... Operating at a wavelength of 10 ?m, it produces a 135њx135њ image with a resolution of 0.9њ. ... The clouds move from the west-southwest. ... At the same time as the IR images, visible light images were taken with an Apple Computer QuickTake electronic camera. ... At 1540 MDT, the large central cloud is visible in both images. At 1544 MDT, a distinctive cloud is apparent near the center in the visible image and right of center in the IR. The performance of the SDSS cloud scanner is excellent. ...

... October 9, 1997 . Hale-Bopp and the North American Nebula . ... Explanation: Comet Hale-Bopp 's recent encounter with the inner Solar System allowed many breath-taking pictures. Above, Comet Hale-Bopp was photographed on March 8th in the constellation of Cygnus . ... The North American Nebula is about 1500 light years away, much farther than the comet, which was about 8 light minutes away. ... About APOD > . ...

... CPO AND FCN MODELS COMPARISON In -- -- -- -- -- practice, three CPO and two FCN models are available for user's choice: OPA/ IERS C04 CPO series ( IERS AR 2007 , ftp://hpiers.obspm.fr/ iers /eop/eopc04 05/) NEOS/ IERS CPO series ( IERS AR 2007 , ftp://maia.usno.navy.mil/ser7/) Pulkovo ZM2 CPO series (Malkin 2007 , http://www.gao.spb.ru/english/as/persac/index.htm) OPA/ ... All the CPO and FCN models are results of approximation of CPO time series observed by VLBI. ...

Astronotes Armagh Planetarium's Stellar Blog! ... Space Flight . ... Concept Spacecraft . ... By admin September 24, 2010 Posted in: Concept Spacecraft . One of the most grandiose of the vehicles suggested by Cole was the Aldebaran concept, a gigantic nuclear-powered launch vehicle he proposed in 1959. ... Scott Lowther has recently added fascinating scale drawings of this and other nuclear space propulsion concepts at his blog (the Unwanted Blog). ... The Amazing Aldebaran Spacecraft | ...

... Design of Imaging Optics . Analyzing Optics . ... The high resolution near infrared camera (CONICA) for the first VLT unit telescope is under development. It serves as a multi-mode instrument for the wavelength region between 1.0 and 5.0 microns, providing diffraction-limited spatial resolution when combined with the adaptive optic system NAOS of the VLT (Rosset et al. ... VLT instrumentation, ALADDIN InSb detector, NIR imaging, NIR spectroscopy, re-imaging optics, IR optics . ...

SITE 2010 Comprehensive Characterization of Astronomical Sites Kislovodsk, Russia, 49 October 2010 Conference Summary Marc S. Sarazin*a a European Southern Observatory, Garching, Germany Abstract The main topics discussed during the Site 2010 conference are outlined and the outcome is described. Keywords: Astronomical Site testing, precipitable water vapor, atmospheric turbulence, cloudiness, seeing 1. ... Site surveys for National observatory projects in China, India, and Iran benefit from this. ...

... Bad Astronomy . ... Mad Science . ... Site Info . ... Public Talks . ... Keep Bad Astronomy close to your heart, and help make me filthy rich. ... Who is this guy who calls himself "The Bad Astronomer?" ... First, yes, I am a real live astronomer (when people ask me what astronomers do, I tell them "They astronom !" ... These are emitted by powerful objects like black holes, exploding stars, and super-dense neutrons stars. ... Finally, am I really a bad astronomer? ... 2008 Phil Plait. ...

Rectangular Format Cameras Princeton Instruments rectangular format cameras are ideal for many specialized imaging applications, including full color imaging, one dimensional imaging, or any application requiring high resolution along only one dimension. ... Multispectral and Color Imaging To capture images at multiple wavelengths simultaneously, one can either use multiple cameras, a single camera with multiple CCD arrays, or a single camera with a rectangular array. ...

... Let us first find out which way -- rise in spectral resolution with some loss in the S/N ratio or increase in the S/N ratio with a fixed spectral resolution -- is better for the purpose of reduction of equivalent width determination errors. ... N -- number of counts for 1 ? ... line equivalent width, . ... Thus if the spectral resolution is managed to be increased (i.e. to decrease )without loss in the number of counts falling at 1 ?, the equivalent width measurement error is then proportional to . ...

... The value of tile-size, NW , may be thought of as a sixth coordinate axis in the chirplet transform parameter space - TF-area. Including this sixth coordinate axis provides us with a hierarchical (multi-resolution) CCT. ... Various 2- D slices through the multiresolution CCT may correspond to useful tilings of the TF plane with true parallelograms (true to the extent that the DPSS define a truly rectangular region in the TF plane). ...

