2007/10/31

吳x翰小朋友...你贏了...

昨晚看了本組的觀測 data...真想哭...
我開始懷疑 Cyg X-1 的亮度...我們居然沒拍到?!
聽說有二階段退選...還可以領回1/3的學分費 XD

好吧~可能吳x翰小朋友是因為高山症所以頻頻出鎚...
我會好好再教育他的...首先,每天得跑三千...

不過,他還是偶有佳作啦...該拍的目標沒拍到...
Comet 17P/Holmes 倒是拍的還 ok~ 有拍到目標喔!!
以下是他跟胡理策小朋友的作品~

至於偶當時到底在幹麼呢?
根據目擊者的描述,我那時似乎處在腦溢血的邊緣...
那罐純氧也早被某吳姓小朋友吸光光...(有8200ml耶?)

2007/10/30

參訪 LOT Observatory 花絮圖!


其實這是我趁空用手機拍的,學弟妹們的照片比較多!
等我拿到他們的再把好玩的放上來吧!
第一次觀測還真是有趣!

「備註」:
2007.10.31.11.54 am
剛剛收到 a 老師的 email~他拍的照片在~
http://picasaweb.google.com/akhkong/LulinObservatory
有興趣的可以連過去看!

2007/10/26

烏龜與小位位~

有人說,物理館建得像一隻大烏龜,我也覺得很像!
今晚,還發現它真的應該是,而且它還似乎會吸引其他烏龜來~

跟冠廷還有搗蛋位去吃晚餐,往水木的路上,
突然一郭東東吸引了我們目光...這...不是隻「真的」烏龜嗎?!



路人們也都開始圍觀了,大家都在猜牠到底是怎麼出現在那裡的~
小位位不愧是好人中的好人~好人卡王~比魔王高一些,比大魔王低一些~
二話不說就抓起烏龜準備丟到水溝....XD



後來在我們重新討論後覺得還是放生到大湖中似乎比較好~
而且還可以順路吃燒肉叉燒飯~
所以那小位位龜就被安置在湖邊一個斜坡上,
讓牠可以再度選擇往上還是往下爬~

希望牠下次不要爬到那麼遠又危險的地方,還有接近危險的輪(圖一二),
~哈!

對了~剛剛還在烏龜館樓頂看了 Comet 17P/Holmes 這突然爆亮的彗星!
心情真好~也感謝愛博空教授!有想知道那時啥ㄉ童鞋請點這裡看!


上面這圖片版權屬於 Albert Kong,我偷貼的!請勿轉載呀!

2007/10/25

Cool CalcService~

夜深人靜但愛睏中,所以不練習英文了~
直接切入主題~哈哈!

一樣是在 Macupdate.com 裡面發現她的,
她的超短簡介如下:
CalcService 3.3 - Calculates math formulas in any text editor.
感覺很炫吧!沒錯~仔細研究完真的還頗炫!
剛好可以搭配我這陣子愛用的 TextMate 在寫程式時順便驗算!

安裝很簡單~
但我作法跟她的 readme 稍微不同,
我把主程式扔到 /Library/Services 裡面然後 reboot 就完成囉!

然後呢~依照 readme 內容~
我可以在 TextMate / BBEdit / TextWrangler2 / SubEthaEdit 裡面,
填入 sqrt(69) ,
反白然後點選「服務」、「CalcService」、「Calculate & Append」,


在編輯視窗裡面的內容則會變成
sqrt(69) = 8.30662386292,
方便吧~就不用再打開計算機程式囉~酷吧!

有興趣的安裝試試看囉!
順便貼上她的 readme 部份內容~

Usage:
Select a formula (may contain white characters like space, tabulator,
new line, carriagereturn), choose Calculate & Append, Calculate & Replace,
Calculate & Show or Calculate & Copy in the services menu or or press the
associated shortcuts if available. If the formula is not correct
(or the result is undefined) CalcService just beeps or
displays an error message in the panel.

