... SUN MOON MERCURY VENUS MARS, JUPITER SATURN . ... Moon . ... Supernova showered Earth with radioactive debris . ... Moon Maps . ... Gift Center . ... With the Moon gradually moving away from Earth, what will happen to people and objects when the Earth-Moon center of mass reaches Earth's surface? ... The barycenter, or the Earth-Moon system's center of mass, is a mathematical construct used to help us understand the system as a whole. Get instant access to subscriber content on Astronomy.com! ...

... These Frontier Fields will combine the power of HST with the natural gravitational telescopes of high-magnification clusters of galaxies. ... We are soliciting gravitational lensing maps for the last four Hubble Frontier Fields clusters (MACSJ0717.5+3745, MACSJ1149.5+2223, AbellS1063, and Abell 370) based upon the exceptionally deep HST FF imaging and other new ancillary data. ... For the full set of proposal instructions and requirements, see the FY16 Frontier Fields Lensing Map Call for Proposals....

... Sahuaro High School . A manifesto for astronomy education. ... Counselor: As you know, high school is now a five-year sequence of courses designed to parallel the new pentayear curriculum our colleges and universities have developed. ... My many years of astronomy teaching, coupled with my completely biased view that astronomy is the most exciting of all the sciences to teach kids, constantly triggers dreams of such changes in our curriculum. ... Astronomy is science for the masses. ...

... Data archive . Tasks . ... The first column in the table contains the pulsar name. The second column contains the priority. This should be -1 if the pulsar has been dropped, 0 if the pulsar should only be observed with very low priority or integers > 0 for the standard priority. Note that comments can be placed at the end of each line in the table. These comments get shown on the dashboard. ... Group . ... Pulsar Data Archive . PSRFITS pulsar data standard . ... Pulsar Groups . ...

Head Down (Sweet Water) Yeah Stuck in a bad place Running in place Pushing my head under tow Riding buses and living low I'm keeping my head down Keeping my head down Keeping my head down Keeping my head down I don't care about the news of the world The story's always the same Nothing will ever change I don't care about the news of the world The ...

... Bad Astronomy . ... I think I will break from my usual format of Bad Astronomy/ Good Astronomy by saying that the way we define seasons currently is not strictly bad, but I feel (in my opinion!) that it could be better. The definition of when the seasons begin is at the moment of solstice or equinox; that is, winter (in the north) starts on December 22 nd and summer starts on June 22 nd . ... Now imagine breaking up the Sun's 46 degree up-and-down yearly swing into 1 day intervals. ...

... mixer chassis. ... fbox1 to fbox2 cables, fbox1 side . ... Fbox1 to fbox2 cables, fbox2 side : PolA ( dashed green ) dropped by 6% when loosened 1/2 turn. ... PolB ( dashed blue ) dropped by .5%. reverse polB fbox1 to fbox2 cable: The polB cable was removed, cleaned, and then reinserted with the ends switched. ... Loosening the cable on filter 5 polB fbox1 side showed no change. ... The cable was probably loose or dirty. filter 6 (1360-1470) fbox1 to fbox2 polA dropped by 6% when loosened 1/2 a turn...

... Flipping the image . ... Thus, if you use -flip y on the command line and then load an image from IRAF, the image is not flipped by SAOtng. However, if the frame has already been flipped (either explicitly using a menu or by loading an image externally), subsequent display of images from IRAF images will be flipped in that frame. ... Release 1.5 supported a very kludgey way of displaying multiple images in the same frame, by allowing you to select a frame quadrant in which to load an image. ...

... Version 0.27.1 2000-11-09 (MT) -------------- - Now depends on dal-1.130.1 - dspurify now converts X columns to int32 columns. - dspurify now uses hduname to name tables. ... Implement dscp which copies objects - Implement info files - dsverify now checks attribute values - Now depends on dal-1.119 Version 0.20 2000-04-20 (MT) ------------ - Implementation (prototype) of dsvalidate, which uses a template structure ( similar to the output from dsstruct ) to check the validity of a given dataset. ...

. To sort a file in dictionary order: sort -d +1 -2names > orders . Lines in the file names are sorted on field 2 into dictionary order and the result placed in the file orders . To sort a file in month order: sort -M +2 -3 -o breakdown orders . Lines in the file orders are sorted on field 3 into month order and the result placed in the file breakdown .

