... ARC 3.5m | Weather Closure Conditions . The enclosure will be closed by the Observing Specialist under the following conditions. ... This policy will be consulted whenever there are questions or disagreements concerning closure of the APO 3.5-meter telescope due to hazardous conditions or situations, at times when telescope operations are being overseen by an APO Observing Specialist. ... the on-duty Observing Specialist has full responsibility, and sole authority, to make this decision. ...

... Assured of a reliable method of solving the normal equations, we now consider the equations of condition. The observed magnitude m of a star at M air masses with true instrumental magnitude is modelled as ([ 10 ], [ 28 ]) . ... The effective extinction coefficient depends on the effective spectral gradient [ 29 ] of the star, for which we use some color index, affected by half the atmospheric reddening ([ 26 ], [ 10 ]): . ... Thus, for the B band of UBV, we use the (U-V) color. ...

... Observing . ... Solar Observing . ... April 3 (SUN) - Solar Observing, Central Park , Manhattan . ... APRIL'S SKY . ... Lecture Series at the American Museum of Natural History The Amateur Astronomers Association is proud to present an astronomy lecture series from October through May each year for our members and the .. ... The€аAmateur Astronomers Association of New York€аwas organized in 1927 to promote the study of Astronomy, emphasizing its cultural and inspirational value. ...

... For this one needs additionally to associate a weight with each attitude sample. ... time => real64Data(addColumn(binnedAttTab, 'TSTART', REAL64, 's')) raDeg => real64Data(addColumn(binnedAttTab, 'RA', REAL64, 'deg')) decDeg => real64Data(addColumn(binnedAttTab, 'DEC', REAL64, 'deg')) paDeg => real64Data(addColumn(binnedAttTab, 'PA', REAL64, 'deg')) isGood => boolData( addColumn(binnedAttTab, 'IS_GOOD', BOOLEAN)) weights => real64Data(addColumn(binnedAttTab, 'WEIGHTS', REAL64)) . ...

... In this section, we develop a physical model of the secondary as a disk that is centrifugally supported in the radial direction and hydrostatically supported in the vertical direction. We assume that the disk is vertically isothermal and well mixed. ... where is the mean molecular mass of the gas, is the orbital period at the outer edge of the disk in years, and all of the mass of the secondary has been assumed to be concentrated near its center, so the Keplerian approximation is valid. ...

... Because of the effects of shading, and the possibility that the underlying dark current may vary with time since reset, the removal of dark current (for calibration purposes, we implicitly assume shading and amplifier glow is a part of the time variable "dark current") from data is more complicated than for many other instruments. The most accurate way to remove the dark current from any observation is a measurement of the dark current with an identical integration time. ...

Next: Listing and Plotting Velocity Up: Spectral Line Data Reduction Previous: Spectral Line Processing and . When fits reads a visibility FITS file, it can use one of two schemes for computing the observatory's radial velocity. ... fits assumes that a velocity of a given channel remains constant. ... You can either allow fits to retrieve the needed velocity information from the FITS file, or you can give this information explicitly using the velocity keyword. ...

Astrophysical implications of external triggers, GRB030329 in particular External Triggers subgroup · · GRB astrophysics is still very uncertain Associated GW emission: even more uncertain Interpret our observations in the simplest terms Easy to re-cast in terms of specific models Provides some astrophysical context which is readily interpretable Probable: The GRB field will need GW observations to fully understand GRB progenitor astrophysics Nov 10, 2003 Frey 1 Short and Long GRBs.. ...

... A molecular cloud in the interstellar medium may be considered as spherical and of uniform density and fixed temperature as it undergoes expansion or contraction. Assume the opacity of material in the molecular cloud has a value . ... How will this affect cloud fragmentation? (e) In the stages of collapse of a gas cloud before it becomes optically thick, its temperature is determined by the balance between compressional heating and radiation of energy from the cloud. ...

EXPLANATION OF DANA'S FIBER TESTS ON THE 12M TELESCOPE.. ... But we know full well that this is not directly possible- the delay in the optical fiber carrying this signal will change both with temperature and to some degree with fiber bending as the telescope tracks objects or moves from one object to another. ... So we would like to identify at least one pair of single mode fibers in our bundle, whose delay changes due to antenna tracking etc are pretty well matched. ...

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... Science Users Information > Observing with ESO Telescopes > Phase 2 Preparation > Observing conditions . ... Service Mode Philosophy . ... The following definitions of the observing conditions are common between Phase 1 preparation and Phase 2 preparation, as well as between Service Mode and Visitor Mode observations. ... There are additional Service Mode Policies and Service Mode Guidelines regarding the observing conditions. ... Seeing (Phase 1) and Image quality (Phase2) constraints . ... Moon . ...

On optical characteristics of non-spherical scatterers . ... Usually one assumes that the radiation from a very distant source is incident on a scatterer and then this radiation can be represented by a plane wave . ... Amplitude matrix . ... The elements of the amplitude matrix on the directions of propagation of the incident and scattered radiations, the size, morphology and chemical composition of the scatterer as well as its orientation in the laboratory system. ... Scattering matrix . ...

... At high latitudes, the E-region auroral electrojets and field-aligned currents produce 'radar aurora' that are somewhat more complicated than the equatorial radar echoes. ... Type 4 echoes are a special type of two-stream events associated with anomalous electron heating by the auroral electrojet waves. ... Res. ... Hedberg, and J. A. Nordling, Observations of auroral E-region plasma waves and electron heating with EISCAT and a VHF radar interferometer, J. atmos. terr. ... Observations, J. Geophys. ...

TEMPERATURE OF REGOLITH IN COLD TRAPS ON THE MOON A.A. Berezhnoi Sternberg Astronomical Institute Moscow, Russia The hypothesis of the existence of the lunar ice in cold traps was stated in (Watson et al., ... Arnold, 1979) estimated the mean temperature on the surface of lunar cold traps as 40-90 K. We plotted the dependence of regolith mean temperature on depth for these two values of mean temperature on the surface (see figure 1). ... Arnold J.R. Ice in the lunar polar regions, J. Geophys. ...

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