The 4th Panhellenic Meeting of Amateur Astronomers took place in a magnificent area, at the mountain refugee of the Mountaineering Club of Sparta at Mt. Parnonas. The place is located at ~1400m with a huge field working as the best place to park cars and set up all the necessary …
From 30/6 up to 5/7 I found myself observing from Skinakas Observatory for the first time (doing photometry tests on a number of exoplanet candidates) ! That was really a great experience and I enjoyed much both the procedure of observations and the stay there at the mountaintop. Only the …
GIMP is a very powerful image processing program, equivalent to Adobe’s Photoshop, but with the biggest advantage that is totally free (and open source). Apart from its own capabilities someone can add more scripts (.scm files) in the folder: local use: ~/.gimp-2.x/scripts global use: /usr/share/gimp/2.x/scripts [or for Win local use: …
It seems that this question has no final answer yet. Although the recent models were claiming that no star bigger than 100-150 solar masses can exist, there is evidence that a star close to 300 solar masses exists in the Large Magellanic Cloud. One star, R136a1 (from the young cluster …
They just don’t pass through!! Bash or csh are unable to use floating numbers, as they understand numbers containing decimal point as strings. So, only actions with full numbers can be performed in these shells.
I have seen some times my external drives to fail to mount correctly on Ubuntu giving the message: “$LogFile indicates unclean shutdown (0, 0) Failed to mount ‘/dev/disk/by-uuid/FE5C75355C74E9B3’: Operation not supported Mount is denied because NTFS is marked to be in use … ” This is frustrating and scary at …