1. ESO - Standard Star Catalogue Search Tool
... Science . ... Science Users Information > Observing with ESO Telescopes > Observing Tools and Services > Standard Stars Catalogues > Standard Star Catalogue Search Tool . ... Publications with ESO Data . ... ESO Data . ... This tool searches the standard star catalogues for standards that are within dX airmasses of the target at a given LST. ... In this case put the LST when the target was observed in the TargetLST box as before, and put the LST of the standard star observation in the StdObs LST box...
2. APO Home Page
... Current APO Weather . ... Search Site . ... Information for New Users . ... Technical Staff pages . Night Logs and Mailing Lists (maintained by APO) . ... Technical Documents and Database Search . ... Observer's Documentation and Procedures . ... Problem Reporting and APO Technical Documents Database Search . ... APO Drawing/Document Management Procedures . ... APO Technical Documents Database Search . Home Astrophysical Research Consortium . ... Mail Lists (maintained by APO) . ...
3. Metadata Standards
... ATNF Home . About ATNF . ... About ATNF overview . ... Australia Telescope Steering Committee . ... Australia Telescope User Committee . ... Astrophysics graduate student programs . ... Australian Square Kilometre Array Pathfinder . Murchison Radio-astronomy Observatory . ... Parkes radio telescope . Australia Telescope Compact Array . Mopra radio telescope . ... Visiting Parkes radio telescope . Visiting Australia Telescope Compact Array . ... Parkes radio telescope webcam . ...
4. Astronomy HyperText Book: Stellar Evolution
... Stellar Evolution is driven entirely by the never ending battle between Pressure and Gravity . As imbalances are reached, the star is driven to find a new Energy source. ... Pressure and gravitational forces are equal, the star is stable and its core is sufficiently hot to fuse Hydrogen into Helium More about main sequence stars . ... The luminosity generated by the core fusion of Helium into Carbon is far greater than the shell luminosity associated with the fusion of Hydrogen into Helium. ...
5. Standard-star files
Next: Observatory table Up: Star tables Previous: Multiple star files . Some standard-star files are supplied for the UBVRI and uvby-H-Beta systems. ... You can also make new tables of standard stars. The easiest way to make standard-star tables is to begin as though they were program-star tables, but to include columns of standard values in the ASCII file, and field descriptions for them in the format file, before running MAKE/STARTABLE . ...
6. Astronomy at Arecibo Observatory
AO Home AO Astronomy Schedule Receivers CIMA AO IDL . Call for Proposals Thursday March 3, 2016 Deadline . ... Approved projects for 2016 spring semester . Approved projects for previous semesters . Observing . Remote Observing with Arecibo . ... Observer's Feedback . CIMA . ... Data & Analysis . IDL . Astronomy Research . ... Surveys and Data Products . ... The Future of US Radio Astronomy . Last updated: Wednesday, 03-Feb-2016 14:45:20 AST . ...
7. ICWG meeting, Iceland 2006
... News Latest News News Archive Newsletter Quarterly Status Report . ... Calibration strategy, status and factors limiting success: Chandra . ... Calibration strategy, status and factors limiting success: XMM-Newton . ... Calibration strategy, status and factors limiting success: Swift . ... Calibration strategy, status and factors limiting success: RXTE . ... Calibration strategy, status and factors limiting success: Suzaku . ... Calibration strategy, status and factors limiting success: Integral . ...
8. http://www.astro.louisville.edu/information/asa2006.pdf
... Right: The telescope's octagonal "dome" enclosure. ... MT KENT OBSERVATORY (longitude 1510 51' 19.5 E, latitude 270 S 47' 52.3 , elevation 682 m) Louisville Telescope ( Robotic astronomy research) · 50cm f/6.8 astrograph Celestron C-20 (new product) Supplier : www.celestron.com · 3.5m Sirius fibreglass dome Supplier : siriusobservatories.com · SBIG STL-6303 CCD camera + LRGB filters (UBVRI planned) Supplier : www.sbig.com · Vantage Pro weather station ...
9. Astronomy Magazine - Interactive Star Charts, Planets, Meteors, Comets,
... Tonight's Sky . ... The Magazine . ... Star Atlas . ... An artificial comet holds secrets to Earths life . ... Astronomy for Kids . ... Observing springtime deep-sky objects with a large telescope . ... The planet has extreme temperature swings and perhaps active lava flows. ... A digital supplement to Astronomy magazine. ... Join TravelQuest International with Astronomy and Discover magazines on one of three great tour options surrounding this celestial spectacle . ... Astronomy Magazine . ...
10. http://www.stsci.edu/instrument-news/handbooks/nicmos/c14_calplan.doc6.html
... The absolute flux calibration of NICMOS will be calculated from observations of standard stars with known flux distributions F( ). ... In order to expand the set of IR standard stars in the appropriate flux range for NICMOS, M. Rieke, R. Thompson, and collaborators at the University of Arizona are making photometric observations of solar-analog stars, which will be used to normalize the solar spectrum to the observed IR magnitudes. ... Relative flux references accurate to 1.5% for standard...
