... HST . WF/PC-1 Instrument Science Reports . ... Data . ... Annual Reports . ... HST Overview . ... Cycle 24 Announcement . ... Retrieving HST Data . ... HST Science Year in Review . ... Calibration Products . ... We examine the history of hot pixels in the WF/PC-1, and suggest improvements to the present dark calibration scheme. ... For long exposures of faint targets, substantial improvement in dark calibrations can be obtained by using calibration data taken near the time of the science data. ...

... Science Users Information > Observing with ESO Telescopes > Phase 2 Preparation > Service Mode Guidelines . ... Phase 2 Instrument Table . ... Phase 2 Submission . ... This page and the links in the left menu provide the general information necessary to complete the Phase 2 preparation for Service Mode programmes at the VLT/VLTI, VISTA and VST. ... All investigators assigned Service Mode time should contact the ESO User Support Department in all matters regarding phase 2 preparation. ...

... Sun images . ... February : 2016 . ... Image of Sun's photosphere obtained 09.02.2016 at 23:40 UT with HMI instrument on board SDO spacecraft . ... Image of Sun's magnetic field obtained 09.02.2016 at 23:52 UT with HMI instrument on board SDO spacecraft . ... Image of Sun's transition region obtained 09.02.2016 at 23:39 UT with AIA instrument on board SDO spacecraft . Image of Sun's corona . Image of Sun's corona obtained 09.02.2016 at 23:39 UT with AIA instrument on board SDO spacecraft . ...

. First Announcement . Second Announcement . The Proposed Scientific Programme . Symposium Schedule . Views of Zvenigorod . Organizing Committee . V.Stepanov . stepanov@iki.rssi.ru . Space Research Institute of RAS . 84/32 Profsoyuznaya Str . Moscow, 117810 . Russia Phone: +7 095 333 11 22 . Fax: +7 095 310 70 23 . Back to INTERBALL Homepage .

... APT Activities and Science Results 3. ... APT Secretary Philip Edwards (ISAS) reviewed the aims of the APT (http://www.vsop.isas.ac.jp/apt/DefinitionAndAims.html). ... The Australia Telescope Compact Array, and Ceduna, Hartebeesthoek, Kashima, Mopra, Parkes, and Shanghai telescopes of the Asia-Pacific Telescope participated in these observations. ... In the absence of Tetsuo Sasao, Philip Edwards briefly described results of the APT 22 GHz observations conducted from October 1st to 5th, 1997. ...

... Main page News People . ... Master . ... About Space Monitoring Laboratory, scientific directions, instruments, contacts . ... 27.02.2012 . ... MASTER-II Observatory, Kislovodsk (C41): 744 observations of 228 objects from January 22 2012 to February 4 2012 . MASTER-II Observatory, Tunka (C94): 505 observations of 198 objects from January 25 2012 to February 3 2012 . MASTER-II Observatory, Blagoveshchensk (D54): 207 observations of 98 objects from January 22 2012 to February 4 2012 . ...

Statistics of sunspot activity . The sunspot indices . ... The solar regions . ... 2016 . ... February . ... February, 2016 . Visual indices of solar activity by author's observations . ... Average . ... 0.00 . ...

These links highlight 2008 - current ARC projects for telescopes, instruments, or operations at Apache Point. ... Eyepiece: April 10, 2009 . Painted Enclosure: April 23, 2009, Part A , Part B . Drive Maintenance: July 24, 2009, Part A , Part B , Part C , Part D , Part E , Part F , Part G . ... New Interior Photos: March 14, 2014 . TripleSpec Electronics Mount: March 05, 2008: Part A , Part B , Part C . ... TripleSpec: October 30, 2008 . ... GFP Upgrade: December 8, 2010 . ...

... The commissioning of the FORS2 multi-mode astronomical instrument at KUEYEN , the second FOcal Reducer/low dispersion Spectrograph at the ESO Very Large Telescope, was successfully finished today. ... FORS2 is now ready to be handed over to the astronomers on April 1, 2000. ... Additional information about the VLT Data Flow System is available in ESO PR 10/99 . ... ESO Press Photo 05a/00 . Preview; JPEG: 400 x 452; 52k] . ... This is the caption to ESO PR Photos 05a-c/00 . ...

