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... 2004 August 23 . Looking Out Over Mars . Credit: Mars Exploration Rover Mission , JPL , NASA . Explanation: What would it be like to climb a hill and look out over Mars? That opportunity was afforded the Spirit rover earlier this month as it rolled to a high perch in the Columbia Hills . ... Both Spirit and her sister robot Opportunity have completed their primary three-month mission but remain in good enough condition to continue to explore Mars . ... About APOD | ...

... Let's take a look at another way of packing - Tables. ... The first thing to look at, of course, is the gtk_table_new() function: GtkWidget *gtk_table_new( guint rows, guint columns, gboolean homogeneous ); . ... These places spacing between the rows at the specified row or column. void gtk_table_set_row_spacing( GtkTable *table, guint row, guint spacing ); . ... You can also set a consistent spacing of all rows and/or columns with: void gtk_table_set_row_spacings( GtkTable *table, guint spacing ); ...

... August 30, 1999 . Looking Back on an Eclipsed Earth . ... Explanation: Here is what the Earth looks like during a solar eclipse. ... Only observers near the center of the dark circle see a total solar eclipse - others see a partial eclipse where only part of the Sun appears blocked by the Moon . This spectacular picture of the 1999 August 11 solar eclipse was one of the last ever taken from the Mir space station , as Mir is being decommissioned after more than ten years of productive use. ...

... It isn t often that astronomers look into space and see another pair of eyes staring back at them, but that s what we have here. These aren t the eyes of an alien, but a pair of galaxies nicknamed The Eyes because they look like a pair of white eyeballs glowing in the dark! ... At first view, the galaxies don t look a lot like eyes in this photo, but that s because this picture was taken with a very powerful telescope called the Very Large Telescope. ...

... I spent most of the day trying yo get drizzlepac to build, with a lot of help with Megan. It builds now, but still fails most of its tests. ... I finished writing calc_pixmap, which creates an image mapping the pixels of one image into another and then wrote the first test case, which I am trying to get to run. ... I have finished the first set of unit tests and am trying to get them to build. ... I wrote the C and Python code to wrap the unit tests and the Python test case to invoke it. ...

Astronotes Armagh Planetarium's Stellar Blog! ... Planets . ... Exoplanets . ... Space Flight . ... Science Fiction . ... August . ... By admin August 18, 2011 Posted in: August . Artist's impressions of Kepler and the light curve of transiting planet (Image credit: NASA) . ... In 1995 we knew of only nine planets (including Pluto, how times change), but in that year the first of the extra-solar planets or exoplanets was confirmed. ... Another is one of the most Earth-like worlds yet discovered . ...

... VLBI Schedule . ... Observers Wiki . Schedules . ... Main / . Locate VNC session "pksvnc1", to be found on (usually) the left-most screen of the 4-headed control room machine. ... On the leftmost desktop in this session find the "oprin" window and type; . ... To start a new observing schedule type the following; . ... The second of the four connected displays (on "bourbon") is displaying the VNC session "vlbi's PkMk5B ", which is running on pictor:2 using the vlbi VNC password. ...

... 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. ...

Astronomy Picture of the Day . Looking Back on an Eclipsed Earth . ... 30.08.1999 . ... August 1999 . ... 1999 2000 . ... NASA Web Site Statements, Warnings, and Disclaimers . ... Publications with keywords: Earth - Mir - solar eclipse . Publications with words: Earth - Mir - solar eclipse . ... Earth and Moon from MESSENGER . The Planet and the Radio Dish . Happy People Dancing on Planet Earth . ... Andes Sunset Eclipse . Mosaic: Welcome to Planet Earth . ...

. The command man gives you access to an on-line manual containing a complete description of every command available on this system. man can also provide you with one line descriptions of commands specified by name; or for all commands whose description contains any of a set of keywords. Understanding the organisation of the manual . Searching by keyword . Checking the description of a command . Viewing manual pages . Printing manual pages .

SAOtng supports display of photon event data contained in raw files, similar to its support for FITS Binary Table extensions (e.g., X-ray event lists). ... Because event files do not usually contain enough information to generate an image, we have adopted some conventions for specifying how to interpret the data in these files and for how to bin rows of events into images. To image an event file, it is first of all necessary to define the structure of the events in the event file. ...

In 1995 Eugene set an annual rainfall record by recording, officially, 65.56 inches of rain. ... The mean annual rainfall for Eugene from the 25 year period 1970-1994 was 51.5 inches with a dispersion of 8 inches. ... Wettest Years: . ... Below are the official NWS corrected rain totals for the year 1996. Although these are now "official", I go on record here by saying there is no way I believe that Eugene, Oregon received 101 inches of rain in 1996. ... January: Old = 14.74; corrected = 14.48 . ...

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... Meta Index / Home Page This section documents the parameters recognized by this task (if any). ... The image dataset to be smoothed. outset . ... If smoothtype='adaptive' is chosen, the maximum number of gaussian smoothing kernels is specified via this parameter. minsigma . ... If smoothtype=`adaptive' is chosen, the maximum desired signal-to-noise ratio of the output image can be specified via this parameter. readtemplateset . ... Look for the name of a source list on the command line. srclistset ....

OptInt PmWiki : Pm Wiki / Page List Templates . ... template first:) . ... template last ...:) sections to specify output for the first or last page in the list or a group. ... template]] (:template defaults order=name:) (:template first:) Pages ordered by group (:template first {=$Group}:) Pages in group [[{=$Group}/]] (:template each:) * [[{=$FullName}]] (:template last {=$Group}:) {=$Group} contains {$$GroupPageCount} pages. (:template last:) {$$PageCount} pages total. [[#templateend]] . ...

... Day-by-day lines contain complete set and intended for those who have been there (I mean, in Kyoto :) . ... Large format is mainly for 1600x1200 screens and fast link (pictures are up to 150K in size). Normal is for typical 1024x768 screen (i.e. 15" monitors). ... Photos look incredible on it. ... Large . ... Normal . ... Thumbnails . ... Contents with thumbnails: Large | ... Nara, one of the historical cities of Japan . ... August 17, Sunday. ... Nara. ... return to photo album contents | ...

From: TerryMosel@aol.com Date: Sat, 9 Aug 2003 16:39:45 EDT Subject: BBQ TV Progs Hi all, As promised in STARDUST, I said I would hold a 'Perseids BBQ' for IAA members ( others) on the first clear night of 9, 10, 11 or 12 August. ... Venue is the picnic site at Big Collin, on the B94 from Ballyclare to Broughshane. ... As for the Midsummer BBQ at Armagh Observatory, I'll bring the BBQ, fuel etc, you bring your own food, drink, cooking eating equipment. ... Clear skies, Terry Moseley . ...

... Barbara Hubal . Mike Unsold . ... Hidden Hollow 2008 . Workshops . ... The Hidden Hollow weekend Star Party at Warren Rupp Observatory will be back again this year the weekend of May 2nd - 4th! ... Mike is the developer of the ImagesPlus camera control and astronomical image processing software, which was listed as a "hot product" by Sky & Telescope in 2004. ... The Riverside Telescope Makers Conference (RTMC) has hosted Mike's workshops for the last two year, and they both sold out! ...

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