... 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. ...

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Next: To produce a region Up: Image Display in Xwindows Previous: General usage. ... Menu items are chosen by clicking any mouse button (cf. ... save current cursor as an include region (counts within region will be included in subsequent calculations) . ... When another image is displayed, the earlier one can be compared with it by pressing its respective mouse button with cursor in the main display window. ... Table 1: Detailed list of menu options . ... color . ... enter/leave region sub-menu . ...

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• *tvimcontour* - Overlay contours and/or source positions on the display
• *tvmark* - Mark pixel positions on the display
• World Coordinate System Display

... This section highlights some typical FOC image characteristics. ... Occulting fingers located near the aperture entrance if the image size is greater than 512 x 512 pixels or if the FUV prism is in the beam. Reseau marks etched onto the faceplate of the detector to aid in geometric correction ( Figure 4.4 ). ... A faint diagonal parallel striping pattern called pattern noise . ... Warped edges ( Figure 4.4 ). ... Figure 4.5: FOC 512 x 512 Image Showing Faint "Thumbprint" Pattern or "Fringes" . ...

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• WFPC2 Instrument Handbook Update
• Screen Layout
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Set the display of the status bar, tool bar, locator bar, and properties associated with the display of the pointer position in the Locator bar. ... Set fixed point . ... When the fixed point is set, and the display format is (DX, DY), (DIST), or (R, Theta) then give the location relative to the fixed point. ... Set the fixed point to (0.0, 0.0). ... DX, DY] Display the delta in X and Y of the position of the mouse relative to the fixed point, or (0, 0) if no fixed point has been selected. ...

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• http://xray.sai.msu.ru/~polar/xmgr/status.html

... Data Reduction FAQ > The reduced science spectrum displayed in the Reflex window appears good but when I try to plot it, it is quite different. How can I get it? ... Observing with ESO Telescopes . ... ESO-MIDAS . ... Reflex . ... ESO Data . ... ESO HST Image Galleries . ... ESO Data Access Policy . ... ESO Science Newsletter . ... ESO Annual Reports . ... Seminars at ESO Santiago . ... Seminars at ESO Garching . ... ESO Telescope Bibliography . ... Last Update: 01.04.14 ESO . ...

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• The plot selection widget
• Astronomical Image Retouching
• QC Procedure: DFOS operations under VNC

... Virginia Kilborn's program gfinder was run on 388 luthered and edge-masked HIPASS cubes , covering the whole southern sky, over all 1024 channels (i.e. -1281 to 12741 km/s), with an HI peak flux cutoff of 60 mJy/beam. ... The large number of candidates is mostly due to artifacts generated in areas of strong continuum flux, mostly the Galactic Plane, (causing a baseline ripple), the HI emission in our Galaxy, and lots of interference (1408 MHz birdie, GPS etc.) ... Number of galaxies: . ... galaxies ...

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• kpvslice: interactive position-velocity slicing
• tvall
• Package: xi

. Album : Фотоальбом Сергея Аюкова :: Travels to distant places and countries :: 1997/08 Japan (Kyoto, Nara) :: 17/08 Kyoto streets. Maruyama park . Up . << Prev . Dreaming about things on display. After checking, they appeared to be not that tasty compared to how they look. Next >> . Created with the tool album generator from David's MarginalHacks on Wed Jun 5 20:38:34 2013 .

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• Dynamic HTML in Communicator
• Cascading Style Sheets, Level 2

Next: Background Correction Up: Reduction using Standard Previous: Order definition: Method . The parameter WIDTH2 is the width of the calibration lines. ... Now we can execute CALIBRATE/ECHELLE . ... CALIBRATE/ECHELLE DONE ! ... The user is prompted for the identification of two calibration lines on the image display, repeated in overlapped regions of adjacent orders. ... The wavelength calibration is wrong and apparently no identification error was made: There are too many lines per order. ...

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• Scale Widgets
• HTML Tag Reference
• Image Display

A quite amazing and extensive aurora was visible from Northern Ireland during much of last evening and into the early morning. Astronomers at the Armagh Observatory were occupied for much of the evening in recording observations and taking photographs of the spectacular display. The display was first seen when twilight ended as a prominent blue glow in the northeast. About 15 minutes later, at around 7:00 pm, a green aurora could be seen in the northeast. ...

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• May 2002 Planetary Alignment
• Armagh Observatory
• Mystery Flare | International Year of Astronomy in Ireland | Astronomy 2009

... Meade Instruments Corporation . Telescopes ћ Binoculars ћ Microscopes . ... ETX-90AT and Autostar Frequently Asked Questions . ... Which of the Autostar alignment procedures is recommended for viewing celestial objects right out of the box? When using Autostar, how important is leveling the telescope and pointing it to true north before alignment in the Alt/Az or Polar modes? ... Meade ETX-90EC Astro Telescope . ... Copyright 2006 Meade Instruments Corporation, All Rights Reserved. ...

