Most of these images were obtained by Mike Bessell, Michelle Buxton, Hwankyung Sung, Ralph Sutherland and Bob Watson at SSO using a 2Kx2K Site CCD behind a Nikon or Hasselblad lens or directly on the 1m telescope. A few images are from the Hubble Space Telescope. Some of the M42 images were obtained with the KPNO 1m and ESO NTT telescope. One image is a mosaic of IRAS images. ... Details of the CCD imaging program at MSSSO. ... antenna.jpg (53KB) . ... ngc6744.jpg (59KB) . ...

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... The Great Nebula in Carina . ... Eta Carinae , the most energetic star in the nebula, was one of the brightest stars in the sky in the 1830s, but then faded dramatically. Eta Carinae is the brightest star near the image center, just left of the Keyhole Nebula . While Eta Carinae itself maybe on the verge of a supernova explosion, X-ray images indicate that much of the Great Carina Nebula has been a veritable supernova factory . Tomorrow's picture: open space . ...

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Please enter the lightcurve file name and period search parameters: . Lightcurve file: . ... Apply the Heliocentric correction and convert all dates to Terrestrial Time (TT)? ... Also, the Heliocentric correction cannot be applied to such lightcurves. ... This period search service is also available at the mirror sites: Mirror 1 , Mirror 2 , Mirror 3 , Mirror 4 . You may download the latest source code distribution and install the period search service at your own web server. ...

... 2010 . ... The following images are mosaics obtained on 03 August 2010 at the National Solar Observatory/Dunn Solar Telescope with the Interferometric Bidimensional Spectrometer (IBIS). ... The final images are approximately 238 x 242 arcseconds, or 4 x 4 arcminutes, with a pixel scale of 0.0976 arcseconds per pixel. ... The images show a broad range of typical chromospheric structures, including sunspots, superpenumbra, plage, filaments, and quiet internetwork. ...

... Up: Software Applications . ... Written in ANSI C, eclipse is a library offering numerous services related to astronomical image processing : FITS data access, various image and cube loading methods, binary image handling and filtering (including convolution and morphological filters), 2-D cross-correlation, connected components, cube and image arithmetic, dead pixel detection and correction, object detection, data extraction, flat-fielding with robust fit, ...

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... In Fast mode, because of telemetry constraints, the shift-and-add performed on the spacecraft in IMAGE mode is applied to FAST mode data on the ground. ... In IMAGE mode the DPU shift-and-add procedure is applied after every tracking frame integration, 10-20 seconds. ... The drift-corrected OM Fast mode event list file is passed to OMFASTFLAT which uses the OM in-orbit flatfield and the RAWX/RAWY values of the event list to flatfield the event list on an event by event basis. ...

One of my on-going research interests concerns the dust shells of proto-planetary nebulae or PPNs (also called pre-planetary nebulae, transition objects, and post-AGB objects in the literature; the latter term also applies to a wider selection of objects such as RV Tauri stars), especially the carbon-rich ones that show the unidentified "21 micron' emission feature. ... I am working to find a complete sample of proto-planetary nebulae in these satellite galaxies from the millions of detected stars. ...

Test models of the TsTK-140 and TsMK-70 digital aerial cameras have been developed and manufactured in cooperation with the юNO “Cosmos-NT” based on space technologies. The TsTK-140 camera has been designed for black & white topographic stereo imaging. ... The TsTK-140 camera is based on the AFA TE-140 camera optical unit. ... The TsMK-70 camera provides for aerial imaging in four spectral bands simultaneously (RGB and near-IR). ... This allows image acquisition control in real time. ...

... Reconstruction of peculiar velocities of galaxies from large-scale redshift catalogues provides an exemplary application of optimal transport. ... U Frisch, S. Matarrese, R. Mohayaee, A. Sobolevsky, A reconstruction of the initial conditions of the Universe by optimal mass transportation , Nature, 417 (2002) 260-262 ( arXiv:astro-ph/0109483 ) . ... R. Mohayaee, A. Sobolevskii, The Monge Amp re Kantorovich approach to reconstruction in cosmology , Physica D (2008) accepted ( arXiv:0712.2561 ) . ...

CREW 19/20 . ... NIITsPK picture Charles SIMONYI . ... He was decorated with the Service Order (Hungary) in 2006 and the Grand Cross - the Hungarian Republic Order in 2007. ... Since September 5, 2006 he started training at Yu.A. Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center under the VC-12 program as the spaceflight participant. ... On December 19, 2008 by decision of the Chief Medical Board with participation of IBMP and Yu.A. Gagarin CTC specialists Charles Simonyi was allowed for the crew training. ...

... H.-M. Adorf, ``HST Image Restoration - Recent Developments'', in P. Benvenuti and E. Schreier, Eds., Science with the Hubble Space Telescope, European Southern Observatory, 227--238, 1992. ... M. Antonini, M. Barlaud and P. Mathieu, ``Image coding using vector quantization in the wavelet transform domain'', Proc. ICASSP , Albuquerque USA, 1990. ... C.H. Chui, ``An Introduction to Wavelets'', Wavelet Analysis and its Application , Academic Press, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, Publisher, 1992. ... Math. ...

True Color Image Gallery: Galactic SNR | Magellanic Cloud SNR . ... Radio Images Page . ... Exposure uf . ... Exposure uf Exposure time of unfiltered event file . Exposure f Exposure time of filtered event file . ... Click left mouse button on hyperlink below to download file . ... Event 2 FITS File . ... AUX file . ... see fit detail page for more about the fit. see chandra spectrum page for region used. Images in Several Energy Bands . True Color Image . ... Radio Images . ... 1.0" . ...

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... 11.12.1998 . ... Their distances have been indirectly gauged by noting how much the light they emit has been stretched to longer wavelengths by the expansion of the Universe . ... What's the actual distance to quasars with Zs of 5 or so? ... about 15 billion light-years, give or take a few billion light-years depending on your favorite cosmology ! ... December 1998 . ... Publications with keywords: cosmology - quasar - redshift . Publications with words: cosmology - quasar - redshift . ...

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