... The material in "From Stargazers to Starships" meets several important requirements of the national standards. Pages cited below are from National Science Education Standards National Academy Press, Washington 1995. ... For example: the sections on astronomy not only describe calendars and sundials (including their construction), but also the astronomy of the ancient Greeks, including two different ways in which ancient Greeks estimated the distance to the Moon. ...

... Pass 3 standard . 2013_November s131201_132738 not include in standard . 2013_November s131201_132609 not include in standard . ... 2013_October s131005_162442 not include in standard . ... 2013_September s130929_225333 not include in standard . ... 2012_May_2 t120522_083309 not include in standard . ... 2011_March s110328_052151 not include in standard . ... OtherProjects s100528_030635 not include in standard . ... 2009_January s090126_085138 not include in standard and timing . ...

... Standard Commands . ... TwistedActor.Actor is core code for writing an actor: an instrument control computer (ICC) or hub-based script that does something useful. This manual describes the standard commands and keywords that any actor based on TwistedActor.Actor will support. All actors based on TwistedActor typically support the following standard commands (plus additional device-specific commands documented in that actor's manual). ... Connect one or more devices (if not already connected). ...

... new: . ... Python 2.6.2 + most up-to-date modules (December 2009) . ... pyQC script structure . ... The current installation of python and its associated modules on our DFO machines is extremely old (i.e. python 2.4.2 was released in Sept. ... The new python executable lives in: /qcdp/bin/python . ... The first figure shows the execution times for the old python installation, while the second figure shows the execution times based on scripts running the python 2.6.2 installation with the new modules...

... Stellar Evolution is driven entirely by the never ending battle between Pressure and Gravity . As imbalances are reached, the star is driven to find a new Energy source. ... Pressure and gravitational forces are equal, the star is stable and its core is sufficiently hot to fuse Hydrogen into Helium More about main sequence stars . ... The luminosity generated by the core fusion of Helium into Carbon is far greater than the shell luminosity associated with the fusion of Hydrogen into Helium. ...

. Unix considers any device attached to the system to be a file. And that includes your terminal! . By default, a command treats your terminal as the standard input file from which to read in information. Your terminal is also treated as the standard output file to which information is sent from the command. This action can be changed by redirecting standard input and standard output from and to any other file. Redirecting standard input . Redirecting standard output . Appending standard output to a file .

... Using UNIX System Calls and Library Functions . ... To use system calls and library functions in a C program we simply call the appropriate C function. Examples of standard library functions we have met include the higher level I/O functions -- fprintf() , malloc() .. ... For most system calls and library functions we have to include an appropriate header file. e.g. stdio.h, math.h . ... Information on nearly all system calls and library functions is available in manual pages. ...

Next: Saving the Data Up: The Reduction Session Previous: Flat Field correction . In the scheme described in the previous Section, the correction for the blaze function and for the chromatic response is done using standard stars. When the input data sets do not include standard stars it is possible to correct for the blaze function using a model of this effect as described in Chapter . ... where input is the raw image, . command MERGE/ECHELLE output name order1,order2 NOAPPEND . ...

This file has three main parts: *Introduction (a guide to using Terror) *General info (standard for wads) *Play information (standard) Please take the time to at least read the introduction, which contains some important information. ... Terror is a new level for Doom2 players to try their luck at. ... The DeHacked file] DO NOT DISTRIBUTE THE FILE TERR.EXE IN ANY FORM! ... Using Terror] The easiest way to use Terror is to unzip the file TERROR.ZIP and copy all the files into your Doom2 directory. ...

Graphics inclusions in manuscripts C. D. Biemesderfer NOAO, Tucson, AZ There has been considerable development of text processing and typesetting tools over the past decade, and more and more scientists are using these complex programs to produce the material that they publish. ... Encapsulated PostScript It is desirable for graphics inclusions to conform to certain codes of behavior, so that the graphics can be manipulated readily and reliably. ... Now edit the le containing the PostScript gure. ...

