... The general term for these waves is "Electromagnetic Waves". ... ASTR1001 Wavelengths · Electromagnetic waves, while all travelling at the same speed, can have different wavelengths (the distance between the crest of one wave and the next). ... Red Light: Wavelength 700nm Green Light: Wavelength 550nm Blue Light: Wavelength 400nm Ultra-Violet Light: Wavelength 300nm ASTR1001 The Electromagnetic Spectrum · Electromagnetic waves can have any wavelengths at all: anywhere from picometres to light-years....

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... The problem turned out to be that I was always using the same background in Photoshop, and when I made it transparent, the edge pixels, having been anti-aliased to merge with that color, did not turn transparent. Now I always use the same background color in Photoshop that I intend to use on my web page. ... Now, one of the big tricks here involves the translation from RGB mode to Indexed Colors. ... Note down the 2 colors it chose to dither together and hit Command-Z to undo the mode change. ...

GTK+ 2.0 Tutorial . ... This program will create a 200x200 pixel window and has no way of exiting except to be killed by using the shell. #include <gtk/gtk.h> int main( int argc, char *argv[] ) { GtkWidget *window; gtk_init (&argc, &argv); window = gtk_window_new (GTK_WINDOW_TOPLEVEL); gtk_widget_show (window); gtk_main (); return 0; } . ... All programs will of course include gtk/gtk.h which declares the variables, functions, structures, etc. that will be used in your GTK application. ... gtk-debug . ...

All right, let me see if I understand the logic of this correctly. We are going to ignore the United Nations in order to make clear to Saddam Hussein that the United Nations cannot be ignored. We're going to wage war to preserve the UN's ability to avert war. ... Peace is too important not to take up arms to defend. ... We cannot leave in power a dictator who ignores his own people. ... Peter FREUNDLICH . ...

Interstellar Radio Messages . ... One-Dimensional Radio Message to Blind Aliens . ... Project METI@home: Messages to ETI from Home . ... Limitations on Volume of Interstellar Radio Messages . Synthesis and Transmission of Cosmic Call 2003 Interstellar Radio Message . ... Transforming SETI to METI . ... Test SETI during Transmissions of Interstellar Radio Messages . Sending and Searching of Interstellar Messages . ... The First Musical Interstellar Radio Message . ... IRE RAS 1996-200 9 ...

ASTRONOMY . ASTRONOMY is a science, which studies solids and occurrences in the sky. ... They built the picture of the world according to their knowledge. With the course of time the world picture was being changed because there appeared new facts and information and new theories on the celestial occurrences and what is more impotant there appeared an opportunity to check up the correctness of ideas through the observation and measuring using the new achievements of the sciences. ...

... HI in Dwarf Galaxies Workshop, July 15-16, 2015 . ... ATNF is hosting a two day workshop called "HI in Dwarf Galaxies" in honor of distinguished visitor, Dr. Deidre Hunter, the PI of LITTLE THINGS (Hunter et al. ... The primary science objective of LITTLE THINGS is to understand how stars form in dwarf irregular galaxies, which are low surface brightness, low mass, low metallicity, gas-rich galaxies that primarily reside in galaxy groups and the outskirts of galaxy clusters. ... today * ATNF | ...

... If, like me, you want to really understand your system rather than just knowing how to use it, this document should be a good place to start. ... I hope some readers will undertake the best Linux learning exercise that I know of, which is building a system from source code. ... The instructions that used to be part of this document are now in a separate document ``Building a Minimal Linux System from Source Code'', and can be found at From PowerUp to Bash Prompt home page . ...

Astronomy Discussion Forums . Forums: . ... Once Again, We Are Askew Of The Issue. ... Post Message | ... Posted by Richard D. Stafford, Ph.D. on September 17, 2002 18:15:01 UTC . ... Let me be more clear - harvey1 - September 17, 2002 - 19:06 UTC . You are beating a dead horse! - doctordick - September 19, 2002 - 15:55 UTC . ... www.astronomy.net . ... Forum posts are Copyright their authors as specified in the heading above the post. "dbHTML," "AstroGuide," "ASTRONOMY.NET" & "VA.NET" . ...

