Next: Conclusions Up: Compensation for Read-Out Noise Previous: Implementation . ... The star cluster, shown in the left panel of Fig. 1 , consists of a field of unresolved stars at random locations and having randomly selected brightnesses. ... These are replotted in Fig. 8 to facilitate comparisons. ... The low level noise is reduced substantially in Fig. 11 , which is the average of 25 restorations of HST star cluster images, each being the result of performing 500 EM iterations. ...

... 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. ...

... What causes the center of this barred spiral galaxy to light up brighter than almost anything in the universe? ... NGC 3293: A Bright Young Open Cluster . ... Hot Blue stars shine brightly in this beautiful, recently formed galactic or "open" star cluster. ... In the central part of the Lagoon Nebula lies the above pictured Hourglass Nebula. ... Welcome to Planet Earth . ... The nebula cataloged as NGC 604 is a giant star forming region, 1500 light years across, in the nearby spiral galaxy, M33. ...

... We present the ROSAT All-Sky Survey Bright Source Catalogue (RASS-BSC, revision 1RXS) derived from the all-sky survey performed during the first half year of the ROSAT mission in 1990/91. 18,811 sources are catalogued, with a limiting ROSAT PSPC countrate of 0.05 cts/s in the 0.1-2.4 keV energy band. ... Broad band images are available for a subset of the flagged sources. ... Retrieving the full catalogue The ROSAT All-Sky Survey Bright Source Catalogue can be retrieved via your WWW browser: 1. ...

. Please standby and you will be automatically connected to the new location of the unframed Supernova page. Or, click on the link above. If you have questions or problems, please email me at David Bishop dbishop@vhdl.org . Last modified: Mon Aug 27 12:40:15 EDT 2001

... This paper presents an overview of the CENTERFIT image centering algorithm library currently under development in the IRAF system. ... The centering algorithms employed by these applications must satisfy a wide range of efficiency and accuracy requirements, and function robustly on data sets spanning a broad wavelength, resolution, and signal-to-noise regime. This paper presents an overview of CENTERFIT, a library of 1-D and 2-D centering algorithms currently under development in the IRAF system. ...

Meteors are more than just pretty lights in the sky. Since the majority of meteor-producing meteoroids originate from comets, they contain invaluable information about these objects not otherwise obtainable. ... One such possibility is the planet Mars. ... Taking into account the slower average speed of incoming material at the heliocentric distance of Mars from the Sun, a meteoroid of the same mass entering the martian atmosphere at 30km/sec would produce a meteor +0.5 mag fainter than at Earth. ...

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) . ...

New reduction of minor planets photographic plates obtained with Pulkovo Normal Astrograph A.A. Berezhnoy Pulkovo Observatory of RAS, Saint-Petersburg, Russia Minor Planet observations at Pulkovo Periodical observations of 14 bright asteroids named Selected Minor Planets (SMP) were performed at Pulkovo since 1948 within the international framework started by works of B.V. Numerov and D. Brouwer. ... 108 133 113 74 124 67 97 88 14 84 64 5 20 19 Epochs (YYYY.MM) 1200 Mean values of total obs. ...

... We also take care to characterise the flat fields, especially their colour dependence, to very high precision which enables high precision photometry even without autoguiding. ... The Blue Diamond Effect The blue diamond effect is caused by surface imperfections on the silicon chip introduced during manufacture, resulting in a repeated large scale pattern in the flat field at blue wavelengths. ... We can remove the blue diamond by using a colour appropriate flat field produced in the lab. ...

Old subtables of the extended ``HIPASS Bright Galaxy Catalog'' . ... Koribalski, Staveley-Smith, Kilborn, + HIPASS/ZOA teams 2004, AJ 128, 16 . The 1000 Brightest HIPASS Galaxies: HI Properties . ... The 1000 Brightest HIPASS Galaxies: The HI Mass Function . ... The 1000 Brightest HIPASS Galaxies: Newly Cataloged Galaxies . ... To download the gzipped ps-file click here . ... The Brightest Galaxies from HIPASS . Presented is the distribution of the 700 brightest HIPASS galaxies. ...

. Next: About this document ... Up: Part IV Extragalactic Astronomy Previous: Magnitudes . Sky brightnesses in magnitudes per square arcsecond. This data is from Siding Spring observatory - other observatories will be comparable or worse. U . B . V . R . I . J . H . K . Kn . Dark Sky . 22.8 . 22.5 . 21.5 . 20.8 . 19.3 . 6-day Moon ... 21.3 . 20.8 . 20.4 . 19.2 . Full Moon ... 18.8 . 18.5 . 18.9 . 18.2 . 15.0 . 13.7 . 12.5 . 13.7 . Paul Francis . 1999-03-09

... The performance of each algorithm on the simulated lightcurves is scored accor ding to the rates of false positive (Type I) and false negative (Type II) errors. ... Combined: threshold normalization = 5 в 10 -4 References · Aschwanden, M.J., Nightingale, R.W. Tarball, T.D., & Wolfson, C.J. 2000, Ap J , 5 3 5 , 1 0 2 7 · Hudson, H.S. 1991, SoPh, 133, 357 Figure 3 Calibrating the event detection algorithms to optimize false positives, using the simulated lightcurves with zero events. ...

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 | ...

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... 2002 June 20 . Bright Galaxy M81 . ... Explanation: Big and beautiful spiral galaxy M81 , in the northern constellation Ursa Major , is one of the brightest galaxies visible in the skies of planet Earth. This superbly detailed view reveals its bright nucleus, grand spiral arms and sweeping cosmic dust lanes with a scale comparable to the Milky Way . ... The errant dust lane may be the lingering result of a close encounter between M81 and its smaller companion galaxy, M82 . ... About APOD | ...

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... Classical nova V2362 Cyg (N Cyg 2006, 21:11:32.34, +44:48:03.9, 2000 [position in ATel 928 is incorrect!] ) undergoes gradual increase of its brightness since middle of August, 2006 from the level of V = 11.9. ... Full width of Halpha line is 5900 km/s, and that one of Hbeta is 5300 km/s. We identified the strongest emission features as CIII+NIII blend centered on 4652A, [OIII]+NII blend on 5010A, NII+[NII] blend on 5708A, NaI+OI blend on 5920A. Absence of HeI lines at 6678 and 7065A is surprising. ...

You Can Make Stellar Images Brighter . Articles | ... A few months ago I wrote an article titled "You Can’t Make Them Brighter". So why am I now writing that you can make them brighter. ... The image of a focused star is actually a small disk called the Airy disk, named after the 19 th century scientist Sir George Airy. ... For a given aperture, a smaller Airy disk means that the light is focused to a smaller disk and is therefore brighter. ... www.astronomy.net . About Astronomy Net | ...