ChangeLog for ccftools ====================== Open SOC- SPR /SCRs: none Version 1.34 - 2003-05-23 (UL) ------------ + enhancements to epicbscalgen - fixed bug in SourceCorrelator::angularSeparation() which caused wrong identification in case of source confusion - new BS misalignment angles are now passed to CAL with CCF replacement data set and SAS_CCFFILES enviroment variable - more diagnostic ... Version 0.1 - 1999-09-24 (UL) ----------- - first version; contains siamgen ...

... The sky background can contribute significant Poisson noise in broad and medium band filters, and must be taken into account during noise calculations. The actual sky brightness depends on the heliocentric ecliptic coordinates (latitude and longitude) in a manner summarized in Table 6.3 . ... For many targets LOW-SKY will have minimal impact on the observing efficiency. ... Table 6.4 shows approximate sky count rates for the WFC and PC1 for filters with significant sky count rates. ...

... The European HST Archive has been moved to ESA's European Space Astronomy Centre ( ESAC ), Spain, where most of ESA's Space Science Archives are located and operated from. ... The Space Telescope European Coordinating Facility (ST-ECF), jointly operated by ESA and the European Southern Observatory ( ESO ) was, until the end of 2010, the European HST science facility, supporting the European astronomy community in exploiting the research opportunities provided by the Hubble Space Telescope. ...

On Systematic Differences in Individual Solutions and IERS Products Zinovy Malkin Institute of Applied Astronomy RAS, St. Petersburg, Russia 1 Present status Proper determination, modelling, and accounting for systematic differences between contributed series is of the great importance in compilation of the IERS products. ... Possible sources of systematic differences are: · Different reference systems (e.g. TRF, CRF, geopotential, time scale). ... 87 IERS Technical Note No. ...

lsst.coordConv љ unknown . ... coordConv::FK4CoordSys Class Reference . ... FK4CoordSys (double date=1950.0) . ... CoordSys (std::string const &name, double date, DateTypeEnum dateType, bool isMean , bool canConvert ) . ... convertFrom (double &toDir, double &scaleChange, CoordSys const &fromCoordSys, Coord const &fromCoord, double fromDir, Site const &site, double tai=0) const . ... virtual double coordConv::FK4CoordSys::dateFromTAI . ... virtual double coordConv::FK4CoordSys::taiFromDate . ...

Position Switching Separation Tolerance with Arecibo in L-Band Travis McIntyre The University of New Mexico July 2010 Revised December 2013 Abstract The blocked telescope aperture at Arecibo creates standing waves in the bandpass around 1MHz. ... Test observations with Arecibo in L-Band show that position switching effectively removes standing waves for separations of one half FWHM or less. Standing waves remain for separations of one FWHM, increasing the rms of the baseline by 20%. ...

User has possibility to impose some restriction(s) on the Results of calculation. ... Possible set of restrictions depends on coordinates that were specified for planned run. ... The set of the quantities on which may be imposed restrictions in the next run are highlighted on marking Set restrictions . ... Dist. d(R.A.)/dt . ... Phase . ... To impose restriction on any quantity mark check box at the left of corresponding line and then click on the field where you want to introduce limitative value. ...

... The initial descriptions of the FITS format provided a simplified method for describing the physical coordinate values of the image pixels, but deliberately did not specify any of the detailed conventions required to convey the complexities of actual image projections. ... They were CRPIX n for the reference pixel location on pixel axis n , CRVAL n for the coordinate value at that pixel, CDELT n for the increment at that pixel in the coordinate value, and CTYPE n for the type of coordinate. ...

Next: Reduction Strategies Up: Image Data Concepts Previous: Image Coordinate Systems . ... The task parameter, region , which gives the region-of-interest consists of a combination of subcommands. ... Subsequent image coordinates are relative to the reference pixel, as defined by the header of the map of interest. ... Subsequent image coordinates are given in arcseconds, and are relative to the reference pixel of the map of interest. kms . ...

. Next: *tvlabel, xexamine* Up: Image Display Previous: *xexamine* examine . There are several alternative methods for obtaining coordinates from a displayed image. If celestial coordinates are required, the simplest method is to use tvlabel . љ . *tvlabel, xexamine * -- sky coordinates from a displayed image . *skypix* -- conversion of pixel position to sky coordinates . *wcscoord* -- all purpose coordinate conversion . Image with sky grid overlaid . rsdc@cfa.harvard.edu . 1998-06-10

The aim of this section of the course is to familiarise you with celestial Coordinates. ... I found some good notes explaining the celestial coordinate system on the web: . ... 1st Dec: 04hr, 00min In addition to the equatorial coordinates described in the notes above, astronomers also use (at least) two other coordinate systes: galactic coordinates and ecliptic coordinates. ... Ecliptic coordinates use the ecliptic (the Earth's path around the sun) as the equator, and are used for solar system work. ...

