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... CYLINDRICAL PROJECTIONS: -Jc lon0 / lat0 / scale (Cassini) -Jj lon0 / scale (Miller) -Jm scale ( Mercator - Greenwich and Equator as origin) -Jm lon0 / lat0 / scale ( Mercator - Give meridian and standard parallel) -Joa lon0 / lat0 / azimuth / scale (Oblique Mercator - point and azimuth) -Job lon0 / lat0 / lon1 / lat1 / scale (Oblique Mercator - two points) -Joc lon0 / Je lon0 / lat0 / scale (Equidistant). Jf lon0 / lat0 / horizon / scale (Gnomonic). ...

... 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 . ...

... BOM2 and the basic block of solar limbograph including pointing and control systems ? ... Fine tracking platform (FTP) for Sun tracking by the sight axis of the limbograph; . ... Tracking system frequency ? ... Controller of the control system and solar fine tracking of the sight axis of the limbograph; . ... The basic relative construction of the elements and instrumental blocks of the "Astrometria" space experiment is shown on the block diagram of units within the complex of SL-200 solar...

... Optical photometric data were taken of fields encompassing all these sources during a total of seven telescope runs. ... The initial goal of the photometric observations is to follow up the X--ray sources, assign them colors in a standard system, so that the observed objects can be placed on a color--magnitude diagram. This can be used to verify that the X--ray sources are indeed PMS stars. ... Aperture photometry was performed using the APPHOT package in IRAF. ...

Example 2: Figure 8 (90 Kbytes) shows an image of M31. While this is not a particularly spectacular image of M31 it is nevertheless unique as it was taken in a suburban backyard using a Lynxx CCD camera. The exposure is unfiltered. ... The image scale in this system is 41 arcseconds per pixel which yields a total field size of 2.2 x 1.9 square degrees. At this pixel resolution M32 blends into the light of M31, although NGC 205 (marked with a red arrow) is plainly visible. ... Page 6 . ...

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... Perhaps the most famous star cluster on the sky, the Pleiades can be seen without binoculars from even the depths of a light-polluted city. ... A Halo Around the Moon . ... Cameras around the globe pointed skyward this week to capture the spectacular conjunction of a crescent Moon and bright planets Venus and Jupiter. ... Venus in the Moon . ... On December 1, bright planets Venus and Jupiter gathered near the young crescent Moon, an inspiring celestial scene in early evening skies around the world....

Wide-angle telescopes for photometry and polarimetry in optical and infrared ranges . ... Investigation of the Earth’s atmosphere, comets, interplanetary and interstellar medium with brightness and linear polarization measurements of extended sources and sky background in optical and infrared spectral ranges. ... The devices are small diameter telescopes with CCD-detectors for optical and infrared spectral range with spectral and polarization filters. ... 15-cm telescope with cooling down to 80 K . ...

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... About ATNF overview . ... Australia Telescope Steering Committee . ... Parkes radio telescope . ... Visiting Parkes radio telescope . ... Parkes radio telescope webcam . ... Images . ... The optical design uses a simple and effective all refractive arrangement (see Figure 1) and all design goals were attained in actual operation at the telescope. An internal focus, (reimaged onto the detector), is required to allow masking of the image plane to accommodate a future polarization beam splitter. б  . ...

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. ...

To see a Russian version of this page, click here . ... Graduated from Moscow State University (MSU), Faculty of Physics in 1976. Ph.D. degree - 1988, MSU. Main field of scientific activities: photometric investigations of various stars, close binary stellar systems and other astronomical objects, including research with use of fast photoelectric photometry with a high time resolution till 1 millisecond. ... New portable photometer . ... Send your mail to: tem@sai.msu.ru ...

How these images were acquired: (unless otherwise noted) . As a detector I use a Nikon Coolpix 950 Digital camera. ... The reason it is so prominent when the Moon is at a crescent phase is that, at that time the Earth as seen from the Moon is near 100% phase (a Full Earth) and therefore at its most bright. This image was taken in the early morning of October 3rd, 2002. ... ETX 125EC w. 32mm eyepiece . This image shows a portion of the terminator line past midnight on August 26th, 2002. ...

Moscow State University Sternberg Astronomical Institute Specification 2.5 m telescope with enclosure version 7.6 |Number|Item description, type |Quanti| | ... 1000 |2.5 m mirror telescope system |1 | ... lightweighting) must provide the short time of | ... stations (ports) must be provided. ... 1006 |Nasmyth focal stations must be provided with a deployable| | ... must be provided. ... Telescope control system and environment conditions | ... 2005 |Camera shutter must provide unvignetted CCD field, | ...

Truebloodb,g, K. Zelayab Department of Astronomy, The Ohio State University, 140 West 18th Avenue, Columbus, OH 43221 USA; bNational Optical Astronomy Observatory, 950 North Cherry Street, Tucson AZ 85719 USA; cCerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory, Casilla 603, La Serena ... USA ABSTRACT We describe the design, construction and measured performance of the Kitt Peak Ohio State Multi-Object Spectrograph ( KOSMOS ) for the 4-m Mayall ... Optical layout for KOSMOS and COSMOS. ...

... Submitted by Al Takeda on 12/20/2011 12:01:50 . California Nebula . The California Nebula (NGC1499) is an emission nebula in the constellation Perseus that is more then 2.5-degrees in size. ... The nebula is about 1000 light years away. 5nm Narrowband filters; H-alpha: O-III: S-II - 60: 60: 80 minutes x 10 minute subframe, Total= 3-hrs 20-minutes, binned 1x1. ... Copyright (c) Amateur Telescope Makers of Boston, Inc. ...

... A new version of a polarization analyzer ensuring parallel measurements of six polarization components of spectral lines is considered. ... A new version of the polarization analyzer, which ensures simultaneous measurements of six polarization components of a spectral line, is considered. ... One of the widespread schemes for magnetic fields measurements includes an tunable optical filter, an adjustable polarization analyzer, and a two-dimensional CCD array placed in the solar image plane [1, 2]. ...

Next: Feature enhancement: normalizing Up: No Title Previous: Feature enhancement: pulsing . The inverse transform is at the core of the best known applications of wavelets: data compaction and numerics. ... Two applications fall within our scope: filtering and denoising. Filtering consists of using only a portion of the wavelet map in the inverse transform process, masking out certain durations. ... Figure 23: Filtered reconstruction of the intermittent signal. ...

... Astrophysics Group . ... VSA . ... CAT . ... The Very Small Array is a custom-built radio telescope (operating between 26-36 GHz), designed expressly to make high resolution observations of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) radiation on angular scales around and below one degree. ... The VSA has been operated in ?compact array? and ?extended array? configurations (see the technical description below) and data collected to achieve high sensitivity in both regimes have been analysed. ... 1.75 GHz)...