... 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. ...

Images and text 2003 Paul Valleli . While up at Stellafane for pre-convention preparations, I spent some early morning times, experimenting with different videography setups on the 13" F/10 Schupmann at the McGregor Observatory. ... Mars was too bright and would have required neutral density filters. ... Next time, I will try 12mm and 9mm projections. ... I aquired about ten thousand frames by 3AM, at which time a breeze picked up and the seeing went to Hellas! ... 2003 Paul Valleli . ...

... It contains 2 (1 for each polarization) by 4 separate filters that are switch able via the computer. filter 1 is a motor driven tuneable filter covering 1000 to 2000 Mhz with a 2% bandwidth. filter 2 is a ??? . ... An hp34907 dac generates a voltage that corresponds to the requested frequency. ... It steps the filter from 1000 to 2000 Mhz in 25 Mhz steps. ... You now have 41 requested voltages and measured frequencies going from 1000 to 2000 Mhz. ... 20 Mhz) when fit over the 1000 to 2000 Mhz range....

... They worked out that first magnitude was on average 100 times brighter than the 6th magnitude star. ... This formed an equation of apparent magnitude Mv which is: Mv = -2.5 log f + constant were f is the flux of that star f = ( counts/ exposure) The images that we worked on were taken by the Polar Bear Telescope. ... One of these being that it will be combined with standard stars, which will be used to identify the area of stars and to also help identify other stars within the image. ...

Atmospheric influence on the different radio-engineering system functioning . ESTIMATION OF ATMOSPHERIC OPTICAL CHARACTERISTICS AND REMOTELY SANSED IMAGE CORRECTION . ... Direct transmittance estimation results for 12 channels of the spectrometer CHRIS. ... We have managed to develop a direct method of estimating the discrete Normalized Atmospheric Point Spread Function (NAPSF) from available images alone, not using any external sources of information about the atmosphere. ... IRE RAS 1996-20 11 ...

Each point in this graph represents one star in NGC 2808. The vertical axis represents the brightness (as measured through Hubble's near-infrared F814W filter) of the stars (the brightest stars near the top). The horizontal axis represents the colours of the stars, with bluer stars to the left and redder to the right (blue magnitude minus near-infrared magnitude). ...

... The Galactic low-mass X-ray binary GS 2023+338 was discovered during the burst on May 22, 1989 with the Japanise satellite Ginga (aka Galaxy). The flux reached 17 crabs (this unit of flux measurement is an bright X-ray source, Crab Nebula) at 10-35 keV. ... No other radio telescope worldwide carried out multi-frequency measurements. ... Upon 14 days the radio flux fell below the detection level at the RATAN-600 in relation to the decrease of the X-ray flux. ...

... Bad Astronomy . ... What Color is Mars? ... Bizarre Image Analysis . ... One image of Mars shows a giant green splotch . Some images show it to have a blue sky, others a red sky, and in yet others the sky is butterscotch. ... When the images from Mars are returned to Earth, and then processed to make a color image, what you are seeing at best is an approximation to what your eye can see. ... When that infrared filter greyscale image is used to construct a color image, the blue tab turns pink. ...

... Parameters . Filters . ... Direct images . ... The SCORPIO-2 project: . Spectral Camera with Optical Reducer for Photometric and Interferometric Observations - 2 . The broad-band glass filters made in SAO RAS are used for the observation in the Johnson-Cousins (UBVRI) photometric system in the direct images mode. The glass filters transmission curves are shown by solid line. ... The filters transmission curves of the `comets' filters measured with the SCORPIO-2 in the F/4 beam. ...

