... 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, . ...

... Bad Astronomy . ... Bitesize Astronomy . ... Keep Bad Astronomy close to your heart, and help make me filthy rich. ... It's semi-common knowledge that stars twinkle and planets don't. By semi-common, I mean that a lot of folks know that, but I also mean it isn't strictly true. Stars twinkle because we see them from the bottom of a sea of air. ... These small bundles of air act like little lenses, bending light as it passes through them. ... What we see is the light from the star flickering. ...

... STScI previously used Microsoft Word and Microsoft Access, a Sybase ODBC driver, and the Adobe Acrobat PDF writer, along with a substantial amount of Visual Basic, to generate a variety of documents for the internal Space Telescope Grants Administration System (STGMS). ... To create a document, the internal STGMS application invoked a VB program which launched Microsoft Word and Microsoft Access, Access extracted the required data from a Sybase database using ODBC into an Access table. ...

On 6 may 2001 the azimuth was parked at az=214.4 degrees and the dome was at 19 degrees za with motors off and the brakes on. At 7:40:49 the azimuth started moving do to the wind. ... The operators began moving the dome downhill at azimuth 258 degrees. The dome was at 18 degrees by the time the azimuth stopped moving. The azimuth rail had been greased the previous week. ... The red shows the dome position during this time (the top red line is 19 degrees and the bottom one is 18 degrees). ...

... Up: INSTALLING, AND RUNNING SCHED Previous: Distribution of Schedule Files Contents . This section briefly describes other programs that may be of use when using SCHED. ... That leaves only the geodetic scheduling program SKED which is still the primary tool for scheduling geodetic project. ... Originally the scheduling program for Mark III, SKED is now the standard program for scheduling geodetic VLBI observations. It produces SKED or drg files that are converted to snap files by DRUDG. ...

... With the Moon's terminator moving almost 10 mph (16 km/h) across its equator, how long would it take for an observer using binoculars to notice a change in lunar features? ... The lunar terminator, the sunset/sunrise line that sweeps across the Moon s surface as the Moon orbits Earth, travels at a rate of 9.6 mph (15.4 km/h) along our satellite s equator. ... Get instant access to subscriber content on Astronomy.com! ... If you are already registered on Astronomy.com, please log in below. ...

... HST Phase II Proposal Instructions for Cycle 20 > Chapter 10: Fine Guidance Sensors (FGS) > 10.2 Mode = POSConfig = FGS . 10.2 Mode = POS . ... In addition, a few stars (reference and/or target) should be observed multiple times during a visit to map any positional drift of the field due to HST pointing characteristics (see the FGS Instrument Handbook) . ... The default values of the Optional Parameters are set in this Mode to provide acceptable data for single, zero angular diameter stars. ...

... Recent Topics . ... MAO main . ... The third-order space-by-time relation . ... Тема: The third-order space-by-time relation . ... The mass m experiences a gravity force toward the sun and . ... will experience the Coriolis force or Coriolis acceleration. ... differentiated space-by-time twice and discovered equation2. ... time differentiation of space-by-time. ... to be described by differentiated forces. ... third-order space-by-time relation. ... understand the third-order space-by-time relation....

XMM-Newton Calibration - intro · Briefly review the ground calibration · Highlight the unique calibration issues of XMMNewton · Review the life-cycle of calibration observations, analysis, and ingestion into SAS · The publication of calibration data and ensuring correct sets used in SAS XMM-Newton David Lumb -- No need to calibrate XMM on-ground ­ AXAF will be calibrated to 1% so just calibrate to them!" ... XMM-Newton David Lumb --XMM-SOC 8 ...

... Armagh Observatory, College Hill, Armagh BT61 9DG, +44 (0)28 3752 2928 . ... Lower panel: The ME spot map of the star in orthographic projection, showing the disc of the star as it would be seen by an observer on the Earth at the labelled rotation phases (see the text). ... We carried out high-resolution spectroscopy and BV(I)C photometric monitoring of the two fastest late-type rotators in the nearby Pictoris moving group, HD 199143 (F7V) and CDтИТ64 1208 (K7V). ...

