... Bad Astronomy . ... Bitesize Astronomy . ... Last week's Snack talked about how black holes can affect the environment around them in such a way as to be very bright . ... It's a common misconception that black holes always have matter swirling into them. ... As this matter gets closer and closer to the black hole it piles up and a large, fairly flat disk forms. This is called the accretion disk , because matter from this disk accretes (that is, falls in) on the black hole. ... 2008 Phil Plait. ...

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... Credit Copyright: J. Vilinga (Angola, IAP ), LASCO , NRL , SOHO , ESA , NASA ; . Processing: R. Wittich ; Composition Copyright: S. Koutchmy ( IAP , CNRS ) Explanation: Sometimes, a total eclipse is a good time to eye the Sun. Taking advantage of an unusual juxtaposition of Earth, Moon and Sun , the featured image depicts the total solar eclipse that occurred last month as it appeared -- nearly simultaneously -- from both Earth and space. ... Earth During a Total Eclipse of the Sun . ...

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... On the morning of Thursday, 26 February, amid the Gal pagos Islands, the Sun will fade from view. Not the culmination of ancient prophecy, but none less mystical, Earth's small Moon will be executing a slow slide past the enormous Sun. ... And anyone living in southern North America, Central America, northern South America, or on islands and cruise ships in the Caribbean Sea will, weather permitting, have the opportunity to experience the wonder of a solar eclipse. ...

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... 2000 January 26 . A Lunar Eclipse Over Time . ... Explanation: During last week's lunar eclipse , our Moon appeared to disappear. As the Earth moved between the Moon and the Sun, the Earth's shadow fell on the moon, making it quite dark . ... As the Earth's shadow engulfed the Moon , the Moon streak became less and less bright, practically disappearing during totality . ... Later, clouds obscured the re-appearing Moon. ... About APOD | ...

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... 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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... 4.4 Imbedding HTML in a Document . In the following discussion of SPECIAL processing
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The Sun's corona . ... For instance, short "plumes" rising from the polar regions of the Sun look very much like field lines coming out of the end of a bar magnet, and they therefore suggest that the Sun, in addition to the intense fields of sunspots, also has a global magnetic field like the Earth's. Arches above the . Sun's surface . ... It is brightest near sunspots, whose arched field lines apparently hamper the outflow of solar wind which carries away energy and helps cool the corona. ...

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... Figure 1: Diagram of rgsproc sub-tasks and data-flow. ... 1:events : preliminary tasks, source-independent calibrations . ... The first stage of processing performs basic calibrations on the events in separate, CCD-specific intermediate event lists and then gathers them together in the combined event list . ... Name collisions among tables copied in from the intermediate event lists are avoided by placing the corresponding CCD number at the eighth character of the extension name. ... int32 . ...

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... Science . ... Science Users Information > Science Publications > Science Announcements > Processed Calibration Files for VLT instruments Now Available . ... ESO Data . ... ESOReflex data reduction workflows can be used to customize the generation of the processed and co-added calibration frames and to apply them to the science files. A detailed step-by-step guide on how to automatically associate the appropriate calibrations, raw or processed, to the science files of interest is available . ...

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... Stellar Evolution is driven entirely by the never ending battle between Pressure and Gravity . As imbalances are reached, the star is driven to find a new Energy source. ... Pressure and gravitational forces are equal, the star is stable and its core is sufficiently hot to fuse Hydrogen into Helium More about main sequence stars . ... The luminosity generated by the core fusion of Helium into Carbon is far greater than the shell luminosity associated with the fusion of Hydrogen into Helium. ...

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Educator's Guide to Eclipses . ... In a solar eclipse you observe the Sun (using only safe methods, of course). ... In a lunar eclipse you observe the Moon. ... Because of the geometry described below, you can only view a solar eclipse when the Sun is up, and the Moon is nowhere to be seen. ... Eclipses occur when the Sun, Earth and Moon line up. ... In a solar eclipse the Moon passes directly in front of the Sun. ... In a lunar eclipse the Moon moves into Earth's shadow. ...

