... The GIMP currently (version 0.54) supports images with only 8 bits per channel. A channel can be thought of as one of the base colors of Red, Green and Blue (thats an over simplification, but we'll go with that for now) in RGB images or the range of intensities that White will range through in grayscale images. ... With 8 bits to work with, every pixel in a GIMP image occupies at least one byte (or more precisely, one octet) of memory. ... Values in the range of 0 to 255 are possible using 8 bits. ...

... ESO is building what will be the World's largest optical telescope array, The Very Large Telescope (VLT). The VLT Project organisation is responsible for the design and construction of the Unit Telescopes, including enclosures, optics, adapter-rotators and coating unit. ... Unit Telescopes Overview - This page is outdated, an update is in process. ... Secondary mirror (M2 Unit) - This page is outdated, an update is in process. ... Coating Unit - This page is outdated, an update is in process. ...

Next: *timsort* Up: Timing Analysis Previous: Summary of tasks in . ... Events will be time ordered in the output file. xt> timsort xdata$snr psr ``c 503 513 24'' none A light curve is then generated and plotted so we can inspect the gross properties of the sample (the sequence of good-data intervals and gaps) and any source variability. xt> ltcurv psr none psr 500 xt> ltcplot psr_ltc Finding this sample satisfactory, we search for periodicity with a fast Fourier transform. ...

Editing Files . The SEARCH command finds text strings in files and displays any lines it finds that match the text string. Two arguments are used: the filenames to be searched and the text strings to be found; wildcards and lists of files can be used to search multiple files, and several text strings can be simultaneously matched--each string is separated by a comma. ... For example: . ... Figure 4.10 shows an example of how the DIFFERENCE command can be used to compare two text files. ...

In this gallery are many images of Low Surface Brightness Galaxies which have recently been discovered and analyzed. ... The central surface brightness of this galaxy is 24.28 . Malin 2 This galaxy is another huge disk galaxy with a scale length of 15 kpc and a redshift of 15000 km/a. The high surface brightness knot in one of its spiral arms actually has the same color, luminosity and H-alpha equivalent width as the entire Large Magellanic Cloud . ... Truly it is a Low Surface Brightness Galaxy. ...

... Bad Astronomy . Misconceptions . ... Bad Astronomy : "We're light years more advanced than our competition!" ... Even the closest astronomical object, the Moon, is 400,000 kilometers away! ... A beam of light will travel 9,500,000,000,000 kilometers in one year. This distance is defined as a light year ; the distance light travels in a year. ... This is another example of Bad Astronomy; like a light year, a parsec is a unit of distance, not time (to be specific, it equals 3.26 light years) . ...

... The basic Input/Output class in Karma is the ``channel''. ... A channel is a (possibly) full duplex buffered stream of data. ... The remaining lines contain the array data . # include stdio.h # include errno.h # include karma.h # include karma_ch.h # include karma_m.h int main (int argc, char **argv) { Channel channel ; int xlen, ylen, x, y; float * array ; extern char *sys_errlist[]; static char usage_string[] = readfile infile ; if (argc != 2) { fprintf (stderr, Usage ...

... New Stars In 30 Doradus . ... Compare these matched Hubble Space Telescope views (visible-light on top; infrared on bottom) of a region in the star-forming 30 Doradus Nebula. Find the numbered arrows in the infrared image which identify newborn massive stars. ... Gas and dust clouds in 30 Doradus, also known as the Tarantula Nebula, have been sculpted into elongated shapes by powerful winds and ultraviolet radiation from these hot cluster stars. ... Our Galaxy in Stars, Gas, and Dust . ...

Once students get the hang of it, they can find and measure the brightness of Delta Cephei in a few minutes. ... of Delta Cephei . ... Oct. ... The following table lists the measurements of Delta Cephei made by one amateur astronomer in autumn 1990. ... 4.0 . ... This activity is a simplified version of one that appeared in Hands-On Astrophysics, a series of activities prepared by the American Association of Variable Star Observers with support from the National Science Foundation. << previous page | ...

... This thread contains a step-by-step recipe to extract EPIC (pn will be used as an example) light-curves of a point-like source, starting from a calibrated, concatenated event list (either produced with epproc or available as PPS product; it will bear the name: PN.fits in this thread). The content of this thread is the same as Extraction of a X-ray light curve for a point-like source (command-line version). ... in the lccorr GUI window (see Fig.7) define at least the following widgets: . ...

November 2006 Astronotes 1 Candles in the Dark Image Credit: Wikipedia.org By Colin Johnston, Science Communicator Since the mid-ninteenth century astronomers have used the principle of parallax to measure the distance to other stars. ... How then can we tell, for example, that M31, the galaxy in Andromeda, is 2.2 million light years away? It would be straight-forward to tell how far away a star was if it was exactly the same brightness as our own Sun. ...