... This paper describes the main algorithms used by the Einstein Level One processing to create the exposure masks and the background maps for Einstein IPC images, and how these algorithms were recreated in the IRAF environment. Our goal was to recreate the algorithms used by the Level One Processing to create exposure masks and background maps for Einstein Image Proportional Counter (IPC) data (cf. sections 2.5 and 2.7 of Harnden et al. ...

Astronomy Picture of the Day . ... 25.04.2001 . ... AURA , NSO , NOAO , NSF Explanation: Some astronomers don't like stars. ... So rather than try to eradicate existing stars with a laser, these astronomers create an artificial star of their own right where they need it -- with a laser . ... Above , an artificial star was created with a four-watt laser at Richard B. Dunn Solar Telescope on Sacramento Peak in New Mexico . ... April . ... April 2001 . ... A Telescope Laser Creates an Artificial Star . ...

... 2007 December 15 . Mountains of Creation . ... JPL-Caltech , NASA . ... An infrared view from the Spitzer Space Telescope , it features interstellar clouds of cold gas and dust sculpted by winds and radiation from a hot, massive star outside the picture (just above and to the right). ... Fittingly dubbed "Mountains of Creation", these interstellar clouds are about 10 times the size of the analogous Pillars of Creation in M16, made famous in a 1995 Hubble Space Telescope view. ... About APOD | ...

... Our Galaxy . ... Stars . ... Space Flight . ... NGC 2841: a spiral galaxy some 46 million light years away. ... It is especially hard to explain this process of star birth in some spiral galaxies. ... Targets include both star clusters and galaxies, and star formation rates seen range from the starburst galaxy M82 (the Cigar Galaxy) which is creating about ten new stars in its core alone every year to the much less fecund star producer NGC 2841. ... Tweets that mention Baby stars of NGC 2841 | ...

... If requested ( runbackground =Y), the task creates a background lightcurve, as well as a background spectrum for the imaging modes (FF, eFF, LW, SW) using background masks. ... The background masks are created by task badpixfind using threshold parameters, appropriate for the detection of real X-ray sources. ... As the GTIs strongly depend on the intended science this screening is not performed and only background masks, the lightcurve, and a GTI file are created by epchain . ...

... joel created the event <b>ASRAS Board members meeting - monday May 9 @ Farash Center</b> . ... joel created the event <b>ASRAS MONTHLY MEMBERSHIP MEETING - Friday May 6 at Farash Center - Ionia NY</b> . ... joel created the event <b>ASRAS MONTHLY MEMBERSHIP MEETING - Friday April 1 at RIT</b> . ... joel created the event <b>ASRAS MONTHLY MEMBERSHIP MEETING - Friday Mar 4 at RIT</b> . ... 2 months ago . ... joel created the event <b>ASRAS General membership meeting - RIT - Friday FEB 5</b> . ...

... Science . ... Science Users Information > Data Handling and Products > Data Reduction FAQ > How can I run the pipeline when there are no bright objects in the individual image? ... Observing with ESO Telescopes . ... The default use of the visir_img_combine recipe of the VISIR pipeline is with the "ref" option set to false. ... The VISIR pipeline will create the combination of the nodded images using the ESO SEQ CUMOFFSETX and ESO SEQ CUMOFFSETY offset information in the fits file headers. ...

... Research Astronomer John Butler created an exhibition, ``Measuring the Solar System'', timed to coincide with the 8 June 2004 Transit of Venus, the first such transit visible for 121.5 years (the last was on 6 December 1882). The exhibition presented drawings, images and artefacts held by the Armagh Observatory and elsewhere, concerning various previous transits of Venus which historically had provided the first direct measurements of the size of the solar system. ...

... Table files like the ones created in the section on imcnts can be displayed, printed and manipulated using the tasks contained in the stsdas.ttools package. ... sp> tables # Load the relevant package ta> tprint rp90_cnt prpar=yes # .tab extension assumed # the hidden parameter prpar is set to display the header # as well as the data ta> tprint rp90_cnt # Displays only the data info ta> tprint rp90_cnt prdata- prpar+ # Displays only the header info ta> tprint rp90_cnt prparam=yes | ...

