... Each day a different image or photograph of our fascinating universe is featured, along with a brief explanation written by a professional astronomer. 2012 March 16 . Bright Planets at McMath-Pierce Solar Telescope . ... Wisconsin-Madison ), Ron Oliversen ( NASA-GSFC ) . Explanation: Bright planets Venus and Jupiter are framed by the National Solar Observatory's McMath-Pierce Solar Telescope in this very astronomical scene. ... About APOD | ... A service of: ASD at NASA / GSFC . ...

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... Home Gallery Astrophotography Deep Sky Images by Joe DiNapoli . ... Deep Sky Images by Joe DiNapoli . ... Deep Sky Gallery by Ed Fox . ... Beyond New York City . ... Observing Resources for Amateur Astronomers - Part 1: Beginning Observers . Observing Resources for Amateur Astronomers - Part 2: Intermediate Observers . ... A History of the First Forty Years of the Amateur Astronomers Association . ... 2016 Amateur Astronomers Association of New York Designed by Press Customizr Powered by . ...

This is a personal project collecting and documenting early images of Harvard College Observatory, focusing on the site at Observatory Hill (previously Summer House Hill). ... The current focus is through about 1920, and filling out the history of the Cambridge location, and buildings. ... Because I'm also interested in the history of printing and image reproduction, some of the information here will emphasize that viewpoint. ... All images plus additional timeline notes (138) . ... Selina Bond (0) . ...

RADIOASTROPHYSICAL DEPARTMENT • INSTITUTE OF SOLAR-TERRESTRIAL PHYSICS RAS SB . ... SSRT - Possibilities of observing . ... Investigations of the SSRT 5.7 GHz radio maps in conjunction with images obtained in other emission ranges, suggested the following conclsions: . ... Solar images obtained in line H a ;(on the left, 16:11 UT, Big Bear observatory) and in the microwave emission (on the right, 04:04 UT, SSRT) 4 march 1997 . ...

... Credit Copyright: NASA , ESA , SSC , CXC , and STScI Explanation: Where can a telescope take you? ... Pictured above , in greater detail and in more colors than ever seen before, are the combined images of the Hubble Space Telescope in optical light, the Spitzer Space Telescope in infrared light, and the Chandra X-ray Observatory in X-ray light. ... Publications with keywords: great observatories - Galactic Center - telescope . ... The Galactic Center in Infrared . ... The Galactic Core in Infrared ...

... Next: MEM Task for Up: Image Restoration and Previous: RegisteringPSF-Matching and . ... In gyro-hold tracking mode, HST is stabilized only with its gyros, and the Fine Guidance Sensors are not used to maintain pointing. ... Experiments have been done on WFPC 2 images of NGC 330 and NGC 422 (having exposure times of 80 and 100 s in gyro-hold mode) with complete success. ... An NGC 422 WFPC 2 WC2 image and an NGC 330 WFPC 2 PC1 image were taken in mode FSGLOCK = GYROS in 1994 January. ...

... H.-M. Adorf, ``HST Image Restoration - Recent Developments'', in P. Benvenuti and E. Schreier, Eds., Science with the Hubble Space Telescope, European Southern Observatory, 227--238, 1992. ... M. Antonini, M. Barlaud and P. Mathieu, ``Image coding using vector quantization in the wavelet transform domain'', Proc. ICASSP , Albuquerque USA, 1990. ... C.H. Chui, ``An Introduction to Wavelets'', Wavelet Analysis and its Application , Academic Press, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, Publisher, 1992. ... Math. ...

... SEARCH ASP SITE: Match ALL words Match ANY word . ... Astronomy . ... Hubble Space Telescope Images: http://hubblesite.org/newscenter/newsdesk/archive/releases/image_category/ . ... The Chandra x-ray telescope (in orbit around Earth) has been sending back a wide range of images of what deep space objects would look like if seen with "x-ray sensitive" eyes. ... Web Sites for Asking Astronomy Questions . ... Ask an Astronomer for Kids: http://coolcosmos.ipac.caltech.edu/cosmic_kids/AskKids/index.shtml...

