Optics includes the surveys and adjustments to the reflectors as well as the pitch, roll, and focus measurements. ... 080515: platform/tiedown motion during vlbi cal scan . ... Surveying the primary reflector . Surveying the dome position from AO9 . ... year 2002:Td inches/platform inch, TdPos vs temp at platform focus position. dec03: platform corner height vs za when looking at tower. jan10: dynamic load on tiedowns from platform motion. 22feb10: fit tiedown tensions using 2008,2009 data . ...

... The exact directions of the offsets are parallel to the rows and columns of the CCD on which the aperture is specified. ... It is often useful to explicitly specify the desired rotation of the WFPC2 field-of-view on the sky. ... Figure 7.8 shows the CCD orientation and aperture locations relative to the U3 axis. ... Obtain the Position Angle (PA) of the source axis on the sky, measured in the standard way, North through East. ... desired source angle in field-of-view measured CW from +U3 axis) . ...

... We measured these galaxies individually, and they are distinguished in our list by the suffixes a, b, c,... in order of increasing J2000 right ascension. ... The first column contains the UGC catalog number, to which we have added lower-case suffixes a, b, c,\dots in order of increasing J2000 right ascension to distinguish individual galaxies in groups. ... The third column lists the degrees, arcminutes, and arcseconds of J2000 declination plus the rms uncertainty in arcseconds. ...

... 00001 //# SolarPos.h: Solar position class 00002 //# Copyright (C) 1995,1996,1997,1998 00003 //# Associated Universities, Inc. ... 00081 // The following details can be set with the 00082 // <linkto class=Aipsrc>Aipsrc</linkto> mechanism: 00083 // <ul> 00084 // <li> measures.solarpos.d_interval: approximation interval as time 00085 // (fraction of days is default unit) over which linear approximation 00086 // is used 00087 // <li> measures.solarpos.b_usejpl: use the JPL database for solar position. ...

... Positions in 2000 - Jan - Feb - Mar - Apr - May - Jun - Jul - Aug - Sep - Oct - Nov - Dec . Positions in 2001 - Jan - Feb - Mar - Apr - May - Jun - Jul - Aug - Sep - Oct - Nov - Dec . Positions in 2002 - Jan - Feb - Mar - Apr - May - Jun - Jul - Aug - Sep - Oct - Nov - Dec . Positions in 2003 - Jan - Feb - Mar - Apr - May - Jun - Jul - Aug - Sep - Oct - Nov - Dec . Positions in 2004 - Jan - Feb - Mar - Apr - May - Jun - Jul - Aug - Sep - Oct - Nov - Dec . ...

Next: Generation from In-Orbit Data Up: ASTROMET Previous: Description Contents . ... The pinhole positions were scaled, rotated and shifted until the best match between pinhole position and measured image was achieved. A pinhole starmask image in the correct position was generated (starmask_new.fits). ... 382.431 cm Pinholes starmask positions and centroids of the measured images were paired, and the difference between measured and expected positions is written to a file (routine DISTORT.PRO). ...

... On-line calibration consists of calibration operations performed to maintain the ALMA observing system properly tuned to successfully execute the planned observations. ... Among processing operations are the calibration of the atmospheric absorption, of phase radiometric correction, of pointing scans, of phase and amplitude reference measurements, .. ... In the mean time tests of the calibration software will proceed using both simulated data and data from the antenna prototypes...?re 1 . ...

Collection of the orbital elements | ... The errors of the spacecraft motion extrapolation outside the measuring time interval were estimated by using the comparison of SC positions calclulated by the forward integration ( extrapolation method) and backward integration ( interpolation methods). ... The character of these time shift of the ascending nodes ( D Tn) corresponds to the orbiting period errors, which arise during SC motion extrapolation outside the measuring intervals. ... INTERBALL mission ...

I/146 Positions and Proper Motions (Roeser+ 1988) ================================================================================ Catalogue of Positions and Proper Motions Roeser S., Bastian U. =1988A .. ... 449R ================================================================================ ADC_Keywords: Positional data; Proper motions Description: PPM North gives J2000 positions and proper motions of 181,731 stars north of -2.5 degrees declination. ... The mean epoch is near 1931. ...

ON THE IMPACT OF THE GALACTIC ABERRATION ON VLBI-DERIVED PRECESSION MODEL Z.M. MALKIN Pulkovo Observatory Pulkovskoe Ch. ... Corrections to adopted precession rate are usually computed from the linear trends in long-term time series of celestial pole offset (CPO), which are the differences between the measured and the theoretical coordinates of the celestial pole. ... CONCLUSIONS We have estimated the impact of GA on parameters of precession-nutation model derived from VLBI observations. ...

