Next: Entering File Names Up: Graphical User Interfaces Previous: Sending Commands . The interface incorporates an on line HELP facility. A comprehensive description of the functions of each button in the interface is obtained by clicking the right-hand mouse button over an interface button. A window appears with the description. ... Try for example to click with the right-hand mouse button on in the Main window, then with the same mouse button on . ... Tue Mar 28 16:52:29 MET DST 1995 ...

... Summary of reduced ISAAC fields . ... This data release includes eight fully reduced VLT/ISAAC fields in J,H,K s bands covering 50 arcmin 2 of the GOODS region in the Chandra Deep Field South (CDFS). ... 8 ISAAC fields) . ... The 8 ISAAC fields which are part of this data release are superimposed onto a SOFI image (J+K) (part of a previous EIS data release). ... In one case (GOODS field 11/J-band), for which not enough standard stars were available, the ZP was boostrapped from previous SOFI/EIS data...

... Armagh Observatory, College Hill, Armagh BT61 9DG, +44 (0)28 3752 2928 . ... This shows the Sun, Moon and Earth (not to scale) together with the . ... They have tested the technique on the Earthshine, the light reflected from the Earth by the Moon, and showed that it can reveal the presence of life in our planet. ... This technique uses the fact that the light reflected from the planet is polarised, whereas that emitted by the star is not. ... Polarised light can tell us about the reflecting surface...

OptInt PmWiki . MROI Delay Line / . Edit Page | Page History | ... MROI Delay Line Design Contract . ... Document Management . ... Released FDR Documents . ... Design Documents . ... MROI . ... This page contains links to delay line Final Design Review documents which have been released by Cavendish Laboratory. ... Trolley Mechanical Design Description [to be updated] . ... Trolley Electronics Design Description [updated 2008/01/28] . Limits Design Description [to be updated] . ...

... SciSim release covered by this note . ... Data-Analysis-with-SAS in a simple and standardised way, and should allow calibration experts to re-assess the reliability of the different elements of XMM-Newton simulations. ... Also, a release of all calibration files to be used in the reduction, through the SAS, of SciSim generated data, is coordinated with this release. ... Furthermore, two SAS tasks (odffix and epicproc) had to be updated to make possible a proper SAS data reduction of simulated data. ...

... Description . ... STSDAS . ... This API was used to compile the ACS calibration code CALACS, WFC3 calibration code CALWF3 and STIS calibration code CALSTIS. ... This version continues the development of CALSTIS that was previously released under STSDAS. ... When the image I/O interface used by the C versions of the pipeline software was first written, there was code in calstis that opened a file readonly, then opened it again read/write without first closing the file (this was fixed some time ago). ...

Next: To produce a region Up: Image Display in Xwindows Previous: General usage. ... Menu items are chosen by clicking any mouse button (cf. ... save current cursor as an include region (counts within region will be included in subsequent calculations) . ... When another image is displayed, the earlier one can be compared with it by pressing its respective mouse button with cursor in the main display window. ... Table 1: Detailed list of menu options . ... color . ... enter/leave region sub-menu . ...

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. ...

... Classes . ... casa . casa::TableLocker . ... Class to hold a (user) lock on a table. ... TableLocker ( Table &table, FileLocker::LockType =FileLocker::Write, uInt nattempts=0) . The constructor acquires a read or write lock on a table which is released by the destructor. ... TableLocker lock1 (myTable); ... write the data } // The TableLocker destructor invoked by } unlocked the table. ... It can be solved by turning TableLocker into a handle class with a reference counted body class. ...

... Tonight's Sky . ... The Magazine . News . Observing . ... Magazine . ... Press Room . ... The double star 54 Leonis, spiral galaxy NGC 3198, and emission nebula NGC 3199 . ... Astronomy for Kids . ... Press Releases . ... Astronomy magazine editors are here to help enrich media and blogger coverage of meteor showers, space missions, and night-sky events. ... Receive news, sky-event information, observing tips, and more from Astronomy's weekly email newsletter. ... Astronomy Magazine . ...

