The National Astronomy and Ionosphere Center (NAIC) is seeking an exceptionally well-qualified applicant for a position as a Research Associate or Senior Research Associate in radio astronomy at the Arecibo Observatory in Arecibo, Puerto Rico. ... A relocation allowance is provided. ... Staff Research Associates are appointed for a three-year period and may be reappointed for an additional three years, at which time promotion to Senior Research Associate may be considered. ...

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. ...

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... The processing of these associated images presents new challenges to the HST data processing pipelines, which heretofore operated only on single images. ... Stage 1 (CALNICA) calibrates individual exposures without information from other members of the association. ... Stage 2 of calibration (CALNICB) only operates on associated images that have previously gone through CALNICA processing, and creates combined images for each distinct (non-overlapping) pointing within the association. ...

This WWW form allows the user simplified access to images produced by the NRAO/VLA Sky Survey (NVSS). This service determines which NVSS image is desired based on a celestial position and returns either the image directly or a Web page with a link to the file. ... The NVSS Postage stamp (small FITS file) server can be used to obtain images with other geometries.) ... Web browsers use external viewers to display files like FITS images which they do not understand. ...

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... Accurate positions of 404 compact radio sources used as calibrators by the VLA are presented. In addition, the structure and polarization of each source at both 4885 and 1465 MHz are given. ... Amplitude calibration was based on 3C286, whose fluxes at 4885 and 1465 MHz were assumed to be 7.41 and 14.41 Jy, respectively, in accord with the scale of Baars et al. (1977). short description of columns, as taken from the publication: . 1 source name . ... 8 Polarized flux at 4885 MHz (mJy) . ...

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tranback -- Transform an X,Y position from output to input pixel position using the same conventions as drizzle tranback xout yout . xout = 400 [real] . ... The X dimension of the input image (this is used to determine the centre which is the origin of the transformations). (nyin = 800) [real] . ... If "output" the input image center is mapped to the center of the output grid, rotated about that center and then shifted along the grid of the output image. ...

... srcinfov strra=<ra> strdec=<dec> apos=<apos> withsrccoord=true|false . ... srcinfov computes for each instrument the position of a given celestial source in the field of view (in TELCOORD coordinates). Input is the satellite attitude in terms of Right Ascension/Declination of the star tracker viewing direction and astronomical position angle [deg]. ...