The shape and width of observed PSFs varies slightly over time, due to the change in focus of the telescope. The focus variation consists of two terms: a secular change due to the ongoing shrinkage of the Metering Truss Assembly at an estimated rate of 0.25 ?m month -1 , and short-term variations, typically on an orbital time-scale (the so-called "breathing" of the telescope). ... See Figure 5.8 ). ... Figure 5.8: Measured OTA Focus Position (microns) as Function of Days since January 1, 1994. ...

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... 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. ...

... 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. ...

Contact Russet McMillan (primary) or your Observing Specialists (secondary) for additional information. Contact Jack Dembicky for web page errors, corrections, ommisions, or additions. This page last updated: July 6, 2004 - JMD . This page last checked: September 14, 2003 - JMD . Configuring TUI to use the Echelle . Setting up the Echelle exposure parameters . Taking your Calibration lamps . ... Setting up multiple exposures . ... Stopping an exposure (discarding data) . ...

... The Raw Images . Table 1: List of Viking Orbiter Images of the "Face on Mars" . ... Processing the Face Images . ... In July, 1976, Viking Orbiter 1 was acquiring images of the Cydonia region of Mars as part of the search for potential landing sites for Viking Lander 2. ... Using the height field, it is also possible to view the "Face" from different look directions, by mapping the Viking Orbiter image directly on the the topography and then placing the "viewer" at different locations. ... Mars . ...

The Face on Mars . ... The Raw Images . Table 1: List of Viking Orbiter Images of the "Face on Mars" . ... Processing the Face Images . Table 2: Dimensions of Mercator Projected Images of "The Face on Mars" . Map Projected Images . ... Processing the "Face on Mars" Images . ... This page will provide interested persons with both the raw Viking images, transformed to GIF format, and a brief tutorial (with examples) of image processing techniques applied to create "better looking" images. ...

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... The system temperature versus turret position has shown a bump (increase) for some receivers at the turret focal position. The receivers that had this increase also had platform focus curves where the platform focus position was lower than expected (or the horn was too high). ... After the focus change a 20 deg amplitude sine wave was done using the turret about the turret focus position. ... The plot shows the difference in Tsys versus turret position before and after the focus change. ...

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... 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); . ...

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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 | ...

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... During and after the project, the student response was tremendous. ... I invite you to view what the class did with the terraforming project. ... These pages contain only portions of the entire project, since some of the presentations were purely verbal, and I was remiss in collecting all the speeches. The Mars Project student website . ... I think that it can be stressful to students to have such a large project to work on when they don't know what it's worth to them. ... previous page | ...

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The Status popup displays useful information about the state of sets, regions, and graphs. ... When the number of sets is less than 30, this button is not needed, use the scroll bars to view the status of the sets that are not shown in the display. ... Operations in the Status popup are performed by clicking on the operation, then clicking on one or more set numbers shown in the display. ... Clicking on Copy followed by clicking on a set number in the scrolled window will select the set to copy from. ...

Next: Scattering properties Up: Polarization properties (transmitted radiation) Previous: Linear polarization: wavelength dependence . Traditionally, the main problem considered in connection with circular interstellar polarization is the meaning of the wavelength where changes the sign . ... This is also demonstrated by Fig. 19 (lower panel) which shows the wavelength dependence of the factors of linear and circular polarization for particles of magnetite as was done by Shapiro ([ 1975 ]). ...

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... Spherical aberration, coma, and astigmatism are also easily observed using the star test. ... Off-axis images are complex. ... Fig. ... Diffraction by a circular aperture as a function of defocus for no aberration Airy Disk 1 wave defocus Less than 1 wave defocus Fig. ... Diffraction by a circular aperture as a function of defocus for third-order spherical aberration Paraxial Focus Small distance inside paraxial focus Moderate distance from marginal focus Immediate neighborhood of marginal focus Fig...