... 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. ...

OFFICIAL PRESS RELEASE . ... The Primary Expedition 7 crew International Space Station (ISS) - Russian cosmonaut Yuri Malenchenko (ISS-7 commander, Soyuz TMA-2 commander), American astronaut Edward Lu (ISS-7 flight engineer, Soyuz TMA-2 flight engineer-1) - and European Space Agency (ESA) astronaut, Visiting Expedition 5 (VE-5) flight engineer, Soyuz TMA-2 flight engineer-2 Pedro Duquer of Spain have returned to Earth in the Descent Module (DM) of the Soyuz TMA-2 spacecraft. ...

... It runs on unix, MacOS and possibly on Windows. ... On MacOS or Windows, double-click TUI. If MacOS complains that the application is unsigned then right-click TUI and select Open. ... If you have never run TUI before, set up your preferences before proceeding (for help on any item, right-click on the control and select Help from the menu that appears): . ... To save your window positions and remember which windows to open at startup, select Save Window Positions from the TUI menu. ...

... Okayama Astrophysical Observatory, National Astronomical Observatory of Japan, Kamogata, Okayama 719-02, Japan, E-mail: yoshida@oao.nao.ac.jp . The Mitaka-Okayama-Kiso data Archival system second version (MOKA2) has been released. ... Is was developed for the observational data taken with the Spectro-Nebulagraph (SNG; Kosugi et al. 1995) attached to the 188cm telescope at Okayama Astrophysical Observatory and with the prime focus CCD camera of the 105cm Schmidt telescope at Kiso Observatory. ...

... If you came here by a notice of this URL in some newsgroup article: Here is the toplevel of the XFree86/OS2 pages . ... The following is the list of recent file dates and sizes from the main archive at ftp.xfree86.org/pub/XFree86/3.3.3/binaries/OS2. ... Filelist of XFree86-3.3.3 The following link(s) refers to bugs known to be present in older releases. ... XFree86/OS2 3.1.2D . ... XFree86/OS2 3.3.2 Please get the following fixes, and apply them after the system is installed. SHM.DLL not found . ...

... 06.03.2001 . ... March 06 2001 09:00 (Moscow time) . The OC "Mir" operations scheduled for March 05 are complete. ... The onboard systems perform nominal, the Complex arrays generate enough electricity, the thermal mode is normal. Command complex was powered on and command software was entered in tne cause of communication sessions, pressure was equalized in pneumatic and hydrobus fuel tanks of the joint propulsion system of the core block of OC "Mir". ...

Courtesy of NASA's National Space Science Data Center . ... On-orbit dry mass: 1106.00 kg . Venera 4 was launched from a Tyazheliy Sputnik (67-058B) towards the planet Venus with the announced mission of direct atmospheric studies. On October 18, 1967, the spacecraft entered the Venusian atmosphere and released two thermometers, a barameter, a radio altimeter, and atmospheric density gauge, 11 gas analyzers, and two radio transmitters operating in the DM waveband. ... Space History . ...

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Astronomy Picture of the Day . NGC 5307: A Symmetric Planetary Nebula . ... This picture taken by the Hubble Space Telescope was released last week. NGC 5307 is an example of a planetary nebula with a spiral shape. ... The layers of the Saturn Nebula give a complex picture of how this planetary nebula was created. The above picture, taken in April 1996 and released last week, allows a better understanding of the mysterious process that transformed a low-mass star into a white dwarf star. ...

Image credit: Michael Nolan, Arecibo Observatory. These radar images of near-Earth asteroid 2001 SN263 were obtained on 2008 Feb 12 and 13. ... Image from Feb 12 . ... First near-Earth triple asteroid discovered by Arecibo Observatory . ... was discovered this week by astronomers at the sensitive radar telescope at Cornell University?s Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico. ... For example, Arecibo has discovered more than half of the near-Earth binary asteroid systems discovered since 1999. ...