... We had the opportunity to take part in a work experience project in the Armagh Observatory in 2015 from March 30th to April 2nd, during which we used the Las Cumbres Observatory Global Telescope Network to obtain images of various celestial bodies including the Galaxies M83, M88 and M99 which we combined 3 different images created using different filters using the software DS9. ... Images obtained using the Faulkes Telescope North at Haleakala, operated by Las Cumbres Observatory. ...

... 1 Instruments/Modes Instrument Mode EPIC MOS Imaging EPIC pn Imaging 2 Use pipeline processing yes interactive analysis no 3 Description This task takes the EPIC images in the input list of images, divides them by the images in the input list of `exposure maps', rebins the resulting images to a user-speci ed bin size and plots the corresponding intensity (count-rate) histograms (number of image bins containing a countrate within a certain interval) to a single PostScript le. ... List of input Images...

... In typical nightly use, the wide field and planetary telescope and cameras record images of favorably placed objects in the sky, including constellations, bright variable stars, nebulae through narrow-band filters, comets, the Moon, and planets. ... Shared Skies telescopes are available for use by students at the University of Louisville and the University of Southern Queensland, and by teachers and students in middle and high schools mentored by faculty at the universities. ...

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... Copyrightї1997 Bob Yen (byen@ix.netcom.com) (http://www.comet-track.com/hb/hb.html) . ... Information on Comet Hale-Bopp for the Non-Astronomer Hale-Bopp rotates about twice a day (3/14/97) . ... The Comet Observation Home Page was been selected to receive the Griffith Observatory Star Award for the week of February 2 - 8, 1997 for excellence in promoting astronomy to the public through the World Wide Web. ... Typically, about 1,000 individual users/computers access this page every day. ...

Next: Retrieving demonstration and Up: Echelle Reduction Method Previous: Echelle Reduction Method . ... User data is a set of echelle images, observed with the same instrument configuration, including a wavelength calibration image ( WLC ), a flat field image ( FLAT ) and astronomical objects OBJ . Optionally, this set will include standard stars ( STD ) to be used in the absolute or relative flux calibration, and dark images ( DARK ). ... Rotation of input frames. ...

Permitted Context: %text . ... The <IMG> tag is used to incorporate in-line graphics (typically icons or small graphics) into an HTML document. This element is NOT intended for embedding other HTML text. ... Browsers that cannot display in-line images ignore the IMG element unless it contains the ALT attribute. ... Take values TOP or MIDDLE or BOTTOM, defining whether the top or middle or bottom of the graphic should be aligned with the baseline for the text line in which the IMG element appears. ...

... 21.02.2007 . What's that new star in the sky? The star might appear new, but it's actually just the variable star Mira near its brightest. ... APOD: 2007 February 20- White Ridges on Mars . ... Planetary Nebula NGC 2440 . ... The nebula is composed of material cast off by a dying sun-like star as it enters its white dwarf phase of evolution. The Rosette Nebula . ... Inside the nebula lies an open cluster of bright young stars designated NGC 2244. ... Comet McNaught Over New Zealand . ...

Astronotes Armagh Planetarium's Stellar Blog! ... Armagh Planetarium . ... Stars . ... Space Flight . ... This image of the Tarantula Nebula comprises one of the largest mosaics ever assembled from Hubble photos and includes observations taken by HubbleтАЩs Wide Field Camera 3 and Advanced Camera for Surveys, combined with observations from the European Southern ObservatoryтАЩs MPG/ESO 2.2-metre telescope which trace the location of glowing hydrogen and oxygen. ... Subscribe to Astronotes . ...

... The remote planet Pluto and its moon Charon orbit the Sun at a mean distance of almost 6,000 million kilometres, or nearly fourty times farther out than the Earth. During a recent investigation by an international group of astronomers [1], the best picture ever of Pluto and Charon [2] was secured with the European Space Agency's Faint Object Camera at the Hubble Space Telescope (HST). ... The new HST image was taken when Charon was near its maximum elongation from Pluto (0.9 arcseconds). ...

GRB 151027B, Swift's 1,000th burst (center), is shown in this composite X-ray, ultraviolet and optical image. X-rays were captured by Swift's X-Ray Telescope, which began observing the field 3.4 minutes after the Burst Alert Telescope detected the blast. Swift's Ultraviolet/Optical Telescope (UVOT) began observations seven seconds later and faintly detected the burst in visible light. ... The image has a cumulative exposure of 10.4 hours. ...

APO/GIFS Instrument Factsheet The Goddard imager and Integral Field Spectrograph (GIFS) has recently been commissioned on the APO 3.5 m telescope. This factsheet presents a high level overview of the GIFS instrument. ... GIFS Imaging The GIFS imaging mode is used for imaging science and target acquisition for the IFS mode. ... Imaging Mode pixel scale: 0.168"/pixel · Comparison to Other APO 3.5m instruments: The GIFS field of view is smaller than SPICAM, but the filter set is far more extensive. ...

... Astronomy and Astrophotography - amateur tips and ideas from personal experience. ... CNES : CLEMENTINE data Server - Access to 1.8 million lunar images . ... Astrofili on the Web - Dr. Fabio Marino's CCD images and links. Astronomical Images - Deep-sky astronomical photographs. ... Astronomy Page - collection of amateur astrophotographs, along with observatory and Hubble images. ... Igor's Astronomy Page - with thumbnail links to images from observatories, including the Hubble Space Telescope. ...

... 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. ...

Stellarium 0.12.3 . ... ScreenImageMgr Class Reference . ... createScreenImage (const QString &id, const QString &filename, float x, float y, float scale=1., bool visible=true, float alpha=1., float fadeDuration=1.) ... setImageAlpha (const QString &id, float alpha) . ... setImageXY (const QString &id, float x, float y, float duration=0.) ... virtual voidљ . ... the ID for the desired image. virtual void ScreenImageMgr::draw . ... the ID for the desired image. virtual void ScreenImageMgr::init . ...

... Non-NGC Images . ... Bright nebula in Orion (and Horse Head)..... image . ... Diffuse nebula in Orion (M78)..... image ..... caption . ... Galactic cluster in Auriga (M37)..... image ..... caption . ... Galactic cluster in Gemini (M35)..... image ..... caption . ... Rosette nebula..... image ..... caption . ... Spiral galaxy in Cepheus..... image ..... caption . ... Galactic cluster in CMa (M41)..... image ..... caption . ... Galactic cluster in Monoceros (M50)..... image ..... caption . ... Galaxy ...

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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 | ...

... click image to view discuss) . Comet PANSTARRS 3/13/2013 . ... Single image 4 sec exposure ISO 1600; Acton, MA . Submitted by Paul Benni on 03/16/2013 08:48:06 . ... Single image 4 sec exposure ISO 1600. ... Earthshine on Moon 3/13/2013 . ... I needed to identify Pluto's movement to make a positive ID among the many stars, which was fun to do. 8" EdgeHD telescope, 0.62x reducer, and SBIG ST-8300C camera. 5 minute images. ... Copyright (c) Amateur Telescope Makers of Boston, Inc. ...

Instructions for Uploading Images and Video Related to the Columbia Accident . For anyone who has recorded video or taken photos that they believe may be of aid in the investigation of the Space Shuttle Columbia accident, NASA has established a special location on the Web where Internet users may upload their media files to be reviewed by NASA. ... Image file: johndoe_020203_0415pm.jpg . ... If you have any problems uploading your files, please e-mail Mike Koester . ...