BLINK MICROSCOPE

in astronomy, device for determining a change in position or magnitude (brightness) of a star relative to other stars in the background. Two photographs of the same field or area of the sky are projected so that they precisely coincide. The combined image is viewed through a magnifying eyepiece while light from first one photograph and then the other is interrupted mechanically. A change in position or magnitude of a star can usually be detected since the star will seem to flicker or jump to and fro while the background stars remain steady in both position and brightness.

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books on: Blink Microscope  - 15 results

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Communication under the Microscope: The Theory and Practice of Microanalysis
Book by Peter Bull; Routledge, 2002
Subjects: Communication--Methodology
...next 5 years. I think that such peace of mind is worth the slight cost of the warranty. Havent you ever had a TV go on the blink just when its most inconvenient? Customer: 3rd escalation I told you I do not want the extended warranty. If you persist...
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Asteroid: Earth Destroyer or New Frontier?
Book by Patricia Barnes-Svarney; Plenum Press, 1996
Subjects: Asteroids, Asteroids--Collisions With Earth
...the Lowell Telescope were then examined with the blink microscope comparator: The blink microscope rapidly alternates the views of two...field; the moving space body would appear to "blink," or jump back and forth, against the background...
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Larousse Encyclopedia of Astronomy
Book by Lucien Rudaux, G. Vaucouleurs De, F. L. Whipple; Prometheus Press, 1962
Subjects: Astronomy
...auxiliary light source S and the microscope M, which provide the artificial...the stereo- comparator or blink microscope -- an instrument...the plates it will appear to blink i.e. alternately disappear...examination of plates with a blink microscope. A more accurate...
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A Dictionary of Astronomy
Book by Ian Ridpath; Oxford University Press, 1997
Subjects: Astronomy--Dictionaries
...descending portion of the light-curve. blink comparator An instrument in which...differences between them; also known as a blink microscope. The images are usually of the...brightness will appear to jump or blink as the operator switches between...
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Reason and Chance in Scientific Discovery
Book by R. Taton, A. J. Pomerans; Philosophical Library, 1957
Subjects: Research, Science--History
...except through very powerful instruments. It was first discovered by means of an entirely modern method, i.e. the blink microscope, an instrument with which one can compare two photographs of the same sector of the sky, taken at different times...
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journal articles on: Blink Microscope  - 10 results

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Blinking: the Art of Clinical Judgment?
Journal article by Joyce J. Fitzpatrick; Nursing Education Perspectives, Vol. 27, 2006
Subjects: Books, College faculty, Gladwell, Malcolm, Literary criticism, Medical ethics, Nursing, Professional practice
...have read Malcolm Gladwells Blink: The Power of Thinking Without...academic world who had read Blink, and asked their opinions...the actual or hypothetical microscope. They viewed their mission...STRONGLY RECOMMEND THAT YOU READ Blink, if you have not already done...
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Fission Yeast Num1p Is a Cortical Factor Anchoring Dynein and Is Essential for the Horse-tail Nuclear Movement during Meiotic Prophase
Journal article by Akira Yamashita, Masayuki Yamamoto; Genetics, Vol. 173, 2006
Subjects: Bik1 protein, S cerevisiae, Carrier Proteins, Cells, Chromosomes, Dynein ATPase, Enzymes, Genetics, Heat-Shock Proteins, Intermediate Filament Proteins, Microtubule-Associated Proteins, Noc1 protein, S pombe, Num1 protein, S pombe, Organisms, Saccharomyces cerevisiae Proteins, Schizosaccharomyces pombe Proteins, Yeast
...attached to a fluorescent microscope (CARL ZEISS, Axioplan 2...JV626 was monitored using a microscope (NIKON, TE2000) equipped...and imaged with confocal microscopes Carl Zeiss (LSM5) and Nikon...correlation between this blink of Num1p-GFP fluorescence...using an optical sectioning microscope (Figure 4). The growth...
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"There Will Be Projections in All Dimensions..."
Journal article by Bradley Eros; Millennium Film Journal, 2005
Subjects: Cinematography, Entertainment technology & design, Experiments, Metaphysics
...performance demonstration, fingers blink, 2004, BE motor. gears. hum click...tree bark or butterfly wings under the microscope. It magnifies what Rosalind Krauss calls...iris / pupil, retina, cornea / flicker blink. Our sacred technology revealing to us...
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Acute Effects of a Fungal Volatile Compound
Journal article by Robert Walinder, Lena Ernstgard, Gunnar Johanson, Dan Norback, Per Venge, Gunilla Wieslander; Environmental Health Perspectives, Vol. 113, 2005
Subjects: Air pollution, Asthma
...signal patterns. We identified blinks by comparison against nine...was recorded from the last blink until a rupture in the precorneal...until they felt an urge to blink, assuming that this feeling...were examined by a binocular microscope with a slit lamp (Topcon SL1E...Blinking <br/ frequency (blinks per minute) during exposure...
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Privacy on the Books and on the Ground
Journal article by Kenneth A. Bamberger, Deirdre K. Mulligan; Stanford Law Review, Vol. 63, 2011
Subjects: Data security--Research, Freedom of information--Research, Personal information--Access control, Privacy, Right of--Research, Right of privacy--Research
...debates over regulatory specificity and ambiguity 2. Ambiguity in the privacy sphere <br/ CONCLUSIONS: PRIVACY UNDER THE MICROSCOPE <br/ INTRODUCTION Scholars and advocates charge that U.S. law fails to protect privacy adequately. The dominant critique...
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magazine articles on: Blink Microscope  - 13 results

