Astronotes Armagh Planetarium's Stellar Blog! ... Stars . ... Space Flight . ... Some 13.7 billion years ago, a mere millionth of a second after the Big Bang, the first hydrogen and helium nuclei condensed out of a hot, dense soup of quarks and gluons. ... In the very last few kilometres some of the light was scattered by a myriad of water droplets (containing hydrogen nuclei which had existed almost since the Big Bang) slowly descending through the air following a rainshower. ...

... A plot macro is a set of commands that you can execute together by invoking the name of the macro; in effect, it is a plot subroutine. ... You can make a macro in 4 ways: . ... The rule to remember if you do this is that the name of the macro must be the first thing on a line of the file, and should be followed by SM commands. ... Similarly, the right and left arrows advance the cursor one character right and left, respectively. within a line, keys will work just like the history editor . ...

comments sql gen Rick Whitman November 27, 1996 Usage The tool is invoked by entering comments sql gen on the command line followed by one argument which is a file specification for the updated load file you want to process. ... Changing any of the mode keywords will invalidate the SQL that is produced by this tool. ... The sql file will be executed to load the values into the database. ffl The database will be queried to get the comments associated with the reference file loaded by unex­hrs­init.lod. ...

Last modified on March 19, 1997 by A. Richichi . ADC cards and filter/clock box. The ADC card traditionally used with FIRPO I at CA has been used also for FIRP OII in Russia. ... At the same time, the new PCMCIA ADC card (DASCard 1000) has been succesfully installed on the TM-5000 notebook, and used for instance to record the Alpha Tau occultation at Arcetri on March 14, 1997. ... In der Filter/Clock Box war durch den Transport die Leiterplatte abgegangen und hatte einige Kontakte abgerissen. ...

... Archives . ... Thanks to a Korean solar physicist [ 1 ] I was able to gather the following websites and some relevant information on Space Weather Forecast in action, not limited to literature nor toy data. Space Weather Research Lab at NJIT . ... These seem quite informative and I believe more statisticians and data scientists (signal and image processing, machine learning, computer vision, and data mining) easily collaborate with solar physicists. ... Chandra Blog . ... SAMSI AstroStat Prog. ...

DFS Department . Standard and recommended development tools . ... This tool is available on request from Helpdesk (except for the following machines: dfs3, dfs4 and dfs5, for which you have to contact Carlos ). ... Source Navigator IDE is recommended as a source code analysis and navigator tool for C, C++, Java, Tcl, [incr Tcl], FORTRAN and even COBOL on Linux:. ... webcheck is the DFS standard tool for archiving/retrieving DFS documents, web pages, Release Notes, schedules and ToDo lists. ...

TOOLS OF TEST GENERATION FOR SATELLITES CONTROL PROGRAMS Andrey Tyugashev, Ekaterina Myasnikova, Elena Sopchenko S.P. Korolyov Samara State Aerospace University (National Reseach University) The paper presents a research in the field of test automation for testing spacecraft control programs. ... Programmers or designers of spacecraft systems write tests manually. ... Tests are carried out by issuing the control actions on the spacecraft and condition monitoring systems parameters of the spacecraft. ...

Next: Navigation Pre-Observation Products . ... SRT (Space Radio Telescope) Schedule (SRS) File . ... What: GOCG generates the Space Radio Telescope (SRT) schedule file, or SRS file, from current GSTS file. The SRS file has more precise time stamps than long-term schedules, and also designates which GTS will be used when. ... The SRS file also serves as the antenna pointing schedule file, as it describes the planned orientation of the spacecraft (and solar panels) as a function of time. ...

... So my first bit of babble is presenting.. ... Yes comments such as . ... Consider yourself hit by a snowball. ************************************************************************** send this message to as many people as possible, in the first *INTERNATIONAL E-MAIL SNOWBALL FIGHT!* send it back or to people already listed above. send it to your parents, siblings, politicians, teachers, bullies or anyone else you've wanted to hit with a snowball. have fun. but ... Launch one today! ...

... [y; passwd: 305m_adm] (to update database) ~palfa/bin/plot_pointings (to see pointings that have been done) ~palfa/bin/makeobs_ new (to generate obs for current MJD (default) or a specific value if mjd is specified at the command line) autosched.cmd written locally [and postscript file generated]; cp autosched.cmd to /share/obs4/usr/ pulsar /p2030/autosched_date.cmd; present ... Unmount existing firewire disk. umount /export/firen2 (or similar) Remove and replace with new disk. ...

