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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. ...

Next: Dark current and cooling Up: CCD Scientific Performance Previous: Particle Background Rejection . ... A standard TV format CCD is only 15mm across its diagonal, and hence substantial effort has had to be expended to increase the size of individual chips, and to develop techniques for mosaicking many chips, efficiently to cover the focal plane areas. ... This aspect alone hints at the complex trade-offs involved in the design of a CCD focal plane. ...

FITShdr' package contains set of utilities, that allows to display or modify FITS-file headers (FITS MEF included). ... Both source tarball (see INSTALL ) and i386 RPM are available for downloading: fitshdr-current.tar.gz size: 36379 MD5 checksum: 1e7222149ca36696797a6e0f4af41afc SHA1 checksum: 990bdf69f67d2b989d2d6e044deeaf9128d4470c fitshdr-1.0.6-1.i386.rpm size: 539101 MD5 checksum: 19e046da52b3ec8dd89aaed9e806bb5d SHA1 checksum: 07a4b4e2bd96a4c9fda7dc65127d0b80130c97e1 ...

... Jobs By Email . ... As one of the elements of a major strategic investment in the Physics Department, which includes a 44M development of research and teaching facilities and an injection of new posts, the University invites applications for two Lectureships or Readerships in Astrophysics. ... Grade: Lecturer Grade B - Senior Lecturer Salary: Lecturer 30,013 39,160 Reader 40,335 46,758 . ... The University of Bristol . ... If you apply for this position, please say you saw it on jobs.ac.uk . ...

... Bad Astronomy . ... News . ... I am quite pleased to announce that my book, "Bad Astronomy: Misconceptions and Misuses Revealed, from Astrology to the Moon Landing 'Hoax'" has been released by Wiley and Sons. ... Besides new material on old Bad Astronomy, there is also quite a bit of new Bad Astronomy. ... The Wiley and Sons site has a web page up about the book . ... Here are some online reviews of the book: . ... The Astronomy Book Club picked "Bad Astronomy" as their Feature Title for May, 2002 ....

JSC History . JSC Oral History . NASA History . ... What's New! ... New Participants list! There are now three ways to view the names of the various Oral History Project participants: . ... JSC Oral History Project . ... Alphabetical List A-B C-D E-G H-J K-L M-N O-R S-T U-Z Administrators Aviatrix Herstory Ballistics JSC OHP ISS OHP NACA OHP Experts OHP Space Shuttle Program Earth System Science NASA at 50 STS Recordation Chilean Miners Rescue Shuttle-Mir OHP SCA-SRB OHP C3PO OHP . ...

... Солнечные затмения 2004-2024 . ... Short report about viewing of Venus Transit at 8 June 2004. ... The same situation was at Berdyansk at the June, 8, 2004, when Venus Transit occur. ... At the photo below, you can see how cloudy it was when the transit began. ... You can see it at the picture 1. ... I would like to thank Illya Pustovit, who kindly gave me a permission to use his digital camera for taking pictures of this Venus Transit and helped me a lot with working on gotten pictures. ...

The database contains references to the papers, data files and links to the Internet resources related to measurements and calculations of the optical constants in the wavelength interval from X-rays to radio domain. ... References to some useful books and reviews on the subject (e.g. the classical handbooks edited by E.D.Palik) and links to Internet collections of optical constants and personal WWW pages with related software were also placed in the database. You have arrived at our welcome page. ...

... Telescope concept . ... The Submillimetron Project is dedicated to astronomical studies at the submillimeter and far infrared wavelengths using a cryogenic telescope located on the Russian segment of the International Space Station (ISS). The Astro Space Center of the Lebedev Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences is responsible for developing the Submillimetron Project. ... Currently, the Astro Space Center is carrying out a pre-Project study under contract with the Russian Space Agency. ...

... AstroImageJ (AIJ) .. ... Reads and writes FITS images with standard headers . ... Provides a time and coordinate converter tool with capability to update/enhance FITS header content (AIRMASS, BJD, etc.) ... Creates color images and with native ImageJ processing power . ... AstroImageJ_Updater . Update operation now updates AIJ version number in Info.plist CFBundleVersion and CFBundleShortVersionString (MacOSX only) . ... AstroImageJ is ImageJ with astronomy plugins and macros installed. ...

This page is a mirror of the ION SADS page available at http://sads.cnes.fr:8010 . Besides the information already available on this page, there you can browse the ION QuickLook images. ... The ION experiment flown on the Interball-Aurora mission performs simultaneous ion and electron measurements. Two mass spectrometers looking in opposing directions perpendicular to the satellite spin axis, which points toward the sun, measure ions in the mass and energy ranges 1-32 amu and ~ 0 to 14,000 eV. ...

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