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... NICMOS does not have a physical shutter mechanism, and exposures are obtained through a sequence of reset and read operations. ... Since all readouts are non-destructive, namely, do not change the value of the charge accumulated on the pixel, the last two steps of the sequence above can be repeated multiple times, and the last read of the sequence will be called the final read . ... Four readout modes have been defined for NICMOS, exploiting the flexibility allowed by the non-destructive reads: . ...

. ASME Paper 95-GT-437. Jacques Lewalle, jlewalle@syr.edu

... SRCFILE is used to specify the name of the external source file. ... The default SRCFILE is $SCHED/catalogs/sources.vlba . ... For example, if SCHED is defined to mean /users/cwalker/sched , the base area under which all SCHED stuff is kept (substitute your local directory), then one can specify the source file with SRCFILE = $SCHED/catalogs/sources.vlba (which happens to be the default). ... There is an option to use a second source catalog file using SRCFILE2 . ... Options: Any file name or none ....

Apache 1.1 and earlier let modules handle POST and PUT requests by themselves. The module would, on its own, determine whether the request had an entity, how many bytes it was, and then called a function ( read_client_block ) to get the data. ... This step also sends a 100 Continue response to HTTP/1.1 clients, so should not be called until the module is *definitely* ready to read content. (otherwise, the point of the 100 response is defeated). ... Finally, call ap_get_client_block in a loop. ...

Notes on jeffs socklib: file: /home/phil/Linux/libsrc/socklib/Notes Initialization: -sock_bind() calls find_dest that calls init_dest() to read in the mailbox file. - binding sets up the socket for you to receive things on. ... I/O Message format - 4 byte int holding message length followed by this many bytes (the 1st 4 bytes are not included in the message length). ... It will link the socket into our bound SOCK* linked list (by calling sock_connect(). ... It is Used to check when we are out of sync. ...

... ESO Science Newsletter December 2015 . 17 Dec 2015 . ... This newsletter is a summary of recent ESO Science Announcement items. Follow the links or visit ESO Science Announcements to read more. ... Read more . ... The allocation of ESO telescope time for Period 97 (1 April БЂ“ 30 September 2016) is expected to be emailed in the week beginning 21 December 2015. ... ESO Workshop, ESO Headquarters, Garching, Germany, 27 June БЂ“ 1 July, 2016 . ... Joint ESO, ALMA, NAOJ, NRAO Workshop. ...

The HyperNews Linux KHG Discussion Pages . ... Re : Need easy way to download whole KHG . Re : Mirror packages are available, but that's not really enough ( Michael K. Johnson ) . ... Try this package . ... I mirror KHG, open this KHG locally and post this article locally. But this article is posted KHG original site. ... So you can get KHG in batch mode and read local file reading mode in Netscape and post your article to this site. ... With -i option, Getwww get updated files from KHG site. ...

... MADS] data depth? Tags: break points , data depth , MADS , mean , median , multivariate , nonparametric , order , parasite , quantile , robust , sort , vertebrate . ... Tags: biased , breakdown point , chi-square , confidence interval , coverage , delta chi-square , estimator , LAD , mean , median , plug-in , rmse . ... The breakdown point of the mean is asymptotically zero whereas the breakdown point of the median is 1/2. ... Tags: breakdown point , mean , median , quantile . ...

A FIFO ("First In, First Out", pronounced "Fy-Foh") is sometimes known as a named pipe . ... In this case, the name is that of a file that multiple processes can open() and read and write to. ... With FIFOs, though, each unrelated process can simply open() the pipe and transfer data through it. ... Once the FIFO has been created, a process can start up and open it for reading or writing using the standard open() system call. ... Lets say you have a pipe with one reader and one writer connected to it. ...

... Class . ... METHOD . ... public class PGM_Reader . ... public ImageStack openFile (java.lang.String path) throws java.io.IOException . ... public void openAsciiImage (java.io.StreamTokenizer tok, int size, byte[] pixels) throws java.io.IOException . ... public ImageProcessor open16bitRawImage (java.io.InputStream is, int width, int height) throws java.io.IOException . ... public ImageProcessor open16bitAsciiImage (java.io.StreamTokenizer tok, int width, int height) throws java.io.IOException . ...

. The characters ; ( ) | ^ < > ~ % { } $ # ' " \ @@ * ? [ ] - ! Newline (a <Return>) Space (a <Space>) Tab (a <Tab>) . are all shell metacharacters . To the shell , they represent something other than the character or symbol that they are. You must quote any command argument or regular expression containing one or more of these, so that it is passed to the command unchanged. Removing special meaning from a metacharacter .

... You are presented with a series of places, people and situations, and by typing commands on the computer can influence what happens. ... Time only passes in response to your commands п you can spend as much time as you like thinking about things. ... In this game, you type commands in plain English every time you see the prompt >. ... Type Drop to get rid of stuff. ... Unless specifically prompted by the game, donуt tell anyone too much п just type something like рtell Fred about my new carс. ...

... From the main task window, you have only two options ('Add sources' and 'Run omdetect'), either select sources from the image manually, or run the SAS task omdetect to locate sources on the image, by clicking the appropriate button. a) select sources from the image manually (if you are interested only on the main target or few sources on the image ) -- clicking the button 'add source', the task window is hidden and a small window appears as this Figure. ... The main window is shown again. ...

Astronomy Discussion Forums . ... Back To Basics . ... Post Message | ... Posted by Harvey on October 9, 2002 05:36:27 UTC . ... Or is it back to obfuscation? - doctordick - October 9, 2002 - 15:44 UTC . A number is a very specific thing - harvey1 - October 9, 2002 - 16:41 UTC . ... Exactly - harvey1 - October 10, 2002 - 18:43 UTC . ... www.astronomy.net . ... Forum posts are Copyright their authors as specified in the heading above the post. "dbHTML," "AstroGuide," "ASTRONOMY.NET" & "VA.NET" . ...

Large sunspots were occasionally seen far in the past without any instruments, when the sun was dimmed by thick haze, but not much was remembered of those observations. ... Sunspot Cycle (1850 - 1975) . One who was greatly influenced by Schwabe's discovery was an English gentleman of independent means, Richard Christopher Carrington , who devoted himself to the study of sunspots. ... Carrington had seen a flare, of the rare variety that is visible in white light (only about 50 are known). ...

Astronotes Armagh Planetarium's Stellar Blog! ... January . ... Posted on June 3, 2013 | No Comments With the longest day of the year imminent for those of us in the northern hemisphere, we will no doubt be hoping to enjoy a little more sunshine and warmth [ ] . Continue Reading.. Posted on May 2, 2013 | ... Posted on April 2, 2013 | ... Posted on January 16, 2013 | ... Here you will find the latest news and views from the fascinating worlds of astronomy and space exploration. ...

... Bad Astronomy . Misconceptions . ... Bad Astronomy : You can read by starlight. ... I will redo the math described below, taking it out to fainter magnitudes, and also include a sky brightness estimate. ... yet another) Note added (June 1, 2002) : An alert Bad Reader pointed out that of course you can read by starlight: the Sun is a star! ... There are about 6000 stars in the sky visible to the unaided eye, ranging in brightness from the star Sirius to stars you can only see by squinting. ...

Modules | ... Apache HTTP Server Version 2.2 . Apache > HTTP Server > Documentation > Version 2.2 > Developer Documentation . ... This is a first attempt at writing the lessons I learned when trying to convert the mod_mmap_static module to Apache 2.0. ... So the name gets a small change from mmap_init to mmap_post_config . ... server_rec *s . ... server config */ . create per-server config structures */ . ... merge server config */ . merge per-server config structures */ . ...