... General information . ... Staff . Research staff . ... Historical highlights . ... In 1831, Giovanni Battista Amici , an optician from Modena, was invited by the Grand Duke Leopold II to preside as the Professor of Astronomy and to direct the "Specola", the observatory in Florence which was attached to the Royal Museum of Physics and Natural History. ... From that year, the telescope was used by Amici's young assistant, Giovan Battista Donati, mainly for observing comets and asteroids. ...

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 . ...

... This is a personal project collecting and documenting early images of Harvard College Observatory, focusing on the site at Observatory Hill (previously Summer House Hill). ... This page shows a list of all images tagged with "donors". [link] 1660-ish Portrait of John Winthrop the Younger (1608-1676) . ... That image is a painting of John Winthrop the Elder's great-great grandson, or the great grandson of this John Winthrop. ... Earliest source: "Thomas Hollis (1659тАУ1731)." ... link] 1891 . ...

... Editor's choices for the most educational Astronomy Pictures of the Day about orbiting observatories: . ... The trouble is that Earth-bound telescopes must look through the Earth's atmosphere . ... Telescopes which explore the Universe using light beyond the visible spectrum, such as those onboard the Chandra X-ray Observatory need to be carried above the absorbing atmosphere. ... By orbiting above the Earth's atmosphere, the Hubble Space Telescope, pictured above , can get clearer images. ... Index...

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Your First Telescope . Articles | ... So, which one should I buy? ... You started out with a 60 mm refractor (probably from a department store), then you upgraded to a 6" f/8 reflector from either Criterion or Meade, and if you stuck with it long enough, you eventually bought an 8" Schmidt-Cassegrain from Celestron. ... Avoid like the plague any cheap refractor sold on the basis of its magnification. ... Which one would you buy, if you could only get one? ... www.astronomy.net . ...

Winer Observatory P.O. Box 797, Sonoita, Arizona 85637-0797, USA . ... 2/3-m Telescope . ... Site . ... Commanding . ... In a typical robotic observing scenario, each afternoon, a telescope control computer obtains a set of objects to observe from its home institution from a command or script file. ... The file is then transferred to the telescope control computer at the Winer Observatory in Sonoita. ... The Iowa control computer then begins processing the telrun.sls file. ... 2013 Winer Observatory. ...

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. ...

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... The real-time system for astronomical observations on the telescopes of the virtual observatory from ICAMER, SAO RAS, and BNO INR RAS . ... 81K Three large astronomical observatories-- ICAMER, SAO and BNO JNR RAS- are located in the compact area of the Northern Caucasus. ... The unification and synchronization of data-flows from these telescopes will allow one to carry out astronomical observations at a new level and to realize a virtual observatory with new capabilities for space research. ...

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home publications > mercury . ... ASP Conference Series . ... The Ultimate Telescope . ... Italian astronomer Roberto Gilmozzi envisions a 100-meter telescope ? ... His telescope would be as high as the Great Pyramid in Egypt, and 10,000 times more sensitive than the 10-meter Keck telescopes in Hawai?i. "Everybody told me I was crazy," says Gilmozzi, "but meanwhile, we have completed the basic design." ... Four years from now, ESO could start constructing the OWL (OverWhelmingly Large) Telescope. ...

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: Column label: TELESCOP Up: File Formats Required Previous: MJD --- column . Data for all the telescopes at an observatory can be stored in a single MIDAS table file, called (by default) esotel.tbl. A standard path needs to be established for this file. ... Each observatory file should contain a C*72 descriptor OBSERVATORY that contains the name of the observatory, preferably as it is given in [ 6 ]. ... Each column label can be a standard FITS keyword, if an appropriate one is available. ...

Large sunspots were occasionally seen far in the past without any instruments, when the sun was dimmed by thick haze, but not much was remembered of those observations. ... Sunspot Cycle (1850 - 1975) . One who was greatly influenced by Schwabe's discovery was an English gentleman of independent means, Richard Christopher Carrington , who devoted himself to the study of sunspots. ... Carrington had seen a flare, of the rare variety that is visible in white light (only about 50 are known). ...

SAO is Russia's main centre for ground-based space research. ... The basic instruments of the Observatory are the optical telescope BTA (Big Alt-azimuth Telescope) with a main mirror diameter of 6 m and the radio telescope RATAN-600 with the antenna diameter 600 m. Study of the Universe as a whole, analysis of non-stationary energy release in galactic and extragalactic objects of various types, investigation of evolution and chemical composition of our Galaxy and the nature of solar activity. ...

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... They cover a period of 4 days in which the Supernova continues to rise in brightness (what astronomers call magntiude). ... First Image Taken on March 11 at 8:22 UT. Second Image Taken on March 12 at 8:52 UT. ... The supernova is the same brightness as in the previous image taken 2 hours ago . ... This image, taken 24 hours after the previous image, shows the supernova to be another 0.21mag (or about 25%) brighter. ... Hopefully the images do show that the brightness of the Supernova is changing. ...