... This effect is visible in Figure 4.3 which shows a logarithmic stretch of the image resulting from a 100s exposure on a star of V magnitude 2.6 through filter F502N in the PC. Extreme overexposure of the Loral CCDs is not believed to cause any permanent effects, and therefore the WFPC2 does not have a bright object limit. ... This model only works on very highly saturated stellar images. ... Several other artifacts that are common in saturated stellar images are also obvious in Figure 4.3 . ...

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. ...

... If findbadsegments =Y embadpixfind looks for bright rows and columns too. ... If a bright row or column is found, it is analysed to look for bright segments within. If it is found that the rest of the row/column is compatible (to 10% probability) with the neighbouring rows/columns, then only the bright segments are declared as bad. The minimum length of the bright segments is set such that one expects about 1 count in that length in the normal (not bright) parts. ...

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Astronomy Picture of the Day . Bright Points on the Quiet Sun . ... Explanation: Up close, the solar surface is a striking patch work of granules in this very high resolution picture of the quiet Sun . Caused by convection, the granules are hot, rising columns of plasma edged by dark lanes of cooler, descending plasma. ... Constantly present on the solar surface, the bright points do not seem to be related to sunspots that come and go with the magnetic solar cycle . ... Hole in the Sun . ...

... 2010 April 16 . Bright Points on the Quiet Sun . ... Explanation: Up close, the solar surface is a striking patch work of granules in this very high resolution picture of the quiet Sun . ... Constantly present on the solar surface, the bright points do not seem to be related to sunspots that come and go with the magnetic solar cycle . ... About APOD | ... NASA Official: Phillip Newman Specific rights apply . NASA Web Privacy Policy and Important Notices . A service of: ASD at NASA / GSFC . ...

... 173Wall Peacock We catalogue the brightest extragalactic radio sources at 2.7 GHz. ... These data were originally presented in Wall and Peacock, MNRAS, 216, 173. The values in parenthesis include (units, datatype, example). 1 iauname Name of source in IAU convention (char7, example: '0320-37') . ... 3 ra_1950 rad Right ascension of source in radians (B1950) (real, example: 0.876068) . ... 9 alpha Spectral index of source between 2.7 and 5 GHz (real, example: 0.52) . ... Longair, 1975 . ...

The night sky brightness, together with number of clear nights, seeing, transparency, photometric stability and humidity, are some of the most important parameters that qualify a site for front-line ground--based astronomy. ... Night sky at ESO-Paranal (Chile). ... Night sky brightness data . ... UBVRI night sky brightness at ESO-Paranal during sunspot maximum (A 2003, PDF) . ... The Dancing Sky: six years of night sky observations at Cerro Paranal (Starlight 2007 conference proceedings, PDF) . ...

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 | ...

. Next: *tprint* - Reading a Up: *imexamine* - General analysis Previous: Contour Plot . Some other useful functions which also give graphical results are: . r gives radial plot of surface brightness. c (column) gives brightness in a vertical slice through the cursor. l (line) gives brightness in a horizontal slice through the cursor. rsdc@cfa.harvard.edu . 1998-06-10

... ATNF Home . ... About ATNF overview . ... Australia Telescope Steering Committee . ... Parkes radio telescope . ... It has been argued in the literature that low surface brightness (LSB) galaxies might contribute a considerable HТљ I cross section. ... Figure 3: The column density distribution function ( left ) and HТљ I mass density ( right ) for high and low surface brightness galaxies. High surface brightness galaxies dominate the HТљ I cross section, especially for column densities . ...

... The Galactic low-mass X-ray binary GS 2023+338 was discovered during the burst on May 22, 1989 with the Japanise satellite Ginga (aka Galaxy). The flux reached 17 crabs (this unit of flux measurement is an bright X-ray source, Crab Nebula) at 10-35 keV. ... No other radio telescope worldwide carried out multi-frequency measurements. ... Upon 14 days the radio flux fell below the detection level at the RATAN-600 in relation to the decrease of the X-ray flux. ...