... Operation of the Precision Error Correction (PEC) in the LX200 Drive . ... The basic concept is to correct the speed of the drive motor to compensate for the fact that the worm drives the worm wheel a bit faster or slower as it rotates.  This is done by going into a training mode and manually training the computer to compensate for the mechanical defects.  ... It can not do a perfect job because correcting for one turn of the worm takes account of only one tooth of the worm wheel.  ...

This diagram illustrates the effects of absolutely positioning a box ("inner") with respect to a containing block established by a relatively positioned ancestor ("outer"). ... The "inner" box has been positioned relative to the top and left edges of the "outer" element's first inline box. ... The reference edges for positioning the "inner" box are indicated in the diagram by thick dashed lines. ... 1 Beginning of body contents.| ... 4 [(+200, -100)] 5 Inner 6 contents. ... Inner contents" is blue. ...

... 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...

... Average effective wavelengths and band widths for various sp ectra Lyrae spectrum f flat k е 1014 Hz 5386 ± 18 4.66 ± 0.04 5714 ± 12 4.1 6234.5 ± 0.5 1.03 5372 ± 18 4.69 ± 0.04 eff 2 Optical Filter ID 1 2 3 4 a Fo c -6 10 erg/cm2 s 12.55 ± 0.10 11.04 ± 0.01 2.77 ± 0.004 12.63 ± 0.10 fo d 6 10 photons/cm2 s 3.40 ± 0.02 3.18 ± 0.004 0.87 ± 0.002 3.42 ± 0.02 Power-law eff f 2 е 5746 ± 317 6197 ± 253 6305 ± 31 5736 ± 316 spectra pl k 1014 Hz 3.70 ± 0.26 3.14 ± 0.16 0.88 ± 0.01 3.70 ± 0.27 Table 1. ...

TOWARDS SUPERSENSITIVE BOLOMETERS AND ELECTRON COOLERS BASED ON CARBON NANOTUBES M.TARASOV, J.SVENSSON, S.DITTMER, L.KUZMIN, AND E.CAMPBELL Chalmers University of Technology, GЖteborg SE 41294, Sweden E-mail: Mikhail.tarasov@mc2.chalmers.se Carbon nanotubes (CNT) are being intensively developed for novel electronics. Electron cooling by superconductor-insulator-nanotube (SIN) tunnel junctions could be extremely effective due to the small volume of the CNT. ...

... The main field of my investigations is stellar spectrophotometry. As a result of scientific activity of our group spectrophotometric catalog was created including energy distribution data on 900 stars in the range 3200-7600AA and 250 stars in the range 6000-10800AA (Voloshina et al., Spectrophotometry of Bright Stars, ed. I.N.Glushneva, 1982, Moscow, Nauka, in Russian). ...

... MASTER Net is 56 square degrees per 1 exposition . ... 06 Dec 2015: GRB 151205B: MASTER-NET early optical observations GCN18665 . ... 18 Nov 2015: GRB 151118A: MASTER-NET optical observations GCN18613 . ... 12 Nov 2015: GRB 151112A: MASTER-NET optical limit GCN18591 . ... 07 Nov 2015: GRB 151107A: MASTER-NET optical observations GCN18565 . ... 31 Oct 2015: Five OTs detected by Global Robotic MASTER Net ATel8232 . ... 02 Oct 2015: GRB 151001B: MASTER-NET early optical observations GCN18380 . ...

The 2dF QSO Redshift Survey (2QZ) . ... Before jumping into all the finer details of teh survey, a brief non-astronomer's guide to redshift surveys is available. ... The primary scientific aims of the QSO survey are: (1) to obtain the primordial fluctuation power spectrum out to COBE scales, (2) to determine the rate of QSO clustering evolution in the non-linear and linear regimes and hence obtain new limits on the value of and the bias parameter, (3) to apply a powerful geometric method to measure . ...

... Left: A POSSM plot of the uncalibrated spectrum of DA 193 at 1.66 GHz on a baseline Bear Lakes to Noto. ... The phase slope as a function of frequency is clear evidence for a small delay error in the correlator model. Right: The same data as shown on the left, but corrected for a delay error and a residual fringe rate. ... Left: A VPLOT plot of the uncalibrated amplitude (upper frame) and uncalibrated phase (lower frame) as a function of time for the source DA 193 on a baseline HartRAO to Noto. ...

Measurement of Sky Brightness at the Iranian National Observatory Davoud Afshari1 and Sadollah Nasiri1,2 1Physics Department, Zanjan University, Zanjan 45195-313, Iran; Institute for Advanced studies in Basic Science (IASBS), Zanjan 45195-1159, Iran; Measurement of light pollution 2 Introduction Among 34 candidate sites at the central part of the country, 5 sites namely Garkesh (in Kashan ), Kolahbarfi(in Kashan ), Deynava (in ... One of these is light pollution. ...

... Parameters of the Moon-perturbed orbit . ... From orbits consistent with this limitation and with the date of the launch October 1, 2000 as an example, an orbit was selected with apogee directed to the North Galactic pole at the begining and rotation of orbit plane was maximized. The initial state vector is given in the inertial coordinate system in epoch J2000.0. ... The orbit has initial perigee radius Rp=7000.0 km, initial apogee radius Ra=343000.0 km and initial period T=8.453 days. ...

... In spite of the good potential possibilities, some of the station "Dnepr" design characteristics did not allow us to apply the usual special IS radar measurement methods. ... Thus for IS signal measurements at the "Dnepr" station, we have developed special methods for recording and processing IS signals in order to determine plasma ionospheric parameters. ... Equations (4-5) from the basis for data post processing to obtain ionosphere parameters. ...

. Here it seems you see only diffuse top clouds. But actually i'd like to show you the optical effect known as "Glory". It consists in formation of colored circles around the shadow of the plane . hovering under the clouds.

Coordinate Systems used for spacecraft trajectory description: . ... The HGI coordinates are Sun centered and inertially fixed with respect to an X-axis directed along the intersection line of the ecliptic and solar equatorial planes. ... Cometocentric (solar) Ecliptic Coordinate System (CSE) . ... CSE coordinate system for the SC POSITION: axis origin at comet center, X-axis to the SUN, Z-axis to ecliptic north pole, (X,Y)-plane is parallel to the ecliptic plane. ...

... 35, No. 2, pp. 87­99. i Star Formation History in the Central Region of the Barred Galaxy NGC 4245 O. K. Sil'chenko1* , I. V. Chilingarian1, 2 , and V. L. Afanasiev 1 2 3 Sternberg Astronomical Institute, Universitetskii pr. ... The galaxy has been found to possess a pronounced chemically decoupled compact stellar nucleus, which is at least a factor of 2.5 richer in metals than the stellar population of the bulge, and a ring of young stars with a radius of 300 pc. ... NGC 4245. ...

... Hierarchy and stability 3. Stability criteria for triple systems 4. ... The results for selected systems with weak hierarchy (physical properties of components) System HD 40887 AB+CD HD 76644 AB+CD HD 217675 AB+CD HD 222326 A?+BC HD 284419 A+BC Spectral types K5V, M0V, K4V, ?? ... More accurate results for selected systems HD 217675/6 ( And) Quadruple system More accurate results for selected systems HD 217675/6 Pair B1B 2 More accurate results for selected systems HD 217675/6 (Zhuchkov et al. ...

THE STUDY OF THE PIONEER ANOMALY THE STUDY OF THE PIONEER ANOMALY The Pioneer Anomaly : Effect, New Data and New Investigation Slava G. Turyshev Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology Seminar at the Sternberg Astronomical Institute Moscow State University, Moscow, 6 February 2007 1 THE STUDY OF THE PIONEER ANOMALY THE STUDY OF THE PIONEER ... Are they relevant to the Pioneer anomaly? ...

... Source File: mod_negotiation.c . Module Identifier: negotiation_module Content negotiation, or more accurately content selection, is the selection of the document that best matches the clients capabilities, from one of several available documents. ... A type map (a file with the handler type-map ) which explicitly lists the files containing the variants. ... Apache only recognizes encodings that are defined by an AddEncoding directive. ... Content-Language: . ... Module: mod_negotiation . ...

THE PARAMETERS INVOLVED IN HAPKE'S MODEL FOR ESTIMATION OF THE COMPOSITION OF THE EJECTA LUNAR TERRAINS. ... In the previous papers we were estimated the surface roughness of the ejecta lunar terrains by means comparison of the local phase function and the average integrated lunar indicatrix. ... The Hapke's theoretical model of the lunar surface reflection. ... For THE PARAMETERS INVOLVED IN HAPKE'S MODEL: S.G. Pugacheva, V.V. Shevchenko a low-albedo lunar surface parameter Bo = 1. ...

... click image to view discuss) . ... This is a quick shot of the near-Earth asteroid 2005 YU55 using four consecutive exposures from the Harvard MicroObservatory robotic telescope in Amado, Arizona, on the night of Nov. ... 10, 2015 . This is Comet Lovejoy C/2014 Q2 as it appeared at about 10:30 pm Saturday, Jan. 10, 2015, from my back yard in Belmont, MA, about 5 miles west of downtown Boston. ... Main image: 0.6 second exposure. ... Copyright (c) Amateur Telescope Makers of Boston, Inc. ...