Sentence:  The ratio of the measured antenna <WSD>temperature</WSD> change during a drift scan across the moon to the average brightness temperature of the moon over the antenna beam ( assuming that the brightness temperature of the sky is negligible ) was found , by graphical integration of the antenna directivity diagram , to be 0.85 . 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  a process whereby the degree of hotness of a body (or medium) changes