The nasa.gov site requires that JavaScripts be enabled in your browser. ... Contact NASA . ... The term "astronaut" derives from the Greek words meaning "space sailor," and refers to all who have been launched as crew members aboard NASA spacecraft bound for orbit and beyond. Since the inception of NASA's human space flight program, we have also maintained the term "astronaut" as the title for those selected to join the NASA corps of astronauts who make "space sailing" their career profession. ...

Please enter the lightcurve file name and period search parameters: . Lightcurve file: . ... Apply the Heliocentric correction and convert all dates to Terrestrial Time (TT)? ... Also, the Heliocentric correction cannot be applied to such lightcurves. ... This period search service is also available at the mirror sites: Mirror 1 , Mirror 2 , Mirror 3 , Mirror 4 . You may download the latest source code distribution and install the period search service at your own web server. ...

... July 27, 1996 . Driving to the Sun . ... Explanation: How long would it take to drive to the Sun? ... Let's see ... the Sun is 93 million miles away . So, if we drove 93 miles per hour the trip would only take us 1 million hours." ... One hundred years would be 876,000 hours, still a little short of the 1 million hour drive time -- so the Sun is really quite far away . ... You've got to be impressed by something that's 93 million miles away and still hurts your eyes when you look at it ! ...

... Up: Science Software Applications . ... It has extensions for creating GUI (Tk) and object-oriented ([incr tcl]) applications. Several Tcl-based tools that may be used for astronomical and other scientific applications have been created and are discussed. One example is ptcl , which registers PGPLOT functions as Tcl commands, creating a powerful interactive plotting package. ... Both programs use the same C code, Tcl commands, and [incr tcl] classes; only the GUIs are different. ...

... Driving To The Sun . ... Credit: EIT - SOHO Consortium, ESA , NASA Explanation: How long would it take to drive to the Sun? Brittany, age 7, and D.J., age 12, ponder this question over dinner one evening. ... Let's see ... the Sun is 93 million miles away . So, if we drove 93 miles per hour the trip would only take us 1 million hours." ... One hundred years would be 876,000 hours, still a little short of the 1 million hour drive time -- so the Sun is really quite far away . ...

... We discuss the application of the Pixon Based Image Restoration Method on spectroscopic HST data and compare the results with those obtained from the Richardson-Lucy and Jansson algorithms. In order to better evaluate the performance of the various algorithms we have also used artificial data. Keywords: Spectral restorations, Pixons, Richardson-lucy, Jansson . ...

... The Australian National University] [Department of Physics] [Paul Francis] [Main Roleplay Page] . These exercises are my attempt to adapt the technique of Problem Based Learning to the context of introductory astronomy and astrophysics classes. ... As students grapple with the puzzle, they are forced to learn the subject matter of the course. ... This exercise is designed for 1st year University students with a reasonable high-school background in Maths and Physics. ...

... Often it is convenient to edit one visibility dataset (``the template''), and then to apply the flagging from this to another. For example, forming and flagging a ``channel-0'' dataset might be less painful than flagging a huge spectral line dataset. ... The task that can do these sorts of operations if uvaflag - it matches visibilities in the template and the input, and flags those visibilities in the input that are flagged in the template. ... Dataset to be flagged. tvis=multi.chan0 . ...

The skycat techical documentation, like the application itself, is divided into five parts. Skycat is based on the Real-Time display and Catalog Library packages, which are in turn based on two utility packages: one general purpose and one for astronomy related utilities. ... Skycat - Combines the rtd image display features with catalog searching features for the skycat application . Catlib - Astronomical catalog library and widgets for searching catalogs and browsing catalog directories . ...

... 8, ``Celestial Mechanics'', 2002 Superosculating intermediate orbits and their applications to study the perturbed motion V. A. Shefer Research Institute of Applied Mathematics and Mechanics, Tomsk State University, Tomsk, Russia A method of construction of intermediate orbits for approximating the real mo­ tion of celestial bodies in the initial part of trajectory is described. ... Shefer V. A. Superosculating Intermediate Orbits for the Approximation of Perturbed Motion. Second--Order Tangency. ...

The HyperNews Linux KHG Discussion Pages . Forum: The Linux Kernel Hackers' Guide . Re : Realtime mods anyone? ( bill duncan ) . ... Keywords: realtime FIFO scheduling . ... I have recently been working on system to implement Real-Time computer control using Linux 1.2.13 with the POSIX.4 (should that be .1b ?) FIFO scheduler. ... I also have the usual system running doing various things, and have not experieneced any unpredictability down to sampling intervals of 10ms. ...

