Proposal Identification No.: A2675 Date Received: 2011-Oct-03 17:21:24 Technical Page Proposal Type: General Category: Sub-Category: Observation Category: Total Time Requested: Minimum Useful Time: Prop osal Title: Regular Astronomy Continuum Galactic 6 Hours 90 minutes A Search for Transient Emission from a 13-minute Detached White Dwarf Eclips- ing Binary ABSTRACT: We propose a search for time-variable radio emission from a detached white-dwarf binary with a 12.75-minute orbit. ...

... Go to new wiki . ... LBANov2014 / . Tied array 12345. ... Detached CA01 and CA04 due to heat. Tied array now 235. ... Reattached CA01 and CA04 . Tied array 12345 from 01:14UT. ... CA01 Temp getting high again. Stowed CA01 and CA04 again. Tied array 235. ...

... Procedure . ... M2 Crate ; Location : stored at American Storage in Alamogordo ; Appearance : yellow . M2 Belly Band ; Location : inside M2 crate; Appearance : polished metal circular band. ... Wind baffle removed and wind baffle support frame secured (tied down and supported with jackscrews). ... Station one person on each side of the mirror to control the light baffle. ... Put a light weight level on the spreader bar and level the spreader bar by sliding the belly band around the mirror. ...

... Cassini sees abrupt turn in Titan's atmosphere . ... Data from NASAт??s Cassini spacecraft tie a shift in seasonal sunlight to a wholesale reversal, at unexpected altitudes, in the circulation of the atmosphere of Saturnт??s moon Titan. ... The scientists were also able to see rapid changes in the atmosphere and pinpoint the circulation reversal to about six months around the August 2009 equinox, when the Sun shone directly over Titanт??s equator. ...

... Armagh Observatory, College Hill, Armagh BT61 9DG, +44 (0)28 3752 2928 . The transit clock, Earnshaw's first ever long-case clock, is described by him in his "Appeal to the Public" in 1808, where he states his claim to a national reward for his contribution towards the solution of the determination of longitude problem. ... The clock originally had a 9- bar gridiron pendulum of alternate steel and brass rods which was replaced in 1830 by a mercurial pendulum made by Mr Sharp, Sen., of Dublin. ...

... If you still have a question or problem, post it to the comp.sys.hp.mpe newsgroup or the associated HP3000-L mailing list , where many Apache users and several contributors are more than willing to answer new and obscure questions about using Apache on MPE/iX. groups.google.com's newsgroup archive offers easy browsing of previous questions. ... MPELX51C - enhances the kill() function so that Apache can use it when the Apache parent UID is different from the Apache children UID (strongly recommended)...

... Archives . ... Like spherical cows , true blackbodies do not exist. ... black here simply refers to the property of the object where no wavelength is preferentially absorbed or emitted, and all the energy input to it is converted into radiation. ... The blackbody spectrum is . B_{\nu}(T) = \frac{2 h \nu^3}{c^2} \frac{1}{e^{h \nu / k_B T} ? ... The general shape of a blackbody spectrum is like a rising parabola at low ? ... Comment ( RSS ) | ... Chandra Blog . ... Entries (RSS) and Comments (RSS) . ...

Astronotes Armagh Planetarium's Stellar Blog! ... Space Flight . ... Living the тАЬDreamтАЭ, the Dream Chaser; a mini Shuttle? Image credit: NASA) . The main objectives of the Dream Chaser program as described by its makers is to provide a passenger and cargo transportation system into Low Earth Orbit which will in turn help service and maintain the International Space Station. ... The Dream Chaser would be launched by an Atlas V rocket. Image Credit: NASA.) ... Dream Chaser test flight. ...

... The first step is to open and inspect the camera body. ... Notice that there are snap locks on both sides of the camera body, one of which should already be open since it contained the film removed by the developer. To open the camera body, peel back some of the yellow sticker identifying the camera as KODAK on the top and bottom of the camera and unsnap the plastic pieces. ... You should now have four pieces: the front cover, back cover, middle (main camera with lens), and a cylindrical spool. ...

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... The following interfaces are now implemented : interface setNullValue module procedure setNullValueArray module procedure setNullValueColumn module procedure setNullValueDataComponent module procedure setNullValueNullable end interface interface isNull module procedure isNullArray module procedure isNullCell module procedure isNullColumn end interface Closed SPR-0727 f90: New logical function clobber() implemented. ... Implementated basic test harness. ...

... 26 5.3.2 Create an Image by Binning Table Columns . ... Symbolic Const Value Meaning -------------- ----- ----------------------------------------- 0 OK, no error SAME_FILE 101 input and output files are the same TOO_MANY_FILES 103 tried to open too many FITS files at once FILE_NOT_OPENED 104 could not open the named file FILE_NOT_CREATED 105 could not create the named file WRITE_ERROR 106 error writing to FITS file END_OF_FILE 107 tried to move past end of file READ_ERROR 108 error reading...

... Neil W. Woodward III (Commander, USN) . NASA ASTRONAUT (FORMER) . ... AWARDS: Distinguished Graduate, US Naval Test Pilot School; Empire Test Pilot School Award for Best Developmental Test Thesis, USNTPS. ... From July 2004 to July 2008 Woodward was on detached duty to Exploration Systems Mission Directorate at NASA Headquarters in various roles, including Director of the ESMD Integration Office and Director, Commercial Orbital Transportation Services. ... OCTOBER 2008 . ...

Ultraluminous IRAS galaxies are remarkable in that they generate Quasar level lumonsities in the Far Infrared part of the spectrum. It is thought that most of this luminosity is the result of a massive starburst which is triggered by the merger of two galaxies. ... Here we present the first results of Fabry-Perot Imaging for these systems. ... The first image shown below in the H-alpha intensity distribution for the source IRAS 23128-5919: . ... Return to the Fabry-Perot Page . ...

ATMoB "Open Cluster Observing Award " Guidelines Purpose: To promote observing among the membership of the Amateur Telescope Makers of Boston through participation in the Open Clusters Observing Awards program. Introduction: This awards program is oriented towards visually observing open clusters above magnitude 9.9. ... It turns out that a very unprejudiced and convenient method to dermine the limiting magnitude is to count the number of visible stars in certain areas on the sky. ...

... Long secondary periods in AGB stars: an investigation of their origin . Wood P.R., Olivier E.A., Kawaler, S.D. 2004, ApJ, 604, April 1. ... Wood P.R. 2003, in "Mass-losing Pulsating Stars and their Circumstellar Matter", eds. Y. Nakada M. Honma (Kluwer) . MSX sources in the LMC: Dust-enshrouded AGB stars, post-AGB stars and PN . ... Wood P.R., Cohen M. 2001, in "Post-AGB Objects as a Phase of Stellar Evolution", eds. R. Szczerba and S. K. Gorny, ASSL, 265, 71 . ... Wood P.R. 2000, in IAU Coll. ...

... 145, 1998 R. Albrecht, R. N. Hook and H. A. Bushouse, eds. Object­Oriented Experiences with GBT Monitor and Control J. R. Fisher National Radio Astronomy Observatory, Green Bank, WV 24944, USA Abstract. The Green Bank Telescope Monitor and Control software group adopted object­oriented design techniques as implemented in C++. ... In principle, Object­Oriented Experiences with GBT Monitor and Control 27 the designs could evolve together, but the di#erence in design languages was again a barrier. ...