Next: The ESO VLT CCD Detectors Software . ... Up: Instrument-Specific Software . ... The framework for data calibration and analysis of the VLT instrumentation is presented, based on the concepts of a calibration plan, pipeline calibration, quality control, and archiving of calibrated data for a ground-based observatory. ... Quality Control Pipeline provides quality assessment for instrument performance data and observing conditions, and tests the results of the Reduction Pipeline. ...

GCVS Research Group: . Recent publications . Kazarovets E.V., Samus N.N., Durlevich O.V., Kireeva N.N., Pastukhova E.N., The 81st Name-List of Variable Stars. ... Kazarovets E.V., Samus N.N., Durlevich O.V., Kireeva N.N., Pastukhova E.N., The 80th Name-List of Variable Stars. ... Samus N.N., Kazarovets E.V., Kireeva N.N., Pastukhova E.N., Durlevich O.V. General Catalogue of Variable Stars: Current status and new Name-lists Odessa Astronomical Publications, 2010, V. 23, p. 102-105. ...

... Image Quality of the VLT . Total Optical Control . First light for the ESO VLT unit telescope 1 occurred during the workshop. ... The image shown (Figure 1 ) here was obtained with the VLT on May 16, 1998, in red light (R band), i.e. while the mirror was still uncoated. ... In this diagram (FIgure 2), the measured image quality of the VLT UT1 astronomical images is plotted versus the ``seeing", as measured by the Seeing Monitor, a small telescope also located on top of the Paranal Mountain. ...

... AO-4 . The space VLBI Mission RadioAstron, led by the Astro Space Center (ASC) of Lebedev Physical Institute, provides a range of specific and unique capabilities for detecting and imaging sources of cosmic radio emission at the highest angular resolution. ... AO-4 observations will be performed between July 2016 and June 2017 inclusive. ... The RadioAstron Announcement of Opportunity - 4; . The RadioAstron User's Handbook ; . ... RadioAstron observations status summary . ...

... Volodymyr Kuzkov, Sergii Kuzkov, Zoran Sodnik - Direct measurements of laser light aberration from the ARTEMIS geostationary satellite through thin clouds // arXiv.org - New resalts to paper at Conference ICSOS-2014, Kobe, Japan, May 7-9 (2014), S4-4, [view pdf file] . ... Kuz'kov V., Volovyk D., Kuzkov S., Sodnik Z., Pukha S. - Realization of Laser Experiments with ESA'S Geostationary Satellite ARTEMIS. ... Preparation to Optical Communication Experiments With ARTEMIS Satellite. ... V.P. Kuz`kov. ...

... 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 . ...

... About meteorites . ... Meteorite Encyclopedia . ... About laboratory . ... On the night of September 24-25, in the north of Irkutsk Oblast, local residents saw a brightly glowing space object draw a line across the sky and fall into the taiga. ... But scientists learned of the heavenly visitor only on October 3, when a fax arrived at the Institute of Sun And Earth Physics from Bodaibo. ... The first thing we did was to interview residents of villages located along the meteor's flight path. ...

... RSDC . ... Press Releases (rus) || in Russian RSDC Quick Jump 9-year Galactic survey Catalog of sources 7-year Galactic Bulge Map Cleaning IBIS/ISGRI sky images IBIS/ISGRI Sensitivity vs. ... The INTEGRAL view of the Galaxy . ... May 2012: 9-year Galactic plane survey . ... They are ISGRI (higher plane detector of the IBIS telescope), JMX1 and JMX2 - two detectors of the JEM-X telescope. ... RSDC is actively participating in the all-sky survey carrying out with INTEGRAL observatory. ... 2016 IKI RAN...

... Formation of Galactic Subsystems in Light of the Magnesium Abundance in Field Stars. ... The Thin Disk(2006) . ... I. The Thick Disk. ... A Compiled Catalog of Spectroscopically Determined Elemental Abundances for Stars with Accurate Parallaxws. I Magnesium. ... Stars of extragalactic origin in the solar neighborhood.( ... Evidence for age delay between the formation of the old halo and the thick disk(2000) . ... Tel:work(8632)433985 . home(8632)333178 . Fax:(8632)434044 . ...

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 . ...

