... 2002 February 23 . Shocked by Supernova 1987A . ... NASA . ... While the central concentration of stellar debris has clearly evolved over this period, the yellow spot on the ring in the righthand picture announces the collision of an outward moving blast wave with the pre-existing, light-year wide ring. ... Astronomers are hopeful that such collisions will illuminate the interesting past of SN 1987A , and perhaps provide more clues about the origin of the mysterious rings . ... About APOD | ...

... STScI-PRC00-06 LIGHT AND SHADOW IN THE CARINA NEBULA Previously unseen details of a mysterious, complex structure within the Carina Nebula (NGC 3372) are revealed by this image of the "Keyhole Nebula," obtained with NASA's Hubble Space Telescope. ... This region, about 8000 light-years from Earth, is located adjacent to the famous explosive variable star Eta Carinae, which lies just outside the field of view toward the upper right. ...

... CentralProcessor 0.11 documentation . ... A summary of the different types of preprocessing available to Selavy. ... One way Selavy can try to increase the apparent signal-to-noise of objects is to perform a thresholded multi-resolution wavelet reconstruction of the data, using the Уљ trous algorithm. ... These wavelet arrays describe the amount of signal at that scale at that location. ... Minimum wavelet scale to include in reconstruction. ... Maximum wavelet scale to use in the reconstruction. ...

... These Frontier Fields will combine the power of HST with the natural gravitational telescopes of high-magnification clusters of galaxies. ... We are soliciting gravitational lensing maps for the last four Hubble Frontier Fields clusters (MACSJ0717.5+3745, MACSJ1149.5+2223, AbellS1063, and Abell 370) based upon the exceptionally deep HST FF imaging and other new ancillary data. ... For the full set of proposal instructions and requirements, see the FY16 Frontier Fields Lensing Map Call for Proposals....

... Dumbbell Nebula Close Up from Hubble . ... 11.02.2003 . ... Hubble Heritage Team ( STScI / AURA ), NASA Explanation: What causes unusual knots of gas and dust in planetary nebulas ? ... Pictured above is a newly released image of the Dumbbell Nebula by the Hubble Space Telescope showing details of its gaseous knots. ... The Dumbbell Nebula , also known as M27 , is a planetary nebula thought similar to what our Sun will become when it runs out of core fuel for nuclear fusion . ... February 2003 . ...

Next: C.S. Jeffery, Research Astronomer Up: Research Previous: J.E. Chambers, Research Astronomer Contents . During 1998 Dr Gerry Doyle was involved with three PPARC PDRA research grants, and was also a co-organiser of two international conferences (the COSPAR Symposium `Activity Observed in the Sun and in Similar Stars', and the Armagh Cool Star Workshop `Solar and Stellar Activity: Similarities and Differences'). He was Associate Scientist with the CDS and SUMER instruments on SOHO. ...

Next: Echelle Reduction Method Up: No Title Previous: Example . This Chapter provides the basic information necessary to understand the echelle љ package implemented in MIDAS . ... Tutorial examples are available in the system (command TUTORIAL/ECHELLE ) and are also included in the Appendix so that users without previous experience in MIDAS could become familiar with the calibration procedures. ... Reduction steps which are not specific to echelle spectra are described in more detail in Chapter . ...

... Bojan Nikolic web pages (r. 329) . ... The OOF data reduction software is made available under the terms of the GPL V2 or (at licensee?s option) latter licences. ... Also, please note that this is primarily a research system that has grown during investigation and application of the OOF technique. ... The first generation of the OOF system that I wrote was designed to work within the software package that J. S. Richer wrote for reduction of with-phase holography for the JCMT. ... Build system: . ...

Next: Running the Exercise Up: Case Study 1: The Previous: Context . Early in the course, I took about 30 minutes out of a lecture to present the exercise to the students, as follows: . ... There is only one difference: the universe of Zog has a quite different cosmology to our universe. Your task, over the next few weeks, will be to figure out what the cosmology of Zog's universe really is. ... At present, you do not know anything like enough to figure out the cosmology of Zog's universe. ...

... gradients dependencies on solar wind parameters and IMF; . ... fate of thermal plasma at the dayside magnetopause. velocity-dispersed injections of the thermal and superthermal ions from LLBL at cusp and cleft (lowest energy VDIS-2 events); . ... outer cusp processes, role of outer cusp indentation, plasma entry (laminar reconnection, turbulent diffusion, others), role of turbulent boundary layer; . how is the magnetosheath plasma heated near magnetopause and cusp? . ... cusp/cleft wave emissions. ...

