... Armagh Observatory, College Hill, Armagh BT61 9DG, +44 (0)28 3752 2928 . ... Aurora . ... Corona . Fireballs . ... Zodiacal Light . ... The first thing to do is get acquainted with what the night sky looks like. ... The National Schools Observatory web site has very good horizon views of the sky for the current night. ... If the object is moving slowly across the sky then it may be one of the larger satellites. ... Cloudbait Observatory - October 2002 . ... October 2003 Aurora at Armagh . ...

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... Image Quality of the VLT . Total Optical Control . First light for the ESO VLT unit telescope 1 occurred during the workshop. ... The image shown (Figure 1 ) here was obtained with the VLT on May 16, 1998, in red light (R band), i.e. while the mirror was still uncoated. ... In this diagram (FIgure 2), the measured image quality of the VLT UT1 astronomical images is plotted versus the ``seeing", as measured by the Seeing Monitor, a small telescope also located on top of the Paranal Mountain. ...

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... Bad Astronomy . Misconceptions . ... Bad Astronomy : "We're light years more advanced than our competition!" ... Even the closest astronomical object, the Moon, is 400,000 kilometers away! ... A beam of light will travel 9,500,000,000,000 kilometers in one year. This distance is defined as a light year ; the distance light travels in a year. ... This is another example of Bad Astronomy; like a light year, a parsec is a unit of distance, not time (to be specific, it equals 3.26 light years) . ...

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... ESO is building what will be the World's largest optical telescope array, The Very Large Telescope (VLT). The VLT Project organisation is responsible for the design and construction of the Unit Telescopes, including enclosures, optics, adapter-rotators and coating unit. ... Unit Telescopes Overview - This page is outdated, an update is in process. ... Secondary mirror (M2 Unit) - This page is outdated, an update is in process. ... Coating Unit - This page is outdated, an update is in process. ...

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... Bionic eyes. If our eyes could see in different wavelength bands, this is what the Sun would look like. ... Visible light, crucial to photosynthesis, is a type of radiation. ... At the heart of this revolution is the recognition that light travels as a wave. ... Dreams of Fields . ... By the time the fields go from strong to weak and back to strong, the wave has moved a certain distance, known as the wavelength. ... Red light, blue light, infrared light, ultraviolet light, radio waves, x-rays ? ...

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... The Frothy Milky Way . ... The dust between stars in our galaxy appears.. ... Polaris: The North Star . ... Based on recent results, this artist's vision of the double star Phi Persei, 720 light years away, shows a bright, rapidly rotating massive star surrounded by a disk of gas. ... New Stars In 30 Doradus . ... Massive Stars Of 30 Doradus . ... This gorgeous visible-light Hubble Space Telescope image shows a young cluster of massive stars at the center of the 30 Doradus Nebula. ...

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... January 26, 1997 . Aurora and Orion . Credit: STS-59 Crew , NASA . Explanation : Looking toward the south from low Earth orbit, the crew of the Space Shuttle Endeavor made this stunning time exposure of the Aurora Australis or southern lights in April of 1994. Aurora are visible at high northern latitudes as well, with the northern lights known as Aurora Borealis . ... The reddish colors occur at the highest altitudes (about 200 miles) where the air is least dense. ... About APOD > . ...

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... 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 ...

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The HDF observations were carefully scheduled to minimize the effect of scattered light. Nevertheless, Scattered light from the bright earth produces a visible X pattern in about 25% of the HDF data frames. ... The filled-in portion of the histograms indicates data where the scatttered light patern is visible to the eye. ... A major difference between version 1 and version 2 of the data reduction was the treatment of scattered light. ... version 1 . ...

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... Posts tagged ?light curves? ... If you find any problems of viewing the slog, please notify me. ... 2007? ... Tags: ARCH , Bayesian Block , challenges , change point problem , GARCH , light curves , summer school , X-ray . ... Algorithms arXiv Astro Bad AstroStat Bayesian CHASC Cross-Cultural Data Processing Fitting Frequentist Galaxies gamma-ray High-Energy Imaging Jargon Job Languages MC MCMC Meta Methods Misc News Nuggets Objects Optical Physics Quotes Spectral Stars Stat Timing Uncertainty X-ray...

