... Survey cupboards forced open. ... Sidebar Left . Sidebar Top . No Sidebar . Sidebar Bottom . Sidebar Right . ... Title: Survey cupboards forced open. This is what the glass plates of the ESO surveys look like. ...

... This issue of our newsletter is not written by astronomers sharing scientific research, but by two teachers who have words of encouragement and inspiration for those who may be new to teaching or new to teaching astronomy. First is an open letter to first-year astronomy teachers from Dennis Hands, a veteran teacher who is new to the astronomy classroom at Grimsley High School in Greensboro, North Carolina. ... Images courtesy of ASP. ... That activity is an eye-opener for students and teachers. ...

... The Stellar IMF at Low Masses: A Critical Look at Variations and Environmental Dependencies . ... View Registration . ... The shape of the stellar initial mass function (IMF) is one of the main uncertainties in our understanding of star formation, i.e., the conversion of gas into stars over cosmic time. ... The main purpose of this workshop is to have a critical look at current and new evidence for variations of the IMF at sub-solar stellar masses. ... The registration fee is $200.00. ...

ALBUM: iron.maiden @SONG: Prowler Steve Harris Walking through the city, looking oh so pretty, I've just got to find my way. ... SONG: Running Free Steve Harris and Paul Di'anno Just sixteen, a pickup truck, out of money, out of luck. ... Chorus*: I'm running free yeah, I'm running free. ... And you know and I know that you ain't got long now to last. ... Ooh @SONG: Charlotte the Harlot Dave Murray Giving a swish with your arse in the air, don't you know what they're saying? ...

... 2002 July 22 . Open Cluster NGC 6520 from CFHT . ... For the open cluster of stars NGC 6520, every day is like this. On the left of the above picture are many of NGC 6520's bright blue stars. ... On the right is an absorption nebula , molecular cloud Barnard 86 , from which the stars of NGC 6520 surely formed. ... NGC 6520 spans about 10 light years and lies about 5500 light years away toward the direction of Sagittarius . ... About APOD | ...

Participants about project . ... makes the world a welcoming place. ... we see it shared by those who love it. ... us more aware of our own community when we shared it . with the schools around the world. ... pleased my students chose to share the feelings of . ... Our town cannot grow much as it is like an island with . other communities growning around it. ... diverse, with many Mexican people recently adding to . ... Our town is old and the new City Building looked a bit . ... city. ...

Visitors to the Armagh Observatory during the International Heliophysical Year Open Day, 2007 June 10. ... The Armagh Observatory hosted a special event on Sunday, 10th June, as part of the International Heliophysical Year (IHY2007-2008) "European Observatories Open Doors Day". IHY celebrates mankind's growing understanding of our nearest star, the Sun, and how that knowledge improves our awareness of the effects of the Sun on the Earth, the safety of spacecraft and global warming. ...

... Open Menu . ... ESO, the European Southern Observatory . ... ESO . ... Galaxy Clusters . ... Star Clusters . Stars . ... Stars@ESO . ... Very Old Stars . ... Europe to the Stars . ... Catch a Star 2013 . Catch a Star 2011 . Catch a Star 2008 . Catch a Star 2007 . Catch a Star 2005 . ... This pan sequence takes a close look at a new image of the bright open star cluster NGC 2547 from the Wide Field Imager on the MPG/ESO 2.2-metre telescope at ESOтАЩs La Silla Observatory in Chile. ...

... The evolution of magnetic fields in OB-type stars from the study of open clusters of different ages . ... Wade G. A. The MiMeS Project: Magnetism in Massive Stars . ... Polosukhina N., Shavrina T., Drake N., Kudryavtsev D. Smirnova M. New results of the spectral observations of CPstars in the Li I 6708? spectral region with BTA telescope of SAO RAS . ... Magnetic Stars-2010 . ... List of participants . List of reports . ... Laboratory for the Stellar Magnetism Study of SAO of the RAS . ...

Astronomy Picture of the Day . ... 12.04.2009 . ... These two frames, taken with a video camera and a telescope, reveal remarkable details of the International Space Station (ISS) orbiting some 350 kilometers above planet Earth. ... APOD: 2009 April 7 The Colliding Spiral Galaxies of Arp 274 . ... APOD: 2009 April 6 The International Space Station Expands Again . ... The planetwide star party is part of 100 Hours of Astronomy (100HA), a project of the International Year of Astronomy 2009. ... 100 | ...

