January 1998 One of the great unsolved problems in software development is the task of estmating time required for a software project. ... Rather than focusing on causes, or theoretical approaches, I herein offer a practical guide to improving time estimates for the worst-case scenario, the dreaded Five Minute Task . ... deal with the compile-time errors you failed to anticipate: . ... install software: . ... deal with installed software changes crashing all systems at random intervals: . ... test: . ...

... 10.07.2001 . ... Air Pollution Earth . ... The Galactic Center in Infrared . ... In visible light, much of the Galactic Center is obscured by opaque dust. ... C 2001 A2 (LINEAR): Comet . ... Outward bound, this primordial piece of the solar system is still just visible to the unaided eye and can now be sighted by northern hemisphere skygazers as it moves through the constellation Pisces. ... This teaming ball of stars is the brightest globular cluster visible in Earth's northern hemisphere. ...

An Ancient Universe: How Astronomers Know the Vast Scale of Cosmic Time . ... INTRODUCTION . ... Based on their personal beliefs, they find fault not only with biological evolution, but also with modern astronomical ideas about the age, expansion, and evolution of the universe. ... An Ancient Universe - Table of Contents . ... The Ancient Universe - The Age of the Expanding Universe - The Age of the Oldest Stars - The Age of Light From Distant Galaxies - The Age of the Chemical Elements | ...

... Tonight's Sky . ... Observing . ... The double star 54 Leonis, spiral galaxy NGC 3198, and emission nebula NGC 3199 . ... Impact risk scale revised . ... Astronomy.com: Elizabeth Rowan . ... An International Astronomical Union working group now has revised the wording of the Torino scale to reflect the fact that in most cases additional observations will reduce the risk of an impact to zero. ... Receive news, sky-event information, observing tips, and more from Astronomy's weekly email newsletter. ...

... Copyrightї1997 Bob Yen (byen@ix.netcom.com) (http://www.comet-track.com/hb/hb.html) . ... Information on Comet Hale-Bopp for the Non-Astronomer Hale-Bopp rotates about twice a day (3/14/97) . ... The Comet Observation Home Page was been selected to receive the Griffith Observatory Star Award for the week of February 2 - 8, 1997 for excellence in promoting astronomy to the public through the World Wide Web. ... Typically, about 1,000 individual users/computers access this page every day. ...

... Created: 22 January 2001 . ... SERVICE AND CALIBRATION MANUAL . ... Draft Document Outline. ... 4 Preparing NIFS for Use or Storage . ... The purpose of this Service and Calibration Manual is describe the procedures used to service, maintain, and calibrate the operation of the Gemini Near-infrared Integral Field Spectrograph. ... Section 19.4.2 of the document “Programmatic Requirements for Gemini Instrumentation Development” states the requirements for the Service and Calibration Manual . ...

... ---------- FileName Lrecl Records Explanations -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- catalog .dat 269 36020 Revised NLTT Catalogue and 1st Supplement Description of catalog columns (see Paper II for details): -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Summary Information 1) NLTT number (drawn consecutively from 1 to 58,845) 2) binary component 3) RA ( 2000 ), epoch 2000 ( ...

... 2 December 2009 =============== Known problems on release of 5.1.2: The control panels in xmtel and xmtel1 will not show the correct assignment of N/S to the slew buttons when a German equatorial is operated under the AUX Celestron NexStar protocol. ... Some accessory features in the NexStar "aux" driver are not implement in the standalone control user interface.l Pointing corrections, while available in software, are not fully tested. ...

... Low-Latitude Atmosphere-Ionosphere Effects Initiated by Strong Earthquakes Preparation Process . ... Ionospheric and atmospheric anomalies registered around the time of strong earthquakes in low-latitude regions are reported now regularly. ... Segregation of low-latitude regions for special consideration is connected with the important role of ionospheric equatorial anomaly in the seismoionospheric coupling and specific character of low-latitude earthquake initiated effects. ...

The oral histories on this Website are the transcripts from audio-recorded, personal interviews with many who pioneered outer space and the Moon, and with those who continue the excitement of space exploration. ... If available, the Biographical Data Sheet provided background information for the Oral Historian to prepare for the interview. ... Richard S. Johnston Oral History Interviews . August 11, 1998 . HTML . PDF 55K . September 2, 1998 . ... PDF 57K . ... Biographical Data Sheet . ...

