... Bad Astronomy . ... Bitesize Astronomy . ... Last week's Snack talked about how black holes can affect the environment around them in such a way as to be very bright . ... It's a common misconception that black holes always have matter swirling into them. ... As this matter gets closer and closer to the black hole it piles up and a large, fairly flat disk forms. This is called the accretion disk , because matter from this disk accretes (that is, falls in) on the black hole. ... 2008 Phil Plait. ...

. To you, the user, it appears as though there is only one type of file in UNIX - the file which is used to hold your information. In fact, the UNIX filesystem contains several types of file. Ordinary files . Directories . Special files . Pipes .

... 2005 August 8 . Mars to Appear Normal This August . ... Regardless of numerous urban legends circulating, Mars will appear relatively normal in August. October is the best month to see Mars this year. ... As Earth catches up to Mars in their respective orbits around the Sun, Mars will keep rising earlier in the night. On 2005 October 30, Earth will have caught up to Mars and the planets will be the nearest to each other in their orbits -- this time around. ... About APOD | ...

... Data Reduction FAQ > The reduced science spectrum displayed in the Reflex window appears good but when I try to plot it, it is quite different. How can I get it? ... Observing with ESO Telescopes . ... ESO-MIDAS . ... Reflex . ... ESO Data . ... ESO HST Image Galleries . ... ESO Data Access Policy . ... ESO Science Newsletter . ... ESO Annual Reports . ... Seminars at ESO Santiago . ... Seminars at ESO Garching . ... ESO Telescope Bibliography . ... Last Update: 01.04.14 ESO . ...

... Tonight's Sky . ... Sky this Month . ... Star Atlas . ... stars . ... The Sky This Week: April 1 - 10 . ... Observing springtime deep-sky objects with a large telescope . ... Why do some stars appear to flash a variety of different colors when you look at them through a telescope? ... So, Earthт??s atmosphere will bend some colors from especially bright stars more so than others, which makes the source look like itт??s flashing colors. Get instant access to subscriber content on Astronomy.com! ...

... Early on, our interest in chirping analysis functions was motivated by a different kind of chirping phenomenon: chirping due to perspective. ... Our interest in radar, however, drew us toward processes that are more accurately analyzed by linear-FM chirplets. ... We have also constructed other chirplet transforms, such as a three-parameter Doppler chirplet representation that models a source producing a sinusoidal wave, while moving along a straight line (e.g. a train whistle). ...

... HST Phase II Proposal Instructions for Cycle 20 > Chapter 6: Parallel Science Exposures > 6.3 Coordinated Parallel Containers . ... In the text proposal file format, coordinated parallel exposures are indicated with the exposure-level special requirement: . ... A Coordinated Parallel Container designates a set of one or more parallel exposures ( <parallel-exp-list> ) that will execute in parallel with a set of one or more primary exposures ( <primary-exp-list ) in the same visit. ... 6.3.2 Targets ....

Astronomy Picture of the Day . ... 27.07.2015 . ... The nearest apparition was the common rainbow , created by sunlight streaming from the setting sun over the head of the photographer, and scattering from raindrops in front of the canyon. ... These are known as anticrepuscular rays and result from sunlight streaming though breaks in the clouds, around the sky, and converging at the point 180 degrees around from the Sun. ... July 2015 . ... 2015 2016 . ... Anticrepuscular Rays Over Horseshoe Canyon ...

The Mars Flag has a different design on the reverse side. obverse side of flag . ... The orbit lines on the obverse cross the Sun on the lower half of the flag and appear to go behind the Sun on the upper half of the flag. The reverse side has the orbits lines continuing around the Sun on the upper half of the flag. ... The Mars Flag reverse side is a continuation of the obverse side and not just a different design on the back and not a mirror image of the obverse. Main Flag Background Color . ...

... Meta Index / Home Page Once you have selected a specific SAS task , a dialog will appear. Though the dialog may be different for every task, the all have a general layout, that may look like: . The top side of the dialog contains all parameters that are needed by this task. ... Clicking on one of the tabs will show the parameters belonging to the selected tab . ... Some of these frames have a check box on the top left. ... Other frames may show a selection box . ... Execute a task . ...

