William Gershel (1738 - 1807). ... Gershel twice widened the Solar system and "turned" the Sun, proving its motion in the Universe. ... The Solar system became twice more. Besides he opened two satellites of Uranus (1789) with the reverse motion (1797) and two new Saturn satellites (1789). ... In 1783 Gershel discovered the Sun's motion in the Space and its direction. ... The 20 feet telescope of Gershel opened the nature of the mysterious "milky nebulas" which turned to be the star congestions. ...

FRONTIERS OF ASTRONOMY LARGEST RADIO TELESCOPE September 13, 2007 Washington DC WITH THE WORLD'S When I saw the James Bond movie Goldeneye a recall that near the end of the movie they show Arecibo telescope super structure into a Big Bang expect that and my emotions were disturbed and fortunately it was only a movie. few years ago I blowing up the of fire. ... We see a bright science future for the Arecibo telescope with its huge collecting area and superb instrumentation. ...

The AstroGuide . ... AstroGuide | ... AstroGuide Listing . ... See many more Astronomy Listings by: Category or Alphabet . The ATMoB is a group of about 300 individuals in the greater Boston area. In addition to telescope making, our club members are involved in star, comet, and planetary observing. ... Web Site . ... Web . ... Unless otherwise specified, web site content Copyright 1994-2016 John Huggins All Rights Reserved . dbHTML," "AstroGuide," "ASTRONOMY.NET" & "VA.NET" . ...

... 8, ``Celestial Mechanics'', 2002 High orbit for the RadioAstron project N. S. Kardashev, B. B. Kreisman, Yu. N. Ponomarev Astro Space Center of the Lebedev Physical Institute, Moscow, Russia RadioAstron project is an international collaborative mission to launch a free flying satellite carrying a 10­meter radio telescope in elliptic orbit around the Earth [1,2]. ... For RadioAstron mission it is proposed to use one K­band circular polarized chan­ nel at fixed frequency 22.232 GHz. ...

... The TESIS is a set of solar imaging instruments developed by the Lebedev Physical Institute of the Russian Academy of Science, and launched aboard the Russian spacecraft CORONAS-PHOTON on January 30, 2009. The main goal of the TESIS is to provide complex observations of solar active phenomena from the transition region to the inner and outer solar corona with high spatial, spectral and temporal resolution in the EUV and Soft X-ray spectral bands. ... Solar activity hits a new low . ...

... Within the transnational Access program of SOLARNET, European investigators can apply for observing time with the European instruments IBIS and ROSA , which are installed at the Dunn Solar Telescope of the US National Solar Observatory ( DST/NSO ). ... Periodic calls for proposals will be published for requesting SOLARNET observing time with the European instruments IBIS and ROSA, installed at the Dunn Solar Telescope of the US National Solar Observatory (DST/NSO). ... SOLARNET Access . ...

About us . ... Telescopes . ... Apart from the 6-meter telescope BTA two small telescopes are operative at SAO: the 1-m and 0.6-m telescopes, both manufactured by Carl Zeiss, Jena, are located near the BTA. ... These telescopes are used for adjusting the equipment and techniques of observations used at the BTA. ... The observational time allocation and also a brief description of the equipment of the 1-m telescope, which is used either permanently or mainly on this telescope, are presented below. ...

home education > activities . SEARCH ASP SITE: Match ALL words Match ANY word . ... Activities . ... Astronomy . ... Activities on the . ... This is more about space technology than astronomy, but in this interactive module, students simulate what the astronauts go through when they go up to service the Hubble Space Telescope. ... Younger students are shown a drawing that can be interpreted in two ways and then apply what they learn to planetary images. ... table of contents . ...

... APT Activities and Science Results 3. ... APT Secretary Philip Edwards (ISAS) reviewed the aims of the APT (http://www.vsop.isas.ac.jp/apt/DefinitionAndAims.html). ... The Australia Telescope Compact Array, and Ceduna, Hartebeesthoek, Kashima, Mopra, Parkes, and Shanghai telescopes of the Asia-Pacific Telescope participated in these observations. ... In the absence of Tetsuo Sasao, Philip Edwards briefly described results of the APT 22 GHz observations conducted from October 1st to 5th, 1997. ...

