... In typical nightly use, the wide field and planetary telescope and cameras record images of favorably placed objects in the sky, including constellations, bright variable stars, nebulae through narrow-band filters, comets, the Moon, and planets. ... Shared Skies telescopes are available for use by students at the University of Louisville and the University of Southern Queensland, and by teachers and students in middle and high schools mentored by faculty at the universities. ...

Astronotes Armagh Planetarium's Stellar Blog! ... Stars . ... Telescopes and Observatories . ... The majestic star-forming region in the Lagoon Nebula. The pale ring to the right is an internal reflection in the telescope.€а (Image credit: ESO/ VPHAS+/ V. Kalari and J. Vink (Armagh Observatory) . ... The 18 component images were further processed twice. ... Venu and his colleagues use images like this to identify individual young forming stars in the Lagoon Nebula and determine their ages. ...

... Ten thousand years ago, before the dawn of recorded human history, a new light must suddenly have appeared in the night sky and faded after a few weeks. ... Just after the Moon set but before the Sun rose in the early morning hours of August 12, meteors pelted the Earth from the direction of the constellation Perseus, while ions pelted the Earth from the Sun. ... New images of Titan's surface were released last week from the Canada-France Hawaii Telescope featuring the finest details yet resolved. ...

... Display (spectra, total power). ... Using the data archive. ... entering cmds, editing cmd lines, input from files, batch, run. constants, variables,arrays, structures, operators, procedures, functions. programming in idl . ... A user would call arch_gettbl() to input the table (or a subset of it). corfindpat() can create subsets of the table. arch_getdata() or arch_getonoff() can be used to read in the spectra. ... input the data (spectra) for a subset of the archive table: arch_getdata () . ...

HUBBLE SPACE TELESCOPE DAILY REPORT #1140 PERIOD COVERED: 0700 EST Daily Status Report as of 137/1200Z. 1.0 ACTIVITIES SCHEDULED AND ACCOMPLISHED: 1.1 Completed WF/PC-2 5446 (The Nuclei of Nearby S0 and Spiral Galaxies) The WF/PC-2 was used to make observations of galaxy NGC-4546. The observations were executed as scheduled. ... 1.14 Completed WF/PC-2 5092 (GTO Low Latitude Parallel Program: Cycle 4) The WF/PC-2 was used to make observations taken in parallel with the prime science observations. ...

... Дни открытых дверей к юбилею САО РАН (12-14 апреля 2016 г.) . Международная конференция "Dark Ages and White Nights (Spectroscopy of the CMB)" (20-24 июня 2016 г.) . ... Международная конференция MULTI-SPIN GALAXIES - 2016 (26-30 сентября 2016 г.) . Международная астрономическая конференция "Физика звезд: от коллапса до коллапса" (3-7 октября 2016 г.) Архив . ... Подробнее.. ... 10.02.16 . ... БТА в реальном времени . ... Цейсс-1000 в реальном времени . ... Последнее обновление: 22/03/2016 ...

COLOR PRINT OF NGC 4881 AND PART OF THE SURROUNDING FIELD This photo mosaic, which shows a field of distant galaxies, is a computer enhanced reproduction of a picture taken 4 March 1994 with the repaired Hubble Space Telescope. ... It is a 13th-magnitude elliptical galaxy in the outskirts of the Coma Cluster, a great cluster of galaxies more than 5 times farther away than the Virgo Cluster. ... We must find that peak ("turnover") in NGC 4881 in order to judge the distance. ...

Armagh Observatory reports that this week has been one of the hottest on record in Armagh, with exceptional maximum temperatures. The highest temperature, recorded on Tuesday 18th July, was 29.9 degrees Celsius (85.8 degrees Fahrenheit). ... On Monday 17th the maximum was 29.5 C, on Tuesday 18th it was 29.9 C, while on Wednesday 19th the mercury reached 29.6 C. The highest temperature ever recorded in Armagh was 30.3 degrees Celsius (86.5 degrees Fahrenheit) which occurred on 10th July 1934. ...

RADIOASTROPHYSICAL DEPARTMENT • INSTITUTE OF SOLAR-TERRESTRIAL PHYSICS RAS SB . ... SSRT - Receiving systems . The SSRT has two independent receiving systems for recording solar observational data, and several ancillary receivers for checking, setting up and adjusting the instrument. The base receiving systen is a multichannel filter receiver for a simultaneous recording in 180 channels with the 500 kHz band each, adjusted at steps of about 600 kHz. ... Channel's band . ...

... By default playback only displays the content of the process information. ... showdaltrace respectively.) xmmsas 20050815 1803-6.5.0 XMM-Newton Science Analysis System Page: 2 3.1 Examples In the following we use the data set test.ds created as follows:  dscreatedataset name =' test.ds '  dsaddtable name ='table' rows=10 set =' test.ds  dssetattr to= test.ds % HELLO --type=string --value= hello ccb 1. playback -- sets = test.ds displays: ... Any data set. ...

