... Apr 14, 2016 - Monthly Meeting . ... The Amateur Telescope Makers of Boston, Inc. ATMoB) is an astronomy club devoted to telescope making, observing, and studying the heavens. ... CURRENT MOON . ... April Sky . ... Lyrids Meteor Shower . ... Sources: NASA JPL Space Calendar , StarDate Online , Sky Telescope , Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics , RASC Observer’s Handbook , Abrams Planetarium Sky Calendar and Astronomy Magazine . ... Copyright (c) Amateur Telescope Makers of Boston, Inc. ...

You Can Make Stellar Images Brighter . Articles | ... A few months ago I wrote an article titled "You Can’t Make Them Brighter". So why am I now writing that you can make them brighter. ... The image of a focused star is actually a small disk called the Airy disk, named after the 19 th century scientist Sir George Airy. ... For a given aperture, a smaller Airy disk means that the light is focused to a smaller disk and is therefore brighter. ... www.astronomy.net . About Astronomy Net | ...

Astronomy Picture of the Day . ... This very sharp telescopic vista features the last object in the modern version of Charles Messier's catalog of bright clusters and nebulae - Messier 110. A dwarf elliptical galaxy, M110 (aka NGC 205) is actually a bright satellite of the large spiral galaxy Andromeda, making M110 a fellow member of the local group of galaxies. Colorful Moon Mosaic . ... The most striking is clearly NGC 3718, a warped spiral galaxy found near picture center. ...

... 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. ...

... In essence, you have an equatorial telescope mount for your camera to track the stars anywhere in the sky. ... Astronomy Camp for All Ages . Astronomy Campers use the research telescopes and equipment at the mountain-top observatories on Mt. ... At night, Campers observe celestial objects under a dark sky using the 40-inch and 60-inch telescopes on Mt. ... A complement of computers allows Campers to analyze data using professional languages and to simulate astronomical phenomena. ...

Next: Smoothing and Contouring Up: Radial Profiles and Projections Previous: *imcnts* - Radial Profile . This makes a one-dimensional array (or table) giving intensity vs. position. ... xr> xspatial xs> improj image file : xdata$rp110590_im1.imh region descriptor : b 231 313 100 10 # a box centered at 231,313 with # x dimension=100, y dimension = 10 output file . uses same root bins in x projection 100 bins in y projection 1 . ... The task improj will use a rotated box. ...

Why create rough text? ... You get a real "weathered" look to fonts. ... The Typewriter font is a very good one to use; let's make our favorite logo in 80 pixel Typewriter font: . ... The best way to do this is to Spread the pixels out a bit: . ... By using 2 (which looks pretty normal) and using it twice in a row, we get a correct looking effect. ... Well, you're right, of course...we're going to use the newly written plug-in called Threshold to create the right look for our text. ...

HUBBLE SPACE TELESCOPE DAILY REPORT #1694 PERIOD COVERED: 0000Z (UTC) 08/09/96 - 0000Z (UTC) 08/12/96 Daily Status Report as of 225/0000Z 1.0 ACTIVITIES SCHEDULED AND ACCOMPLISHED: 1.1 Completed FOS/BL 6705 (Below the Lyman Edge: VU Polarimetry of = Quasars) The Faint Object Spectrograph (Blue Side) was used to make = spectrographic polarization observations below the Lyman edge of the = bright quasar 1522+101. ... The observations were completed as scheduled, and no anomalies = were reported. ...

... Current Issue . ... solar system . ... Cassini makes measurements of Saturnт??s aurora and associated electric current system . ... Now for the first time, a team of planetary scientists has made simultaneous measurements of Saturnт??s night-side aurora, magnetic field, and associated charged particles. ... This is the first time it has been possible to make a direct comparison between Cassini images of the night-side aurora and the magnetic field and particle measurements made by the spacecraft. ...

... Dione's icy surface includes heavily cratered terrain, moderately cratered plains, lightly cratered plains, and whispy material. The heavily cratered terrain has numerous craters greater than 100 kilometers in diameter. ... Much of the heavily cratered terrain is located on the trailing hemisphere , with the less cratered plains area existing on the leading hemisphere . ... Because Dione is relatively small, an impact causing a 35 kilometer (21 mile) crater could have spun the satellite. ...

