... 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. ...

spaceweb@oulu.fi - last update: 14 January 1999, 0950 UT (RR) . Term 'global change' is used to describe the changes of the large scale weather systems on Earth , and especially the surface temperature increase, by man-made increase of atmospheric CO 2 . ... It is the last point that is of importance for space physics, since it is possible that also the changes in Sun 's activity could be causing some changes in terrestrial climate. ... Space Physics Text Book of Oulu ...

... 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 . ...

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 have been modified slightly. ... This change results in a 3% increase in designated SAA-free orbits, which allows better scheduling efficiency, and is expected to impact negatively less than 0.1% of WFPC2 science observations. ...

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). ...

... Our restless globe and its companion. ... A Look at the Motions of the Earth in Space and How They Are Changing . ... Earth's rotation as viewed from above the north and south geographic poles. ... The Earth revolves around the Sun-also counterclockwise viewed from above the North Pole, clockwise viewed from the South Pole-to give us our years (see Figure 2 ). The plane of the Earth's orbit is called the ecliptic (where eclipses happen). ... Earth's orbit as viewed from the north ecliptic pole. ...

... 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 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...

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 ]). ...

... Version 1.7 (2008-09-17) Introducing two new parameters in order to include the capability of removing scattered-light features from the rotated grism image. Version 1.5 (2006-11-09) A lot of small changes are introduced to get more accurate RA and DEC coordinates of the grism image sources (SSC-SPR-3633) . ... Version 1.0.1 - the output image is slightly enlarged in order not to miss the pixels that go outside of the image due to distortion correction (SSC-SPR-3318) . ...