... These images were provided to Winer Observatory by Mike Shade of Sonoita Hills Observatory as an example of the outstanding work done by local Sonoita amateur astronomers. ... All images on this page were taken with a 6-inch Astro-Physics aprochromatic refractor at Sonoita Hills Observatory using an SBIG ST-7 camera. ... Object: Galaxy Messier 100 . ... Date: March 2001 . ... All images on this page were taken with an f/5 Newtonian reflector at Sonoita Hills Observatory using an SBIG ST-7 camera. ...

... Размещена статья "Новая карта рельефа Марса" . ... К середине 60-х годов прошлого века многотрудные усилия астрономической общественности нашей страны (в то время Советского Союза) увенчались созданием научно-популярного журнала "Земля и Вселенная", ныне являющегося журналом Президиума РАН. ... Все это в известной степени находило отражение на страницах "Земли и Вселенной" - журнала, пропагандирующего достижения отечественной и мировой науки в области астрономии, космонавтики и комплекса наук о...

Astronotes Armagh Planetarium's Stellar Blog! ... Armagh Planetarium . ... Our Galaxy . ... Stars . ... Space Flight . ... This activity is believed to be promoting the unusually high rate of star formation seen in M82. ... Radio image of M82 made with the MERLIN and VLA telescopes. Insets show MERLIN images from April 25th and May 3rd 2009 demonstrating the sudden appearance of the mystery object.€а All images are at a frequency of 5 GHz. ... Mystery object in Starburst Galaxy M82 . ...

... Archives . ... Please, do not confuse adaptive filter (hereafter, AF ) with adaptive optics (hereafter, AO ). ... Not just the hardware part, but I was interested in how astronomers have applied theories and algorithms of AF to acquire cleaner data that are processed with speed and efficiency. ... A long story short, against my expectation for frequent allusion from ADS, adaptive filter turned out to be almost [MADS]. ... Tags: adaptive filter , adaptive optics , MADS . ... Comment ( RSS ) | ...

. This is a new popup window - close it when you are done . Submitted by Mario Motta M.D. on 01/06/2016 21:17:10 . M42 . This taken with my smaller 6 inch refractor, as a large object with narrow band filters, (Ha,S2,O3) . Logon to post a follow-up comment or review comments from others . Copyright (c) Amateur Telescope Makers of Boston, Inc. About Us Contact Us

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A satellite view of the COAST telescope . ... How the COAST telescope works . ... Four telescopes are focused on the object of interest and the image from each telescope passes through aluminium tubes into the beam combining building . ... The incoming light is reflected from the siderostat mirror onto the primary mirror, which focuses the light on a small mirror. ... Part of each light beam is used in the guiding system which makes sure the telescopes are kept pointing at the object of interest. ...

You don't need your own Voyager to see the solar system. You can see much of it from your own back yard. ... If you enjoyed The Nine Planets , go outside and take a look at what you just read about. ... Touring the Universe through Binoculars . ... Refer to Sky & Telescope or a similar magazine for up to date positions or check one of the several Web sites that show planetary positions. ... You can see 99.99% of the mass of the solar system with no instruments whatsoever: . ... William Herschel . ...

... We can help students grasp the significance of Hubble's extremely keen eye, and learn a bit about angles and math in the process, with the following in-class activity. ... Looking through binoculars or telescopes allows us to magnify a small section of the sky. To measure sizes or distances in that small section, astronomers divide a degree into 60 smaller pieces called arcminutes, and further subdivide minutes into 60 smaller sections called arcseconds. ... 30 feet = . ... 36 seconds . ...

... General information . ... Staff . Research staff . ... Historical highlights . ... In 1831, Giovanni Battista Amici , an optician from Modena, was invited by the Grand Duke Leopold II to preside as the Professor of Astronomy and to direct the "Specola", the observatory in Florence which was attached to the Royal Museum of Physics and Natural History. ... From that year, the telescope was used by Amici's young assistant, Giovan Battista Donati, mainly for observing comets and asteroids. ...

