... Bad Astronomy . ... What Color is Mars? ... Bizarre Image Analysis . ... One image of Mars shows a giant green splotch . Some images show it to have a blue sky, others a red sky, and in yet others the sky is butterscotch. ... When the images from Mars are returned to Earth, and then processed to make a color image, what you are seeing at best is an approximation to what your eye can see. ... When that infrared filter greyscale image is used to construct a color image, the blue tab turns pink. ...

... Up: Proposal Processing . ... ESO is prototyping a distributed ``Phase II'' system that will allow astronomers to prepare their observations at their home institutions, while maintaining a central repository for all observation data. ... ESO is developing a Phase II Proposal Preparation system (P2PP) to collect detailed scientific programme descriptions, in the form of observation blocks (OB). ... ESO's Phase II Proposal Preparation system is an integral part of the VLT Data Flow System (DFS). ...

To read standard input into a shell script use the read command. For example: echo "Please enter your name:" read name echo "Welcome to Edinburgh $name" . This prompts the user for input, assigns this to the variable name and then displays the value of this variable to standard output . ... For example: echo "Please enter your surname\n" echo "followed by your first name: \c" read name1 name2 echo "Welcome to Glasgow $name2 $name1" . ...

... Paper by Bessell on Hipparcos and Tycho Passbands . ... Paper by Sung and Bessell on 40inch CCD UBVRI extinction and standard transformations. ... Paper by Bessell on Standard Systems for Encylopedia of Astronomy and Astrophysics . ... Corrected fluxes for Hamuy et al. standard stars. ... Contact: Prof. Michael S. Bessell Research School of Astronomy and Astrophysics Mount Stromlo Observatory Cotter Rd, ACT 2611 Australia telephone: +61 2 6125 0268, fax: +61 2 6125 0233 email: bessell@mso.anu.edu.au...

Databases (NSDC) of the Natural Planetary Satellites. ... NSDC: Database of astrometric observations of Natural Planetary Satellites . ... They are thoroughly looking for observations in different sources, creating their owndatabases which are then mostly inaccessible to other researchers. ... In the file "content" with explications, the reference is given to the data source as well as the bibliographic reference. ... Data sources. ... Why a specific bibliographic database for Natural satellites? ...

... Armagh Observatory 2001 July */ #declare Shining_Dwarf_Core = sphere{ 0,0,0 , 0.99 hollow on interior{ media{ absorption rgb 0.0 , 0.0 , 0.0 scattering { 5 rgb 1.0 , 1.0 , 1.0 eccentricity + 0.1 } density { spherical color_map{ [0.00 rgb 0,0,0 ] [ 0.05 rgb 0.1 , 0.1 , 0.5 ] [ 0.2 rgb 0.2 , 0.2 , 0.6 ] [ 0.5 rgb ...

... Michael E. Lopez-Alegria (Captain, USN, RET.) ... After his second mission, he led the International Space Station (ISS) Operations branch of the Astronaut Office. ... In October 2014 Lopez-Alegria became an independent consultant; he is based in Washington, D.C. SPACE FLIGHT EXPERIENCE: Mission Specialist (MS)-2, STS-73 Columbia (October 20 to November 5, 1995). ... The primary mission objective was delivery of the Expedition 6 crew to the ISS and the return of the Expedition 5 crew to Earth. ...

pn Filter Wheel Closed Data . ... XMM-Newton SOC Home Page Conferences & Meetings . ... Data Analysis SAS News What is SAS? ... The following links contain pages to the merged Filter Wheel Closed event lists corresponding to the different EPIC-pn modes. ... Fast Modes . ... Burst Mode (BU) Below you can find relevant reports and proceedings about EPIC-pn Filter Wheel Closed exposures, such as spatial, temporal, and spectral properties of the internal background. ... EPIC-pn: background calibration . ...

... Parameters . Filters . ... Direct images . ... The SCORPIO-2 project: . Spectral Camera with Optical Reducer for Photometric and Interferometric Observations - 2 . The broad-band glass filters made in SAO RAS are used for the observation in the Johnson-Cousins (UBVRI) photometric system in the direct images mode. The glass filters transmission curves are shown by solid line. ... The filters transmission curves of the `comets' filters measured with the SCORPIO-2 in the F/4 beam. ...

... Project page . ... Project workpage . Turbulence in the Multiphase Interstellar Medium . Project I | ... Project highlight | ... Towards simulating turbulence with adaptive meshes . ... A. Kritsuk, P. Padoan, M. Norman . ... A. Kritsuk M. Norman . ... A. Kritsuk, M. Norman, P. Padoan . astro-ph/0411626 | ... P. Padoan, A. Kritsuk, M. Norman, A. Nordlund . ... Introducing Enzo, an AMR Cosmology Application . B. O'Shea, G. Bryan, J. Bordner, M. Norman, T. Abel, R. Harkness, A. Kritsuk . ...

