... The Science Operation Department is composed of Astronomers, Telescope Instruments Operators(TIOs) and Data Handling Administrators(DHAs). ... Astronomers have proposed several methods to quantitatively measure the amount of turbulence above the telescope, which the most common ones is Differential Image Motion Monitor (DIMM). In optical testing, the Hartmann test is the common method to test the quality of optical components. ... Hartmann mask consists of 48 lenses. ...

Check out the new images (Jan 18-25) and (Jan 26-Feb 05) of the comet by Rob McNaught. ... Every few years a comet becomes bright enough to be easily seen with the naked eye but only every decade or so are these comparable with comets like Halley. ... Before Jan 13, the comet is not visible in the Australian sky after sunset. ... SOHO images . ... On Jan 12 at approximately 09:00 UT (8pm NSW time), comet C/2006 P1 McNaught appears at the 11 o'clock position in the images. ... STEREO images . ...

... Copyrightї1997 Bob Yen (byen@ix.netcom.com) (http://www.comet-track.com/hb/hb.html) . ... Information on Comet Hale-Bopp for the Non-Astronomer Hale-Bopp rotates about twice a day (3/14/97) . ... The Comet Observation Home Page was been selected to receive the Griffith Observatory Star Award for the week of February 2 - 8, 1997 for excellence in promoting astronomy to the public through the World Wide Web. ... Typically, about 1,000 individual users/computers access this page every day. ...

... Galaxies 99 Cosmic background with model of cloudy interstellar medium Yu. ... Figure 1: Averaged spectrum of the cosmic background I f in frequency range 0.25 200 MHz for the Galactic poles. ... First interpretation of the cosmic noise background spectrum at broad band frequency range 0.25 200 MHz with a model of the cloudy interstellar medium ISM is presented here. ... Synthesized background spectra I f for regions of the Galactic poles at the frequency range 0.25 200 MHz is presented in Fig. ...

In this gallery are many images of Low Surface Brightness Galaxies which have recently been discovered and analyzed. ... The central surface brightness of this galaxy is 24.28 . Malin 2 This galaxy is another huge disk galaxy with a scale length of 15 kpc and a redshift of 15000 km/a. The high surface brightness knot in one of its spiral arms actually has the same color, luminosity and H-alpha equivalent width as the entire Large Magellanic Cloud . ... Truly it is a Low Surface Brightness Galaxy. ...

NMW survey overview . Access image archive . ... The New Milky Way survey aims to detect bright (V<13.5) optical transients near the Galactic plane using an automated wide-field (8x6 deg.) system capable of surveying the whole Milky Way area visible from the observing site in one night. ... All images obtained during the transient search survey are available online (please use the image archive access form ). ... Images per field: . ... Images per night: . ... Milky Way imaging time: . ...

Posting Observations . ... You will need to subscribe to vsnet-acc (to allow you access to post your observations). ... VSNet has several different e-mail sigs, and sub sigs. ... These list are controlled by a software package called " Majordomo ", which allows you to subscribe and unsubscribe yourself from these list with an e-mail message (automated). ... Once you have subscribed to vsnet-acc (which will only send you a welcome message back and nothing else) you can post to the other list. ...

The large magnetic cloud caused by coronal mass ejection at the Sun on January 6, 1997 came to the Earth at early morning on January 10 and continue to interact with Earth's magnetosphere till January 11 (see for example home page of this event prepeared by Dr. M.Peredo http://www-istp.gsfc.nasa.gov/istp/cloud_jan97/event.html ). ... During the days discussed here INTERBALL-1 satellite was in the magnetosphere (MS) near its dusk flunk - see the Fig. 1 for compearing. ...

... The probability to see blazars with INTEGRAL instruments will increase with time as better limits will be achieved and the chance to have an observation during flaring episode will also correspondingly increase. Key words: INTEGRAL satellite, blazars. ... IBIS total exposure times for blazars, CP data, revolutions 1­250. ... Within the INTEGRAL observation, the S5 0716+714 was detected only by IBIS ISGRI at 4.5 sigma, in 30­ 60 keV band, for a count rate of 0.11 counts s-1 (exposure 280 ksec). ...

... Iowa Robotic Telescope | ... Talon is based on OCAAS, a software suite developed by software engineer Elwood Downey ( Clear Sky Institute ) for use at the University of Iowa ?s first remote facility (the ATF, or Automated Telescope Facility). ... XObservatory : Telescope Control Interface . ... This program calls upon and coordinates much of the interrelated portions of the Talon architecture, and forms the primary control panel for the telescope, dome, and peripheral systems when used locally. ...