... Under certain conditions, like those in the nucleus of a QSO, all atoms can be made to emit light at particular wavelengths. ... If that source is approaching the observer, the wave is squashed up onto itself making the wavelength shorter. ... This is redshift. ... You can see how the section of the QSO spectrum which we observe changes with redshift. ... We then see how far we had to slide the observed spectrum along the scale to make it match and that is the objects redshift. ... The 2QZ team . ...

http://hubblesite.org/newscenter/archive/releases/1996/22/text/ Probing the mysterious heart of the Crab Nebula, the tattered remains of a stellar cataclysm witnessed more than 900 years ago, astronomers using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope have found that the Crab is even more dynamic than previously understood, based on a cosmic "movie" assembled from a series of Hubble observations. ... Because of this flickering, the neutron star is also called a "pulsar." ...

... List of SAS threads This thread illustrates you how to reprocess Observation Data Files (ODF) to obtain calibrated and concatenated event lists, which can be directly used to generated scientific products (images, spectra, light curves) through evselect or xmmselect . ... run the EPIC reduction meta-tasks. ... emproc For the pn: . ... emproc selectinstruments=yes emos1=yes . ... Concatenated and calibrated EPIC event lists are already available in the PPS Pipeline Products . ...

... Ciel Espace, le magazine qui vous guide toujours plus loin . ... 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 Images de la com†иte Tempel 1 : le crat†иre de Deep Impact invisible . ... Les images rapproch†йes de la com†иte Tempel 1 prises par la sonde Stardust permettent de reconna†оtre la r†йgion o†µ s'est †йcras†й l'impacteur de Deep Impact en 2005. ... Etat du ciel . ...

... Число ссылок на статью (первая цифра, выделенная полужирным) дается по данным ISI с ручным суммированием ошибочных и варьирующихся (например, Zh Eksp Teor Phys - Sov Phys JETP) ссылок, поэтому значения превышают те, что даны в таблице высокоцитируемых ученых как персональтные рекорды. ... Sov Phys JETP, 34, 62, 1972 (Zh Eksp Teor Fiz, 61, 118, 1971) . ... Zh Eksp Teor Phys, 47, 1945, 1964 (Sov Phys JETP, 20, 1307, 1965) . ... Zh Eksp Teor Phys, 47, 1515,1964 (Sov Phys JETP, 20, 1018, 1965) . ...

... Schedule IKI RAN Data Acquisition, Processing and Dissemination Center . SRC "Planeta" Data Acquisition, Processing and Dissemination Center . Sea Surface Temperature Adriatic Sea . Baltic Sea . Barents Sea . Black Sea . ... Composite Image of Cloudiness Russia . ... Regional Archive (only cloudless data) . ... Operative Regional Archive (all data for last 3 days) . ... NOAA Data on other Servers (about Russia) . For more information send a mail to: info@sputnik.infospace.ru . ...

. As you ascend the stairs next to the clubhouse, you get to see the observatory up close. We have an observing table lighted with red lights. Some of our extreme DSO's don't even want them on! . The black box looking thing on the observatory, just below the dome, is actually a speaker so we can pipe in music. Not shown in the picture to the left is the attic above the clubhouse.

... Seeking a splendid escape to the beach or the cool breezes and green hills of the foothills and mountains of the northeast can offer a chance to take a longer look at the summer sky. ... StarQuest Memories. StarQuest was a blast this year! ... The observing at StarQuest, especially on Saturday night, was worthy of pulling an all-nighter, and several of us had our eyepieces and CCD cameras working all night along (including Brian Van Liew and Bob Vanderbei with their CCDs). ... Dark Skies! ...

... Samara State Aerospace University Staff Varfolomeeva Vera Vasilevna . ... Varfolomeeva V.V. , Terentev A.V. Weak intramolecular and intermolecular hydrogen bonding of benzyl alcohol, 2-phenylethanol and 2-phenylethylamine in the adsorption on graphitized thermal carbon black // Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics. ... Varfolomeeva V.V. , Terentev A.V. Adsorption of benzyl alcohol and 1-phenylethanol on graphitized thermal carbon black // Russian Journal of Physical Chemistry A. 2010. ...

... In the table given at a separate sheet enumerate in growing order (from 1 to 13) the size and the mass of each object: Milky Way Galaxy, Andromeda Galaxy, Neutron star, Electron, Mercury, The first satellite "Sputnik I", Venus, Pluto, Proton, Red dwarf, Black cat, White (Polar) bear, the Sun. ... Star setting. ... Comet Lovejoy. ... Radio- (operating wavelength is about 21 cm) and optical (operating in the light visible to the naked eye) telescopes have been used to study an astrophysical object. ...