... The remote planet Pluto and its moon Charon orbit the Sun at a mean distance of almost 6,000 million kilometres, or nearly fourty times farther out than the Earth. During a recent investigation by an international group of astronomers [1], the best picture ever of Pluto and Charon [2] was secured with the European Space Agency's Faint Object Camera at the Hubble Space Telescope (HST). ... The new HST image was taken when Charon was near its maximum elongation from Pluto (0.9 arcseconds). ...

... 2001 June 5 . Asteroid Eros Reconstructed . Credit : NEAR Project , NLR , JHUAPL , Goddard SVS , NASA . ... NEAR allowed scientists to discover that Eros is a single solid body, that its composition is nearly uniform, and that it formed during the early years of our Solar System . ... On 2001 February 12, the NEAR mission drew to a dramatic close as it was crash landed onto the asteroid's surface , surviving well enough to return an analysis of the composition of the surface regolith . ...

... In combining the data, it is assumed that the low resolution image better represents the short spacing data, whereas the high resolution best represents the fine structure. ... Key: out The output image. ... Key: factor The flux calibration factor. ... In practise, the calibration may not be perfect, and an extra calibration factor will be required to align the flux scales. "factor" gives the factor to scale the low resolution image to put it on the same flux scale as the high resolution image. ...

... The Hills of Mars . ... Credit: Mars Exploration Rover Mission , JPL , NASA Explanation: Distant hills rise above a rocky, windswept plain in this sharp stereo scene from the Spirit rover on Mars . When viewed with red/blue glasses, the picture combines left and right images from Spirit's high resolution panoramic camera to yield a dramatic 3D perspective. ... Publications with keywords: Mars - Spirit rover - stereo . Publications with words: Mars - Spirit rover - stereo . ... Mars in View . ...

While much high spatial frequency information in the image is permanently lost by smearing with response of the detector pixels, the quality of the image can be greatly improved by combining sub-pixel dithered images. ... Pixels in the original input images are mapped into pixels in the subsampled output image, taking into account shifts and rotations between images and the optical distortion of the camera. ... Schematic representation of how drizzle maps input pixels onto the output image. ...

Jeff mock supplied 6 different types of filters to use with the high resolution mode of the mock spectrometer. ... Plots were made of the time domain voltage response as well as the frequency domain power response. A decimation of 10 was used for the filter decimation. this gave a filter length of 80 coeff. The plots compare the filter shapes for these filter types (.ps) ( .pdf ) . ... Each color is a different filter type . middle: spectral density reponse for each filter . ...

... In the pn-CCD, 768 individual amplifiers allow fast readout, but imply different gains for the different readout channels which all have to be determined and corrected for. The gains of the 768 readout nodes were derived by comparing the position of CTI corrected calibration lines (in adu) with their known energy. ... More details on the CTI and gain correction can be found in []. ...

... The MROI makes use of optical interferometry, much like COAST . ... As a major collaborator, the Cambridge Astrophysics Group is currently developing some of the mechanisms below, specifically the delay line and the fast tip-tilt system. ... Fringe tracking is used to control the positions of the delay line trolleys to make sure the light beams from the different telescopes in the MROI arrive at the science camera beam combiners in phase so that an interference pattern can be produced. ...

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... Главная . ... Новости . ... Проекты . Любителям астрономии . Проект ISON . ... Подробнее . ... Категория: Новости проекта ISON . ... Метки: Космический мусор ,љ Астероиды ,љ Гамма-всплески ,љ Любителям астрономии ,љ Кометы љ . ... Метки: Космический мусор ,љ Астероиды ,љ Любителям астрономии љ . ... Новости обсерваторий проекта] - Обсерватория Кубанского государственного университета от Иванов А - 09.04.2016 11:08:49 . ... 1999-2013 Copyright "Астрономия и Телескопостроение" . ...

