... Copyrightї1997 Bob Yen (byen@ix.netcom.com) (http://www.comet-track.com/hb/hb.html) . ... Information on Comet Hale-Bopp for the Non-Astronomer Hale-Bopp rotates about twice a day (3/14/97) . ... The Comet Observation Home Page was been selected to receive the Griffith Observatory Star Award for the week of February 2 - 8, 1997 for excellence in promoting astronomy to the public through the World Wide Web. ... Typically, about 1,000 individual users/computers access this page every day. ...

The form on this Web page allows specifying a celestial position for which the full 4x4 degree NVSS FITS image is desired. ... Other services of the NVSS survey include: . ... NVSS Postage stamp (small FITS or jpeg file) server . direct ftp to NVSS 4x4 deg. FITS image and documentation server . NVSS source catalog and software ftp server - but please note that you will need to schedule an overnight job for a quiet time slot to download the 150Mb CATALOG.FIT file to avoid timeouts etc. ...

... Armagh Observatory, College Hill, Armagh BT61 9DG, +44 (0)28 3752 2928 . See also images taken on November 22nd . Image taken by Andy McCrea who says, . To me the comet appears yellowish and it has gone from star-like to a . ... More images from Andy McCrea here . ... The true explanation is that a very faint comet, known as periodic comet Holmes, produced a massive outburst of material and became a million times brighter than it was just a day earlier. ... More images from Andy McCrea . ...

... The TESIS is a set of solar imaging instruments developed by the Lebedev Physical Institute of the Russian Academy of Science, and launched aboard the Russian spacecraft CORONAS-PHOTON on January 30, 2009. The main goal of the TESIS is to provide complex observations of solar active phenomena from the transition region to the inner and outer solar corona with high spatial, spectral and temporal resolution in the EUV and Soft X-ray spectral bands. ... Solar activity hits a new low . ...

Astronotes Armagh Planetarium's Stellar Blog! ... Armagh Planetarium . ... Stars . ... Space Flight . ... Monthly Sky Notes . ... NGC 6357's inner star forming region glows with the emission of ionized hydrogen gas. Image credit: ESO/VVV Survey/D. Minniti. ... Located around 8000 light years away in the constellation of Scorpius , NGC 6357 (sometimes called the Lobster Nebula ) is a typical stellar nursery, filled with vast clouds of gas and tendrils of dark dust. ... Subscribe to Astronotes . ...

... Here some data observed on the 6m telescope with IFP installed in the OLD focal reducer are presented. ... Mkn 3: velocity field . ... NGC 5252: [OIII] image . ... NGC 5252 was observed 23 Feb. 1998 in the [OIII]5007 emission line with CCD TK1024 as detector. ... We observed the ionized gas velocity fields of the spiral galaxies with two purpose. ... Restored velocity field of NGC 157 in the reference frame rotating with the pattern speed overlaid on the Ha image of the galaxy . ... NGC 4100 . ...

... This section describes three functions which have been created to cleanup defects in images. The first two functions for cleaning rows and columns are particularly useful for CCD--images. ... These can often be removed with the commands: MODIFY/COLUMN INPUT OUTPUT [C or V] [columns] . ... This is particularly useful for removing the permanent defects which may exist in the CCD--frames and which cannot be removed by the MODIFY/COLUMN or MODIFY/ROW commands. ...

Permitted Context: %text . ... The <IMG> tag is used to incorporate in-line graphics (typically icons or small graphics) into an HTML document. This element is NOT intended for embedding other HTML text. ... Browsers that cannot display in-line images ignore the IMG element unless it contains the ALT attribute. ... Take values TOP or MIDDLE or BOTTOM, defining whether the top or middle or bottom of the graphic should be aligned with the baseline for the text line in which the IMG element appears. ...

... click image to view discuss) . ... This is a quick shot of the near-Earth asteroid 2005 YU55 using four consecutive exposures from the Harvard MicroObservatory robotic telescope in Amado, Arizona, on the night of Nov. ... 10, 2015 . This is Comet Lovejoy C/2014 Q2 as it appeared at about 10:30 pm Saturday, Jan. 10, 2015, from my back yard in Belmont, MA, about 5 miles west of downtown Boston. ... Main image: 0.6 second exposure. ... Copyright (c) Amateur Telescope Makers of Boston, Inc. ...

... Finding Stars . ... Handling Bad Pixels . ... The guide camera image controller can control one or more guide cameras. ... Each time the camera is read, the image is automatically saved to a fits file on a shared disk. ... Cameras that have bad pixels require "bad pixel maps" in order to find stars, centroid or even compute statistics for the image. ... View this image (for instance in NIH Image) and determine an upper and lower cutoff; pixels whose values are outside of this range are considered...

