The VLT Survey Telescope: a year after its coming into operation Massimo Capaccioli Department of Physics, University of Naples Federico II National Institute of Astrophysics - VST center at Naples The VLT Survey Telescope (VST) is a 2.6 m wide field optical telescope located at the Cerro Paranal Observatory of ESO in the Chilean Andes. ... The wide field is sampled by OmegaCam, a camera with a mosaic of 32 CCD for a total of 256 Mpixels, provided by the homonymous consortium. ...

... Proposals will be accepted until 1 May 1997 and should be sent to: Mary A. Cragg Mount Wilson Institute 740 Holladay Road, Pasadena, CA 91106 USA e-mail: mwi@mtwilson.edu Haystack Observatory Call for Proposals ---------------------------------------- Haystack Observatory invites proposals for the use of the 37-m radio telescope for observations in the following wavelength bands: 3-mm (85-115 GHz ) 7-mm (35-49 GHz ) 1.3 cm (21-25 ...

... LINKS . ... Contacting and discussing with people sharing your interests, participating in night sky observations with telescopes as well as a large choice of astronomical books, magazines and video-tapes out of our club library. Borrowing of astronomical observation equipment ( telescope, binoculars a.s.o. ) possible after 1 year of membership. ... What does a telescope cost ? ... Therefore a dark site for observing is at least as important for deep sky observation as the diameter of your scope. ...

Dynamic Shack-Hartmann System RAPID V. G. Orlov, V. V. Voitsekhovich Instituto de AstronomМa, UNAM, MИxico CONACYT project E9507-1020P UNAM PAPIIT IN104910 Telescopes OAN OAN- SPM 2.1m telescope 1.5m telescope 0.84m telescope 2.1m telescope OAN-Tonanzintla 1m telescope Astronomical site SPM Observing statistics 1982-2002 (Tapia+ 2007 ) Photometric nights : 64.1% Spectroscopic ... Rapid - Dynamic Shack-Hartmann All modern telescopes demand installation of adaptive system. ...

RADIOASTROPHYSICAL DEPARTMENT • INSTITUTE OF SOLAR-TERRESTRIAL PHYSICS RAS SB . ... SSRT - Receiving systems . The SSRT has two independent receiving systems for recording solar observational data, and several ancillary receivers for checking, setting up and adjusting the instrument. The base receiving systen is a multichannel filter receiver for a simultaneous recording in 180 channels with the 500 kHz band each, adjusted at steps of about 600 kHz. ... Channel's band . ...

... General astronomy . ... PHYSICAL CONSTANTS.. ... Nobel Laureates in Physics 1901-2002 . ... Lectures Astronomy-161 "Solar System" (Also it contains info about History of Astronomy) . ... The History of Science . ... College-Level Astronomy Courses - at American, Australian Universities and Colleges . ... Messier: . ... Science . ... Scientific American . ... JOURNAL OF COMPUTATIONAL PHYSICS . ... Scientific Journals . ... American Physical Society Journals: Physical Review, Review of Modern Physics ...

... The department was founded in late sixties by Prof. D.Ya.Martynov, who for many years was also the director of Sternberg Astronomical Institute. At present time, the head of the department is Prof. A.M.Cherepashchuk, a pupil of D.Ya.Martynov and his successor as the director of SAI. Since Prof. Martynov, the scientific activity of the department was primarily related to binary stars. ... The department consists of 15 members most of which have Ph.D. in Astrophysics. ...

... It is being organized jointly by the Byurakan Astrophysical Observatory (BAO) and the Armenian Astronomical Society (ArAS). ... LIST OF LECTURERS AND LECTURES : Dr. Vladimir AIRAPETIAN (Goddard Space Flight Center, USA): Physics of Winds from Cool Evolved Stars Dr. Don BARRY (Cornell University ... (observation techniques and theory) Dr. Michel DENNEFELD (Institut d'Astrophysique de Paris, France): Introduction to spectroscopic observations Dr. Serguei DODONOV (Special Astrophysical ...

Preliminary results of astroclimate parameters measurements at the Sternberg 2.5m telescope installation site V.Kornilov, N.Shatsky, S.Potanin, O.Voziakova, B.Safonov Moscow, 2008 Acknowledgements A.Belinskiy M.Kornilov A.Tokovinin M.Kuznetsov P.Kortunov E.Gorbovskoy SAI administration some SAI students Pulkovo solar station (KHSS) staff RFBR support MAVEG Gmbh Why to study optical turbulence and some other relevant ... Mean seeing by DIMM data for this night is 1''5. ...

University Satellites and . Space Science Education . ... THE UNITED NATIONS BASIC SPACE SCIENCE INITIATIVE Hans J. Haubold United Nations Office for Outer Space Affairs, Vienna International Centre, A-1400 Vienna, Austria (hans.haubold@unvienna.org) Pursuant to recommendations of the United Nations Conference on the Exploration and Peaceful Uses of Outer Space (UNISPACE III) and deliberations of the United Nations Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer ...