... Bringing news from across the Universe to children all around the world . ... Unlike many other subjects, like history and mathematics, science doesn t have to be learnt from a book, you can really experience it. After all, science is the study of the world around us. ... Take Messier 7, the cluster of stars in this photograph, it can be seen easily with the naked eye. You will find the cluster in the stinger of the constellation many of us know as Scorpius (the Scorpion). ...

... Doug's Home Page . ... In the examples below we show a number of ways that data can be moved back and forth between S-Lang and Perl . ... Source code typeof : "undef"; __END__ __SLang__ variable foo = Any_Type [3]; foo[0] = "a string"; foo[1] = 23; define getfoo(x) { return foo[x]; } message( "In S-Lang:" ); vmessage( "typeof(foo[0]) = %s", string(typeof(foo[0])) ); vmessage( "typeof(foo[1]) = %s", string(typeof(foo[1])) ); vmessage( "typeof(foo[2]) = %s", string(typeof(foo[2])) ); . ...

... Oral traditions have since time immemorial satisfied generations of children and adults with stories of wonder, fantasy, truth, and mystery. ... The story of astronomy and astronomy's evolution as a science includes countless tales originally crafted to explain the visible celestial bodies, their motions (regular and irregular), the mysteries behind their existence, and the powers they exert over us on Earth. ... Impediments to Elementary Astronomy Programs . ... Storytelling Activities - Moon Story...

... This section describes how to establish an interactive session on a remote computer while you are logged on to the VMS host. There are two ways to do this: Telnet (which you will use for connecting to Unix hosts or any remote system) and the DECnet SET HOST to connect to another VMS machine. ... To login to a remote node on the network, the SET HOST command is used. ... REM-S-END, control returned to node _AVION:: You can login to a remote machine using the telnet command. ... SET HOST . ...

Astronotes Armagh Planetarium's Stellar Blog! ... Armagh Planetarium . ... Space Flight . ... Science Fiction . ... February . ... By admin January 12, 2015 Posted in: Armagh Planetarium . Train to be a space hero at Armagh Planetarium (Image credit: NITB-used with permission) . Armagh Planetarium is pleased to announce that for a week during the Northern Ireland Science Festival Science festival we will help you inspire a would-be astronaut in your classroom! ... Where : Armagh Planetarium . ...

The First Law (1): Energy is Conserved in a closed system: . ... We usually consider work and heat flow as the two kinds of energy . The Second Law (2): The Law of Entropy: . ... The amount of disorder increases . ... You can not go from a disordered system to an ordered system without inputting more energy (this is the most important attribute of the second law) . ... In no way can we recover work of that this disordered system without putting energy into the system. ... More on Thermodynamics . ...

A methodical and didactical complex "Sign Language" . ... ABSTRACT The process of communication of the deaf includes the wide use of the sign language. ... The aim of this work is to develop a tool that should facilitate process of sign language teaching and also give to the trainee a means for independent study of various normative variants of sign language - for example, Russian, English, International and so on. ... The process of dialogue of the deaf people includes wide use of sign languages. ...

... No one is sure, although it is likely related to a star in a binary star system entering the planetary nebula phase, when its outer atmosphere is ejected. ... Star Streams and the Sunflower Galaxy . ... A bright spiral galaxy of the northern sky, Messier 63 is about 25 million light-years distant in the loyal constellation Canes Venatici. Also cataloged as NGC 5055, the majestic island universe is nearly 100,000 light-years across, about the size of our own Milky Way. ...

Next: Official Visits Up: Widening Access Previous: Media Coverage . Visits by groups to the Armagh Observatory Grounds and Astropark have continued to be encouraged. ... The first of these, during the period 15-18 September, was a joint venture in partnership with the Armagh Public Library. ... A selection from the list of group visits to the Observatory during 2003 is provided in Table 5 . ... Table 5: Group visits and tours around the Armagh Observatory during 2003. Group . ... 5 Mar 2003 . ...

... A rough estimation is that in the United States there is one planetarium per 100,000 population, ranging in size from the Hayden Planetarium's 20-meter dome seating 430 people, to three-meter inflatable portable domes where children sit on the floor. ... Together dblo associates make a huge impact in the architecture, interior design and development arena in London. ... With the holidays around the corner what better way to spoil your family than with your very own private home cinema. ...