MAIN PAGE . ... Nova Cygni August 1975! ... 1975/76: Comet West! ... Dr. Richard West (4th from left) & AAL members visiting SES Betzdorf on occasion of our club's 25th anniversary - October 1996 . Comet West Information . ... It was the brightest comet visible from Earth since Comet West in 1976. ... 1997: Comet Hale-Bopp! ... Thus Comet Hale-Bopp never got closer to Earth than Earth gets to the Sun. ... Comet Hale-Bopp JPL Page . ... 1999: Total solar eclipse over Luxembourg! ...

... This telescope is also able to be used in a non-assisted manner. ... Upon availability, the use of the Club's 10" dobsonian mount telescope. Upon availability, the use of the Club's 16" Meade LightBridge telescope. ... Use of the Club's Coronado Personal Solar Telescope and Cemax Eyepieces. Use of the Club's Video Eyepieces. ... Use of Club Binoculars. ... It's all part of being here and just one of many telescopes that are the benefit of being a member of the Richland Astronomical Society. ...

... IRTF: Scanning the Infrared Skies . ... Above, NASA's Infrared Telescope Facility (IRTF) poses in front of a starry background. ... This 3-meter telescope was established in 1979 and spends about half its time observing Solar System objects. The Pleiades Star Cluster . ... Sirius: The Brightest Star in the Night . ... As Sirius is 8.7 light years distant, it is not the closest star system -- the Alpha Centauri system holds this distinction. ... Galileo Demonstrates the Telescope . ...

... This site requires Javascript to function correctly. ... Don't rush to buy a telescope - As Alan MacRobert of Sky & Telescope Magazine says, 'To put a telescope to rewarding use, you first need to know the constellations as seen with the naked eye, be able to find things among them with sky charts, know something of what a telescope will and will not do, and know enough about the objects you're seeking to recognize and appreciate them.' ... ASRAS can help you choose the telescope that's right for...

Next: Calar Alto 2.2m telescope Up: Spectral observations and data Previous: Observations . ... We used a 2'' 205'' slit with a KPC-10A grating (316 grooves mm -1 ) in its first order, and a GG 375 order separation filter cutting off second-order contamination for wavelengths blueward of 7400?. ... Next: Calar Alto 2.2m telescope Up: Spectral observations and data Previous: Observations Laboratory "Structure" . ...

... As a technical demonstration project for the NASA Advanced Communications Technology Satellite (ACTS), we have implemented remote observing on the 10-meter Keck II telescope on Mauna Kea from the Caltech campus in Pasadena. The data connection consists of ATM networks in Hawaii and California, running at OC-1 speeds (45 Mbit/sec), and high data rate (HDR) satellite antennae at JPL in Pasadena and Tripler Army Medical Center in Honolulu. ... These networks were connected via NASA's ACTS satellite. ...

RADIOASTROPHYSICAL DEPARTMENT • INSTITUTE OF SOLAR-TERRESTRIAL PHYSICS RAS SB . General information Main characteristics of the Radio telescope Observing programs General view of the antenna array Main research areas Principle of generation of radio images Radio telescope 's beam Receiving systems Main characteristics of the base receiving-recording complex Calibrations Data archive and databases Publication SSRT - Siberian Solar Radio Telescope . ...

The telescope configured for measurements of exoplanet transit light curves is seen from the north side in this May 2010 photo. Lower portions of the dome have been insulated to reduce daytime heating by radiation from the warm metal dome. ... The interior of the dome is seen soon after the encoder upgrade in February 2007. ... Karen Collins, a research astronomer specializing in exoplanets, helped with the telescope installation in August 2006. ... kielkopf at louisville dot edu . ...

... ESO - Public Surveys . ESO - VISTA Surveys . ... Building VISTA: in its enclosure . image: IMG_1307-1536x2048.jpg . Credit: VISTA . ... VISTA Telescope: In the enclosure. image: IMG1815s.jpg . ... VISTA Telescope: In the enclosure. image: 05_ VISTA-Telescope-in-enclosure-1200x1600.jpg . ... Building VISTA: Lifting telescope top ring into the enclosure. image: 03_VISTA-lifting-top-of-telescope-into-enclosure-1600x1200.jpg . ... image: 04_VISTA-Telescope-in-factory-1405x1769.jpg . ...

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Orbit . ... The orbit of the RadioAstron provides four types of study: . rough images of radio sources with ultra-high angular resolution, using all baselines up to the radius of the apogee, that is much larger than Earth diameter; . ... high quality imaging of radio sources, with moderate resolution, by observing either with small projected base lines Earth-spacecraft, i.e. close to the orbital plane, or near the perigee. ... high accuracy orbit determination. ... Space Radio Telescope . ...