Magnetic field measurements onboard the Interball Tail spacecraft are carried out by the FM-3I instrument which consists of two flux-gate magnetometers covering two different ranges: [-200, +200] nT and [-1000, +1000] nT. Besides scientific goals, the FM-3I experiment data is used to perform the attitude control of the Interball Tail spacecraft. ... August 22, 1995 . ... October 18, 1995 . Top of the page . ... Back to the Interball Home Page . ...

Next: Gravitational Wave Background from Previous: Galactic Gravitational Wave Background . ... It is intuitively clear that at frequencies above the critical ones for our Galaxy, one will detect rare bright jerks produced by coalescing white dwarfs   (at a rate of 1 per 100 year) and NS (at a rate of 1 per - year) in our Galaxy, against a background of the extragalactic stochastic GW. ... Firstly we consider GWB from close individual galaxies, and then will discuss overall extragalactic GWB. ...

... Satellite data ] . ... Data organization and access. ... The following data types are used for storage of information relevant to the project: . ... All data available within the Pavodok-96 project are copyright ї Space Monitoring Information Support laboratory (SMIS IKI RAN). Neither the data themselves nor any materials obtained with the use of these data can be used for commercial purposes and/or by any mass-media or public information system without prior writting permission from SMIS IKI RAN. ...

... 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. ...

... Team . ... All the results we present were obtained with the SCORPIO instrument mounted at the 6-m telescope of SAO RAS. TITLE: GCN GRB OBSERVATION REPORT NUMBER: 1090 SUBJECT: GRB001109, Host Galaxy Spectroscopic Observations DATE: 01/09/08 07:28:47 GMT FROM: Vladimir Sokolov at SAO RAS <sokolov@sao.ru> . ... TITLE: GCN GRB OBSERVATION REPORT NUMBER: 1092 SUBJECT: GRB001109, Host Galaxy Astrometry DATE: 01/09/11 08:19:24 GMT FROM: Vladimir Sokolov at SAO RAS <sokolov@sao.ru> . ...

... available from http://www.vsop.isas.ac.jp/ops/VSOG_doc.html . draft dated 1 July 1996. ... dated 12 March 1996. ... version 2.0, dated 14 Dec 96. ... version 2.0, dated 19 Feb 1996. ... version 1.0, dated 11 October 1996. ... version 3.0, dated 10 April 1996. ... version 1.1, dated 30 July 1996. ... version 1.10, dated 13 Nov 1996. ... version 1.0, dated 05 Sep 1997. available from http://www.vsop.isas.ac.jp/ops/VSOG_doc.html . ... draft version dated 27 November 1996. back to top . ...

... MASTER Net is 56 square degrees per 1 exposition . ... 06 Dec 2015: GRB 151205B: MASTER-NET early optical observations GCN18665 . ... 18 Nov 2015: GRB 151118A: MASTER-NET optical observations GCN18613 . ... 12 Nov 2015: GRB 151112A: MASTER-NET optical limit GCN18591 . ... 07 Nov 2015: GRB 151107A: MASTER-NET optical observations GCN18565 . ... 31 Oct 2015: Five OTs detected by Global Robotic MASTER Net ATel8232 . ... 02 Oct 2015: GRB 151001B: MASTER-NET early optical observations GCN18380 . ...

... Many large telescopes will be available on Earth with which to observe the phenomena associated with the Shoemaker-Levy 9 impacts on Jupiter in visible, infrared, and radio wavelengths. ... The impact site of the fragments of Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 on Jupiter. ... Better knowledge of the effects of Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 on Jupiter may allow scientists to predict more accurately just how serious could be the results of future impacts of various-sized bodies on Earth. ... 87,500,000,000 . ... 320,000...

This all-sky image, constructed from 2 years of observations by NASA's Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope, shows how the sky appears at energies greater than 1 billion electron volts (1 GeV). Brighter colors indicate brighter gamma-ray sources. ... A diffuse glow fills the sky and is brightest along the plane of our galaxy (middle). Discrete gamma-ray sources include pulsars and supernova remnants within our galaxy as well as distant galaxies powered by supermassive black holes. ...

... V.N. Obridko . ... Solar cycle . Coronal holes . ... webmaster@izmiran.ru . ... On the polarization of the solar coronal emission lines . Solar Physics 33 (1973) 169-175. O.G.Badalyan, V.N.Obridko, J.Sykora . ... O.G. Badalyan, V.N. Obridko, J. Ryb k and J. S kora . ... J. S kora, O.G. Badalyan, V.N. Obridko . ... O.G. Badalyan, V.N. Obridko . ... December 2005, ESA Publication Division, ESTEC, P.O. Dox 299, 2200 AG Noordwijk, The Netherlands, Ed. D.Danesy, S.Poeds, A. De Groof, J. Andres. ...