NOTE: The storm sudden commencement data file was updated on 18 Feb 1998. o Revised data for 1968-1975 were taken from IAGA Bulletin No. ... Indices aa and storm sudden commencements"; see also IAGA Bulletin 39: " Supplementary Geomagnetic Data 1957-1975", including a new list of ssc's 1968-1975). ... From the monthly reports of Rapid Variations prepared by 43 magnetic observatories (see list page 121), a combined list of all events is compiled. ...

STATE OF ARIZONA Department of State TRADE NAME CERTIFICATION WINER OBSERVATORY I, Ken Bennett, Secretary of State, do hereby certify that in accordance with the Trade Name Application filed in this Office, the Trade Name herein certified has been duly registered pursuant to Section 44-1460, Arizona Revised Statutes, in behalf of: THE IRVIN MARVIN WINER MEMORIAL MOBILE OBSERVATORY, INC. ... 581406 IN WIINESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the Great Seal of the State of Arizona. ...

... Revised by Tomas Rokicki to accept bounding boxes with no % space after the colon, 18 Jul 1990. ... Common uses include: % % \ epsfxsize % just leave the old value alone % 0pt % use the natural sizes % #1 % use the natural sizes % \hsize % scale to full width % 0.5#1 % scale to 50% of natural size % \ifnum#1 \hsize\hsize\ else #1\fi % smaller of natural , hsize % % If you want TeX to report the size of the figure (as a message % on your terminal when it processes each figure), say ...

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. A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away.... obscalendar: 2016-I . manuals: SCORPIO-2 . email: uklein at sao dot ru . office: main building, 506 . phone: +7(878)22- 93-396 . home: b.4, app.36 . Last Revision: 2016, Feb 7

... Figure 1. ... Wide absorption wings of the hydrogen photospheric lines of B star are seen in the blue spectrum taken with BTA (Fig. ... New observations of emission line intensities do not give yet the reliable confirmation for periodic or cyclic behaviour, and then fail to confirm the irradiation effect on a possible cool companion. ... Intensity variations of emission lines of CI Cam. ... During the outburst [NII] 5755A emission line had the intensity characteristic of the quiescence. ...

Introduction This catalogue contains mainly the atomic data needed in the astrophysical investigations of low-density plasma. It is a revised and extended version of the "Catalogue of Atomic Data for the Rarefied Astrophysical Plasma" (Golovatyj et al. ... Low-density plasma. ... In the present study we represent only the atomic data for computation of sp ectra of low-density astrophysical plasma (most known kinds of it are gaseous nebulae), their thermal and ionization structure. ...

... Multifrequency study of radio sources with the Virual Obsevatory tools . ... We reliably identified 76 % of radio sources of the RCR catalogue. ... According to available photometric and spectral data for about a half of reliable identified sources we defined types of the host galaxies, and 45% of radiosources are quasars, 16 % are galaxies of late types, 22 % are galaxies of early types, 19 % are galaxies of early types with a high activity in radio range. ...

SEVENTEENTH CREW REQUIRED RESOURCES FOURTEENTH RUSSIAN VISITING CREW KAP PROJECT IMAGE VIDEO . ... ISS Flight Engineer, . ... Test Cosmonaut of S.P.Korolev Rocket and . ... From June 1996 to March 1998 he had taken a course of general space training at RGNII CTC. ... On November 2007, at the meeting of Roscosmos Interdepartmental Commission for Cosmonauts Selection and Enlistment in Crews of Manned Space Vehicles and stations he was approved as ISS-17 Flight Engineer and Soyuz-ТМА-12 Flight Engineer. ...

The revision of the MASS/DIMM star catalogue N. Shatsky, V. Kornilov March 16, 2008 Abstract The compilation of the (updated) version of the MASS (MASS/DIMM) device target catalogue is described. ... Then the list was cleaned according to following criteria: I. Remove stars too faint for a MASS device. ... Here the color equation of the Sternb erg device was taken: M AS S mag = V mag + 0.45 (B - V ); stars with M AS S mag > 3.2 were removed. ... This was made based on the GCVS4.2 catalogue data. ...