... Credit Copyright: Miloslav Druckm ller (UM FSI, Brno Univ. of Technology ), Shadia Habbal ( IfA, Univ. of Hawaii ) Explanation: Sweeping from the eastern to western horizon, this 360 degree panorama follows the band of zodiacal light along the solar system's ecliptic plane . ... In the mosaic projection, the plane of our Milky Way Galaxy runs at an angle , crossing the horizontal band of zodiacal light above the two horizons. ... Publications with keywords: zodiacal light . ... A Zodiacal Skyscape ....

... 2012 April 5 . Zodiacal Light Panorama . ... Explanation: Sweeping from the eastern to western horizon, this 360 degree panorama follows the band of zodiacal light along the solar system's ecliptic plane . ... In fact, Saturn is seen immersed in a brightening of the zodiacal band known as the gegenschein . ... In the mosaic projection, the plane of our Milky Way Galaxy runs at an angle , crossing the horizontal band of zodiacal light above the two horizons. ... About APOD | ...

... 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. ...

... Purpose: Project points on celestial sphere onto a plane. ... PRID a projections system number (see IRCO_PRNAME), XYZ 3-dimensional coordinates on the sphere, X, Y the corresponding coordinates on the plane, N number of points to be projected. Description: Assume the coordinates xyz give coordinates of points on the unit the unit sphere, in a right-handed system of x,y and z axes. ... The origin of the plane system is the projection centre, and corresponds to xyz = (1,0,0). ...

User should choose the type of coordinates and type of positions by marking corresponding radio button, first in the column headed Type and then in the column headed Positions . Rectangular coordinates are compatible only with choice Geometric . ... Remember that photographic or CCD observations are comparable with astrometric positions, whereas meridian observations are comparable with apparent ones. Observations made in horizontal coordinate system also are linked to apparent positions. ...

. XMM-Newton Science Analysis System . ssclib (ssclib-3.33.4) [xmmsas_20080701_1801-8.0.0] . Meta Index / Home Page / Routines for performing coordinate . subroutine cartesianToSky(vector, ra, dec) real(double), intent(in) :: vector(3) real(double), intent(out) :: ra, dec end subroutine cartesianToSky . Takes a vector of direction cosines and returns the corresponding celestial coordinates and . NOTE and are in radians. XMM-Newton SOC/SSC -- 2008-07-01

... Matrix of Transformation | ... Every set of attitude coefficients (corresponding to a line in attitude data file) is valid for its own time interval and gives the possibility to get a matrix N of tranformation from the GSE coordinate system to the S/C coordinate system as well as a matrix M of tranformation from the S/C coordinate system to the GSE coordinate system. ... and the matrix M of transformation from the S/C to the GSE systems (the direction cosines matrix) is: . ... V GSE = M * V S/C . ...

Next: Extragalactic Gravitational Wave Background Previous: Transparency of the Stochastic . Let the sky be observed with a detector having a pencil beam diagram across. The number of stars per frequency decade that is swept by the detector is a function of celestial coordinates (say, galactic coordinates l , b ): . ... It is clear from the figure that for an all-sky detector the Galaxy becomes transparent above the frequency  Hz. ...

... Values have been scaled arbitrarily. High ratios are shown in blue, corresponding to blue colors, and low ratios are shown in red, corresponding to red colors. ... Noise combined with background subtraction difficulties in the lower left quadrant of the WISP1 data (see Fig. \ref{Fig:wisp_snr_mskd}) make colors in this area very unreliable. ... The values shown here are typically a factor of ~3 less than those calculated for the Schmidt data, shown in Figure \ref{Fig:bj_alpha}. ...

... The operators will be explained as they are used. The general notion to keep in mind is that any combination of these operators results in a 2- D affine coordinate transformation in the TF plane, which may be represented using the homogeneous coordinates often used in computer graphicsfoley. ... S _t_c,f_c = g_t_c,f_c,(_t) | ... We denote a time shift to the position , with an operator that has a multiplicative law of composition : (Table 1). ... Note that these two operators do not commute. ...

... On-line Data . ... The program enables to find out the exact present Earth coordinates of the international space station and "Shuttle". ... J-Track - this program is similar to the previous one, however it knows how to display images and orbits of space vehicles. ... NASA SkyWatch - a program for those, who are fond of watching artificial space objects through the telescope, field - glass or with the unaided eye. ... Info: Industry news On-line Data Company ATLAS news Events We in press Contact . ...

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Next: Regularization in the Up: Deconvolution Previous: Deconvolution . Consider an image characterized by its intensity distribution , corresponding to the observation of an object through an optical system. ... is the point spread function (PSF) of the imaging system, and is an additive noise. ... This inverse problem has led to a large amount of work, the main difficulties being the existence of: (i) a cut-off frequency of the PSF, and (ii) an intensity noise (see for example [ 6 ]). ...

Next: Select a circle around Up: Image Display in Xwindows Previous: The SAOimage Menu (options . SAOimage allows the interactive building of a spatial region that can be fed to other IRAF tasks ( e.g. , imcnts, see Features of PROS Software , Radial Profiles and Projections ) to sum up counts etc. ... N.B.: If you are working with a blocked or sectioned image, the region will be created in the corresponding coordinates. ... A Region mask for a radial profile in concentric, elliptical annuli . ...

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... TICTOC is a cookbook program that demonstrates how to use Toolkit routines to convert between different time representations. ... UTC . is a string representation of Universal Time Coordinated, which may be in calendar, day of year, or Julian date format. ... Enter Y or N): Y Example UTC time : 86-365//12:00 Corresponding ET : -410313544.816091 UTC calendar format : 1986 DEC 31 12:00:00.000 UTC day of year format: 1986-365 // 12:00:00.000 UTC Julian date format: JD 2446796.000 Continue? ...

The aim of this section of the course is to familiarise you with celestial Coordinates. ... I found some good notes explaining the celestial coordinate system on the web: . ... 1st Dec: 04hr, 00min In addition to the equatorial coordinates described in the notes above, astronomers also use (at least) two other coordinate systes: galactic coordinates and ecliptic coordinates. ... Ecliptic coordinates use the ecliptic (the Earth's path around the sun) as the equator, and are used for solar system work. ...

V. A. Ginzburg University of Chicago Chicago, United States ginzburg@math.uchicago.edu Noncommutative del Pezzo surfaces The hypersurface in a 3-dimensional vector space with an isolated quasi-homogeneous elliptic singularity of type Er , r = 6, 7, 8, has a natural Poisson structure. ... We also construct a deformation-quantization of the coordinate ring of such a del Pezzo surface. ...

... I would several points which we faced during our everysolved for better quality of individual ACs' and EOP products · There are two main EOP products provided by two IERS Product Centers on Earth Orientation (Earth Orientation Center (EOC) and Rapid Service/ Prediction Center (RSPC)). ... However, the latter is not provided by the IERS. ... ITRF · Using ITRF in computation of EOP series produced by various ACs seems to be a necessary condition to provide the consistency between the IERS products. ...

... The initial descriptions of the FITS format provided a simplified method for describing the physical coordinate values of the image pixels, but deliberately did not specify any of the detailed conventions required to convey the complexities of actual image projections. ... They were CRPIX n for the reference pixel location on pixel axis n , CRVAL n for the coordinate value at that pixel, CDELT n for the increment at that pixel in the coordinate value, and CTYPE n for the type of coordinate. ...