New reduction of minor planets photographic plates obtained with Pulkovo Normal Astrograph A.A. Berezhnoy Pulkovo Observatory of RAS, Saint-Petersburg, Russia Minor Planet observations at Pulkovo Periodical observations of 14 bright asteroids named Selected Minor Planets (SMP) were performed at Pulkovo since 1948 within the international framework started by works of B.V. Numerov and D. Brouwer. ... 108 133 113 74 124 67 97 88 14 84 64 5 20 19 Epochs (YYYY.MM) 1200 Mean values of total obs. ...

... This is the new procedure for setting theDIS grating zerostep positions. ... Specify which gratings are in eachbay. In an mcnode session, tell the DIS which gratings are loadedwith the command . dis_define_gratings . ... dis grating n=1 type=low (e.g.) . ... dis grating n=1 col=b zerostep=280(e.g.) . ... Edit the grating names in the file/home/apotop/MC/gratings (e.g. low, medium, high). ... Multiply this number by the step/pixelscale for that color grating. The step/pixel scales are: . ...

Stellarium 0.12.3 . ... Classes . ... gSatTEME Class Reference . Sat position and velocity predictions over TEME reference system. ... Set compute epoch for prediction. ... gVector љ . ... Get the TEME satellite position Vector. ... Get the Geographic satellite subpoint Vector calculated by the method compute SubPoint. ... gVector Satellite position vector meassured in Km. x: position[0] y: position[1] z: position[2] . ... gVector Satellite Velocity Vector measured in Km/s x: Vel[0] . ...

... Activity 3: Measuring the Position of the Sun in the Sky . Purpose: To give students the opportunity to measure the position of the Sun in the sky using simple tools and methods. ... Alternatively, you may have students devise their own methods of relative measurement and apply them to measuring the position of the Sun in the sky. ... Rangi is the sky, and when the Sun is near Rangi's head it is summer in New Zealand. ... Read the Maori story to students. ... back to Teachers' Newsletter Main Page ...

... FIELD | ... static int . ... Field Detail static final int AREA . ... Constant Field Values . static final int MEAN . ... static final int STD_DEV . ... static final int MODE . ... static final int MIN_MAX . ... static final int CENTROID . ... static final int CENTER_OF_MASS . ... static final int PERIMETER . ... static final int LIMIT . ... static final int RECT . ... static final int LABELS . ... static final int ELLIPSE . ... static final int INVERT_Y . ... static final int CIRCULARITY . ...

... Comparison orbit of NSC obtained from accuracy laser measurements and obtained from monitor stations Control of translation of the Federal Geocentric Determination the coordinates of sites from laser observation of SC Coordinate System by GLONASS ephemeris with Lageos (Blits) and comparison with coordinates of the same site millimeter level accuracy obtained from laser observation of NSC Glonass and data of navigation message 5 The use of ...

FSP1 : The time intervals corresponding to the INTERBALL TAIL PROBE (IB_TAIL) or GEOTAIL passage through the simulative magnetosphere boundary layer (BL) . ... FSP3 : That part of the FSP1 or FSP2 time intervals, which corresponds to the magnetic conjugations between any couple of the considered spacecraft. The value of the relative geocentric angular distance between magnetic field line's footprints is considered during FSP3 situation selection. ...

... It also sends commands to the trolley micro to switch between track mode and slew mode. ... Laser head (7702) Linear interferometer (7002) Retroreflector(7003) Various mirrors Beam expanders Fibre optic pickup Measurement board(2002) Datum switch(Sony SETP151) A schematic layout is shown below in Fig 1 Optical fibres connect the receiver to the measurement board and from the laser to the reference input on the measurement board. ... Reset the datum latch circuit. ...

... Bus Hound may be the very first product of its kind -- a software bus analyzer for capturing device I/O and protocol. ... When the capture buffer fills to capacity, Bus Hound can be configured to stop the capture process or continue capturing, keeping the most recent acquired data. ... IDE : Bus Hound captures command and data transfers for ATA and ATAPI devices. ... B us Hound captures I/O using a device driver. ... The below figure demonstrates how Bus Hound captures data for SCSI devices. ...

... This appartus will drop a mass from different heights. When the mass strikes the ground, some percentage of its original energy will be absorbed by the ground. ... The percentage of the energy which is absorbed by the surface on each "bounce" (EAS) . ... The impact velocity of the object will also be given at each bounce. ... Start= Drop the ball after Energy, Mass and EAS have been set; resume after step or pause has been selected . ... Reset = Reset experiment to intial values . ...