. This schematic diagram shows how scientists think the universe has evolved from the Big Bang to the present day. Data from the UKIRT, VLT, and Subaru observatories allowed astronomers to take four precise and comparable snapshots of the universe when it was, 2, 4, 6 and 9 billion years old, each containing hundreds of star-forming galaxies. By comparing the different snapshots, astronomers were able to accurately track what has changed over the past 11 billion years. // illustration by CXC/NASA/NOAO/KIPAC

... Information about a variety of different calendars for different cultures (e.g., Christian, Jewish, Muslim, Chinese, Hindu etc.) ... In addition, the Chinese had two different ways of interpreting and observing celestial events. One way the Chinese used astronomy was known as lifa; it was a discipline that aimed to understand the regularities and the predictable events in the celestial system through careful, observations, measurements and records. ... back to Teachers' Newsletter Main Page ...

... Next: Unsupervised Catalog Classification Up: Object Detection and Previous: Classification of Objects . ... Multi-resolution allows for image analysis in terms of different scales. ... This approach is used for the detection (and subsequent analysis) of globular cluster systems around elliptical galaxies, and for image characterization and object trawling in large image databases. ... The applicability of this approach to object detection in large image collections has been investigated. ...

STEP INTO THE BLUE - MEADE INSTRUMENTS PRODUCT GUIDE . ... Telescopes . LX850 Series . ... LX600 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. ... MeadeтАЩs LX90 ACF is a favorite of astronomers making the jump to their first, serious, larger aperture telescope. ... Astronomer InsideтДв then takes you on a guided multimedia tour of the best objects in your sky. ...

... Each data set has 36 values in it. ... If it is, what can you conclude about the nature of the data? ... Data Set 1: 12.8 8.4 12.5 2.5 1.1 0.4 1.4 0.4 0.1 1.6 6.4 9.3 6.9 6.8 7.6 2.9 2.2 0.9 1.2 2.1 0.1 5.7 8.5 7.1 9.8 7.6 6.2 1.9 0.9 0.2 0.4 2.0 1.1 1.9 1.3 1.2 Data Set 2: 6.8 12.3 10.6 3.4 1.8 1.8 1.8 3.2 0.5 1.4 13.1 7.5 2.1 9.6 6.4 5.4 3.9 3.9 0.3 0.1 0.9 6.1 18.7 4.6 0.3 5.1 5.7 0.5 1.5 2.5 1.4 0.1 2.1 4.8 6.3 3.5 Data Set 3: 6.9 2.6 8.6 7.9 6.9 3.7 1.1 1.8...

Aristarch is Copernic of Classic World. ... First Aristarch determined the fact for how many times the Sun was father then the Moon and then he compared the Sun and the Moon with the Earth. ... Only the Moon rotates around the Earth. ... Gipparch suggested that the Sun turned around the Earth steady and in circumference but the Earth is displaced according its centre. ... The orbit point in which the Sun is nearer to the Earth Gipparch called perigee and the most remote one he called apogee . ...

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Next: Filtering ROSAT HRI data Up: ROSAT HRI Recipes Previous: Correlating Spectral Data with . Although the spatial variation of the quantum efficiency across the HRI is nominally within 10% for most of the detector, occasionally it may be desirable to flat-field a map with preflight calibration measurements. ... Store the new gain map image using ``blink" in SaoImage. ... The quantum efficiency correction (QEC) is the inverse of the intensity determined from the QE map at the source position. ...

... European Remote Sensing Satellite (ERS-1) was launched on 17 July 1991, and the follow mission ERS-2 (with the same sensors and an Ozone monitoring instrument added) was launched on 21 April 1995. ... ERS-2 has a fixed repeat cycle of 35 days, and follows ERS-1 tracks with one day's delay. ... Swath width is 102.5 km (telemetered), spatial resolution is about 25x25 m. The Advanced SAR (ASAR) instrument is carried by ESA's ENVISAT satellite launched on 1 March 2002. ... Swath . ... Spatial Resolution...

To main of Laboratory . The research work and design of optical and optical-electronic devices are carries out by laboratory staff: . ... Lens: . ... In the layout 1 prism systems perform functions of dispersive element, corrector of aberrations, optical reducer. ... Spectral range 200 - 400 nm; . ... Back Forward . ... The main corrector's function are compensation of field aberrations of the main spherical mirror of a telescope (diameter of 600 mm, f'=1200 mm) and increase aperture ratio. ...