... The path of the dome will now follow a different track in focus. ... The dome was set to 19.6 degrees. ... Focus curves taken with sbn (.ps) ( more info ) show the offset (in inches) from the the platform reference position (1256.22 feet). ... Moving the ref ch position from 8.84 to 18 degrees will raise the platform corner by .7 inches.7 platform inches is 1.7*.7 is 1.2 tie down inches of stroke .7 platform inches is 3.5 degrees F. The path length will increase by .1 in (za=2) to .8 inches (za=20)....

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... With enough velocity, a spacecraft can break loose from the Earth's gravity and enter an orbit around the Sun, like that of a planet. If it then orbits the Sun with the same period as the Earth--one year--it may keep a fixed position relative to Earth. ... If the distance is just right--about 4 times the distance to the Moon or 1/100 the distance to the Sun--the spacecraft, too, will need just one year to go around the Sun, and will keep its position between the Sun and the Earth. ...

... 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 . ...

... With enough velocity, a spacecraft can break loose from the Earth's gravity and enter an orbit around the Sun, like that of a planet. If it then orbits the Sun with the same period as the Earth--one year--it may keep a fixed position relative to Earth. ... If the distance is just right--about 4 times the distance to the Moon or 1/100 the distance to the Sun--the spacecraft, too, will need just one year to go around the Sun, and will keep its position between the Sun and the Earth. ...

Next: THE SCHED INPUT FILES Up: INFORMATION AND ADVICE ON Previous: Configuration Studies Contents . ... The NAIF software package from JPL is called to read the spice files and calculate positions. The NAIF software significantly increases the size of a SCHED distribution, and the satellite tracking capability is unlikely to be needed outside the AOC. ... To use the tracking capability, a Satellite Initialization section needs to be included in the main input file. ...

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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] . ...

Next: A box, to include Up: To produce a region Previous: To produce a region . select cursor and circle . When in the image window, the mouse now has a box shape with an arrow at the upper left corner. The mouse buttons act as follows: . LEFT - to move the center of the circle at the position of the arrow point. ... RIGHT - idle. center the circle at the point source by positioning the arrow point and clicking on the LEFT mouse button. A circle will appear at the arrow position. ...

polimplot -- Plot a polarization vector map . ... inpol = "" [name] . Input linear polarization image (in %) to plot. inpopa = "" [name] . Input image for position angle of linear polarization vectors (degrees). poi_err = "" [boolean] . ... Name of corresponding polarization position angle error image (degrees). ... This task is a flexible tool for plotting a polarization vector map from two images of the polarization and the position angle of the polarization vector. ...

... 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 ...

... 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...

... 24 } Line { SrcBlock sin SrcPort 1 DstBlock func1 DstPort 1 } Line { SrcBlock Fcn SrcPort 1 Points [0, -55] DstBlock func DstPort 1 } Line { SrcBlock (G*M) ^1/2 SrcPort 1 Points [25, 0] DstBlock func DstPort 3 } Line { SrcBlock func SrcPort 1 Points [40, 0] Branch { ...

Contents] [Prev page] [Next page] [Index] . ... Positioning HTML Content Using Styles . Positioning HTML Content Using the <LAYER> Tag . ... Absolute Positioning . ... Creating Positioned Blocks of Content Dynamically . Writing Content in Positioned Blocks . ... Positioning the Flower Layers . Positioning and Moving the Fish and Poles . Defining the onLoad Handler for the BODY Element . ... Adding Another Layer to Contain the Reverse Fish Image . ... The Initialization Functions . ...

... Up: Science Data Pipelines . ... We designed and developed a package which simulates extragalactic point source data within a given field of view and SIRTF band. ... The simulator is modular and extensible to enable multi-wavelength simulations, has been optimized by utilizing parallel processing capabilities, and will be used to test pipeline software. ... The extragalactic simulator is capable of generating large numbers of galaxies within a given patch of sky for SIRTF pipeline testing. ...

. Computer Ephemeris. Lunar equatorial positions. Explanations. Each row contains at 0 h and 12 h of Time Dynamical Terrestrial: month, day, apparent right ascension (hours, minutes, seconds), apparent declination (degrees, minutes, seconds of arc) and geocentric distance (in Earth's radii).

October 14, 2010 =============== Address BUGS In bisque/mks: add Home on startup -- currently must be homed with the joystick reverse tracking direction in southern hemisphere check southern hemisphere mappings In order of priority -- Make a guide and manual available. Provide a method of determining best pointing correction parameters. ... Fully test pointing corrections on a system capable of arc second accuracy. ...

... F10.7, format: hh.dec: . LT, format: hh . ... F10.7< = 200. for LT=18., 20., 22., 0., 2., 4. or 6. ... LT, format: hh.dec . LAT[45., 75.], format: hh.dec . ... F10.7<= 200. for LT from [18.,24.) to [0., 6.] . ... LONG [0., 360.], format: hh.dec . ... at Longitude [0., 360.] . ... LONG [0., 360.] . with Latitude [45., 75.] and Longitude [0., 360.] . ... MIT position and foF2 in the trough . ...

... Bad Astronomy . ... Bitesize Astronomy . ... Mad Science . ... Keep Bad Astronomy close to your heart, and help make me filthy rich. ... Sun coming thru clouds forms beams of light (in dust in air?) ... Why does it look like that when the rays are supposed to be parallel and the sun 93M miles away? ... The rays really do appear to diverge: they are close together near the Sun, then spread out overhead. ... The rays as a set are parallel, but each ray is a little bit fan-shaped. ... 2008 Phil Plait. ...

... Get out your red/blue glasses and float next to Helene, small, icy moon of Saturn. Appropriately named, Helene is one of four known Trojan moons, so called because it orbits at a Lagrange point. ... Eclipsed Moonlight . ... A celestial prelude to today's solstice, the June 15 total lunar eclipse was one of the longest in recent years. ... On June 15, the totally eclipsed Moon was very dark, with the Moon itself positioned on the sky toward the center of our Milky Way Galaxy. ... June . ...