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) . ...

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... Time calculated from Fermi GBM Trigger Time = 14:12:08.67 ( Connaughton, GCN 9230 ). 1% coincident with our start zero image time. 3x3 degrees around Swift XRT position . ... SUBJECT: GRB 090424 : MASTER-Net prompt optical limit DATE: 09/04/25 20:29:42 GMT FROM: Vladimir Lipunov at Moscow State U/Krylov Obs E. Gorbovskoy, V. Lipunov, V.Kornilov, A.Belinski ... Our observations results: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Fermi GRB Trigg.* ...

Astronomy Picture of the Day . The Mileage of Light . ... 28.05.2011 . ... Credit Copyright: Dennis L. Mammana ( TWAN ) Explanation: If you're driving down a dark road on a starry night, you might want to check the odometer. ... Mammana muses that in driving to countless observatories , star parties , and night sky photo shoots it has taken his 1998 vintage sport utility vehicle over 13 years to cover that distance. ... Unusual Light Pillars Over Latvia . Colorful Light Pillars . ...

Next: Inspection of results Up: *fit* - Fit Data Previous: Verbose Mode . If the number of net counts for a source is less than it is impractical to fit the data in all 34 energy bits. However, if the flux is required, then a fit must be performed first. ... Fit will then calculate the normalization of the model and xflux can be used to determine the flux and luminosity of the source from the best fit model. xs> fit rebin=yes . ...

... The conference will take place at the Independent University, 11 Bolshoi Vlassievsky pereulok, 119002 Moscow. The nearest metro stations are: Smolenskaja (Смоленская, line 3 = dark blue, not to be confused with the other station of the same name on the line 4 = light blue) and Koropotkinskaja (Кропоткинская, line 1 = red), see this map (in russian, with detailed instructions) or another map (in english). ... E-mail: yulijs (at) gmail.com . ... Email: hindry (at) math.jussieu.fr . ...

OUTDOOR LIGHTING, INSECTS & BIRDS Is light pollution killing our birds? Colin Henshaw and Graham Cliff believe that light pollution is reducing the numbers of insects on which many birds rely In 1994, the Journal of the British Astronomical Association carried a letter from one of the authors (Colin Henshaw) entitled The Environmental Effects of Light Pollution. ... Consequently, with lights often left on all night, 365 nights a year, the number of insects must be significantly reduced. ...

This document describes how number input can be given to tasks which request numbers from Hermes. ... list selection The following constants are implemented: pi 3.14159.... c speed of light (SI) h Planck (SI) k Boltzmann (SI) g gravitation (SI) s Stefan-Boltzman (SI) m mass of sun (SI) p parsec (SI) BLANK Universal undefined value The following mathematical functions are implemented: abs(x) absolute value of x sqrt(x) square root of x sin(x) sine of x asin(x) inverse sine ...

... Bad Astronomy . Misconceptions . ... Bad Astronomy : "We're light years more advanced than our competition!" ... Even the closest astronomical object, the Moon, is 400,000 kilometers away! ... A beam of light will travel 9,500,000,000,000 kilometers in one year. This distance is defined as a light year ; the distance light travels in a year. ... This is another example of Bad Astronomy; like a light year, a parsec is a unit of distance, not time (to be specific, it equals 3.26 light years) . ...

Please enter the lightcurve file name and period search parameters: . Lightcurve file: . ... Apply the Heliocentric correction and convert all dates to Terrestrial Time (TT)? ... Also, the Heliocentric correction cannot be applied to such lightcurves. ... This period search service is also available at the mirror sites: Mirror 1 , Mirror 2 , Mirror 3 , Mirror 4 . You may download the latest source code distribution and install the period search service at your own web server. ...

... Subroutine omthlcplot Recover parameters (File names, Device type, Binning factor, Plots per page, Ouput file) Read source time series FITS file : Get dataset and table. ... Recover all light curves included in the table Net source rates are recorded in an array of dimensions: number of bins * number of light curves. ... Create labelled plot pages separated into the number of panels specified by the user, in which time is graduated on X-axis (see Comments), and count rates on Y-axis (in counts/sec)....