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... Fig. ... One of these is a pink-coloured solar prominence, a tongue of incandescent hydrogen gas spewing out of the obstructed solar disc, visible at the 2 o'clock position. ... Such an eclipse was predicted to be visible from deep within the Asian continent on the 1st August 2008. ... A pink-coloured prominence was visible right from the onset (Fig. 1), while several streamers appeared to emanate from the obstructed solar disk throughout the event (Fig. ... Last Revised: 2008 September 8th . ...

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Next: Conclusions Up: Adaptive Least Squares Image Previous: Processing of Simulated . Fig. 6 shows an image of Saturn which was recorded with the Wide Field / Planetary Camera. It is stored in the file SATURN.FITS. The measured point spread function from the data file SATURN_PSF.FITS is also displayed. Fig. 7 shows the result of restoration. The restored image appears much clearer, with higher contrast than the measured data. ... Thu Jun 2 15:47:14 EDT 1994 ...

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... Tonight's Sky . ... Sky this Month . ... Star Atlas . ... stars . ... The Sky This Week: April 1 - 10 . ... Observing springtime deep-sky objects with a large telescope . ... Why do some stars appear to flash a variety of different colors when you look at them through a telescope? ... So, Earthт??s atmosphere will bend some colors from especially bright stars more so than others, which makes the source look like itт??s flashing colors. Get instant access to subscriber content on Astronomy.com! ...

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... V838 Mon is a member of a new class of eruptive variables which appear as a peculiar novae having late K-M type spectra in their outburst. Before its outburst, it was a wide binary system of B3V type stars. ... The B3V companion was seen in the outburst in the UV spectrum taken with HST (Rauch et al., ... In the latest spectra, the light of B3V companion was predominating in the short-wave photometric bands. ... CCD blue frames of V838 Mon before the eclipse (left) and in the eclipse (right). ...

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Image credit: Michael Nolan, Arecibo Observatory. These radar images of near-Earth asteroid 2001 SN263 were obtained on 2008 Feb 12 and 13. ... Image from Feb 12 . ... First near-Earth triple asteroid discovered by Arecibo Observatory . ... was discovered this week by astronomers at the sensitive radar telescope at Cornell University?s Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico. ... For example, Arecibo has discovered more than half of the near-Earth binary asteroid systems discovered since 1999. ...

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Next: Running REDUCE/CCD Up: Processing the Data Previous: Processing the Data . Before any processing on the input frame is done, the REDUCE/CCD command will first collect all resources needed for the calibration of the science frame(s). These include the master calibration frames, the overscan offset, and scaling parameters. So, at this point no operations are done yet. ... As an example, suppose the science frame is supposed to be corrected for dark current and to be flat fielded. ...

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Solar Eclipses Notice that both the Sun and the Moon appear in the sky to be about the same size: half of a degree. ... The Earth would cast a shadow on the Moon when they were all three lined up. When the Moon blocks the Sun, we call it a solar eclipse. The other eclipse is when the Sun-EarthMoon lineup is in effect, and the Earth blocks the Moon. ... Lunar eclipses, however, are easier to see, since the shadow of the Earth on the Moon is quite large. ...

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... Psrcat . Data archive . ... PSRCORR receives data from PKCCC1 , and displays, processes and archives them. ... Click on Setup and select WBA and old tape or new tape as appropriate. ... At the end of each observation the raw data files are written to the archive tape and the file details recorded in the tape log which is located in /psr1/runtime/psrcorr/db/tape.log . ... This allows you to select an archive tape and the file(s) to be archived (from PKCCC1 _1) and to write these files to the tape. ...

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ALBUM: floating Artist: Eloy @ SONG : Floating Instrumental @ SONG : The Light From Deep Darkness Out of the depth of nothing In nobobdy's time The earth was created The first morning starts Sun appears in the sky Winds stroking waves Evening shadows tumble down Eclipse the sun of life Herald the night Burning lights arise people take their places Dance a merry round They live without fear Help each other in their way through life Tomorrow we'll see They forget ...

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