... Exposure Time Calculator (ETC) . ... ESO - Public Surveys . ... the recommended values to use for DIT, . ... Detector on-chip integration (DIT): seconds. to your chosen value - a separate page gives recommended values to use for DIT - for modes 1 and 2 below you may wish to start with the maximum recommended values as these will minimize the effect of read noise (a total object exposure of Y secs with DIT=X secs will produce Y/X lots of read noise) and give you a lower limit on the time needed. ...

... Space Research Institute . Main . ... Main results of the experimental and theoretical research completed in 2009 . ... Direct Measurement of the Contribution of Point Sources to the Galactic Ridge X-ray Emission in Record Deep Observations by the Chandra Observatory . ... These demonstrate that electrons generating hard X-ray intensity have been an initiator and main source of flare plasma heating, the particle acceleration and the plasma heating is a system with positive feed back. ...

Next: Running the Exercise Up: Case Study 1: The Previous: Context . Early in the course, I took about 30 minutes out of a lecture to present the exercise to the students, as follows: . ... There is only one difference: the universe of Zog has a quite different cosmology to our universe. Your task, over the next few weeks, will be to figure out what the cosmology of Zog's universe really is. ... At present, you do not know anything like enough to figure out the cosmology of Zog's universe. ...

Since the light from galaxies represents the integrated contribution of its consitutient stars, then we can learn about stellar populations in galaxies by modelling their light by summing up individual stellar spectra for different kinds of stars. ... The data cover the wavelength range 3500 - 9000 angstroms. ... Retrieve Digital Stellar Spectra Click on the appropriate spectral type. ... Note that the designation V means main sequence, IV means subgiants, III means giants, I means supergiant. ...

Contents] [Prev page] [Next page] [Index] . Navigator 4 from Netscape, which is part of the Communicator product suite, includes three new areas of functionality that taken together give you Dynamic HTML. The three components of Dynamic HTML are style sheets, content positioning, and downloadable fonts. Used together, these three components give you greater control over the appearance, layout, and behavior of your web pages. ... Introducing Downloadable Fonts . ...

Astronotes Armagh Planetarium's Stellar Blog! ... Space Flight . ... Rockets . ... 10- Rocket Light Shade . If you google rocket light shade you will get a range of different options to decorate your childБЂ™s room. б The one I spotted was a light shade which featured two tiers with planets and rocket designs on it.б  It would make a really cool addition to any space-themed room. б  . ... 8- Personalised Space Book . ... 7- Rocket pop-up tent . ... 3- Space Centre Lego set . ...

Databases (NSDC) of the Natural Planetary Satellites. ... NSDC: Database of astrometric observations of Natural Planetary Satellites . ... They are thoroughly looking for observations in different sources, creating their owndatabases which are then mostly inaccessible to other researchers. ... In the file "content" with explications, the reference is given to the data source as well as the bibliographic reference. ... Data sources. ... Why a specific bibliographic database for Natural satellites? ...

... There are a lot of computer codes simulating this scattering and freely available in the Internet (see e.g. links on our JPDOC page ). ... The code and input file are available in the directory . ... A slightly modified code of Barber Hill with a C-shell and input files is available in the directory . ... The code, input and test output files are available in the directory . ... See also readme file. file. ... The code, input file and their description (a TeX file) are available in the directory . ...

Improving the Orbital Parameters of Phobos and Deimos by Using the Universal Programming Complex ERA . ... The ERA system was used for developing the numerical dynamical theory of Phobos and Deimos. ... Very Long Baseline Interferometry (VLBI), Small Solar System Body (SSSB), Phobos, Deimos, improving the orbital parameters, Universal Programming Complex ERA, Martian satellite dynamics, the numerical dynamical theory, the secular acceleration, database of the satellites observations. ...

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Next: Acknowledgements Up: World Wide Web version Previous: Page contents . ... Part of the table and a cartoon figure of the track calculated for the default set of the initial parameters are shown in Fig. 1 and 2. In the future, we intend to made available calculations of a large number of binary systems assuming different intial distributions, chemical composition, etc., to construct a "Galaxy at will", as well as various interface facilities. ... Fri Jun 21 19:17:07 MSD 1996 ...

STEP INTO THE BLUE - MEADE INSTRUMENTS PRODUCT GUIDE . ... Telescopes . LX850 Series . ... Superb optical performance coupled with time proven computerized pointing and tracking has made the LX200 ACF series a best-seller in the high-performance telescope class. ... Meade's revolutionary LS LightSwitchтДв series of telescopes use advanced technologies to do what no other consumer telescopes have done before: take all the hassle out of using a telescope. ... Coronado€о Solar . ... Spotting Scopes . ...

... VaST is a software tool for finding variable objects on a series of astronomical images. ... VaST performs object detection and aperture photometry using SExtractor on each image, cross-matches lists of detected stars, performs magnitude calibration with respect to the first (reference) image and constructs a lightcurve for each object. ... VaST FITS image viewer ./pgfv . ... Part I" PZP, vol. ... K. V. Sokolovsky, S. A. Korotkiy; "New Variable Stars Discovered by the NMW Survey" PZP, vol. ...

Atmospheric influence on the different radio-engineering system functioning . ESTIMATION OF ATMOSPHERIC OPTICAL CHARACTERISTICS AND REMOTELY SANSED IMAGE CORRECTION . ... Direct transmittance estimation results for 12 channels of the spectrometer CHRIS. ... We have managed to develop a direct method of estimating the discrete Normalized Atmospheric Point Spread Function (NAPSF) from available images alone, not using any external sources of information about the atmosphere. ... IRE RAS 1996-20 11 ...

RTT150 . ... This search system is designed for generating the necessary information on series of pointings (observations of each source consist of sets of exposures with different filters and sometimes with different exposure times) for observed sources. Search results appear at the separate page as a table with the following data: . DATE - real (not evening!) observations date (in YYYY-MM-DD format); . ... Bin - minimal CCD binning mode (may vary during the observations); . ...

APO/GIFS Instrument Factsheet The Goddard imager and Integral Field Spectrograph (GIFS) has recently been commissioned on the APO 3.5 m telescope. This factsheet presents a high level overview of the GIFS instrument. ... GIFS Imaging The GIFS imaging mode is used for imaging science and target acquisition for the IFS mode. ... Imaging Mode pixel scale: 0.168"/pixel · Comparison to Other APO 3.5m instruments: The GIFS field of view is smaller than SPICAM, but the filter set is far more extensive. ...

... After the 2nd World War, the Executive Committee of the International Astronomical Union (IAU) made two groups in Moscow responsible for catalogues of variable stars. ... Presently, the variable-star catalogue groups still exist within the Sternberg Astronomical Institute and the Institute of Astronomy of Russian Academy of Sciences . ... Elena Kazarovets (variable stars in open clusters, Peremennye Zvezdy journal, GCVS) . ... Nataliya N. Kireeva (variable stars, globular clusters, GCVS) . ...

... 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. ...

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Nalini Chandra & John Percy, University of Toronto . ... Some works to refer to when using multicultural astronomy in your classroom: . ... Nalini Chandra is a doctoral candidate at the University of Toronto in the Department of Curriculum Teaching and Learning at OISE/UT. ... OISE-University of Toronto . ... John Percy, Professor of Astronomy at the University of Toronto, is a Past President of the ASP, and is active in astronomy education at all levels. ... ASP Multicultural Astronomy Resources . ...