Calibration and Data Reduction . Standard calibration observations are obtained and maintained in the HST archive at the STScI, and can be obtained by external users using StarView. ... For WFPC2, the inherent stability and uniformity of the CCD sensors, the well calibrated filters, the internal flat field calibration system, and an archive populated with flat field images obtained in SLTV prior to launch improve the scientific data analysis and productivity. ...

New reduction of minor planets photographic plates obtained with Pulkovo Normal Astrograph A.A. Berezhnoy Pulkovo Observatory of RAS, Saint-Petersburg, Russia Minor Planet observations at Pulkovo Periodical observations of 14 bright asteroids named Selected Minor Planets (SMP) were performed at Pulkovo since 1948 within the international framework started by works of B.V. Numerov and D. Brouwer. ... 108 133 113 74 124 67 97 88 14 84 64 5 20 19 Epochs (YYYY.MM) 1200 Mean values of total obs. ...

Pipeline reductions of AMBER calibrator data Christian A. Hummel ESO, Karl-Schwarzschild-Str. 2, 85748 Garching, Germany ABSTRACT Service (and visitor) mode operations by ESO involving the three-beam NIR combiner AMBER on the VLTI are now in their third year, and a large number of observations of calibrators have been accumulated. We present results on the stability of the transfer function, with and without the FINITO fringe tracker, as well as trends and correlations. ... Figure 2. ...

... Armagh Observatory, College Hill, Armagh BT61 9DG, +44 (0)28 3752 2928 . ... Images obtained using the Faulkes Telescope North, operated by Las Cumbres Observatory. ... During a work experience project at Armagh Observatory from 2014 December 1st to 5th, secondary school students from Armagh, Newry, Belfast and Craigavon used the Las Cumbres Observatory Global Telescope Network to plan and obtain observations of astronomical objects, and process and measure the resulting images. ...

... Observations of GRB afterglows with Russian-Turkish 1.5-m Telescope (RTT150) . ... The afterglow light curve was measured in detail starting from about 5 h after the GRB and over five ensuing nights. In addition, upper limits were obtained on the rapid variability of the afterglow on the first night of observations and the history of afterglow color variations was measured in detail. ... 2007) : . ... Astronomy Letters, 33, 797 (2007) , arXiv:0802.1635 , The original text in Rissian . ...

... The spectroscopic data were obtained with the 6m telescope of the Special Astrophysical Observatory of Russian Academy of Science (SAO RAS) during run in October 1999. ... The widths of the slit of 1.2 and 2 were used. ... Observations have been conducted mainly under the software package NICE in MIDAS, described by Kniazev & Shergin ([ 1995 ]). ... All primary data reduction was carried out in the standard way, similar to that described in Kniazev et al. ([ 2000b ]). ...

... The data-reduction path given in Chris Salter's IDL Cheat Sheet invovles a number of steps that are repeated for each observation. Onoffred is a wrapper program for the various AO IDL routines that are called, enabling an experienced observer to do file-loading, on-off data reduction, baseline fitting, smoothing and polarization averaging in a single step. ... The robust and user-defined profile windows can be hidden from the postscript output using the /hidelines switch. ...

... ATNF Home . About ATNF . ... About ATNF overview . ... Australia Telescope Steering Committee . ... Australia Telescope User Committee . ... Murchison Radio-astronomy Observatory . ... Parkes radio telescope . Australia Telescope Compact Array . Mopra radio telescope . ... Australia Telescope Online Archive (ATOA) . ... Parkes | ... Australia Telescope 20GHz Survey . ... Visiting Parkes radio telescope . Visiting Australia Telescope Compact Array . ... Parkes radio telescope webcam . ...

Establishment and Observation of Space Debris Laser Ranging Zhang Zhongping, Zhang Haifeng, Wu Zhibo, Li Pu, Meng Wendong, Chen Juping, Chen WanZhen Shanghai Observatory, Chinese Academy of Sciences Contents: Introduction Establishment of laser ranging to space debris system Observation results Summary Introduction Large amount of space debris around the earth currently. ... Laser ranging (LR) is a kind of real-time measuring technology with meter or sub-meter precision for space-debris observation. ...

... Previous: Generalized Linear Multi-Frequency Imaging in VLBI . ... At Astronomical Observatory of Valencia University (OAUV), CCD observations of asteroids and big planets satellites are obtained since 2001 with a big format camera and several telescopes. ... Software for comparison of single and overlapped CCD fields obtained at different epochs has been developed. ... After images measurement in CCD field, catalogue stars are identified and adjusted with images. ...

