Target Acquisition Reference Information . ... In almost all cases where an onboard acquisition will not work (because the object is in a crowded field, or is variable, or is a moving target), it is sufficient to use an early acquisition to get a WFPC2 or FOC image a few weeks in advance of the GHRS observation. ... Explicit BRIGHT and FAINT limits may be specified if you desire, although there is an increased risk of a failed acquisition unless you are confident of those fluxes. ... MAPs . ...

Modeling the optical spectrum of Romano's star O LGA M A RY E VA Special Astrophysical Observatory of the Russian Academy of Science; olga.maryeva@gmail.com Using the radiative transfer code CMFGEN (J.D.Hillier), we determine the physical parameters of Romano`s star (GR290 or V532) ­ Luminous Blue Variable in M33 galaxy. ... V532 in maximum of brightness (V=17mag, Feb. 2005) lies on the LBV minimum instability strip in the Hertzsprung-Russell (HR) diagram. ... 2001; Polcaro et al., ...

XMM-Newton Science Analysis System . ... yes . ... pn source region expression for spectral analysis . ... pn background region expression for spectral analysis . ... mos1 source region expression for spectral analysis . ... mos1 background region expression for spectral analysis . ... mos2 source region expression for spectral analysis . ... pn source region expression for timing analysis . ... mos1 source region expression for timing analysis . ... mos2 source region expression for timing analysis . ...

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. ...

... 2015 February 18 . Dark Craters and Bright Spots Revealed on Asteroid Ceres . ... Explanation: What are those bright spots on asteroid Ceres? ... Sharper new images taken last week and released yesterday indicate, as expected, that most of the surface of dwarf planet Ceres is dark and heavily cratered like our Moon and the planet Mercury . ... The enigmatic spots were first noticed on Texas -sized Ceres a few weeks ago during Dawn's approach. ... About APOD | ...

The parameter brief (with its actual uncertainty sbrief) is the mean effective surface brightness in B-band , i.e. the mean surface brightness inside the effective aperture (the circular aperture enclosing one-half the total flux). It is expressed in mag arcsec -2 . ... 2) from the mean surface brightness "LV" inside the effective isophote (elliptical isophote enclosing one half the total flux) measured by Launberts&Valentijn (1989) . ... Effective radius . ... HyperLeda . ...

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... We now describe the input parameters to the self-calibration tasks. ... For selfcal , you need not perform source , dra , or ddec selection if you use the selradec option (see below). minants : The minimum number of antenna that must be present before the tasks will attempt to find a solution. ... and phase : This determines whether the self-calibration tasks solve for just phase ( options=phase , which is the default) or amplitude and phase solution ( options=amplitude ). mfs : . ...

... IRAF supports two kinds of parameters, auto parameters and hidden parameters, which are treated differently. auto parameters are updated every time a task is run. ... Parameters for each task are contained in `parameter files' in the uparm sub-directory in `myiraf'. ... im > imhead.longheader=yes # explicitly setting <task.param>=<value> im > eparam imhead # Edit the parameter file to update one or more # parameters at the same time # see next section . ...

Next: Star Formation Rate and Up: No Title Previous: Calculation of Evolutionary Tracks . To start calculations, we choose the distributions of the initial binary parameters: the mass of the primary ZAMS component, , binary mass ratio, , orbital separation a . ... whereas the mass ratio distribution is not. ... The zero assumption often made is that the mass ratio distribution has a flat shape, that is binaries with a high mass ratio occur as frequently as those with equal masses. ...

... Each day a different image or photograph of our fascinating universe is featured, along with a brief explanation written by a professional astronomer. February 9, 1999 . A Supernova Star-Field . Credit: Hubble Heritage Team ( AURA / STScI / NASA ) . Explanation: Bright stars don't last forever. ... The above picture is a composite of recent images taken over several years. The explosion originated from a bright massive star that ran out of nuclear fuel . ... About APOD > . ...