... Auroral Currents . ... 25c. Space tether . ... Aurora from Space . ... But the best view is still from space. ... The Canadian scientific satellite Isis-2 (1971) carried an auroral imaging camera and discovered the diffuse aurora, a broad ribbon around the auroral oval, too spread-out to be noticed from the ground. ... Currently, NASA's Polar (1996) collects images of the polar aurora using three cameras--in visible light (sometimes as frequently as 12 seconds apart), in ultra-violet and in x-rays. ...

RTT150 . ... One of the image, obtained in the May, 2003, with Andor DW436 CCD. Cluster 1541+6626, filter R, exposure 15 minutes, the resolution is 1", limiting star magnitude is 23m, the field of view is 8' x 8'. At the left: image of cluster 0720+7132 (z=0.268) obtained in the beginning of November, 2002 with RTT-150 and AP-47P CCD. 25 minutes exposure in R. The resolution is 0.7" (angular size of the image element - 0.23"), limiting stellar magnitude is 23.5-24. ...

... This program was created for correlating chosen regions in the series of fts images. ... Chosen regions' . ... In this section the program counts the integral for each region of the grid for each image. ... As a matter of fact, the integral is total brightness of the region and it is counted by 'int_tabulated' IDL function. ... In addition, the program will show the count of the regions which correlate with the corresponding region (the brighter region means the bigger count) and its contour. ...

... Non-NGC Images . ... Globular cluster in Scorpius (M80)..... image ..... caption . ... Globular cluster in Scorpius (M4)..... image ..... caption . ... Globular cluster in Oph (M107)..... image ..... caption . ... Nebula..... image . ... Globular cluster in Hercules (M13)..... image ..... caption . ... Globular cluster in Ophiuchus (M12)..... image ..... caption . ... Infrared-bright galaxy in Ophiuchus..... image ..... caption . ... Globular cluster in Ophiuchus (M10)..... image ..... caption . ...

... Ciel Espace, le magazine qui vous guide toujours plus loin . ... les plus belles images de l'Univers d†йcrypt†йes pour vous . ... des pages consacr†йes †а la publication de vos photos Mais c'est aussi une vraie communaut†й avec laquelle partager votre passion et nourrir votre curiosit†й. Accueil Rosetta livre les premi†иres images de l'ast†йro†пde Lutetia . ... La sonde Rosetta de l'Agence Spatiale Europ†йenne vient de renvoyer vers la Terre les premi†иres images de l'ast†йro†пde Lutetia. ...

... The function is accessible, if the file with the image is open, and Ю identification of a star field is made. ... a) Load a first image by the command " Open ", and others by the command " Open +". b) Make an identification of the field. c) Open the menu " File ", select " Next " or press . ... It is necessary tree or more images. a) Load the first image by the command " Open" , and others by the command " Open + ". b) Open the menu " Marking ", select "Detect moving objects" or press - . ...

The Python programs offered here result from the development of methodology for processing image data with high precision, in a flexible command line system useful for astronomical and laboratory image processing. ... Alsvid is efficient in robotic and automated or scripted server processing of astronomical images, and also in interactive command line processing for research and visualization. ... In large part it replaces IRAF and IDL when scripted image processing is required. ...

You Can Make Stellar Images Brighter . Articles | ... A few months ago I wrote an article titled "You Can’t Make Them Brighter". So why am I now writing that you can make them brighter. ... The image of a focused star is actually a small disk called the Airy disk, named after the 19 th century scientist Sir George Airy. ... For a given aperture, a smaller Airy disk means that the light is focused to a smaller disk and is therefore brighter. ... www.astronomy.net . About Astronomy Net | ...

... Camera (cold) going up to observing level for insertion into Telescope using the handling tool (blue). July 2007 . image: VISTA_IR_Camera_to_Telescope_2.JPG . ... Camera being moved from its stand in the lower floor of the Enclosure below the Azimuth floor, using the handling tool (blue). image: remove camera from stand.jpg . ... Camera inside the upper part of the enclosure after being lifted up to the Azimuth floor on its handling tool (blue). image: camera reaches az floor.jpg . ...

This image shows one of the largest known single objects in the universe, the Lyman-alpha blob LAB-1. This picture is a composite of two different images taken with the FORS instrument on the Very Large Telescope тАФ a wider image showing the surrounding galaxies and a much deeper observation of the blob itself at the center made to detect its polarization. ... This means that the giant "blob" must be powered by galaxies embedded within the cloud. Image credit: ESO/M. Hayes ...