... The downstairs if/lo has an 8 way splitter/buffer amplifiers for each of the 8 sub bands that can be generated (4 for polA, 4 for polB). ... The black traces had the inputs to the FP ports changed. ... The black polA has lisa's new modification while the red (polB) has the old setup. ... Both the black (polA) and the red (polB) have the old setup. ... Call this deltaV. ... PolA sbc 1,2,3,4. ... PolA is black and polB is red. sbc1A has had the modification. processing: x101/030423/doit.pro home_~phil...

... The changes are important to us, since they affect our time reckoning, our climate, and our understanding of the Earth's past. ... The Invariable Plane . ... The current location of the celestial north pole, the ecliptic north pole, and the north pole of the invariable plane in the northern sky. ... The north pole of the invariable plane lies in Draco, its south pole in Mensa. ... The precession of the celestial north pole, viewed from above the north pole and against the background of northern...

... Bad Astronomy . ... I think I will break from my usual format of Bad Astronomy/ Good Astronomy by saying that the way we define seasons currently is not strictly bad, but I feel (in my opinion!) that it could be better. The definition of when the seasons begin is at the moment of solstice or equinox; that is, winter (in the north) starts on December 22 nd and summer starts on June 22 nd . ... Now imagine breaking up the Sun's 46 degree up-and-down yearly swing into 1 day intervals. ...

... Shock is a non-linear plasma wave generated by plasma flow (Burgess, 1995). ... Shocks are thus places where plasma and field go through dramatic changes in density, temperature, field strength, and/or flow speed. If there is no plasma flow through the surface (Un <> 0) or there is no dissipation and compression across it, we talk about discontinuity only, not shock. ... Contact discontinuity . ... Plasma pressure and field strength increase at shock; magnetic field bends away from normal . ...

Changes in the WFPC2 observation scheduling system were introduced early in 1999 primarily in order to increase the scheduling efficiency of HST observations starting with Cycle 8. First, the South Atlantic Anomaly (SAA) contours used to limit WFPC2 observations were modified slightly. ... This change results in a 3% increase in designated SAA-free orbits, which allows better scheduling efficiency, and is expected to negatively impact less than 0.1% of WFPC2 science observations. ...

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Next: Special Cases: Supernova Explosion Up: Change of Binary Parameters: Previous: Mass change . The binary separation a changes differently depending on the mass exchange mode. ... If the mass transfer is conservative ( , i.e. const) and one may neglect the redistribution of the intrinsic angular momenta of the components, the total orbital momentum conservation law implies . ... the orbital separation always increases in such systems). ...

... BLG 109: A Distant Version of our own Solar System . ... Perhaps quite common, as the first system of planets like our own Solar System has been discovered using a newly adapted technique that, so far, has probed only six planetary systems . The technique, called gravitational microlensing , looks for telling brightness changes in measured starlight when a foreground star with planets chances almost directly in front of a more distant star. ... VB 10: A Large Planet Orbiting a Small Star . ...

... 09.11.2007 (VNY) Fixed a bug that could result in a crash of the task when processing crowded fields (SSC-SPR-3700); Restoring the omgsource flag when extracting the target spectrum: in the case when omgrism is called from the interactive tool omgsource the target spectrum shouldn't be extracted (fixing the SSC-SPR-3702); Added a parameter enabling the output of an additional region file that contains newly detected point-like sources (zero-order features); . ...

... A uv variable can change its value in any part of the uv variable stream. So it can change its value after each call to uvread , uvnext or uvscan . The uv routines which need to know if a uv variable has changed ( uvprobvr , uvcopyvr and uvupdated ) normally (i.e. by default) work on whether the particular variable(s) of interest has changed since the last ``mark'' in the uv stream. ... The uvmark routine provides greater control at marking the position in the stream. ...

