Peremennye Zvezdy", . ... Star Name: . GSC 3710-00312, USNO-A2.0 1425-04252279 . ... Variability type: . ... USNO-A2.0 1425-04252279 is located at the distance of 15?.7 from the X-ray source 1RXS J031707.9+572942, which is larger than the position error of the source (12?), but its hardness ratio HR1 = 0.03 0.29, typical of chromospherically active stars, and its character of variability allow us to assume that the star is related to the X-ray source. ... Eclipsing variability . Sine wave 1 . ...

... Iowa Robotic Telescope | ... Talon is based on OCAAS, a software suite developed by software engineer Elwood Downey ( Clear Sky Institute ) for use at the University of Iowa ?s first remote facility (the ATF, or Automated Telescope Facility). ... XObservatory : Telescope Control Interface . ... This program calls upon and coordinates much of the interrelated portions of the Talon architecture, and forms the primary control panel for the telescope, dome, and peripheral systems when used locally. ...

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... Second, the observatory can control the configuration, test data analysis procedures, and provide calibration solutions with the help of instrument models. This paper presents the VLT object-oriented framework for the development of ETCs (Exposure Time Calculators) and data simulators. ... Instrument simulations are being developed for the purpose of predictive calibration, instrument configuration control, and evaluation of data analysis procedures. ...

... We had the opportunity to take part in a work experience project in the Armagh Observatory in 2015 from March 30th to April 2nd, during which we used the Las Cumbres Observatory Global Telescope Network to obtain images of various celestial bodies including the Galaxies M83, M88 and M99 which we combined 3 different images created using different filters using the software DS9. ... Images obtained using the Faulkes Telescope North at Haleakala, operated by Las Cumbres Observatory. ...

A computer controlled low light photometer for nightglow observations. Hardware units of portable photometer for low light measurements, especially night glow emission is described. ... Interface card contain three channels of 24 bit counter, 4 channels of 12 bit ADC and the buffer bus for the controlled motors of the altazimuthal fork mounting and filters wheel, the position encoders. ... Where N( ) is output signal photometer generated input light flux F( l ) . ... PMT # . 599 . ...

... A radio galaxy is a galaxy that emits an unusually big amount of energy at radio wavelengths. ... Inside of each galaxy with an active nucleus (radio galaxies are among them) there must be a system of a "central machine" responsible for the colossal amount of the emitted energy from radio to gamma ranges. ... Sometimes a radio source in an active galaxy may flare again if the needed conditions appear (a new portion of matter would fall into the furnace of the "central machine"). ...

In the current version .. ... Apogee Alta . Many SBIG cameras and filter wheels . ... FITS file format with exposure, camera, telescope, object and filter header information . Interactive image display and analysis with latest SAOimage ds9 . Interactive data processing in real time with AstroImageJ . ... XmCCD creates FITS image files with comprehensive header information and displays the images using ds9. ... Latest version 5.1 for Apogee and SBIG cameras updated June 17, 2015 . ...

Next: Data Acquisition Up: CCD Systems and Previous: The ST-4 . One SBIG upgrade from the ST-4 is the ST-6. ... This system also uses a motorized filter wheel made by Compuscope. ... The TEC for this camera head is similar in operation to that of the Lynxx, however the ST-6 allows the temperature to be set. ... Used together with the ST-4, longer uninterrupted exposures are possible. ... A function in the software allows the operator to combine several short exposures to create a composite image. ...

... Staff . ... Friends of Arcetri . ... Arcetri designs innovative superconductor microwave filters for the Sardinia Ratio Telescope . ... A new microwave component based on HTS technology has been presented in a recent issue of the Journal of Astronomical Instrumentation, produced by World Scientific Publishing Company, in the article тАЬ A high temperature superconductor microwave filter working in C-band for the Sardinia Radio Telescope тАЭ by Pietro Bolli and collaborators (Fig.1). ...

Laboratory work N7 Low-pass filtering. 1) Generate the signal with two periodic components and high-frequency noise. ... 2) Perform it's filtering with Panteleev filter 0 - h(t) = e 22 0 |t| 2 0 t 0 |t| cos + sin 2 2 , where 0 is a parameter. The frequency response of the Panteleev filter is ^ h( ) = 4 0 . 4 0 + 4 Select the cut-off frequency (by varying 0 ) for filtering out high-frequency periodic component and noise. 3) Plot the initial and filtered signal. ...

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 . ...

... Parameters . Filters . ... Direct images . ... The SCORPIO-2 project: . Spectral Camera with Optical Reducer for Photometric and Interferometric Observations - 2 . The broad-band glass filters made in SAO RAS are used for the observation in the Johnson-Cousins (UBVRI) photometric system in the direct images mode. The glass filters transmission curves are shown by solid line. ... The filters transmission curves of the `comets' filters measured with the SCORPIO-2 in the F/4 beam. ...

To appear in "Fourth Workshop on Robotic Autonomous Observatories (2015)"RevMexAA(SC) METEOR OBSERVATIONS WITH MINI-MEGATORTORA WIDE-FIELD MONITORING SYSTEM S. Karpov, 1, 3 N. Orekhova2 G. Beskin, 1, 3 A. Biryukov3,4 S. Bondar,2 E. Ivanov,2 E. Katkova,2 A. Perkov, and V. Sasyuk3 RESUMEN 2 Favor de prop orcionar un resumen en espanol. ... The faintest detected meteors has the peak brightness about 10 mag, while the ma jority - from 4 to 8 mag. ... 2010; Karpov et al. 2013; Beskin et al. ...

. Image where taken 11.03.97, 02:25.3 UT (exp 30s) at the Moscow observatory of SAI , using 0.10-m F/2 camera (installed on AVR-1 refractor) with CCD SBIG ST-8 and with B filter . by . V. Esipov and A. Martis . [ Go to next observation ][ Go back to Our observations list ] . Andrew A. Martis . martis @ sai.msu.ru .

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: . ...

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. ...

Here is a description of the Filter/Driver Pack Plus release from Aldus. ... The Macintosh Filter/Driver Pack Plus includes several new and updated filters, including import filters for Microsoft Works 3.0 and MacWrite Pro files, as well as the most recent LaserWriter driver, version 8.1.1. ... The Filter/Driver Pack Plus also includes a patcher utility which will update PageMaker 5.0 to version 5.0a. This patcher corrects a handful of reported customer problems. ...

... Maidanak Observatory by AZT-22 1.5m telescope observations Alexander S. Gusev and Boris P. Artamonov Sternberg Astronomical Institute, Moscow, Russia gusev@sai.msu.ru INTRODUCTION Mount Maidanak Observatory at Ulugh Beg Astronomical Institute (UBAI) of Uzbek Academ y of Sciences located in the South Uzbekistan, on the slopes of the Baisun range, at an altitude of 2600 m. Brief history. ... Here we are presenting the study of the realistic seeing of CCD images obtained on the AZT-22 telescope. ......

... During all period of our investigations Dr. N.Sumzina from the Institute of Applied Astronomy of RAS had prepared the Numbered Minor Planet positions from MPC Database for our processing with kind permission of the Director of Minor Planet Center Prof. Braian Marsden. ... Our extensive processing of the MPC data allows us to conclude that CCD observations of the Numbered and Unnumbered Minor Planets have the errors, sometimes very crude. ...