... Telescopes ћ Binoculars ћ Microscopes . Meade Ultra-High Transmission coatings (UHTC ) Group . ... Meade Standard Coatings: The optical surfaces of all Meade telescopes include high-grade optical coatings fully consistent in quality with the precision of the optical surfaces themselves. ... These specialized, and extremely advantageous, coatings are offered here as the Meade Ultra-High Transmission Coatings (UHTC) group, a coatings group available optionally on many Meade telescope models. ...

... SDSSmosaic allows you to create science image mosaics of SDSS frames in 3 easy steps, described below (see Usage). ... SDSSmosaic requires a standard IRAF installation (including STSDAS and tables packages); python (including urllib); SExtractor and Swarp by E. Bertin (can be obtained at http://astromatic.iap.fr/software/ ). ... The package is developed by Stefano Zibetti (2009-.. ... If you received this package from a third party, please notify the author ( zibetti at arcetri.astro.it ). ...

Describes how funtools can be integrated into the ds9 Analysis menu. SAOImage/DS9 is an astronomical imaging and data visualization application used by astronomers around the world. DS9 can display standard astronomical FITS images and binary tables, but also has support for displaying raw array files, shared memory files, and data files automatically retrieved via FTP and HTTP. ... It can be manually loaded into DS9 from the Load Analysis Commands ... option of the Analysis menu. ...

Next: Definition of Scientific Misconduct Up: scientific Previous: Introduction . ... This Code of Good Practice closely follows the Statement on Safeguarding Good Scientific Practice issued by the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC) in 1998. ... The Observatory expects the highest standards of scientific integrity to be adhered to by the researchers, students and other staff that it funds, whether they are employees or associates of other institutions. ...

... These include support for spectral coordinate systems, and compliance with FITS WCS papers I, II and III. ... Status Supported Supported Supported Supported Supported (only written when producing a FITS-AIPS header) Coordinate /algorithm/distortion Supported (all coordinate systems [intype cluding helio-ecliptic] and algorithm codes listed in papers I, I I and I I I, with the exception of the STOKES and COMPLEX values defined in paper I, the CUBEFACE value defined in ...

Porting to a new machine or operating system ordinarily requires updating the ./machines directory and the ./compilers directories in order to define the build environment and autoconfigure means. You will probably have to modify the ntp_machines.h file and "l_stdlib.h" files as well. ... Always define a system identifier for any new system added to the machines directory. ... This file is included by the "ntp_types.h" file and should always be placed first after the <> defines. ...

This form calculates which transits of the 1039 known transiting exoplanets are observable from a given location at a given time. Specify a time window, an observing location (either an observatory from the list or choose "Enter latitude/longitude" at the end of the list), and optionally any filters (e.g. minimum transit depth or elevation). The output includes transit time and elevation, and links to further information about each object, including finding charts and airmass plots. ...

... Standard magnitudes can only be computed for the U, B and V filters and hence the only standard colours that can be calculated are U-B, B-V and U-V. An important point to note, is that these standard colours can be computed using the following instrumental colours - U-B, B-V, U-V, (UVW1-U), (UVW1-B), (UVW1-V), (UVW2-B) and (UVW2-V). ... The program loops through these colours and if the relevant instrumental magnitudes are present computes the standard magnitudes and standard colour. ...

Stellarium 0.12.3 . ... Classes . ... Plugins . ... ClassљList . ... StelPluginInterface Class Reference abstract . ... virtual class StelModule *љ . getStelModule () const =0 . Get the instance of StelModule to include in the list of standard StelModule . ... Get information about the plugin. ... The interface is used by the QPluginLoader to load Stellarium plugins dynamically. ... const . ... Get information about the plugin. virtual class StelModule * StelPluginInterface::getStelModule . ...

... StarCalc Home Page - Downloads . ... File . StarCalc (English version) . ... With minimal configuration, version 5.72 of StarCalc includes the next interfaces: "Horizon", "Horizontal coordinategrid", "Equatorial coordinate grid", "Constellation boundaries", "Constellation lines", "Constellation names", "Star proper names", "Bright Star Catalog", "Deep-sky objects", "Sun", "Moon" and "Planets and satellites" . Plugins for StarCalc . ... Interface to NGC 2000 (plugin + catalog file) . ...