... Each day a different image or photograph of our fascinating universe is featured, along with a brief explanation written by a professional astronomer. 2011 May 24 . Three Arches Above Utah . ... Explanation: How many arches can you count in the above image? If you count both spans of the Double Arch in the Arches National Park in Utah , USA , then two. ... The larger arch rises over 30 meters above the surrounding salt bed and spans close to 50 meters across. ... Archive | ... About APOD | ...

NMW survey overview . Access image archive . ... The New Milky Way survey aims to detect bright (V<13.5) optical transients near the Galactic plane using an automated wide-field (8x6 deg.) system capable of surveying the whole Milky Way area visible from the observing site in one night. ... All images obtained during the transient search survey are available online (please use the image archive access form ). ... Images per field: . ... Images per night: . ... Milky Way imaging time: . ...

Astronotes Armagh Planetarium's Stellar Blog! ... Our Galaxy . ... Space Flight . ... Posted on April 21, 2011 | No Comments An image from the European Southern Observatory, reveals two galaxies, NGC 3169 and NGC 3166, meeting in intergalactic space. ... Continue Reading.. ... 1 Comment NGC 2841 is a rather beautiful flocculent spiral galaxy. The Hubble Space Telescope recently imaged NGC 2841 as part of an investigation into how new stars are created. ... Posted on October 28, 2010 | ...

... Archives . ... Another exciting news (with no use) . ... One of those rabbits is hunting online lectures useful for everyone. Prof. Feynman?s lectures have great reputations but they have been hard to come by. ... Thanks to Bill Gates and Microsoft Research , although it is a belated news, I?m very delighted to say ?Feynman lectures are online.? ... I attribute its lack of discussion in the slog to its late debut. ... Comment ( RSS ) | ... Chandra Blog . ... Entries (RSS) and Comments (RSS) . ...

... Home Newsletter Eyepiece 2014 Archive . ... Lecture Series 2014-2015 . ... Clear Sky Chart . ... This Month's Sky - 2015 . This Month's Sky - January 2015 . ... Eyepiece 2015 Archive . Eyepiece 2014 Archive . ... Beyond New York City . ... Observing Resources for Amateur Astronomers - Part 1: Beginning Observers . ... A History of the First Forty Years of the Amateur Astronomers Association . ... 2016 Amateur Astronomers Association of New York Designed by Press Customizr Powered by . ...

... Contacts . 2008: . New dwarf galaxy discovered in the Local Group . ... New observations of radio galaxy RCJ0311+0507 (z=4.51) . ... The black hole mass was refined to be about ~10 9 M (the mass close to the limiting in radio galaxies). ... High radio luminosity of the components, given a small linear size of this radio galaxy requires the presence of non-standard methods of their formation, accounting for various merger scenarios, including the variants with dual black holes. ... Archive . ...

... Up: Science Data Pipelines . ... The Chandra Automatic Data Processing System (AP) requires quick access to previously generated data. ... This archive interface layer includes an archive request queue, a data archiving server (darch), and an archive ``cache''. ... In our implementation, the cache is actually a directory where the data files reside, as shown in Figure 1 . ... If the data products are not in the cache, then the pipeline retrieves the files from the archive database. ...

. The tar command can be used to turn several files into a single tarfile . tar can also be used to bundle up whole directories before transferring them to another system. Use tar whenever you want to transfer a number of files or directories between different UNIX systems. Creating an archive file . Making a tarfile smaller . Examine the contents of a tarfile . Unpacking a tar file .

... Staff list | ... The European VLBI (Very Long Baseline Interferometry) Network (EVN, http://www.evlbi.org/ ) is a network of radio telescopes in Europe, Asia, North America and South Africa, which allows imaging at radio wavelengths with millarcsecond resolution (from 0.001'' to 0.1'') using the VLBI technique. ... VLBI continuum observations generally observe high brightness temperature radio emission from synchrotron or gyro-synchrotron processes with thermal emission detectable on short baselines...

... Credit Copyright: Brad Goldpaint ( Goldpaint Photography ) Explanation: How many arches can you count in the above image? If you count both spans of the Double Arch in the Arches National Park in Utah , USA , then two. But since the above image was taken during a clear dark night, it caught a photogenic third arch far in the distance -- that of the overreaching Milky Way Galaxy . ... NASA Official: Jay Norris. ... Publications with keywords: Milky Way . Publications with words: Milky Way . ...

... A program called StarView acts as an interface to the Archive; it allows you to search the Archive and to retrieve data from it. ... To retrieve data electronically you need to be able to access StarView (or the Archive web site if you are interested only in public data), and you need to be a registered user of the archive. ... http://archive.stsci.edu/starview.html The web site contains directions and materials for installing StarView on your own computer. ... Click on [Begin Search] . ...

The FITS archive & data processing pipelines . HyperLeda home | ... The goal of the HyperLeda FITS archive project (HFA) is to gather data (in the FITS format ) and to document them in a manner that allow an automatic pipeline processing. ... The archived data are broad band images (BBI), long-slit spectra (LSS) and extracted spectra (SPE) plus their associated template and calibration files. ... The Library of Medium Resolution Spectra of Galaxies (ie. resolution = 1000 to 3000) . ... HyperLeda . ...

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... Observatory . ... Science . ... Science Users Information > Science Publications > Science Announcements > [Archive]: Discontinuation of Archive FTP Service . ... Observing Facilities . ... Instrumentation Development . Future Facilities and Development . ... Observing with ESO Telescopes . ... Data Handling and Products . ... Science Data Products Forum . ... Science Archive Facility . ... Archive ESO Enews . ... The fetching of data from archive requests by ftp service has been discontinued . ...

RTT150 . ... This search system is designed for generating the necessary information on series of pointings (observations of each source consist of sets of exposures with different filters and sometimes with different exposure times) for observed sources. Search results appear at the separate page as a table with the following data: . DATE - real (not evening!) observations date (in YYYY-MM-DD format); . ... Bin - minimal CCD binning mode (may vary during the observations); . ...

... A single archive was created for Okean-O, Resurs and Meteor-3M data. ... SST for Barents Sea (NOAA Satellits) . ... New section is opened: NOAA satellite data regional archive . ... 5/10/1999 . ... Data from West-Siberian Ground Center are now being submitted to RESURS Data Catalogue on a regular basis . ... RESURS O1 N4 . ... 23/12/1998 . ... Operational Archive of RESURS Data (New Version). ... Archive of GOMS Data. ... Operational Archive of RESURS Data. ... SPUTNIK Web-server has been launched ....

... November 12, 1996 . Comet Hale-Bopp Passes M14 . ... Explanation : Comet Hale-Bopp continues its slow trek across the night sky, and can now be seen superposed near the bright globular cluster M14 . Will Comet Hale-Bopp become as bright in early 1997 as Comet Hyakutake did in early 1996? It is still too early to tell. ... Because of the size of coma , some speculate that the nucleus of Hale-Bopp is unusually large. ... Tomorrow's picture: Seven Jets from Comet Hale-Bopp . ... About APOD . ...

Organization of the Data Processing in the Interball Project. ... Interball Data Archive contains data produced during Interball mission: raw data, data files produced by express-analysys and preprocessing systems, orbit and attitude data files, key physical parameters, Magion-4,5 subsatellites data files and other types of data. Express-analysys data is available for Interball participants within 1 day after telemetry session, level 1 processed data - within 2 weeks. ... Attitude data files . ...

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