... To date, a total of 1043 photometric observations have been collected with FIRPO. The statistics include 256, 279, 412 and 78 measurements in the main filters J1, H2, K3 and L4 respectively. ... A full listing of the measurements, ordered by date and with the filters and program name indicated, is available. Also available is a summary of the FIRPO runs, with details of the dates, telescopes and observers. ... The date are in the fmag.dat files. ... A message with more details has been posted. ...

ON THE IMPACT OF THE GALACTIC ABERRATION ON VLBI-DERIVED PRECESSION MODEL Z.M. MALKIN Pulkovo Observatory Pulkovskoe Ch. ... Corrections to adopted precession rate are usually computed from the linear trends in long-term time series of celestial pole offset (CPO), which are the differences between the measured and the theoretical coordinates of the celestial pole. ... CONCLUSIONS We have estimated the impact of GA on parameters of precession-nutation model derived from VLBI observations. ...

... The Science Operation Department is composed of Astronomers, Telescope Instruments Operators(TIOs) and Data Handling Administrators(DHAs). ... Astronomers have proposed several methods to quantitatively measure the amount of turbulence above the telescope, which the most common ones is Differential Image Motion Monitor (DIMM). In optical testing, the Hartmann test is the common method to test the quality of optical components. ... Hartmann mask consists of 48 lenses. ...

... In order to compare the number of different evolutionary stages obtained and X-ray luminosity of the chosen X-ray sources with the observed galactic values we use the sum of C/O+O/C , where C and O are the calculated and observed values of a given binary type, respectively. If we make comparison for a number of different binary species (for example, we compare the number of CV, number of X-ray pulsars,   total X-ray luminosity of LMXB, etc.), we write this criterion in the form: . ...

Peremennye Zvezdy ( Variable Stars ) 32 , No. ... We report on our photometric analysis of the poorly studied cataclysmic variable in Ophiuchus, 1RXS J174320.1-042953 (DDE 11). ... The long-term behavior of J1743-0429 shows that it is a probable magnetic cataclysmic variable (polar), with a large difference between its low and high states. The orbital period obtained from our observations is 0 0866, or 2 08, close to the lower boundary of the period gap of cataclysmic variables. ... Fig. ...

... Telescopes . ... 1996: . According to the interferometric observations at 6-m telescope with the panoramic infrared detector NICMOS-3, for the first time in the world the angular diameters of the mirid stars R Cas and R Leo were measured at the wavelengths between 1045nm and 2170nm. ... A study of fluctuations of the galactic gas emission at high latitudes within the "Cold" survey band with high sensitivity was made with the RATAN-600 radio telescope. ... Archive . ...

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... Contact A Problem of an estimation of accuracy of the asteroid CCD observations . The Minor Planet Center supported by the Interntional Astronomical Union is the main office for keeping observational data of the small Solar System bodies and their investigations. ... At Pulkovo Observatory we are estimating an accuracy of the CCD asteroid observations obtained by amateurs and professional astronomers all over the World using the MPC database. ...

THE THERMAL RADIATION OF THE LUNAR SURFACE IN THE IR RANGE OF THE SPECTRUM (10-12 µm). ... 0.80 0.60 0.40 0.20 0.00 -0.20 -0.40 -0.60 -0.80 -0.80 -0.60 -0.40 -0.20 0.00 0.20 0.40 0.60 0.80 Fig.1 0.80 0.60 0.40 0.20 0.00 -0.20 -0.40 -0.60 -0.80 -0.80 -0.60 -0.40 -0.20 0.00 0.20 0.40 0.60 0.80 Fig.2 0.60 0.40 0.20 -0.00 -0.20 -0.40 -0.60 -0.60 -0.40 -0.20 -0.00 0.20 0.40 0.60 0.80 Fig.3 Indicatrix of the thermal radiation of the Moon (10.5-12.5 µ). ...

... Watchouts . ... Any XMM-Newton users, who need to convert OM count rates in the optical and UV filters into fluxes (expressed, e.g. , in erg/cm/cm/s/A), can do it by following any of the methods we outline below. OM count rates can be obtained with SAS. ... UVW1 . ... UVM2 . ... convert from count rate, obtained with SAS (files *SWSRLI*, corrected count rate in CORR_RATE column), to flux, selecting the most appropriate factor for the chosen spectral type and filter from the following Tables: . ...