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The night sky brightness, together with number of clear nights, seeing, transparency, photometric stability and humidity, are some of the most important parameters that qualify a site for front-line ground--based astronomy. ... Night sky at ESO-Paranal (Chile). ... Night sky brightness data . ... UBVRI night sky brightness at ESO-Paranal during sunspot maximum (A 2003, PDF) . ... The Dancing Sky: six years of night sky observations at Cerro Paranal (Starlight 2007 conference proceedings, PDF) . ...

... A Telescope Laser Creates an Artificial Star . ... NGC 3132: The Eight Burst Nebula . ... It's the dim star, not the bright one, near the center of NGC 3132 that created this odd but beautiful planetary nebula. ... The Radio Sky: Tuned to 408MHz . ... Saturns Iapetus: Moon with a Strange Surface . ... What has happened to Saturn's moon Iapetus? A strange ridge crosses the moon near the equator, visible near the bottom of the above image, making Iapetus appear similar to the pit of a peach. ...

Lab . Main page News People . ASA . Master . Master net Homepage . ... Lomonosov Moscow State University Sternberg Astronomical Institute . ... MASTER . ... Lomonosov (ShOK) . ... About Space Monitoring Laboratory, scientific directions, instruments, contacts . People, who work in lab . Latest news and news archive . ... All news ...

ATCA ­ Calibration at mm wavelengths Rick Forster University of California, Berkeley Hat Creek Radio Observatory Berkeley-Illinois-Maryland ... Basics of interferometry The atmosphere Amplitude phase calibration Atmospheric instrumental effects Antenna effects 1 ATCA synthesis workshop - May 2003 ATCA Bands Band L S C X K W cm 20 13 6 3 1.2 0.35 GHz 1.5 2.3 5.6 8.6 20.5 87.5 mJy/b 0.19 0.24 0.22 0.21 0.53 2.70 beam 33 22 10 5 2 0.6 ...

... Armagh Observatory, College Hill, Armagh BT61 9DG, +44 (0)28 3752 2928 . ... Lightcurve of HW Vir from images obtained using the Faulkes Telescope South, operated by Las Cumbres Observatory . The blue triangles show the difference between two stars whose brightness is constant. ... This shows the value of the Faulkes Telescopes in the follow-up observations of eclipsing binaries with the aim to detect and characterise additional circumbinary companions. ...

... The Galactic low-mass X-ray binary GS 2023+338 was discovered during the burst on May 22, 1989 with the Japanise satellite Ginga (aka Galaxy). The flux reached 17 crabs (this unit of flux measurement is an bright X-ray source, Crab Nebula) at 10-35 keV. ... No other radio telescope worldwide carried out multi-frequency measurements. ... Upon 14 days the radio flux fell below the detection level at the RATAN-600 in relation to the decrease of the X-ray flux. ...

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Высокоточные радиометры на 22 и 36 ГГц для непрерывного мониторинга поглощения атмосферы на радиотелескопе РАТАН-600 . ... радиотелескоп, радиометр, мониторинг атмосферного поглощения, антенная температура. High-precision radiometers at 22 GHz and 36 GHz for continuous . monitoring of atmospheric absorption at the RATAN-600 . ... We report the development of high-precision atmospheric radiometers at 22 and 36 GHz for continuous monitoring of atmospheric absorption at the RATAN-600. ...

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 | ...

Next: ZGSC (Compressed GSC) and XSKYMAP . ... This is a preliminary report on an investigation of the quality and properties of plates digitized during creation of the Guide Star Catalog (GSC). The results will be vital for reclassifying GSC objects. ... Many objects are measured on more than one plate, and thus have multiple catalog entries. ... Among the shortcomings of the GSC are: biased magnitudes and incorrect classifications for certain objects, presence of artifact objects. ...