11. Armagh Observatory
... Armagh Observatory, College Hill, Armagh BT61 9DG, +44 (0)28 3752 2928 . ... 71 ; The solid line is the measured solar spectrum considering ISODY+ passband and a 1% of stray light contribution. ... Advanced Astronomy for Heliophysics Plus (ADAHELI+) is a project concept for a small solar and space weather mission with a budget compatible with an European Space Agency (ESA) S-class mission, including launch, and a fast development cycle. ...
12. Designated Observatory Application
The Astronomical Society of Australia has been asked by STANDARDS AUSTRALIA to compile a list of "designated" optical observatories that are valuable resources for (i) research, (ii) education and (iii) community use. The ASA is the final arbiter of whether any particular observatory is so designated. ... Upon receipt of your application form, your observatory will be entered on a list of "Pending Designated Observatories" on the ASA Home Page. ... It will be emailed for you. ... Email . ...
13. Pulkovo Observatory
. Pulkovo Observatory of Russian Academy of Sciences is situated . near Saint-Petersburg. It was founded in 1839. 196140, Saint-Petersburg, Pulkovskoye chaussee 65/1 . English version . Russian version . This page has been accessed times since May 1, 1999.
14. Filtering KPNO LaTeX Observing Proposals with Perl
... Up: Proposal Processing . ... An automated observing proposal processing system has been in use at KPNO during the past three years. ... Observer and proposal information fields in these files are well-marked with LaTeX tags, thus allowing automated extraction and importation to observatory databases. ... The Kitt Peak observing proposal handling system (Bell et al. 1996) is an automated system for distributing, receiving, and processing LaTeX observing forms and associated PostScript figures. ...
15. Amateur Telescope Makers of Boston
... Clubs . ... PUBLIC Telescopic observing is conducted at the Wheaton College Observatory every clear Friday (call for times) when college is in session. ... The College has a 12.5 " Newtonian/cassegrain telescope. ... For more information see the North Shore Amateur Astronomy Club page. ... For more information see the North Shore Amateur Astronomy Club page and the college's page . ... Aldrich Astronomical Society Paxton, MA . ... Copyright (c) Amateur Telescope Makers of Boston, Inc. ...
16. Meade Standard Field Tripod
... Superb optical performance coupled with time proven computerized pointing and tracking has made the LX200 ACF series a best-seller in the high-performance telescope class. ... MeadeтАЩs new LX70 Series offers high-quality German equatorially mounted telescopes with slow-motion controls and heavy-duty steel tripods. ... For crisp wide-field observing and imaging, few optical designs match the performance of a true triple-element apochromatic refractor. ... Meade Standard Field Tripod #07020. ...
17. Specific Stars
Next: TAP 26 Up: Results Previous: Results . While the bulk of these stars were located in the Orion OB1a and OB1b fields, two stars of particular interest were monitored from our Mount Stony Brook Observatory. One of these stars was TAP 26 (NTTS 041559+1716, HBC 376). This star, located in Taurus, had a measured rotational period which was inconsistent with its . The other star was P1724, located near Orion OB1d, for which x--ray periodicity had been observed. TAP 26 . P1724 . ...
18. IBIS: SolarNet Access
... Within the transnational Access program of SOLARNET, European investigators can apply for observing time with the European instruments IBIS and ROSA , which are installed at the Dunn Solar Telescope of the US National Solar Observatory ( DST/NSO ). ... Periodic calls for proposals will be published for requesting SOLARNET observing time with the European instruments IBIS and ROSA, installed at the Dunn Solar Telescope of the US National Solar Observatory (DST/NSO). ... SOLARNET Access . ...
19. Space Telescope-European Coordinating Facility
... The European HST Archive has been moved to ESA's European Space Astronomy Centre ( ESAC ), Spain, where most of ESA's Space Science Archives are located and operated from. ... The Space Telescope European Coordinating Facility (ST-ECF), jointly operated by ESA and the European Southern Observatory ( ESO ) was, until the end of 2010, the European HST science facility, supporting the European astronomy community in exploiting the research opportunities provided by the Hubble Space Telescope. ...
20. Leonid meteors 2011 | Astronotes
Astronotes Armagh Planetarium's Stellar Blog! ... Space Flight . ... Earth Satellites . ... Leonid meteors seen from 13 km altitude aboard an aircraft during the 1999 Leonids Multi-Instrument Aircraft Campaign (Leonid-MAC). Comet Tempel-Tuttle provides the cometary debris for the Leonid meteor shower. ... Every 17-19 November Earth crosses Tempel-TuttleтАЩs orbit and the Leonids become visible. With clear, dark skies observers may see 10 to 15 Leonid meteors every hour on those mornings. ...