... Ruler widgets are used to indicate the location of the mouse pointer in a given window. ... Placement of the drawing area and the rulers is done using a table . #include gtk/gtk.h #define EVENT_METHOD(i, x) GTK_WIDGET_GET_CLASS(i)- x #define XSIZE 600 #define YSIZE 400 /* This ... *event, gpointer data ) { gtk_main_quit (); return FALSE; } /* The main routine */ int main( int argc, char *argv[] ) { GtkWidget * window , * table , * area , * hrule , * vrule ; /* Initialize GTK and create the...

... The Sun rises higher in summer than in winter. ... Over the course of the year, the angle between the Sun and the zenith (straight up) varies by 47 degrees -- a fourth of the way across the sky. ... A solar incidence angle of 90 degrees means the Sun is on the horizon; an angle of 0 degrees means the Sun is directly overhead; negative angles, which occur only in the tropics, mean that shadows point toward the equator. ... Every day, the stars rise and set along arcs parallel to the celestial equator...

THE RELATIVE MONTHLY MEAN SUNSPOT NUMBER ON OCTOBER 2015 HAS MADE Woct. = 37.1 (old), 61.7 (new) THAT GIVES FOR 75 MONTHS (2015, APRIL) DEVELOPMENT CURRENT 24 CYCLE OF SOLAR ACTIVITY THE SMOOTHED MONTHLY MEAN SUNSPOT NUMBER W*apr. = 50.0 - old; 61.7 - new; W*march = 49.3 - old; 82.7 - new; - On July 1, 2015 Centre in Brussels moved to a new system of cal- culation the relative number of sunspots and practically all of the values were replaced throughout the numbered series of Wolf numbers (see link). ...

... I created this animation with the GIMP by running Script-Fu / Animators / Waves on the original image (a photograph of me, in case you are wondering). This is a nice animation, but it would be better if only the sea was moving.. ... Taking the original (static) image again, I created the mask by erasing some parts of it. ... Mask . ... The same technique can be used in other cases where you want to animate some parts of an image, but you only have a script or plug-in that animates the whole image. ...

... Early on, our interest in chirping analysis functions was motivated by a different kind of chirping phenomenon: chirping due to perspective. ... Our interest in radar, however, drew us toward processes that are more accurately analyzed by linear-FM chirplets. ... We have also constructed other chirplet transforms, such as a three-parameter Doppler chirplet representation that models a source producing a sinusoidal wave, while moving along a straight line (e.g. a train whistle). ...

... Seagate originally developed it to support their ST506 (5 MB) and ST412 (10 MB) drives. ... 34 PIN IDC MALE at the Controller. ... 34 PIN IDC FEMALE at the Harddisk. ... Pin . ... Head Sel 8 . ... RES . ... Drive Sel 1 . ... Note: All odd pins are GND, Ground. ... GND . Ground . ...

... ESO PR Photo 07a/01 . ... ESO PR Photo 07b/01 . ... Caption : PR Photo 07a/01 shows Comet Hale-Bopp , still active at a distance of nearly 2,000 million kilometres from the Sun. ... This is quite unusual for a comet and is clearly confirmed on the present photo ( PR Photo 07a/01 ) from the WFI camera on the MPG/ESO 2.2-m telescope at La Silla, obtained a few days ago. ... ESO-Chile . ... ESO PR Photos 07a-b/01 may be reproduced, if credit is given to the European Southern Observatory (ESO). ...

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Image Quality and Stability Criteria ­ Transmissive Systems Alex Rea adr34@cam.ac.uk Cavendish Lab oratory, University of Cambridge FTT Technical Meeting Friday 21st May 2010 Alex Rea (Cavendish Labs, Cambridge) Transmissive Systems 21st May 2010 1 / 19 Table Expansion If everything is fixed to the table, and the table expands uniformly, then everything moves radially away from the centre of expansion. ... Like the OAP system, it's the stability that is forcing our hand. ...