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Astronotes Armagh Planetarium's Stellar Blog! ... Armagh Planetarium . ... Stars . ... Space Flight . ... Monthly Sky Notes . ... NGC 6357's inner star forming region glows with the emission of ionized hydrogen gas. Image credit: ESO/VVV Survey/D. Minniti. ... Located around 8000 light years away in the constellation of Scorpius , NGC 6357 (sometimes called the Lobster Nebula ) is a typical stellar nursery, filled with vast clouds of gas and tendrils of dark dust. ... Subscribe to Astronotes . ...

First results of X/S and X/Ka-band catalog combinations with full covariance information Andreas Iddink , Christopher Jacobs, Thomas Artz, Axel Nothnagel 22.09.2014 First results of S/X and X/Ka-band catalog combinations with full covariance information Andreas Iddink ­ 22.09.2014 Motivation Features of the ICRF2 ICRF2 (Defining- Sources ) 3414 ... Step: Import of the X/Ka catalog with full covariance information (Data provided by Christopher Jacobs et al. ...

... December 3, 1999 . Southern Mars . Credit: MOLA Science Team , NASA . Explanation: This topographical map of the southern hemisphere of Mars was generated using data from the Mars Orbiter Laser Altimeter (MOLA). Flying on the Mars Global Surveyor spacecraft, MOLA has bounced a laser beam off the Martian surface over 200,000,000 times producing a wealth of detailed elevation measurements. ... Tomorrow's picture: From Mars . ... About APOD > . ... NASA Technical Rep.: ...

... Features . ... The C2400-75i is the simplest CCD camera for fluorescence imaging. A 1/2 inch Hyper HAD CCD chip provides good signal to noise images in all light conditions. ... Combined with the frame grabber in the ARGUS-20 Image Processor and realtime background subtraction features, high quality fluorescence images are produced very economically. ... Hyper HAD CCD with On-Chip Integration . Fluorescence image acquisition with the ARGUS-20 Image Processor . ... Sample Images . ...

... ESO Science Newsletter May 2014 . ... This newsletter is a summary of recent ESO Science Announcement items. Follow the links or visit ESO Science Announcements to read more. ... Part of the Cycle 2 software is an on-line interface to the ALMA calibrator source catalogue, which will soon be available on the ALMA science portal . ... ESO Workshop, ESO Headquarters, Garching, Germany, 24тАУ28 November 2014 . ... You are receiving this newsletter because you subscribed to the ESO Science Newsletter. ...

Next: HST Paper Products: A New Way to Look at HST Data . ... After providing on-the-fly re-calibration of HST data to archive users, ST-ECF has embarked on a new project aiming at grouping, cosmic ray cleaning and drizzling images taken by most HST instruments. ... The production of the missing jitter files combined with the extraction of additional engineering parameters will greatly enhance the homogeneity and the scientific value of the entire archive. ... 1995, HST Data Handbook, STScI, 107 . ...

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... These so called Out-of-Time (OoT) events gets a wrong RAWY value assigned, and thus eventually a wrong energy correction. ... generate an image from the OoT event list evselect table=PiiiiiijjkkPNblllOOEVLInmmm.FIT imagebinning=binSize imageset=PN_OoT_image.fits withimageset=yes \ xcolumn=X ycolumn=Y ximagebinsize=80 yimagebinsize=80 . ... change the name of the COUNTS column in the OoT event spectrum to CTS_OOT . ... copy the CTS_OOT column of the OoT event spectrum into the source spectrum . ...

... International Year of Astronomy in Ireland . ... Christmas Moon", painting by Miruna Popescu, Armagh Observatory, featured as " Lunar photo of the Day " and " Astronomy Sketch of the Day " on 25 December 2009. ... To mark the 400th anniversary of GalileoтАЩs first use of the telescope to observe the sky, 2009 has been celebrated worldwide as the International Year of Astronomy. Moon over Armagh - link to Astronomy Sketch of the Day on 25 December 2009 . ... Monday, 11 May 2009 23:54 . ...

... Takuya Akahori "Faraday Rotation Measure due to the Intergalactic Magnetic Field" . Shae Brown "Cross-correlation of ATLAS and Spitzer-SWIRE Surveys: Probing intergalactic magnetic fields" . Roger Clay "Using low energy cosmic rays to investigate local galactic magnetic fields" . Roland Crocker "A new lower limit on the magnetic field around the Galactic Centre" . ... JinLin Han "Rotation measures of pulsars and radio sources for Galactic magnetic fields" . ...

Disastrous earthquakes happen 100 to 200 times a year. ... There is a chance that the data of ionospheric plasma observations hold an answer to the latter question. Satellites and ground-based facilities may detect earthquake precursors in the ionosphere a few hours or days before the main shock. ... ULF "Hz"-oscillations have been recorded several hours before the main shock in a narrow magnetic field tube (40...100 km along the satellite trajectory) conjugated with epicenter of the earthquake. ...

... identify a realistic size of an event on the wavelet map; for example, a rectangular box one-duration wide and allowing for limited ratio of durations in height, has been used. identify all local maxima by placing a box around them and verifying that no larger values occur within the box. within each box, normalize the values of the map by the local maximum. threshold what is left to show the vicinity of each maximum. ... Figure 25: Local maxima of g2-energy map. ...

... The care package from Earth had arrived. Last week, Japan launched the robotic Kounotori2 spacecraft to bring needed supplies, including food, to the International Space Station (ISS). ... Celebrating 7 years on the surface of the Red Planet, Mars exploration rover Opportunity now stands near the rim of 90 meter wide Santa Maria crater. ... M78 isn't really hiding in planet Earth's night sky. ... The moon pictured above is not Earth's moon but Phobos, the closest moon to the planet Mars. ...

... Bojan Nikolic web pages (r. 329) . ALMA . We present a framework for modelling atmospheric phase errors and their correction by both the fast-switching and water vapour radiometeric techniques. ... We use this framework to simulate relative point source sensitivity and effective resolution for a range of atmospheric conditions, with and without phase correction. ... Published as ALMA Memo #582. ... Simulating Atmospheric Phase Errors, Phase Correction and the Impact on ALMA Science . ...

OFICCIAL PRESS RELEASE . about transport cargo vehicle Progress M-56 docking to the . International Space Station . ... During these operations MCC-M was attended by V.A. Grin, co-chairmen of the State Board, representatives of Roscosmos, NASA, ESA, S.P. Korolev RSC Energia, allied enterprises and organizations participating in the manufacturing, processing and launch of the Progress vehicles, as well as control of the ISS RS. ... Official WEB-site of S.P.Korolev RSC Energia . ...

... Copyrightї1997 Bob Yen (byen@ix.netcom.com) (http://www.comet-track.com/hb/hb.html) . ... Information on Comet Hale-Bopp for the Non-Astronomer Hale-Bopp rotates about twice a day (3/14/97) . ... The Comet Observation Home Page was been selected to receive the Griffith Observatory Star Award for the week of February 2 - 8, 1997 for excellence in promoting astronomy to the public through the World Wide Web. ... Typically, about 1,000 individual users/computers access this page every day. ...

... Satellites of the planets are assigned a provisional designation (indicating year of discovery) by the Central Bureau for Astronomical Telegrams ( CBAT ) upon satisfactory demonstration of the existence of a new object. ... In the past, Comets were first given a provisional designation, consisting of the year and a lowercase letter indicating the order of discovery in the year (e.g., 1994a was the first comet discovered or recovered in 1994, 1994b the second, etc.) ... Names .. ...

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