... Almudena Alonso-Herrero , University of Arizona, Steward Observatory, 933 N. Cherry Avenue, Tucson, AZ 85721, USA (aalonso@as.arizona.edu) . ... 2, D-85748 Garching, Germany (pbenvenu@eso.org) . ... Howard Bushouse , Space Telescope Science Institute, Science Software Group, 3700 San Martin Drive, Baltimore, MD 21218, USA (bushouse@stsci.edu) . Luis Colina , Space Telescope Science Institute, 3700 San Martin Drive, Baltimore, MD 21218, USA (colina@stsci.edu) . ...

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Winer Observatory P.O. Box 797, Sonoita, Arizona 85637-0797, USA . ... Winer Observatory) was incorporated in 1983 as a 501(c)(3) non-profit public charity to perform basic research in astronomy, provide educational outreach programs, and provide site and maintenance services for small telescopes through cooperative agreements with other astronomical institutions. ... The picture at the top left of this page is of our facility near Sonoita, Arizona, approximately 50 miles southeast of Tucson, Arizona. ...

From Cadolle Bel et al 2007 ApJ, 659, 549. ... Their Figure 10: Spectral energy distribution of SwJ1753.5-0127on August 11 with radio (15~GHz upper limit data point excluded), IR, optical and X-ray points (up to 535~keV) and errors. The NIR and optical flux densities (filters B, V, R, I, J, H and K) were dereddened with A_V=~1.05$\pm$0.12 mag (see text). ...

... arfgen (arfgen-1.75.6) [?? ... arfgen simply constructs the appropriate quantities from the CAL, in the form of vectors of discrete energy-dependent elements, and combines these data multiplicatively to form the ancilliary response. ... This is already taken into account by the CAL in the call to CAL_effectiveArea. The user can enable or disable the effective area, filter transmission, QE or grating attenuation by setting the relevant parameter (eg modeleffarea ) to true or false respectively. ...

Astronomy Picture of the Day . ... 12.12.2008 . ... Credit Copyright: Rick Baldridge Explanation: As viewed from a well chosen location at sunset , October's gorgeous Full Moon rose behind Mount Hamilton, east of San Jose, California. ... In fact, tonight's Moon reaches its full phase at 1637 UT, within only a few hours of perigee , the closest point in its elliptical orbit . ... Publications with keywords: perigee - moonrise - full moon . Publications with words: perigee - moonrise - full moon . ...

RADIOASTROPHYSICAL DEPARTMENT • INSTITUTE OF SOLAR-TERRESTRIAL PHYSICS RAS SB . ... SSRT - Receiving systems . The SSRT has two independent receiving systems for recording solar observational data, and several ancillary receivers for checking, setting up and adjusting the instrument. The base receiving systen is a multichannel filter receiver for a simultaneous recording in 180 channels with the 500 kHz band each, adjusted at steps of about 600 kHz. ... Channel's band . ...

. This picture of the nearby galaxy NGC 3521 was taken using the FORS1 instrument on ESOтАЩs Very Large Telescope at the Paranal Observatory in Chile. This picture was created from exposures taken through three different filters that passed blue light, yellow/green light, and near-infrared light. These are shown in this picture as blue, green, and red, respectively. ESO/O. Maliy

... Observations have received at the telescope AT-64 of the Crimean Astrophysical Observatory . GRB . ... RA(2000): 11h 45m 10.54s . DEC(2000): 17o 24' 34.44" . ... Filter: none . ... Date, time (UT) . Exposure . ... 2000.07.29 18:21:52 . 30 sec . ... RA(2000): 19h 58m 19.61s . DEC(2000): 23o 32' 35.15" . ... 120 sec . ... DEC(2000): 6o 20' 47.07" . ... 240 sec . ... DEC(2000): 51o 46' 34.93" . ... DEC(2000): -13o 04' 30" . ... DEC(2000): +55o 18' 25.0" . ... 2000-11-09T16:03:19 . ...

DIGITAL WDC EXCHANGE FORMAT . FOR OBSERVATORY 1.0 MINUTE VALUES 1. ... DATA-1 .. DATA-60 are 1-minute values of the given element for that hour. ... Typically, digital 1-minute values received by WDCs from organizations operating automatic magnetic observatory instruments are averages of more frequendy sampled values, e.g. 10-second point samples. ... If the method used to obtain 1-minute average values is important to a user, the WDC will assist in determining the exact procedure applied. ...