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Astronotes Armagh Planetarium's Stellar Blog! ... Armagh Planetarium . Colin Johnston . ... Our Galaxy . ... Other Galaxies . ... I took some quick images of the Moon just by putting an Ipod Touch to the eyepiece of the telescope. ... Image credit: Colin Johnston/Armagh Planetarium) . ... Image credit: Colin Johnston & Julie Thompson/Armagh Planetarium) . ... I am looking forward to sharing the sky with our visitors when our monthly Open Nights return in October (date to be confirmed). ...

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... December 29, 1997 . The Milky Way in Infrared . Credit: The COBE Project , DIRBE , NASA . ... Until the invention of the telescope , nobody really knew what the "Milky Way" was. About 300 years ago telescopes caused a startling revelation: the Milky Way was made of stars . Only 70 years ago, more powerful telescopes brought the further revelation that the Milky Way is only one galaxy among many. Now telescopes in space allow yet deeper understanding. ... About APOD > . ...

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... Spacecraft . 29b. Satellites looking down . ... 29e. Explorers of distant space . ... The Hubble orbiting telescope. ... The Hubble telescope , in low Earth orbit, overcomes such limitations, in the visible range and in part of the UV. ... So fruitful was this observation that a second "deep field" exposure of such length, near the southern pole of the heavens, was recently conducted. ... Some satellites specialize in observing the Sun, such as the Japanese Yohkoh and NASA's SOHO . ...

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... Hold off, hold off, Lord William," she cried, "Your strokes they are wondrous sore; True lovers I can get many a one, But a father I'll never find more." ... Rise up, rise up, lady mother," he cried, "Rise up and let us in; Rise up, rise up, lady mother," he cried "For this night my true love I've won." ... Lord William died in the middle o' the night, Lady Margaret she died on the morrow; Lord William he died for his true love's sake Lady Margaret she died for the sorrow. ...

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... DP = dirty picture Dust specks or dirt are evident on the finding chart. ... Identifications Within 2 Arcmin of Known Clusters of Galaxies The letter preceding the cluster catalog number: a = Abell Cluster z = Zwicky Cluster The notations following the catalog number: cc = at cluster center nc = not at cluster center mc = near cluster center ni = not identified with probable cluster member c: = cluster not obvious on finding chart ef = identification is EF (empty ...

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... Бренд: Molegi . Цвет: темно-синий, розовый . ... Размер: 54 . title='HP Картридж HP - HP' border='0' align='left' width='120' style='margin-right: 20px;' hspace='7' vspace='5'/> . ... Цвет: разноцветный . Коллекция: Весна-лето 2016 . Сезонность: Мульти . ... Размер UK: 100E . Пол: Женский . ... Цвет: мультиколор, черный. Сезон: Весна-лето 2016. ... Цвет арматуры: бежевый . ... Цвет: коричневый . Коллекция: Осень-зима 2015/2016 . ... Размер INT: 44 . ... Цвет: серый . ...

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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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The red colors in this image show the galaxy M66 as it appears at the submillimeter wavelength of 850 microns, while the white background shows the galaxy as it appears in visible light. Regions of cold dust that appear as dark streaks in the white image glow brightly in the red image. ...

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SAS home . ... List of SAS threads . This thread contains a step-by-step recipe to extract a light curve of a point-like source for all the X-ray cameras, and to start a simple analysis tool. ... If the following files are available: a) RGS event list; b) RGS source list, just a single evselect command allows a user to create a light curve, corresponding to the extraction regions in the spatial and order images. set up your SAS environment (following the SAS start-up thread ) . ...

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... Under certain conditions, like those in the nucleus of a QSO, all atoms can be made to emit light at particular wavelengths. ... If that source is approaching the observer, the wave is squashed up onto itself making the wavelength shorter. ... This is redshift. ... You can see how the section of the QSO spectrum which we observe changes with redshift. ... We then see how far we had to slide the observed spectrum along the scale to make it match and that is the objects redshift. ... The 2QZ team . ...

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