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Observation Strategies . For broad band filters the sky background will limit the detection of faint targets. ... See Table 6.3 on page 113 for sky level as function of ecliptic coordinates.) If these higher sky levels would severely impact the science data, observers should consider specifying the special requirement LOW-SKY on the Phase II proposal. ... Scattering of bright Earth light in the OTA can produce non-uniformities in the background which may hamper analysis of faint target images. ...

... NOTE 2: There is NO warning in CIMA if the current source goes outside the allowed ZA range--the telescope will just silently stop tracking the source when it has reached the ZA limit. ... A 'CIMA Observing Menu' window will open. ... Click on 'Backend Control' in the 'CIMA Main Menu' on the left. ... After the telescope has slewed to it, in 'CIMA observing menu' click 'Observe' (if this is buried below a mass of windows, you can bring it up by clicking 'Pulsar Observing' in the 'CIMA Main Menu'). ...

Visual Discovery of SN1995V in NGC 1087. ... My basic supernova search still continues with my backyard 41cm telescope. ... The discovery of supernova 1995V in NGC 1087 is the second discovery to be made this year with the larger telescope. ... After this, they took two CCD pictures of NGC 1087 from which the magnitude of the supernova could be calculated in relation to a nearby measured star, and the offsets of the supernova could also be measured. ...

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... Our Sun is part of a huge wheel-shaped collection of stars. ... Astronomers have long suspected it was a very massive black hole, and that every galaxy had such a central mass, created early in the history of the universe. ... However, unless that object happens to be headed directly at the black hole (a relatively small target) it will just swing around and fly away again, like a comet making a pass at the Sun. The velocity acquired in falling towards the black hole also helps it escape. ...

ATMoB "Open Cluster Observing Award " Guidelines Purpose: To promote observing among the membership of the Amateur Telescope Makers of Boston through participation in the Open Clusters Observing Awards program. Introduction: This awards program is oriented towards visually observing open clusters above magnitude 9.9. ... It turns out that a very unprejudiced and convenient method to dermine the limiting magnitude is to count the number of visible stars in certain areas on the sky. ...

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... At the Limit of Diffraction . ... Credit Copyright: Yuri Beletsky ( Las Campanas Observatory , Carnegie Institution ) Explanation: Did you ever want to just look through the eyepiece of a large telescope in space ? If you could, you would see a sharp view that was diffraction limited . ... Still, in this working earth-based snapshot a new active adaptive optics system (MagAO) is being used to cancel out the atmospheric blurring in a visual observation of famous double star system Alpha Centauri . ...

Astronotes Armagh Planetarium's Stellar Blog! ... Space Flight . ... Posted on February 6, 2014 | 2 Comments While the winter sky may be the тАШAladdinтАЩs caveтАЩ for skywatchers, and we may already have plundered deeply one of its greatest celestial treasures, the constellation of Orion, we forge [ ] . Continue Reading.. Posted on January 22, 2014 | ... Posted on December 6, 2013 | ... Posted on November 6, 2013 | ... Posted on October 4, 2013 | ... Posted on September 9, 2013 | ...

... Why this is interesting: reasons for which astronomers get very excited around this time, and how your help can be valued for scientific research by Dr Apostolos Christou (Tolis), Armagh Observatory . Observing times . ... A variety of observing methods are suitable for the scientific study of mutual events. ... Time . The need for accurate time information is as important as the need for a reference object. ... International Year of Astronomy, Ireland National Node . ...

... Each point shows the 1 sigma photometric errors and the time span covered by the data; the dotted lines are the 3 sigma limits of each image. ... The solid thick lines are a fit obtained from a K-corrected, time-dilated SNIb light curve at z= 0.95 with tmax=34.0, E(B-V)=0.04 and omega=0.1. ... The three images on the left are the total HDF-N images by Williams et al. 1996 with a pixel scale of 0.04 arcsec/pixel. ... Each image is labelled by the filter and the time range of the observations in days....

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... GCN 8471 | ... TITLE: GCN CIRCULAR NUMBER: 8516 SUBJECT: GRB 081102: MASTER refind and final results DATE: 08/11/11 15:50:10 GMT FROM: Vladimir Lipunov at Moscow State U/Krylov Obs E. Gorbovskoy, V. Lipunov, V.Kornilov, A.Belinski, N.Shatskiy, N.Tyurina, D.Kuvshinov, P.Balanutsa Sternberg Astronomical Institute, Moscow State University A. Tlatov, A.Parkhomenko Kislovodsk Solar Station of the Pulkovo Observatory V.Krushinski, I.Zalognikh Ural State GCN Circ 8470, Lipunov et al., ...

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... Our scientific interest is an accuracy of asteroid CCD observations obtained by amateurs and professional astronomers all over in the World. ... These data help us to analyse an accuracy of real CCD positions in the MPC Database. ... Do you test your observations of the small Solar System bodies permanently before sending them to the International Minor Planets' Center? ... Do you know a real accuracy of your positional CCD-observations in comparison with the other observatories' one ? ...

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... The Stellar Oscillations Network Group (SONG) seeks to study p-mode (acoustic) oscillations in solar type stars. ... The observation of many solar-like stars will also help us to understand how solar p-modes are excited and damped. ... Naively, the two or three orders of magnitude improvement over this provided by the normal 1 second time resolution of the KPNO CCD cameras should be quite sufficient for such a detection. ... Figure: Non-cadenced data-a free-running observing sequence. ...