... Each day a different image or photograph of our fascinating universe is featured, along with a brief explanation written by a professional astronomer. 2003 March 30 . Beijing Ancient Observatory . ... Explanation: Did observatories exist before telescopes ? One example that still stands today is the Beijing Ancient Observatory in China . ... It is interesting to compare the above picture to one taken in 1895 . ... About APOD | ... NASA Web Site Statements, Warnings, and Disclaimers . ...

ATNF Home . About ATNF . ... About ATNF overview . ... Governance overview . Australia Telescope Steering Committee . ... Staff list | ... Parkes radio telescope . ... Australia Telescope Online Archive (ATOA) . ... Parkes | ... VLBI . ... CSIRO ATNF Data Archives . ... Visiting Parkes radio telescope . ... Parkes radio telescope webcam . ... This message : [ Message body ] [ More options ( top , bottom ) ] . ... The first phase of East Asia VLBI Network (EAVN) observations started in 2010. ...

Astronomy Picture of the Day . ... 6.05.1998 . ... Credit: W. H. Jackson , U.S. Library of Congress , WTC Collection Explanation: Did observatories exist before telescopes ? One example that still stands today is the Beijing Ancient Observatory in China. ... May 1998 . ... 1997 1998 . ... NASA Web Site Statements, Warnings, and Disclaimers . ... U. Based on Astronomy Picture Of the Day . Publications with keywords: Observatory - ancient . Publications with words: Observatory - ancient . ...

... ASP Conference Series . ... Astronomy Beat . ... World Beat: Vietnam . ... Thousands of years ago, the ancient Vietnamese began rice cultivation, ocean navigation, and, to support these activities, astronomical observation. ... But during the war from 1945 to 1975, Phu Lien observatory was seriously damaged, its equipment largely destroyed. ... Over the past few years, largely because of visits by astronomers from the International Astronomical Union, Vietnamese astronomy has risen from the dead. ...

System of astrometric databases of Pulkovo observatory. ... The purpose of these observations is the determination of precise coordinates of Solar system bodies, which is necessary for development and improvement of motion theories, and for studying the evolution of the Solar system. ... Accuracy of photographical observations is about 0.2-0.3 arcsec for equatorial coordinates and 0.1-0.3 for relative coordinates of planetary satellites, depending on object and observational conditions. ...

USA Solar Mission . Courtesy of NASA's National Space Science Data Center . The Solar Maximum Mission (SMM) was designed to provide coordinated observations of solar activity, in particular solar flares, during a period of maximum solar activity. ... Complementary studies were made as part of the SMM guest investigator program, and coordinated in situ measurements of flare particle emissions were made from the ISEE 3 spacecraft. The spacecraft was launched on February 14, 1980. ...

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STEP INTO THE BLUE - MEADE INSTRUMENTS PRODUCT GUIDE . ... 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. ... Coronado€о Solar . ... Spotting Scopes . ...

... specadd creates a multiple X-ray spectrum FITS file by stacking or putting together (``adding'') two single spectrum files. ... This type of spectral files is particularly useful when the user wants to simultaneously analyse different observations of the same object carried out with the same instrument or with different instruments. ... The Data extension for a multiple spectral dataset stores one single spectrum per row, instead of one channel per row as it is the case of single spectrum files. ...

... Bad Astronomy . ... Mad Science . ... Site Info . ... Public Talks . ... Keep Bad Astronomy close to your heart, and help make me filthy rich. ... Who is this guy who calls himself "The Bad Astronomer?" ... First, yes, I am a real live astronomer (when people ask me what astronomers do, I tell them "They astronom !" ... These are emitted by powerful objects like black holes, exploding stars, and super-dense neutrons stars. ... Finally, am I really a bad astronomer? ... 2008 Phil Plait. ...

