... Each day a different image or photograph of our fascinating universe is featured, along with a brief explanation written by a professional astronomer. 2003 December 12 . Full Moondark . ... Here, the pixel values corresponding to light and dark areas have been translated in reverse, or inverted, producing a false-color representation reminiscent of a black and white photographic negative . ... About APOD | ... NASA Web Site Statements, Warnings, and Disclaimers . NASA Official: Jay Norris. ...

Astronomy Picture of the Day . ... 12.12.2003 . ... Credit: Frank Barrett Explanation: The brilliant full Moon might not have looked quite like this to skygazers this week, but the image is a mosaic of 18 digital frames recorded on December 9th at 3:30 UT. At that time, the Moon was only about seven hours past its exact full phase or time of maximum illumination as viewed from Earth. ... December 2003 . ... Publications with keywords: full moon . Publications with words: full moon . ...

Next: GRABTIME Up: Details of SCHED Parameters Previous: GEOTRIES Contents . This is an eVLBI control parameter. ... GRABTO is used to help control sending of small amounts of previously recorded data over the net. ... The data can either be copied first to the system disk, then transfered later by, for example, ftp or some other protocol GRABTO=FILE . ... If GRABTO is NONE , which is the default, no data will be written and the other GRAB.. parameters will be ignored. ... Default: NONE . ...

... The fundamental internal FOS time interval is an FOS clock tick of 7.8125 ?sec duration, which is equal to 8 ticks of the HST 1.024 MHz clock. ... The engineering telemetry did record the so-called LINESTART time; that is, the precise time when the SDF told the FOS to commence sending data from the FOS memory to the SDF. ... FOS engineering telemetry, available only at STScI, provides all timing information at accuracy of FOS clock (7.8125 ?sec). ...

From: TerryMosel aol.com Date: Mon, 13 Feb 2006 06:55:29 EST Subject: NOVA OUTBURST Hi all, RECURRENT NOVA RS OPH OUTBURST The recurrent nova RS Ophiuchi is currently in outburst according to an International Astronomical Union email (CBET 399) (Monday 13th). ... This outburst makes it the Recurrent Nova with the most recorded outbursts. ... Nearby comparison stars are: Xi Ser = 3.5; Omicron Ser = 4.3; Mu Oph = 4.6; Zeta Oph = 4.6; Zeta Scu = 4.7; 59 Ser = 5.2; Tau Oph = 5.3; 60 Ser = 5.4. ...

... Archives . ... One realization of mine during the meeting was related to a cultural difference; therefore, there is no relation to any presentations during the 212th AAS in this post. ... I cannot cover all perspectives from both disciplines but I think there are two distinct fashions in practicing normalization. $$\frac{1}{N(\theta)}\int_{\Omega} f(x;\theta)dx=1$$ . ... This is my last posting on my first AAS . Tags: AAS , measure , measure theory , normalization , PDF , pmf . ... Chandra Blog . ...

... August 19, 1999 . Light From The Dark Sun . ... Explanation: Only in the fleeting darkness of a total solar eclipse is the light of the solar corona easily visible from Earth. ... In this series of images recorded from Siofok, Hungary during the total phase of the August 11 eclipse, progressively longer exposures (top left to bottom center) have been used to more faithfully capture different regions of the elusive solar corona. ... About APOD > . ...

... Meta Index / Home Page / Output Files / Summary File specification from There will be 6 instrument details records, one for each instrument, following the file details record. ... After each instrument details record there will be n exposure records, where n is the number of exposures during the observation for that instrument. ... Number of exposures . ... Identifies the record as an Instrument Details Record . ... If the instrument was inactive then this value is zero and no exposure records...

... File format . ... The p12mProg is the AO control program for the 12 meter telescope. ... the time from the tick, till when we complete the status read from the device. ... P12M_STAT_BLK struct (read from controller via group read at tick) . ... azimuth master 32bit status word . ... dbl . ... azimuth error read from controller. ... azimuth velocity read back from controller deg/sec . ... elevation position read back from controller. stBlk.elErr_D . ... elevation velocity read back from controller . ...

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... We consider stars with a constant (solar) initial chemical composition. Before the Roche lobe overflow, the components evolve as single stars (see for details LPP96). ... If the mass transfer onto a normal star occurs on a time-scale ten time shorter than the thermal Kelvin-Helmholz time for this star or a compact star is engulfed by a giant companion (e.g. as a result of the kick), the common envelope (CE) stage of the binary evolution is set in (Paczynski 1976). ...

Main Page Data Structures File List Data Fields Globals . ... More... #include < exchange.h > . int . ... double . ... char * . ... Corresponds to one row of an OI_T3 FITS table. int _oi_t3_record::target_id . double _oi_t3_record::time . double _oi_t3_record::mjd . double _oi_t3_record::int_time . double* _oi_t3_record::t3amp . double * _oi_t3_record::t3amperr . double* _oi_t3_record::t3phi . ... The documentation for this struct was generated from the following file: . ...

... public static void record (java.lang.String method, int a1, int a2, int a3) . ... public static void record (java.lang.String method, java.lang.String args, int a1, int a2) . public static void record (java.lang.String method, int a1, int a2, int a3, int a4) . public static void record (java.lang.String method, int a1, int a2, int a3, int a4, int a5) . public static void record (java.lang.String method, java.lang.String path, java.lang.String args, int a1, int a2, int a3, int a4, int a5) . ...

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In 1995 Eugene set an annual rainfall record by recording, officially, 65.56 inches of rain. ... The mean annual rainfall for Eugene from the 25 year period 1970-1994 was 51.5 inches with a dispersion of 8 inches. ... Wettest Years: . ... Below are the official NWS corrected rain totals for the year 1996. Although these are now "official", I go on record here by saying there is no way I believe that Eugene, Oregon received 101 inches of rain in 1996. ... January: Old = 14.74; corrected = 14.48 . ...

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... Sort options Sort by date Sort by citations Sort by normalized citations Sort by author Sort by author count Sort by page (ToC sort) . ... Date . ... Pustilnik, S.; Kniazev, A.; Lyamina, Y.; Tepliakova, A. Dwarf galaxies in the nearby Lynx-Cancer void: photometry, colours and ages . ... Sort by citation count normalized citation count first author name author count date (most recent first) date (oldest first) entry date inverse author count page (ToC sort) . ... Return: Results Form for manual query...

This directory contains Calgary Neutron Monitor Data at five minute resolution. Each file is a gzipped tar archive that contains files of uncorrected count rates and barometric pressures at five minute intervals for one year. A file named snm.calg.fmi.YYYY.tgz is an archive that holds five minute data for the year YYYY. ... So a file named cal01030.fmi contains five minute uncorrected data for year 2001 day 30 (which is Jan 30, 2001). ... A text file named note.txt is also usually present. ...

... Observing . ... Supernova showered Earth with radioactive debris . ... Gravitational wave search provides insights into galaxy evolution and mergers . ... galaxies . ... First detailed look at a normal galaxy in the early universe . ... Regina Jorgenson from the University of Hawaii in Manoa has obtained the first image that shows the structure of a normal galaxy in the early universe as captured by the W. M. Keck Observatory. ... Hubble unveils a deep sea of small and faint early galaxies . ...

... We compared droughts, cold-spells, epidemics, epizootics and famines with solar activity data (sunspots visible to the naked eye). ... For very cold winters the correlation with solar activity was not so pronounced. ... KEY WORDS Chronicle data, climate, cold, drought, famine, solar activity 1 INTRODUCTION The question of whether variations in solar activity exert any effect on climate has been under investigation since long ago. ... The same study was carried out for very cold winters. ...