The night sky brightness, together with number of clear nights, seeing, transparency, photometric stability and humidity, are some of the most important parameters that qualify a site for front-line ground--based astronomy. ... Night sky at ESO-Paranal (Chile). ... Night sky brightness data . ... UBVRI night sky brightness at ESO-Paranal during sunspot maximum (A 2003, PDF) . ... The Dancing Sky: six years of night sky observations at Cerro Paranal (Starlight 2007 conference proceedings, PDF) . ...

... MOON OCCULTS PLEIADES, 23-24 FEBRUARY. ... known by different designations - don't worry if your PC programme or Atlas shows some of them with other Catalogue numbers STAR Mag Time V 624 Tau 8.2 E22.10 V 1187 Tau 8.3 E22.23 TYC 1803-188 E 8.1 E22.29 16 Tau 5.5 22.44 19 Tau 4.3 22.50 TYC 1799-306 E 8.5 E22.57 TYC 1803-104 E 8.9 E22.59 TYC 1799-184 E 7.2 E23.05 20 Tau 3.9 23.08 21 Tau 5.7 23.09 22 Tau 6.4 23.12 TYC 1804-2081 6.8 23.35 ... Clear Skies, Terry Moseley . ...

... Guider functions . ... Guide Sensor Performance . ... Guide Sensor Sky Coverage/ Star Availability . Guide Star Selection Criteria . ... Guide fiber organization and reach at plug plate . ... Plug plate holes for guide stars are identical to those for science FO . ... FOV for each of 9 guide stars is 7.4 arcsec dia. (0.45 mm FO, Sumitomo IGN-05/10) . ... Selected guide stars must have no neighbor stars within TBD (5 arcsec) radius that have a brightness within TBD (5 mag.) of guide stars . ...

THE PHOTOMETRIC RESEARCHS OF THE MERCURY'S SURFACE BY MEANS OF DIGITAL MODELS. ... The surface brightness of Mercury was measured Danjon (1933, 1949, 1953) and Harris (1961) in phase angle 3o-123o. The analysis of the various data of the integral photometric gives the results of determination of the main photometric constants for Mercury. ... THE PHOTOMETRIC RESEARCHS OF THE MERCURY'S SURFACE: S.G. Pugacheva The surface brightness of the Mercurian images was established on the geologic map Mercury. ...

The pdev spectrometer dshift parameter (see layout of spectrometer scaling ) down shifts the output of the power computation before accumulating the spectral values in the 40 bit accumulators. ... As an example: a 1 second integrations at 170 MHz with: (A/D=48,pshift=0x1555, dshift=0,ashift=0) has LO feedthrough birdies close to 1.5e9. The maximum allowed value is 4e9. ... The allowable range for dshift had been computed from the spectral mean with dshift = 0 (see page 2 of the plots) . ...

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 ...

... 0,50-0,59 (0,50-0,59) µm . ... Swath Width . ... at end of visibilty area . ... Visibility Area Width . ... Ground Resoultion in Nadir: . along swath . ... across swath . ... Ground Resolution at End of Visibilty Area: . ... 200 lines per second . ... at least 200 . Ground resolution corresponds to normal flihgt altitude 650 km. For more information send a mail to: info@sputnik.infospace.ru . ...

Links given for particles of different shapes allows one to access our graphics illustrating the dependence of various optical properties of model scatterers on their parameters. ... Q ext , Q sca , Q abs , Q bk , albedo, g, Q pr vs x for different m . F ij vs theta for different x, m . ... Q ext , Q sca , Q abs , Q bk , albedo, g, F ij vs x for different m, alpha . F ij vs theta for different x, m, alpha . ... Q ext , Q sca , Q abs , Q bk , albedo, g, Q pr vs x for different m (TE/TM modes) . ...

... Basic Observables: Zero-differenced phase and code ionosphere-free combinations of global GNSS network stations, corrected by P1-C1 satellite code biases (cc2noncc), daily observations with 30 seconds sampling rate Sites coordinates : IGb08 reference frame coordinates and velocities Displacements: solid tides, ocean loading, pole tide loading (IERS 2010) Geometric model : Receivers antennas eccentricities, absolute receiver and ...