Astronomy Discussion Forums . Forums: . Atm ћ Astrophotography ћ Blackholes ћ Blackholes2 ћ CCD ћ Celestron ћ Domes ћ Education . ... Discussion Forums . ... Depends . Forum List | ... Post Message | ... Posted by Rick Crockett on April 3, 2004 23:11:37 UTC . ... Correctamundo - rickcrockett - April 5, 2004 - 16:42 UTC . ... www.astronomy.net . ... Forum posts are Copyright their authors as specified in the heading above the post. "dbHTML," "AstroGuide," "ASTRONOMY.NET" & "VA.NET" . ...

... For spectra a transformation from wavelength to frequency is used to identify spectral regions which follow a power law. This transformation is given by . ... Whereas the transforms mentioned above only perform a non--linear rebinning of the data, the Fourier transform converts a spatial image into the frequency domain. ... As an example of using Fourier transforms to extract information from a frame, an azimuthal intensity profile of the spiral galaxy A0526--16 is shown in Figure . ...

... If set, it will transform a gridded data set from a rectangular coordinate system onto a geographical system by resampling the surface at the new nodes. If not set, it will project a geographical gridded data set onto a rectangular grid. ... The new node spacing may be determined in one of several ways by specifying the grid spacing, number of nodes, or resolution. ... D Set the grid spacing for the new grid. ... N Set the number of grid nodes in the new grid. ...

... Tonight's Sky . ... The Magazine . ... Star Atlas . ... An artificial comet holds secrets to Earths life . ... Astronomy for Kids . ... Observing springtime deep-sky objects with a large telescope . ... The planet has extreme temperature swings and perhaps active lava flows. ... A digital supplement to Astronomy magazine. ... Join TravelQuest International with Astronomy and Discover magazines on one of three great tour options surrounding this celestial spectacle . ... Astronomy Magazine . ...

Subject of Celestial Mechanics. ... Differential Absolute Coordinates Equations of the Problem. ... General Integral of Non-Perturbed Motion. ... General Equation of Non-Perturbed Orbit. ... Other Integration Methods of Non-Perturbed Motion Differential Equations; Bine Equation for Case of Non-Perturbed Motion. ... Ellipsical Motion, Kepler Equation. ... Motion Differential Equations in Absolute Coordinates. ... Equation of System of Bodies Motion in Barycentric Coordinates, in Relative Coordinates. ...

... Filesystems are created, i.e., initialized, with the mkfs љ command. ... Search for bad blocks and initialize the bad block list accordingly. -l filename . ... badblocks /dev/fd0H1440 1440 > bad-blocks . ... 1 block group . 8192 blocks per group, 8192 fragments per group . ... Then bad blocks were searched with badblocks љ , with the output redirected to a file, bad-blocks . Finally, the filesystem was created, with the bad block list initialized by whatever badblocks љ found. ...

... A closed surface (i.e. a compact surface without boundary) is homeomorphic to either a sphere with g handles (a connected sum of a sphere with g tori) or to a sphere with g M obius bands attached (a connected sum of a sphere with g copies of RP 2 ). A compact surface with boundary is homeomorphic to a closed surface with a nite number of disks deleted. ... Prove that on the sphere with g handles the maximal number of nonintersecting closed curves not dividing this surface is equal to g. IV.11. ...

Download Izmccd (~2.7 MB). ... a) a choice of the best mode of measurements of stars and objects ("Properties/Measurement"), . b) a choice of reference stars. ... 1) necessity of presence on an image of a plenty of stars (we recommend to apply this mode, if on the frame of reference stars is more 100) . ... Sx and Sy depend from residuals at all reference stars (reference stars are marked by blue color). ... These residuals are the image of the star a minus function of a profile for each pixel. ...

... More on 51 Peg: . The discovery of a Jupiter--mass planet in orbit around the solar--type star 51Peg has been reported by Michel Mayor and Didier Queloz (Geneva Observatory) on October 6th at the 9th Cambridge workshop on "cool stars, stellar systems, and the sun" held at Florence (Italy). ... Recall that the measurements of radial velocity only yield v sin i which in turn gives us M sin i. For most values of i, sin i will be greater than 0.5 and this gives a mass estimate of 0.5 Jupiter masses. ...