... Each day a different image or photograph of our fascinating universe is featured, along with a brief explanation written by a professional astronomer. 2000 February 28 . The Sombrero Galaxy from VLT . ... FORS1 , VLT ANTU , ESO . ... Reasons include the Sombrero 's unusually large and extended central bulge of stars, and dark prominent dust lanes that appear in a disk that we see nearly edge-on. Billions of old stars cause the diffuse glow of the extended central bulge. ... About APOD | ...

Weaving together Astronomy+Statistics+Computer Science+Engineering+Intrumentation, far beyond the growing borders . ... Posts tagged ?Frequentist? ... Continue reading ?[ ... Tags: Bayesian , Frequentist , Ping Zhao , question for statisticians , weighted mean . Category: Bad AstroStat , Fitting , Frequentist , Stat , Uncertainty | 18 Comments . ... Category: arXiv , Quotes | Comment . ... Category: arXiv | ... Category: Bayesian , Fitting , Frequentist , Jargon , Stat , Uncertainty | ...

... AGES Precursor Observations · Targeted the M74 ( NGC 628) group · Noise falls as t (to 200s) AGES Precursor Observations · Targeted the M74 ( NGC 628) group · Noise falls as t (to 200s) AGES Precursor Observations · Targeted the M74 ( NGC 628) group · Noise falls as t (to 200s) · Detected 5 galaxies in the group KDG 010 dw0137+1540 UGC 1171 AGES Precursor ...

BRIGHT OPTICAL FLASH FROM GRB 060117 - AN EXAMPLE OF EVENT DETECTED WITH OMC CLASS INSTRUMENT Д Д Petr Kubanek1,2 , Martin JelД inek3 , Michael Prouza4,5,6 , Rene Hudec1 , and Martin Nekola1 1 Astronomicky ustav Akademie ved Ceske republiky, Ondrejov, Czech Republic ДД Д 2 INTEGRAL Science Data Center, Chemin d'Ecogia 16, Versoix, Switzerland 3 Instituto de AstrofД isica de AndalucД (IAA-CSIC), Granada, Spain ... INTEGRAL GRBs are detected during -ray observations of knows sources. ...

... MASTER Net is 56 square degrees per 1 exposition . ... 06 Dec 2015: GRB 151205B: MASTER-NET early optical observations GCN18665 . ... 18 Nov 2015: GRB 151118A: MASTER-NET optical observations GCN18613 . ... 12 Nov 2015: GRB 151112A: MASTER-NET optical limit GCN18591 . ... 07 Nov 2015: GRB 151107A: MASTER-NET optical observations GCN18565 . ... 31 Oct 2015: Five OTs detected by Global Robotic MASTER Net ATel8232 . ... 02 Oct 2015: GRB 151001B: MASTER-NET early optical observations GCN18380 . ...

... Tonight's Sky . ... Sky Events . ... Fermi celebrates five years in space, enters extended mission . ... This view shows the entire sky at energies greater than 1 GeV based on five years of data from the LAT instrument on NASA's Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope. ... On August 11, Fermi entered an extended phase of its mission a deeper study of the high-energy cosmos. ... From blazars to thunderstorms, this video showcases highlights from the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope's first five years in space...

... ALMA has the potential to detect and resolve CO rotational line emission in debris disks, potentially providing key information to determine its provenance. " " (e.g. LTE, CO/H2 abundance ratio) do not necessarily apply in low gas density environments such as debris disks, and can lead to orders of magnitude errors in CO mass estimations. The 3 upper limit on the total CO mass for the Fomalhaut system is of 5.8 x 10-5 Mearth. ... Different colours represent different gas kinetic temperatures. ...

Surface-layer turbulence measurements with lunar scintillometer Idea of the method Hardware & software Campaigns & results New horizons Andrei Tokovinin NOAO/CTIO Kislovodsk Oct. 2010 1 Turbulence measurement from scintillation of extended sources Moon's angular diameter =0.5 deg Correlated scintillation for b > z z=10m b=0.1m z=100m b=1m z=10km b=100m BI(b) = W(b,z) Cn2(z)dz Weighting functions zW(z) for b=0...0.4m and d=1cm 2 Kislovodsk Oct. ... 2010 12 Paranal: October 14, 2008 Kislovodsk Oct. ...

