Next: Data reduction Up: Spectral observations and data Previous: Observations with the KPNO . Follow-up spectroscopy with this telescope was conducted as a back-up for a main program which needed photometric conditions. So, the observations presented here were obtained in non-photometric conditions and the absolute flux calibration of the data is unreliable. The Cassegrain focal reducer CAFOS of the 2.2m telescope was used with a long slit of 300 3 and a grism of 187 ? ...

... While the three NICMOS cameras are no longer at a common focus, under many circumstances it is desirable to obtain data simultaneously in multiple cameras. ... From the ground, the infrared background is affected by telluric absorption and emission which limits the depth of astronomical imaging. ... Now, the dominant sources of background radiation will be the zodiacal light at short wavelengths and the thermal background emission from the telescope at long wavelengths. ...

. Attached is the discovery image of SN1999by. It is a 30 second exposure with the 30cm SCT and Starlight Xpress camera. The discovery was confirmed by Tom Boles and Mark Armstrong and looks as if it could be very bright. Although the weather has been very poor, I have managed over 1500 observations in April. Ron Arbour . Back to Bright Supernovae . David Bishop Last modified: Mon May 3 09:08:05 EDT 1999

Next: Tsys scaling Up: Calibration Previous: Calibration . RPFITS files to not contain any information as to whether the telescope calibration was in units of Kelvin or Janskys. On reading the data a default value is set depending on the telescope and frequency of observation. ... ASAP> scans = scantable(('2004-11-23_1841-P484.rpf', unit='Jy') # Or in two steps ASAP> scans = scantable(('2004-11-23_1841-P484.rpf') ASAP> scans.set_fluxunit('Jy) . ...

... The task accepts two sources lists: the observation source list and the exposure source list. ... List of selected sources. This le contains a table, called SRCLIST, with the following columns: Name Type Description SRC NUM Integer Source ID from observation source list RA Double RA from exposure source list DEC Double Declination from expoure source list RATE Real Count rate from observation source list COUNTS Real Number of source counts, from exposure source ...

... Science Users Information > Observing with ESO Telescopes > Phase 2 Preparation > Observing conditions . ... Service Mode Philosophy . ... The following definitions of the observing conditions are common between Phase 1 preparation and Phase 2 preparation, as well as between Service Mode and Visitor Mode observations. ... There are additional Service Mode Policies and Service Mode Guidelines regarding the observing conditions. ... Seeing (Phase 1) and Image quality (Phase2) constraints . ... Moon . ...

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. ...

... The J, H and K bands are characterized by a bright background, such a background is mainly due to the emission of atmospheric lines and of thermal radiation. ... If the source cover a large fraction of the slit, spectra off-source must be observed to adequately sample the sky background. ... The on chip integration time (time spent in each position of the slit) must not exceed 40 seconds in J and H bands and 60 seconds in K band. ... We suggest a sequence of 10 for each elementary integration time. ...

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. ...

... Copyrightї1997 Bob Yen (byen@ix.netcom.com) (http://www.comet-track.com/hb/hb.html) . ... Information on Comet Hale-Bopp for the Non-Astronomer Hale-Bopp rotates about twice a day (3/14/97) . ... The Comet Observation Home Page was been selected to receive the Griffith Observatory Star Award for the week of February 2 - 8, 1997 for excellence in promoting astronomy to the public through the World Wide Web. ... Typically, about 1,000 individual users/computers access this page every day. ...

The Cosmic Microwave Background Radiation Temperature Work in groups of 2-4. ... Due 1999 April 15 In this laboratory exercise, you will use the radio telescope on the roof of Science B to measure the intensity of the Cosmic Microwave Background Radiation (CMBR). ... The output of the telescope when pointing at the sky will then be 2 Tsys = Trec + Tsky : The temperature of the sky can in principle arise from two sources, radiation from the atmosphere and radiation from outer space (the CMBR). ...

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... In the three intervening decades there have been many observations of this diffuse emission over a wide range of x-ray energies. ... During the 1970's researchers at the University of Wisconsin, lead by Dr. William Kraushaar, used a series of sounding rocket flights to map the diffuse x-ray emission from the sky in several bands. ... University of Wisconsin Sky Survey map of the B-band (0.13-0.188 keV) x-ray intensity. ... University of Wisconsin Sky Survey map of the 2-6 keV band x-ray intensity. ...

... Second, the observatory can control the configuration, test data analysis procedures, and provide calibration solutions with the help of instrument models. This paper presents the VLT object-oriented framework for the development of ETCs (Exposure Time Calculators) and data simulators. ... Instrument simulations are being developed for the purpose of predictive calibration, instrument configuration control, and evaluation of data analysis procedures. ...

... POLAR/VIS EC . ... Kiruna Magnetometer . ... HLMS VHF Auroral Radar . Active aurora should produce a bright ring around the magnetic pole in the POLAR image (note: the UVI field-of-view is smaller than the planetary disk.) ... Auroral activity near Kiruna, Sweden will produce deflections on the magnetometer trace -- significant activity gets up to several hundred nT of deflection. ... The VIS is one of twelve instruments on the Polar satellite of the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center. ...

... Down), have conducted astrometric observations of main-belt and near-Earth asteroids using the Observatory's ST-7 CCD camera attached to the Armagh Planetarium's 10-inch Meade Schmidt-Cassegrain telescope. Three main-belt asteroids were observed, namely (304)Olga, (849)Ara and (1146)Biarmia. ... It is believed that these observations were also the first Earth-approaching near-Earth asteroid to be observed with the Faulkes Telescope (see http://star.arm.ac.uk/press/2000PH5.html). ...

LBV 2009ip in NGC 7259 . This page is devoted to information on LBV 2009ip in NGC 7259 . Basic information on this SN, including the last reported brightness, on this Supernova can be found on the main page . Information on the original web pages for many of these images can be found on the updates and links web pages. ... Discovery page . SNWeb has a 2009ip page . ... Click on the name in the "Image Credit" column to see the image. ... 2009/08/26.11 . ... Joseph Brimacombe . ...

... In this activity, students will observe that the faintest stars which they can see in the sky are affected by many things: the adaptation of their eyes to the dark, the presence of clouds or haze, the time of year, and the presence of light pollution. General Information . ... After completing this activity, students should have a better understanding of the practical processes for dealing with the light pollution problem and with other environmental and societal issues. << previous page | ...

... Telescopes . ... Fig. ... Theoretical optical resolving power of the MSS, depending on the phases of the moon under typical weather conditions. ... The optical resolving power of the telescope with the MSS allows to observe stars of up to the 12 magnitude. ... Currently, more than 90% of observational time with the MSS spectrograph is used in the spectropolarimeter mode with a diffraction grating 24.7њ. ... wide spectral region with a reciprocal linear dispersion of 9 ?/mm (0.1215 ?/pix) at a time. ...

... Spectrometer and CCD camera attached to the 2 metre "Karl-Zeiss-Jena" telescope of the Observatory on peak Terskol (3100 m, Northern Caucasus). ... The accessible spectral range is ~3500 - ~10200 AA. The CCD camera and the data handling system, developed at SAO, consist of front-illuminated CCD device of 1024x1024 pixels (pixel size 16x16 mkm) inside a dewar, an electronic controller-interface and a IBM PC computer. ... R=45 000 (~90 spectral orders, ~3500 - ~10200 AA registered simultaneously) . ...