... Tonight's Sky . ... The Magazine . ... Star Atlas . ... An artificial comet holds secrets to Earths life . ... Astronomy for Kids . ... Observing springtime deep-sky objects with a large telescope . ... The planet has extreme temperature swings and perhaps active lava flows. ... A digital supplement to Astronomy magazine. ... Join TravelQuest International with Astronomy and Discover magazines on one of three great tour options surrounding this celestial spectacle . ... Astronomy Magazine . ...

... The constituents of the current calibration file are named as follows: . scope _ calname _ issue .ccf . ... scope . indicates the scope of the calibration file (at most 5 characters long). ... is the file issue number (integer and , zero padded). File names are not case sensitive. ... general files or files shared by more than one instrument . ... Optical Monitor files . ... X-ray Telescope files . ... European Photon Imaging Camera MOS files . ... European Photon Imaging Camera PN files . ...

... Abstract Return (get) the name for the current array in the current DAF. Required_Reading DAF . ... Detailed_Output name is the name for the current array (the array found by the latest call to daffna_c or daffpa_c ). ... Particulars The DAF search routines are: dafbfs_c Begin forward search. daffna Find next array. dafbbs_c Begin backward search. daffpa_c Find previous array. dafgs_c Get summary. dafgn_c Get name. dafgh_c Get handle. dafcs_c Continue search. ... Index_Entries get daf array name . ...

You can use the echo command to display the value of an environment variable. ... This displays the value of the environment variable PATH. ... The $ sign is a shell metacharacter that uses the value of the variable instead of its name. ... For the Bourne shell use the command set to display the value of environment variables. For the C and TC shell use the command printenv or env to display the value of environment variables and the command set to display the value of local shell variables. ...

GCVS Research Group: . Recent publications . Kazarovets E.V., Samus N.N., Durlevich O.V., Kireeva N.N., Pastukhova E.N., The 81st Name-List of Variable Stars. ... Kazarovets E.V., Samus N.N., Durlevich O.V., Kireeva N.N., Pastukhova E.N., The 80th Name-List of Variable Stars. ... Samus N.N., Kazarovets E.V., Kireeva N.N., Pastukhova E.N., Durlevich O.V. General Catalogue of Variable Stars: Current status and new Name-lists Odessa Astronomical Publications, 2010, V. 23, p. 102-105. ...

... PmWiki . ... PmWiki FAQ . ... Go to new wiki . ... admins (advanced) This page describes an internal function in PmWiki 's engine called FmtPageName() . ... Returns $fmt , with $variable and internationalisation substitutions performed, under the assumption that the current page is pagename . ... The function FmtPageName() applies internationalization-substitutions and $Variable-substitions to the string $fmt under the assumption that the current page is $pagename. ... Set a global variable. ...

... Satellites of the planets are assigned a provisional designation (indicating year of discovery) by the Central Bureau for Astronomical Telegrams ( CBAT ) upon satisfactory demonstration of the existence of a new object. ... In the past, Comets were first given a provisional designation, consisting of the year and a lowercase letter indicating the order of discovery in the year (e.g., 1994a was the first comet discovered or recovered in 1994, 1994b the second, etc.) ... Names .. ...

Подписка на рассылку обзоров astro-ph на Subscribe.Ru . ... Предыдущий выпуск (N335) . ... Обсудить на форуме Scientific.RU . ... Подписка на рассылку обзоров на Subscribe.Ru . Обзоры препринтов astro-ph . ... Собственно обзоры препринтов. ... Ранее обзоры также были на Астронете и на Scientific.Ru . ... АНКи доступны на Астронете , а с 2006 по 2008 г. также на сайте Элементы.Ру . ... Ранее они также размещались на сайте Астронет и в архиве моих обозрений (кодировка KOI8) на сайте Scientific.Ru . ...

Several tiny moons have been discovered recently, most from ground based imagery! With these discoveries, Uranus joins the jovian planets in having a number of small moons in irregular orbits. ... Two new moons of Uranus , provisionally known as Uranus XVI (S/1997 U 1) and Uranus XVII (S/1997 U 2), have been discovered. ... Caliban was discovered by Brett Gladman , Phil Nicholson, Joseph Burns, and JJ Kavelaars using the 200 inch Hale telescope ; the first images were taken 1997 Sept 6 and 7. ...

Astronomy Picture of the Day . ... 30.06.2002 . ... Credit: Galileo Project , JPL , NASA Explanation: This asteroid has a moon ! ... The second asteroid it photographed, Ida , was discovered to have a moon which appears as a small dot to the right of Ida in this picture . ... Dactyl is the first moon of an asteroid ever discovered. ... Other asteroids are now known to have moons . ... Publications with keywords: Ida - Dactyl - asteroid . Publications with words: Ida - Dactyl - asteroid . ...

