... 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 . ...

... Bojan Nikolic web pages (r. 329) . ALMA . ... LibAIR is the atmospheric inference library that is the main core of the algorithms for phase correction of ALMA data using water vapour radiometers that we are developing in Cambridge. ... The library and algorithms are documented in the series of memo?s which are being posted at page on inference of coefficients for use in phase correction. ... ALMA WVR phase correction algorithms and software . ... Introduction to phase correction for ALMA . ...

... the time of observation . ... Observing the Changing Position of the Sun To Establish Cardinal Directions . ... Observations of the Sun's apparent movement across the sky and its pattern of rising and setting in the east and west horizon helped to establish the cardinal directions. ... The final stage of the Sun's return was marked by the observation that the Sun had reached its highest altitude when the full width of your mitted hand could fill the gap between the Sun and the horizon. ...

... N. Kardashev and M. Popov informed the participants on the current IOC results. ... Kovalev). ... Agenda of the RadioAstron teleconference November 16, 2011 Corrections to the Agenda 1 2 3 4 5 6 IOC status and results Single Dish observation with RA VLBA observations to find best fringe search candidates Fringe search plan Early science program plan Tracking stations outside Russia N.Kardashev N. Kardashev / M.Popov V. Kostenko E.Fomalont M.Popov Y.Y. Kovalev / M.Popov /A.Alakoz ...

... As we have seen, evolutionary considerations based on our current understanding of massive binary systems lead to the conclusion that BH+PSR binaries must constitute a rather numerous subclass of all binary PSR ( 1 per 1000 isolated pulsars; Lipunov et al. , 1994b[ 124 ]). It seemed a priori that the binary radio pulsar PSR B0042-73   in the SMC (Kaspi et al., 1994[ 81 ]) could belong to one of these two classes. ... This means that such binary pulsars should be discovered in the near future. ...

... Count Rate Ratio (cr_ratio) . Introduction of a tabular file, that describes the differences between expected count rates and the count rates measured in orbit. ... The change involve a new entry in the 'models' section of RGASIM : rgasim begin models begin MYMODEL begin : lincoordFile RGS_coordinates_file.CCF end : end : end . Exploiting the LINCOORD files as described above, the location of these simluators in the telescope frame are no longer described in the configuration files of SciSim. ...

... In the context of the autonomous TAROT observatory we have developed an automatic scheduling software. ... With the advent of automatic telescopes and the use in service mode of large facilities, the problem of efficient night scheduling is becoming more important. ... However, we encountered some difficulties handling periodic or constrained requests with a large time interval, and it is unable to give to the telescope users and operators the visibility over the schedule. ...

DISCLAIMER: The larger the aperture, the more light a telescope will gather and the fainter the object you can see. Here is a range of magnitudes you might expect to see. Given excellent sky conditions and good optics, a well trained eye can sometimes add up to 0.8 magnitude to these values. Limiting Magnitude depends on much more than the instruments aperture. ... One formula is for aperture in inches the other is for aperture in millimeters. ... Aperture (inches) . ... 15.2 . ...

... The March 20 total solar eclipse was visible over the North Atlantic and Arctic Oceans. ... Solar eclipses are of interest for radio astronomy, as they make it possible to observe individual details on the solar disc (spots, filaments, flocculi, etc.) ... On March 20, 2015 the integrated observations of the solar eclipse were carried out at the RATAN-600 radio telescope at 70 wavelengths simultaneously in the range of 1.65cm to 10cm with the 1% frequency resolution. ...

Statistics of sunspot activity . The sunspot indices . ... NGDC's observations . The solar regions . ... Average annual indices . ... December . ... December, 2013 . Visual indices of solar activity by National Geophysical Data Center . ... Average . ...

... Planets . ... Earth Satellites . ... The newly discovered ?mega-Earth? ... Its sibling, the lava world Kepler-10b, is in the background (the two planets? proximity is grossly exaggerated) .ˆà Kepler-10c has a diameter of about 29 000 km, 2.3 times as large as Earth, and weighs 17 times as much. ... The first mega-earth to be discovered is Kepler-10c which orbits a star lying about 560 light years from the Sun in the constellation Draco. ... Astronomers Find a New Type of Planet: The ?Mega-Earth? ...

