... Bad Astronomy . ... Bad Astronomy : The Moon appears larger on the horizon than overhead because you are comparing it to foreground objects. Good astronomy : The Moon does appear larger on the horizon, but it is because of the way we perceive the sky. ... The most common misconception is that it is because you are unconsciously comparing the Moon to foreground objects like trees and houses, or even the horizon itself, and that makes the Moon look bigger than when it is all alone in the sky. ...

... omichain (omichain-1.51) [xmmsas_20080701_1801-8.0.0] . ... The omichain then cycles through each filter in the filter list and processes each exposure in the exposure list for that filter. ... If a USNO catalogue fits file is available, and the parameter usecat is set to true then it will also correct the astrometry for any offset between the OM and USNO RA and dec axes, adding the columns RA_CORR and DEC_CORR to the source-list. ...

... Обзор LPR фильтра. Впечатления от наблюдений с LPR фильтром. ... Характеристики цветных фильтров Baader-Planetarium . Мой перевод pdf- файла о фильтрах с сайта Baader-Planetarium (379 кб) . ...

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Return to Hidden Hollow 2008 Info . ... A few thousand stars resolved through a small telescope. ... Special thanks go out to Tammy Plotner and her Hidden Hollow associates from the Richland Astronomical Society who organized this event. ... It is nice to see that they are providing us with all of the essentials. ... Ron Ravneberg is an amateur astronomer, telescope builder and long-time member of the Columbus Astronomical Society. ... Phil Creed is an active participant in amateur astronomy. ...

Posting Observations . ... You will need to subscribe to vsnet-acc (to allow you access to post your observations). ... VSNet has several different e-mail sigs, and sub sigs. ... These list are controlled by a software package called " Majordomo ", which allows you to subscribe and unsubscribe yourself from these list with an e-mail message (automated). ... Once you have subscribed to vsnet-acc (which will only send you a welcome message back and nothing else) you can post to the other list. ...

... After the edit, recompile the kernel and recompile the Apache server then reboot. ... If you're running a really busy BSD Apache server, the following are useful things to do if the system is acting sluggish: . ... Maximum # of processes . ... This machine is a server that handles lots of traffic, # so we crank that value. options NMBCLUSTERS=4096 # mbuf clusters at 4096 # # Misc. options # options CHILD_MAX=512 # maximum number of child processes options OPEN_MAX=512 # maximum fds (breaks RPC svcs)...

Theory of filtering and time series processing L. Zotov Laboratory work ?2 Purpose: Studying Fourier analysis of signals with random components. ... Study the calculation of the autocovariance function. ... 2) Make yourself the following a) Change the periods of harmonics b) Increase the order of autoregression c) Make the normalization of the autocovariance function. d) Change the unbiased estimation of ACF to biased e) Use another window for Blackman-Tukey method ...

... The first person to orbit the Earth was the Russian Yuri Gagarin, on April 12, 1961. The first American to do so was John Glenn, who completed three orbits on February 20, 1962; more than 26 years later, at age 77, Glenn returned to space aboard the space shuttle. ... Any manned mission faces the problem of safe return to Earth, which requires getting rid of the huge amount of energy associated with orbital motion. A spacecraft in low Earth orbit moves at about 24 times the velocity of sound. ...

... The First (Experimental) International Astronomy Olympiad . The following olympic problems were proposed for the participants on the theoretical part: Grades 8-10 . ... Why is it sometimes better to use a small telescope in orbit around the Earth than it is to use a large telescope on a mountain top? ... What will an observer looking to the Moon through the telescope see? ... Paper with a drown circle and table of maximal elongations of Mercury and Venus had been done for participants. ...

... Exposure Time Calculator (ETC) . Survey processing . ... VISTA is a 4-m class wide field survey telescope for the southern hemisphere, equipped with a near infrared camera (1.65 degree diameter field of view at VISTA's nominal pixel size) containing 67 million pixels of mean size 0.34 arcsec and available broad band filters at Z,Y,J,H,K s and a narrow band filter at 1.18 micron. A wide field visible camera, if constructed, could also be used on VISTA. ... Tile . ... ESO VISTA Public Surveys . ...

... Submitted by Paul Cicchetti on 09/10/2013 23:21:36 . ... Re-imaged this galaxy because I was not satisfied with the original submission into my galley. Imaging information as follows: Consists of two night of clear filter images (20+20) with sub frame of 180 sec. RGB were 15 images each of sub frame 180 sec. ... Copyright (c) Amateur Telescope Makers of Boston, Inc. ...

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Общая Астрономическая Конференция > Практика > Астрономические наблюдения > Новая . ... 27.10.2009, 21:16 . ... 1994 (Daniel W. E. Green, ed.) reports the discovery of an apparent nova by Koichi Nishiyama, Kurume, Fukuoka-ken, Japan, and Fujio Kabashima, Miyaki-cho, Saga-ken, Japan, at magnitude 9.3 on two 60-s unfiltered CCD frames taken on Oct. 26.439 and 26.440 UT. Five unfiltered CCD frames taken around Oct. 26.455 yielded mag 9.3 and the following position: . ...

The Chi-Square Goodness of Fit Statistic . This statistic enables us to test whether observed frequencies are close to . those we would expect. ... Expected frequencies . ... For example, if we . have an honest die we would expect 1/6 of all cases to show any of . ... So, for example, if we roll a die 60 times we would expect : . ... If we actually roll a die 60 times we wouldn't expect each of the faces . ... times each face actually comes up is the observed frequency for that face. ...

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Next: Unusual Emission near a Up: NICMOS Science Previous: The Stellar Population in . ... Three examples are presented of how ISOCAM 1 sees the process of stellar evolution. i) Standard staring and coronographic observations with ISOCAM towards BD+31 643 are presented. ... Position 4 is closest to the star; Position 6 coincides roughly with the minimum of emission seen in the images; position 7 with the ring. ... I presented three examples of the evolution of stars as seen with ISOCAM. ...

SETI with SKA1 and SKA 2 Alan Penny1, Heino Falcke2, Mike Garrett 3 1 University of St Andrews and South African Astronomical Observatory PI: LOFAR Early Access Program LEA070 ­ 'A SETI Pilot Program' 2 Raboud University 3 ASTRON and Leiden University AAVP2010 U Cambridge 8-10 December 2010 What a radio SETI search looks for A narrow (perhaps1 Hz wide) spectral line Sections 1. SETI 2. Experience of SETI with LOFAR and WSRT 3. SETI and SKA - needs Sections 1. ...

RTT150 . ... This search system is designed for generating the necessary information on series of pointings (observations of each source consist of sets of exposures with different filters and sometimes with different exposure times) for observed sources. Search results appear at the separate page as a table with the following data: . DATE - real (not evening!) observations date (in YYYY-MM-DD format); . ... Bin - minimal CCD binning mode (may vary during the observations); . ...

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