... A survey of Armagh was to be carried out in order to better determine how much money is wasted each year in Armagh on bad lighting. ... Bad Up Light . ... This information allowed more accurate estimates to be made of how much light is wasted in Armagh, and therefore how much money and coal is wasted, as well as how much carbon dioxide produced. ... Lights per metre . ... denote the average percentage of light wasted per luminaire, wasted meaning ineffective lighting (up, to the sides etc.) . ...

... ESO is building what will be the World's largest optical telescope array, The Very Large Telescope (VLT). The VLT Project organisation is responsible for the design and construction of the Unit Telescopes, including enclosures, optics, adapter-rotators and coating unit. ... Unit Telescopes Overview - This page is outdated, an update is in process. ... Secondary mirror (M2 Unit) - This page is outdated, an update is in process. ... Coating Unit - This page is outdated, an update is in process. ...

... 2004 August 25 . Zodiacal Light and the False Dawn . ... Once considered a false dawn , this triangle of light is actually Zodiacal Light , light reflected from interplanetary dust particles . ... Zodiacal light is so bright this time of year because the dust band is oriented nearly vertical at sunrise, so that the thick air near the horizon does not block out relatively bright reflecting dust . ... About APOD | ... NASA Web Site Statements, Warnings, and Disclaimers . ...

... 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. ...

... Posts tagged ?light curve? ... Posted by hlee . ... Tags: book , Brieman , cigar , Clinton , data mining , Friedman , Hastie , KDD , light curve , machine learning , SCMA , shaking hands , SN , statistical learning , Supernova , Tibshirani . Category: Algorithms , Cross-Cultural , High-Energy , Jargon , Methods , Quotes , Stat , Uncertainty | Comment . ... Click for what was appeared in arXiv this week. ... Category: arXiv , Data Processing , gamma-ray , Objects , Spectral , Timing , X-ray | ...

STScI . ... Colloquia . ... Webcasts . ... Poster Information . ... Presentations . STScI will be webcasting the entire workshop, providing a webcast of the physical presentations and the powerpoint presentation slides. The resolution of powerpoint presentations via a webcast can be difficult. ... On this website, we have a powerpoint file with all the information we are recommending, plus a webcast of the same powerpoint file and, a webcast of transparencies of the same powerpoint file. ...

. Phys. Fluids A5, 1512-1513, 1993. Jacques Lewalle, jlewalle@syr.edu

... Another option is to buy slides of astronomical objects at different wavelengths to show students why astronomers use different bands of the spectrum to bring out specific characteristics in celestial objects. ... He then uses the camera to scan the entire classroom, asking students to identify what they are seeing. ... Once students see light in action, they can investigate its properties - such as frequency, wavelength, and interference - with wave experiments. ...

... Explanation: An unusual triangle of light will be particularly bright near the eastern horizon before sunrise during the next two months for observers in Earth's northern hemisphere. Once considered a false dawn , this triangle of light is actually Zodiacal Light , light reflected from interplanetary dust particles . ... Zodiacal light is also bright for people in Earth's northern hemisphere in March and April just after sunset. ... Publications with keywords: zodiacal light - Solar System . ...

... From the uvby photometry and proper motions for about 5500 nearby F stars we have found the following: (i) F stars , taken in narrow ranges of metallicity , show at [fe/H] 0 rather distinct cut-off in their distribution along the Main Sequence (MS) at the blue side, which is suggested to be an indication for the MS turn-off in stellar groups of fixed metallicity ; (ii) the corresponding turn-off age from theoretical isohrones strongly correlates with the ...

... The eleven years cycle of Sun's activity is approaching its maximum! From August 24th to 29th a team of astronomers, engineers and astro-photographers will travel to southern Greenland to observe the Northern Lights (Aurora Borealis), a phenomenon expected to be particularly spectacular during this period. ... Auroras . The wonderful celestial spectacle of the aurora occurs when very energetic particles from the Sun reach the Earth's atmosphere via the solar wind. ... About GLORIA . ...

Astronotes Armagh Planetarium's Stellar Blog! ... Space Flight . ... Posted on January 13, 2012 | No Comments The aurora is a stunning celestial event associated with EarthтАЩs polar regions. ... Continue Reading.. Posted on October 20, 2011 | ... Posted on September 26, 2011 | ... Posted on July 19, 2011 | ... Posted on May 27, 2011 | ... Time was originally defined and quantified through astronomy, and today astronomers are used to glibly talking of vast stretches of time. ...

... Bad Astronomy . Misconceptions . ... Bad Astronomy : "We're light years more advanced than our competition!" ... Even the closest astronomical object, the Moon, is 400,000 kilometers away! ... A beam of light will travel 9,500,000,000,000 kilometers in one year. This distance is defined as a light year ; the distance light travels in a year. ... This is another example of Bad Astronomy; like a light year, a parsec is a unit of distance, not time (to be specific, it equals 3.26 light years) . ...

... Time delay determinations in astrophysics are used most often to find time delays between flux density variations in different spectral bands and/or lines in AGNs, and different images of gravitationally lensed QSOs. ... OB used an idea to take into account the known gravitational lensing time delay to get combined radio and optical light curves and then to use them for determination of the possible radio-from-optical time delay. ... Correction for change of time delay and radio flux. ...

Since the light from galaxies represents the integrated contribution of its consitutient stars, then we can learn about stellar populations in galaxies by modelling their light by summing up individual stellar spectra for different kinds of stars. ... The data cover the wavelength range 3500 - 9000 angstroms. ... Retrieve Digital Stellar Spectra Click on the appropriate spectral type. ... Note that the designation V means main sequence, IV means subgiants, III means giants, I means supergiant. ...

... Programme . ... Abstract: We reveal the stellar light originating from the kiloparsec-scale, ring-like structure of the Centaurus A galaxy in unprecedented detail. In particular, we use sub-arcsecond resolution near infrared images to create a dust-free view of this structure that is heavily obscured by the central dust lane at visual wavelengths. ... Finally, we discuss the large-scale geometry implied by the reddening signatures of dust in our near infrared images. go back . ...

SAS home . SAS Watchout items . ... This thread contains a step-by-step recipe to extract a light curve of a point-like source for all the X-ray cameras, subtracting the background and correcting for exposure loses. ... The SAS task barycen performs this correction. ... If the following files are available: a) RGS event list; b) RGS source list, a call to the task performing light curve extraction, correction and background subtraction rgslccorr allows a user to create the light curve. ...

... The 7 and 15 um observations of the Galaxy obtained by the ISOGAL program offer an unique possibility to investigate and separate the different populations of stars in the Galactic Plane, in particular to study the population of low flux density YSOs which could not be detected with IRAS. ... The criteria are applied to five ISOGAL fields centered at l~+45 deg and b~0 deg, covering a total area of 0.504 deg$^2$. ...

Reciprocity relation in checking calculations of the optical properties of non-spherical particles V.G. Farafonov St.Petersburg University of Aerocosmic Instrumentation, St.Petersburg, 190000, Russia and V.B.Il'in Astronomical Institute, St.Petersburg University St.Petersburg, 198504, Russia ABSTRACT There are many methods to solve the problem of light scattering by non-spherical particles , but only the separation of variables method ( ... Michel B., Farafonov V.G. (2000) J. Quant. ...

... Future seminars . P a s t seminars . Seminar council . Linear and nonlinear vibrations in vortex lattices " . ... Zaburdaev, V.V. Smirnov, K.V. Chukbar (Kurchatov's Institute) . ... Evolution of “long-wave” perturbations in different regular lattices of different (i.e. with different flow functions) 2-d vortices is considered. ...