. This illustration shows the discovery that the outer Milky Way is a really a mixture of two distinct components rotating in opposite directions. The inner component of the Galaxy's halo spins clockwise with the galaxy's rotation at about 50,000 miles per hour. The outer component rotates counterclockwise to the galaxy at 100,000 miles per hour. SDSS-II, Masashi Chiba, Tohoku University, Japan

... 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 . ...

SET OF MAGNETIC AND ELECTRIC FIELD DETECTORS EXO-EM . ... 3 components measurements of both magnetic and electric fields; . ... wide frequency range (0 - 10000) Hz; . ... ECHO-EM is intended for measurement of a complete vector and three components of both electric and magnetic fields, and transfers the received data to the block of the processing of the information and also in telemetry. ... digital 0.1-20 Hz; . ... frequency band (0.01- 10000) Hz; . ... digital (500 - 1000) Hz; . ...

... Velocity allipcoid parameters as functions of heigt above the Galactic disk for the complete sample of F -stars (left) and a young ( t 3 Gyr) metal-rich ( [Fe/H] -0.13 ) group (reght). ... next figure | previous figure . ...

Classroom Activity: Making a Rainbow . ... When white light from the Sun or a light bulb passes through a prism, the light splits into its component wavelengths. ... Red, blue, green colored filters - if possible, cut 1x4-inch pieces of the filters for each student . ... Many students have the misconception that filters somehow dye the light a certain color. ... Younger students can draw the rainbow and make up a mnemonic for remembering the order of the colors (such as, ROY G. BIV). ...

... NGC 281 (Sharpless 184) is a bustling cradle of star formation about 10,000 light years away. ... The central stars are being formed from the surrounding gas, which emits a large amount of hydrogen alpha (Ha) light after being excited by stellar radiation. ... The dark areas overlaying the brighter ones in the middle of the image are dense clouds of gas known as Bok Globules. ... 4) Image registration . ... Copyright (c) Amateur Telescope Makers of Boston, Inc. ...

... 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. ...