... Science User Portal . ... ESO, the European Southern Observatory . ... Travel and Contacts . Travel to ESO Headquarters . ... Survey Telescopes . ... Star Clusters . ... FLAMES . ... 100 Hours of Astronomy . ... IMAX€о 3D Film Hidden Universe . ... This image, the first to be released publicly from VISTA, the worldтАЩs largest survey telescope, shows the spectacular star-forming region known as the Flame Nebula, or NGC 2024, in the constellation of Orion (the Hunter) and its surroundings. ...

NMW survey overview . Access image archive . ... The New Milky Way survey aims to detect bright (V<13.5) optical transients near the Galactic plane using an automated wide-field (8x6 deg.) system capable of surveying the whole Milky Way area visible from the observing site in one night. ... All images obtained during the transient search survey are available online (please use the image archive access form ). ... Images per field: . ... Images per night: . ... Milky Way imaging time: . ...

You can also see this page in Russian with using KOI8 (X Windows) or CP1251 (MS Windows) Cyrillic coding. The Laboratory supports the space TV experiments, mainly in the planetary exploration missions. ... Image Co-registration . ... PHOBOS mission - Martian satellites investigations. Phobos on the Martian limb, the image from Phobos-2 probe from 02/28/89. ... Russian Space Bulletin. ... Last modified at June,26 1997 Alexey Kuzmin: akuzmin@mx.iki.rssi.ru . Back to IKI home page ...

The nasa.gov site requires that JavaScripts be enabled in your browser. ... Contact NASA . ... The term "astronaut" derives from the Greek words meaning "space sailor," and refers to all who have been launched as crew members aboard NASA spacecraft bound for orbit and beyond. Since the inception of NASA's human space flight program, we have also maintained the term "astronaut" as the title for those selected to join the NASA corps of astronauts who make "space sailing" their career profession. ...

... We describe image compression based on the pyramidal median transform, introduced as an alternative to the use of a wavelet transform. The use of a multiresolution support allows ``protection'' of astronomical objects in the image. ... We describe an approach to astronomical image compression through noise removal. ... We begin by explaining why transforms other than the wavelet transform are important for astronomical image compression. ... Negative Values. ... The image dimensions were . ...

Test models of the TsTK-140 and TsMK-70 digital aerial cameras have been developed and manufactured in cooperation with the юNO “Cosmos-NT” based on space technologies. The TsTK-140 camera has been designed for black & white topographic stereo imaging. ... The TsTK-140 camera is based on the AFA TE-140 camera optical unit. ... The TsMK-70 camera provides for aerial imaging in four spectral bands simultaneously (RGB and near-IR). ... This allows image acquisition control in real time. ...

... It's the dim star, not the bright one, near the center of NGC 3132 that created this odd but beautiful planetary nebula. ... Characteristic of large, complex impact craters on the Moon, the central uplift was produced by a rebound of the suddenly molten lunar crust during the violent impact event. ... Saturns Iapetus: Moon with a Strange Surface . ... A strange ridge crosses the moon near the equator, visible near the bottom of the above image, making Iapetus appear similar to the pit of a peach. ...

... ATNF Home . ... About ATNF overview . ... Australia Telescope Steering Committee . ... Australian Square Kilometre Array Pathfinder . Murchison Radio-astronomy Observatory . ... Parkes radio telescope . Australia Telescope Compact Array . Mopra radio telescope . ... Visiting Parkes radio telescope . Visiting Australia Telescope Compact Array . ... Parkes radio telescope webcam . ... Next: Step 3: Postprocessing to Up: How Pieflag works Previous: Step 1: Amplitude-based flagging . ...

... This is a personal project collecting and documenting early images of Harvard College Observatory, focusing on the site at Observatory Hill (previously Summer House Hill). ... This page shows a list of all images related pictures in the same group. [link] 1855ish William Cranch Bond photograph . Earliest source: William Cranch Bond and George PHillips Bond [and Joseph Winlock]. Annals of the Astronomical Observatory of Harvard College / 1859-1860 vol. ... A photo of William Cranch Bond. ...

... Ciel Espace, le magazine qui vous guide toujours plus loin . ... les plus belles images de l'Univers d†йcrypt†йes pour vous . ... des pages consacr†йes †а la publication de vos photos Mais c'est aussi une vraie communaut†й avec laquelle partager votre passion et nourrir votre curiosit†й. Accueil †А la une Photographier le ciel . ... En quelques points cl†йs, nous vous invitons †а vous familiariser avec ses fonctions essentielles pour pouvoir aborder sereinement la photographie du ciel. ...

