Next: POSTPASSES Up: Tape Management Previous: READBACK TESTS Contents . If a project is being scheduled that uses stations that have only one tape drive, it is necessary to schedule in a gap of about 15 minutes for that tape change to be accomplished. ... For optimized schedules, this can present a bit of a problem, so the input parameter TAPESYNC is provided to try to cause all stations that are near the end of their tape to change when the first reaches the end. ...

... 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. ...

... 2008 July 14 . Changes in Angular Mars . ... As both Earth and Mars orbit the Sun, the apparent angular size of Mars changes as viewed from the Earth. Pictured above from Enschede , Holland , Mars was captured in 2007 and 2008 with 30 separate images, all taken with the same magnification. When Earth and Mars are on opposite sides of the Sun, Mars appears relatively small. ... Since Mars is always more distant from the Sun than the Earth, Mars never shows a crescent phase to Earthlings. ...

The night after the John Glenn program, I pitched the terraforming idea to my students. I asked them if they'd like to terraform Mars as a big class project; I wanted to throw the idea to them and see how they would react. Already I had a vision of splitting the class into several groups and having each group take charge of a portion of the project. ... Following my initial idea on how to conduct the project, I split the class into six groups, each student choosing his or her group. ...

... The Raw Images . Table 1: List of Viking Orbiter Images of the "Face on Mars" . ... Processing the Face Images . ... In July, 1976, Viking Orbiter 1 was acquiring images of the Cydonia region of Mars as part of the search for potential landing sites for Viking Lander 2. ... Using the height field, it is also possible to view the "Face" from different look directions, by mapping the Viking Orbiter image directly on the the topography and then placing the "viewer" at different locations. ... Mars . ...

... Changes in Angular Mars . ... 14.07.2008 . ... As both Earth and Mars orbit the Sun, the apparent angular size of Mars changes as viewed from the Earth. Pictured above from Enschede , Holland , Mars was captured in 2007 and 2008 with 30 separate images, all taken with the same magnification. ... NASA Web Site Statements, Warnings, and Disclaimers . ... Publications with keywords: Mars - angular size . Publications with words: Mars - angular size . ... A Mars Panorama from the Phoenix Lander . ...

... The changebar (represented by two hyphens in the image) appears in the 10px space to the left of the paragraph. The illustration shows a vertical line that represents the left edge of the paragraph's containing block. ... The change bars (two red hyphens) appear to the left of the word "THIS", which begins the fourth line of text. The following PRE element simulates the example. Vertical bars represent the left containing block edge. ... to the left of the line containing | ...

... Follow the steps described below in order to make a change to an investigator's email address. Navigate to the program information web page for one of the investigator's observing programs and then click on the Investigators link. ... Select Profile Request and then work through the ProPer interface for changing a person's profile. Once you have completed the profile change, ProPer will display this page which shows that a change confirmation email has been sent to the investigator. ...

To change your password: passwd Old password: enter your current password New password: enter your new password Retype new password: re-enter your new password . Enter the command passwd and then respond to the prompts by entering your old password followed by your new one. ... The passwords will not appear on the screen as you type, to prevent other people from seeing them. If you make a mistake, the message Mismatch - password unchanged. is displayed and your password remains unchanged. ...

... Archives . ... Quote] Model Skeptics . ... From IMS Bulletin Vol. 36(7) p.10, TerenceтАЩs Stuff: Changing my mind (again) . Over the years IтАЩve had many strong likes and dislikes for the various parts our subject. ... IтАЩve been in love with sufficiency and hated cluster analysis. I thought the theory of games was elegant, while that of linear models lacked style. ... Brownian theory was hot, sampling theory was not. ... Comment ( RSS ) | ... Entries RSS . ... Chandra Blog . ML Theory . ...

Changes SciSim v2.0.3 . SciSim v2.0.3 is a bug fix release of SciSim and contains only minor changes compared to v2.0.2. The input (configuration & data) files, as well as the ODF products are compatible with previous versions. ... EDUID is currently coupled to ccd id. ... Iterpretation of Quadrant and CCD numbering has changed (see also the ESIM documentation in the SciSim User Guide). ... The following README files specify the changes in the data-files and in the configuration file: . ...

... Tonight's Sky . ... Observing . ... Sky this Month . ... Astronomy for Kids . ... Can you explain Mercury's retrograde motion? Do other planets appear to do this also? ... When astronomers talk about retrograde motion, generally they refer to the apparent motion outer planets make as Earth passes them while orbiting the Sun. ... Get instant access to subscriber content on Astronomy.com! ... Receive news, sky-event information, observing tips, and more from Astronomy's weekly email newsletter. ...

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Next: M.D. Smith, Research Astronomer Up: Research Previous: J.G. Doyle, Research Astronomer Contents . During the final stages in its life, a star is transformed in ways which remain poorly understood. ... Each transformation is a response to changes in chemical composition in the stellar interior as nuclear reactions convert one source of fuel into another. ... Consequently, the number of stars currently in these late stages of stellar evolution is comparatively small. ...

This is a copy of a Press Release from E.S.O. The most recent ESO observations of bright Comet Hyakutake have shown rapid changes in the innermost coma, within a few hundred kilometres from the cometary nucleus. This result has only become possible because of the unusual combination of a bright comet being near the Earth, together with the excellent imaging quality of the ESO 3.5-metre New Technology Telescope (NTT). ... Go to the ESO Homepage for Comet Hyakutake . ESO/La Silla | ...

Trace: q3c-2011 . ... SAI VO Projects . ... Help on Wiki search . ... Title: Efficiently handling spherical data in Postgres . ... Abstract: Spherical data appear in a lot of problems in modern science and technology, ranging from geoinformational systems to astronomical catalogues. Efficient handling of such data in Postgres is necessary, and Postgres do have support for it, though not in core, through its ability to define fully indexable custom data types and functional indices. ... SAI VO | ...

Проект существует с июля 2002 года. Цель проекта - дать краткий обзор наиболее интересных статей, появившихся в библиотеке электронных препринтов astro-ph . Также в обзоры будут включаться статьи, появившиеся в списке astro-ph из других разделов. ... Параллельно в 2002-2003 гг. создавался списки обзорных статей, в которых подробно освещаются те или иные часто обсуждаемые вопросы (например, статья А. Линде hep-th/0107176 является одной из лучших обзорных статей по инфляции). ...

Orbit . ... The orbit of the RadioAstron provides four types of study: . rough images of radio sources with ultra-high angular resolution, using all baselines up to the radius of the apogee, that is much larger than Earth diameter; . ... high quality imaging of radio sources, with moderate resolution, by observing either with small projected base lines Earth-spacecraft, i.e. close to the orbital plane, or near the perigee. ... high accuracy orbit determination. ... Space Radio Telescope . ...

... Return to the Kernel page . ... Kernel . ... This article is part of the LWN Porting Drivers to 2.6 series . One might be tempted to think that the basic task of keeping track of the time would not change that much from one kernel to the next. ... One change which shouldn't be problematic for most code is the change in the internal clock rate on the x86 architecture. In previous kernels, HZ was 100; in 2.6 it has been bumped up to 1000. ... Driver porting: Timekeeping changes . ...

ASTRONOMY . ASTRONOMY is a science, which studies solids and occurrences in the sky. ... They built the picture of the world according to their knowledge. With the course of time the world picture was being changed because there appeared new facts and information and new theories on the celestial occurrences and what is more impotant there appeared an opportunity to check up the correctness of ideas through the observation and measuring using the new achievements of the sciences. ...