View from Armagh looking towards the North-West at 10.00 p.m. on 30th March 1997. The comet is best seen with binoculars, but viewed with the naked eye both the head and tail should be easily visible. To get your bearings, note the bright star Capella, in the constellation of Auriga high in the west, the prominent "W" of stars that make up the constellation of Cassiopeia, and the outline of Perseus. ... Viewed with the naked eye the Pleiades cluster appears as a haze of stars. ...

... Colour transformations are supplied only for the three visual bandpass filter (U, B, V). ... compute the colour term (mag1-mag2) in the instrumental system . select the applicable colour transformation . ... the correct branch of the colour transformation is selected: . match the value of the optional parameter branch (if not set the default value 0 is used) to the value in the column BRANCH of the CCF COLOURMAG extension. the correct interval of the colour transformation is selected: . ...

This page is devoted to information on Supernova 1999cw in MCG -01-02-001 Basic information on this SN, including the last reported brightness, on this Supernova can be found on the main supernova page. Information on the original web pages for many of these images can be found on the Supernova links web page. ... MCG -01-02-001 is a barred spiral galaxy of mag 14.42, making this SN just about as bright as it's host galaxy. ... LOSS image . ... vsnet-chat 2047 ] Host galaxy of SN1999cw . ...

In this gallery are many images of Low Surface Brightness Galaxies which have recently been discovered and analyzed. ... The central surface brightness of this galaxy is 24.28 . Malin 2 This galaxy is another huge disk galaxy with a scale length of 15 kpc and a redshift of 15000 km/a. The high surface brightness knot in one of its spiral arms actually has the same color, luminosity and H-alpha equivalent width as the entire Large Magellanic Cloud . ... Truly it is a Low Surface Brightness Galaxy. ...

... The Miriad task uvgen can be used to simulate a variety of observing modes. ... Simulating a telescope approximately, let alone in some detail, requires a good many parameters. uvgen takes an appreciable number of parameters and input files to describe the telescope, correlator and source. Fortunately keyword and set-up files for some common situations exist ( e.g. simulating the ATCA and VLA). ... For example, to load typical parameters for the ATCA, use miriad% source $MIRCAT/uvgen.def.atca . ...

... Invisible airwaves crackle with life Bright antenna bristle with the energy Emotional feedback on timeless wavelength Bearing a gift beyond price, almost free All this machinery making modern music Can still be open-hearted. ... You can choose a ready guide in some celestial voice. ... SONG: Different Strings Who's come to slay the dragon, Come to watch him fall? ... Tide Pools When the ebbing tide retreats Along the rocky shoreline, It leaves a trail of tidal pools In a short-lived galaxy. ...

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... Right: Corresponding scan tracks for the same date ( red ) and previous dates ( blue ), which cover about 2/3 of the map area (the field was completed on June 15). ... The I-GALFA survey area is divided into several fields with different declination ranges. ... By starting each subsequent night at a different position, we can cover the entire map area by ``weaving'' many such tracks together to build up a complete image of the sky brightness at all positions in the field. ...

It all started back in 1979 when the diskdrive manufacturer come with the bright idea to make a new transfer protocol. ... This protocol wasn't an ANSI standard, so NCR join Shugart and the ANSI committee X3T9.2 was formed. The new name for the protocol was, Small Computer Systems Interface, SCSI. ... ANSI finished the SCSI standard in 1986. SCSI-II devices was released in 1988 and was an official standard in 1994. ... SCSI is in opposite to IDE/ATA very flexible. ... Datawidth 8 bits. ...

... Bojan Nikolic web pages home . ... The goal here is to make a publication quality image of the sky with the coordinates labelled in the standard Right Accession/Declination units. ... Use the PGTBOX function which knows how to label the coordinate box in time units . ... тАЬINTтАЭ To draw tick marks and label them (тАЬIтАЭ so that the ticks are inverted, i.e., going outside the box) . ... Ensure that the matrix representing the coordinate system of the image is correct when calling PGIMAG . ...