... Bad Astronomy . ... Mad Science . ... Universe Today . ... Keep Bad Astronomy close to your heart, and help make me filthy rich. ... type 1a supernovae seem most useful . ... This is a bright, massive star that explodes after fusing all the light elements in its core. ... That means we can calculate how far away it is. ... This is exactly what we are trying to do with these supernovae; look far enough away that any deviations from flatness of the Universe can be seen. ... Phil Plait . ...

... Field size . Object name . ... Map size . ... Field size: the approximate size of the map in the Y direction. ... Galaxies: . ... Galaxies, which size exceeds some value depending on the field and map sizes, are displayed with their real positional angles and sizes by 25m isophote. ... In the "tools" fields there are links to the several famous AVO (Astrophysical Virtual Observatory) resources: NED and Simbad databases and DSS2 (Palomar Digitized Sky Survey) images of the corresponding sky area. ...

. Intervals of available data are coded by blue color. To read availability charts user should know the descriptor ("name") of the KP subset of interest. Table annotations include also number of version for each subset. Plot resolution is exactly one pixel per hour. Data are considered as available if at least one data point is present during that hour.

... He considers some practical aspects of dependences of the optical properties of cosmic dust analogs on their parameters. ... First results of a systemtic study as well as a detailed comparison of different optical characteristics (cross-sections, phase function, etc.) of some complex shape and structure scatterers and their optical models are presented here and here . ...

Measurement of Sky Brightness at the Iranian National Observatory Davoud Afshari1 and Sadollah Nasiri1,2 1Physics Department, Zanjan University, Zanjan 45195-313, Iran; Institute for Advanced studies in Basic Science (IASBS), Zanjan 45195-1159, Iran; Measurement of light pollution 2 Introduction Among 34 candidate sites at the central part of the country, 5 sites namely Garkesh (in Kashan ), Kolahbarfi(in Kashan ), Deynava (in ... One of these is light pollution. ...

... Structure of Data . ... Catalog . ... In SAI OCL Catalog, we introduce our work on investigation of the Milky Way system of open star clusters. The main goal of our study is a search for new clusters using huge surveys. 168 new clusters have been already discovered by us using J,H,Ks data from 2MASS point source catalog. ... For 141 new clusters, we found their physical parameters using J,H,Ks data from 2MASS catalog and, for a number of clusters, our UBVRI CCD observational magnitudes. ...

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... Satellite data ] . SMIS ] . The program is designed to process the specific AVHRR instrument data for calculation and analysis of temperature fields on the sea surface and upper level of clouds. It performs brightness correction for visible channels with regards to clouds altitude. ... The program features a wide variety of classification algorithms (including two-dimensional histogram analysis) and enables to construct personal procedures for classification. ... Back to SMIS Home Page . ...

AUTOMATIC STATION OF ECOLOGICAL CONTROL . ... BASIC PERFORMANCE SPECIFICATION . STATE OF ASEC DEVELOPMENT . AIR POLLUTION MONITORING . ... OF MEASURING CHANNELS . ... unit of measurement . ... Nitric oxide (NO) concentration, . ... power measured by ASEC . ... In particular, RSC Energia finalizes its work on measurement systems designed to measure dust, volumetric activity of radioactive gases and aerosols and other environmental parameters. ... Official WEB-site of S.P.Korolev RSC Energia . ...

... For example, precision of the approximation was calculated for Solar system and 47 Uma star system Kepler orbital elements : Jupiter Saturn 9.537 0.0539 Uranus 19.189 0.0473 Neptune 30.070 0.0086 47 Uma b 2.10 0.032 0.10 3.76 5.83 0.89 47 Uma c 3.60 0 ... rad , rad , rad l, rad 0.0228 1.754 4.801 0.328 0.0434 1.983 5.865 5.591 0.0135 1.291 1.685 2.495 0.0309 2.300 4.636 4.673 Kepler elements for Solar ... Estimation accuracy of disturbing function (h1) expansion is presented. ...