... Where to eat for 10-15 euros in Moscow: . ... My-My is a self service that you can find anywhere in Moscow, for instance on the Arbat, very close to Poncelet Laboratory. Lioudi kak lioudi ( www.ludikakludi.com ), where you can eat pirogi and drink beer or tea. ... Filial ( www.filialmoscow.com ) is a bar close to Lubianka metro station. ... Glavpivtorg ( www.glavpivtorg.ru ) is a soviet-chic restaurant and bar located close to the Lubianka, where you can eat, drink, listen to live music. ...

... Posts tagged ?model based? ... arXiv:stat.ME:0910.2585] . Variable Selection and Updating In Model-Based Discriminant Analysis for High Dimensional Data with Food Authenticity Applications . ... Category: Algorithms , arXiv , Cross-Cultural , Data Processing , Jargon , Methods , Spectral , Stat | ... Tags: bimodality , chi-square minimization , Classification , CMD , Estimation , machine learning , massive data , model based , PCA , spectral analysis , spectroscopic , survey , VO . ...

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... Bad Astronomy . Misconceptions . ... Site Info . ... This page is basically a list of links to websites that either support or refute the claim that NASA never sent men to the Moon. I have my own detailed rebuttal of the Fox television program ``Conspiracy Theory: Did We Land On The Moon?'' in my Bad TV section . ... I plan on having a thorough debunking of this on this site eventually. ... Below are listed pages by both the conspiracy theorists and the debunkers. ... 2008 Phil Plait. ...

IXth IAGA Workshop on Geomagnetic Observatory Instruments, Data Acquisition and Processing, . ... REAL-TIME MONITORING OF THE GEOMAGNETIC FIELD VARIATIONS . AND GEOMAGNETIC DATA BASES IN IZMIRAN . ... The digital variometers were introduced on Soviet magnetic observatories since 1975 in the frame of US-USSR experiment with ATS-6 satellite. ... The regular digital registration of the geomagnetic field variations was introduced in Moscow magnetic observatory of IZMIRAN since May 1991. ...

XEphem Forum Message . Forums: . ... God and Science ћ SETI ћ Software ћ UFO ћ XEphem . ... Post . ... Re: Re: Filter Based On Catalogs? Forum List | ... Post Message | ... www.astronomy.net . About Astronomy Net | Advertise on Astronomy Net | ... Unless otherwise specified, web site content Copyright 1994-2016 John Huggins All Rights Reserved . Forum posts are Copyright their authors as specified in the heading above the post. "dbHTML," "AstroGuide," "ASTRONOMY.NET" & "VA.NET" . ...

NGC FRONT-END FOR CCDS AND AO APPLICATIONS Javier Reyes, Mark Downing, Leander Mehrgan, Manfred Meyer and Ralf Conzelman European Southern Observatory, Karl-Schwarzschild-Str. 2, 85748 Garching, Germany Abstract: The New General detector Controller (NGC) at ESO aims at covering optical, infrared and wavefront sensing applications with a single controller. ... In addition, the adaptation of the NGC frontend to the future ESO CCD head for AO and the control of the L3 devices is presented. ...

... Unlike clients such as Shout and IceDJ this permits the broadcast of live audio, rather than prerecorded mp3's. LiveIce was developed after the appearance of IceCast to provide the Real Time streaming functionality which makes it a viable solution for broadcasting. It is based on the guts of 2 of my previous works - Mp3Serv, the first mp3 broadcasting system & Mp3Mixer, a toy which allows the user to 'Mix' with mp3 streams. ... LiveIce XMMS sourcecode is available here . ...

... You have found the latest (public) version 3.3.6 of XFree86/OS2. ... XW32.ZIP, SW32.ZIP (*) the X server for et4000w32 based boards The following optional packages are there: XMAN.ZIP ( OPTIONAL ) pre-formatted man pages for the X11 interface and clients XF100.ZIP ( OPTIONAL ) 100dpi fonts XFSCL.ZIP ( OPTIONAL ) Speedo and Type1 fonts XFNON.ZIP ( OPTIONAL ) Japanese, Chinese and other fonts XFCYR.ZIP ( OPTIONAL ) Cyrillic fonts XPROG.ZIP ( OPTIONAL ) the X11 header ...