

: We disconnected it from both the power and the machine and turned it off.

: Sounds like something I would have read on the BoFH column. : I forget which rule of sysadm club it is which states that "Nothing is uninterruptible if you try hard enough". could you turn it off? for a UPS it's not even enough to pull the plug from the outlet Open my $fh, '>', $file or die "can't write to $file: $!" My ($self, $tagname, $attr, $attrseq, $text) = ($state eq 'date') : $!" # Modify the configuration in the main package below # picture for anyone who cares to use it to any end
NASA ASTROMETRY PICTURE DAY PROFESSIONAL
# Script can also maintain a symlink to the latest Discover the cosmos Each day a different image or photograph of our fascinating universe is featured, along with a brief explanation written by a professional astronomer. Overview of Google Earth IMAGE COURTESY OF NASA'S ASTRONOMY PICTURE OF THE DAY WEBSITE: HTTP:///APOD/AP08l ZZ4.HTML Overview of Google Earth. # Images are downloaded to a directory and stored # with metadatas in YAML format (HTML is stripped) # Downloads NASA Astromy Picture of the Day apparently symlink will fail when asked to overwrite a link. If you're going to use this in Windows, you should at the very least set $LINK to undefĮDIT: added a line to remove old CURRENT link before updating it. Astronomy Picture of the Day ( APOD) is a website provided by NASA and Michigan Technological University (MTU).

If you want to use this, you should probably tinker with it to suit your needs. I had to use some pretty ghetto techniques to parse the APOD page, which is completely invalid and uses no semantic markup at all, so I figured I might as well ghetto-ize the whole script. I used a number of such "ghetto" Ways To Do It (noted in comments) because I wanted to keep it simple and functional. Also the script will refuse to overwrite files, because that makes sense to me. The date is not validated beyond checking that it consists of 6 digits. You can also pass a date as the argument (in YYMMDD format, to match the URL format of the APOD archive) to fetch old pictures. Depending on your WM, it may be simpler to create overlays/widgets/gadgets/etc. This would require the display resolution to be provided in the config section so as to render the text in an appropriate size and position relative to the screen. The metadata (title, credit, description) is extracted from the page and stored in a YAML file, mainly because I'm considering adding an ImageMagick script to create an annotated image. The default functionality will maintain a symlink to the latest image providing easy access for a WM or whatever else you want to use it. Spectacular NASA Astronomy Pictures of the Week: Eagle Nebula, Dark Sunspots and more. By: HT TECH Updated on: May 24 2023, 14:04 IST Share Via. Just head to NASA.The intended use is to run it as a cron job. 16 hours ago &0183 &32 Today’s NASA Astronomy Picture of the Day is a snapshot of lunar occultation, as the Moon hid behind Jupiter. These photos, that date back through the last 30 years, can be timed precisely to your birthday! To celebrate the 27,000-pound baby’s birthday, NASA uploaded 366 photos of various events observed by Hubble. If the James Webb telescope satellite ends up taking over its job to photograph the confines of the universe, the legacy left by Hubble is still immense. If the wandering satellite has made it possible to understand a little more about what surrounds us–mainly that the universe is constantly expanding–Hubble has also photographed every moment of its mad dash through the unknown. Nota (ESA/STScI), and the Westerlund 2 Science TeamĪ black hole? A galaxy? A cluster of stars? It’s up to you to find out where Hubble was when you were born!Īpmarked 30 long years that the Hubble telescope has traveled the vastness of space, alone, to discover the mysteries of the universe. NASA, ESA, the Hubble Heritage Team (STScI/AURA), A.