Next: Jodrell Virgo Survey Up: Minutes of the 1st Previous: Survey Simulations . ... Drift mode: 12s/beam . ... Slow" OTF 6s/beam . ... Fast" OTF, RA-Dec, 3s/beam (drive in RA, step in Dec) . ... Fast" OTF, Dec-RA, 3s/beam (scan in DEC, step in RA) Setup and preliminary analysis: . ... Also look at power spectrum to look for harmonics in baselines: nothing apparent . ... baselines flat . ... Map sensitivity and baseline quality independent of mapping technique when you scan faster than the drift rate. ...

... Observing . ... Home Education Workshops at Adorama Astronomy Workshop: Observing Variable Stars from the City ? February 15, 2015 . ... Beyond New York City . ... Observing Resources for Amateur Astronomers - Part 1: Beginning Observers . ... A History of the First Forty Years of the Amateur Astronomers Association . ... Presented by€а Adorama €аFor the Amateur Astronomers Association of New York . ... 2016 Amateur Astronomers Association of New York Designed by Press Customizr Powered by . ...

Astronotes Armagh Planetarium's Stellar Blog! ... Solar System . ... Monthly Sky Notes . ... By admin January 21, 2011 Posted in: Robot Exploration . A UFO hovers in the Martian sky (Image credit:NASA/JPL) . The car-sized Mars Science Laboratory Curiosity is too heavy to slam into the rocky plains of Mars encased in airbags like its predecessors, so this imaginative and complex system was devised instead. ... Is there a video anywhere on the internet of a test of the ?sky crane? rockets? ...

... WIP is an interactive package with a simple to use interface designed to produce high quality graphical output. WIP was developed as part of the Berkeley-Illinois-Maryland Association (BIMA) project and is available via anonymous ftp. ... Included in the WIP distribution is a complete manual which contains several sample figures with associated commands, a frequently asked questions section, and a descriptive listing of all available commands. ... Figure illustrates WIP's ability to handle images. ...

Crater Gassendi . ... I made this drawing was made on the 26th of november 2001. If you compare this one with the previous drawing of Gassendi (below) the differences are clear. ... This drawing was made on the 28th of september 2001. After nearly a full month without observations I had a one hour gap between the thicker clouds. ... This drawing was made on the 29th of august 2001. ... This drawing was made on the 27th of august 2001. ... This drawing was made on the 25th of august 2001. ...

... Science . ... Science Users Information > Science Publications > Science Announcements . ... Observing with ESO Telescopes . ... Phase 1 Proposals . ... Data Handling and Products . ... Science Data Products Forum . ... Science Announcements . ... Published: 19 Dec 2014 . ... The allocation of ESO telescope time for Period 95 is expected to be emailed on 22 December 2014. ... The ESO GOODS advanced data products are now available via the Science Data Product query forms of the ESO Archive Facility ....

ccf-admin@xmm.vilspa.esa.es ccf-admin@xmm.vilspa.esa.es . ... Previous message: [Ccf] CCF update . Next message: [ccf] Re: subscribe . Messages sorted by: [ date ] [ thread ] [ subject ] [ author ] . Updated reponses for EPIC MOS and PN are now available. A technical note explaining how these matrices can be used with the SAS is also available. Please refer to http://xmm.vilspa.esa.es/ccf/ for the details. The XMM-Newton CCF librarian xmmhelp@xmm.vilspa.esa.es . ...

Next: Notes on Monte-Carlo Simulations Up: No Title Previous: E-P transitions for different . In this section, we describe what the Scenario Machine is and how it works. Monte-Carlo simulations љ of binary star evolution allows one to study the evolution of a large ensemble of binaries and to estimate numbers of binaries at different evolutionary stages simultaneously . ... Notes on Monte-Carlo Simulations . ... Principles of Scenario Machine Operation . ...

... This project was my personal idea quite some time ago: to port XFree86 , the free and optimized X11R6 implementation to OS/2. ... XFree86/OS2 is now available as a public version 3.3.6, which does not expire and for which full source code is available. ... x.physics.usyd.edu.au Please send a mail to me with a complete URL if you have set up a ftp server or a mirror for XFree86/OS2. ... Available ported software . ... I'll still be available as the mediator between XFree86/OS2 and general XFree86. ...

It is highly recommended that you use Microsoft Internet Explorer v 4.0 and not Netscape, to access the applets. Lab B in Klamath B13 is reserved on Friday's from 2-4. ... If you are on a MAC and using Microsoft Internet Explorer v 4.0 you must select the Microsoft Virtual Machine under Options/JAVA in order for the applets to work. These experiments can be run at home, once the JAVA code has loaded into your browser you no longer have to be connected to the Internet for the experiment to run. ...