This is a copy of a Press Release from E.S.O. The most recent ESO observations of bright Comet Hyakutake have shown rapid changes in the innermost coma, within a few hundred kilometres from the cometary nucleus. This result has only become possible because of the unusual combination of a bright comet being near the Earth, together with the excellent imaging quality of the ESO 3.5-metre New Technology Telescope (NTT). ... Go to the ESO Homepage for Comet Hyakutake . ESO/La Silla | ...

... Tonight's Sky . ... Observing . ... Sky this Month . ... Is cosmic acceleration changing? A new analysis shows that dark energy, the engine driving the universe's speeding expansion, may be changing fast. ... Cosmic acceleration is the biggest mystery in all of science," says University of Chicago cosmologist Michael Turner. ... for measuring dark-energy changes. ... and any change in dark energy's acceleration ? ... Only registered members of Astronomy.com are allowed to comment on this article. ...

Appendix B: The Effects of Thermal Changes on the "Absolute" Position of the Secondary . ... I will use the same nomenclature for the rod forces here as I used in Appendix A. In Appendix A, the axial force balance equation at the horizon was shown to be . ... The quantity that we really wish to derive is , where is the rod elongation at some initial epoch (i.e. when the rods were first tensioned) and where is the rod elongation at some later time after the rod temperatures had changed. ...

AstroImageJ Release Notes . ... Daily Build Version db3.2.1 (with ImageJ 1.47i) (Last Updated: 02/04/2016) . Changes . Version 3.2.0 (with ImageJ 1.47i) (Release date: 02/01/2016) . ... Version 3.1.0 (with ImageJ 1.47i) . ... Known Problems . Feature Requests in Roadmap but not in this Version . ... Version 2.0.0 (with ImageJ 1.47a1) . ... Changes in this Version . ... Version 1.1 (with ImageJ 1.45l) . ...

... Astronomical Observatory, Shevchenko Park, Odessa, 65014, . ... The XVI -th G. Gamow's Odessa Astronomical Summer Соnference-School, 14-20 August, 2016, Odessa, Ukraine . ... The XV -th G. Gamow's Odessa Astronomical Summer Соnference-School, 16-23 August, 2015, Odessa, Ukraine . ... The XIV -th G. Gamow's Odessa Astronomical Summer Соnference-School, 17-23 August, 2014, Odessa, Ukraine . ... The XIII -th G. Gamow's Odessa Astronomical Summer Соnference-School, 19-25 August, 2013, Odessa, Ukraine . ...

... The following changes have been initiated by user feedback: . ... SAOtng command line options can be stored as csh-style environment variables in the ~/.saotng file. ... See SAOtng Command Line Options for more information. ... See SAOtng Colormap Considerations for more information. ... We have added the ability for SAOtng to resize image frame #1 each time a new image is loaded (as did SAOimage). ... See Autoflip of Images for more information. ... See Marker Analysis in SAOtng for more...

... The previous example, Chapter 12, "Expanding Colored Squares Example," illustrates how to expand and contract the clipping region of a layer without changing the wrapping width of the layer. This example illustrates how to capture mouse events so that the user can make a layer's wrapping width wider or narrower by dragging the mouse. ... how to capture mouse events for a layer . how to change the wrapping width of a layer by using the load() function . ... Capturing Events for the Layer . ...

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ESO PR Photo 18b/00 . ... Caption : Images of two of the novae in NGC 1316 that were discovered during the observational programme described in this Press Release. ... In particular, no less than four novae were detected in a single giant galaxy within only 11 days . ... Moreover, the discovery of four novae in one galaxy in the Fornax cluster was possible with only 3 hours of observing time per filter. ... ESO Press Information is available on the WWW at . http://www.eso.org/outreach/press-rel/ . ...

We model the spectral chanages of late oxygen-rich Miras observed in different pulsation phases. From a combination of variable near-IR spectra and UKIRT spectrophotometry of the 9.7 \mu m silicate dust emission feature in different phases we study the influence of the changing atmospherical circumstances on the conditions in the circumstellar dust shell. ... A comparision with the modelling results for another long period Mira U Ori is also provided. ...