Общая Астрономическая Конференция > Форумы общей направленности > Любые вопросы от новичков > Странный объект . ... Просмотр полной версии : Странный объект . Nedder . 26.03.2011, 08:10 . Ради интереса заказывал на telescope.org фото отфонарного объекта . ... получил фото с какой-то полосочкой. ... http://img860.imageshack.us/img860/2715/v3imagejpegi.jpg (http://img860.imageshack.us/i/v3imagejpegi.jpg/) . Uploaded with ImageShack.us (http://imageshack.us) . ...

... Credit: STS-82 Crew , NASA Explanation: The Hubble Space Telescope 's second servicing mission has been completed. Every few years, the telescope is visited by a Space Shuttle to allow astronauts to switch old instruments for new. ... These new instruments will act like eyes sharing the 2.4-meter telescope mirror with the remaining instruments: the Wide Field Planetary Camera 2 and the Faint Object Camera . ... NASA Official: Jay Norris. ... Publications with keywords: Hubble space telescope . ...

Y ou don't need your own Voyager to see the solar system. ... Refer to Sky Telescope or a similar magazine for up to date positions or check one of the several Web sites that show planetary positions. ... You can see 99.99% of the mass of the solar system with no instruments whatsoever. ... Jupiter . ... Mars . ... For $200 you can get a far better optical instrument than Galileo or Newton had. ... Date . ... William Herschel . ... O f course, the solar system has more than just planets and moons. ...

... The telescope functions available in the array_pointing module are take_antenna_control() release_antenna() track ( object , duration , cross_el_offset= 0.0 , el_offset= 0.0 ) box( object , increment, box_num, duration ) box_set( object , increment, num_boxes, duration , repeat_on=True) raster( object , increment, max_x, max_y, ... The tracking duration begins after the telescope has reached the commanded position. ...

Automatic Detection of NEOs in CCD Frames . ... CCD frames obtained with modern telescopes with robotic operation allow carrying out standard observation programs for detection of peculiar objects on stellar backgrounds, as is the case of Near Earth Objects (NEOs). ... In this paper, we present original algorithms for automatically detecting dim NEO images in telescope frames, considering both sidereal and differential tracking [2]. ...

... Classes . ... TelescopeTCP Class Reference . This TelescopeClient class can controll a telescope by communicating to a server process ("telescope server") via the "Stellarium telescope control protocol" over TCP/IP. ... TelescopeTCP (const QString &name, const QString &params, Equinox eq=EquinoxJ2000) . ... getInfoString (const StelCore *core, const InfoStringGroup &flags) const . ... getEquinoxEquatorialPos (const StelCore *core) const . ... getJ2000GalacticPos (const StelCore *core) const . ...

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... Bad Astronomy . ... Radio . ... Bitesize Astronomy . ... Think of a telescope as a bucket that collects light. ... So over the years, telescope makers have focused on making telescopes bigger and bigger. ... For radio telescopes, however, the size limit is much bigger. Many astronomical objects emit radio waves, and as it happens telescopes built to detect radio don't have the same stringent smoothness criteria optical telescopes do. ... But radio telescopes can get even bigger. ...

... Watchouts . ... Any XMM-Newton users, who need to convert OM count rates in the optical and UV filters into fluxes (expressed, e.g. , in erg/cm/cm/s/A), can do it by following any of the methods we outline below. OM count rates can be obtained with SAS. ... UVW1 . ... UVM2 . ... convert from count rate, obtained with SAS (files *SWSRLI*, corrected count rate in CORR_RATE column), to flux, selecting the most appropriate factor for the chosen spectral type and filter from the following Tables: . ...

To main of Laboratory . The research work and design of optical and optical-electronic devices are carries out by laboratory staff: . ... Lens: . ... In the layout 1 prism systems perform functions of dispersive element, corrector of aberrations, optical reducer. ... Spectral range 200 - 400 nm; . ... Back Forward . ... The main corrector's function are compensation of field aberrations of the main spherical mirror of a telescope (diameter of 600 mm, f'=1200 mm) and increase aperture ratio. ...