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• Meade Instruments Corporation - Frequently Asked Questions
• Meade Instruments Corporation - Pictor Manual Part 7
• Meade Instruments Corporation - #497 Autostar Computer Controller for ETX-90EC,

... Open Cluster NGC 290: A Stellar Jewel Box . ... 1006 AD: Supernova in the Sky . ... The expanding debris cloud from the stellar explosion is still visible to modern astronomers, but what did the supernova look like in 1006? Skylab Over Earth . ... Many scientific tests were performed on Skylab, including astronomical observations in ultraviolet and X-ray light. NGC 7635: Bubble in a Cosmic Sea . ... Crumbling Comet Schwassmann Wachmann 3 Approaches . ... M82: Galaxy with a Supergalactic Wind . ...

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... Image operations . ... OldMethod Allows the user to select new spectra from the image. ... New method Allows the user to select new spectra from the image using the ds9 image. ... The button is disabled if the source-list is not empty- The source-list can be deleted using the Delete button, allowing omdetect to be run. ... Load source-list Allows the user to select another source-list file. ... Information Allows the user to display information about either the program, exposure or image details. ...

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• The task window
• The contour method of calculating source region shape

Astronotes Armagh Planetarium's Stellar Blog! ... Space Flight . ... Earth Satellites . ... Leonid meteors seen from 13 km altitude aboard an aircraft during the 1999 Leonids Multi-Instrument Aircraft Campaign (Leonid-MAC). Comet Tempel-Tuttle provides the cometary debris for the Leonid meteor shower. ... Every 17-19 November Earth crosses Tempel-TuttleтАЩs orbit and the Leonids become visible. With clear, dark skies observers may see 10 to 15 Leonid meteors every hour on those mornings. ...

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• December Night Sky Wonders | Astronotes

Check out the new images (Jan 18-25) and (Jan 26-Feb 05) of the comet by Rob McNaught. ... Every few years a comet becomes bright enough to be easily seen with the naked eye but only every decade or so are these comparable with comets like Halley. ... Before Jan 13, the comet is not visible in the Australian sky after sunset. ... SOHO images . ... On Jan 12 at approximately 09:00 UT (8pm NSW time), comet C/2006 P1 McNaught appears at the 11 o'clock position in the images. ... STEREO images . ...

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• GSAOI CoDR Pictures Page

... It runs on unix, MacOS and possibly on Windows. ... On MacOS or Windows, double-click TUI. If MacOS complains that the application is unsigned then right-click TUI and select Open. ... If you have never run TUI before, set up your preferences before proceeding (for help on any item, right-click on the control and select Help from the menu that appears): . ... To save your window positions and remember which windows to open at startup, select Save Window Positions from the TUI menu. ...

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• TUI:TUI Menu
• DIS Slitviewer User's Manual
• TUI:Tidbits:Entering Sexagesimal Positions

... IRAF Group , NOAO , PO Box 26732, Tucson, AZ 85726 . The Client Display Library is a new interface that allows host (non-IRAF) C or FORTRAN programs to display images or draw into the graphics overlay using the XImtool image server and image viewers which emulate the XImtool client protocol such as SAOtng, SAOimage, and IPAC Skyview. ... Image cursor read/write . ... The CDL currently uses a modified IIS Model 70 protocol to communicate with IRAF display servers such as XImtool. ... IRAF.. ...

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• POW: A Tcl/Tk Plotting and Image Display Interface Tool for GUIs
• ATV: An Image-Display Tool for IDL
• ADASS 2002 Conference Proceedings

... This program was created for correlating chosen regions in the series of fts images. ... Chosen regions' . ... In this section the program counts the integral for each region of the grid for each image. ... As a matter of fact, the integral is total brightness of the region and it is counted by 'int_tabulated' IDL function. ... In addition, the program will show the count of the regions which correlate with the corresponding region (the brighter region means the bigger count) and its contour. ...

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• Natural Satellites Service. Apparent Encounters of the Tycho-2 Catalogue stars

... This appendix describes how to use the JavaScript console to evaluate expressions and display error messages to the user. ... Displaying Error Messages with the Console JavaScript 1.2 and earlier versions. ... You can specify whether to automatically open the console when a JavaScript error occurs or to display a dialog box for each JavaScript error. ... To open a dialog box each time an error occurs, add the following line to prefs.js : user_pref("javascript.classic.error_alerts", true); . ...

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• A collection of images
• CHIANTI atomic database
• HwB: Plug and Display Analog/Digital (P -A/D) Connector (Offline)

... 2005 August 8 . Mars to Appear Normal This August . ... Regardless of numerous urban legends circulating, Mars will appear relatively normal in August. October is the best month to see Mars this year. ... As Earth catches up to Mars in their respective orbits around the Sun, Mars will keep rising earlier in the night. On 2005 October 30, Earth will have caught up to Mars and the planets will be the nearest to each other in their orbits -- this time around. ... About APOD | ...

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• Type of Galaxies.
• APOD: 2002 May 10 - Trailing Planets
• APOD: 2012 December 3 - A Quadruple Lunar Halo Over Spain

As a result of preceding actions the File opening dialog box appears and user is suggested to open the file with observations (the file may be created for the first time). ... To see the list of files with desirable extension in chosen folder define the type of extension with the help of File type drop-down list at the bottom of the dialog box. ... The name of the file will appear in File name dialog box. ... In case you want to open the file with new name, type it in the File name dialog box. ...

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