... Observatory . ... Science . ... Science Users Information > Data Handling and Products > Data Reduction FAQ > My data shows an extended, bright feature - what can this be? ... Observing Facilities . ... Observing with ESO Telescopes . ... Science Data Products Forum . ... ESO Data . ... You might also want to check http://www.eso.org/sci/observing/PublicSurveys/useful_links/OmegaCAM_images.html where we provide a collection of example OmegaCAM images, illustrating some special data features. ...

... This section highlights some typical FOC image characteristics. ... Occulting fingers located near the aperture entrance if the image size is greater than 512 x 512 pixels or if the FUV prism is in the beam. Reseau marks etched onto the faceplate of the detector to aid in geometric correction ( Figure 4.4 ). ... A faint diagonal parallel striping pattern called pattern noise . ... Warped edges ( Figure 4.4 ). ... Figure 4.5: FOC 512 x 512 Image Showing Faint "Thumbprint" Pattern or "Fringes" . ...

... September 29, 1999 . The Crab Nebula in X-Rays . Credit: Chandra X-ray Observatory , NASA . ... At the nebula's center is an ultra-dense neutron star that rotates 30 times a second. The power liberated as this neutron star slows its rotation matches the power radiated by the Crab Nebula . The above picture by the recently launched Chandra X-Ray Observatory shows new details of the nebula's center in X-ray light , yielding important clues to how the neutron star powers the nebula. ...

... Tonight's Sky . ... The Magazine . ... Observing . ... The double star 54 Leonis, spiral galaxy NGC 3198, and emission nebula NGC 3199 . ... Astronomy for Kids . ... Observing springtime deep-sky objects with a large telescope . ... Bright planets meet at dusk . ... Astronomy magazine subscribers can read the full article for free. ... Get instant access to subscriber content on Astronomy.com! ... Receive news, sky-event information, observing tips, and more from Astronomy's weekly email newsletter....

... A detailed study of two consecutive bright points observed simultaneously with CDS, EIT and MDI is presented. The analysis of the evolution of the photospheric magnetic features and their coronal counterpart shows that there is a linear dependence between the EIT Fe XII 195? flux and the total magnetic flux of the photospheric bipolarity. ... In a follow-up study, we used wide slit (90arcsec240arcsec) movies of four EIT coronal bright points (BPs) obtained with CDS. ...

... In fact, 18th century cosmic tourist Charles Messier cataloged two of them; M8, the nebula below and right of center, and colorful M20 at the upper right. Driving Toward a Sun Halo . ... In the above case, however, there are actually millions of lenses: ice crystals. ... Edge On Galaxy NGC 5866 . ... Many disk galaxies are actually just as thin as NGC 5866, pictured above, but are not seen edge-on from our vantage point. ... Infrared Andromeda . ... Enceladus Ice Volcanos . ...

View Edit Attributes History Attach Print Search . ... Observing . ... PPTA timeline . ... Editing this wiki . ... RFI . This page is dedicated to identifying the types of RFI that you may encounter whilst observing for P456. ... To upload an image, click 'Edit' at top right, log on, and click 'Attach'. ... Then add a title, description, and the 'Attach' definition and save the page. ... View Edit Attributes History Attach Print Search - Page last modified on February 19, 2014, at 10:59 PM . ...

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 | ...

Scientists Discover Surface Features on Titan . ... Scientists for the first time have made images of the surface of Saturn 's giant, haze-shrouded moon, Titan. ... Peter H. Smith of the University of Arizona Lunar and Planetary Laboratory and his team took the images with the Hubble Space Telescope during 14 observing runs between Oct. ... About three weeks before Cassini's first flyby of Titan, the spacecraft is to release the European Space Agency's Huygens Probe to parachute to Titan's surface. ...

... A1 centered at 2500 angstroms with a width of 1200 angstroms . ... UGC 6151 is a Low Surface Brightness Galaxy which is at the center of the first deep survey field taken with UIT. The total exposure time was 1370 seconds out of a planned 2000 through the A1 filter. ... The galaxy has very faint outer spiral structure and tightly wound inner spiral structure. The outer spiral structure should be more prominent at UV wavelengths if star formation is occurring out there. ...

