... ESO is building what will be the World's largest optical telescope array, The Very Large Telescope (VLT). The VLT Project organisation is responsible for the design and construction of the Unit Telescopes, including enclosures, optics, adapter-rotators and coating unit. ... Unit Telescopes Overview - This page is outdated, an update is in process. ... Secondary mirror (M2 Unit) - This page is outdated, an update is in process. ... Coating Unit - This page is outdated, an update is in process. ...

... ATNF Home . ... About ATNF overview . ... Australia Telescope Steering Committee . ... Parkes radio telescope . Australia Telescope Compact Array . ... CSIRO, Australia's national science agency, operates a number of world-class radio astronomy observatories that are collectively known as the Australia Telescope National Facility or ATNF. ... CSIRO also manages the Murchison Radio-astronomy Observatory, where the Square Kilometre Array telescope infrastructure in Australia is to be centred. ...

... Telescopes ћ Binoculars ћ Microscopes . Meade Ultra-High Transmission coatings (UHTC ) Group . ... Meade Standard Coatings: The optical surfaces of all Meade telescopes include high-grade optical coatings fully consistent in quality with the precision of the optical surfaces themselves. ... These specialized, and extremely advantageous, coatings are offered here as the Meade Ultra-High Transmission Coatings (UHTC) group, a coatings group available optionally on many Meade telescope models. ...

... Proposing for VLBI Time at Arecibo . ... Documentation (Field System, VLBA4 terminal, Mark 5 system) . ... In 2001, the Arecibo Observatory received its hybrid VLBA-MARK IV (VLBA4) data acquisition system, and currently NAIC commits Arecibo to support VLBI observing up to a maximum of 4% of the 305-m's observing time. ... Tracking Time (h:mm) . ... The inclusion of the 305-m Arecibo radio telescope can dramatically boost the sensitivity of VLBI observations, even with its limited source tracking...

... Tiny Tim has been used for generating Hubble Space Telescope ( HST ) point-spread functions (PSFs) for deconvolution, algorithm testing, proposal planning, and optical studies. ... Tiny Tim is a stand-alone program for simulating HST PSFs as viewed with the on-board imaging cameras (WF/PC-1, WFPC2, FOC, COSTAR/FOC). ... The measured aberrations for FOC f/96, WF/PC-1 PC6, WFPC2, and COSTAR/FOC are used by Tiny Tim . ... Figure: FOC f/96 observed and Tiny Tim model PSFs (pre-COSTAR) at 253 nm. ...

... Iowa Robotic Telescope | ... Talon is based on OCAAS, a software suite developed by software engineer Elwood Downey ( Clear Sky Institute ) for use at the University of Iowa ?s first remote facility (the ATF, or Automated Telescope Facility). ... XObservatory : Telescope Control Interface . ... This program calls upon and coordinates much of the interrelated portions of the Talon architecture, and forms the primary control panel for the telescope, dome, and peripheral systems when used locally. ...

... Since 2011 our observatory is a member of GLORIA (GLObal Robotic telescopes Intelligent Array for e-Science) project - wide international collaboration of 13 scientific institutions from 8 countries aiming at opening public access to robotic telescopes, as well as propagating astronomy in general. The GLORIA Project offers Internet users the possibility of studying the sky from professional observatories. ... The experiments are available at the users site of GLORIA. ... About GLORIA . ...

... About ATMoB . ... The Observing Committee is starting an Observing Awards Program to promote observing among the membership of the Amateur Telescope Makers of Boston. ... Participant must be a current member of the Amateur Telescope Makers of Boston . ... To qualify for your Observing Award Certificate, turn in your worksheet and drawings to an ATMoB Observing Committee member or observing@atmob.org . ... This Excel sheet has useful macros. ... Copyright (c) Amateur Telescope Makers of Boston, Inc. ...

National Aeronautics and Space Administration . ... Bruce McCandless II (Captain, USN, Ret.) NASA Astronaut (former) . ... He was a member of the astronaut support crew for the Apollo 14 mission and was backup pilot for the first manned Skylab mission (SL-1/SL-2). ... A veteran of two space flights, McCandless has logged over 312 hours in space, including 4 hours of MMU flight time. ... With the completion of this flight McCandless logged 191 hours in space (including 4 hours of MMU flight time). ...

These policies are consulted whenever there are questions or concerns for closing the enclosure due to hazardous conditions or situations. telescope operations will be suspended whenever conditions pose a risk to facilities or personnel; . the Chief Telescope Engineer has full responsibility and sole authority to make this decision. ... Policy: The Chief Telescope Engineer has full responsibility and sole authority to suspend operations for the reasons described in the previous policy. ...

