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Sun is delivering important addons to the GlassFish J2EE server. One of these add-ons is the SNMP Monitoring feature, which I'd like to discuss briefly here. Being part of the technical team that delivered the feature, I have to say that I was impressed...
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34 exposures of 100s each, with Canon EOS 350D and Canon 85mm f/1.8. The goal was also to image "R And", my favorite variable star.
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I photographed a white piece of paper in full sunshine, at noon, in raw mode. I cropped the center of the image, and developped it in 48 bits. Here are the stats reported by Iris on the center part: Red: Moyenne : 667.6 Médiane : 671 Sigma : 14.6 Maximun...
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When doing astronomical images, it is sometimes better NOT to do pre-processing. When the number of dark frames is small for example, as it adds more noise to images than it can remove. Here are some discussions about this. Here are 2 images, obtained...
Lire la suiteXInclude defines a powerful way to control inclusions of xml fragments in another xml file: This looks good, however in reality none of the current parser implementations support that ! For example, Xerces (implemented in jaxp 1.3 & 1.4) only supports...
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Sunday afternoon at home... Roe Deer ("Chevreuil"). Always a magical moment...
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Here are some recent Aerial Photos taken in the Meylan area: More pictures can be seen on my RC Blog.
Lire la suiteHere are the corresponding arc measures when the 12mm reticule eyepiece is used with the C8 (no focal reducer).
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Here are the corresponding arc measures when the 12.5 mm Baader reticule eyepiece is used with the Celestron 8 (no focal reducer). For example, the small circle represents 15 arc seconds of diameter. 15 seconds is also the size of one pixel on the EOS...
Lire la suiteCreating a "virtual machine" with VirtualBox or VMware is misleading, no "virtual machine" is created, only a virtual view of the real underlying hardware, which must be physically present. Usually, "virtual" refers to something that doesn't exist at...
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