In this gallery are many images of Low Surface Brightness Galaxies which have recently been discovered and analyzed. ... The central surface brightness of this galaxy is 24.28 . Malin 2 This galaxy is another huge disk galaxy with a scale length of 15 kpc and a redshift of 15000 km/a. The high surface brightness knot in one of its spiral arms actually has the same color, luminosity and H-alpha equivalent width as the entire Large Magellanic Cloud . ... Truly it is a Low Surface Brightness Galaxy. ...

ATNF Annual Report 2000 (submitted) . ... One of the first products is the HIPASS {\it Bright Galaxy Catalogue}, which is a catalogue of the 1000 apparently brightest HI galaxies in the southern hemisphere. ... In Figure 1 we show the spatial distribution of the brightest HIPASS galaxies. ... Figure 4 shows the velocity distribution of the 1000 brightest HIPASS galaxies (orange) compared to the 1000 brightest optical galaxies (selected from the Lyon/Meudon Extragalactic Database using blue magnitude). ...

... The Galactic low-mass X-ray binary GS 2023+338 was discovered during the burst on May 22, 1989 with the Japanise satellite Ginga (aka Galaxy). The flux reached 17 crabs (this unit of flux measurement is an bright X-ray source, Crab Nebula) at 10-35 keV. ... No other radio telescope worldwide carried out multi-frequency measurements. ... Upon 14 days the radio flux fell below the detection level at the RATAN-600 in relation to the decrease of the X-ray flux. ...

Top Row] . ... The quasars (powered by supermassive black holes) are so compact and bright they make a diffraction-spike pattern in the telescope's optics an optical artifact typically only produced by bright nearby stars. ... Bottom Row] . When the glare of the quasar is subtracted, researchers see evidence for collisions between galaxies. The collisions and mergers gave birth to the quasars by fueling the supermassive black hole at the core of the galaxies. ...

... We present ultraviolet and optical spectra of the bright (V=16.5), high-redshift ( ) QSO HE1122 - 1649 (Reimers et al. 1995a,1995b). ... Keywords: absorption lines . ... The combined data are shown in Figure 1. ... The Ly profile reveals an absorbing subcomponent at in agreement with results from heavy element absorption lines detected in the high resolution optical data. ... Figure: Velocity profiles of heavy element absorption lines arising in the damped Ly system as seen in the optical data. ...

... astro-ph/0003002 We cross-identified the ROSAT Bright Source Catalog (RBSC) and the NRAO VLA Sky Survey (NVSS) to construct the RBSC-NVSS sample of the brightest X-ray sources (~0.1 counts s^{-1} ~= 10^{-12} ergs cm^-2s^-1 in the 0.1--2.4 keV band) that are also radio sources (S ~= 2.5 mJy at 1.4 GHz) in the 7.8 sr of extragalactic sky with |b| > 15deg and DEC > -40deg. ... We used the more accurate radio positions to make reliable X-ray/radio/optical identifications down to the POSS plate limits. ...

... Using a simple 2-D Gaussian Point Spread Function (PSF) on a constant (flat) sky background, I derive a theoretical photometric and astrometric performance model for analytical and digital PSF-fitting stellar photometry. ... The photometric performance is maximized when either the effective background area or the effective-background-level measurement error is minimized. ... An important, but frequently ignored, noise source is the uncertainty of the measurement of the effective background level ( )...

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You Can Make Stellar Images Brighter . Articles | ... A few months ago I wrote an article titled "You Can’t Make Them Brighter". So why am I now writing that you can make them brighter. ... The image of a focused star is actually a small disk called the Airy disk, named after the 19 th century scientist Sir George Airy. ... For a given aperture, a smaller Airy disk means that the light is focused to a smaller disk and is therefore brighter. ... www.astronomy.net . About Astronomy Net | ...

The night sky brightness, together with number of clear nights, seeing, transparency, photometric stability and humidity, are some of the most important parameters that qualify a site for front-line ground--based astronomy. ... Night sky at ESO-Paranal (Chile). ... Night sky brightness data . ... UBVRI night sky brightness at ESO-Paranal during sunspot maximum (A 2003, PDF) . ... The Dancing Sky: six years of night sky observations at Cerro Paranal (Starlight 2007 conference proceedings, PDF) . ...