Current projects: . Pre-proposal stage (i.e. Bright Ideas) . Project for observing kinematics in tidal/peturbed features: . Absorption lines through Tidal features of NGC772 . ... Absorption lines through Tidal features of LEO I . ... Absorption lines through HI features of NGC6822 - under re-review . ... Absorption lines through Tidal features of NCG4631 . ... Absorption lines through Tidal features of Leo Triplet, NGC3628 . ... Further Studies of the CO in the Magellanic Bridge. ...

... Bojan Nikolic web pages (r. 329) . ... We present a Bayesian approach to calculating the coefficients that convert the outputs of ALMA 183 GHz water-vapour radiometers into estimates of path fluctuations that can be used to correct the observed interferometric visibilities. ... Inference of Coefficients for Use in Phase Correction . ... Simulating Atmospheric Phase Errors, Phase Correction and the Impact on ALMA Science . ... Copyright 2005 -- 2016, Bojan Nikolic feedback welcome ...

... Observations of the Moon eclipse on 17.09.97 have shown the Moon details contrasts had decreased and the total radio brightness had fallen at all observed frequency range (from 10% at 1.38 sm down to 2.5% at 13 sm). The fall of the Moon radio brightness has been detected during the eclipse at decemeter waves for the first time. ... Radio emission of the Copernicus crater at 1.38 and 2.7 sm has been detected for the first time. ...

... The Sun of our solar system is a typical star of intermediate size and luminosity. ... The Sun has a very complex surface magnetic field created by convective flow of the electrically conducting solar material. ... The escaping hot coronal plasma is called the solar wind . ... See the table below for the observed features above the Sun's surface. ... Chromospheric features . Coronal features . ... dense clouds of material suspended above the surface of the Sun by magnetic field line loops . ...

... 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. ...

XMM-Newton Science Analysis System . ... Meta Index / Home Page / Description / Out-of-time events . If withoutoftime =y the task does not create the ``normal'' events file but uses the input file instead to create an event file where all events are treated as out-of-time events. ... Similarly, for Full Frame and Extended Full Frame modes (currently) the 11 rows closest to the CAMEX are set bad onboard but sources in these rows may also cause unrecognized out-of-time events. ...

... Laboratory and theoretical modelling of the UV bump on the interstellar extinction curve is a very popular topic in dusty investigations. ... feature is illustrated by Fig. 10 where the profiles were calculated using the model of graphite spheres. Figure 10: Normalized extinction efficiencies for graphite spheres. ... The lower panel shows the summary extinction of two graphite spheres with radii and (from upper panel) taken in equal proportions. ...

... 11 Yellow-Green (78% transmission): Contrasts well with the red and blue characteristics of surface features on Jupiter and Saturn. ... 82A Light Blue (73% transmission): Useful on the Moon, Mars, Jupiter, and Saturn, this subtle pale blue filter enhances areas of low contrast while avoiding significant reduction of overall image brightness. ... Meade Series 4000 Photo-Visual Color Filters may be ordered individually or in the following sets: . ... Meade Series 4000 Broadband Nebular Filters . ...

... Now and then it experiences a magnetic storm , a disturbance of the magnetic field observable all around the globe, lasting a few days and adding appreciably to the Earth's trapped plasma. The storm is accompanied by large bright auroral displays, often extending well beyond the auroral zone, a rare spectacle for those not used to it. ... After analyzing them with a network of four stations, he concluded that they came from large electric currents flowing along the auroral arcs. ...

... ON THE ROLE OF LARGE-SCALE PLASMA IRREGULARITIES AT THE FINAL STAGE OF ANOMALOUS ABSOPTION DEVELOPING UNDER HF HEATING OF THE IONOSPHERE . ... Fig. ... With the aid of numerical statistical modeling based on multiple ray tracing it is shown that in presence of large-scale irregularities the reflected signal amplitude mean value is increased significantly. ... Dependence of the mean amplitude of the reflected from the ionosphere signal on the large-scale (10-50 km) electron density irregularity level...