Dr. Phil Plait , aka "The Bad Astronomer" . ... Images . ... Bad Astronomy site . The following are high-resolution images suitable for promos, newspapers, brochures, and the like. Clicking on the thumbnail image will bring up the high resolution image. High resolution (1.3 Mb) . Medium resolution (550 kb) . ... Dr. Plait giving a TV interview at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center about the transit of Venus in 2004. ... Dr. Plait posing with a model of the Apollo 11 landing site. ...

... Imaging of land and water surfaces in three spectral bands onboard remote sensing and weather satellites. ... Digital mid-resolution multi-spectral imaging systems (MSU) register information on three CCD-lines equipped with different filters. A digital signal processor serves for the image data preprocessing. ... For the future modifications the MSU-100M and MSU-200 cameras, operating in the visible and near-infrared bands are being developed. ... MSU-50 . ... 7926 . ... Angular FOV , deg . ...

Decomposition of Galaxy Images and Galaxy Rotation Curves Mosenkov A.V.*^, Savchenko S.S.*, Sotnikova N.Ya.* ... The DECA (DEComposition Analysis) code is designed to investigate images of galaxies in an automatic regime (using the simple 'bulge+disc' model) as well as in manual mode for more detailed images and/or for multicomponent structures. ... The GRCF package was created for performing the galaxies rotation curve decomposition using the models of the bulge, the disc, and the dark halo. ...

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M87 Gas Disk and Optical Jet (STSci) . SEDS Messier Catalogue M87 Page (U. Arizona) . Black Hole and Jet in M87 (NASA/GSFC) . ... The large scale radio structure is shown in the 3CRR Atlas . Richard White's Virgo Cluster page has optical and X-ray images of the large-scale environment of M87 . ... HST Observes Distant Radio Galaxies (STScI) . HST Finds a Black Hole in NGC4261 (STScI) . HST finds a Bare Black Hole Pouring out Light in NGC6251 . ... Alan Bridle's Home Page . ...

M obile A stronomical Sy stem of TE lescope- R obots MASTER-II Kislovodsk Lomonosov Moscow State University, Sternberg Astronomical Institute , Moscow Union "Optic" , Kislovodsk Solar Station Latitude = 43 o љ44'.767љN; Longitude = 42 o љ31'.417љE; Altitude = 2067љm MASTERљIIљ(8љsquareљdegress) + MASTERљVWF(VeryљWideљFieldљCameras (FOV=800 square degrees, Timeљresolutionљupљtoљ150љms, with unfiltered m_lim=14m on 5 sec. exposure, and ~10.5m with 0.15 sec) . ... 11h 38m 38.0s , -09d 59m 59s) . ...

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RADIOASTROPHYSICAL DEPARTMENT • INSTITUTE OF SOLAR-TERRESTRIAL PHYSICS RAS SB . General information Main characteristics of the Radio telescope Observing programs General view of the antenna array Main research areas Principle of generation of radio images Radio telescope 's beam Receiving systems Main characteristics of the base receiving-recording complex Calibrations Data archive and databases Publication SSRT - Siberian Solar Radio Telescope . ...

... astro-ph . ... We present the goals and preliminary results of an unbiased, near-infrared, narrow-band imaging survey of the First Galactic Quadrant (10deg<l<65deg ; -1.3deg<b<+1.3deg). ... We publish 16 Doppler imaging temperature maps for the years 1994-2002 of the active RS CVn star II Peg. ... Through Doppler imaging we want to study the spot evolution of the star and in particular compare this with previous results showing a cyclic spot behaviour and persistent active longitudes. ...

Russian Version [ MS-Win ] . ... Satellite data ] . ... The program is a powerful tool for multi-purpose image analysis and processing. It operates on files in main standard image storage formats: TIFF, BMP, GIF, PDF. The program contains a rich collection of operations for visual image quality improvement: linear and logarithmic normalization, equalization, brightness transformation by arbitrary look-up table, etc. ... ALMAZ-1 satellite data processing . NOAA satellites data processing . ...

Orbit . ... The orbit of the RadioAstron provides four types of study: . rough images of radio sources with ultra-high angular resolution, using all baselines up to the radius of the apogee, that is much larger than Earth diameter; . ... high quality imaging of radio sources, with moderate resolution, by observing either with small projected base lines Earth-spacecraft, i.e. close to the orbital plane, or near the perigee. ... high accuracy orbit determination. ... Space Radio Telescope . ...