... Pre-university education . ... Samara region . SSAU History . SSAU roadmap . ... Scientists of Samara State Aerospace University (SSAU) develop a unique 3D-printer for chocolate confectionery printing. 3D-printer for chocolate printing is being created in SSAU Centre for Robotic Complexes and Mechatronic Systems. ... Know-how of the scientists of Samara State Aerospace University in that they were developed unparalleled chocolate delivery and cooling systems in 3D-printer. ...

... J. Brand, M. Felli, R. Cesaroni, C. Codella, G. Comoretto, S. Di Franco, F. Massi, L. Moscadelli, R. Nesti, L. Olmi, F. Palagi, F. Palla, D. Panella, R. Valdettaro . 2007, IAU Symposium 242, p. 223 . ... 2007, ApJ, in press . ... Murphy, G. C., Lery, T., O'Sullivan, S., Spicer, D., Bacciotti, F., Rosen, A. 2007, A , in press . ... Rubini, F., Lorusso, S., Del Zanna, L., Bacciotti, F. 2007, A , in press . ... Coffey, D., Bacciotti, F., Ray, T.P., Eisloeffel, J., Woitas, J. 2007, ApJ, in press . ...

. To remove a directory that is a symbolic link that points to another directory use the command: rm directory_name . Notice that the directory does not need to be empty and you do not have to use the rmdir command. You are not really removing a directory, just a named symbolic link that points to the "real" directory.

... LEDA has been the first Extragalactic Database. ... select pgc, objname, al2000, de2000 where de2000 > 76 and al2000 < 1 . select pgc, galaxy_name, al2000, de2000 where de2000 > 76 AND al2000 < 1 . ... For each parameter the method of the calculation (or the definition) is given in the Third Reference Catalogue (de Vaucouleurs et al., 1991) and/or in Paturel et al. (1997) and/or in some additional references given below. ... de Vaucouleurs et al., 1991, 1997 . ... 1995 ; Paturel et al., 2000 . ...

God Science Forum Message . Forums: . ... God and Science ћ SETI ћ Software ћ UFO ћ XEphem . ... God and Science | ... In The Beginning, God Created......prophecy . ... I am beginning to believe that Genesis creation is about the creation of prophecy as much as it is a statement that God is the creator. ... So I ask, are you (anyone) willing to consider Gen 1 2 as stories of prophecy or are you determined that it is either about science or a literal 7-day creation? ... www.astronomy.net . ...

Full-Color Mosaic Pictures for CDF-S and HDF-N . ... Here we present full-color images for the first 3 epochs of both the CDF-S and HDF-N, based on the combined mosaic fits files for the b,v,i and z bands. ... The process of producing combined mosaics for each epoch begins with the fully reduced single-epoch tiles, as produced by Anton's MultiDrizzle script running in Harry's automated GOODS pipeline. These are the tiles that are currently available as the GOODS v0.5 science products. ...

The "ring of fire" seen by satellite cameras around the polar caps (picture below) is probably created by electrons leaking from the tail's plasma sheet, whose magnetic field lines form a somewhat imperfect trap. ... One possible explanation involves the close association between auroral arcs and electric currents which flow along field lines between the ionosphere and distant space ( Birkeland currents ). ... That produces an extra resistance to the flow of current. ...

... ATNF Home . ... About ATNF overview . ... Australia Telescope Steering Committee . ... Next: Third: Create a session Up: Starting up correlator control Previous: First: Log on to б  Contents . Both the correlator interface and the correlator spectra display program are run from lbaccc . ... lbaccc . ... A more complete explanation of SPD, including available commands, is found in Appendix C. Next: Third: Create a session Up: Starting up correlator control Previous: First: Log on to б  Contents . ...

Laboratory of Stellar Physics . ... A study of close binaries with black holes, neutron stars and white dwarfs. ... A study of SS433 - the massive close binary with a black hole in the regime of supercritical accretion . ... A search for intermediate-mass black holes (IMBH). The black holes which are not supermassive black holes observed in quasars, and which were formed not in massive stars. ... A search for new magnetic stars, new CP stars, measurements of magnetic fields in stars . ...

The above process keeps the # of protons and the # of neutrons in the early Universe constant. This is extremely important and will result in a testable prediction later. Remember, a free neutron (one that is not bound in an atomic nucleus) will decay into a proton + electron (+ anti-neutrino) in about 900 seconds. ... During this epoch, the proton-to-neutron ratio is 1.0 . ... The Universe consists of protons, neutrons and electrons plus a photon background and a neutrino background. ...

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