T he Siding Spring Survey (SSS) is a Near-Earth Object search program that utilises the 0.5-m Uppsala Schmidt Telescope at Siding Spring Observatory, N.S.W., Australia. ... The mission of the Siding Spring Survey is to contribute to the inventory of near-earth objects (NEOs), or more specifically, the potentially hazardous asteroids (PHAs) and comets (PHOs) that may pose a threat of impact and thus harm to civilization. ... Based on the CSS Mission page . ... Siding Spring Survey Main Page . ...

... In typical nightly use, the wide field and planetary telescope and cameras record images of favorably placed objects in the sky, including constellations, bright variable stars, nebulae through narrow-band filters, comets, the Moon, and planets. ... Shared Skies telescopes are available for use by students at the University of Louisville and the University of Southern Queensland, and by teachers and students in middle and high schools mentored by faculty at the universities. ...

... John Butler reports that the HLF-supported programme of restoration of three historic telescopes and their domes has continued throughout the year, and that a growing collection of images showing progress with the Telescopes and Telescope Domes restoration project is available on the Armagh Observatory web-site (see http://star.arm.ac.uk/history/Domes/). ... The new dome for the 18-inch Calver Telescope is now fully operational and awaits the return of the telescope to Armagh later in 2005. ...

... STScI-PRC96-05 HUBBLE TELESCOPE PHOTO REVEALS STELLAR DEATH PROCESS This NASA Hubble Space Telescope image of planetary nebula NGC 7027 shows remarkable new details of the process by which a star like the Sun dies. ... The NGC 7027 photograph is a composite of two Hubble images, taken in visible and infrared light, and is shown in "pseudo-color." Credit: H. Bond (STScI) and NASA Image files in GIF and JPEG format and captions may be accessed on Internet via ftp from oposite.stsci.edu in /pubinfo. ...

... Astrophysics Group . Graduate Research Opportunities 2016 . Available research projects/areas . ... Astrophysics Admissions Form . ... This includes active participation in the development of new instruments as well as the use of ground and space observatories. ... Further details are available at the following web site: http://www.mrao.cam.ac.uk/research/extragalactic-group-2/ . ... Our research group has a wide range of expertise in the development of receivers for radio astronomy. ...

... Although many of the images are used for teacher-driven activities, students do have the opportunity to work with scientists on original research projects. ... The primary goal is to have teachers experience astronomy research and then to bring the research data into their classrooms via the internet. ... They also learn how to process their data, build a solar telescope to take home to their classrooms, and learn background information from astronomers in each of the three research areas. ...

... Piping in a C program: < stdio.h > . ... Pipes . ... We use fprintf() and fscanf() to communicate with the pipe's stream . ... plotter.c module */ /* contains routines to plot a data file produced by another program */ /* 2d data plotted in this version */ /**********************************************************************/ #include externals.h static FILE * plot1 , *plot2, *ashell; static char *startplot1 = plot [] [0:1.1]'plot11.dat' with lines, 'plot12.dat' with lines\n ; static ...

Stellarium 0.12.3 . ... Plugins . ... FileљStructure . FileљList . FileљMembers . plugins . TelescopeControl . src . servers . Socket.hpp . ... 3 љ telescope server programs, that can communicate with stellarium . ... 5 љ It also contains smaple server classes (dummy, Meade LX200). ... 7 љ Author and Copyright of this file and of the stellarium telescope library: . ... 92 љ Socket ( Server &server, SOCKET fd) : server(server), fd(fd) {} . 93 љ Server & server; . ...

RADIOASTROPHYSICAL DEPARTMENT  INSTITUTE OF SOLAR-TERRESTRIAL PHYSICS RAS SB . ... Radioastrophysical Department , Institute of Solar-Terrestrial Physics, Siberian Division, Russian Academy of Science. ... Head of Laboratory dr. Gubin A.V. LABORATORY of INFORMATION SUPPLY and METHODOLOGY of RESEARCH . ... Head of Observatory Kitsanov S.V. SIBERIAN SOLAR RADIO TELESCOPE . Siberian solar radio telescope data at 5.7 GHz in I SOHO EIT 171 SOHO EIT 195 SOHO EIT 304 MDI Continuum MDI Magnetogram . ...

Ground Support of RadioAstron . Control and Tracking Stations . RadioAstron satellite control (command transmission, telemetry, orbit measurements) will be conducted from Evpatoria and Bear Lake control stations. ... Coarse orbit measurements will be carried out from control stations. Each measurement takes ten minutes. ... Orbit measurements at tracking stations give only radial component of spacecraft velocity but the measurements are going continuously during observing sessions. ...