Operators/Numbers:
• floating point values: x.y or x,y
• add, subtract, multiply, divide, modulo, exponential: +-*/%^
• assign: =
Assigned variables are persistent and still available the next time
you're going to use CalcService. To define multiple variables in one formula,
separate the definitions with a semicolon (";"),
as part of a formula use parenthesis around the definition (see examples below)
• sign: +-
• parenthesis: ()

Functions (case-insensitive):
• exp (base e)
• exp10 (base 10)
• exp2 (base 2)
• ln (base e)
• log or log10 (base 10)
• log2 (base 2)
• sin (RAD)
• asin (-1...1)
• cos (RAD)
• acos (-1...1)
• tan (RAD)
• atan
• sqrt (square-root)
• abs (absolute)
• sign
• fact (factorial for statistics, combinations and variations etc.)
• ceil
• floor
• round
• sinh
• asinh
• cosh
• acosh
• tanh
• atanh

Constants (case-insensitive):
• pi (3.1415926535897932385)
• e (2.7182818284590452354)
• c (299792458.0 m/s)
• g (66.732e-12 N*m^2/kg^2)
• e0 (1.6021892e-19 As)
• u0 (1.2566e-6 V*s/(A*m)
• q (1.602189e-19 C)
• me (9.109534e-31 kg)
• mp (1.672614e-27 kg)
• mn (1.67492e-27 kg)

If you want to change those values or define new constants,
set one or more variables using the assignment-operator.

Examples:
5+4-3*(pi+6,3)
3*+5
7/--2
9/.125
mp*(c*c)
sqrt(exp(sin(pi/2))+7.5)
cos(ln(e)*pi)
exp(1)
abs(sin(sqrt(2)))*sign(cos(pi*pi))
9.3%2.5
2*3^-(1+1)

2007/10/21

Amazon beats me...

Hum...if you wanna know the detail, have a look here XD
Anyway, below is the briefly speaking...

No more words.../cry

[P.S.]

2007/10/19

Mac Pro 再度升級!

昨天已經先換了顆更好的硬碟,
今天又購入了 FB-DIMM 2 GB RAM!
所以現在的盔伯六號機更厲害了!

以下麻煩自行看圖~哈哈!


所以底下是現在的盔伯六號機的狀態~


我會好好對待他低!黑黑~

2007/10/18

wahaha~MacUpdate.Com

I so much like this site ^_^
WHY?
MacUpdate.Com not only reports W.o.W's updates,
but also reports SAOImage DS9's newly released version.


(Actually, its official website is HERE.)
If you don't know what DS9 is,
let me just quote MacUpdate.Com's introduction:

SAOImage DS9 is an astronomical imaging and data visualization application. DS9 supports FITS images and binary tables, multiple frame buffers, region manipulation, and many scale algorithms and colormaps. It provides for easy communication with external analysis tasks and is highly configurable and extensible.

O.K.~Just download and run it! CIAO!

I hope MacUpdate.Com will also tell me HEASOFT, CIAO etc's updates in the future =D

2007/10/17

David 返台緊湊行程中的小聚~

上次 David 回來似乎是三、四年前的事了,
去年他在美國也結婚了,取了美麗的韓國新娘!
(我也想找個韓藝瑟~)
這次聚會,也是第一次見到李大嫂!呵~


聚會地點在「茄子咖哩」,我第一次去吃,
還不錯,不過因為一直講話,哈哈,
所以我沒多餘時間好好咀嚼!
找時間再去吃一遍好了~

因為大衛這次行程緊湊,
所以這次午餐聚會很特別,
他把不同階段認識的,現在剛好在台灣的朋友都一起邀來。
大部份都是他在紐約認識的朋友,有正妹耶!
不過因為第一次見面又加上多再跟大衛小黃說話,
所以無緣 XD


晚上我跟大衛還有小黃又聚了一次,
小批跟她以前同事也跟我們一起吃晚餐,
因為午間聚會的餐廳剛好在她家附近,
所以趁晚餐攤前中間的空檔去找她~
她現在很宅都待台北~呵~!