... Armagh Observatory, College Hill, Armagh BT61 9DG, +44 (0)28 3752 2928 . ... The low-resolution, Cassegrain mounted, FORS spectropolarimeter of the ESO Very Large Telescope is being extensively used for magnetic field surveys. Some of the new discoveries suggest that relatively strong magnetic fields may play an important role in numerous physical phenomena observed in the atmospheres as well as in the circumstellar environments of certain kinds of stars. ...

... Unlike the previous digital-only Messages, Arecibo-1974 and Evpatoria-1999, the TAM has complex, three-section structure with different forms of information. Section 1 represents coherent sounding radio signal with slow Doppler wavelength tuning to imitate transmission from Sun's center. ... Section 2 is an analog information and represents musical melodies, performed on the Theremin. ... There were seven musical compositions in the 1st Theremin Concert for Aliens. ...

Learning Astronomy Through Storytelling . That children at different stages of development will derive different meanings from the same story is obvious but worth mentioning. ... If you teach K-2, the central message of the story that you want students to understand is simply that the Moon's shape, as they see it in the sky, varies. ... Children learn that a story has a plot, a setting, characters, a main problem, a crisis point, and a solution. ...

The basic characteristics of the instrument are set by the aperture, focal length and resolution of the image forming lens, the dispersion of the spectrometer, and the sensitivity of the detector. ... The lens is internally focused, and maintains acceptable focus (2 pixels in the detector plane) over a typical spectral coverage of one grating setting. ... along the spatial dimension of a 25mm square detector in the final spectral image plane the 400mm lens is 3.2њ. ... Diffraction grating . ...

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. Comment on J2209-2331 . Not detected: the source is probably extended, and was also not detected at 2.3 GHz by Preston et al. (1985). VLBApls home page . Last modified: 16 Oct 2000

... 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 . ...

... Be s k i n , 1, 3 S. Karpov,1 S. Bondar,2 A. Perkov,2 E. Ivanov,2 E. Katkova,2 V. Sasyuk,3 A.Biryukov4 and A.Shearer5 RESUMEN Favor de prop orcionar un resumen en espanol. ... Here we give a status report on the next generation, multiob jective and transforming monitoring system, MiniMegaTORTORA, with two variants (MMT-6 based on image intensifiers with fast CCDs and MMT-9 equipped with Andor Neo sCMOSes) now under construction and commissioning at SAO RAS. ...

Quasar VLBI network observatories as co-location sites A. Ipatov, I. Gayazov, S. Smolentsev Institute of Applied Astronomy, Saint Petersburg, Russia ... supposes: 1. installation of different observational techniques at sites (co-location) 2. combined processing of different types of observations (collocation) IAA activity in space geodesy · Quasar VLBI network : ­ VLBI observations ­ GPS /GLONASS observations ­ DORIS ( ...

... Colorful Glimpses of Alien Worlds -- detecting exoplanets with precision radial velocity spectroscopy . Gabor Furesz . Thursday, Nov 10, 2011 at 8:00 PM . ... exoplanet candidates through the transit method. ... In my talk I will give a short summary about the current state of . ... about the design challenges an instrument builder faces when trying to . ... the near future, the era of the Giant Magellan Telescope for what the CfA . ... Copyright (c) Amateur Telescope Makers of Boston, Inc. ...

National Aeronautics and Space Administration . Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center . ... SHANNON W. LUCID (Ph.D.) . nasa astronaut (former) . ... She is qualified for assignment as a mission specialist on Space Shuttle flight crews. ... A veteran of five space flights, Dr. Lucid has logged 5,354 hours (223 days) in space. ... Dr. Lucid retired from NASA in January 2012. ... In completing this flight, Dr. Lucid logged 838 hours and 54 minutes in space. ... FEBRUARY 2012 ...