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... Next, the screen displays "Press 0 to align or Mode for Menu." Press "0" if you wish to begin Automatic alignment (or Easy Align, depending on your telescope model), or press Mode if you wish to choose a manual alignment method ("Automatic Alignment" displays, and you can press MODE to go through the menu to find other alignments). ... Note: If you press the "?" key while "Ctr Brightest Star" displays, the alignment star that AutoStar has chosen will display. ... Alignment successful" displays. ...

... Archives . ... X-ray summer school is on going. ... Recently I went to JSM 2007 and tried to attend talks about (bayesian) change point problems, which frequently appears in time series models, often found in economics. ... Tags: ARCH , Bayesian Block , challenges , change point problem , GARCH , light curves , summer school , X-ray . ... I received another type of changing point problem, defining a peak precisely, from a x-ray school student, who tried bayesian block but said it didn?t work. ...

... Changes in Angular Mars . ... 14.07.2008 . ... As both Earth and Mars orbit the Sun, the apparent angular size of Mars changes as viewed from the Earth. Pictured above from Enschede , Holland , Mars was captured in 2007 and 2008 with 30 separate images, all taken with the same magnification. When Earth and Mars are on opposite sides of the Sun, Mars appears relatively small. ... July 2008 . ... Publications with keywords: Mars - angular size . Publications with words: Mars - angular size . ...

Astronomical Data Analysis Software and Systems VII ASP Conference Series, Vol. ... Quality system management of computer workstations for astronomy can be achieved with relatively small manpower requirements, if the right cost-effective administrative design decisions are made. ... What is Quality System Management? ... The system is designed so that one doesn't depend on four or more hosts, (such as a software server, cpu server, data file server, font server, etc.) to get work done. ...

... The changebar (represented by two hyphens in the image) appears in the 10px space to the left of the paragraph. The illustration shows a vertical line that represents the left edge of the paragraph's containing block. ... The change bars (two red hyphens) appear to the left of the word "THIS", which begins the fourth line of text. The following PRE element simulates the example. Vertical bars represent the left containing block edge. ... to the left of the line containing | ...

... 2008 July 14 . Changes in Angular Mars . ... As both Earth and Mars orbit the Sun, the apparent angular size of Mars changes as viewed from the Earth. Pictured above from Enschede , Holland , Mars was captured in 2007 and 2008 with 30 separate images, all taken with the same magnification. When Earth and Mars are on opposite sides of the Sun, Mars appears relatively small. ... Since Mars is always more distant from the Sun than the Earth, Mars never shows a crescent phase to Earthlings. ...

... Follow the steps described below in order to make a change to an investigator's email address. Navigate to the program information web page for one of the investigator's observing programs and then click on the Investigators link. ... Select Profile Request and then work through the ProPer interface for changing a person's profile. Once you have completed the profile change, ProPer will display this page which shows that a change confirmation email has been sent to the investigator. ...

To change your password: passwd Old password: enter your current password New password: enter your new password Retype new password: re-enter your new password . Enter the command passwd and then respond to the prompts by entering your old password followed by your new one. ... The passwords will not appear on the screen as you type, to prevent other people from seeing them. If you make a mistake, the message Mismatch - password unchanged. is displayed and your password remains unchanged. ...

... The greater the distance, the smaller the parallax. ... That triangle has the same proportions as the much larger triangle ABC, and therefore, if the distance B'C to the thumb is 10 times the distance A'B' between the eyes, the distance AC to the far landmark is also 10 times the distance AB. ... The most distant objects our eyes can see are the stars, and they are very far indeed: light which moves at 300,000 kilometers (186,000 miles) per second, would take years, often many years, to reach them. ...

MRO-ICD-CAM-1100-0108 FTTNAS-FTTA.odt Page 1 of 7 MRO FTT / NAS FLC ICD FTT / NAS Electronics to FTTA Controller ICD MRO-ICD-CAM-1100-0108 The Cambridge FTT Team Rev 1.0 9 May 2013 Cavendish Laboratory JJ Thomson Avenue Cambridge CB3 0HE UK MRO-ICD-CAM-1100-0108 FTTNAS-FTTA.odt Page 2 of 7 ICD Description ... 2.1 Signal definitions.. ... The analogue input interface in the FTT-NAS electronics interface is to accept the full range of output available, specifically: 1. ...

... You are here: start €Ё difx €Ё difxmpi_mpi_related_issues . Trace: тАв difxmpi_mpi_related_issues . difx:difxmpi_mpi_related_issues . The DiFX software correlator uses MPI for organizing the spawning of processes on different computers and for transmitting data from one process to another. MPI is used only for communication between mpifxcorr processes. ... MPI assigns each process that it starts an integer identifier (called rank) that is used to refer back to that process. ...

... To introduce you to the Python programming language, and its Visual module (VPython), which allows 3D simulation. The computer labs are held in room BOZO 112, not in the usual physics lab. ... This lab will use the Python programming language. ... Click on the Windows button in the bottom left, select "Programs", then the "A-Z" list of programs. ... Later in the course you will need to write your own VPython programs for assessment - this lab is your chance to make sure you can do this. ...

... Version 1.7.4 was rejected. ... Some improvements to documentation - Now depends on statistics-0.16 Version 0.25 2000-07-18 (MT) -------------- - improved documentation - dsls implemented , which listed the files in the given directory, indicating which ones are datasets, and which are unrecognised. - dsaddcomment implemented , which adds a comment record to the given attributable object. - dsaddhistory implemented , which adds a history record to the given attributable object. - dssetlabel ...

... Drive the Reflector in elevation to the zenith position. ... Elevation | ... 7 SUMMARY OF REFLECTOR SURFACE ACCURACY MEASUREMENT Test Date: Start Time: End Time: Weather Conditions during Test: Comments: By- _________________ Date- _______________ SUB-REFLECTOR AND FEED POSITION AND ALIGNMENT MEASUREMENT 1 2 OVERVIEW This test is to measure and record the positions of the sub- reflector and feed horn using photogrammetry. ... 3 4 SUB-REFLECTOR/FEED POSITION AND ALIGNMENT MEASUREMENT TEST PROCEDURE 1...

... SCIENCE AND BUSINESS . Such a trifle as a starry night sky of largest observatories turned out to be a small change coin in commercial bargains for exclusive communal services in Russia, and for a few elite flats in penthouses in Ukraine. SCIENCE AND BUREAUCRATISM . ... Till in Russian) . ... Clericalization of science and education (Till in Russian). ... Researcher of the Sternberg Astronomical Institute, The Moscow University. ... SAI home page . ... October, 2008) . ... November, 2007) . ...

To construct frequency distribution (histogram) of minor planets according to value of some element/ parameter/ function user should first select Elements item in menu bar and then Histogram in drop-down menu. ... User has possibility to save histogram or to print it using standard means. To save the file select File item in menu bar and then Save As... in drop-down menu. ... To print histogram select File item in menu bar and then take advantage of options Print Preview , Print Setup , Print . ...

... 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 . ...

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Slithead identification (which slithead is installed?) will be sensed and reported by the on-board spectrograph computer. ... Observer's software to handle spectrographic observations will be written by JHU and installed on the Fermilab supplied observatory workstation. ... UW will be responsible for the slithead latch-down control. ... Database computer at APO: The observer's software will query the observatory database for information on the currently installed fiber cartridge. ...