好吧~不拉格都快變日記了~
最後放幾張圖!報告完畢!

2007/10/16

AAS 211th Meeting 's Registration fee..

I dun wanna talk about this actually.
I just know someone's money will be robbed.../sigh


我的錢會從那生出來呢??好奇ing~~

2007/10/15

Object Visibility – Staralt

這是寫作業時 Prof. Albert Kong 提到的網站,
其實平常出去觀星時應該也是很有用~
所以紀錄在此,以免忘記!

請先到底下這網頁來~
http://catserver.ing.iac.es/staralt/index.php

然後參照下圖~


其實它還有好幾種顯示模式跟另一種輸出格式,在此不多提,
不過它的說明跟提示其實沒很清楚,我試了很多遍才弄對,
送出後,請會得到類似下圖的結果!


下次有機會帶美眉去野外看星星時又有好工具嚕!

2007/10/11

Got my Skitch =D

http://plasq.com/skitch/ <= Skitch's website!

I have been waiting its invitation for couple months.
Finally I got it today.

You may not heard about this wonderful software b4.
Let me shortly introduce Skitch here~very very short!
It is a software letting you easily snap, draw and share photos.
But currently you just can get it by other's invitation.
(I got mine because I registered to test it several months ago.)
Please have a look there, you'll find a introducing movie there.

If you still can not find someone to invite you, just try Jing.
I have introduced Jing few days ago.
It's like Skitch, but it is free and will be always free,
you will have to buy Skitch in the future.

Today some software release their updates,
just like the photo above, WoW released its updates again.
By the way, Microsoft Office 2004 released its 11.3.8 update yesterday.
So go to update them now~Ciao!

2007/10/08

我下次會記得帶自己的DC低!

這一禮拜有兩位好朋友結婚,真好!
他們都邁入了人生的新一章!祝福這兩對新人!

炳良那場我還當了伴郎,那可是我的第一次唷。
而且還跟克萊兒小姐再度相遇,
她是炳良妹,高中時期常常來一中找炳良,
因為我們總是打籃球打很晚,
所以那時候就認識了。
不過高中畢業後就沒機會再遇到過,
一直到炳良結婚這天才又重逢,
人生真是奇妙!

炳良的另一位伴郎是他現在在美國唸書的好朋友。
跟他還有他的女朋友聊天,
讓我又發現,我的英文退步真快,
果然是「學如逆水行舟」呀!

他們的婚禮也是讓我印象深刻的一場,
因為炳良家族的男生女生都頗高,
他自己188,他老爸184,親弟弟192,
堂弟也有180+...
我第一次在台灣參加的婚禮有看到那麼多高人低!
又,我其實沒帶西裝回台灣,
所以我在婚禮上的西裝,
聽說是林爸爸的,結果,居然超級合身低,真神奇!


善榜這場也是十分盛大,他們之前應該很擔心吧~
因為這柯羅沙強颱的影響頗大,
不過婚禮還是順利舉行,真是幸運!
他還幫我們這群陪她度過大一大二的同學、學弟們準備一桌,
在他們播放的影帶中還出現我當年從成功嶺集訓下來時的合照,
呼呼~現在看起來那時候還真是瘦呀~
害我後來都不敢吃太多 XD
他們還有玩小遊戲,阿濬跟阿寬都被點名上台,
我後來也被點名囉,不過還好需要的人滿了,
所以被我逃掉了~嘿嘿~
不過後來發現獎品是彩券?現金獎?
還真是扼腕~$_$!


好啦~我知道我穿得很隨便~嗚嗚!吳善榜我錯了~
我太胖了以至於唯一的西裝褲塞不下我~
請見諒!

