... Camera (cold) going up to observing level for insertion into Telescope using the handling tool (blue). July 2007 . image: VISTA_IR_Camera_to_Telescope_2.JPG . ... Camera being moved from its stand in the lower floor of the Enclosure below the Azimuth floor, using the handling tool (blue). image: remove camera from stand.jpg . ... Camera inside the upper part of the enclosure after being lifted up to the Azimuth floor on its handling tool (blue). image: camera reaches az floor.jpg . ...

During the course of ten nights of observing (UT 27 April - 6 May 1996), the KPNO Mayall 4m Telescope was used to image the Hubble Deep Field in the near infrared. The IRIM camera employs a 256 x 256 Rockwell NICMOS-3 HgCdTe array, with a scale of approximately 0".6/pixel at the 4m f/15 Cassegrain focus. ... A paper on the HDF/IRIM data (observations, reductions, catalogs and basic analysis) is in preparation, titled "Near Infrared Properties of the Hubble Deep Field" by Dickinson et al. ...

... Science User Portal . ... ESO, the European Southern Observatory . ... Travel and Contacts . Travel to ESO Headquarters . ... Survey Telescopes . ... Star Clusters . ... FLAMES . ... 100 Hours of Astronomy . ... IMAX€о 3D Film Hidden Universe . ... This image, the first to be released publicly from VISTA, the worldтАЩs largest survey telescope, shows the spectacular star-forming region known as the Flame Nebula, or NGC 2024, in the constellation of Orion (the Hunter) and its surroundings. ...

3rd of September 2015 . ATLAS Third Data Release . ... The Australia Telescope Large Area Survey (ATLAS) is a deep 1.4 GHz radio continuum survey with ATCA. ... The survey covers a total area of 6.3 deg2 to a typical rms noise level of 15 microJy/beam. ... Franzen et al. (2015) present the survey in detail, together with a catalogue containing 5118 component sources above 5 sigma. ... Left: ATLAS DR1 image (Norris et al. 2006) of a 50 by 50 arcmin region of CDFS. ... today * ATNF | ...

Most of these images were obtained by Mike Bessell, Michelle Buxton, Hwankyung Sung, Ralph Sutherland and Bob Watson at SSO using a 2Kx2K Site CCD behind a Nikon or Hasselblad lens or directly on the 1m telescope. A few images are from the Hubble Space Telescope. Some of the M42 images were obtained with the KPNO 1m and ESO NTT telescope. One image is a mosaic of IRAS images. ... Details of the CCD imaging program at MSSSO. ... antenna.jpg (53KB) . ... ngc6744.jpg (59KB) . ...

... WISE is achieving 5sigma point source sensitivities better than 0.08, 0.11, 1, and 6 mJy in unconfused regions on the ecliptic in bands centered at wavelengths of 3.4, 4.6, 12, and 22 mum. ... The WISE All-Sky Release Source Catalog is available in compressed (gzip or bzip2) ascii form. ... Users should be aware that the Catalog table is extremely large. ... For complete documentation of the WISE All-Sky Release Source Catalog and the All-Sky Data Release, please see the Explanatory Supplement . ...

... The Keyhole Nebula in Infrared . ... About three million years ago, the stars in the Keyhole Nebula began to form. ... Close inspection of the center of NGC 4438, as visible in this recently released representative-color image by the Hubble Space Telescope, reveals an unusual bubble of hot gas, colored in red. Sirius: The Brightest Star in the Night . ... Sirius is visible on the far left of the above photograph, to the left of the constellation of Orion and Comet Hale-Bopp. ...

... Each day we feature a different image or photograph of our fascinating universe, along with a brief explanation written by a professional astronomer. November 29, 1995 . Releasing Compton . Credit NASA , STS-37 Crew . Explanation: Named for Nobel laureate physicist Arthur Holly Compton , the Compton Gamma Ray Observatory (CGRO) Satellite was launched in April of 1991 aboard the Space Shuttle Atlantis . CGRO's mission is to explore the Universe at gamma-ray energies. ...

... STScI-PRC98-11A STARING INTO THE WINDS OF DESTRUCTION: HST/NICMOS IMAGES OF THE PLANETARY NEBULA NGC 7027 The Hubble Space Telescope's Near Infrared Camera and Multi-Object Spectrometer (NICMOS) has captured a glimpse of a brief stage in the burnout of NGC 7027, a medium-mass star like our sun. ... The material settles into a wind of gas and dust blowing away from the dying star. ... During this phase, intense ultraviolet radiation from the central star lights up a region of gas surrounding it. ...

... A song written by Padi Boyd and performed by The Chromatics, specifically for the International Year of Astronomy. ... Some links from press coverage and other websites referencing IYA2009-Ireland. ... I n the last day of the International Year of Astronomy ( early evening of 31 December 2009), the Moon had the smallest partial eclipse that we have seen in Ireland and the UK for 40 years: the Moon was 8% covered by the Earth's shadow. ... International Year of Astronomy, Ireland National Node . ...

... News . ... NASA releases new Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer mission catalog of entire infrared sky . ... NASA unveiled a new atlas and catalog of the entire infrared sky March 14 showing more than half a billion stars, galaxies, and other objects captured by the Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) mission. т??Today, WISE delivers the fruit of 14 years of effort to the astronomical community,т?? said Edward Wright, WISE principal investigator from the University of California, Los Angeles...

... Astrophysics Group . ... VLSS . ... To facilitate access for UK and European users, MRAO is providing a UK Mirror of the VLA Low-frequency Sky Survey (VLSS), which is b