NATIONAL ASTRONOMY AND IONOSPHERE CENTER . ... Visitor Center . ... Kick-Off Ceremony of the Arecibo Observatory 50th Anniversary . Observation Night . ... This activity was organized by the staff of the †Бngel Ramos Foundation Visitor Center with the collaboration of the Astronomy Society of Puerto Rico. ... The participants also had the chance to view the exhibits at the †Бngel Ramos Foundation Visitor Center as well as to view the new Arecibo Observatory movie at the AO Amphitheater. ...

USA Solar Mission . Courtesy of NASA's National Space Science Data Center . The Solar Maximum Mission (SMM) was designed to provide coordinated observations of solar activity, in particular solar flares, during a period of maximum solar activity. ... Complementary studies were made as part of the SMM guest investigator program, and coordinated in situ measurements of flare particle emissions were made from the ISEE 3 spacecraft. The spacecraft was launched on February 14, 1980. ...

... Alfred Merrill Worden . NASA Astronaut (former) . ... Married to Jill Lee Worden (Hotchkiss). ... He served as a member of the astronaut support crew for the Apollo 9 flight and as backup command module pilot for the Apollo 12 flight. ... Scott and Irwin collected approximately 171 pounds of lunar surface materials on their three expeditions onto the lunar surface; and Worden logged 38 minutes in extravehicular activity outside the command module, "Endeavour." ...

... February 5, 1999 . HR 4796A: Not Saturn . ... Instead, the panels show a strikingly similar system on a much larger scale - a ring around the young, Vega-like star, HR 4796A , located about 200 light-years from Earth. ... In analogy with the relationship of Saturn's rings and moons , this circumstellar ring could be held in place by forces due to planets - shepherding planetary bodies or the gravitational influence of larger planets orbiting closer to the parent star. ... About APOD > . ...

... Created: 23 February 2001 . ... SOFTWARE MAINTENANCE MANUAL . ... 9 January 2001 . ... Note: in the final document, the table of contents will be to third level] . The Software Maintenance Manual describes the procedures for installation and maintenance of the software for the Gemini Near-infrared Integral Field Spectrograph (NIFS). ... Section 19.4.3 of the document “Programmatic Requirements for Gemini Instrumentation Development” states the requirements for the Software Maintenance Manual . ...

Next: Results of observations Up: Observations and data reduction Previous: IPCS observations and data . The observations in 1996 were carried out with a new CCD-detector in two different set-ups. In February 1996 we used B0 grating (300 grooves/mm) with the wavelength coverage of 3600 - 7000? and a dispersion of 5.2 ?/pixel and B1 grating (600 grooves/mm) with the interval 3600 - 5400? and a dispersion of 2.6 ?/pixel. ... with the dispersion 2.3 ?/pixel and grating B1. ...

... The Galway Astronomy Club are pleased to announce details of their upcoming Astronomy Festival to take place at the 4* Westwood House Hotel from Friday February 12th to Saturday February 13th 2010. The event will be styled in the same manner as this year (which worked very well) and will have ten different speakers. ... Dr Aaron Golden NUI Galway: тАЬHas Earth Contaminated the Solar System? тАУ the Case for Life on MarsтАЭ . ... International Year of Astronomy, Ireland National Node . ...

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... EXPN DNO D A T E UT TIME FQ SOURCE CORR-Telescopes VT734 355-MO Dec 21 08:00-21:00 C TAU-A Pointing VT735 356-TU Dec 22 08:00-21:00 C TAU-A Pointing VT736 358-TH Dec 24 09:00-20:00 K ORIONKL Pointing VT737 359-FR Dec 25 09:00-20:00 K ORIONKL Pointing VT738 360-SA Dec 26 09:00-20:00 C 0528+134 Mitk-UD KA SH W018c 364-WE Dec 30 06:00-15:00 L 0552+398 Socr-VLBA W071n 6-WE Jan 06 10:00-17:00 L J0745+10 Mitk-AT HO MP UD SH KA W059e 7-TH ...

Astronomy Picture of the Day . ... At the Sun's surface, sunspots are known to be dark, planet-sized regions of intense magnetic fields. ... In the Center of Spiral Galaxy M83 . ... What's happening at the center of spiral galaxy M83? ... M83, visible in the inset image on the upper left, is one of the closest spiral galaxies to our own Milky Way Galaxy and from a distance of 15 million light-years, appears to be relatively normal. ... Leonids from Leo . ... Is Leo leaking? ... M87 s Energetic Jet . ...

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