... By means of deep optical images obtained at the Special Astrophysical Observatory 6-m telescope it was discovered that some Seyfert galaxies that were earlier considered to be non-interacting objects displayed signatures of elongated tidal envelopes belonging to satellite debris. ... Our results suggest that statistic studies based on popular imaging surveys (for example SDSS) can lead to an underestimation of the fraction of minor mergers among galaxies with active nuclei (AGN). ...

... Camera (cold) going up to observing level for insertion into Telescope using the handling tool (blue). July 2007 . image: VISTA_IR_Camera_to_Telescope_2.JPG . ... Camera being moved from its stand in the lower floor of the Enclosure below the Azimuth floor, using the handling tool (blue). image: remove camera from stand.jpg . ... Camera inside the upper part of the enclosure after being lifted up to the Azimuth floor on its handling tool (blue). image: camera reaches az floor.jpg . ...

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RTT150 . ... One of the image, obtained in the May, 2003, with Andor DW436 CCD. Cluster 1541+6626, filter R, exposure 15 minutes, the resolution is 1", limiting star magnitude is 23m, the field of view is 8' x 8'. At the left: image of cluster 0720+7132 (z=0.268) obtained in the beginning of November, 2002 with RTT-150 and AP-47P CCD. 25 minutes exposure in R. The resolution is 0.7" (angular size of the image element - 0.23"), limiting stellar magnitude is 23.5-24. ...

... Image Quality of the VLT . Total Optical Control . First light for the ESO VLT unit telescope 1 occurred during the workshop. ... The image shown (Figure 1 ) here was obtained with the VLT on May 16, 1998, in red light (R band), i.e. while the mirror was still uncoated. ... In this diagram (FIgure 2), the measured image quality of the VLT UT1 astronomical images is plotted versus the ``seeing", as measured by the Seeing Monitor, a small telescope also located on top of the Paranal Mountain. ...

... Iowa Robotic Telescope | ... Talon is based on OCAAS, a software suite developed by software engineer Elwood Downey ( Clear Sky Institute ) for use at the University of Iowa ?s first remote facility (the ATF, or Automated Telescope Facility). ... XObservatory : Telescope Control Interface . ... This program calls upon and coordinates much of the interrelated portions of the Talon architecture, and forms the primary control panel for the telescope, dome, and peripheral systems when used locally. ...

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Links on this page are to sites that hold information on the Sun , our nearest star . ... Big Bear Solar Observatory (BBSO) , California, USA. Mauna Loa Solar Observatory (MLSO) , Hawai'i, USA. ... Space Environment Center, Current Solar Images , Boulder, Colorado, USA. ... Solar Data Analysis Center, Latest Images , at GSFC, Maryland. ... NSSDC - National Space Science Data Center, Solar Physics (at GSFC). ... NSSDC - National Space Science Data Center, Space Physics (at GSFC). Back to Links ...

... The TESIS is a set of solar imaging instruments developed by the Lebedev Physical Institute of the Russian Academy of Science, and launched aboard the Russian spacecraft CORONAS-PHOTON on January 30, 2009. The main goal of the TESIS is to provide complex observations of solar active phenomena from the transition region to the inner and outer solar corona with high spatial, spectral and temporal resolution in the EUV and Soft X-ray spectral bands. ... Solar activity hits a new low . ...

IFP gallery SCORPIO (since 2000). Here some data observed on the 6m telescope with IFP installed in the SCORPIO focal reducer are presented. ... Velocity field . Mkn 1157 was observed 1 Sep. 2002 in the Ha emission line. Texp =32x240 sec, seeing 1.5", IFP260. ... This galaxy was observed September, 23 2000 in the Ha emission line, Texp=32x120 sec, seeing 2.5", IFP260. ... PV Cep was observed at the 6m telescope in May, 25 2003 in the [SII] 6716A with IFP501, Texp=36x200 sec, seeing 1.0". ...