... Meta Index / Home Page / Source Flagging Algorithms Any source either having a raw count-rate >= 80, or with quality flag bit 4 set (mod-8 pattern) is checked for "close" neighbours, which may be flagged. ... Check each source in the vicinity of the bright source . ... Compute the maximum distance for flagging the source from maxRad = max(exclusionradius, min(70.0, 35.0 * countTable(i) // 80.0) ) If the flagging is done by omdetect, the exclusion radius is determined from the algorithm at the end . ...

... Solar Eclipses in 2009 : . There are two eclipses of the Sun (an annular eclipse on January 26 and a total eclipse on July 21-22 ) in 2009. ... Annular Solar Eclipse . ... Annular Eclipse of the Sun on January 26, 2009 . ... Beginning of northern limit of umbra . ... Beginning of center line; central eclipse begins . ... Central eclipse at local apparent noon . ... Total solar eclipse . ... An annular eclipse occurs when the apparent disk of the Moon is smaller than that of the Sun. ... Umbra: . ...

... The main field of my investigations is stellar spectrophotometry. As a result of scientific activity of our group spectrophotometric catalog was created including energy distribution data on 900 stars in the range 3200-7600AA and 250 stars in the range 6000-10800AA (Voloshina et al., Spectrophotometry of Bright Stars, ed. I.N.Glushneva, 1982, Moscow, Nauka, in Russian). ...

... As modern observatories evolve to production units delivering data products and calibrated scientific data to the end users, new challenges arise in assessing the quality of data products. ... Taking the analogy of speed control on a motorway we can describe the system as a device (radar) collecting measurements of the system performance (passing cars). ... One of the direct applications of quality control is the verification of instrument performance based on the analysis of calibration exposures. ...

Электронная библиотека астронома-любителя. ... архив RSN . ... Апрель 1998 . ... Дата: 10 апреля 1998 (1998-04-10) От: Alexander Bondugin Тема: Galileo Update - April 9, 1998 Привет всем! ... Дата: 10 апреля 1998 (1998-04-10) От: Alexander Bondugin Тема: Mars Global Surveyor Update - April 9, 1998 Привет всем! ... The feature known as the "Face on Mars" in the Cydonia region was imaged quite successfully on April 5th and its image was released in raw form and in an enhanced form on April 6th. ...

Personal Pages of Astronomers . ... home | ... Jarle Aasland (Comet Hale-Bopp: Norwegian Images) . ... Howard C. Anderson (Astrophotography Images and Information) . ... Patrick J. Anway (Lookum Observatory) . ... Peter Armstrong (ScanCam Home Page) . ... Bill Arnett's Astronomy Page . ... Astro Nights home page ( Australia ) . ... Alex Michael Bonnici (Space Exploration) . ... Michael Boschat . ... Brendan's Astronomy Page ( Republic of Ireland ) . ... Steve's Astronomy and Astrophotography page . ...

Cloud cover and water vapor observed at Oma site,Tibet W ang Hong-shuai (National Astronomical Observatories of China) Kislovodsk 8.10.2010 Wang Hongshuai ­ Kislovodsk ­ Oct.2010 2 2008.11 Oma Site 40 m CT 2 tow er 4.5 m antenna Satellite communication w eather station 10m tow er SBIG seeing m onitor DIMM seeing dome MIR cloud m onitor R en ew al p o w er supply Wang Hongshuai ­ Kislovodsk ­ Oct.2010 3 PWV<0.5 5 .0 % 1 0 .1 % 8 .1 % Percent. ... 05 8.3% Percent . ...

... 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 . ...

Interstellar matter. Galaxies 77 Properties of the interstellar gas clouds I.V. Gosachinskij St.Petersburg branch of Special Astrophysical observatory, St.Petersburg, Russia The characteristics of interstellar gas clouds play the main role in any theories of star formation. ... So the neutral atomic clouds may be named as "grand parents" of stars and their properties play genetic role for whole chain of matter transformations in the galaxies. ... Ta r : T a : V : l b l b Fig. ...

CLEAN Map ps -- is a plot of the naturally weighted CLEAN image. The lowest contour levels (2 steps) on image is plotted at "clev" levels [Jy/beam], the peak brightness -- "max" values [Jy/beam]. The dashed contours indicate negative flux. The beam is shown in the bottom left corner of the images. The plot is in postscript format.

... Meade Instruments Corporation . Telescopes ћ Binoculars ћ Microscopes . ... Asteroids can be observed, and their paths plotted in motion among the stars, through all Meade telescope models. ... Larger telescopes, including Meade DS-2000 series, LXD55 series, 8LX90 and LX200GPS, permit the observation of hundreds of variable stars throughout the sky. ... Larger telescopes such as the Meade LXD55 series, allow the observation of dozens of additional stars embedded in the nebula. ... about meade | ...

NMW survey overview . Access image archive . ... The New Milky Way survey aims to detect bright (V<13.5) optical transients near the Galactic plane using an automated wide-field (8x6 deg.) system capable of surveying the whole Milky Way area visible from the observing site in one night. ... All images obtained during the transient search survey are available online (please use the image archive access form ). ... Images per field: . ... Images per night: . ... Milky Way imaging time: . ...

VIEW OUT OF THE WINDOW FROM VANCOUVER, . CANADA . Dear,Nata,Lena N, Lena S, Sasha, Oksana, Yura, Masha, Irina, Anya, Zhenya, Olya and Valentina Saenko. We recieved your Message and this is our description of January 30th 1998. The temperaqture is 10 degrees C. The sky is a light shade of blue covered with beautiful fluffy white clouds. The sun is brightly shining over us.The grass is a deep shade of green, beautiful to the eye. ... Vancouver B.C. Canada. ...

To appear in "Fourth Workshop on Robotic Autonomous Observatories (2015)"RevMexAA(SC) METEOR OBSERVATIONS WITH MINI-MEGATORTORA WIDE-FIELD MONITORING SYSTEM S. Karpov, 1, 3 N. Orekhova2 G. Beskin, 1, 3 A. Biryukov3,4 S. Bondar,2 E. Ivanov,2 E. Katkova,2 A. Perkov, and V. Sasyuk3 RESUMEN 2 Favor de prop orcionar un resumen en espanol. ... The faintest detected meteors has the peak brightness about 10 mag, while the ma jority - from 4 to 8 mag. ... 2010; Karpov et al. 2013; Beskin et al. ...