M81 is one of the classic grand design spiral arm galaxies. ... Hubble Space Telescope OBSERvations have detected Cepheid Variables in the some fields on the outskirts of M81 and thus M81 is a fundamental calibrator of the Extragalactic Distance Scale. This exposure is taken through a blue filter using re-imaging optics on a 52-inch telescope. ... The exposure time was 30 seconds. ... The Ultraviolet Image of M81 comes from the Ultraviolet Imaging Telescope which is flown on the Shuttle. ...

... 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. ...

... В теме В разделе По форуму . ... Темы, интересные всем ? ... Научная панорама ? arxiv:0705.4195 VSOP: The Variable Star One-shot Project . предыдущая тема следующая тема . ... 0 Пользователей и 1 Гость просматривают эту тему. ... arxiv:0705.4195 VSOP: The Variable Star One-shot Project I. Описание проекта и первый релиз данных (VSOP: The Variable Star One-shot Project I. Project presentation and first data release) . ... VSOP - The Variable Star One-shot Project ( http://vsop.sc.eso.org/ ). ...

... Science User Portal . ... ESO, the European Southern Observatory . ... Travel and Contacts . ... Travel to E-ELT Armazones . ... Survey Telescopes . ... Galaxies . ... Star Clusters . ... Stars@ESO . ... Part of the Deep 3 Deep Public Survey field, showing the brightest galaxy in the field ESO 570-19 (upper left) and the brightest star UW Crateris. This red giant (upper right) is a variable star that is about 8 times fainter than what the unaided eye can see. ... ESO 570-19 , UW Crateris . ...

... 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 . ... The Magazine . News . Observing . ... Magazine . ... Star Atlas . ... Gravitational wave search provides insights into galaxy evolution and mergers . ... The double star 54 Leonis, spiral galaxy NGC 3198, and emission nebula NGC 3199 . ... Open cluster NGC 2818, spiral galaxy NGC 2964, and spiral galaxy NGC 2976 . ... Astronomy for Kids . ... variable stars . ... Receive news, sky-event information, observing tips, and more from Astronomy's weekly email newsletter. ...

Here are all the plug-ins I have written. ... NOTE: Most of these plug-ins have been updated for the developers-only version of the GIMP, release 0.60. ... Until a new official GIMP version is released, the fix is to insert these two lines at the start of gimp.h : #define RGBA_IMAGE 4 #define GRAYA_IMAGE 5 For Texinfo documentation, look at the bottom of this page. ... Updated for GIMP 0.60. ... Quartic suggests that you try this: engrave an image, blur it slightly, and use it as a bump map. ...

... Previous: Background Fluctuation Analysis from the Multiscale Entropy . ... A new measure of information is defined which is based on noise modeling and incorporates resolution scale. Properties of this measure are discussed. ... Additionally it allows for image noise modeling, and subsequent noise removal. ... Hence information- and entropy-based processing technologies will be necessary for the effective design and implementation of large, future generation, image databases. ...

... 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. ...

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... CEPHEID VARIABLE STARS: A Cepheid variable or Cepheid is a member of a particular class of very luminous, massive variable stars with pulsation periods of 1-70 days. ... The relationship is calibrated using data collected from Cepheids whose distances are determined by other means. ... Browse through the 68 CCD fits images he sent you, using ds9 and locate the Cepheid variable. ... Image credits: ESA - "http://sci.esa.int/science-e-media/img/20/cepheid-variables.jpg" . ...

... Observing . ... Home Education Workshops at Adorama Astronomy Workshop: Observing Variable Stars from the City ? February 15, 2015 . ... Beyond New York City . ... Observing Resources for Amateur Astronomers - Part 1: Beginning Observers . ... A History of the First Forty Years of the Amateur Astronomers Association . ... Presented by€а Adorama €аFor the Amateur Astronomers Association of New York . ... 2016 Amateur Astronomers Association of New York Designed by Press Customizr Powered by . ...

XXVIII General Assembly of the IAU, SPS15 Beijing, August 31, 2012 . N.N. Samus, S.V. Antipin "Variable Stars and Data-Intensive Astronomy" . During the 26th IAU General Assembly in Prague, the IAU Division V (Commissions 27 and 42) considered the future of variable-star catalogues. ... To discuss these problems and to look for their solutions, the IAU Commission 27, on behalf of the IAU Division V, created an informal working group, chaired by the GCVS editor, Dr. Nikolai Samus. ...

... 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 . ...

... A new study using AAT ?chelle spectroscopy and HST spectrophotometry has revised this value upwards to (Woolf & Jeffery 2000). Measuring for the PVTel variables poses considerable difficulties. ... In spite of these constraints, Jeffery et al. (2000) succeeded in obtaining nearly contiguous ultraviolet photometry and radial velocities ( ) of three PVTel variables. Analysis of the UV photometry provided measures of and . ... 2000). ...

The Variable Gamma-Ray Source 2CG 135+01 ApJ, 497:L89-L91, 1998 7 h gamma AGN variability . gamma-radio-AGN-variability ADS query . ... Model for the High-Energy Emission from Blazars 1993ApJ.. ... Possible Production of High-Energy Gamma Rays from Proton Acceleration in the Extragalactic Radio Source Markarian 501 astro-ph/9803241 K.Mannheim . ... A theoretical unifying scheme for gamma-ray bright blazars astro-ph/9807317 G. Ghisellini, A. Celotti, G. Fossati, L. Maraschi, A. Comastri . ...

Next: NICMOS/HST H-band (F160W) Images Up: NICMOS Science Previous: HST NICMOS Observations of . ... Observations of P . ... The NICMOS team has devised a comprehensive program of observations of the Galactic Center. ... Data in hand give a first look at variability and a detailed look at the search for the tip of the main sequence will be discussed where NICMOS has demonstrated adequate sensitivity and photometric precision to identify likely O8-B1 stars at the Galactic Center. ...

Catalogue of eclipsing variables (CEV) is the world's principal database of eclipsing binary systems with available classification. CEV contains identifications, classifications, photometry, periods, eclipses data, spectral types, references and notes for 7179 systems. Format of the current CEV . CEV main table (~1.0MB) . ... List of systems, erroneously classified as eclipsing binaries in GCVS (they are not included in the CEV main table) Download all files as a single archive (~0.6MB) . ...

Russian SHAREABLE DATA CENTER Institute of Solar-Terrestial Physics SB RAS . ... The on-line prediction procedure is based on the Newton interpolation formulae for a uniform distribution of the variable with first, second and third argument powers restrictions (Kurkin V.I. , Polekh N.M., Tchistyakova L.V. MAF operative prognosis for oblique ionosphere sounding// Issledovaniya po geomagnrtismu, aeronomii i phisike Solntsa. ... Prediction MUF calculation for the next 15 minutes; . ...

THE 75th NAME-LIST OF VARIABLE STARS. ... The 75th Name-List consists of two tables. ... the literature, taken from positional catalogues, including USNO A1.0/A2.0 and GSC, or determined by the authors); the range of variability (sometimes the column Min gives, in parentheses, the amplitude of light variation; the symbol ( means that the star , in minimum light, becomes fainter, than the magnitude indicated); and the system of magnitudes used ( P are photographic ...