... Spherical aberration, coma, and astigmatism are also easily observed using the star test. ... Off-axis images are complex. ... Fig. ... Diffraction by a circular aperture as a function of defocus for no aberration Airy Disk 1 wave defocus Less than 1 wave defocus Fig. ... Diffraction by a circular aperture as a function of defocus for third-order spherical aberration Paraxial Focus Small distance inside paraxial focus Moderate distance from marginal focus Immediate neighborhood of marginal focus Fig...

Astronomy Picture of the Day . Skylab Over Earth . 18.08.2013 . ... Using a small telescope to scan the skies on August 14, Japanese amateur astronomer Koichi Itagaki discovered a "new" star within the boundaries of the constellation Delphinus. ... Perseid Meteors Over Ontario . ... Because some past mass extinction events have been linked to asteroid impacts, however, humanity has made it a priority to find and catalog those asteroids that may one day affect life on Earth. ... August . ...

... Unlike the previous digital-only Messages, Arecibo-1974 and Evpatoria-1999, the TAM has complex, three-section structure with different forms of information. Section 1 represents coherent sounding radio signal with slow Doppler wavelength tuning to imitate transmission from Sun's center. ... Section 2 is an analog information and represents musical melodies, performed on the Theremin. ... There were seven musical compositions in the 1st Theremin Concert for Aliens. ...

Download Izmccd (~2.7 MB). ... a) a choice of the best mode of measurements of stars and objects ("Properties/Measurement"), . b) a choice of reference stars. ... 1) necessity of presence on an image of a plenty of stars (we recommend to apply this mode, if on the frame of reference stars is more 100) . ... Sx and Sy depend from residuals at all reference stars (reference stars are marked by blue color). ... These residuals are the image of the star a minus function of a profile for each pixel. ...

... Блюдо "Lillo Glass", изготовленное из стекла светло-коричневого цвета, декорировано рисунком синих цветов и серебристых блесток. Такое блюдо сочетает в себе изысканный дизайн с максимальной функциональностью. ... Блюдо "Lillo Glass" украсит сервировку вашего стола и подчеркнет прекрасный вкус хозяина, а также станет отличным подарком. ... Definition Liner оставляет четкую линию необыкновенно насыщенного цвета. ... Цвет: разноцветный . ... Цвет: мультиколор. ... Цвет: Коричневый . ... Цвет: Белый . ...

... Measuring the Distances to Supernovae . Professor Robert Kirshner . Thursday, Oct 11, 2012 at 8:00 PM . This month our speaker will be Professor Bob Kirshner of Harvard University who will speak to us about measuring the distances to supernovae which was the key to the discovery of the accelerating universe that won the 2011 Nobel Prize. ... Oct . ... Copyright (c) Amateur Telescope Makers of Boston, Inc. ...

Home About Meade Product Information Dealer Locator Customer Support Investor Relations Dealer Support Employment Opportunities Site Map . Meade Instruments Corporation . ... Meade Pictor XT-Series CCD Autoguider/Imagers . Section 13: Viewing and Processing Images . ... The software can read most images in these formats, and convert between them using the File, Save As command. ... This is done by placing the information in a .txt file with the same name as the image file). ... Merge Images: . ...

Structure of the Virgo Cluster. ... They include the two major components of the VC, here denoted as the M87 cluster, or A cluster and the M49 cluster or B cluster (note...clusters A and B are imbedded in a large elongated halo which include a third concentration here called the C cluster, which surrounds M59 (NGC 4621) and is connected by a bar-like isophote [lines connecting points of equal light intensity] with cluster A. This bar is composed of bright, preferentially early-type galaxies. ...

NOTE: The storm sudden commencement data file was updated on 18 Feb 1998. o Revised data for 1968-1975 were taken from IAGA Bulletin No. ... Indices aa and storm sudden commencements"; see also IAGA Bulletin 39: " Supplementary Geomagnetic Data 1957-1975", including a new list of ssc's 1968-1975). ... From the monthly reports of Rapid Variations prepared by 43 magnetic observatories (see list page 121), a combined list of all events is compiled. ...

Winer Observatory P.O. Box 797, Sonoita, Arizona 85637-0797, USA . ... 2/3-m Telescope . ... History . ... Site . ... Originally, the shop area of the building was to be about 25 feet wide by 50 feet long, and the observatory was to be about 25 feet wide by only 25 feet long. In early 1997, the University of Iowa inquired if it would be possible to place their Iowa Robotic Observatory telescope at our site. ... Univ. of Iowa . ... Apogee SITe 1kx1kx24um . ... Winer Observatory . ... Equatorial . ...

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... Pinning of Josephson vortices in single crystals of Tl 2 Ba 2 CuO 6+ d superconductors. Abstract: . Magnetic hysteresis measurements are performed on single crystals of Tl 2 Ba 2 CuO 6+ d superconductors with field parallel to the ab -plane. ... For samples with high transition temperatures, the magnetization undergoes abrupt changes as a function of field at low temperatures. ...

... Galaxies with polar rings (PRGs) are a unique class of extragalactic objects, consisting of a ring or disk of gas, stars and dust orbiting in a plane nearly perpendicular to the disk of a central galaxy. ... At present, there are only about two dozen kinematically confirmed galaxies in this PRG class, mostly from the Whitmore et al. (1990) catalogue, based on photographic images. ... Examples of object from our catalogue SPRC (=SDSS-based Polar Ring Catalogue). ...