... Q: How do I best determine an observation's actual orientation? ... The science header keyword ORIENTAT is populated by adding the angle between the HST V3 axis and the detector Y axis to what we will call the "commanded roll" (North to V3 through East). ... The commanded roll can be determined by subtracting the beta_2 from ORIENTAT. ... Relying on the jitter file's measured roll if a problem is found either with the science header population or with the execution of the commanded roll. ...

Lecture 15 Plan for Lecture Will complete derivation of Angular Diameter Distance and then go through a specific example-- Einstein de Sitter universe Then look at what it becomes in a ` flat ' universe (currently favoured) Then discuss velocities and the Hubble Law (actually derive this) And then specific examples of what the data on Luminosity distance seems to be saying about the dynamics of the universe Finally, a new topic -- horizons, in ... Also, k = 0 (for EdS) S () . ...

... The search for distant objects which can be both galaxies and quasars is one of the most important problems of observational astrphysics, because it allows one to determine cosmological parameters connected with the time of appearence and evolution of stellar systems, large scale structure of the Universe. ... Radio galaxies are important objects to be studied because they are sources of infrared-optical-ultraviolet continuum, emission lines and continual radio emission. ...

... Variation of Leonid maximum times with location of observer R.H. McNAUGHT 1 and D.J. ASHER 2\Lambda 1 Siding Spring Observatory, Coonabarabran, NSW 2357, Australia ... Armagh Observatory, College Hill, Armagh, BT61 9DG, UK \Lambda Correspondence author's e­mail address: dja@star.arm.ac.uk (Received 1999 June 29; accepted in revised form 1999 August 25) (Part of a series of papers on the 1998 Leonid shower) Abstract A time adjustment from the ... Approaches to trail orbits. ...

This is a copy of a Press Release from E.S.O. Eight years after the passage of Comet Halley in early 1986, astronomers at the European Southern Observatory have succeeded in obtaining an image of this famous object at a distance of no less than 2,820 million km from the Sun. ... The image shows the 6 x 15 km avocado-shaped nucleus as an extremely faint point of light without any surrounding dust cloud. ... This observation was made with the ESO 3.58 metre New Technology Telescope (NTT). ...

... More on 51 Peg: . The discovery of a Jupiter--mass planet in orbit around the solar--type star 51Peg has been reported by Michel Mayor and Didier Queloz (Geneva Observatory) on October 6th at the 9th Cambridge workshop on "cool stars, stellar systems, and the sun" held at Florence (Italy). ... Recall that the measurements of radial velocity only yield v sin i which in turn gives us M sin i. For most values of i, sin i will be greater than 0.5 and this gives a mass estimate of 0.5 Jupiter masses. ...

. F IGURE . 6. Metallicities of the RR Lyrae stars as a function of apogalactic distance (a,b,c) and maximum distance from the Galactic plane (d,e,f). The straight lines are least-squares fits.The five most distant stars in each panel (in boxes) were excluded from our calculations. The correlation coefients and their uncertainties are indicated. discussion in the text | privious figure .

Next: Polarization efficiency: size/shape/orientation effects Up: Optical properties of cosmic Previous: The 2175? feature . To model the interstellar polarization one needs to calculate the forward-transmitted radiation for an ensemble of non-spherical aligned dust grains. ... Let non-polarized stellar radiation passes through a dusty cloud with a homogeneous magnetic field. ... The angle between the line of sight and the magnetic field is ( ). ... where the angle is connected with and ( ). ...

... The discovery of this radiopulsar is potentially important not only for confirming the theory of evolution of NS, but also for understanding processes occurring in stellar winds   from normal stars. After all, a radiopulsar orbiting in the semi-transparent stellar wind of a normal star is a sort of probe scanning an inhomogeneous plasma by pulsed radiation (Lipunov and Prokhorov, 1984)[ 110 ]. ... 1) absorption of radio waves (light curve); . ... This object is a radiopulsar orbiting a Be-star. ...