講了那麼多,又跟標題沒啥關聯囉...金害 =(
呵呵~有啦有啦~只是還沒講到嘛~
就是因為我都沒帶到自己的數位相機,
心愛的DASH的相機功能也只是ok~
所以都沒好照片可以先show給其他人看,
只能等有帶DC的朋友寄過來,
還好炳良跟小批先msn我幾張照片,
就先post在這裡,
有圖有真相!呵呵!

最後再次祝福這兩對新人,早生貴子呀!

註一:
那郭那郭杜小紅銅鞋,
偶幫你先包紅包了,請儘速與偶聯絡,不然~嘿嘿!
那郭米其邱也是,你要還我美金呀,
我會把我美國帳戶資訊寄給你的,請直接匯來!

註二:
其實要提醒自己帶數位相機的true reason is...
我都沒辦法有藉口跟正妹合照.../cry...機會是不會重來的!

2007/10/07

~了凡四訓講記~

改造命運心想事成—了凡四訓講記

是克萊兒小姐推薦這篇文章給我,

原來以為之前有看過,閱讀發現並沒有,
努力的看完後感覺很不錯,有學習到一些東西。
所以,
有事沒空的朋友們,可點進上面的link或下載pdf下來看看,
也請努力閱讀完,應該會對你有所幫助的。
~請撇開宗教因素來閱讀~開卷有益低~

再次感謝克萊兒小姐。

2007/10/04

Review the SciSoft~~~

"Scisoft7 - An Astronomical Software Collection"

I have introduced it couple months ago,
so why do I want to review it again?

Hum~That I may have to run IRAF is the main reason.
It includes IRAF and other needing packages,
and the installation is quite easy.
So I think it is the best solution~
for students taking "Observational Astronomy."

If you don't know what it is till now,
let me briefly introduce it again~

Scisoft is a project within ESO to provide a collection of astronomical software utilities in a uniform way at all four ESO sites and to make them available to the outside world. The current version, Scisoft 7 (Beta), June 2007, is only available for Fedora Core 6 Linux. The previous version, Scisoft v6.1 September 2006, was for Fedora Core 3, Scisoft v5 was available for RedHat9 and earlier versions are also available for Solaris 8, Linux Redhat 6.2 and HP-UX 11. In addition a version of Scisoft for Mac OSX has been prepared by Nor Pirzkal and Francesco Pierfederici but it is not an ESO product. -- quotes from its website.

[ For Mac OSX Users ]

There are two versions of Scisoft OSX. The first one is for G4 and G5 ppc based Macs. The second one is Intel specific and will work (fast) on any new Mac Book, Mac Book Pro, or Mac Pro. The two versions contain almost the same packages but the Intel one is the one that will continue to be maintained regularly in the future.

You can download the PPC version from here
You can download the Intel version from here

-- All information above is from HERE. Plz have a look b4 downloading it~

After installing, do not forget to modify your enviroments~
please go to /scisoft/(all)/bin and list all setup.* files.
Choose the file which depends on the shell you are using,
and edit your startup files.

For example, if you're using BASH,
edit your '.profile' by adding the line~
" . /scisoft/bin/Setup.bash"!

2007/10/02

M.N.M - A Great Calculator software!

Magic Number Machine is a great software.
Thanks the authors.
I can easily use it to calculate some Poisson probabilities.../cry


Try try look bah =D Aza Aza Fighting!

GSL's Note...

GSL - GNU Scientific Library

Actually this note is for myself using,
thus you may not understand what it is.
It's O.K that you just close the window =P

1. Run FinkCommander to install "gsl" package.

2. Write an example.c C file:



3. There are 2 steps:
a) gcc -Wall -I/sw/include -c example.c
b) gcc -L/sw/lib example.o -lgsl -lgslcblas -lm
then we'll get the "a.out" file.

Run the "a.out" and the output will be ~
$> "J0(5) = -1.775967713143383198e-01"
but in GSL's Manual...
it's "J0(5) = -1.775967713143382920e-01".../sigh

By the way, it is very convenient that it has built-in constants~

so we can just include that header file and use these directly!