... Meade Instruments Corporation . ... Section 3: File Menu . ... Displays the dialog to open an existing image: . ... Saves the current image as a new file name or new file type, or both. ... This can be useful to prevent having 20 or more images open at once, and saves having to close them manually. ... This is done by creating a text file with the same name as the image file. ... Note that Image Information is saved within the FITS file, so there will not be a text file to accompany these files. ...

Government Open Systems Interconnection Profile Users' Guide, Version 2 . ... Computer Systems Laboratory . ... USA Government Printing Office, Washington, 1991 . ... 1.2 Nature and Purpose of Guide 1 . 1.3 Brief History of OSI 2 . 1.4 Role of GOSIP 5 . ... 5.3 Configuring a GOSIP System 29 . ... 6.5.5 Network Technology Options 43 . ... 7.7.2 Secure Data Network System (SDNS) 70 . ... 9.5 Interoperability with Non-GOSIP OSI Systems 94 . ... APPENDIX D: USERS' GUIDE EVALUATION FORM 155 . ...

... Spacecraft . ... To space by cannon? Finally, the deep space explorers --spacecraft which break away from the Earth's gravity . ... The "Luna" series of the USSR conducted 7 soft landing of unmanned probes, two of them with wheeled robotic "Lunokhods," and two of those missions returned samples to Earth. Others spacecraft have visited the major planets of the Solar system. ... The Mariner series have explored Venus and Mars--and Mariner 10 even reached Mercury, for three separate encounters! ...

... 15feb13: LB65-00600 in screen room. 15,23jun11:rfi from TRelectronics distomat (LLB500-0600) in screen room. 06apr11:rfi from TRelectronics distomat (LLB-60-D) in screen room. ... It is currently turned off. 20jun11: ?? about this time llb-60 removed from distomat 6 position (so luis could use the rfi canister for his tests). 15jun11 : luis tests llb500-00600 distomat in screen room. xxjun11 : tried to purchase llb-60-d distomats, but they no longer make them. ... page 3-4 HFld probe no rfi canister...

... Space Flight . ... Earth Satellites . ... On Christmas day the crew of Apollo 8 had a surprise when they opened their food containers and found a meal of real turkey and stuffing and three miniature bottles of brandy alongside presents from their wives. ... This venture placed the third and final crew onto the Skylab space station . ... Spending Christmas in space continues today with astronauts and cosmonauts having this holiday period onboard the International Space Station (ISS). ...

... October 10, 1604 a new star unknown before appeared in Snakebearer constellation. ... Mostly Kepler saw farther than Galilei , understanding that planets were influenced by the Sun. ... The most of all wonders is that I opened four new planets and observed their own movement and the movement according each other and according the other stars. These new planets are mooving around the other great star as well as Venus, Mercury, and perhaps the other known planets are moving around the Sun". ...

... java.lang.Object ij.io.Opener . public class Opener . ... Opens tiff (and tiff stacks), dicom, fits, pgm, jpeg, bmp or gif images, and look-up tables, using a file open dialog or a path. ... static int . ... TIFF . ... This is the method that ImageJ's File/Open command uses to open files. public void openMultiple () . ... This is the method that ImageJ's File/Open command uses to open files if "Open/Save Using JFileChooser" is checked in EditOptions/Misc. public void open (java.lang.String path) . ...

... News | ... Australia Telescope Steering Committee . ... Australia Telescope User Committee . ... Visitor list . ... Parkes radio telescope . ... Australia Telescope Narrabri Open Day and Opening of New Visitors Centre Displays . ... A public Open Day will be held at the Australia Telescope Narrabri Paul Wild Observatory on Saturday 29 July 2006 from 11am - 4pm. ... An Opening of the New Visitors Centre displays will be held for invited guests earlier in the day. ... CSIRO Visitors Centre Narrabri . ...

... ASRAS HOME . Radio Astronomy . ... About ASRAS . ... Our Observing Site . ... 2015 Mees Tour Guides . ... We're offering Regular Tours (a presentation on astronomy geared to a general audience, followed by a tour of the observatory and (hopefully!) observing of several objects, which may include the Moon, planets, nebulae, star clusters and perhaps galaxies), and Kids' Tours (a more interactive presentation specially aimed at youngsters plus the observatory tour and observing) as in prior years. ...

GTK+ 2.0 Tutorial . ... GTK (GIMP Toolkit) is a library for creating graphical user interfaces. It is licensed using the LGPL license, so you can develop open software, free software, or even commercial non-free software using GTK without having to spend anything for licenses or royalties. ... This tutorial describes the C interface to GTK. ... First, you can use only the C subset of C++ when interfacing with GTK and then use the C interface as described in this tutorial. ...