This tip is yet another tip inspired by looking at Adobe Gallery Effects . ... Most of it looks like some simple bump-mapping and stuff like that. First, take an fairly interesting image, such as a picture of the earth. This tip works for any image, but the best looking results IMHO come out of using meaningful (non-random) images. ... U3: This is our bump map image (almost) . ... The last step is to apply U4 as a Bump-Map on U2. ... U3a: Your bump-map alternative . ... Tips Tricks Tutorials ...

Alfa was reinstalled in the dome in sep11. Calibration runs were done in sep11,oct11 to measure any pointing offsets. ... After looking at the results, the alfa model was updated to correct for the constant offset term. ... The heiles calibration scans were used to measure the pointing error. ... page 1: measured pointing errors: . ... The pointing errors are: . ... Page 3: pointing errors in za and az with the fits over plotted: . ... Page 4: pointing errors with the fit removed: . ... 1az term . ...

This source is hiding behind our Galaxy at a distance of ~18 Mpc, located at a galactic latitide of 0 degrees. ... As we look towards longer wavelengths, 60 micron, to try and penetrate the Galactic Plane, we still see confusion from galactic sources. ... If the image seems some what confusing that is because the MOST is a continuum radio telescope and when it looks in the direction of our Galaxy it detects radiation from sources within our Galaxy and from sources that may lie behind our Galaxy. ...

Next: Parameter estimation Up: Basic principles of Previous: Time domain analysis . A simple way to graphically present the results of a TSA is to plot the test statistics S against its parameter or l , depending on whether the analysis was performed in the frequency or time domain. ... Examples of statistics used in the time domain are covariance and correlation functions. The correlation of a signal with itself or with another signal produces maxima in these functions at particular lags. ...

Next: Acknowledgements Up: World Wide Web version Previous: Page contents . ... Part of the table and a cartoon figure of the track calculated for the default set of the initial parameters are shown in Fig. 1 and 2. In the future, we intend to made available calculations of a large number of binary systems assuming different intial distributions, chemical composition, etc., to construct a "Galaxy at will", as well as various interface facilities. ... Fri Jun 21 19:17:07 MSD 1996 ...

... Director of the RAS ISR . RAS Academician . ... Astrophysics module Kvant of the orbital complex Mir launched in 1987 contains the largest on the station complex of the scientific equipment named the orbital observatory Roentgen. Observatory Roentgen consists of 4 X-ray telescopes, jointly exceeding the range of energies from 2 to 800 keV. ... Among the most significant results that were received in the observatory Roentgen are: . ... measurement of the periods of 9 X-ray pulsars; . ...

... Science Blog . ... Pan-Starrs1 Poster . ... Turn left on Calvert Street and proceed north approximately 3 1/2 miles to University Parkway. Turn left on University Parkway and proceed approximately 1/3 mile (past JHU stadium and down hill) to San Martin Drive. Turn left at the signal and proceed approximately 1/4 mile to STScI. ... Left onto Coldspring Lane and proceed approximately 1 mile to Roland Avenue (top of hill). ... Turn right at the signal and proceed approximately 1/4 mile to STScI. ...

Newsgroups: rec.games.trivia Subject: Final Results: American Pie Lyrics From: mfterman@phoenix.Princeton.EDU (Mutant for Hire) Date: 24 Jun 91 14:49:35 GMT Organization: Mutant for Hire, Inc. ... Attributing various comments to various people is difficult due to the number of said sources and the fact that there were agreements on various parts. ... I can still remember how that music . ... I could make those people dance . ... the day the music died . ... bye, bye Miss American Pie . ...

... Black Holes in Galactic Centers . ... Do all galaxies have black holes at their centers? ... On October 1, 1847 Maria Mitchell swept the sky with her telescope and discovered a comet (comet Mitchell 1847VI). Moon Crashers . ... Ozone Hole Reduced . ... NGC 2346 is a planetary nebula made of gas and dust that has evolved into a familiar shape. ... Astronomers have discovered that looking at dust along the plane of our Milky Way Galaxy is a bit like looking into a frothy glass of beer. ...

... Data . AAS 221 . AAS 219 . ... The first thing to note is that Twitter does not guarantee to return all matching Tweets, whatever method is used (unless you have direct access to their "fire hose", which I don't). ... This should result in the same results as my REST-based search (method 2), since the volume of Tweets was probably not enough to cause this site to miss Tweets based on their collection strategy . ... A search for the tag #aas219 (case insensitive) using the Twitter REST API . ...