Òåìà : Õâîñòàòûå ãîñòüè V (èíôîðìàöèÿ äëÿ íàáëþäåíèÿ êîìåò) .. Ïîêàçàòü ñîîáùåíèå îòäåëüíî . ... Õâîñòàòûå ãîñòüè .. ... ïîñëå òîãî, êàê ISON ïðèïëûë ìèìî íàñ, çåìëÿ íàõîäèòñÿ íà îðáèòàëüíîé òðàåêòîðèè, êîòîðàÿ ïðîéäåò ÷åðåç ñëåä ÷àñòèöû êîìåòû (òîò, êîòîðûé ISON îñòàâèë ïîçàäè, êîãäà ýòî ïðèáëèæàëîñü ê ñîëíöó è ýòî ñëó÷àéíî âñòðåòèò èëè âîêðóã 12 ÿíâàðÿ - 15, 2014 . ... ëó÷øåå âðåìÿ íàáëþäåíèÿ 22:00 LDT (Northern hemisphere 45œ North) .. - ðàäèàíò ðàñïîëîæåí âáëèçè Al'dzhabkhakh (30-Eta Leonis, ? ...

... The Co­Addition Technique Applied to Images of Galaxy Cores W. W. Zeilinger Institut f˜ur Astronomie, University of Vienna, T˜urkenschanzstraúe 17, A­1180 Wien, Austria P. Crane, P. GrosbÜl and A. Renzini European Southern Observatory, Karl­Schwarzschild Straúe 2, D­85748 Garching, Germany Abstract. ... One may therefore take full advantage of the high resolution FOC images by co­adding them with (high signal­to­noise) ground­ based data. ... References Crane, P. et al. ...

... ON THE ROLE OF LARGE-SCALE PLASMA IRREGULARITIES AT THE FINAL STAGE OF ANOMALOUS ABSOPTION DEVELOPING UNDER HF HEATING OF THE IONOSPHERE . ... Fig. ... With the aid of numerical statistical modeling based on multiple ray tracing it is shown that in presence of large-scale irregularities the reflected signal amplitude mean value is increased significantly. ... Dependence of the mean amplitude of the reflected from the ionosphere signal on the large-scale (10-50 km) electron density irregularity level...

This page is devoted to information on supernova 1999ee and 1999ex in IC 5179 Basic information on this SN, including the last reported brightness, on this Supernova can be found on the main supernova page. Information on the original web pages for many of these images can be found on the Supernova links web page. ... Use this 1999ee VSNet data query and this 1999ex VSNet data query to see what information has been reported so far. ... vsnet-alert 3714 ] SNe 1999ex and 1999ee in IC 5179 . ...

Crater Gassendi . ... I made this drawing was made on the 26th of november 2001. If you compare this one with the previous drawing of Gassendi (below) the differences are clear. ... This drawing was made on the 28th of september 2001. After nearly a full month without observations I had a one hour gap between the thicker clouds. ... This drawing was made on the 29th of august 2001. ... This drawing was made on the 27th of august 2001. ... This drawing was made on the 25th of august 2001. ...

RADIOASTROPHYSICAL DEPARTMENT • INSTITUTE OF SOLAR-TERRESTRIAL PHYSICS RAS SB . General information Main characteristics of the Radio telescope Observing programs General view of the antenna array Main research areas Principle of generation of radio images Radio telescope 's beam Receiving systems Main characteristics of the base receiving-recording complex Calibrations Data archive and databases Publication SSRT - Siberian Solar Radio Telescope . ...

... Heracles Triplane and Aerospace Systems . The key characteristics of two-stage aerospace systems are determined according to speed and carrying capacity of the aircraft-carrier used . ... So the SPIRAL system hypersonic carrier was expected to launch the second stage by weight 63 tons at a speed corresponding to 6M; whereas launching weight of the MAKS system orbital stage with the use of the An-225 MRIYA heavy subsonic aircraft reaches 275 tons, and the HERACLES aircraft - 450 tons. ...

... Bad Astronomy . ... On Thursday, February 15th 2001 (and replayed on March 19), the Fox TV network aired a program called ``Conspiracy Theory: Did We Land on the Moon?'', hosted by X-Files actor Mitch Pileggi. ... Dust around the lander . ... However, it appeals to our common sense: when the sky is black here on Earth, we see stars. ... Bad: The program claims that when the top half of the lander took off from the Moon to bring the astronauts back into orbit, there was no flame from the rocket. ...

HIGH MASS X-RAY BINARIES AND RECENT STAR FORMATION HISTORY P. Shtykovskiy 1 1,2 and M. Gilfanov 2,1 Space Research Institute of Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia 2 Max-Planck-Institut fur Astrophysik, Garching b. Munchen, Germany ¨ ¨ ABSTRACT Based on the XMM-Newton observations of Magellanic Clouds we consider the dependence of population of high mass X-ray binaries on the recent star formation history in the host galaxy. ... HMXBS AND RECENT STAR FORMATION IN MAGELLANIC CLOUDS 4.1. ...