Astronomy Picture of the Day . An Airglow Fan from Lake to Sky . ... 26.01.2016 . ... Credit Copyright: Dave Lane ; Rollover Annotation: Judy Schmidt Explanation: Why would the sky look like a giant fan? Airglow . ... The unusual pattern was created by atmospheric gravity waves , ripples of alternating air pressure that can grow with height as the air thins, in this case about 90 kilometers up . ... January . ... January 2016 . ... NASA Web Site Statements, Warnings, and Disclaimers . ...

... Each day a different image or photograph of our fascinating universe is featured, along with a brief explanation written by a professional astronomer. 2016 January 27 . An Airglow Fan from Lake to Sky . ... Explanation: Why would the sky look like a giant fan? Airglow . ... The unusual pattern was created by atmospheric gravity waves , ripples of alternating air pressure that can grow with height as the air thins, in this case about 90 kilometers up . ... About APOD | ...

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... This calibration approach is recommended when dealing with high frequency data from the old ATCA correlator, especially at 3mm wavelengths. ... The approach described here exploits the dual frequency bands that were available with the old correlator. ... Rather the current approach assumes that you have a single Miriad dataset containing bandpass calibrator, phase calibrator, flux density calibrator and program source. ... MFCAL . ... Input multi-source, dual-band dataset. select=source(1921-293) . ...

... Bad Astronomy . ... Bitesize Astronomy . ... Last week's Snack talked about how black holes can affect the environment around them in such a way as to be very bright . ... It's a common misconception that black holes always have matter swirling into them. ... As this matter gets closer and closer to the black hole it piles up and a large, fairly flat disk forms. This is called the accretion disk , because matter from this disk accretes (that is, falls in) on the black hole. ... 2008 Phil Plait. ...

. This is the CIMA alternative drift map menu: . The following is the on-line help page for alternative drift map: . You can return to the main CIMA page by clicking here .

... The parameter pgdev allows the user to specify a pgplot device, but, in contrast to the pgplot standard, the file name should not be included, but instead supplied via the parameter plotfile . ... To write a colour postscript file called op.ps: pgdev=/cps plotfile=op.ps . However note that at present, if a colour postscript device ( pgdev = `/cps'), a fits file ( pgdev = `/fits') or a ppm file ( pgdev = `/ppm') are selected, the task in fact bypasses pgplot and writes the postscript file directly. ...

Target Acquisition Reference Information . Figure 7.1 on page 88 shows mean predicted count rates as a function of (B - V) 0 color for the four acquisition mirrors. Also shown are the fits to the predicted count rates for different amounts of reddening. ... You can estimate target acquisition count rates using the plots instead of Table 7.1 on page 92 : . ... Read from the Figures (depending on the mirror used) the predicted count rate. ...

Next: Sky Subtraction Up: Construction of Flat Previous: Standard construction . For a number of projects where very deep integrations and accurate flat fields are required, and the targets are point sources or much smaller than the frame size, the sky background itself can be used to calculate the flat field. ... Use STATISTICS/IMAGE to calculate the image median, and COMPUTE/IMAGE to divide by this to get the normalised flat field. ...

Blackholes Forum Message . Forums: . ... Alternative Idea . ... With the proposal of exotic super dense entities like quark stars and others including black holes, matter on the atomic level can, and most likely does, break down to its most simplist building blocks (photons, leptons, quarks, etc). ... www.astronomy.net . About Astronomy Net | ... Forum posts are Copyright their authors as specified in the heading above the post. "dbHTML," "AstroGuide," "ASTRONOMY.NET" & "VA.NET" . ...

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... This chapter documents all the JavaScript objects, along with their methods and properties. ... Full entries for each object appear in alphabetical order; properties and functions not associated with any object appear in Chapter 2, "Top-Level Properties and Functions." ... Tables included in the description of each object summarize the object's methods and properties. Full entries for an object's methods and properties appear in alphabetical order after the object's entry. ...

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... Tonight's Sky . ... Sky this Month . ... Star Atlas . ... stars . ... The Sky This Week: April 1 - 10 . ... Observing springtime deep-sky objects with a large telescope . ... Why do some stars appear to flash a variety of different colors when you look at them through a telescope? ... So, Earthт??s atmosphere will bend some colors from especially bright stars more so than others, which makes the source look like itт??s flashing colors. Get instant access to subscriber content on Astronomy.com! ...

... File view and tree view . ... Show (expand) directory tree starting from that point (the sign appears near directory name). ... Alternative way is to click on a [+] sign which appears near directory names throughout the archive (it will bring the tree into view from that directory). ... E.g., searching for "nftp" will find "nftp103.zip", "nftp/readme" and so on. ... nftp*" will find all files (NOT directories) which have the characters "nftp" in their names, including "nftp103.zip" and "about.nftp";...

... This is a personal project collecting and documenting early images of Harvard College Observatory, focusing on the site at Observatory Hill (previously Summer House Hill). ... This page shows a list of all images related pictures in the same group. [link] 1887 . ... link] 1887/07 . Earliest source: "[Building in Cambridge under construction]." ... link] 1887/07/13ish . ... Earliest source: "[Telescope dome in Cambridge under construction]." ... Creator: Harvard College Observatory, Cambridge . ...

... Print Mixed messages with work in progress about the universe Simon Grose DISRUPTIVE alternative views that anger a current orthodoxy, leave their proponents ostracised and intrigue the masses are part and parcel of science. ... Another correct alternative theory earned Western Australia's Barry Marshall and Robin Warren a Nobel Prize in 2005. ... Scepticism about global warming being caused by our fossil-fuelled emissions is headed the same way, but it's a journey yet to be completed. ...

... We have developed graphics kernels for PyRAF written completely in Python that are capable of working with IRAF graphics tasks (including interactive tasks). ... We describe the design employed to isolate the details of IRAF's underlying graphics system from PyRAF, making it easier to support multiple kernels, including the ability to use the IRAF Graphics kernel tasks. ... The PyRAF interactive graphics kernel thus is written entirely in Python with no reuse of IRAF code. ...