... 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...

... Institute of Radioengineering and Electronics of the Russian Academy of Sciences . Mokhovaya st., 11, Moscow, 103907, Russia . ... Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology, . Institutskii st. 9, 141700, Moscow Region, Dolgoprudnyi, Russia . International Journal of Bifurcations and Chaos , 1997, vol. ... This paper presents experimental results of wire-line and wireless analog information transmission in RF band via chaos using standard signal formation and reception methods. ...

... 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 . ...

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: . ...

... Практическая астрономия ? Астрономия и компьютеры (Модераторы: Deimos , Ed_Vazhorov ) ? Трехмерные модели вселенной? . ... Записан . ... направление на Бетельгейзе и границу Телец/Близнецы). (setq stars (list . ... list " Proxima" "red" '( -1.57 -1.16 -3.74)) . list " Barnard" "red" '( -0.20 -5.90 0.40)) . list " Wolf_359" "red" '( -7.40 2.20 1.00)) . ... foreach attr stars . command "_sphere" (nth 2 attr) "0.3") . ... command"text" (nth 2 attr) "0.5" "0" (nth 0 attr)) . ...

The revision of the MASS/DIMM star catalogue N. Shatsky, V. Kornilov March 16, 2008 Abstract The compilation of the (updated) version of the MASS (MASS/DIMM) device target catalogue is described. ... Then the list was cleaned according to following criteria: I. Remove stars too faint for a MASS device. ... Here the color equation of the Sternb erg device was taken: M AS S mag = V mag + 0.45 (B - V ); stars with M AS S mag > 3.2 were removed. ... This was made based on the GCVS4.2 catalogue data. ...

THE 7-TH G. GAMOW'S ODESSA ASTRONOMICAL SUMMER SCHOOL «Astronomy and beyond: Astrophysics, Radioastronomy, Cosmology and Astrobiology» (Ukraine, Odessa, Chernomorka,7-12 August, 2007) SCIENTIFIC PROGRAM Tuesday, August 7 ­ 5.11, ­ 5.45, ­ 20.20 , ­ 20.55 THE DAY OF ARRIVAL 8.00-22.00. ... OPENING SUMMER SCHOOL MEMORIAL: Lection 1 10.00-10.20. ... LUNCH AND SEA COAST WALK AFTERNOON LECTURE: Cosmology: Lection 6 15.00-15.45. ... HOT COFFEE AND COLD WATER BREAK AFTERNOON SESSION: Cosmology: 17.00-17.20. ...

... The new meteorites are moderately weathered, impact-melt breccias. ... Dhofar 304 is a brownish-gray, moderately weathered stone weighing 10 g. This is an impact-melt breccia in which mineral fragments and lithic clasts are embedded in a fine-grained impact-melt matrix. ... Dhofar 306 is a light-gray, moderately weathered stone weighing 2.6 g. This is an impact-melt breccia composed of mineral fragments and lithic clasts cemented by a fine-grained, impact-melt matrix. ... 3 Dhofar 306 Mg/(Mg+Fe), at...

... 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. ...