... Osservatorio Astronomico, Bologna, Italy . ... Dipartimento di Astronomia, Universit? di Bologna, Bologna, Italy . Stellar photometry of simulated HST uncorrected and corrected images of a crowded star cluster has been carried out before and after deconvolution (with RMG, R-L, MEM, etc.) to optimize the reduction procedures and compare the degree of completeness and photometric accuracy actually achievable in the various cases. ... Surface Brightness Profiles . ...

... Bad Astronomy . ... Bad Astronomy: The North Star, Polaris, is a very bright star. Good Astronomy: Polaris is a middling-bright star, easily missed. ... He said it was close to Polaris, the North Star, but he also said it was in the East. ... It's natural, I suppose, to think that such an important star should be bright, but really, that's a conceit, like thinking that the Earth is at the center of the Universe. If more people knew just why Polaris is the North Star, this Bad Idea would stop. ...

Next: Hierarchical adaptive filtering Up: Noise reduction from Previous: Hierarchical Wiener filtering . In the preceding algorithm we have assumed the properties of the signal and the noise to be stationary. The wavelet transform was first used to obtain an algorithm which is faster than classical Wiener Filtering. ... Knowing the noise distribution, we can determine the statistically significant level at each scale of the measured wavelet coefficients. ...

... Each day a different image or photograph of our fascinating universe is featured, along with a brief explanation written by a professional astronomer. 2008 November 18 . Restored: First Image of the Earth from the Moon . Credit: NASA / LOIRP . Explanation: Pictured above is the first image ever taken of the Earth from the Moon. The image was taken in 1966 by Lunar Orbiter 1 and heralded by then-journalists as the Image of the Century. ... About APOD | ...

Next: Managing a calibrator catalog Up: How to work with Previous: How to work with Contents . At this time, STARBASE is used to perform two different tasks, namely reading primary and secondary catalogs, and computing astrophysical quantities from the collected information. ... Stars in the primary catalogs have unique ID numbers. ... They were derived from various astronomical catalogs by extracting the ID number (usually the HDN) and the desired data. ...

... Imaging of the core of the OMC-1 region using NICMOS camera 2 through the F212N and F215N filters shows a wide variety of interesting structure on scales of 0.2" at a very high dynamic range (Stolovy et al. ... The application of image restoration techniques, including multi-channel variants of the Richardson-Lucy technique, offers the chance to enhance structure on the finest scales and also to suppress the prominent and richly structured point-spread functions of the many bright stars in the...

XMM­Newton CCF Release Note XMM­CCF­REL­119 OM PSF Bing Chen June 13, 2002 1 CCF components Name of CCF VALDATE List of Blocks changed CAL VERSION XSCS flag OM PSF1DRB 0006 2000­01­01T00:00:00 PSF­U No PSF­B No PSF­V No PSF­UVW1 No PSF­UVM2 No PSF­UVW2 No 2 Changes This CCF file provides new measurement of OM PSF. ... 1 XMM­Newton CCF Release XMM­CCF­REL­119 Page: 2 Figure 1: Growth curves as a function of radius for V and UVW1 filters. ... Therefore, this new PSF is field position independent. ...

In this gallery are many images of Low Surface Brightness Galaxies which have recently been discovered and analyzed. ... The central surface brightness of this galaxy is 24.28 . Malin 2 This galaxy is another huge disk galaxy with a scale length of 15 kpc and a redshift of 15000 km/a. The high surface brightne