Next: Visibility Processing Up: Primary Beams and Mosaicing Previous: Mosaicing . ... Pointing grid pattern: In a mosaic experiment, you observe a number of pointings - possibly a few to several hundred, depending on the size of the source of interest. ... For a well-illuminated dish, this spacing corresponds roughly to half-power point spacing between field centres. ... Field Naming Convention: When preparing the observe files for an ATCA mosaic experiment, you will create a `mosaic file'. ...

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... Users . ... Data Collection and Analysis . ... This particular part of the analysis has been disabled since the code is struggling to cope with the number of users seen this year, in particular the large contingent of people who have re-tweeted NASA. ... Order accounts: by user number (effectively random) by number of tweets (includes retweets) by number of followers by number of followers that also tweeted about AAS225 by number of friends that also tweeted about AAS225 . ... by user number . ...

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... Planets . ... The planets were found using the HARPS instrument on the 3.6m telescope at ESOтАЩs La Silla Observatory. ... A planet in orbit around a star causes the star to regularly move towards and away from observers on Earth. ... One newly discovered planet, HD 85512 b, is best hope found so far for a habitable exoplanet. ... The HARPS team so far have found that about 40% of stars similar to own Sun have at least one planet smaller than Saturn (which is 95 times more massive than Earth). ...

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Next: Participants Up: Contents Previous: Cover This volume contains the papers presented at the fourth annual conference on Astronomical Data Analysis Software and Systems (ADASS IV) which was held at the Omni Inner Harbor Hotel in Baltimore, Maryland, from the 26th through the 28th of October 1994. ... To help keep up with new trends in software as they relate to advances in astronomy, the ADASS conferences are organized around certain topics of current interest. ...

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... ESO is building what will be the World's largest optical telescope array, The Very Large Telescope (VLT). The VLT Project organisation is responsible for the design and construction of the Unit Telescopes, including enclosures, optics, adapter-rotators and coating unit. ... Unit Telescopes Overview - This page is outdated, an update is in process. ... Secondary mirror (M2 Unit) - This page is outdated, an update is in process. ... Coating Unit - This page is outdated, an update is in process. ...

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... Abstract Return the value of the largest (positive) number representable in a double precision variable. Required_Reading None. Brief_I/O The function returns the value of the largest (positive) number that can be represented in a double precision variable. Detailed_Input None. Detailed_Output The function returns the value of the largest (positive) number that can be represented in a double precision variable. ... 2) Initialize a CSPICE "window." ... Link to routine source . ...

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... Today this year's largest group of sunspots will cross the Sun's central meridian. ... The next day, the number of spots in the group reached five, and the day after, on June 2nd, it was possible to count thirteen sunspots on solar disk, which had been clear prior to this. ... This year's two most powerful active areas, which passed across the solar disk at the beginning of May, 2009, are set to appear in the Sun's eastern sector in two days, on June 6th. ...

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... ON THE ROLE OF LARGE-SCALE PLASMA IRREGULARITIES AT THE FINAL STAGE OF ANOMALOUS ABSOPTION DEVELOPING UNDER HF HEATING OF THE IONOSPHERE . ... Fig. ... With the aid of numerical statistical modeling based on multiple ray tracing it is shown that in presence of large-scale irregularities the reflected signal amplitude mean value is increased significantly. ... Dependence of the mean amplitude of the reflected from the ionosphere signal on the large-scale (10-50 km) electron density irregularity level...

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... Spherical aberration, coma, and astigmatism are also easily observed using the star test. ... Off-axis images are complex. ... Fig. ... Diffraction by a circular aperture as a function of defocus for no aberration Airy Disk 1 wave defocus Less than 1 wave defocus Fig. ... Diffraction by a circular aperture as a function of defocus for third-order spherical aberration Paraxial Focus Small distance inside paraxial focus Moderate distance from marginal focus Immediate neighborhood of marginal focus Fig...

