... David Lassner (UH Information Technology Services) and Pui-Hin Rhoads (UH Institute for Astronomy) and myself, were able to visit the Big Island and take a trip to the summit of Mauna Kea where some of the world's largest opticaltelescopes are located ...
... leap forward in the first decade of the 1600s with the invention of the opticaltelescope and its use to study the night sky ... Galileo's drawing of the optical path of his telescope . The earliest known sketch of a telescope, August 1609. ...
... The 1.0m telescopeoptical imaging survey covers the region of the southern galactic bulge: l = and b = to , chosen because of its lower extinction relative to the northern bulge. ...
... Surprisingly, the Compact Array radio image (Figure 1) showed that although the gas found by HIPASS lies at the same distance as NGC 1490, it is associated with another, previously unknown galaxy which is barely visible to opticaltelescopes. ...
... We present ground-based and Hubble Space Telescopeoptical narrow-band images of M1-92. ... Nordic OpticalTelescope, Apartado 474, Sta. Cruz de La Palma, Canarias, Spain . ESO, Casilla 19001, Santiago 19, Chile . ...
... Academy of Science today welcomed the announcement by the Minister for Education, Dr. David Kemp, that Australia is to join the International Gemini Project now building two astronomical telescopes for optical and infrared wavelengths in Hawaii and Chile ...
... They then use a simulated opticaltelescope with a photon-counting spectrometer to obtain spectra of stars from a simulated star field, and by classifying the spectra they obtain the distance to the stars. ...
... Continual technical advancement has resulted in a range of devices extending from optical and radio-telescopes on Earth to orbiting telescopes, such as Hipparcos, Chandra and HST. ...