... 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. ...

... Большинству любителей недоступны крупные телескопы типа как Алькор и Мицар,и они останавливают свой выбор на таких недорогих компактных и моблильных инструметнах как зрительные трубы и монокуляры. Самые распространенные среди них - ЗРТ-457 и МП 20х60. За три года работы с этими инструментами я выявил не мало их скрытых достоинств, впрочем как и недостатков и хочу ниже в кратце рассказать о них. ... Поговорим об оптических достоинствах трубы. Они несколько хуже, чем у монокуляра. ...

General Forum Message . Forums: . ... The Telescope's F/number . ... The f/number (focal ratio) of any telescope tells two things about the telescope and that is it's intended purpose and it's photographic performance. The brightness of a star depends on the telescope's aperture not the telescope's f/number. ... The f/number of any objective lens or a mirror of a telescope has nothing to do with the visual brightness of an image, the bigger the aperture the better. ... www.astronomy.net . ...

... In typical nightly use, the wide field and planetary telescope and cameras record images of favorably placed objects in the sky, including constellations, bright variable stars, nebulae through narrow-band filters, comets, the Moon, and planets. ... Shared Skies telescopes are available for use by students at the University of Louisville and the University of Southern Queensland, and by teachers and students in middle and high schools mentored by faculty at the universities. ...

The Telescope:Pointing Data script takes set of pointing error measurements of pointing reference stars across the sky. ... To retry measuring the star, fix the problem (e.g. by adjusting focus, exposure time or offset) and press Continue . ... For each point in the az/alt grid the script will find and slew to a nearby pointing reference star, measure the star, write the pointing error to a data file whose path is displayed, and correct the pointing error. ...

... They cover a period of 4 days in which the Supernova continues to rise in brightness (what astronomers call magntiude). ... First Image Taken on March 11 at 8:22 UT. Second Image Taken on March 12 at 8:52 UT. ... The supernova is the same brightness as in the previous image taken 2 hours ago . ... This image, taken 24 hours after the previous image, shows the supernova to be another 0.21mag (or about 25%) brighter. ... Hopefully the images do show that the brightness of the Supernova is changing. ...

T he Siding Spring Survey (SSS) is a Near-Earth Object search program that utilises the 0.5-m Uppsala Schmidt Telescope at Siding Spring Observatory, N.S.W., Australia. ... The mission of the Siding Spring Survey is to contribute to the inventory of near-earth objects (NEOs), or more specifically, the potentially hazardous asteroids (PHAs) and comets (PHOs) that may pose a threat of impact and thus harm to civilization. ... Based on the CSS Mission page . ... Siding Spring Survey Main Page . ...