... SphereParams Struct Reference . ... SphereParams (const float radius) . ... Definition at line 50 of file StelGeometryBuilder.hpp . ... Definition at line 103 of file StelGeometryBuilder.hpp . ... Definition at line 120 of file StelGeometryBuilder.hpp . ... Definition at line 112 of file StelGeometryBuilder.hpp . ... Definition at line 118 of file StelGeometryBuilder.hpp . ... Definition at line 110 of file StelGeometryBuilder.hpp . ... Definition at line 114 of file StelGeometryBuilder.hpp . ...

... Packages that use FloatProcessor . ... Methods in ij.plugin.filter that return FloatProcessor . ... ShortProcessor. toFloat (int channelNumber, FloatProcessor fp) . Returns a FloatProcessor with the same image, no scaling or calibration (pixel values 0 to 65535). abstract FloatProcessor . ... Returns a FloatProcessor with the image or one color channel thereof. ... FloatProcessor. toFloat (int channelNumber, FloatProcessor fp) . ... Returns a FloatProcessor with one color channel of the image. ...

... The overall globular cluster population is divided by gap in the metallicity function at [Fe/H]=-1.0 into two discrete groups with well-defined maxima at [Fe/H]=-1.60?0.03 dex, and -0.60?0.04 dex. ... Clusters with extremely blue horizontal branches occupy a spherical volume of radius ~ 9 kpc, have high rotational velocities ( V rot =77?33 km/s), have substantial and equal negative radial and vertical metallicity gradients, and are, on average, the oldest group (the old-halo subsystem). ...

... It is found that the correlation coefficients between these two parameters calculated separately inside and outside the sunspot formation zone ±30 have cyclic variation and occur in anti-phase. This suggests different mechanisms of formation of the corona in the fields of small, medium, and large scales. ... The relationship between the coronal green line brightness (CGLB) and the magnetic field strength (MFS) has been investigated by constructing the corresponding synoptic maps for the 1977-2001. ...

In this chapter we will consider an example of visual expert system written on the Actor Prolog language. ... There are a lot of methods of oil field bed stimulation that increase output of the oil production: thermal, physical-chemical, gas, microbiological, and others. ... Fig. ... The Top-Most diagram consists of three blocks: the "Describe parameters of hydrocarbon field" block, the "Check adaptability of existed methods of oil production" block, and the "Display solution" block. ... Gas methods. ...

... A star was observed at different zenith distances during one night at the Engelgardt's Astronomical Observatory in the program of atmospheric extinction study at blue. ... The determination of the star's brightness was performed with the method of photon counting. ... Variable star. ... The brightness of the variable star was measured occasionally during the other nights, and moments of maximal values of brightness (15.59m) were received on nights 2­5, the 2nd table. ... JD 2452805. ...

... Dept. for Physics of Stars&Galaxies . ... Using a database view Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS), containing almost a million spectra created 15,000 sample galaxies with active star formation, which is used for various studies and physical state of evolution of galaxies. ... Star clusters of the Galaxy . The project MWSC (Milky Way Star Clusters) directory using 2MASS, which includes nearly 500 million vision to the limit Ks = 15.3, analyzed more than 4,000 cluster-like objects in the galaxy. ...

SAI VO . ... Web Services . Catalog Access Services . ... SAI Web Services . ... This service aims to automatically match stars in FITS image provided with catalogue and add the correct WCS keywords to its FITS header. ... Service Web Interface . ... The service is available here To use it, you has to provide the image as a Base64-encoded string, along with the rough information on image field of view size and center (the latter may be deduced from FITS header keywords like 'RA' and 'DEC'). ...

... An estimate the rotation period of cometary nuclei is important for understanding and describing the physical processes of the cometary activity. Unfortunately, the measurements of the rotation periods of the comet nucleus depend on the model assumptions and it is one of the main reasons for the scatter of the estimates given in various articles for a given comet. ... Right: the image of the comet 29P/Schwassmann-Wachmann 1 obtained at the 6-m telescope. ...

... The described algorithm is suitable for measurements of complex images of stars. ... a) the zero-based number of stars in the complex (multicentric) image, . b) set of preliminary coordinates - x i , y i , for all stars, index i is number of a star, . ... i - index of a star in the complex image; . ... These parameters are calculated by a nonlinear method of a least squares.The main output parameters of this algorithm are x i , y i ; where the index i is number of a star in the multicentric image. ...