FOR LIFE SIGNATURES Photo credit: http://ivs.nict.go.jp/mirror/public ations/gm2004/finkel/ Call for Papers St. Petersburg, Russia, June 27-30, 2011 http://iaaweb.org/content/view/295/434/ The Inter national Academy of Astronautics cr eated a SETI committee in the seventies now established in Per manent Study Group. ... Tentative Program Monday, June 27: Morning: PASSIVE SETI - Current and Near-Future Searches. ... Afternoon: ACTIVE SETI - Societal Issues. ... June. ...

... Participants . ... The workshop will take place at two locations: the Independent University of Moscow (3 days) and the Steklov Mathematical Institute (2 days). ... The registration fee is 150 USD for foreign participants (paid upon arrival by those who can cover it from their grants or institutions) and 3000 roubles for participants from the FSU (also paid for those who can cover it from their grants). This covers also the welcome party and the conference dinner. ...

Blackholes Forum Message . ... Black Holes And The Relation Of Matter And Anti Matter . ... Black holes... there's many different theories about this. some think that they just might be a superdense section of space... or that its the dark side of a wormhole... the list goes on.. ... www.astronomy.net . About Astronomy Net | Advertise on Astronomy Net | ... Forum posts are Copyright their authors as specified in the heading above the post. "dbHTML," "AstroGuide," "ASTRONOMY.NET" & "VA.NET" . ...

... program; Dell PCs: "Plug and Play Configuration Error", clarity on telling BIOS if your OS is PnP, "Intro to PnP" had truncated sentence, routing IRQs on PCI clarified, Change of emphasis in entire doc: Linux is now a PnP OS (sort of), PCI has almost replaced ISA v1.04 March 2002 finding a device driver, PCI serial ports, v1.04 March 2002 finding a device driver, PCI serial ports, alias example in modules.conf, PnP needed for linmodems v1.03 August 2001: error messages, boot-prompt parameters . ...

... Comments, Opinions Publications Dnepr Program . Dnepr launch record 17 August 2011. Cluster Launch of Dnepr LV 22 August 2013 KOMPSAT-5 Launch 21 November 2013. Dnepr Cluster Mission 2013 19 June 2014. ... ISC Kosmotras announces signing of a launch contract with T B?TAK Space Technologies Research Institute (T B?TAK UZAY) for injection of RASAT spacecraft - the first Earth observation satellite designed and manufactured in Turkey by Dnepr LV in 2010. ... Dnepr LV Performance . ...

Next: RadioAstron Mission Element Overview . ... The aim of this document is to describe the interfaces among the various elements of the RadioAstron Mission. For each item exchanged by mission elements, this handbook details: . ... the how (the format and naming convention), . ... File formats, naming, and structure of FTP sites for operation elements used in VSOP are conserved, but new features, related to satellite control and orbit determination are introduced into the document. ...