J E N A M - 2000 Moscow . ... We are pleased to confirm that the JENAM-2000 meeting will take place in Moscow, Russia, in May 29 - June 3, 2000. ... Registration form . ... You can submit it through the Web-page (highly desirable) URL: http//www.inasan.rssi.ru/INASAN/JENAM . ... Please, visit JENAM-2000 Web-pages http://www.inasan.rssi.ru/INASAN/JENAM , http://www.sai.msu.su/jenam , http://www.aip.fr/eas/meetings.htm for news and additional details about JENAM and associated events planning. ...

Results of the project "Beautiful Places - Open Hearts" . The Department of International Educational Projects at the Centre of Education in Zelenogorsk, Russia have conducted from November 2001 to March 2002 the project: "Beatiful Places - Open Hearts" with the intention to discover creative gifted children from over the world. In this project, 196 pupils in age of 7-18 have participated: 105 school children from abroad and 91 children from Russia. ... Participants of the project . ...

Recombination H110 alpha line in the Orion Nebula . ... Distribution of recombination line H110 alpha emission on a wave length 6.2cm in the Orion Nebula was obtained with the radiotelescope RATAN-600 with the resolution 40" x 6' x 9.7 km/s ( figure 1 ). ... Thin envelope with diameter 0.36 pc and expamding velocitys about +40 and -70 km/sec was also found. The increase of temperature of gas is revealed in this thin layer. ... Profiles of H110 alpha line in a central part of Orion Nebula. ...

... S.P. KOROLEV ROCKET AND SPACE CORPORATION ENERGIA . ... OAO RSC "Energia" . ... Company's History . ... History . ... ISS Russian Segment . ... ISS 45/46 . ... check for the following onboard the ISS RS: a capability to demonstrate the action of physical laws of dynamics of reactive and gyroscopic forces on ellipsoid (Letauschaya Tarelka device) rotating in the unsupported medium in microgravity, with video record of its behavior in the station module; . ... 2015 JSC "S.P. Korolev RSC "Energia" . ...

. English . Russian KOI8 . Current server sed.sao.ru . Dissertation of Doctor of Sciences degree ( close to German Habilitation ) . A time to cast away stones, . and a time to gather stones together . Ecclesiastes, Ch. 3 ; 5 . Full gzipped PostScript version (in Russian) is here (2005), autoreferat (short thesis in Russian) is here . Main results of dissertation work . Continue...

K-band Arcetri Obscured Supernova Search . What is the KAOSS Project? W hat is the KAOSS Project? Some recent surveys aimed at detecting Supernovae (SNe) in the optical have found that starburst galaxies do not show evidence for an enhanced SN rate, with respect to quiescent galaxies (Richmond et al. ... A similar result was obtained by Navasardyan et al. (2001) who looked for SNe in interacting galaxies, finding no evidence for correlations between SN rate and galaxy properties. ...

... Bad Astronomy . ... Bad Astronomy : The Moon appears larger on the horizon than overhead because you are comparing it to foreground objects. Good astronomy : The Moon does appear larger on the horizon, but it is because of the way we perceive the sky. ... The most common misconception is that it is because you are unconsciously comparing the Moon to foreground objects like trees and houses, or even the horizon itself, and that makes the Moon look bigger than when it is all alone in the sky. ...

... NEWS . This is a list of new entries to the ESO Web Site within the last two months, August 2005 and September 2005. Subscribers to What's New in the ESO Web Notifier get an automated message of recent changes in the ESO Web . An archive of what's new entries is available. ... Take a look at: http://www.eso.org/observing/proposals/ . ... ESO 33/06 - Science Release: Astronomers, using ESO's Very Large Telescope, have for the first time made the link between an X-ray flash and a supernova. ...

The 14 th International Astronomy Olympiad has been held successfully in Hangzhou (China) on November 8-16, 2009. ... There were 17 teams participated and 1 team observed in the XIV IAO: . ... Sunday, November 8 - Day of arrival . ... Thursday, November 12 - Day of excursions . ... M. G. Gavrilov (IAO Chairman) - Chairman, . J. Zhu (Beijing, XIV IAO-2009 and X IAO-2005 LOC Chairman), . ... Dr. Michael G. Gavrilov, Founding Chairman and Coordinator of the International Astronomy Olympiad (IAO) . ...