... Iowa Robotic Telescope | ... Talon is based on OCAAS, a software suite developed by software engineer Elwood Downey ( Clear Sky Institute ) for use at the University of Iowa ?s first remote facility (the ATF, or Automated Telescope Facility). ... XObservatory : Telescope Control Interface . ... This program calls upon and coordinates much of the interrelated portions of the Talon architecture, and forms the primary control panel for the telescope, dome, and peripheral systems when used locally. ...

. Image where taken 11.03.97, 02:25.3 UT (exp 30s) at the Moscow observatory of SAI , using 0.10-m F/2 camera (installed on AVR-1 refractor) with CCD SBIG ST-8 and with B filter . by . V. Esipov and A. Martis . [ Go to next observation ][ Go back to Our observations list ] . Andrew A. Martis . martis @ sai.msu.ru .

Standard analog magnetograms (20 mm / sec) are presented in the form of digital images, . ... Observatory, . ... 1949 , 1950 , 1951 , 1952 , 1953 , 1954 . ... 1951 , 1952 , 1953 , 1954 , 1955 , 1956 , 1957 . ... 1950 , 1951 , 1952 , 1953 , 1954 , 1955 , 1956 , 1957 , . ... 1950 , 1951 , 1952 , 1953 , 1954 , 1955 , 1956 , . ... The project was conducted in 2003 by the International Council for Science ( "Rescue of Old Analogue Magnetograms by converting to digital images" , ICSU Grant–2003 Project). ...

... Field of research: Extragalactic astronomy. ... NASA Astrophysics Data System (ADS) Abstract Service . ... CADC Home Page . ... CCD Images of Galaxies . ... RUSSIAN LINKS . ... UA Astronomy Personal Home Page - Bill Keel . ... The Shape of the Rotation Curves of Edge-on Galaxies, by A.V.Zasov and A.V.Khoperskov, 2003. ... A Thickness of Stellar Discs, by A.V.Zasov, and D.V.Bizyaev, 2003 . Minimum Velocity Dispersion in Stable Stellar Disks, by A.V.Khoperskov, A.V.Zasov, and N.V.Tyurina, 2003 . ...

... S.P. KOROLEV ROCKET AND SPACE CORPORATION ENERGIA . ... OAO RSC "Energia" . ... Company's History . ... Flights Chronology . ... ISS Russian Segment . ... Rocket Space Complexes . Sea Launch . ... Launches Chronology . ... Land Launch . ... Land Launch - Complex Content | ... The launch complex is intended to launch the Zenit-3SLB, Zenit-2SLB and provides the ILV installation on the launch pad, full kit of prelaunch processing, propellant loading, prelaunch processing and launch of ILV assembled. ...

... Multiexposition 34 images Sun 1/1000 sec f/22 and 1 image background. ... It shows position of the Sun on the sky in the same time of a day during one year. Analemma - a trace of the annual movement of the Sun on the sky - is well known among experts of sun-dials and old Earth's globes as a diagram of change of seasons and an equation of time. ... Previously, the position of the Sun on the sky was calculated with computer as well as optimal moments of time for taking each of the exposures. ...

Atmospheric influence on the different radio-engineering system functioning . ESTIMATION OF ATMOSPHERIC OPTICAL CHARACTERISTICS AND REMOTELY SANSED IMAGE CORRECTION . ... Direct transmittance estimation results for 12 channels of the spectrometer CHRIS. ... We have managed to develop a direct method of estimating the discrete Normalized Atmospheric Point Spread Function (NAPSF) from available images alone, not using any external sources of information about the atmosphere. ... IRE RAS 1996-20 11 ...

Static Fourier spectrometers are often used for spectral measurements of the ionosphere emissions. There are two main advantages of Fourier spectrometers (FS) - large geometric factor and high spectral resolution; these parameters are two orders better than for grating spectral instruments. ... In scanning Fourier spectrometer optical and electric modulation of signal is used to avoid this problem, for static Fourier spectrometer there are no such ways. ...

. Comment on J1325-4301 . Our image, limited by the short observing time, shows symmetrical structure elongated in the NE-SW direction which is not useful to study the details of this complex source. High dynamic range images of this source are published by Tingay et al. (1998). VLBApls home page . Last modified: 16 Oct 2000