... Most Important Journals . Less Popular Astronomical Journals . Physics . Space, Selectial mechanics, .. Russian Journals . ... Astrophysics & Astronomy . ... Astronomical Journal . ... New Astronomy . ... Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific . ... STScI News . Space Telescope Insitute Newsletter . ... Journal of Astronomical Data . ... Journal of High-Energy Physics (mirror in CERN ) [astro, grav, hi-energy .. ... Journal of Experimental and Theoretical Physics . ...

... Three day radio-astronomical forecast of the proton activity of the Sun: The figure shows multiwave radio emission scans - graphs of the distribution of intensity I and circular polarization V across the solar disk, obtained at RATAN-600. ... According to this criterion, for a proton flare to arise, the flux of radio emission must be sufficiently high at short wavelengths (blue color scans) and should increase with time compared to the general intensity. ... More about the solar activity . ...

World coordinates added with astrometry.net Images co-added with swarp Color images composited in ds9 and aladin image_00097.fits TARGET = ' NGC 7320 SQ' / target EXPTIME = 1.0E +02 / exposure time (seconds) FILTER = ' (1) g (400-530) ' / filter DATE-OBS = '2011-11-01T04:27:22' / date of observation (UT) image_00098.fits TARGET = ' NGC 7320 SQ' / target EXPTIME = 1.0E +02 / ...

Here is an image a supernova in UGC3683. 11.4.1998. 0.08 UT, CCD ST-7, 520s. Track and Accumulate exposure (13x40s), no filter, dark and flat corrected, temp -20c, telescope used 152/2063 refractor. The image have been taken at the center of our city, Jyvaskyla. The weather was horrible (a full moon was shining and there was clouds on the sky during exposure), so I had stopped imaging in that night. ... Iґll wait for a next clear night and send a better image then. ...

. Filter wheels currently only hold 2 inch (50mm) square filters . The database is of all shared Apache Point Observatory Filters. Requests for filters are made through the Chief Telescope Engineer or a 3.5-m Observing Specialist. APO Filters Inventory Database .

Within the Hubble Ultra Deep Field there are approximately 10,000 discrete objects. ... Most of these objects are very small and likely have masses in the range of 10 5 to 10 7 solar masses. Note the mass of the Milky Way galaxy is 10 12 solar masses. ... Finally, for you cosmologists/experts out there this ultra deep field is quite consistent with what was seen in the original Hubble Deep Field 5) don't necessarily have small angular diameters. ...

... Description . Catalog . ... In the Catalog, we publish equatorial (ЮБ 2000 , ЮД 2000 ) and galactic (l,b) coordinates of cluster centers derived as the position of overdensity in 2MASS catalog (Koposov et al. ... Distances, color-excesses and ages are the mean-square values calculated using all available evaluations from different color-magnitude diagrams. ... There are individual pages for every cluster where all available plots and parameters are published. ... 2002). ...

Astronotes Armagh Planetarium's Stellar Blog! ... Stars . ... Space Flight . ... Tides of light: M8 in spectacular detail (Image credit: NASA/ESA) . ... Spectacular! ... What else can I say about this stunning Turneresque image of the Lagoon Nebula (M8)? ... This is of course illusory.€а This is a false colour image: light from glowing hydrogen is shown as red, light from ionised nitrogen appears as green and light which passed through a yellow filter is coloured blue. ... Astronotes . ...

... 1100 FTT/NAS . ... 1120 Camera . ... 1140 Camera Mount & Enclosure . ... 1170 Test Equipment . ... 1200 FLC . ... MRO-PLA-CAM-0000-0106 FTT/NAS & FLC Development Plan . ... MRO-ICD-CAM-1000-0109 "FTT/NAS,FLC-UTE" FTT/NAS & FLC to Enclosure ICD . MRO-ICD-CAM-1000-0110 "FTT/NAS,FLC-NOT" FTT/NAS & FLC to optical table ICD . MRO-ICD-CAM-1000-0111 "FTT/NAS,FLC-UT" FTT/NAS & FLC to UT optical ICD . ... Printable View of http://www.mrao.cam.ac.uk/projects/OAS/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/MROIFastTipTilt/DocMan) ...

University Satellites and . Space Science Education . ... Anaglyph method of a visual perception of 3-D images consists of: - simultaneous presentation of the complement images of stereomate (left image of the red color, right image of the blue color); - next following visual perception of these images through the left red filter and through the right blue filter. ... A stereomate of the anaglyph images is projecting to the screen from display of digital photogrammetric equipment. ...