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. Pulkovo Observatory of Russian Academy of Sciences is situated . near Saint-Petersburg. It was founded in 1839. 196140, Saint-Petersburg, Pulkovskoye chaussee 65/1 . English version . Russian version . This page has been accessed times since May 1, 1999.

... 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. ...

... Tonight's Sky . ... Supernova showered Earth with radioactive debris . ... Observing springtime deep-sky objects with a large telescope . ... The Very Large Telescope probes remains of medieval supernova . ... New detailed observations with the European Southern Observatoryт??s (ESO) Very Large Telescope (VLT) of the remains of a thousand-year-old supernova have revealed clues to the origins of cosmic rays. ... Only registered members of Astronomy.com are allowed to comment on this article. ...

... To go back in time, archaeoastronomers and teachers can turn to personal computers and any of a number of software packages. ... Examples include the Long Man of Wilmington, England and the Owl Man of Peru (see figure 8 and figure 9 ). ... Deciphering the unique number system of the Maya is another archaeoastronomy topic that involves a minimum of math. ... Several collections of early writing of the Maya survive; numbers from them can be read and in some cases interpreted (see figure 12 ). ...

... self-absorption - the absorption of light shining on an object by a process similar to that which produced the light originally; if a cloud emits less light than it absorbs from other clouds behind it, this net loss of light, termed self-absorption , causes the foreground cloud to appear darker than the background field (the term is from spectroscopy, where small absorption dips sometimes occur in larger emission lines, making the latter look as if it is absorbing part of itself) . ... HISA Main ...

True Color Image Gallery: Galactic SNR | Magellanic Cloud SNR . ... Chandra Proposer's Guide pile up section ] During frame readout, the ACIS CCDs take 40 microsec to (parallel) transfer the charge by one pixel. As a result of this, each frame readout, each pixel is exposed for 40 microsec to a source (plus cosmic X-ray background) at each location along its column. ... Note also that the image does not just trail, it extends along the whole column. ... Chandra Supernova Remnant Catalog . ...

... At high count rates, the video processing unit (VPU) of the FOC undercounts photon events, resulting in a nonlinear count rate. ... The FOC remains linear to much higher count rates for point sources than for uniform sources. ... Here, a uniform source is defined to be one in which the flux varies by less than +/- 10% on scales of 10 pixels, and the nonlinearity threshold is defined to be the count rate at which the FOC exhibits nonlinearity at the 10% level. ... 512 zoom x 1024 . ... 256 x 256 . ...

XMM-Newton Science Analysis System . ... If the parameter imageset was omitted on the command-line, a menu will appear prompting the user to select an image-file, either from a list of the last ten image-files assessed, or from a directory. ... If a check fails a warning message is displayed and the user is prompted to enter another file name. The selected image is then displayed using ds9 and shortly afterwards the main window appears (see Figure 1) . ... XMM-Newton SOC/SSC -- 2007-07-09 ...

... Melted remains of Cassegrain spectrograph areтАж . Sidebar Left . Sidebar Top . No Sidebar . Sidebar Bottom . ... Title: Melted remains of Cassegrain spectrograph are on the remains of the observing carriage . Description: Newtonian platform has collapsed, gears for platform rest on the dome track . ... Melted remains of Cassegrain spectrograph are on the remains of the observing carriage Newtonian platform has collapsed, gears for platform rest on the dome track . ...

... Main . ... The RadioAstron is an international space VLBI project led by the Astro Space Center of Lebedev Physical Institute in Moscow, Russia. ... List of organizations which were taken part in developing of the project and now support the RadioAstron mission is presented here . The RadioAstron Newsletter # 29 , July 18, 2015. RadioAstron Announcement of Opportunity - 4 for observations from July 2016 to June 2017 inclusive. ... 2.7, December 17, 2015 : English version. ... Main ASC . ...