... The path of the dome will now follow a different track in focus. ... The dome was set to 19.6 degrees. ... Focus curves taken with sbn (.ps) ( more info ) show the offset (in inches) from the the platform reference position (1256.22 feet). ... Moving the ref ch position from 8.84 to 18 degrees will raise the platform corner by .7 inches.7 platform inches is 1.7*.7 is 1.2 tie down inches of stroke .7 platform inches is 3.5 degrees F. The path length will increase by .1 in (za=2) to .8 inches (za=20)....

... Bad Astronomy . ... I think I will break from my usual format of Bad Astronomy/ Good Astronomy by saying that the way we define seasons currently is not strictly bad, but I feel (in my opinion!) that it could be better. The definition of when the seasons begin is at the moment of solstice or equinox; that is, winter (in the north) starts on December 22 nd and summer starts on June 22 nd . ... Now imagine breaking up the Sun's 46 degree up-and-down yearly swing into 1 day intervals. ...

... The change in temperature as the spacecraft crossed the terminator caused the secondary mirror support structure to expand and contract which moved the secondary mirror and changed telescope focus. This effect was termed thermal breathing and occurred on timescales equal to the orbital period of the spacecraft. The pre-COSTAR photometric error associated with thermal breathing could up to 4-7% and affected the flux in a random and uncorrectable way. ...

GrIm II . ... The MC has been modified to change the way GRIM images are stored to disk when FITS format is selected. ... The solution the Grim team has come up with is to internally add a constant of 10000 to every pixel of the 'bias subtracted' grim image which makes it conform to the unsigned 16-bit number standard, in that all pixel values after this addition of 10000 are in the range 0-65535. ... We have now implemented this for storage of GRIM files in FITS format. ... filetype fits . ...

... 09.11.2007 (VNY) Fixed a bug that could result in a crash of the task when processing crowded fields (SSC-SPR-3700); Restoring the omgsource flag when extracting the target spectrum: in the case when omgrism is called from the interactive tool omgsource the target spectrum shouldn't be extracted (fixing the SSC-SPR-3702); Added a parameter enabling the output of an additional region file that contains newly detected point-like sources (zero-order features); . ...

http :// hea-www.harvard.edu / AstroStat /slog/ 2007 / change - point - problem / Weaving together Astronomy+Statistics+Computer Science+Engineering+Intrumentation, far beyond the growing borders Fri, 01 Jun 2012 18:47:52 +0000 hourly 1 http ://wordpress.org/?v=3.4 http :// hea-www.harvard.edu / AstroStat /slog/ 2007 / change - point - problem /comment-page-1/#comment-64 vlk Fri, 17 Aug 2007 22:09:06 +0000 ... Defining peaks sounds like point estimation from functional data analysis. ...

... A uv variable can change its value in any part of the uv variable stream. So it can change its value after each call to uvread , uvnext or uvscan . The uv routines which need to know if a uv variable has changed ( uvprobvr , uvcopyvr and uvupdated ) normally (i.e. by default) work on whether the particular variable(s) of interest has changed since the last ``mark'' in the uv stream. ... The uvmark routine provides greater control at marking the position in the stream. ...

... This plug-in enables you to add various types of lighting effects to your (RGB) image. ... Directional light . ... Well, you get the idea :) The default settings for this light-type is [-0.5,-0.5,-1.0]. ... Higher values makes your image reflect a lot of light (appear lighter or more intense), while smaller values makes it appear more dull or matte. ... A value of 1.0 makes your image very shiny (bright high-lights) while smaller values makes you image less shiny, making the high-lights dimmer. ...

... The mouse pointer is represented on the screen by a small bitmap called the cursor . ... GdkWindow* gdk_window_get_pointer (GdkWindow* window , gint* x , gint* y , GdkModifierMask* state ); . ... It is possible to grab the pointer, which means that all pointer events will go to the grab window for the duration of the grab. ... gint gdk_pointer_grab (GdkWindow* window , gint owner_events , GdkWindow* confine_to , GdkCursor* cursor , guint32 time ); . void gdk_pointer_ungrab (guint32 time ); . ...

... He was so very nice He was so very kind To think of me at this point in time I used to think of him He used to think of me He told me to close my eyes My gift would be a great surprise I saw tears were in his eyes He never meant to hurt me Oh, God, Johnny, don't point that gun at me There's so many ways our lives have changed But please, I beg, don't do this to me Johnny, don't point that gun at me Can I save my life for any price? ... Oh Johnny, won't you listen to me? ...

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