... The Armagh Human Orrery is a dynamic model of the solar system in which people play the role of the moving planets. The users' interactions with the model lead to greater awareness of their place in space and understanding of our planet's changing position with time. ... The model is constructed to a scale of 1 metre to 1 astronomical unit. ... It contains more than 200 individually inscribed discs showing the positions of objects at intervals of 16 days or multiples thereof. ...

... start : ranking . ... SAI VO Projects . ... Help on Wiki search . ... Ranking search results ====== ==== tf-idf ==== code CREATE OR REPLACE FUNCTION my_rank (tsvector, tsquery, int ) RETURNS float AS $$ use List::Util qw(min max); my ($string, $ query ) = @_; my $maxpos = 0; # Parse tsvector, taking into account positional information foreach (split / /, $string){ if(/^'(\w+)'(:([0-9,]+))?$/){ foreach(split /,/, $3){ $ vector {$_} = $1; $maxpos = max($maxpos, $_); } } } my @ vector = map {$ ...

... Corresponding authors will receive an e-mail with a PDF file of paged proof for checking and correction. The file can be read and edited using Adobe Acrobat Reader (version 9 and higher) which can be free downloaded via the Internet ( http://get.adobe.c om/reader/ ). ... You can use text correction tools to make corrections (after selecting the necessary text fragment). ... For users of Adobe Reader 9: . ... to insert text without replacing the existing text, use the "Insert text at cursor" tool. ...

OptInt PmWiki : Pm Wiki / Glossary . ... Configuration file . A specially-named PHP script file where local customizations can take place for a farm, a wiki, a group, or a page. ... A wiki with no local/config.php file is using the default configuration. ... The page file name is the name of the file that normally stores the data of a page in the directory wiki.d/ . ... Note that PmWiki also uses the page name to locate per-group and per-page customization files in the local/ subdirectory. ...

... First Name(s) |Sergey Anatolii | ... Date of birth |31.03.1919. ... Passport: | ... Change the text written in red only. ... Write actual data in file of every person in every cell. ... Place of birth should include the settlement of birth (even if it is not written in Passport). ... If some information appears wrong and you have to change it, please, do the both procedures: i. Write where the incorrect data (what was written) should be replaced by correct data (write correct data). ii. ...

... Title page . ... What's new . ... New page for global change started. ... New page for heliosphere (incl. heliopause and helio-sheath) started. ... New pages about ring current and coronal mass ejections created. ... I created a new Content page, as both the alphabetic page listing and (especially) the "index" listing were getting seriously out of my hands. ... Page for sunspots was created. ... New page for geomagnetic activity written, and another one for 1.3 year periodicity of the sun started. ...

What follows is a list of resources that excel in astronomy education. ... We believe the list is topologically complete in that there are no publicly advertised astronomy resources on the WWW that cannot be found by following the internal links of these resources. ... How Astronomy Picture of the Day (APOD) is being used as a learning tool by teachers and students. ... Bad Astronomy Blog . ... Dr. Jeff's Blog on the Universe . ... Detailed pictures and explanations of Hubble Space Telescope results. ...

... This article is part of the LWN Porting Drivers to 2.6 series . This article serves as a sort of final resting place for various small changes in the kernel programming API which do not fit elsewhere. The kdev_t type has been removed from the kernel; everything which works with device numbers should now use the dev_t type. ... Consider using these while fixing your code; the next time the type of i_rdev changes, you will be happier. ... Driver porting: miscellaneous changes, designated inits . ...

NEWS FEDERATION rus ENCYCLOPEDIA rus HISTORY rus MIR STATION RUSSIAN . ... Cosmonauts. Astronauts. ... Space Science . Heroes Of Space Remember . Military Space . ... 24 Astronauts Bumped From NASA Office . NASA Astronaut Office Roster As Of July 1, 2002 . ... Donald Pettit replaced Donald Thomas who was temporarily grounded on medical reasons. ...

Placing boxes on plots in OYSTER is done as follows after this mode has been initiated by a widget button: a new box is started by clicking the left mouse button. This click anchors a corner and moving the mouse (drag is not required) will change the size and shape of the box. To fix size and shape, and change to a mode which moves the entire box, click the middle button. ... Left button: exit keeping the box . ... Left button: keep current box, begin placing a new one . ...