A computer controlled low light photometer for nightglow observations. Hardware units of portable photometer for low light measurements, especially night glow emission is described. ... Interface card contain three channels of 24 bit counter, 4 channels of 12 bit ADC and the buffer bus for the controlled motors of the altazimuthal fork mounting and filters wheel, the position encoders. ... Where N( ) is output signal photometer generated input light flux F( l ) . ... PMT # . 599 . ...

neutral density filters . broad band filters (bandpass > 30nm) . ... Takes 50-mm square filters, up to 8-mm in thickness. Note: These filters are mounted in the slit mask wheel. ... The slit mask wheel pull down menu in the Remark DIS interface lists the filters and slits currently mounted in the wheel in the spectrograph. ... Will probably be able to accommodate 50-mm square filters, up to 20-mm in thickness (?) ... Takes 1.40-inch square filters, up to 0.315-inch in thickness. ...

... 4.4 Imbedding HTML in a Document . In the following discussion of SPECIAL processing
, I will assume that rtftohtml has not been customized. If it has, the text styles used to create special effects may be different. ... Normally, if your RTF document contained the text "<cite>hello</cite>", the translator would output this as: "&lt;cite&gt;hello&lt;/cite&gt;". ... If, however, you want the <cite></cite> to be interpreted as HTML markup, you must format the tags using Hidden and Shadow. ...

CCD Forum Message . Forums: . ... CCD Tips and Techniques | Post . ... Colour Filter On A CCD . ... I was wondering if you could help me with a question I have about colour filters on CCD's: . For a CCD that is using a bayer colour filter on top of the pixel array, i have seen two different ways that this has been arranged: . ... www.astronomy.net . ... Forum posts are Copyright their authors as specified in the heading above the post. "dbHTML," "AstroGuide," "ASTRONOMY.NET" & "VA.NET" . ...

Laboratory work N7 Low-pass filtering. 1) Generate the signal with two periodic components and high-frequency noise. ... 2) Perform it's filtering with Panteleev filter 0 - h(t) = e 22 0 |t| 2 0 t 0 |t| cos + sin 2 2 , where 0 is a parameter. The frequency response of the Panteleev filter is ^ h( ) = 4 0 . 4 0 + 4 Select the cut-off frequency (by varying 0 ) for filtering out high-frequency periodic component and noise. 3) Plot the initial and filtered signal. ...

Next: Results and Discussion Up: Evolution of Supernova Explosion Previous: - Dependence for the . In order to construct the - dependence for supernova explosions, we calculated separately the m ( z ) in the R band and N ( z ) taking the cosmological and evolutionary effects into account. ... where n(t) is the SN rate as a function of age of the galaxy, t(z) is the age of the galaxy as a function of its redshift, and is the density of galaxies in the Universe. ...

... Imaging of land and water surfaces in three spectral bands onboard remote sensing and weather satellites. ... Digital mid-resolution multi-spectral imaging systems (MSU) register information on three CCD-lines equipped with different filters. A digital signal processor serves for the image data preprocessing. ... For the future modifications the MSU-100M and MSU-200 cameras, operating in the visible and near-infrared bands are being developed. ... MSU-50 . ... 7926 . ... Angular FOV , deg . ...

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... 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. ...

... Exposure Time Calculator (ETC) . Survey processing . ... VISTA is a 4-m class wide field survey telescope for the southern hemisphere, equipped with a near infrared camera (1.65 degree diameter field of view at VISTA's nominal pixel size) containing 67 million pixels of mean size 0.34 arcsec and available broad band filters at Z,Y,J,H,K s and a narrow band filter at 1.18 micron. A wide field visible camera, if constructed, could also be used on VISTA. ... Tile . ... ESO VISTA Public Surveys . ...

... Lucas (2000) also mentions the possibility of using the 183 GHz Water-Vapour Radiometers (WVRs) to correct for the emission. A correction based on the WVRs would largely remove the noise due to atmospheric emission, but would also add thermallike noise due to the noise within the radiometer itself. ... 125 100 K /m m K /m m 3 CORRECTING ALMA TOTAL-POWER OBSERVATIONS Each of the 12-m ALMA antennas will have a 183 GHz water vapour radiometer fed from the centre of the focal plane of the antenna. ...