Armagh Observatory, 10 January 2003: A former resident of Armagh, Mr Terry Moseley, now President of the Irish Astronomical Association , was recently honoured by the International Astronomical Union (IAU) by having a minor planet named after him. The asteroid, the first to be discovered by David Asher, of the Armagh Observatory, was found at Siding Spring Observatory, Australia, on Boxing Day 1994. A reception to mark the event will be held at the Armagh Observatory on Wednesday 15th January. ...

OptInt PmWiki : Pm Wiki / Basic Variables . ... Defaults to 'AsSpaced'. ... Defaults to 'Profiles'. ... If {$FullName} is "Group.Page-Draft" then {$BaseName} is "Group.Page" $BaseNamePatterns['/-Draft$/'] = ''; # If {$FullName} is "Comments-Group.Page" then {$BaseName} is "Group.Page" $BaseNamePatterns['/^Comments-/'] = ''; . ... WikiGroup used by default (on startup) when no group is specified in the URL, as in "Main". ... Can be used to override the default date format used by the "ftime" function. ...

Astronotes Armagh Planetarium's Stellar Blog! ... Armagh Planetarium . ... Solar System . ... Space Flight . Human Exploration . ... Asteroid Itokawa imaged by the Hayabusa mission (Image credit: JAXA) . ... All I had to do is leave my name at a website (long gone now so I can?t link to it). My name is all over the Solar System. if you know where to look. ... The New Horizons probe will almost certainly outlive the Solar System, so the names on board will attain a curious semi-immortality. ...

The left mouse button controls the creation and manipulation of region markers or cursors. ... Text When a marker type of selected, new markers of that type can be created using the left mouse button. The current default marker type is displayed below the menu. ... Set Default Marker Name (and Color) . ... Reset the fix parameter state of currently existing markers to match the global state set by the -fix command switch or by the Edit Global Fix Params For New Markers option in the Markers menu. ...

CIMA is more than just the observing tool - in fact, the observing tool is just a part of a bigger package called the CIMA software package. ... There is also a another package called the CIMA WAPP software which contains the WAPP software, the special Tcl/Tk interpreter used by CIMA and support libraries. ... All CIMA software components recognize the following general options that are part of the CIMA version selection system: . ... The select_cima script can be used to set up a default version. ...

San Francisco, March 22, 2007) -- The Astronomical Society of the Pacific (ASP) announced today that James Manning has been appointed to the position of Executive Director. ... The ASP Board and staff are totally delighted that Jim is joining us. With his long background in the planetarium world and informal science education, plus his great experience working with NASA, he is just the right person to take over the leadership of the ASP," said ASP President Dennis Schatz. ...

... CURRENT ASPECTS OF REMOTE SENSING OF EARTH FROM SPACE . ... For developing of the scientific concept and the programs of global monitoring of the Earth from space and pursuant to the disposal of Presidium of Russian Academy of Sciences # 10310-717 (August 11, 2004 ) Space Research Institute RAS and Center of Space Observations of the Russian Space Agency during November 16-18, 2004 conduct the Second Opened All-Russia conference ' Current Aspects of Remote ...

... ESO Science Newsletter December 2015 . 17 Dec 2015 . ... This newsletter is a summary of recent ESO Science Announcement items. Follow the links or visit ESO Science Announcements to read more. ... Read more . ... The allocation of ESO telescope time for Period 97 (1 April БЂ“ 30 September 2016) is expected to be emailed in the week beginning 21 December 2015. ... ESO Workshop, ESO Headquarters, Garching, Germany, 27 June БЂ“ 1 July, 2016 . ... Joint ESO, ALMA, NAOJ, NRAO Workshop. ...

... DNS servers . Bind . ... DNS is an extremely important service for IP networks. ... Remember, when restricting zone queries you must secure ALL name servers (master and the secondaries), as you can transfer zones from a secondary just as easily as a master. ... DNS runs on port 53, using both udp and tcp, udp is used for normal domain queries (it's lightweight and fast), tcp is used for zone transfers and large queries (say dig www.microsoft.com). ... Chroot'ing DNS . ...

The Preferences window allows you to specify various application preferences (surprise!) It is brought up by selecting Preferences from the TUI Menu. ... Each preference may be edited by clicking on it. If the value is changed to anything other than the current value then an exclamation mark is shown between the name and the value. ... Seq By File : controls whether whether images are numbered in the order taken (unchecked) or are numbered separately for each image name (checked). ...