... The ARC echelle spectrograph records the entire visible and near-IR spectrum in one exposure on a 2048 x 2048 SITe CCD chip with 24 micron pixels, with a resolution of 30,000. (2.5 pixels) . ... CCD is a SITe TK2048E back illuminated CCD . CCD is a 2048 x 2048 pixel array . ... Field of View: Available slits (Observing Specialist installable): 1.6" x 1.6" , 1.6" x 3.2" (default), 1.6" x 4.7", 0.9" x 0.9" (pinhole) . ... 31.6 grooves/mm, blaze angle b = 63.5 deg (nominal), or tan b = 2 . ...

At each observatory you need to run the obs.pl program. ... Once you have logged onto the recorder PCs, you need to cd to the directory where the data is being recorded then run obs.pl. If the recorder is currently been run via cdisko or other programs which use "recorder_server", then an alias "recdir" is setup which will automatically change to the correct directory. ... vlbi . ... In such cases you need to run obs.pl on the machine where the data is being recorded - see the note below. ...

... Each day a different image or photograph of our fascinating universe is featured, along with a brief explanation written by a professional astronomer. 2014 August 29 . The Wizard Nebula . ... Explanation: Open star cluster NGC 7380 is still embedded in its natal cloud of interstellar gas and dust popularly known as the Wizard Nebula . ... Sliding your cursor over the image ( or following this link ) will make the stars disappear, leaving only the cosmic gas and dust of the Wizard Nebula. ...

... n For illustration, examine a coarsened (256 в 256) set of images, with 3 clusters Clustering AIA data Clusters in log Y space Clusters in Y /n space Distribution of pixels in each cluster Distribution of pixels in each cluster Simulated Data Simulated Temperature Distributions 4 5 6 logT 7 8 9 Simulated Data Simulated Data Simulated Data Simulated Data Simulated Data: Results Simulated Data: Results Simulated Data: Results Simulated Data: Results How to make images of results more meaningful? ...

DIGITAL WDC EXCHANGE FORMAT . FOR OBSERVATORY 1.0 MINUTE VALUES 1. ... DATA-1 .. DATA-60 are 1-minute values of the given element for that hour. ... Typically, digital 1-minute values received by WDCs from organizations operating automatic magnetic observatory instruments are averages of more frequendy sampled values, e.g. 10-second point samples. ... If the method used to obtain 1-minute average values is important to a user, the WDC will assist in determining the exact procedure applied. ...

adapted from Observe: Eclipses, published in 1979 by the Astronomical League and "Safe Solar Filters," by B. Ralph Chou, Sky and Telescope, August 1981) . ... Tape TWO pieces of film together into a sandwich, and tape this over the opening in the cardboard. ... The cardboard frame will act as a shade from the bright Sun, while you safely observe through the film sandwich. ... Undeveloped film is not safe. ... tape . ... At the end of one of the tubes, tape the aluminum foil, and make a tiny pinhole. ...

... ISC Kosmotras . ... Comments, Opinions Publications Dnepr Program . Dnepr launch record 17 August 2011. ... Baikonur Cosmodrome Yasny launch base Downloads . ... Over the years of its successful business operations , ISC Kosmotras has performed 22 Dnepr orbital flights with a total of 128 payloads inserted into their orbits. ... Below is the list of payloads lofted into their target orbits on Dnepr launch missions put together by ISC Kosmotras: . ... MEGSAT-1 (Italy) . ... LATINSAT-A, -B (USA) . ...

Radio data are displayed in the following format: . After the title with name of cluster under examination and with line about kind of data under one, e.g. Radio data [ optical data ] [ radio source identifications ] [ radio spectra (1.0 or 1.1) ] . ... The first line contains the number of radio sources associated with the cluster (these are just those sources with entries in sections 'Radio galaxy', 'Radio source' and 'Radio spectrum' below). ... Radio sources in cluster: 2 # . ...

... ESO is building what will be the World's largest optical telescope array, The Very Large Telescope (VLT). The VLT Project organisation is responsible for the design and construction of the Unit Telescopes, including enclosures, optics, adapter-rotators and coating unit. ... Unit Telescopes Overview - This page is outdated, an update is in process. ... Secondary mirror (M2 Unit) - This page is outdated, an update is in process. ... Coating Unit - This page is outdated, an update is in process. ...

Easy DMT: Using the chInterface Class to Create/Upgrade DMT Monitors Rauha Rahkola, Univ. of Oregon LSC Meeting, August 19-22, 2002 LIGO Hanford Observatory Richland, WA LIGO-G020349-00-Z Easy DMT Introduction to the chInterface utility class ! ... Run through the data 1. for each channel, either: ! ... Final report LSC Meeting, August 19-22, 2002 Hanford 3 LIGO-G020349-00-Z Easy DMT The chInterface Model ! ... No Yes Yes Defaults to RMS of data addChannel addFilter New channel? ...