Next: M.E. Bailey, Director Up: Technical Research Summaries Previous: Technical Research Summaries . David Asher continued to work part time at Armagh Observatory and part time at the Bisei Spaceguard Center in Japan. ... With the most spectacular Leonid meteor displays of recent years now over, the Leonid meteor shower still continued to hold people's interest, with a modestly enhanced display visible in 2003 from parts of the world. ...

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... Using a simple 2-D Gaussian Point Spread Function (PSF) on a constant (flat) sky background, I derive a theoretical photometric and astrometric performance model for analytical and digital PSF-fitting stellar photometry. ... The photometric performance is maximized when either the effective background area or the effective-background-level measurement error is minimized. ... An important, but frequently ignored, noise source is the uncertainty of the measurement of the effective background level ( )...

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... On planet Earth, an analemma is the figure-8 loop you get when you mark the position of the Sun at the same time each day throughout the year. ... This tantalizing view of galaxies scattered near and far is part of the Hubble Space Telescope's contribution to the GOODS - the Great Observatories Origins Deep Survey project. ... These stars and part of the surrounding nebula are captured here in this gorgeous visible-light Hubble Space Telescope image. ... The Bubble Nebula from NOAO . ...

... About NEdit . ... Save current position cpos = $cursor tmpstr = shell_command("echo $HOME", "") $HOME = substring(tmpstr, 0, length(tmpstr) - 1) fname = $HOME"/.nedit-" $file_name if (write_file(cpos, fname) == 0) dialog("Can't save bookmark!" OK") Load formerly saved position cpos = $cursor tmpstr = shell_command("echo $HOME", "") $HOME = substring(tmpstr, 0, length(tmpstr) - 1) fname = $HOME"/.nedit-" $file_name cpos=read_file(fname) if ($read_status == 0) dialog("Can't load bookmark!" ...

... поверхности и точности позиционирования щитов . РАТАН-600 лазерным трекером API tracker 3 . ... Приводятся результаты измерений топографии поверхности щита РАТАН-600 лазерным трекером API tracker 3 и точности наведения щита на выбранную точку после модернизации кинематической схемы. ... and positioning accuracy of RATAN-600 panel . ... Surface topography of RATAN-600 panel and positioning accuracy of the panel after the upgrade of the kinematic scheme are obtained with the laser API TRACKER 3. ...

... Status of the numerical solutions and validation 2. ... Coupling of "solid" Earth components, e.g. core ­ mantle (Dehant et al.) ... Consistent relativistic formulation of Earth rotation (Gerlach, Klioner, Soffel) Status of the numerical solutions - 2 · The results from numerical solutions suffer from ­ Simplified solid Earth models ­ Incomplete Earth system models or neglecting of certain parts or neglecting of certain coupling mechanisms ­ Methodological limitations of computations...

Here are the images reconstructed using our Static EIT Reconstruction Server . You can add your images to the gallery. This is possible after data file uploading and image reconstruction. Object: thorax . Data type: POLAR, 16 electrodes . ... This is static EIT image of healthy male thorax. ... This is static EIT image of the left crus (lower part of the leg) obtained with dipole current injection and true dipole reconstruction algorithm (TRUEDIP keyword in the data file). ...

... The behaviour of the polarization efficiency (see Eq. ( 14 )) for non-absorbing and absorbing spheroids is shown in Fig. 11 for the case when a maximum polarization is expected (PF alignment, ). ... Figure 11: Polarization efficiency against for prolate and oblate spheroids with and , picket fence orientation, . The size/shape effects are illustrated. ... Figure: Polarization efficiency as a function of particle equivolume radius for prolate core-mantle spheroids with and , PF orientation, . ...

Tiltmeter for Europa Lander Ralph Lorenz JHU Applied Physics Laboratory With contributions from Terry Hurford GSFC & Frank Sohl, DLR Equipotential 0.000000 o With no tide present, tiltmeter measures zero. ... Satellite surface 0.000783 o 0.000000 o With strong tide, tiltmeter pendulum responds to horizontal acceleration. ... However, the surface (and thus the tiltmeter housing) also tilt to follow the equipotential. ... Nondetection of a cyclical tilt implies a strengthless crust. ...

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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. ...

This service contributes to the International Service of Geomagnetic Indices (ISGI) of the IAGA . ... The Kp numbers of the previous month are available in tabular format . ... There are available also historical and current Kp and derived indices per anonoymos FTP (see below). ... U.S.A. FTP server: ftp://ftp.ngdc.noaa.gov/STP/GEOMAGNETIC_DATA/INDICES/KP_AP/ . monthly update) . ... contains the monthly Kp / ap tables in a simple text format readable for both humans and computers (*.tab). ...

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. ...