... Bad Astronomy . ... Movies . ... Mad Science . ... Keep Bad Astronomy close to your heart, and help make me filthy rich. ... Why are computers not displayed accurately in movies. In most movies I have seen, computers are not displayed accurately. ... Another thing is the sounds that a computer makes. Even in movies today, each keystroke corresponds with a beep or blip sound made by the computer. ... This isn't so much a question about computers as it is about movies. ... 2008 Phil Plait. ...

... Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, Chilton, Didcot, Oxon OX11 0QX, U.K. љ This paper describes how Tcl and the Tk toolkit have been extended to send and receive Adam inter-task messages, and how it has been used to build graphically-oriented user interfaces for various data reduction tasks. ... The user interface uses the message system to control the task. ... adam_init . ... The user interface sends messages to the relay task using the Adam message system, which forwards them to the Adam tasks. ...

... I now want to discuss a completely different use of the internet--for educating the public, for making it aware of the exploration of space by unmanned satellites. What we have produced here is a general qualitative overview of space physics, the kind of material which could fit a freshman course "space physics for poets." ... One option being seriously considered is to try both routes and make this a printed book as well as a web document. ... Electric Currents from Space (+H) . ...

User has possibility to save picture of apparent motion or to print it using standard means. To save the picture select File item in menu bar and then Save As... in drop-down menu. ... Choose a drive and folder where you want to save the file. The list of files with extension ".emf" in chosen folder will appear. ... Press Save button to save the file. To print plot of apparent motion select File item in menu bar and then take advantage of options Print Preview , Print Setup , Print. ...

... I now want to discuss a completely different use of the internet--for educating the public, for making it aware of the exploration of space by unmanned satellites. What we have produced here is a general qualitative overview of space physics, the kind of material which could fit a freshman course "space physics for poets." ... One option being seriously considered is to try both routes and make this a printed book as well as a web document. ... The Magnetosphere (+H) . ...

Stellarium 0.12.3 . ... Classes . ... Scripting . ... Scripting Engine . ... Script Console . ... Since version 0.10.1, Stellarium includes a scripting feature based on the Qt Scripting Engine . ... Prior to version 0.10.0, Stellarium used a different scripting engine called StratoScript . ... Prior to version 0.10.0, Stellarium had a simple scripting engine, known as StratoScript . ... This script prints "Hello Universe" in the Script Console output window. core.debug( "Hello Universe" ); . ...

If you were using a Java-enabled browser, you would see a scrolling text sign instead of this paragraph. ... Wiggle your mouse cursor over the applet, you should notice the sign speed up. ... Then, if you go back to the LED page and try it again, Netscape will give you a "NullPointerException" error. ... Everything you see the sign displaying is run entirely by a script. ... The size, size of border, color of border, and even the font that the sign uses are all configurable. ... More on fonts . ...

home education > activities . ... Astronomy . ... In this collaborative group activity, teams of students use the internet to find moon myths in a number of cultures and then try to discern the astronomy behind each myth. There is a section on researching moon missions that just seems tacked on to curry favor with NASA. [e,m] . ... A field test version with good activities and background information about the Saturn system and the Cassini mission, which is scheduled to enter Saturn orbit in 2004. ...

The following excerpts were taken from an internal IBM memo regarding OS/2 2.11 Service Pack problems. ... Few lines edited out by me - Karu] ___________________________________________________________________ The XR06200.XRF file on diskette 13 contains the list of problems that the Service Pack fixes. ... Problem: Multiple Desktops If the system's Object Open Behavior behavior is set to CREATE new window, the system will create multiple views of your desktop (folder) at each boot. ...

... EXPERIMENTS AND RESEARCHES . ... BIF EXPERIMENT . ... To reveal features of metabolism and morphology of different phenotypes of one strain of bifidobacteria caused by microgravity conditions to produce probiotics with the increased biomedical factors and increase the production efficiency. ... Selection of possible candidates for production strains of bifidobacteria having the increased biotechnological and biomedical characteristics as compared with the wild and other production strains. ...

... public class Editor . ... Nested classes/interfaces inherited from class java.awt.Frame . ... static java.lang.String . ... static int . ... public Editor (int rows, int columns, int fontSize, int options) . ... public void create (java.lang.String name, java.lang.String text) . public void createMacro (java.lang.String name, java.lang.String text) . public void open (java.lang.String dir, java.lang.String name) . ... public static void setDefaultDirectory (java.lang.String defaultDirectory) . ...

... WSDL for http ://vo.astronet.ru/ws/wcsfix/wcsfix.cgi created by Pod:: WSDL version: 0.05 on Sat Jan 27 20:10:18 2007 -- wsdl :definitions targetNamespace= http ://vo.astronet.ru/wcsFixService xmlns:impl= http ://vo.astronet.ru/wcsFixService xmlns: wsdlsoap = http ://schemas.xmlsoap.org/ wsdl /soap/ xmlns: wsdl = http ://schemas.xmlsoap.org/ wsdl / xmlns:soapenc= ...

... The default value is pointing to the parent directory. ... Link to parent directory $BBC_MAINSITE = ""; => Show no link $BBC_SHOW_CONFIG BBClone defaults to revealing the stats' settings. ... BBC_LANGUAGE = "en"; $BBC_MAXTIME This variable defines the length of an unique visit in seconds. ... BBC_NO_HITS = ""; => Show hits in time stats $BBC_NO_HITS = 1; => Show unique visits in time stats $BBC_IGNORE_IP This option can be used to exclude particular IP addresses or address ranges from counting. ...

... The package stsdas.graphics needs to be loaded (to run imdisp_pos for getting # the NDC's of the display image) # set imtype="fits" # print " " print " *** Start of impol SPECIAL instrument demo *** " print " [stecf.impol and stsdas.graphics need to be loaded] " print " " # # (First delete any model reflection nebulae left over from previous demos) # print " Deleting any old demo files " imdel reflneb1*.fits verify=yes # # An input (intensity) image is required. ...

... Radio Astronomy . ... Join ASRAS . The Strasenburgh Scope . ASRAS Board Members . ... To see the most up to date news and events happening with ASRAS log in with your user name and password and then click on the Activities page. ... Primary and secondary operators for the Strasenburgh scope sign up by clicking on an event, then click on enroll for this event . ... Public Star Party at Northampton Park Friday, April 29, 2016 9:00 PM Location: . ... Click the STAR PARTY INFO link to learn more ! ...

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... The kernel and many system programs produce error, warning, and other messages. It is often important that these messages can be viewed later, even much later, so they should be written to a file. ... It can be configured to sort the messages to different files according to writer or degree of importance. For example, kernel messages are often directed to a separate file from the others, since kernel messages are often more important and need to be read regularly to spot problems. ...

... VaST is a software tool for finding variable objects on a series of astronomical images. ... VaST performs object detection and aperture photometry using SExtractor on each image, cross-matches lists of detected stars, performs magnitude calibration with respect to the first (reference) image and constructs a lightcurve for each object. ... VaST FITS image viewer ./pgfv . ... Part I" PZP, vol. ... K. V. Sokolovsky, S. A. Korotkiy; "New Variable Stars Discovered by the NMW Survey" PZP, vol. ...