... Instant "Brushed Aluminum" Textures . ... This does not solve any grandiose problem, it's an interesting extremely quick method to create textures and backgrounds with a `brushed aluminum' look. ... 2) Use the marquee tool and select a rectangle on the far left side, full height, about 15-20 pixels wide . ... 5) Go to Image > Effects > Scale, which adds little handles to the still selected marquee rectangle . ... 1) After filling the source rectangle with noise, use the Blur More filter then proceed...

A full-disk Titan view reveals secrets about the new mountainous discoveries and how they tie into Titan's past. Researchers believe the large, bright circular feature above center is the scar of an ancient impact basin. The prominent, long, dark feature above the impact scar may have resulted from tectonic activity caused by energy released by this impact - the same process that created the newly discovered mountains. ... NASA/JPL/University of Arizona ...

... 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 . ...

... Samara region . SSAU History . ... An alignment meeting on data mining, storage and processing of very large data amounts on the basis of hardware and software complex Big Data took place in Samara State Aerospace University. ... The laboratory for processing of very large data amounts on the basis of the hardware and software complex was made in the University and the necessary equipment was purchased. ... Data processing requires powerful processors and advanced computer programs. ... Big Data. ...

... Radiation mechanisms of astrophysical objects: classics today . ... Studies of radiation mechanisms and processes of spectra formation in astrophysical objects are among the fundamental tasks of modern astrophysics. ... On this occasion the Saint-Petersburg State University organizes an international conference Radiation mechanisms of astrophysical objects: classics today , which will be held in St. Petersburg from September, 21 to September, 25, 2015. ... Scientific rationale . ... Conference venue...

... Cosmic dust clouds and embedded newborn stars glow at infrared wavelengths in this tantalizing false-color view from the Spitzer Space Telescope. ... Elliptical Galaxy NGC 1132 . ... NGC 1132 is one smooth galaxy -- but how did it form? As an elliptical galaxy, NGC 1132 has little dust and gas, and few stars have formed in it recently. Although many elliptical galaxies are in clusters of galaxies, NGC 1132 appears as a large, isolated galaxy toward the constellation of the River (Eridanus). ...

System of astrometric databases of Pulkovo observatory. 26-inch refractor . Pulkovo system of astrometric databases consists of three databases, which contain results of processing photographic and CCD observations, obtained with the 26-inch refractor and the Normal astrograph of Pulkovo observatory. Pulkovo photographic catalogs: Pul-2, Pul-3 (Pul-3 SE), Pul ERS . Results of photographic and CCD observations of Solar system objects . ... Normal Astrograph ...

... License agreement. All copyrights to Izmccd are exclusively owned by the author- Igor Izmailov. ... THE AUTHOR WILL NOT BE LIABLE FOR DATA LOSS, DAMAGES, LOSS OF PROFITS OR ANY OTHER KIND OF LOSS WHILE USING OR MISUSING THIS SOFTWARE. You may not use, copy, emulate, clone, rent, lease, sell, modify, decompile, disassemble, otherwise reverse engineer, or transfer the licensed program, or any subset of the licensed program, except as  provided for in this agreement.  ... Igor Izmailov. ...

... The defining location and structure of airglow needs tomographic processing of data of photometric measurements. ... Both observed function of column brightness and volume emission rate function of airglow may be expanded in a Fourier series. ... There are developed software and made numerical simulation for tomographic data processing. ... In this case airglow has gaussian profiles on both coordinates altitude and latitude. ... Total number of simulated observations is 320. Fig. ...

SPECTRAL FEATURES OF THE AVALANCHE DEPOSITS IN LUNAR CRATER REINER. ... Crater Reiner. ... 5 Immature soils (coded in green, box 3) occupy most areas of the inner wall slopes of the crater. ... Distribution of the immature soils shown in Fig. 5 correlates with distribution of the bright materials on the wall slope of the crater as it is seen in Fig. ... The presence of very immature soils on the inner wall slopes and on the central peak of the crater Reiner suggests recent intensive slope processes. ...

... VaST is a software tool for finding variable objects on a series of astronomical images. ... VaST performs object detection and aperture photometry using SExtractor on each image, cross-matches lists of detected stars, performs magnitude calibration with respect to the first (reference) image and constructs a lightcurve for each object. ... VaST FITS image viewer ./pgfv . ... Part I" PZP, vol. ... K. V. Sokolovsky, S. A. Korotkiy; "New Variable Stars Discovered by the NMW Survey" PZP, vol. ...