Learning Astronomy Through Storytelling . That children at different stages of development will derive different meanings from the same story is obvious but worth mentioning. ... If you teach K-2, the central message of the story that you want students to understand is simply that the Moon's shape, as they see it in the sky, varies. ... Children learn that a story has a plot, a setting, characters, a main problem, a crisis point, and a solution. ...

The idea of component-oriented programming is that in the course of implementation of various software projects a programmer (or a programmers team) accumulates a library of reused software fragments that are used in different projects. ... To solve such problems there are some special syntax means in Actor Prolog that support component-oriented programming. ... A package in Actor Prolog is a set of classes linked by implication. ... Actor Prolog supports visual component-oriented programming. ...

Next: Partition types Up: Partitions Previous: The MBRboot sectors . The original partitioning scheme for PC hard disks allowed only four partitions. ... The primary partition thus subdivided is the extended partition; the subpartitions are logical partitions . ... The partition structure of a hard disk might look like that in figure 3.2 . The disk is divided into three primary partitions, the second of which is divided into two logical partitions. ...

These images from NASA's Hubble Space Telescope show four examples of interacting galaxies. The galaxies, beginning at far left, are shown at various stages of the merger process. The top row displays merging galaxies found in different regions of a large survey known as the All-Wavelength Extended Groth Strip International Survey (AEGIS). ... Credit: NASA/ESA/J. Lotz (STScI)/M. Davis (University of California, Berkeley)/A. Koekemoer (STScI) ...

... The metallicity distribution of disk F stars in different age ranges: the left column for the sample of stars within 80 pc around the Sun; the right column for the restored complete sample at the solar galactocentric distance with allowance made for the radial metallicity gradient. The numbers indicate the age ranges expressed in billions of years. ... next figure . ...

Astronomy Picture of the Day . The Scale of the Universe: Interactive . ... Credit Copyright: Cary Michael Huang Explanation: What does the universe look like on small scales? ... Humanity is discovering that the universe is a very different place on every proportion that has been explored. ... The above interactive flash animation , a modern version of the classic video Powers of Ten , is a new window to many of the known scales of our universe. ... Publications with keywords: universe . ...

asncombine -- Process and combine images in one or two NICMOS associations asncombine association . ... set to yes to include error planes in co-added images error. background . ... This is useful to use different background subtractions for different images. fheader . set to yes in order to multiply the background by the value of keyword "factor" in the image header. ... Set to yes to use quadrants statistics save in the image header from previous runs of asncombine. regquad1 . ...

The study of energetic particles acceleration and transport within the magnetosphere and on its boundaries is the main goal of DOK-2 experiment on Auroral Probe in a frame of INTERBALL project. ... DOK-2 uses two pairs of energetic particle telescopes . ... This information is available only during the most informative Real Time mode of DOK-2. ... Full 56-57 channel spectra accumulated during time intervals from 10 s to 1464 s depending on a particle intensity. ... For this time interval: . ...

... Microlocal Analysis is a theory of Pseudo-Differential Operators and Fourier Integral Operators (PDOs and FIOs). ... Microlocal analysis comes in few flavors. ... We will consider semi-classical PDOs and FIOs: one can always get from there to standard PDOs and FIOs but semi-classical theory has more applications. Less formal description of (semi-classical) microlocal analysis is ``a semi-classical limit of quantum mechanics'' or ``high-frequency limit of electrodynamics'' (etc). ...

Rules and Regulations for a participant of the Olympiad . ... Don't write the conditions of problem in rough copy or clean copy. ... Rough copy. If you haven't time to rewrite solution (or a part of solution) in your clean copy, please make a note 'see rough copy' in Russian or English by accurate printed characters . ... In particular if solutions in clean copy and in rough copy are different, then clean copy is evaluated only. ... To write solutions of tasks in clean copy in arbitrary sequence. ...

Astronotes Armagh Planetarium's Stellar Blog! ... Our Galaxy . ... Stars . ... Other Galaxies . ... Light of other eyes, other times: The X-rays and IR radiation making up the image have been travelling for a long time. ... The inspiration here came from a new ESA image of M31, the Andromeda Galaxy, composed from two very different images. ... Our nearest galactic neighbour, the Andromeda Galaxy?s brightness is caused by the hundreds of billions of stars that are contained within. ...

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After a series of workplace accident involving window cleaners on ladders, the government has asked you to come up with a set of guidelines for safe ladder use. Most of the accidents occur when a worker is climbing up a ladder which is leaning against large plate glass window, and the base of the ladder slides sideways, causing the ladder to collapse. How far from the base of a window should the base of a ladder be placed to avoid slipping? ...

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... 53 љ int getMaxLevel( void ) const { return maxLevel;} . ... 59 љ typedef void (VisitFunc)( int lev, int index, . ... 71 љ int getZoneNumberForPoint ( const Vec3f &v, int searchLevel) const ; . ... 74 љ void getTriangleCorners ( int lev, int index, Vec3f & c0, Vec3f & c1, Vec3f & c2) const ; . ... 77 љ int getPartnerTriangle ( int lev, int index) const ; . ... 105 љ const Vec3f & getTriangleCorner( int lev, int index, int cornerNumber) const ; . 106 љ void initTriangle( int lev, int index, . ...

Allows you to specify a drift scan: motion at a constant velocity along a great circle. ... The path starts at the new object position (though the telescope actually intersects the path later, see Subtleties ). ... Note that the units are always /sec for both axes. ... The velocity along the path is 0.01 /sec. ... The path is assumed to start when you hit the Slew button (more precisely, when the TCC parses the command). However, it takes the telescope awhile to slew to meet the specified path. ...

ATMoB "Galaxy Observing Award " Guidelines Purpose: To promote observing among the membership of the Amateur Telescope Makers of Boston through participation in the Galaxy Observing Awards program. ... Examples of elliptical galaxies: M49, M59, M60, M87, NGC 4125. Limiting Magnitude Assessment: Spirals: A spiral galaxy consists of a flattened disk, with stars forming a (usually two-armed) spiral structure, and a central concentration of stars known as the bulge. ...

... Bad Astronomy . ... On Thursday, February 15th 2001 (and replayed on March 19), the Fox TV network aired a program called ``Conspiracy Theory: Did We Land on the Moon?'', hosted by X-Files actor Mitch Pileggi. ... Dust around the lander . ... However, it appeals to our common sense: when the sky is black here on Earth, we see stars. ... Bad: The program claims that when the top half of the lander took off from the Moon to bring the astronauts back into orbit, there was no flame from the rocket. ...