Photon Scattering: Basic Principle of Photon Scattering . Audio Narration is available . No Scattering: Photon Source and Detector . ... For optical photons, scattering goes as wavelength to the -4 power. In the case of blue photons compared to red photons, this means that blue photons are about 10 times more likely to get scattered than red photons. ... Watch the blue photons scatter away from the detector . ... Interstellar dust make stars appear redder than they really are . ...

A fascinating survey of the diversityяand the surprising similarities to Earthяof our planetary neighbors, this Electronic PictureBook compares and contrasts Earth features with those of other bodies in our solar system, including aspects of atmosphere, surface detail, and subsurface dynamics. ... Click on this icon if you would like to see a collection of snapshots of actual pages from the"Comparing Earth and Its Planetary Neighbors" Electronic PictureBook. ...

... Science User Portal . ... ESO, the European Southern Observatory . ... Travel and Contacts . Travel to ESO Headquarters . ... Travel to E-ELT Armazones . ... Survey Telescopes . ... Images . ... Star Clusters . ... Stars@ESO . ... Catch a Star 2013 . ... Central parts of the globular cluster Omega Centauri, as seen using different adaptive optics techniques. The upper image is a reproduction of ESO Press Photo eso0719, with the guide stars used for the MCAO correction identified with a cross. ...

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The Navy Prototype Optical Interferometer . Articles | ... NPOI, Page 3 . Optical fibers on the beam combiner table guide the combined starlight to the electronics room. ... Electronics Lab . The scope of control necessary to make something like an Optical Interferometer work is immense. ... The instrument must process data fast enough to track air disturbances and correct them. ... www.astronomy.net . About Astronomy Net | ... dbHTML," "AstroGuide," "ASTRONOMY.NET" & "VA.NET" . ...

... Meta Index / Home Page / Some functions for testing/debugging . This function returns .true. if the given pair of values agree with each other in the given precision (order), or .false. otherwise. LOGICAL(bool) FUNCTION isNearlyEqual(cmp, compared, precision) REAL, intent(in) :: cmp, compared ! or INTEGER INTEGER, intent(in) :: precision END FUNCTION isNearlyEqual . For the pair of the first two arguments, any combination of int8 , int16 , int32 , single and double is allowed. ...

... Telescopes . LX850 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. ... Meade's revolutionary LS LightSwitchтДв series of telescopes use advanced technologies to do what no other consumer telescopes have done before: take all the hassle out of using a telescope. ... Meade Zero Image Shift-Electronic Micro-Focuser #07080 for the Meade LX200-ACF and Meade LS models. ...

... Observing . ... Solar Observing . ... April 3 (SUN) - Solar Observing, Central Park , Manhattan . ... APRIL'S SKY . ... Lecture Series at the American Museum of Natural History The Amateur Astronomers Association is proud to present an astronomy lecture series from October through May each year for our members and the .. ... The€аAmateur Astronomers Association of New York€аwas organized in 1927 to promote the study of Astronomy, emphasizing its cultural and inspirational value. ...

. You can compare any two versions of a file that is under the control of SCCS with the sccsdiff command: /usr/sccs/sccsdiff -r version -r version s. filename . Using this command produces a line by line difference between the two versions of the file. Results are shown in the same format as that produced by the diff command. Examples .

We have designed the laboratory model of static Fourier spectrometer for onboard usage for spectral study of atmosphere and ionosphere. The gain of model is to simulate onboard FS which will not have any moving elements (all its optical elements will be mounted at fused quartz monolithic construction), to compare experimental results with theoretical estimations and to measure MTF of CCD array. ... This fact connected with low frequency response of CCD array due to small format of it. ...

The HAWAII detector is an array of HgCdTe photodiodes whose junction capacity collects a charge proportional to the number of photons that they receive. ... The array detector is read by an electronic system based on the controller developed by the CCD Working Group of TNG, modified to speed up the read-out time, and on a fast 16 bit conversion board (2 Mb/s). ... The signal read on each pixels is buffered by electronics located on the same board that hosts the detector. ...

Here we compare the optical properties of porous nonspherical particles of two kinds: . ... For each considered value of porosity P, we give first 8 figures on 1 page that show the dependence of the dimesionless extinction (Q ext ) and linear polarization (Q pol ) cross-sections particles on their difraction parameter x v = 2 pi r v / lambda, where r v is the radius of a sphere which volume is equal to that of a nonspherical particle, lambda is the wavelength of incident radiation. ...

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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 . ...

... October 4, 1999 . The 220 Mirrors of CRTF . ... Explanation: Even the largest of modern optical telescopes are small when compared with the light gathering power of the Central Receiver Test Facility (CRTF) located in New Mexico , USA. CRTF has 220 mirrors each over 7-meters in diameter all focused on a single tower. ... Recently, astronomers with the STACEE project have begun using CRTF to collect secondary light emitted when high-energy gamma rays strike the Earth's atmosphere. ...

... The sample of the Local Volume galaxies (distance smaller than 10 Mpc) gives a unique opportunity to study the properties of galaxies including the weakest objects: the absolute magnitude M B -10 and the virial mass M vir 10 9 M x263C;. ... Luminosity function of the Local Volume galaxies. ... The luminosity functions for galaxies are presented: red dashed line - from the 2dFGRS survey (Norberg et al. 2002); blue dash-dotted line - from the SDSS survey (Blanton et al. ...

... Mass . 17a. Measuring Mass . ... A medium-size (1.25 inch wide) binder clip, as is used in offices to hold papers together--the type made of flat blue steel, with two wire handles. ... The theory predicts that the oscillation period should be proportional to the square root of the oscillating mass, including the mass of the clip. Note that gravity plays no part here: the oscillation period would be the same on the Moon or in zero-g. Denoting square root by SQRT, we have . ...

... We describe the software tool bspec which models the dispersion and diffraction of light in the HST Faint Object Spectrograph. ... The HST Faint Object Spectrograph (FOS) uses blazed, ruled gratings and detectors that are sensitive over wide wavelength ranges. ... The program bspec has been developed to model the dispersion and diffraction of light in the FOS with an accuracy sufficient for the estimation of scattered light contamination in observed FOS data. ... We run bspec as follows: . ...

... We measured these galaxies individually, and they are distinguished in our list by the suffixes a, b, c,... in order of increasing J2000 right ascension. ... The first column contains the UGC catalog number, to which we have added lower-case suffixes a, b, c,\dots in order of increasing J2000 right ascension to distinguish individual galaxies in groups. ... The third column lists the degrees, arcminutes, and arcseconds of J2000 declination plus the rms uncertainty in arcseconds. ...

... We start investigating the results from a non-magnetized (isotropic) plasma, before including the external magnetic field so important for space physics. ... propagating above the electron plasma frequency, w(pe) (reflection point for the waves) . note that, for very high frequencies, both phase and group velocities are equal to light velocity c, and we have electromagnetic wave in free space: even the electrons are unable to respond to the rapidly oscillating electric field! . ...