16may03 The hcorcal measured values: . ... The power levels during the measurements. ... The ratio of the other cals to the hcorcal: New diodes were installed on the cband system on 22apr03. On 25apr03 the cals were measured using absorber and tracking blank sky. ... After this the "other cals" were measured relative to the hcorcal while tracking blank sky. ... The ratio of the "other" cals was then computed relative to the hcorcal (see measuring cals on the telescope using sky and absorber ). ...

... Bad Astronomy . ... Bad Astronomy : The Moon appears larger on the horizon than overhead because you are comparing it to foreground objects. Good astronomy : The Moon does appear larger on the horizon, but it is because of the way we perceive the sky. ... The most common misconception is that it is because you are unconsciously comparing the Moon to foreground objects like trees and houses, or even the horizon itself, and that makes the Moon look bigger than when it is all alone in the sky. ...

Astronomy Picture of the Day . ... B.J. Mochejska , J. Kaluzny ( CAMK ), 1m Swope Telescope Explanation: This color "picture" of globular star cluster M55 may not look like any star cluster you've ever seen. ... In the picture, a Color Magnitude Diagram (CMD), M55's individual stars are represented as dots whose color indicates relative temperature, red (cool) to blue (hot). ... Publications with keywords: color - magnitude - diagram - cmd - m55 - star - stellar evolution . ...

... Observers looking at an object that is moving away from them see light that has a longer wavelength than it had when it was emitted (a redshift), while observers looking at an approaching source see light that is shifted to shorter wavelength (a blueshift). ... By measuring the amount of the shift to the red, we can determine that the bright galaxy is moving away at 3,000 km/sec, which is 1 percent of the speed of light, because its lines are shifted in wavelength by 1 percent to the red. ... Part 2...

... Bojan Nikolic web pages (r. 329) . ... Atmospheric Modelling for ALMA . This is a short and simple illustration of how to use (A)ATM to calculate the dispersive path delay introduced by the atmosphere as well as the non-dispersive parts. ... Compute dispersive delay in the atmosphere This program is part of AATM version 0.06 GPL license -- you have the right to the source code. ... Computing dispersive atmospheric delay with AATM . ... Computing atmospheric absorption with AATM . ...

USSR Venus Orbiters . ... Venera 15 and Venera 16 were a two-spacecraft mission designed to use 8-centimeter (3-inch) band, side-looking radar mappers to study the surface properties of Venus . ... Each spacecraft consisted of a synthetic aperture radar (SAR) and a radio altimeter. ... The Venera 15 and 16 synthetic aperture radar (SAR) systems were identical, and were used to map the surface of Venus at a resolution of 1 to 2 kilometers (.6 to 1.2 miles) over a period of 8 months. ...

The aim of this section of the course is to enable you to use simple computer programs to solve a variety of common astronomical tasks. ... I have (somewhat arbitrarily) decided to use Python for this course, because it seems to be gaining popularity fast for astronomical data handling, and because some of you will have encountered it at the ATNF course. ... We've put Python (plus all relevant libraries) on the Stromlo Linux computers moron and maggot. ... Now log in to moron (or maggot). ...

... Abstract Return the relative difference between two 3-dimensional vectors. Required_Reading None. ... Detailed_Output vrel_c the relative difference between V1 and V2. ... Parameters None. ... Examples This example code fragment computes the relative difference between the geometric and light time corrected state of Io with respect to Voyager 2 at a given UTC time. #include "SpiceUsr.h" . ... Call vrel_c to find the relative difference between the two states./ diff = vrel_c ( pos1, pos2 ); . ...

... The visible power a source emits in all directions is measured in lumens. ... Solid Angle- . ... The solid angle of a light cone is the projected area of the cone divided by the total surface area of the sphere. A solid angle is measured in steradians, where 1 steradian corresponds to the solid angle su btended by a cone of unit slant height and unit projected area. ... Luminous intensity is the flow of luminous energy, or lumens, per steradian. ... This is the rate of flow (lumens) per unit area. ...

... Can do almost everything that Miriad, AIPS and Difmap can plus more. ... Component Fluxes cont. ... Model fit to VSOP and ground- only VLBI data in Difmap ) Tasks, commands Miriad task Visibility plane model fitting Image plane model fitting Image plane integrated flux Uvfit, uvmodel Difmap command Modelfit AIPS task Uvfit, (slime) Aips ++ function image .fitsky, imagefitter (spatial), image .maxfit, image .fitprofile, imageprofiler image .statistics image .getchunk, ...

