... The HST uses an onboard model of its orbit to perform in real-time various control functions relating to spacecraft operations and observation support. ... New coefficients for the ephemeris are updated every other day, and are archived as FITS keywords for each HST observation data set. Using these coefficients,an observer can perform a variety of calibration and characterization calculations relating to the orbital position and velocity of the telescope. ...

This section contains information of how user agents should treat control characters and other special characters. ... There are 256 character positions in the Latin-1 encoding. ... It consists of the space character, 186 characters that form a subset of the graphic characters in ISO 6937/2 (1983), and four additional characters that are intended for inclusion in ISO 6937/2. ... Certain characters are taken to have special meaning within the context of an HTML document. ...

Program: GETVAL Purpose: Get image values at given positions in a set Category: UTILITY File: getval.c Author: M.G.R. Vogelaar Keywords: INSET= Give set (,subset): Maximum number of subsets is 1. ... The image values are formatted according the string entered in FORMAT= APPEND= Ok to append? ... The flag characters and their meanings are: - The result of the conversion is left- justified within the field. ... If the result of a conversion is longer than the field width, an asterisk is returned. ...

Pulkovo NEO Page . ... NEA Accuracy Estimation . ... The estimation of accuracy of the current CCD observations of asteroids and comets is constantly performed at Pulkovo Observatory. ... The (O-C) values, so called "Observed" minus "Calculated" positions, characterize numerically the observations of any observatory, both professional and amateur, during a short period (one or several close nights). ... So the (O-C) values for these objects nearly entirely define the errors of observations. ...

... Positions in 2000 - Jan - Feb - Mar - Apr - May - Jun - Jul - Aug - Sep - Oct - Nov - Dec . Positions in 2001 - Jan - Feb - Mar - Apr - May - Jun - Jul - Aug - Sep - Oct - Nov - Dec . Positions in 2002 - Jan - Feb - Mar - Apr - May - Jun - Jul - Aug - Sep - Oct - Nov - Dec . Positions in 2003 - Jan - Feb - Mar - Apr - May - Jun - Jul - Aug - Sep - Oct - Nov - Dec . Positions in 2004 - Jan - Feb - Mar - Apr - May - Jun - Jul - Aug - Sep - Oct - Nov - Dec . ...

These observations are aimed at fully charactering FORS1 photometric system (UBVRI zero-points, color-terms and extinction coefficients) for the Tektronix 2048x2048 pixel CCD (24µm px) . To this aim, the two Landolt/Stetson photometric fields SA95 and SA101 will be observed on a number of epochs and at different airmasses during February and March 2007. ... SA101 . ... OBs for SA101 have to be observed during evenigh twilight (exceptions are expected for the second half of March) . ...

... To run the <LAYER> version of the example, select: flower.htm . ... However, if the page had several layers with absolute positions, and you wanted to place another layer in a relative position to one of the existing layers, you could use inline JavaScript to calculate the value for LEFT or TOP . ... In this example, there is really no need to use inline JavaScript to position the last flower layer, since you could just let the TOP value default to its natural value, as in the other flower layers. ...

Collection of the orbital elements | ... The errors of the spacecraft motion extrapolation outside the measuring time interval were estimated by using the comparison of SC positions calclulated by the forward integration ( extrapolation method) and backward integration ( interpolation methods). ... The character of these time shift of the ascending nodes ( D Tn) corresponds to the orbiting period errors, which arise during SC motion extrapolation outside the measuring intervals. ... INTERBALL mission ...

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. ...

The software package ERA (Ephemerides for Research in Astronomy) is a problem-oriented software system for solving heterogeneous calculating tasks of Ephemeris and Dynamical Astronomy. The package makes it possible to produce ephemeris calculations needed for both planning various observational programs and processing the resulting observations. ... The system includes packages of processing the position observations by both the Least Squares Method and by Kalman filtering. ...

... This can be used to overlay the position of fiducial stars onto an image, for example. Positions can be input manually or from a list. To position marks interactively display the image and then cl> noao no> images im> tv tv> tvmark 1 STDIN interactive+ type . to put dot at cursor position type + to put cross at cursor position type c to put circle at cursor position (must specify hidden parameter ``radii'') <ctrl>d to exit . ...

This is how a typical dispersion modeling result looks when shown as a map. ... Their numerical values are shown at the top. White normally means no data, but high values may be also shown as white if above the fixed high limit (that is, if no automatic normalization is used for colors). Note that calculations were done both for cell positions and for station positions, so both are colored. PO territories are filled by color corresponding to the average value of cells overlaying them. ...