Maidanak Laboratory is a part of Sternberg Astronomical Institute of Moscow State University. ... Observations are conducted with 1.5 meter RC telescope AZT-22 of Maidanak Observatory (Uzbekistan). rus . ... maidanak lab home page . ... at Sternberg Astronomical Institute . ... 2000). ... Because of technical reasons, we had to use three different CCD cameras in our observations, Pictor-416 camera in 1995, Pictor-416 and TI 800 x 800 cameras in 1997 and 1998, and ST-7 camera in 1999 and 2000. ...

Next: The X-ray Optics Up: No Title Previous: No Title . ... NASA's newest Great Observatory, the Chandra X-Ray Observatory (CXO) - formally known as the Advanced X-Ray Astrophysics Facility (AXAF) - launched on July 23, 1999 and represents such an advance. ... CXO has broad scientific objectives and an outstanding capability to provide high-resolution ( 0.5-arcsec) imaging, spectrometric imaging and high resolution dispersive spectroscopy over the energy band from 0.1 to 10 keV. ...

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... Springtime observing for small telescopes . ... One Degree Imager debuts at WIYN Telescope at Kitt Peak National Observatory . ... So the new camera known as the One Degree Imager (ODI) that is being commissioned at the 3.5-meter WIYN Telescope on Kitt Peak in Arizona is of great excitement to astronomers. ... Of the telescopes on Kitt Peak, the 3.5-meter WIYN Telescope is second in size only to the 4-meter Mayall Telescope, and the WIYN Telescope has been operating at Kitt Peak since 1994. ...

... SAI CAS . ... Catalog Access Services . ... This site is about the Virtual Observatory project at the Sternberg Astronomical Institute, Moscow University ( SAI MSU ). We provide a public access to the growing set of astronomical services developed by the SAI RVO development team in accordance with the Virtual Observatory standards. ... We provide access (programmatic and interactive) to the all major and biggest astronomical catalogs (about 4 billions objects total) as well as other web-services. ...

Winer Observatory P.O. Box 797, Sonoita, Arizona 85637-0797, USA . ... Winer Observatory) was incorporated in 1983 as a 501(c)(3) non-profit public charity to perform basic research in astronomy, provide educational outreach programs, and provide site and maintenance services for small telescopes through cooperative agreements with other astronomical institutions. ... The picture at the top left of this page is of our facility near Sonoita, Arizona, approximately 50 miles southeast of Tucson, Arizona. ...

... The Science Operation Department is composed of Astronomers, Telescope Instruments Operators(TIOs) and Data Handling Administrators(DHAs). ... Astronomers have proposed several methods to quantitatively measure the amount of turbulence above the telescope, which the most common ones is Differential Image Motion Monitor (DIMM). In optical testing, the Hartmann test is the common method to test the quality of optical components. ... Hartmann mask consists of 48 lenses. ...

... He made observations of a supernova (literally: nova= "new star") in 1572 (we now know that a supernova is an exploding star, not a new star). ... Brahe's meticulous observations showed that the supernova did not change positions with respect to the other stars (no parallax). ... This was early evidence against the immutable nature of the heavens, although Brahe did not interpret the absence of parallax for stars correctly, as we discuss below. Brahe made careful observations of a comet in 1577. ...

... Members . ... The ATM's of Boston was founded in 1934 by a group of persons interested in assisting others in the art of optical polishing the craft of telescope making, and to learn together about the science of astronomy and the use of astronomical instruments. ... Mr. Jones introduced the club to Dr. Harlow Shapley at Harvard College Observatory. ... Regular shop activities resumed with the help of these "professional amateurs" and the club grew to 180 members. ... Club Newsletters . ...

... VLBA+Italy survey (to contact the schedulers) (closed) E.Fomalont and J.Romney: To provide some review of problems happened with fringe search in VSOP project. (closed) M.Popov : To compose a tentative time -table of possible observations , and inform the observatories on the specific time slots that might be requested for fringe search program in October-November. (continued) C. Gwinn: to try to compile FAKERAT software on modern platforms. (closed) GBT and ...