... Truncated class, inheritance relation is hidden */ class Truncated : public Invisible { }; /* Class not documented with doxygen comments */ class Undocumented { }; /*! Class that is inherited using public inheritance */ class PublicBase : public Truncated { }; /*! ... A filled gray box represents the struct or class for which the graph is generated. ... A dark blue arrow is used to visualize a public inheritance relation between two classes. ... A dark red arrow is used for private inheritance. ...

Astronomy Discussion Forums . Forums: . ... Discussion Forums . ... I Apologized For That Comment . Forum List | ... Post Message | ... Posted by Harvey on November 6, 2002 13:13:07 UTC . ... You followed the apology with the same foolish insult - something - November 6, 2002 - 15:46 UTC . ... www.astronomy.net . About Astronomy Net | ... Forum posts are Copyright their authors as specified in the heading above the post. "dbHTML," "AstroGuide," "ASTRONOMY.NET" & "VA.NET" . ...

Next: Preparing Data Frames Up: Object Search and Previous: What Data Frames . The user is advised to start working with this new kind of observational material by applying commands to small regions of an investigated frame in order to properly tune control parameters. ... Preparing Data Frames . Setting the Low and High Cuts . Setting the Keywords used by SEARCH/INV Command . Executing the ANALYSE/INV Command . Setting the Keywords used by the ANALYSE Command . ...

In the this version .. ... Adaptable to any dome with relay control of rotation and optionally the shutters . Rotation encoding with RFID tags using Phidgets RFID tag reader . Used with XmTel provides automatic dome rotation to follow the pointing of a telescope . Shutter operation enabled through a tethered connection with rotation limits . ... RFID encoding . ... XmDome provides a convenient graphical user interface for local or remote operation of an astronomical telescope dome. ...

... The mirrorCtrl mirror controller actor controls one telescope mirror. It accepts desired orientation and commands mirror motion accordingly. ... It is presently designed to command a Galil mirror controller , but one may add support for other low-level motion controllers. mirrorCtrl is written pure Python. ... Home the desired actuators, where actuator list is a comma-separated list of actuator letters A through F (but some mirrors have fewer than 6 actuators). 2.5m M1 valid actuators: A-F . ...

... In some cases where memory space is at a premium, it is possible to tailor the configuration to remove such features as reference clock driver support, debugging support, and so forth. ... The following lines are used in this file: . ... The DEFS_LOCAL line defines global flags that apply to all machines. Ordinarily, the only flags included are the -DDEBUG , which includes the debugging code, and -DREFCLOCK , which includes basic reference clock support. ... D_INCLUDE_BSD_SOURCE . ...

... StelScriptMgr Class Reference . ... const QStringљ . ... Stops any running script. ... If the file is not found or cannot be opened for some reason, an Empty string will be returned. const QString StelScriptMgr::getDescription . ... If the file is not found or cannot be opened for some reason, an Empty string will be returned. const QString StelScriptMgr::getLicense . ... Get the rate at which the script is running as a multiple of the normal execution rate. void StelScriptMgr::pauseScript . ...

Next: HST Paper Products: A New Way to Look at HST Data . ... After providing on-the-fly re-calibration of HST data to archive users, ST-ECF has embarked on a new project aiming at grouping, cosmic ray cleaning and drizzling images taken by most HST instruments. ... The production of the missing jitter files combined with the extraction of additional engineering parameters will greatly enhance the homogeneity and the scientific value of the entire archive. ... 1995, HST Data Handbook, STScI, 107 . ...

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A problem, that can arise when moving from Fortran 77 to Fortran 90, is dependent on a usual deviation from the standard, and has to do especially with user programs. ... With many Fortran 77 implementations we wrote PROGRAM TEST REAL X WRITE(*,10) 10 FORMAT('Give X = ',$) READ(*,*) X WRITE(*,*) X END In Fortran 90 we use "non-advancing I/O" instead. ... In some old Fortran dialects the statement TYPE was used to write on a typewriter terminal and PRINT was used to write on the line printer. ...