... self-absorption - the absorption of light shining on an object by a process similar to that which produced the light originally; if a cloud emits less light than it absorbs from other clouds behind it, this net loss of light, termed self-absorption , causes the foreground cloud to appear darker than the background field (the term is from spectroscopy, where small absorption dips sometimes occur in larger emission lines, making the latter look as if it is absorbing part of itself) . ... HISA Main ...

image collection >> physical phenomena >> internal waves . Image ers9609020202 . ... September 02, 1996 at 02:02 . ... Several IW packets are clearly visible on ERS-2 SAR image taken on 2 September 1996 at 02:02 UTC. ... Some of the IW packets are oriented approximately parallel to the depth contours (blue lines). ... Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) Layered Ocean Model (NLOM) SSH and current analysis for 02 September 1996. ... Image . surface geometry : 100*100 km . ...

RTT150 . ... This search system is designed for generating the necessary information on series of pointings (observations of each source consist of sets of exposures with different filters and sometimes with different exposure times) for observed sources. Search results appear at the separate page as a table with the following data: . DATE - real (not evening!) observations date (in YYYY-MM-DD format); . ... Bin - minimal CCD binning mode (may vary during the observations); . ...

The HyperNews Linux KHG Discussion Pages . Forum: The Linux Kernel Hackers' Guide . Date: Tue, 12 Nov 1996 21:46:59 GMT . From: Suman Ball < sb241@columbia.edu > . Does anyone know which file in the kernel source contains partition type information? It appears that windows95 has a different partion type number for extended and logical partitions, so I need to add it to see whether I can read them. Thanks, Suman.

... A child widget can then be added to this EventBox: gtk_container_add (GTK_CONTAINER (event_box), child_widget); . ... Resizing the window reveals varying amounts of the label . #include stdlib.h #include gtk / gtk .h int main( int argc, char *argv[] ) { GtkWidget * window ; GtkWidget * event_box ; GtkWidget * label ; gtk _init ( argc, argv); window = gtk _ window _new ( GTK _ WINDOW _TOPLEVEL); gtk _ window _set_title ( GTK _ WINDOW ( window ), Event Box ); g_signal_connect (G_OBJECT...

... Some people have asked why Venus appears in "different places" in these photos. ... Dave Wallace . ... It was taken from Brookline, NH using my Celestron 5" SCT through a Tutill Solar Skreen filter using Fuji Superia Reala color print film. ... Marblehead Middle School Fifth Grade Students viewed the 2004 Transit of Venus from Riverhead Beach on Marblehead Harbor when the Sun broke through the clouds at about 6:45 a.m. Eyepiece projection with my 8" Meade SCT and Televue 32mm Plossl worked well. ...

If you select Select item, the Data retrieval from observatory list dialog box will appear. Click on one of two radio buttons to the left of data fields intended for observatory code or name and introduce the required data. In case of observatory name it is possible to introduce its fragment. ... If it is necessary to enter new observatory into the list, mark one of the entries with missing data and select Edit in drop-down menu. ... In this case Landscape mode should be selected. ...

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Astronomy Discussion Forums . ... Teleportation . ... If the Sun lost half its mass; = includes basic concept apparently Sun losing "half its uncertainty", = Sun becoming more factorised (concentrated) .. ... If the sun lost half its mass, on this idea it would partially let go of gravity (well conventional physics says this too?) ... www.astronomy.net . ... Forum posts are Copyright their authors as specified in the heading above the post. "dbHTML," "AstroGuide," "ASTRONOMY.NET" & "VA.NET" . ...

Search this album . ... Title: The First 100 Years . Description: This album contains photographs and images that survived or have been donated from private collections. Photographs and images that survived or have been donated from private collections. Most of the site images prior to 1990 were taken by Stromlo photographers Vince Hunt or Keith Smith. ... Sidebar Left . ... Views: 3914 . Mt Stromlo Observatory - General views . ... The Commonwealth Solar Observatory building aтАж . ...