AUTOMATIC STATION OF ECOLOGICAL CONTROL . ... AIR POLLUTION MONITORING . AUTOMATIC STATION OF ECOLOGICAL CONTROL OF ATMOSPHERIC AIR . ... The automatic station of ecological control (ASEC) is designed for continuous automatic measurement of pollutants mass concentrations in atmospheric air and for monitoring of meteorological parameters. ... There are two modifications of automatic station of ecological control (ASEC): . ... Official WEB-site of S.P.Korolev RSC Energia . ...

... SKY IN THE HIGH-ENERGY GAMMA-RAYS ACCORDING TO THE DATA OF SAS-2 (1972-1973), COS B (1975-1982), GAMMA 1 (1990-1992) AND EGRET (1991-2000) . ... View of the sky in the gamma-rays of energy above 100 Mev according to the EGRET data. The small bright spots correspond to compact sources. ... COMPACT SOURCES . Compact high-energy gamma-ray sources according to the 3-d EGRET catalog. ... Unidentified sources . ... previous page . next page . main page . CYGAM (PDF, 450 Kb) . ...

... Guider functions . ... Guide Sensor Performance . ... Guide Sensor Sky Coverage/ Star Availability . Guide Star Selection Criteria . ... Guide fiber organization and reach at plug plate . ... Plug plate holes for guide stars are identical to those for science FO . ... FOV for each of 9 guide stars is 7.4 arcsec dia. (0.45 mm FO, Sumitomo IGN-05/10) . ... Selected guide stars must have no neighbor stars within TBD (5 arcsec) radius that have a brightness within TBD (5 mag.) of guide stars . ...

Subject, Problems and Objects of Theoretical Astrophysics. ... Stellar Photospheres, Their Features. ... Physics of Continuous Radiation Absorption in Stellar Photospheres. ... Continuous Radiation Absorption in Stellar Photospheres of Various Spectral Classes. Solar Type Photospheres. ... Characterisics of Absorption Lines. ... Interstellar Absorption Lines, Their Features. ... Physical and Dynamic Features of Interstellar Medium, Which Follows from Observations of Interstellar Absorption Lines. ...

... In August 2009, amateur and professional astronomers reported that the bright star Epsilon Aurigae had begun to lose brightness for the first time in 27 years. ... Professional and amateur astronomers teamed up to monitor the eclipse and have announced that this critical phase ended around New Year s Day 2010. ... Even during the eclipse, the star is so bright that sensitive equipment in professional observatories can have trouble monitoring its brightness in the optical wavelengths. ...

In the PROJECT we are using the following peculiar . features of RATAN-600 . ... Brightness temperature sensitivity being equal to the antenna temperature sensitivity .. ... Receiver system .. ... Using aperture averaging effect. dual- beam and dual (multi-) frequency filtration, we demonstrated full filtration of the atmosphere noise down to the receiver noise at all scales of acoustics peaks ( Fig.1 , Fig 2 ). ... We select this frequency as the central one in our project. ... Antenna surface . ...

To appear in "Fourth Workshop on Robotic Autonomous Observatories (2015)"RevMexAA(SC) METEOR OBSERVATIONS WITH MINI-MEGATORTORA WIDE-FIELD MONITORING SYSTEM S. Karpov, 1, 3 N. Orekhova2 G. Beskin, 1, 3 A. Biryukov3,4 S. Bondar,2 E. Ivanov,2 E. Katkova,2 A. Perkov, and V. Sasyuk3 RESUMEN 2 Favor de prop orcionar un resumen en espanol. ... The faintest detected meteors has the peak brightness about 10 mag, while the ma jority - from 4 to 8 mag. ... 2010; Karpov et al. 2013; Beskin et al. ...

... 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. ...

... Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Rm 54416 Cambridge, MA (617) 253-7568 hbh@zilla.mit.edu HUBBLE SPACE TELESCOPE WIDE FIELD PLANETARY CAMERA 2 OBSERVATIONS OF NEPTUNE Two groups have recently used the Hubble Space Telescope (HST) Wide Field Planetary Camera 2 (WFPC 2) to acquire new high-resolution images of the planet Neptune. ... These bright clouds and dark spots were tracked as they moved across the planet's disk, revealing wind speeds as large as 325 meters per second (730 miles per hour)....