... Near Infrared Camera and Multi-Object Spectrometer Instrument Handbook for Cycle 17 > Chapter 4: Imaging > 4.6 Photon and Cosmic Ray Persistence . ... HgCdTe detector arrays like those in NICMOS are subject to image persistence. ... Experiments using Cycle 7 NICMOS data have shown that it is possible to scale and subtract such ?post-SAA darks? from subsequent science exposures taken later in the same orbit, and thus to remove a significant fraction of the CR persistence signal. ...

... 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. ...

... Arp 220: Spirals in Collision . ... Arp 220 is the brightest object in the local universe. ... Arp 220 was cataloged as a peculiar galaxy in the 1960s. In the late 1980s, it was discovered to be an ultraluminous infrared galaxy and headed a list compiled from observations with the now-defunct IRAS satellite. APOD is Two Years Old Today . ... The first Astronomy Picture of the Day (APOD) appeared two years ago today. ... Rockets and Robert Goddard . ... Jupiter's Dry Spots . ... First page ] Prev. ...

A team of U.S. and German astrophysicists have made the first ever detection of X-rays coming from a comet. ... Following the initial detection, the team reported repeated X-ray emissions from the comet over the next 24 hours. ... One preliminary theory is that X-ray emission from the Sun was absorbed by a cloud of gaseous water molecules surrounding the nucleus of the comet, and then were re-emitted by the molecules in a process physicists call "fluorescence." ... Comets . ...

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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... Science Users Information > Observing with ESO Telescopes > Phase 2 Preparation > Phase 2 Submission . ... Service Mode Philosophy . ... OB Execution Overheads . ... Readme File . ... Checking OBs and README files in the ESO Database . ... These checks will also be automatically performed at the time of checking the Phase 2 material into the ESO Database, and non-compliant OBs or README files will be rejected. ... All Service Mode OBs and README files must be submitted to the ESO Database from P2PP....

Home . ... It might happen that when running omfchain , omichain , or omgchain , an error message as the following appears, and processing of the corresponding data stops: ** omprep: error (NoSuchExposure), Tried to access an exposure of instrument `OM' in mode `UNDEFINED' but there is none in ODF `/home/myusername/Data/U11763/ODF' omichain:- omprep has detected an error- this observation will not be processed . ... Well, check the whole path of your ODF location in the SAS summary file. ...

... The disc accretion process is an essential component of star and planet formation theories. ... Much of the detailed knowledge of the physical processes involved in disc accretion have been gained through observations of nearby ( Z ) of the local environment are thought to affect PMS disc accretion rates, and disc evolutionary timescales. ... I measure the accretion rates of these PMS stars using the intensities of the U /H band excess measured through either optical spectra or imaging. ...

... We have developed an integrated system that performs astronomical observations in Near Infrared bands operating two-dimensional instruments at the Italian National Infrared Facility's ARNICA and LONGSP . ... The user interface is organized as widget-based X11 client. ... 1993; Di Giacomo et al. 1993). ... Moreover, if the interprocess communication interface includes support for networking, the software immediately becomes network distributed software. ... DESQview/X User Guide 1993, Quarterdeck . ...

... Tonight's Sky . ... Observing . ... Star Atlas . ... exoplanets . ... Imaging Basics . ... Observing springtime deep-sky objects with a large telescope . ... Telescope images light exoplanet candidate . ... Although nearly a thousand exoplanets have been detected indirectly most using the radial velocity or transit methods and many more candidates await confirmation, only a dozen exoplanets have been directly imaged. ... Only registered members of Astronomy.com are allowed to comment on this article...

... 2000 March 14 . A GRB 000301C Symphony . ... Explanation: Telescopic instruments in Earth and space are still tracking a tremendous explosion that occurred across the universe. ... Major telescopes across the globe soon began playing along as GRB 000301C came into view, detailing unusual behavior . The Hubble Space Telescope captured the above image and was the first to obtain an accurate distance to the explosion, placing it near redshift 2, most of the way across the visible universe. ...

STEP INTO THE BLUE - MEADE INSTRUMENTS PRODUCT GUIDE . ... Telescopes . LX850 Series . ... Superb optical performance coupled with time proven computerized pointing and tracking has made the LX200 ACF series a best-seller in the high-performance telescope class. ... Meade's revolutionary LS LightSwitchтДв series of telescopes use advanced technologies to do what no other consumer telescopes have done before: take all the hassle out of using a telescope. ... Coronado€о Solar . ... Spotting Scopes . ...

... 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 . ...

Distributed Software for Observations in Near Infrared V. Gavryusev 1 and C. Baffa Osservatorio Astrofisico di Arcetri E. Giani Dipartamento di Astronomia, Universit`a di Firenze Abstract. ... The processes denoted for control of hardware (telescope and other instruments) should be executed currently on PC dedicated for this task under DESQview/X, while all other components (user interface, tools for the data analysis, etc.) can work also under Unix. ... 1993, Di Giacomo et al. 1993). ...

... 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. ...

Astronotes Armagh Planetarium's Stellar Blog! ... Armagh Planetarium . ... Solar System . ... Planets . ... Space Flight . ... Neptune, which is not visible with the naked eye, was discovered by mathematical prediction in 1846 before being observed through a telescope. ... Tidal interactions between Neptune and Triton mean that in 100 million years these two bodies may come too close to one another causing Triton to be torn apart leaving Neptune with a ring system more spectacular than SaturnтАЩs. ...

... Telescopes . ... 2013: . A new control system for the 1-m telescope with remote control possibility for the observation process . In 2013, the creation of a control system for the multitask 1-m ZEISS-1000 telescope was completed in SAO RAS, allowing the use of the telescope's observational capabilities in the modes of local and remote control. ... FITS 3.0-compatible archive of direct images with astrometric calibration . ... SAO RAS Report N329, 2013. Archive . ...

Next: Observations and Analysis Up: The Second EGRET Catalog Previous: The Second EGRET Catalog . ... The first EGRET catalog ([ Fichtel et al. 1994b ]) covered Phase 1 of the Compton Gamma Ray Observatory (CGRO) viewing program which began shortly after launch of the observatory on 1991 April 5 and ended on 1992 November 17. ... No additional solar flares were seen during Phase 2; therefore, the first EGRET catalog summary has not been updated in the present work. ...

... It runs on unix, MacOS and possibly on Windows. ... On MacOS or Windows, double-click TUI. If MacOS complains that the application is unsigned then right-click TUI and select Open. ... If you have never run TUI before, set up your preferences before proceeding (for help on any item, right-click on the control and select Help from the menu that appears): . ... To save your window positions and remember which windows to open at startup, select Save Window Positions from the TUI menu. ...