... ME AND MY SCHOOL . SOURCES . THE CHART OF THE DIFFERENCES IN THE SPELLING OF SOME WORDS CONNECTED WITH SCHOOL AND EDUCATIONAL SYSTEM IN BRITAIN AMERICA. ... РАЗЛИЧНЫЕ СТРАНЫ ИМЕЮТ РАЗЛИЧНЫЕ СИСТЕМЫ ОБРАЗОВАНИЯ, НАПРИМЕР ВЕЛИКОБРИТАНИЯ ИЛИ СОЕДИНЕННЫЕ ШТАТЫ. ... ОБО МНЕ И МОЕЙ ШКОЛЕ(ME AND MY SCHOOL), . ... А ТАКЖЕ ВАМ ПРЕДЛАГАЕТСЯ ТАБЛИЦА РАЗЛИЧИЙ В НАПИСАНИИ И ПРОИЗНОШЕНИИ СЛОВ СВЯЗАННЫХ С ОБРАЗОВАТЕЛЬНОЙ СИСТЕМОЙ В США(AMERICAN ENGLISH)И ВЕЛИКОБРИТАНИИ(BRITISH ENGLISH)-THE CHART . ...

I. Since the crew of astronomers in this Observational Techniques course already has some experience with "optical telescopes" and a working knowledge of optics and diffraction theory, it's useful to apply that experience to radio telescopes. ... The telescope is a favorite to Australian astronomers for observing the 21cm spectral line of atomic hydrogen. ... The idea is to use the Parkes All-Sky Survey in the 21cm line to estimate some parameters for your favourite galaxy. ...

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... For SIMS (Secondary Ion Mass Spectrometry) analysis, a solid surface is bombarded by primary ions of some keV energy. ... The subsequent mass analysis of the emitted ions provides detailed information on the elemental and molecular composition of the surface. ... Extremely short ion pulses with a duration below . ... By rastering a fine-focussed ion beam over the surface, like an electron beam in an electron microprobe, mass resolved secondary ion images (chemical maps) can be obtained...

We have designed the laboratory model of static Fourier spectrometer for onboard usage for spectral study of atmosphere and ionosphere. The gain of model is to simulate onboard FS which will not have any moving elements (all its optical elements will be mounted at fused quartz monolithic construction), to compare experimental results with theoretical estimations and to measure MTF of CCD array. ... This fact connected with low frequency response of CCD array due to small format of it. ...

Magnetic Stars, 2011, pp. ... It follows, in particular, from Fig. 1a, where points show the central intensity of line in 2008 ­ 2009, and asterisks -- the ELODIE Archive (EA) spectra in 2002 ­ 2003 smoothed to the resolution of the MSS. ... Figure 2a demonstrates the distribution of temperature in the atmosphere in the phase = 0.07 and Fig. 2b -- in the phase = 0.53 of the rotation period, obtained from the hydrogen line profiles in 2008 ­ 2009. ...

... Contacts: Evgeny A. Loupian, Dr. Sci., e-mail: evgeny@smis.iki.rssi.ru Sergey A. Bartalev, Dr. Sci., e-mail: bartalev@smis.iki.rssi.ru Web interface for burnt area mapping using Landsat data Stellar Tracker In 2013 IKI RAN together with the NPK "Electrooptics" completed the phase of the five-year research on studying the ways to build a stellar inertial navigation system (SINS) for aviation applications. ... Fig. 1 shows the SINS layout created on the basis of the astronomical camera. ... Fig.1. ...

Next: Observational Zoo of Binaries Up: No Title Previous: Contents . In the early 1980s, our understanding of binary star evolution љ based on the pioneer work by Paczynski (1971)[ 150 ], Tutukov and Yungelson (1973)[ 195 ], van den Heuvel and Heise (1972)[ 201 ], allowed us to construct a general evolutionary scenario љ which successfully explained the genesis of well-studied normal stars and offered potential explanation for new X-ray sources discovered in space experiments. ...

Crater Gassendi . ... I made this drawing was made on the 26th of november 2001. If you compare this one with the previous drawing of Gassendi (below) the differences are clear. ... This drawing was made on the 28th of september 2001. After nearly a full month without observations I had a one hour gap between the thicker clouds. ... This drawing was made on the 29th of august 2001. ... This drawing was made on the 27th of august 2001. ... This drawing was made on the 25th of august 2001. ...

Terahertz Imaging System based on Superconducting Integrated Receiver. ... Employing an SIR in an imaging system means building an entirely new instrument with many advantages compare to traditional systems : i) high temperature resolution , comparable to the best results for incoherent receivers; ii) high spectral resolution allowing spectral analysis of various substances; iii) the local oscillator The paper presents a prototype THz imaging system using an 1 pixel SIR. ...