An Ancient Universe: How Astronomers Know the Vast Scale of Cosmic Time . THE PROCESS OF SCIENCE: HOW DO WE KNOW? The nature of the universe, its age, its birth and life story, have been deduced through the process of science. ... In the case of astronomy, it usually starts with making careful observations and measurements -- something your students can begin to do through inspection of astronomical images, and observation of the real sky. ... An Ancient Universe - Table of Contents . ...

... The Science Operation Department is composed of Astronomers, Telescope Instruments Operators(TIOs) and Data Handling Administrators(DHAs). ... Astronomers have proposed several methods to quantitatively measure the amount of turbulence above the telescope, which the most common ones is Differential Image Motion Monitor (DIMM). In optical testing, the Hartmann test is the common method to test the quality of optical components. ... Hartmann mask consists of 48 lenses. ...

... Advises . Contact Advises . As an advise for amateurs we would like to underline: if it's possible, try to observe 3 asteroid positions per night and do not neglect to observe the Numbered Minor Planets in your telescope field of view as a "by product" of your observational programs. ... We think such estimations ought to be produced every morning after CCD observations of the moving celestial objects by observer himself. ...

Pulkovo NEO Page . ... Instrumentation and Observations . ... This Windows application serves for determination of spherical coordinates and magnitudes of the objects. ... The objects coordinates are referred to the system of chosen star catalog. ... 2. choice of reference stars with mouse, . 3. measurement of rectangular frame coordinates of objects and reference stars taking account of predefined background parameters, . 4. calculation of the spherical coordinates of objects. ...

Most of these images were obtained by Mike Bessell, Michelle Buxton, Hwankyung Sung, Ralph Sutherland and Bob Watson at SSO using a 2Kx2K Site CCD behind a Nikon or Hasselblad lens or directly on the 1m telescope. A few images are from the Hubble Space Telescope. Some of the M42 images were obtained with the KPNO 1m and ESO NTT telescope. One image is a mosaic of IRAS images. ... Details of the CCD imaging program at MSSSO. ... antenna.jpg (53KB) . ... ngc6744.jpg (59KB) . ...

... Armagh Observatory, College Hill, Armagh BT61 9DG, +44 (0)28 3752 2928 . ... Two observations of HD 32633 obtained at close phases, one with NARVAL (Phase 0.689, taken 17 Dec 2006) and one with ESPaDOns (Phase 0.700, taken 26 Jan 2008). ... In this paper we describe and evaluate new spectral line polarisation observations obtained with the goal of mapping the surfaces of magnetic Ap stars in great detail. ...

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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. ...

INFRARED FOURIER-SPECTROMETER SICH-F . ... Instrument work regimes: 1) Inside. 2) Calibration at inside standard sources 2 - 4 times per a rotation. 3) Calibration at "free space" 2 - 4 times per a rotation. 4) Infrared radiation measuring 10 - 40 min. per a rotation. ... Spectrometer consists of the photodetector block and the block of signal processing and control. ... Diagnostic information and attach data will transfer by state telemetric channels. ... Detector temperature. ...

... The reduction system of observations FADPS (description in Russian) (Flexible Astronomical Data Processing System) for data of wide-band receivers of the first observation cabin of the radio telescope RATAN-600 had been created under the Unix-like operational system DEMOS for computers of the SM-1420-type (PDP/11) in 1987 for observation analysis and estimates of coordinates and flux densities of radio sources. ... FADPS: flexible astronomical data processing system at RATAN-600 in UNIX environment....

Ground-Based Mid Infra-Red Observations of Nearby Starburst and AGN Galaxies Bo jan Nikolic , Paul Alexander, Garret Cotter and Malcolm Longair Astrophysics Group, Cavendish Lab, Cambridge, U.K. Marcel Clemens Universita degli Studi di Padova, Italy Abstract. We present preliminary results of recent spatially resolved mid infrared (Mid-IR) spectroscopy with the MICHELLE instrument on UKIRT of NGC 7469, observed as part of a larger programme to study a sample of starburst and AGN in the Mid-IR. ...

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? ...

... Satellite data ] . ... Data organization and access. ... The following data types are used for storage of information relevant to the project: . ... All data available within the Pavodok-96 project are copyright ї Space Monitoring Information Support laboratory (SMIS IKI RAN). Neither the data themselves nor any materials obtained with the use of these data can be used for commercial purposes and/or by any mass-media or public information system without prior writting permission from SMIS IKI RAN. ...

Next: Correlator Products . Previous: RSOG Post-Observation Products . ... Merged Correlator Input Log . Calibration and Flag files . SRT Amplitude Calibration Data . ... Phase Calibration (PCal) Data . ... DPC to Correlators . What: The RSOG produces the `merged' correlator input log file based on the Data Processing Logs supplied by the GTSs and on Executed Sequence of Events supplied by GOCG to produce a single correlator input log for all the GTSs for each observation. ...

... Observatory . ... The Laboratory of Astrometry . Dept. for Physics of Stars&Galaxies . ... Astronomical Calendar . ... UkrVO . ... The purpose of research: Creating a stellar catalog to study the structure and kinematics of star systems, including open star clusters and stars with large proper motions; the enhancement ICRF / Hipparcos system to stars dawn to 17 m (V); Search of binary systems of brown dwarfs and determination of their parameters; astrometry of minor bodies of the Solar System. ...

This composite image is based on observations from the New Horizons Ralph/LEISA instrument made at 6:25 a.m. EDT on July 14, 2015, when New Horizons was 50,000 miles (81,000 kilometers) from Charon. The spatial resolution is 3 miles (5km) per pixel. The LEISA data were downlinked October 1 4, 2015, and processed into a map of Charon s 2.2 micron ammonia-ice absorption band. ... The ammonia absorption map from LEISA is shown in green on the LORRI image. ...

An example of visual expert system. The program is written on Actor Prolog. -- -- (c) Alexei A. Morozov, March 19, 1999. ... Actually I wrote this program to train myself -- -- in carrying out SADT interview. ... A logical description of the blocks of the SADT model. ... The main purpose of these classes is keeping lists of cooking -- -- battery corresponding to various blocks of the SADT model. ...

... Telescope . ... In 2009 a new Electron Multiplying Frame Tranfer CCD Andor iХon DU-888 was purshased with support from Excellence Cluster Universe, Technische Universitaet Muenchen and delivered to RTT150 telescope. ... First scientific observations were made on 3--10 November 2009. In particular, the time resolved observations of Crab pulsar were made (33 ms pulse period). In the Figure we show the pulse profile with 7 msec time resolution, obtained in a single 10 minute long observation. ...

XPA version: 2.1.15 exposure: exposure on/off [time] file: file basename filter: filter number instrument: instrument name interrupt: interrupt mode: mode single/focus/multi multicount: multicount number number: image number process: process on/off region: region on/off [ds9/clear/select x y w h] relay: relay mask time status: on/off target: target name telescope: telescope name temperature: temperature setpoint type: type light/dark/bias/flat

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