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... 1.7 GSC 084 Pulkovo Obs., 0.33 15 x 15' 1.0" 7 34 0.179 0.307 Normal Asgr. 3.0 UCAC 118 Slovakia, 0.57 14 x 10' 1.7" 3 12 0.090 0.145 Modra 3.3 USNO 127 Germany, 0.19 30 x 20' 2.4" 3 15 0.151 0.087 Bornheim 0.8 GSC 168 34 200 0.282 0.315 291 USA,Kitt Peak, 1.8 390 x 30' 1.0" 1 5 0.143 0.144 Spacewatch II 4.7 USNO 300 Japan, 0.5 78 x 78' 2.3" 7 36 0.420 0.447 Bisei Center 1.3 ACT 461 Hungary, JATE 0.60 28 x 19' 1.1" 6 22 0.124 0.153 Asteroid Surv. ... Polynesia 1.0 UCAC F85 Tiki Obs., ...

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ARCSAT ID NUMBER: AS04 DESCRIPTIVE TITLE: Census of Variable stars in the UMi dwarf spheroidal galaxy. PI: Karen Kinemuchi OBSERVER(S): Karen Kinemuchi UNCERTIFIED/UNTRAINED OBSERVERS: Karen Kinemuchi COLLABORATORS: Recruiting collaborators at the moment! ... BRIEF SCIENCE JUSTIFICATION: The classical dwarf spheroidal galaxy Ursa Minor contains a large number of variable stars, particularly of the RR Lyrae and anomalous Cepheid types. ...

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... They worked out that first magnitude was on average 100 times brighter than the 6th magnitude star. ... This formed an equation of apparent magnitude Mv which is: Mv = -2.5 log f + constant were f is the flux of that star f = ( counts/ exposure) The images that we worked on were taken by the Polar Bear Telescope. ... One of these being that it will be combined with standard stars, which will be used to identify the area of stars and to also help identify other stars within the image. ...

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... It is described as a function of event pattern type in columns QE_nn (where nn=0, single pixel events, - 31). ... The fraction of the total QE which is contained in single, double, triple or quadruple pixel events, as a function of the channels tabulated in CHBINS_FRACTION. ... The fraction contained in single+double pixel events . ... The fraction of the total QE which is contained in single, double, triple or quadruple pixel events, as a function of the energies tabulated in EBINS_FRACTION. ...

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Astronomy Discussion Forums . Forums: . ... How Do You Feel About Numbers? ... Post Message | ... Posted by Richard D. Stafford, Ph.D. on September 15, 2002 16:22:25 UTC . ... Wait - harvey1 - September 15, 2002 - 22:20 UTC . I don't follow you! - doctordick - September 16, 2002 - 14:59 UTC . ... www.astronomy.net . About Astronomy Net | ... Forum posts are Copyright their authors as specified in the heading above the post. "dbHTML," "AstroGuide," "ASTRONOMY.NET" & "VA.NET" . ...

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... Large Sunspot Group AR 9393 . ... Credit: MDI , SOHO , ESA , NASA Explanation: The largest sunspot group of the past ten years crossed the surface of the Sun late last month and early this month. The group was designated Active Region 9393 as it was the 9393rd region identified since counting officially began in 1973. ... Just after the end of the movie, on April 2, AR 9393 unleashed the largest solar flare of the last 25 years . ... Publications with keywords: solar maximum - sunspot . ...

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... Class . ... SUMMARY: NESTED | FIELD | ... METHOD . DETAIL: FIELD | ... java.lang.Object ij.process.FloatPolygon . public class FloatPolygon . ... Used by the Roi classes to return float coordinate arrays and to determine if a point is inside or outside of spline fitted selections. ... float[] . ... Field Detail public int npoints . ... Constructor Detail public FloatPolygon (float[] xpoints, float[] ypoints, int npoints) . ... Method Detail public boolean contains (float x, float y) . ...

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