... GCN 8471 | ... TITLE: GCN CIRCULAR NUMBER: 8516 SUBJECT: GRB 081102: MASTER refind and final results DATE: 08/11/11 15:50:10 GMT FROM: Vladimir Lipunov at Moscow State U/Krylov Obs E. Gorbovskoy, V. Lipunov, V.Kornilov, A.Belinski, N.Shatskiy, N.Tyurina, D.Kuvshinov, P.Balanutsa Sternberg Astronomical Institute, Moscow State University A. Tlatov, A.Parkhomenko Kislovodsk Solar Station of the Pulkovo Observatory V.Krushinski, I.Zalognikh Ural State GCN Circ 8470, Lipunov et al., ...

... Due date: 4.00pm Monday 21st May Question 1: Write a computer program or an Excel spreadsheet that calculates the signalto-noise ratio reached when taking broad-band images of a point-source. ... The brightness of the target · The diameter of the telescope's primary mirror. ... The Quantum Efficiency of the detector. ... You may either use one of your own, or one I provide at the following link: http://www.mso.anu.edu.au/~pfrancis/ObsTech/data/ (this is an R-band image taken with the 2.3m telescope)...

adapted from Observe: Eclipses, published in 1979 by the Astronomical League and "Safe Solar Filters," by B. Ralph Chou, Sky and Telescope, August 1981) . ... Tape TWO pieces of film together into a sandwich, and tape this over the opening in the cardboard. ... The cardboard frame will act as a shade from the bright Sun, while you safely observe through the film sandwich. ... Undeveloped film is not safe. ... tape . ... At the end of one of the tubes, tape the aluminum foil, and make a tiny pinhole. ...

... Imaging of the core of the OMC-1 region using NICMOS camera 2 through the F212N and F215N filters shows a wide variety of interesting structure on scales of 0.2" at a very high dynamic range (Stolovy et al. ... The application of image restoration techniques, including multi-channel variants of the Richardson-Lucy technique, offers the chance to enhance structure on the finest scales and also to suppress the prominent and richly structured point-spread functions of the many bright stars in the...

... Flux density at 1 GHz (/Jy): 28 . ... Radio: Shell, brightest to the S. Optical: Filaments correspond well to the radio shell, brightest in SE. X-ray: Brightest to NW, with point source near centre. Point sources: Central, variable X-ray source, and nearby pulsar. ... Molonglo at 408 MHz (3') and Parkes 64-m at 5 GHz (4'). ADS . ... ASCA observations of compact X-ray source. ... X-ray variability of central source. ... ATCA at 1.4 GHz (50''), including H I absorption to central source. ...

RTT150 . Russian-Turkish 1.5-m Telescope . ... Until 2002 observations were mostly performed with ST-8E CCD in the 1:7.7 Cassegrain focus. ... In April, 2003 telescope was equipped with a larger-size CCD Andor DW436 . ... 2048 x 2048 pixels, . ... Since summer of 2002 the main focal detector of the RTT150 telescope was AP47p CCD in 1:7.7 Cassegrain focus. ... During September 3-13, 2002 works on installation of new autoguiding system ( photo 1 ) were carried out on RTT150 telescope. ...

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). ...

... Figure 1 shows some synthetic test data u(n) to which random noise v(n) is added. ... for the above simulations % % % % % Explore the use of eigenanalysis techniques in post detection digital signal processing for noise rejection Potential application include spectroscopy and imaging Jon Bell 24 Jul 2000 clear % Make some fake raw data nspec = 120 ; ntime = 10; scale = 1.0; noisescale = 1.0; dcoff = 0.0; psi =1.0; j=1:1:nspec; k=1:1:ntime; rawdata = sin(j/3) + sin(j/5) + 1; rawdata = ( ...

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... 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. ...