... Almost all DSOs require a telescope to see in any detail at all, though some can be detected with just binoculars, and a few can be barely seen with the unaided eye. ... DEGREE: Distances on the sky (sometimes called the celestial sphere) are measured in angular degrees rather than inches or feet. ... The magnification is the focal length of the telescope divided by the focal length of the eyepiece. ... Short focal length eyepieces are also termed high power, long focal length are low power. ...

... Space flight . ... Simulators . ... Space camp . Space Hotel . ... Virtual reality-based stand for ISS crew training is used for cosmonauts pre-training preparation at different stages of training for the space flight. ... At present cosmonauts and astronauts can work both with the SM and FGB images independently and having them in mated state. ... Info: Industry news On-line Data Company ATLAS news Events We in press Contact . Copyright 2000-2016 ATLAS Aerospace . ...

... Distances . Volumes . Times . Flux and Magnitudes . ... Distance measures . ... This module provides a set of routines to calculate a number of cosmological quantities based on distance and time. ... To calculate results for a given cosmology you create an Astro::Cosmology object with the desired cosmological parameters, and then call the object's methods to perform the actual calculations. ... If H0 is set to 0, then the units used are the Hubble distance, volume per steradian, or time. ...

... 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 . ...

... Radio Astronomy . ... ASRAS Board Members . ... To see the most up to date news and events happening with ASRAS log in with your user name and password and then click on the Activities page. ... Messier Marathon (Member Observing) CANCELLED Saturday, April 9, 2016 9:00 PM Location:Farash Center Ionia NY . ... ASRAS Members meeting - Friday May 6 at Farash Center - Ionia NY . ... ASRAS Board members meeting - monday May 9 @ Farash Center Monday, May 9, 2016 7:00 PM Location:Farash Center Ionia NY . ...

... 13, Moscow 119992, Russian Federation, e-mail: busarev@sai.msu.ru; 2 Research Institute Crimean Astrophysical Observatory, p/o Nauchnyi, Crimea 334413, Ukraine, e-mail: prok@crao.crimea.ua Summary: We propose a combined method of astronomical investigations of small or distant planets incorporating registration of a set of integral spectra of an object and their frequency analysis. ... An application of the method is shown on example of asteroid 21 Lutetia. ... 6] Busarev V. V. (2002), Solar Sys. ...

... Under certain conditions, like those in the nucleus of a QSO, all atoms can be made to emit light at particular wavelengths. ... If that source is approaching the observer, the wave is squashed up onto itself making the wavelength shorter. ... This is redshift. ... You can see how the section of the QSO spectrum which we observe changes with redshift. ... We then see how far we had to slide the observed spectrum along the scale to make it match and that is the objects redshift. ... The 2QZ team . ...

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... Laboratory for atmosphere optics was found in 2000. The main directions of activity of the laboratory . ... The most actual and significant - research of chemical composition of a ground atmospheric slice in conditions of a large industrial center. ... Scientific and industrial optical instrument making. ... Dr. Mikhail G .Sosonkin, senior researcher - head of the laboratory . Yuri S. Ivanov - senior researcher . ... Laboratory for atmosphere optics МАО NANU . ... 380(44)5264539 . ...

The sections <Directory> , <Location> and <Files> can contain directives which only apply to specified directories, URLs or files respectively. Also htaccess files can be used inside a directory to apply directives to that directory. ... The order of merging is: . ... If multiple <Directory> sections apply to the same directory they are processed in the configuration file order. ... Using the options in question is only possible inside a <Directory> section (or a .htaccess file). ...

Download Izmccd (~2.7 MB). ... If you want to calculate equatorial coordinates of object: . Click the " File " menu, and then click " Open " ; or press  on toolbar. Choose a file with image. ... Also see section " Viewing of image ". ... Before, if it is necessary, you must make an account dark current and flat field (See section " Preliminary processing of images ".) ... Measure the marked stars. ... Click the " Calculations " menu, and then click " Coordinates " or . ...