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The Power of Not Thinking Is Not Very Great
Magazine article by Wesley Cecil; Skeptical Inquirer, Vol. 30, March 2006
Subjects: Blink (Book), Books--Book reviews
...of the opening anecdote in Blink, as it provides a fairly comprehensive...analyzed it using an electron microscope, X-ray diffraction, and...of thinking. Repeatedly in Blink, single failures of analysis...pursued further research. Not a blink, but months and months of...
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Visit to a Small Planet
Magazine article by Bill Kauffman; American Conservative, Vol. 9, April 2010
Subjects: Astronomy, Flagstaff Arizona, Lowell Observatory, Lowell, Percival (1855-1916), Pluto, Putnam, William Lowell, Science history, Tombaugh, Clyde
...that SUpher desired not a theoretician but a plodder for the "boring and tedious" planet search. Using a "blink comparator" microscope, Tombaugh spent up to nine hours a day comparing photographic plates of identical patches of sky taken at...
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Unraveling Cellular Biochemistry, One Cell at a Time
Magazine article by Bennett Daviss; The Scientist, Vol. 19, February 28, 2005
...the resulting fluorescent signal with a microscope. Recently he designed PEBBLEs that could...things easier, Kopelman uses PEBBLEs that blink when they meet an analyte. The group...magnetic field, enticing the PEBBLEs to blink at steady rates. With that rate as a...
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Traces of Light: The Paradoxes of Narrative Painting and Pictorial Fiction
Magazine article by Alan Cheuse; The Antioch Review, Vol. 55, Summer 1997
Subjects: Art--Analysis, Poetry--Analysis, Storytelling--Analysis
...the MRI and sometimes even the electron microscope. If a total energy field is available...of the cab, stretch toward the sky, blink at the odd sun, a strangely white, nearly...restraints of time and space. In the blink of an eye - or should I say, in the eyes...
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Astronomy's Next Big Things These 10 Telescopes Won't Just Revolutionize Our Understanding of the Cosmos, They'll Change Everything We Think a Telescope Can Be
Magazine article by William Speed Weed; Popular Science, Vol. 266, April 2005
Subjects: Astronomy, Telescopes
...then taking it back to the lab for detailed study with a microscope. Here, our specimens are the first stars in the universe...moving. "If were looking for a star to wink, we cant blink," Borucki says. "Kepler will be a giant camcorder...
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newspaper articles on: Blink Microscope  - 19 results

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1.
Microscope Just Starting to Focus on Palin
Newspaper article; Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, IL), September 3, 2008
Microscope Just Starting to Focus on Palin. ST. PAUL, Minn. Tom Donilon, the Washington...candidates and I never ran into another reporter. Now, Palin wont be able to blink without having a camera in her face. Her words and actions will be scrutinized...
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What's Right for Sore Eyes? Health Notes
Newspaper article; The Mail on Sunday (London, England), January 16, 2005
...oily layer. Every time we blink, it should spread an even...reduce the number of times we blink, causing the mucus to dry...car-bound, make sure you blink consciously. If your eyes...examine the tear film under a microscope and pinpoint the problem...
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Woodson Will Sing with Right Conditions
Newspaper article; The Washington Times (Washington, DC), September 9, 2009
...not going to put him under a microscope, Zorn says. Who said anything about putting him under a microscope? What you do is put Woodson...in one of their end zones? Blink once to indicate yes, blink twice to indicate no. The...
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Jonathan Cainer
Newspaper article; The Daily Mail (London, England), July 1, 2010
...my desk tired but inspired. ARIES Mar 21 -- Apr 20 UNDER a microscope, tiny insects look terrifying. We can imagine them as alien...out of the blue, something just happens, it takes but the blink of an eye for us to get used to the new paradigm. Just as...
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Jonathan Cainer
Newspaper article; The Daily Mail (London, England), July 1, 2010
...Byline: JONATHAN CAINER ARIES Mar 21 -- Apr 20 UNDER a microscope, tiny insects look terrifying. We can imagine them as alien...out of the blue, something just happens, it takes but the blink of an eye for us to get used to the new paradigm. Just as...
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encyclopedia articles on: Blink Microscope  - 3 results

 
 
1.
Blink Microscope
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
BLINK MICROSCOPE in astronomy, device for determining a change in position or magnitude (brightness) of a star relative to other stars in the...
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Pluto , in Astronomy
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...search for a ninth planet was resumed at Lowell Observatory , and on Feb. 18, 1930, using photographic plates and a blink microscope , Clyde W. Tombaugh discovered an object whose motion was consistent with that of a transneptunian planet. In 1978...
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Tombaugh, Clyde William
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...to continue the search for a planet beyond Neptune, which had been initiated by Percival Lowell . Tombaugh used a blink microscope to compare photographs of a small part of the night sky and detect the planet. After ten months of painstaking comparisons...


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