... Feeding the Monster: Gas Caught in its Death Spiral into a Massive Black Hole . ... Stromlo Professor Mike Dopita have used the Hubble Space Telescope to discover how a massive Black Hole in a nearby galaxy feeds itself. ... Earlier Hubble Telescope data obtained by another team member, Professor Holland Ford of Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland, had found a disk of gas rushing around the Black Hole at a speed of 500 kilometers a second. ...

Lunar Orbiter to the Moon (1966 - 1967) . ... Five Lunar Orbiter missions were launched in 1966 through 1967 with the purpose of mapping the lunar surface before the Apollo landings. ... The first three missions were dedicated to imaging 20 potential lunar landing sites, selected based on Earth-based observations. ... The Lunar Orbiters had an ingenious imaging system, which consisted of a dual-lens camera, a film processing unit, a readout scanner, and a film handling apparatus. ...

... Iowa Robotic Telescope | ... Talon is based on OCAAS, a software suite developed by software engineer Elwood Downey ( Clear Sky Institute ) for use at the University of Iowa ?s first remote facility (the ATF, or Automated Telescope Facility). ... XObservatory : Telescope Control Interface . ... This program calls upon and coordinates much of the interrelated portions of the Talon architecture, and forms the primary control panel for the telescope, dome, and peripheral systems when used locally. ...

... Linux systems will usually have the Python core (Version 2.7) available. ... ALSVID Python Utilities for Processing FITS Images ================================================== file _renumber.py Renumber files in a directory fits _1d_to_dat.py Extract a 1-dimensional FITS array as data fits _absolute_value.py Absolute value of an image fits _background_remove.py Fit and subtract a background fits _bias.py Subtract a bias frame fits _bin.py Bin a stack of images one by one ...

This WWW form allows the user simplified access to images produced by the VLA Low-Frequency Sky Survey (VLSS, formerly 4MASS). This service determines which VLSS image is desired based on a celestial position and returns a Web page with a link to the file. ... The images from the VLSS are produced as 14 x 14 degree, overlapping images. The images use the SIN projection, have 25" cell spacing and are labeled in J2000 coordinates. ... The VLSS FITS files use J2000 coordinates. ...

... Главная страница / Кометы и астероиды / "Нас не догонишь". Комета 217P/LINEAR, M42, M43, Бегущий Человек и пролетающие спутники. ... M42 , M43 , БегущийЧеловек , 217P/LINEAR . ... Комета C/2009 R1 (McNaught) . ... Все права на размещенные в галерее фотографии принадлежат их авторам. ... Киевский клуб любителей астрономии "Астрополис" . Движок галереи: 4images 1.7 ...

... One of the greatest challenges we face today as science educators is to engage non-science majors in the scientific process. ... Each 20-student section has a different academic topic from the humanities, social sciences, or natural sciences -- our section explores The Most Extreme Places in Our Solar System. We present two unique, inquiry-based approaches that stimulate non-science undergraduate students to overcome their fear of science: . ... The extreme learning doesn t stop there. ...

... SOLAR WEB RESOURCES AND RESEARCH SITES LINKS . ... http :// solar .nro.nao.ac.jp/ - The Nobeyama Radioheliograph : daily solar images at 17 GHz. http ://umbra.nascom.nasa.gov/batse/batse_years.html - CGRO BATSE solar flare database at the SDAC. http ://umbra.nascom.nasa.gov/yohkoh_archive.html - The Yohkoh Archive. ftp://140.252.1.21/kpvt/ daily - U.S. National Solar Observatory at Kitt Peak anonymous ftp directories. http ://www.bbso.njit.edu - Big Bear Solar ...

... Armagh Observatory, 27 July 2009: A major exhibition, featuring some of the best astronomical images ever taken, is on display in the Lurgan Library until the end of July. The exhibition, called "From Earth To The Universe", is one of the Armagh Observatory and Lurgan LibraryтАЩs contributions to the International Year of Astronomy 2009 (IYA2009). ... On Thursday 30 July 2009, Miruna together with the Lurgan Library will provide a free ASTRO-ART FUN workshop aimed at children aged 8 to 12. ...

... R2297 Date Received: 2007-Jan-30 11:01:19 Technical Page Proposal Type: General Category: Observation Category: Total Time Requested: Minimum Useful Time: Prop osal Title: ABSTRACT: Urgent Planetary Radar Solar System 6 Hours Radar Imaging of a Fast-Rotating Near-Earth Asteroid Based on its visual brightness, asteroid 2006 AM4 is about 150m in size. ... This ob ject will be observable at Arecibo with enough SNR for imaging on 2007 Feb 1-3. ...