Next: CONICA: The high resolution Up: VLT Status and Instruments Previous: VLT First Light . ... Infrared instruments for the VLT . Instrument Summary . ... The already approved infrared instruments for the VLT are: . ... CONICA: Coude Near Infrared Camera (P.I. R. Lenzen, MPIA, Heidelberg) - an historical name as this instrument will be used for diffraction limited 1-5 m imaging, polarimetry and spectroscopy with the NAOS, Nasmyth Adaptive Optics System on UT1 (P.I. G. Rousset, ONERA ). ...

... Spectral regions highlighted by green bars have been used to detemine the тЯиB z тЯй value from H Balmer lines, and the magenta bars highlight the spectral regions used to estimate the magnetic field from metal lines. ... The FORS1 instrument of the ESO Very Large Telescope was used to obtain low resolution circular polarized spectra of nearly a thousand of different stars, with the aim of measuring their mean longitudinal magnetic fields. ...

The AstroGuide . ... AstroGuide | ... AstroGuide Listing . ... See many more Astronomy Listings by: Category or Alphabet . ... Last Update August 22, 2005 . Listed Since August 31, 2001 . ... Novosibirsk, ZZ 630049 . ... Web Site . ... Web . www.astronomy.net . About Astronomy Net | Advertise on Astronomy Net | ... Unless otherwise specified, web site content Copyright 1994-2016 John Huggins All Rights Reserved . dbHTML," "AstroGuide," "ASTRONOMY.NET" & "VA.NET" . ...

Nowadays at the Department the experimental and theoretical investigations, including astronomical and ionospheric observations, active experiments with space vehicles are taking place. ... Solar Corona physics and erruptive phenomenae. ... Stellar astronomy. ... The Department has organized and put into practice more then 50 expeditions for observation of Solar ecllipces, aurorae polaris, comets, meteor streams, controlled space experiments, and also for investigations of geophysical characteristics. ...

... In January 2015 using the Mini-MegaTORTORA multichannel optical sky-monitoring system with subsecond temporal resolution, the observations of comet C/2014 Q2 (Lovejoy) and asteroid 357439 2004 BL86 were carried out. ... It was put into operation in 2014. ... Comet C/2014 Q2 (Lovejoy). The 60-min-long observations with the Mini-MegaTORTORA system on Jan 19, 2015 at 16:50 UT, exposure time 30 s, BVR synchronously . ... Asteroid 357439 2004 BL86. ...

Holometer: A Microscope into Space and Time . ... The instrument seeks to determine if slight but simultaneous jiggles of a mirror in two directions expose a fundamental type of holographic noise that always exceeds a minimum amount. ... Although the discovery of holographic noise would surely be groundbreaking, the dependence of such noise on a specific laboratory length scale would surprise some spacetime enthusiasts. ... NASA Web Site Statements, Warnings, and Disclaimers . ...

Mid-Infrared All Sky Cloud Camera . ... These documents are provided to give users the information needed regarding instrument design, performance and operation to plan and carry out observations. While every effort is made to keep information on this site current, instrument performance does vary continuously with time and environmental conditions. ... Comments and suggestions are always welcome! Return to the APO Home Page . April 3, 2000 - Jon Brinkmann (brinkmann/nmsu.edu) ...

Astronomes Amateurs du Luxembourg a.s.b.l. " We bring the Universe to you ! Founded in 1971 by a group of enthusiasts and star aficionados, our association is now counting more than 130 members.As a national association we attract hobby astronomers from the whole country to our regular night-sky observations and to the meetings in our club at Dudelange. ... by topic : PDF File Download (360KB) . ... Article about AAL in "Le Quotidien" newspaper of Juli 21 2005 - PDF File Download (132KB) . ...

NASA Press Release Text - June 24, 1996 GALILEO READY FOR CLOSE FLYBY OF JUPITER'S BIGGEST MOON Now residing in orbit around Jupiter, NASA's Galileo spacecraft is primed for its first close flyby of Jupiter's largest moon, Ganymede, at 2:29 a.m. EDT on June 27, 1996. ... In the days just before and after the Ganymede flyby, Galileo's other studies will include a search for auroral activity on Jupiter's nightside and observations of other Jovian moons: Io, Europa and Callisto. ...