1) Find the variable star and the comparison stars marked in the map. 2) Seeing the the variable star, try to imagine its location in the brightness interval between the reference stars. 3) Looking at the specially prepared scale, try to reproduce the location of variable in the brightness scale from memory. ... The grades of arbitrary scale are marked relative to brightness intervals between the reference stars. ...

... To plot the data (and model, here xitau.model), I have read the model, computed the model values for the ASTROMETRY, and used Plot|ASTROMETRY to produce the ASTROMETRY plot widget. ... First, plot the data and with Util|Ellipse and the mouse buttons interactively define an apparent ellipse to fit your data as best as you can. ... Under Util|Orbit, there is a Thiele-Innes procedure to estimate the orbital elements using your apparent ellipse and Kepler's laws! ... Back to tour page . ...

... We then updated to PVCam 2.7.4.2, but we still see corrupt images if we don't close and reopen the camera after every exposure sequence, and the camera sometimes fails to respond to a trigger pulse. ... Close and re-init the camera, as follows: ... pl_cam_close(0) pl_pvcam_uninit() pl_pvcam_init() . ... power off camera . ... Call pl_exp_start_cont (to start a continuous exposure sequence into a circular buffer) with a circular buffer that holds too many images and you will hang your computer. ...

... 2001 February 23 . M55: Color Magnitude Diagram . ... Explanation: This color "picture" of globular star cluster M55 may not look like any star cluster you've ever seen. ... In the picture, a Color Magnitude Diagram (CMD), M55's individual stars are represented as dots whose color indicates relative temperature, red (cool) to blue (hot). ... M55's stars were formed at the same time and at first were all located along the main sequence by mass, lower mass stars at the lower right. ... About APOD | ...

... Each is linked to 3-6 detailed files, telling a more complete story, and those in turn may have other links, including history sections which tell about the related history. ... Each is linked to either the next item in sequence, or else to the related historical overview. ... You can also link here to a self-contained overview of the early history of magnetism...note that links to all files are given in their proper order on the home page, linked here and also at the end of any "Exploration" file. ...

... Archives . ... If you do not mind the time predictor, it is hard to believe that this is a light curve, time dependent data. ... It?s hard to say this data set is designed for time series analysis apart from the complication in statistical inference due to measurement errors. How to design the statistical study with measurement errors, huge gaps in time, and unequal time intervals is complex and unexplored. ... The following is R output without measurement errors. ... Chandra Blog . ...

... USSR Venus Orbiters . ... Each spacecraft consisted of a synthetic aperture radar (SAR) and a radio altimeter. ... The Venera 15 and 16 synthetic aperture radar (SAR) systems were identical, and were used to map the surface of Venus at a resolution of 1 to 2 kilometers (.6 to 1.2 miles) over a period of 8 months. ... The Venera 15 and 16 radar (radio) altimeter systems were identical, and were used to determine the topography of the surface of Venus from the north pole down to about 30њN latitude. ...

The first persistent Web agent that we have created on Actor Prolog is a program that collects information about research groups that develop Prolog and projects in the field of logic programming. The agent looks through a given list of Web sites and calculates some attributes of the sites: the date of recent modification, total size, the number of figures, the number of outside links, the number of error links, the number of given keywords, etc. ... http://www.cplire.ru/Lab144/space/prolog.html . ...

alignasn -- Change the relative shifts in association file alignasn association . ... calnicb style association file with list of images to be aligned. ... Interactive program to compute relative shifts of images in an association file. ... After computing the relative shifts of the direct images, alignasn searches for corresponding grism images for each of the direct images. ... The grism association is then updated with the same relative shift measurements as determined from the direct images. ...

PRESS RELEASE 16 July, 1992 CONTACT: Synetik Systems 2210 Highway 6 & 50, Suite 204 Grand Junction CO, 81505-9406 (303) 241-1718 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: In today's personal computer marketplace, performance claims are abundant. ... IBM OS/2 Version 2.0, the industry's most advanced operating system, requires considerable computer resources to take advantage of its power. ... There are three separate disk tests, and you control whether the program uses the OS/2 system disk cache. ...