... SAI CAS . ... Catalog Access Services . ... This site is about the Virtual Observatory project at the Sternberg Astronomical Institute, Moscow University ( SAI MSU ). We provide a public access to the growing set of astronomical services developed by the SAI RVO development team in accordance with the Virtual Observatory standards. ... We provide access (programmatic and interactive) to the all major and biggest astronomical catalogs (about 4 billions objects total) as well as other web-services. ...

... Hour of right ascension (alpha, h) 4. Minute of right ascension (alpha, m) 5. ... Degree of declination (delta, deg) 7. ... Right ascension error at mean epoch (mas) 10. ... Observatory Code -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- N JD with alpha delta alpha error delta error mag filter telescope N sat. decimals h m s deg ' " mas mas obs -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ...

Astronotes Armagh Planetarium's Stellar Blog! ... Stars . ... Telescopes and Observatories . ... The majestic star-forming region in the Lagoon Nebula. The pale ring to the right is an internal reflection in the telescope.€а (Image credit: ESO/ VPHAS+/ V. Kalari and J. Vink (Armagh Observatory) . ... The 18 component images were further processed twice. ... Venu and his colleagues use images like this to identify individual young forming stars in the Lagoon Nebula and determine their ages. ...

SAI 175 anniversary . ... Moscow University . Search for in SAI Moscow University Search for in Russian astronomical resources . ... SAI Astronomical Databases . ... Browse SAI Software archive(ftp.sai.msu.su) . ASTRONET.RU - Russian Astronomical Network (available in translit also) . ... SAI Supernovae Research Group . ... Department of the Galaxy and Variable Stars (in Russian) . Sternberg Astronomical Institute Seminars . ... All-Russian Astronomical Olympiad (in Russian) . ...

A computer controlled low light photometer for nightglow observations. Hardware units of portable photometer for low light measurements, especially night glow emission is described. ... Interface card contain three channels of 24 bit counter, 4 channels of 12 bit ADC and the buffer bus for the controlled motors of the altazimuthal fork mounting and filters wheel, the position encoders. ... Where N( ) is output signal photometer generated input light flux F( l ) . ... PMT # . 599 . ...

Easy DMT: Using the chInterface Class to Create/Upgrade DMT Monitors Rauha Rahkola, Univ. of Oregon LSC Meeting, August 19-22, 2002 LIGO Hanford Observatory Richland, WA LIGO-G020349-00-Z Easy DMT Introduction to the chInterface utility class ! ... Run through the data 1. for each channel, either: ! ... Final report LSC Meeting, August 19-22, 2002 Hanford 3 LIGO-G020349-00-Z Easy DMT The chInterface Model ! ... No Yes Yes Defaults to RMS of data addChannel addFilter New channel? ...

adapted from Observe: Eclipses, published in 1979 by the Astronomical League and "Safe Solar Filters," by B. Ralph Chou, Sky and Telescope, August 1981) . ... Tape TWO pieces of film together into a sandwich, and tape this over the opening in the cardboard. ... The cardboard frame will act as a shade from the bright Sun, while you safely observe through the film sandwich. ... Undeveloped film is not safe. ... tape . ... At the end of one of the tubes, tape the aluminum foil, and make a tiny pinhole. ...

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... Exposure Time Calculator (ETC) . Survey processing . ... VISTA is a 4-m class wide field survey telescope for the southern hemisphere, equipped with a near infrared camera (1.65 degree diameter field of view at VISTA's nominal pixel size) containing 67 million pixels of mean size 0.34 arcsec and available broad band filters at Z,Y,J,H,K s and a narrow band filter at 1.18 micron. A wide field visible camera, if constructed, could also be used on VISTA. ... Tile . ... ESO VISTA Public Surveys . ...

SITE 2010 Comprehensive Characterization of Astronomical Sites Kislovodsk, Russia, 49 October 2010 Conference Summary Marc S. Sarazin*a a European Southern Observatory, Garching, Germany Abstract The main topics discussed during the Site 2010 conference are outlined and the outcome is described. Keywords: Astronomical Site testing, precipitable water vapor, atmospheric turbulence, cloudiness, seeing 1. ... Site surveys for National observatory projects in China, India, and Iran benefit from this. ...