Image Quality and Stability Criteria ­ Transmissive Systems Alex Rea adr34@cam.ac.uk Cavendish Lab oratory, University of Cambridge FTT Technical Meeting Friday 21st May 2010 Alex Rea (Cavendish Labs, Cambridge) Transmissive Systems 21st May 2010 1 / 19 Table Expansion If everything is fixed to the table, and the table expands uniformly, then everything moves radially away from the centre of expansion. ... Like the OAP system, it's the stability that is forcing our hand. ...

... The flag on the moon represents an important event in vexillological history. ... During their historic extravehicular activity (EVA), the Apollo 11 crew planted the flag of the United States on the lunar surface. ... Like any activity in space exploration, the Apollo flag-raising also provided NASA engineers with an interesting technical challenge. ... As NASA plans a return to the moon and an expedition to Mars, we will likely see flags continue to go "where no flag has gone before." ...

... Posts tagged ?chi-square minimization? ... Posted by hlee . ... Category: Bad AstroStat , Fitting , High-Energy , Methods , Spectral , X-ray | ... I was delighted to see his introductory article about particle physics and its statistical challenges from an [arxiv:stat] email subscription. ... Tags: bimodality , chi-square minimization , Classification , CMD , Estimation , machine learning , massive data , model based , PCA , spectral analysis , spectroscopic , survey , VO . ... SAMSI AstroStat Prog....

. More movement and the UVa crew pose like proud parents. And the hoist begins! . The End - but not really . More photos as the installation continues through SDSS Progress Reports. HD video was shot and available.

What do we look for to 'see' Life? ... Uses Energy/Metabolizes . Able to take energy from the environment, transform it and 'use' it . ... Development or expansion of organism in size and complexity . ... What to Look For with Extraterrestrial Samples: Universal Properties of Life that are "Measurable" . ... Recently, she has served as a member of two major National Research Council (NRC) studies: one on Issues in Mars Sample Return and the other on Sample Return from Small Solar System Bodies. ...

... Version 0.5.1 - 2004-10-08 (IMS SSC/LUX) ----------- - Fixed the interface to ssclib/coordinate:rawToInst to conform with ssclib-3.16 standard (and increased the ssclib dependency accordingly). Call to subroutine 'regrid', which was in ssclib/polygon, changed to reflect the renaming of this subroutine to 'regridCartesian' and its movement to module 'regridders' of ssclib. 'use regridders' also substituted for 'use polygon'. ... It has been brought to status "buildable" from this version on. ...

... Laboratoire Signal et Image, Ecole Nationale de Physique de Marseille, Domaine Universitaire de Saint Jerome, 13397 Marseille Cedex 20, France . ... Astronomical ultraviolet images were obtained from a balloon-borne telescope equipped with a photon-counting detector. ... We take advantage of the high temporal resolution available, to significantly reduce, during the image reconstruction process, the blur induced by the residual movements of the guidance system. ... 4) The images are periodic. ...

... These other worlds are the moons of our Solar System , of which there are approximately 170 in orbit around our planets.Some of these moons are very interesting, and have diverse and unique features, very different to our barren, heavily cratered Moon .Jupiter, the largest planet in our solar system has the most moons of any planet with known 64 moons in orbit.The four ... Ganymede, the largest moon in the Solar System thought to have oceans located underneath its icy surface.( ...

... Moon Phase below . ... ARTICLE: Why the moon always shows us the same face . ... Before you continue reading, you should know that this was not always the case, i.e. the Moon once was rotating with respect to the Earth, so that on every night a terrestrial observer (if there was one, because this was long, long before mankind appeared on our planet, and even before any major animals had appeared) saw another face of the Moon. ... Figure 1 (not to scale) shows how we can imagine the system Earth-Moon...