... Bad Astronomy . ... Bad Astronomy: The North Star, Polaris, is a very bright star. Good Astronomy: Polaris is a middling-bright star, easily missed. ... He said it was close to Polaris, the North Star, but he also said it was in the East. ... It's natural, I suppose, to think that such an important star should be bright, but really, that's a conceit, like thinking that the Earth is at the center of the Universe. If more people knew just why Polaris is the North Star, this Bad Idea would stop. ...

... The bright supernova (hereafter SN) in the galaxy NGC 4527 was first sighted by S. Knight (USA) on April 13.17UT at magnitude ~14.0v. The report of the sighting was subsequently forwarded by phone to the AAVSO. ... SN 1991T. The galaxy NGC 4527 is an Sb(s)II type galaxy with an apparent Blue magnitude of 11.32 (Shapley-Ames, 1981). ... An analysis of this event utilizing visual observations by amateurs, plus a light curve is presented.. ... THE LIGHT CURVE: . ... ISN SN 1991T web page . ...

... Dept. for Astrometry & Space Geodynamics . ... Dept. for Physics of Stars&Galaxies . Dept. for Space Plasma Physics . Dept. for Physics of Minor Celestial Bodies . Dept. for Physics of Planetary Systems . Dept. for Solar Physics . ... Solar telescopes . ... 2016,MNRAS, 2016MNRAS.tmp.. ... Evans A., Pavlenko Ya.V., Kaminsky B.M., et al.Modelling the spectral energy distribution of the red giant in RS Ophiuchi: evidence for irradiation. ... Equipment . ... All Pages . Page 4 of 5 . ...

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 . ...

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 . ...

Optical Communication Experiment using Very Small Optical transmitter with SLR station National Institute of Information and Communications Technology, Japan Space Communications System Laboratory Hiroo Kunimori and VSOTA TEAM Sep 24, 2012 WPLTN Technical Workshop@St.Petersburg, Russia Table of Contents Backgound:HODOYOSHI Project JapaneseHODOYOHI= Reasonable Reliability Engineering to develop series of 50kg Satellite. ... How to share wavelength communication beam and ranging beams. ...

grdfilter - Filter a . grd file in the Time domain grdfilter input _ file . grd -D flag -F < type >< width > -G output _ file . ... The output . ... grd The file of points to be filtered. D Distance flag tells how grid (x,y) relates to filter width as follows: flag = 0: grid (x,y) same units as width , Cartesian distances. flag = 1: grid (x,y) in degrees, width in kilometers, Cartesian distances. flag = 2: grid (x,y) in degrees, width in km, dx scaled by cos(middle y), Cartesian distances. ...

Wide-angle telescopes for photometry and polarimetry in optical and infrared ranges . ... Investigation of the Earth’s atmosphere, comets, interplanetary and interstellar medium with brightness and linear polarization measurements of extended sources and sky background in optical and infrared spectral ranges. ... The devices are small diameter telescopes with CCD-detectors for optical and infrared spectral range with spectral and polarization filters. ... 15-cm telescope with cooling down to 80 K . ...

Stellarium 0.12.3 . ... Classes . ... Renderer . ... StelQGLTextureBackend Class Reference . ... constructFromImage (class StelQGLRenderer *renderer, const QString & path , const TextureParams &params, QImage &image) . Construct a StelQGLTextureBackend from an image. ... constructFromPVR (class StelQGLRenderer *renderer, const QString & path , const TextureParams &params) . ... constructAsynchronous (class StelQGLRenderer *renderer, const QString & path , const TextureParams &params) . ... path . ...

Microsymposium 38, MS083, 2003 (A4 format) MERCURY: LOCAL VARIATIONS OF THE PHOTOMETRIC RELIEF. ... Because of trajectory and pointing angle constraints the planet could be observed from Mariner 10 only over a small range of phase angles between about 75o and 110o. Therefore the photometric investigations are restricted to measuring the distribution of brightness on the Mercurian disk. ... Raw versions of real-time processing pictures FDS 0000984 and FDS 0000986 were used (images 196 and 202). ...