... Both sets of objective transmission gratings consist of hundreds of co-aligned facets mounted to supporting structures on 4 annuli (one for each of the four co-aligned mirror pairs) to intercept the x rays exiting the HRMA. ... The two sets of transmission gratings, attached to the mounting structure are shown in Figure . ... An individual facet has 0.43-m-thick gold grating bars with 50% filling factor and 9920- period, resulting in 1.15-/mm dispersion. The HRC-S is the primary LETG readout. ...

... Table of instrument observation dates: . Instrument Exposure time Date Julian Date XTE Master There are 47 observations from this instrument, ranging from 1997-02-08б 14:15:15.6 (2450488.093 UTC) to 2005-05-14б 12:03:56.7 (2453505.002 UTC) and all above 10,000 seconds exposure time (from 10046 sec to 54910 sec). ... Blue arrows designate X-ray observation times. Red arrows designate HST observation times. ... Table of instrument observation dates and integration times: . ...

Next: Mapping of FITS Up: The Data Organizer Previous: Overview of the . The Data Organizer uses as input a list of FITS files or MIDAS images as well as a list of MIDAS descriptors which are considered to be relevant (e.g., exposure time, telescope setting, instrument mode). Each of these descriptors is mapped into one column of a table that is called the Observation Summary Table (OST), and the corresponding information for a given input file is stored into one of its rows. ...

Databases for Observations and Orbit Elements for Asteroids and Comets in ERA System . ... In the present paper the databases for both observations and elements of asteroids and comets in the ERA system are described, as well as examples of the orbit determination and the processing of observations for these objects. The peculiarities of computations are described and examles of usage of the ERA system for orbit determination are presented. ...

. Dedicated to 40th anniversary of the . first artificial Earth satellite launch . Russian (Win) .

... Astrophysics Group . Research old . ... Square Kilometre Array (SKA) . ... The Astrophysics Group carries out a wide range of research programmes, with particular emphasis on the fields of optical interferometry, the cosmic microwave background (CMB) radiation, star formation and galaxy evolution. ... A further major, and developing, area of the Group?s activity lies in our involvement in the Square Kilometre Array (SKA). ...

... SSAU History . ... SSAU team took the 1st place in the competition of engineering teams within the competence of Lifecycle Management at the National Championship of cross-industry working professions in high-tech industries WorldSkills Hi-Tech-2015 in Yekaterinburg. ... The participants developed the project concepts, prepared design and engineering documentation, performed strength, aerodynamic and economic calculation as well as marketing research, made 3D-printed model of the developed jetpack. ...

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. ...

... Sunspots . ... Solar cycle . ... Solar Corona . Solar magnetic fields . Solar wind and heliosphere . ... webmaster@izmiran.ru . ... M.A.Livshits, V.N.Obridko, S.B.Pikel'ner . Radio emission and atmospheric structure above sunspots . AZh (Soviet Astronomy), 1967, v. 10, no. 6, pp. ... V.N.Obridko . On the two-component structure of the sunspot magnetic field . ... On the two-component sunspot model . ... V.N.Obridko, L.B.Demkina . ... Solar Physics, 1972, v.24, No.2, 336 - 341. ...

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MAIN METROLOGICAL CENTER RUSSIAN FEDERATION National Research Institute for Physical-Technical and Radio Engineering Measurements (VNIIFTRI) e ­ mail: pasynok@vniiftri.ru, ru bezmenov@vniiftri.ru JOURNEESE 2014 VNIIFTRI as the Russian Main Metrological Center of Time, Frequencies and Earth Rotation Service th ti carried out the rapid EOP processing based on GNSS, VLBI and SLR observations for many years. 2 VNIIFTRI takes participation in GNSS and SLR observations of IGS and ILRS too. ...