... Telescopes ћ Binoculars ћ Microscopes . How to Select the Right Binocular . Meade Sports Optics Support . ... Most commonly, binoculars utilize either porro prisms or roof prism s for this purpose. ... Example: The Meade 8x42mm Waterproof roof prism binocular has a field of view 367 ft. wide for an object 1000 yards distant from the observer, yielding a field of view specification of 367 ft. at 1000 yds. ... Example: Meade 8x21mm Folding Roof Prism. ... Meade Binoculars Instruction Manual . ...

On March 29, 2003, an exceptionally bright Gamma-Ray Burst (GRB) was discovered by the HETE-2 satellite (Vanderspek et al. ... 2003, GCN, 2020, 1), GRB 030329 is the nearest cosmological burst detected to date, and its extreme brightness can be attributed to its proximity. ... In the fourth epoch, 51 days after the burst, GRB 030329 appeared resolved at 15 GHz with a component appearing to the north east at 0.28 +/- 0.05 mas from the main component (Fig. a). ... days after the burst. ...

... Sirius: The Brightest Star in the Night . ... Sirius is the brightest star in the night sky. ... As Sirius is 8.7 light years distant, it is not the closest star system -- the Alpha Centauri system holds this distinction. VLT: A New Largest Optical Telescope . ... Kepler Discovers How Planets Move . ... Galileo Demonstrates the Telescope . ... NGC 5882: A Small Planetary Nebula . ... Pictured above is the planetary nebula NGC 5882, captured by the Hubble Space Telescope. ...

... GSAOI Home . ... Science . ... It is widely accepted that the evolution of the large scale structure of the Universe is driven by dark matter. Understanding this dark matter continues to be one of Astronomy's great unsolved problems. Measuring the bulk motions of galaxies allows us to map the overall mass distribution of the Universe in a way that is independent of the luminous matter in galaxies. ...

Lab . Main page News People . ASA . Master . Master net Homepage . ... MASTER . ... About Space Monitoring Laboratory, scientific directions, instruments, contacts . People, who work in lab . Latest news and news archive . ... 10.08.2011 . ... All news ...

Wide-angle telescopes for photometry and polarimetry in optical and infrared ranges . ... Investigation of the Earth’s atmosphere, comets, interplanetary and interstellar medium with brightness and linear polarization measurements of extended sources and sky background in optical and infrared spectral ranges. ... The devices are small diameter telescopes with CCD-detectors for optical and infrared spectral range with spectral and polarization filters. ... 15-cm telescope with cooling down to 80 K . ...

Measurement of Sky Brightness at the Iranian National Observatory Davoud Afshari1 and Sadollah Nasiri1,2 1Physics Department, Zanjan University, Zanjan 45195-313, Iran; Institute for Advanced studies in Basic Science (IASBS), Zanjan 45195-1159, Iran; Measurement of light pollution 2 Introduction Among 34 candidate sites at the central part of the country, 5 sites namely Garkesh (in Kashan ), Kolahbarfi(in Kashan ), Deynava (in ... One of these is light pollution. ...

... Ignacio Ugarte Urra's PhD thesis topic is the investigation of coronal bright points. In his first paper (in collaboration with Gerry Doyle and Maria Madjarska) he investigated the formation, evolution and decay of a coronal bright point via a spectroscopic analysis of its transition region counterpart and the evolution of the underlying magnetic bipole during 3 days of almost continuous observations. ... In general the bright point has a radiance 4 times higher than that of the network. ...

... The ROSAT Bright Survey: II. Catalogue of all high-galactic latitude RASS sources with PSPC countrate CR > 0.2 s -1 . ... 1S We present a summary of an identification program of the more than 2000 X-ray sources detected during the ROSAT All-Sky Survey (Voges et al. 1999) at high galactic latitude, |b| > 30degr , with countrate above 0.2 s -1 . This program, termed the ROSAT Bright Survey RBS, is to more than 99.5% complete. ...

... 2006 October 4 . Comet SWAN Brightens . ... Explanation: A newly discovered comet has brightened enough to be visible this week with binoculars. ... Comet C/2006 M4 (SWAN) was discovered in June in public images from the Solar Wind Anisotropies (SWAN) instrument of NASA and ESA 's Sun-orbiting SOHO spacecraft. ... Passing its closest to the Sun two days ago, Comet SWAN and will be at its closest to the Earth toward the end of this month. ... About APOD | ... NASA Official: Jay Norris. ...