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http://hea-www.harvard.edu/AstroStat/slog/2008/first-aas-anova/ Weaving together Astronomy+Statistics+Computer Science+Engineering+Intrumentation, far beyond the growing borders Fri, 01 Jun 2012 18:47:52 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4 http://hea-www.harvard.edu/AstroStat/slog/2008/first-aas-anova/comment-page-1/#comment-266 hlee Wed, 02 Jul 2008 19:30:43 +0000 http://hea-www.harvard.edu/AstroStat/slog/?p=337#comment-266 I'm always very much obliged to have your comments! ...

... 2) get instructions for proceedings from here . ... Chris Sterken (chair), Ulli K ufl (co-chair), Mike A'Hearn, Hermann Boehnhardt, Michael Combi, Yan Fernandez, Marco Fulle, Luisa Lara, Casey Lisse, Jean Manfroid, Karen Meech, Javier Licandro, Heike Rauer, Rita Schulz, Gerhardt Schwehm, Diane Wooden . ... Ulli K ufl or Chris Sterken . ... there will be proceedings in the ESO / SPRINGER series (eds. Ulli K ufl & Chris Sterken); link to retrieve latex-kit . ... Deep Impact Specific Questions . ...

... The Lin-Shu Theory | ... As we have seen here, understanding the spiral structure of galaxies took many twists and turns even in the hands of Bertil Lindblad who seems rightly regarded the main father of this whole subject. By the early 1960s, with the arrival of computers, plasma physics and several fresh investigators, it entered a new period of unusually vigorous activity, not always very united or monothematic, but broadly grouped under the umbrella marked `density-wave theory'. ...

Statement of Teaching Philosophy Marshall D. Perrin University of California, Berkeley December 7, 2000 In teaching, as in any other endeavor, one must begin with the end in mind. ... I believe in two major reasons for teaching astronomy. ... I believe this sort of lab exercise is extremely valuable in teaching astronomy, for it will give students the sense that science is something which they themselves can do, rather than simply a tool forever beyond their own reach. ...

The leaning tower of Pisa . ... The velocity of a ball dropped from a high place increases each second by a constant amount, usually denoted by the small letter g (for gravity). ... For the falling ball in the preceding example, after t seconds that would be . ... If in addition the ball is also given at the start a horizontal velocity w , its horizontal motion continues unimpeded, advancing a distance w each second, even while the ball is falling (air resistance is now ignored). ...

ChangeLog for omgchain =============================== Version 1.0.9 - 2004-09-08 (VNY) +(src/omgchain.pl) The spectra list file is generated for both values of the parameter extractfieldspectra. ... The input parameter extractionmode is activated. ...

... Members . July Meeting - Member Presentations . Thursday, Jul 12, 2012 at 8:00 PM . This month’s meeting will be a member presentation night which is a tradition now for our optional July meeting. ... It always turns out to be a rewarding evening so do come and see what the other members are up to. ... Please join us for a pre-meeting dinner discussion at Changsho, 1712 Mass Ave, Cambridge, MA at 6:00pm before the meeting. ... Copyright (c) Amateur Telescope Makers of Boston, Inc. ...

HTML is an application conforming to International Standard ISO 8879 -- Standard Generalized Markup Language (SGML). ... Every SGML document has three parts: . SGML declaration . ... For example, the SGML declaration in the HTML DTD specifies that the string that opens an end tag is </ and the maximum length of a name is 72 characters. ... Most HTML elements are identified in a document as a start tag, which gives the element name and attributes, followed by the content, followed by the end tag. ...

... Bad Astronomy . ... Mad Science . ... Site Info . ... Public Talks . ... Keep Bad Astronomy close to your heart, and help make me filthy rich. ... Who is this guy who calls himself "The Bad Astronomer?" ... First, yes, I am a real live astronomer (when people ask me what astronomers do, I tell them "They astronom !" ... These are emitted by powerful objects like black holes, exploding stars, and super-dense neutrons stars. ... Finally, am I really a bad astronomer? ... 2008 Phil Plait. ...