... 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 . ...

... Armagh Observatory, College Hill, Armagh BT61 9DG, +44 (0)28 3752 2928 . ... Time profiles of the mean seasonal and annual relative humidity at Armagh at 09.00 GMT . ... Though a relative humidity series, like all other meteorological series, is essentially local, it will contain elements of variability which derive from a wider region. ... Data: Wet and dry bulb thermometer readings have been recorded daily at Armagh Observatory since 1838. ... Extended abstract in PDF format . ...

... Near, far field and the sky ovverlap at 100 km . Relative strengths of linefeed/yagi sidelobe detections . ... 18 Amin . ... Diameter=(K*lambda)/hpbw (where k depends on the edge taper .. typically k=1.2) The hpbws are different for the linefeed and yagi so their illumination patterns are different. ... At this height, the linefeed is still in the near field while the yagi is in the far field. The angles and distances of the two beams at 100 km are shown below (assuming the far field.. ...

The most up-to-date information related to atmos 3.0 are collected here due to constantly increasing interest to MASS/DIMM processing software... atmos 3.0 is still beta , so the latest version is 2.97.5 (there is also 2.98.x branch which absorbs new features) . ... M' line: . ... free seeing and its relative error . ... dimm seeing and its relative error (if dimm data are present, zeros otherwise) . ... dimm turbulence power and its relative error (if dimm data are present, zeros otherwise) . ...

... Mindful of these biases, I can now explore the relations between the measured rotation periods and various other observables. The hypothesis behind monitoring stellar variability is that active stars have asymmetric spot distributions on their photospheres. ... They found that only stars with rotation periods greater than seven days show variations greater than 0.4 magnitudes at I. Bouvier et al . ... 1993a) demonstrated a relation between X--ray flux and spectral type in ZAMS stars. ...

... 22.Reference Frames . ... To derive the motion of a penny dropped inside an airliner moving at 600 miles/hr (about 1000 km/hr)--should we calculate it with respect to the interior of the airliner, or with respect to the ground? ... And if a similar penny is let go inside an orbiting spaceship--should its motion be calculated relative to the interior of the spaceship, or relative to the Earth outside? ... How do observations differ in the two frames--the airliner cabin and the Earth? ...

... To derive the motion of a penny dropped inside an airliner moving at 600 miles/hr (about 1000 km/hr)--should we calculate it with respect to the interior of the airliner, or with respect to the ground? ... And if a similar penny is let go inside an orbiting spaceship--should its motion be calculated relative to the interior of the spaceship, or relative to the Earth outside? ... Each such choice is known as a frame of reference . Some possible frames are -- the interior of the airliner, . ...

Hide Zen home . ... SAI CAS . ... More information: cas=# select sn_name,snt.name, gal_type, gal_type_code, gal_type_code_prec, coalesce((sndist(s)).reldist,0) as rd from sn.sn_cat s, sn.sntypes snt where s.sn_type = snt.id and sn_name='1997C'; sn_name | ... Top 10 relative distances: cas=# select sn_name,snt.name, gal_type, gal_type_code, gal_type_code_prec, coalesce((sndist(s)).reldist,0) as rd from sn.sn_cat s, sn.sntypes snt where s.sn_type = snt.id order by rd desc limit 10; sn_name | ...

Next: The Photometric Performance of Up: NICMOS Data Calibration and Previous: Status and Goals of . ... Absolute Spectrophotometric Standards . Absolute Photometry . ... Velocity shifts and Photometry with Narrow-band Filters . ... HST, NICMOS, near-infrared, standards, photometry, calibration . ... In practice NICMOS does not have a set of filters matching any of the standard ground-based photometric bands and this poses a challenge when trying to achieve precise absolute photometry. ...

... This paper describes various methods for the analysis of spectroscopic data, particularly as they relate to wavelength calibration of echelle-format spectra. ... Keywords: spectroscopy, Hough transform, wavelet transform, robust regression, echelle, wavelength calibration . ... Wavelet transform can be useful in complementing robust techniques for multiresolution analysis, and Section 4 presents an application of the Mexican hat transform to the detection of spectral features. ...

RELATIVE SUNSPOT NUMBERS Description of Data from SGD Explanation of Data Reports: Relative Sunspot Numbers -- The relative sunspot number is an index of the activity of the entire visible disk of the Sun. ... The provisional daily Zurich relative sunspot numbers, Rz, were based upon observations made at Zurich and its two branch stations in Arosa and Locarno and communicated by M. Waldmeier of the Swiss Federal Observatory. ... This indicates the uncertainty above and below the predicted number. ...

... They are concerned with Attitude Control System of the spacecraft, satellite visibility from tracking stations, limits on the satellite autonomous operations during the orbit, and needs for auxiliary operations with the spacecraft. ... Among the operational constraints the most important one is the number of programmed slews per orbit, which determines the maximum number of radio sources to be observed during one orbit. ... System temperature (K) . ... Progress of the RadioAstron Project in Pictures...

... Satellite data ] . SMIS ] . The program is designed to process the specific AVHRR instrument data for calculation and analysis of temperature fields on the sea surface and upper level of clouds. It performs brightness correction for visible channels with regards to clouds altitude. ... The program features a wide variety of classification algorithms (including two-dimensional histogram analysis) and enables to construct personal procedures for classification. ... Back to SMIS Home Page . ...

... PUL2 catalog contains original absolute proper motions of 59646 stars in 149 fields with galaxies. ... Mean errors of relative proper motions in PUL2 catalog is 5.5 mas/year. ... The external mean error of one relative proper motion of a bright star of PUL2 catalog is 9 mas/year for both of coordinates. ... After issue of UCAC2 catalog, we decided to improve accuracy of proper motions, using Pul-3 coordinates (of 1950s) as the first epoch, and UCAC2 coordinates as the second epoch. ...

... The possibility to use the electrostatic approximation to calculate the polarizability allows one to consider practically any shape scatterers - from the regular ones (ellipsoid, cylinder, disc) [ 7 , 274 ] to those with an arbitrary shape, structure and anisotropy [ 308 , 309 , 313 , 405 ] (in the last case the polarizability tensor should be found numerically) - using the theory of the Rayleigh scattering. ...

... Bad Astronomy . ... Bitesize Astronomy . ... Last week's Snack talked about how black holes can affect the environment around them in such a way as to be very bright . ... It's a common misconception that black holes always have matter swirling into them. ... As this matter gets closer and closer to the black hole it piles up and a large, fairly flat disk forms. This is called the accretion disk , because matter from this disk accretes (that is, falls in) on the black hole. ... 2008 Phil Plait. ...

... The data for ~ 5500 F-G stars are used to study their kinematics, metal abundance and HR diagram in terms of uvby photometry. The age - metallicity, velocity - metallicity, and age - velocity relations are derived. ... 4) At a given metallicity the kinematics of F dwarfs is close to that of G giants and the kinematics of G dwarfs is close to that of K giants. ... 1) При [Fe/H] < 0 звезды данной металличности обнаруживают отчетливую точку поворота главной последовательности (ГП). ...

... Impedance . Electrical impedance, or simply impedance, describes a measure of opposition to a sinusoidal alternating current (AC). Electrical impedance extends the concept of resistance to AC circuits, describing not only the relative amplitudes of the voltage and current, but also the relative phases. ... Resistance is the real part of impedance; a device with a purely resistive impedance exhibits no phase shift between the voltage and current. ...

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