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Next: Flagging Based on a Up: Other Flagging Tasks Previous: AIPS Flagging and Miriad- . Another handy task is qvack (derivative of the AIPS task quack and so named for obscure reasons) for flagging a number of correlations after the observing set-up has changed (i.e., the source changed, the pointing centre changed, or the frequency changed). ... Flag data for 30 s after change . ... This can be used if the observing setup has not changed, but you still wish to periodically flag some data. ...

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XMM-Newton CCF Release Note XMM- CCF -REL-176 RGS QUANTUMEF Shortest-Wavelength Correction Factors A.M.T. Pollock July 27, 2004 1 CCF components Name of CCF VALDATE List of Blocks changed XSCS ag RGS1 QUANTUMEF 0013 1998-01-01T00:00:00 RGA EFFAREACORR NO SI1 SI2 SI3 SI4 SI7 RGS2 QUANTUMEF 0014 1998-01-01T00:00:00 RGA EFFAREACORR NO SI1 SI2 SI3 SI4 SI5 SI7 2 Changes Near the short-wavelength end of the RGS bandpass, the instrument ... The best- t power-law indices, , are shown. ...

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... I fixed the bugs that caused the map_point changes to fail tests. Then I removed the no longer needed dimensional variables from the p structure and got those changes to pass all the tests. ... I put the code under subversion control in a new branch called refactor. ... The code change which processes each drizzle kernel over an entire image rather than a line at a time now passes the unit tests and was checked in. ... I got the keywords argument changes done and got the tests to pass. ...

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home publications > mercury . ... Astronomy Beat . ... Hitching a Ride on a Comet . Mercury, November/December 1996 Table of Contents . ... Late in the evening of Jan. 30, 1996 in Japan's Kyushu region, Yuji Hyakutake left his home in Kagoshima and drove to an observing site far from city lights. ... We bought our daughter a telescope to see the comet," she said, "and we can't see anything!" ... This helps us as we select the Guest Observer, and it helps readers to understand what you studied. ...

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... 2005 December 9 . December Moon Meets Evening Star . ... Explanation: If you've been outdoors near sunset, then you've probably noticed Venus low in the west as the brilliant evening star . ... As this season's evening star, Venus will be at its most brilliant tonight, but as December progresses the bright planet will begin to fall out of the western sky. By early next week, December's Moon will have moved on to meet another bright planet overhead -- Mars . ... About APOD | ...

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... Bad Astronomy . ... Bitesize Astronomy . ... Keep Bad Astronomy close to your heart, and help make me filthy rich. ... When Venus is on the far side of the Sun, we see the entire near side lit by the Sun. ... When it is on the near side of the Sun, it shows a beautiful thin crescent, because it is between us and the Sun and we see the mostly unlit dark half. ... To see this for yourself, draw a circle one centimeter across, then, next to it, draw a circle 6 centimeters across. ... 2008 Phil Plait. ...

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This animation shows a binary star being lensed by a binary lens. ... The sharp changes in the size of the lensed images of the stars lead to sharp changes in the brightness of the stars, which can be analyzed to determine many parameters about the objects doing the lensing, even though they are not bright enough to be seen. ... The graph shown above gives the predicted and observed brightness of a star in the Small Magellanic Cloud being magnified by a binary lens. ... Tutorial : Part 1 | ...

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This page is devoted to information on Supernova 2000H in IC 454 Basic information on this SN, including the last reported brightness, on this Supernova can be found on the main page . Information on the original web pages for many of these images can be found on the Supernova links web page. ... It turns out that Mark Armstrong shares this discovery, and he found it independantly. ... LOSS image . ... vsnet-alert 4151 ] new KAIT sn . ... vsnet-alert 4159 ] SN 2000H (Re: a new KAIT SN in IC 454) . ...

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