This document covers stopping and restarting Apache on Unix and Cygwin only. ... Then the parent itself exits. ... It re-reads its configuration files, and re-opens any log files. ... Note: If your configuration file has errors in it when you issue a restart then your parent will not restart, it will exit with an error. ... The USR1 signal causes the parent process to advise the children to exit after their current request (or to exit immediately if they're not serving anything). ...

The apparent path of the Sun across the sky. ... The path of the Sun across the celestial sphere is very close to that of the planets and the moon. ... In one year, as the Earth completes a full circuit around the Sun (drawing above), the Earth-Sun line and its continuation past Earth sweep the entire plane. ... Since the Sun and Earth are in the plane of the ecliptic, the line is automatically in that plane too; if the moon is also on the same line, it must be in the plane of the ecliptic as well. ...

... The Seasons . ... Section #1 Stargazers and Skywatchers described the observed motion of the Sun across the sky, in different seasons of the year. ... If the Earth's axis were perpendicular to the ecliptic, as in the drawings here, the Sun's position in the sky would be halfway between the celestial poles, and its daily path, seen from any point on Earth, would stay exactly the same, day after day. Each point on Earth would be carried around the axis AB once a day. ... The Sun and Seasons . ...

Previous Next Table of Contents . Here is an example of how the sparkle plug-in can be used to add both lens flare and a feathered edge to an image. ... Now, two versions of this same image after being processed by the sparkle plug-in (if you see rows of dots in the white area around the images its not a problem with the sparkle plug-in, its an artifact from converting to jpeg and using higher compression): . ... Flare Intensity: 0.303 . Spike Length: 76 . ...

... Schaaff, A. 2003, in ASP Conf. ... Started at CDS in 2002, the work around Web Services is in a full exploitation phase. ... A portal is available to publish all information about how to use CDS XML Webservices and also hints on how to start to use XML Web Services (tutorial, links, etc.) ... Figure: The CDS Web Service Portal at http://cdsweb.u-strasbg.fr/cdsws.gml . ... Note that it is not necessary to deal with the contents of a SOAP file to have client access to the CDS XML Web Services. ...

... To overlay the sourcelist srclist.ds generated previously by eboxdetect on an image image.ds the following command can be used: . srcdisplay imageset=image.ds boxlistset=srclist.ds . ... To overlay circles of radius 0.01 degrees, use the following: . srcdisplay imageset=image.ds boxlistset=srclist.ds sourceradius=0.01 . ... srcdisplay imageset=image.ds boxlistset=srclist.ds sourceradius=0.01 withregionfile=true regionfile=regions.txt . ...

These are the contents of a shell script called display : cat display # This script displays the date, time, username and # current directory. echo "Date and time is:" date echo echo "Your username is: `whoami` \\n" echo "Your current directory is: \\c" pwd . The first two lines beginning with a hash ( # ) are comments and are not interpreted by the shell. Use comments to document your shell script; you will be surprised how easy it is to forget what your own programs do! ...

Example FITS maps have been prepared for each of the projections described in Paper II , and separate FITS spectral data files are provided to illustrate the spectral representations described in Paper III . ... The maps use the same projection parameters as in Paper II (where applicable). ... The example maps and spectra are offered mainly as test material for software that deals with FITS WCS. ... Zenithal (azimuthal) projections . ... Cylindrical projections . ... Conic projections . ...

This view from the Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope shows a close-up of the sky around a very unusual green object called J224024.1тИТ092748 (J2240). It is a bright example of a new class of objects that have been nicknamed green bean galaxies. Green beans are entire galaxies that are glowing under the intense radiation from the region around a central black hole. J2240 lies in the constellation Aquarius the Water Bearer, and its light has taken about 3.7 billion years to reach Earth. ...

... Tour Objects Tours can be created using objects from within the Autostar database or a user can enter in different objects (such as a newly discovered comet). ... Automatic Mode: As the user advances to each object, the title of the object appears on line 1 of the display while its descriptive text automatically starts scrolling across line 2. ... For example: STAR "Rigel" LANDMARK az alt "title" "description" Enter the azimuth (az) for the desired object in the following format xxxdxxmxxs. ...