... We can help students grasp the significance of Hubble's extremely keen eye, and learn a bit about angles and math in the process, with the following in-class activity. ... Looking through binoculars or telescopes allows us to magnify a small section of the sky. To measure sizes or distances in that small section, astronomers divide a degree into 60 smaller pieces called arcminutes, and further subdivide minutes into 60 smaller sections called arcseconds. ... 30 feet = . ... 36 seconds . ...

RTT150 . Russian-Turkish 1.5-m Telescope . ... Until 2002 observations were mostly performed with ST-8E CCD in the 1:7.7 Cassegrain focus. ... In April, 2003 telescope was equipped with a larger-size CCD Andor DW436 . ... 2048 x 2048 pixels, . ... Since summer of 2002 the main focal detector of the RTT150 telescope was AP47p CCD in 1:7.7 Cassegrain focus. ... During September 3-13, 2002 works on installation of new autoguiding system ( photo 1 ) were carried out on RTT150 telescope. ...

Beginning from the May of the 1997 we started to publish our daily solar radio observations at RATAN-600 radiotelescope. ... Periscope System: South Sector+Flat Mirror . ... It is possible to track a source by moving the secondary mirror along the arc-shaped railway tracks or to perform azimuthal 2D map synthesis . ... 1) It is possible to simultaneously carry out independent observing programs using individual sectors at various discrete azimuths and secondary mirrors on corresponding railway tracks. ...

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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. ...

... Iowa Robotic Telescope | ... Talon is based on OCAAS, a software suite developed by software engineer Elwood Downey ( Clear Sky Institute ) for use at the University of Iowa ?s first remote facility (the ATF, or Automated Telescope Facility). ... XObservatory : Telescope Control Interface . ... This program calls upon and coordinates much of the interrelated portions of the Talon architecture, and forms the primary control panel for the telescope, dome, and peripheral systems when used locally. ...

. MASTER supernova search . 2006 02 08.96 UT . Klick for full image .

... Table of Contents - Subject Index - Author Index - Search . Astronomical Data Analysis Software and Systems XII . ... The Subaru Telescope Software Trinity System . ... Science Goal Driven Observing . ... SIRTF Web Based Tools for QA and Instrument Performance Monitoring . ... Monitoring the Chandra X-ray Observatory via the Wireless Internet . B. D. Spitzbart, S. J. Wolk, and R. A. Cameron . COSMOS-3: The Third Generation Telescope Control Software System of Nobeyama Radio Observatory . ...

... Научная панорама ? arxiv:0709.2048 Cherenkov Telescope Array . ... arxiv:0709.2048 Cherenkov Telescope Array: следующее поколение наземных гамма-обсерваторий (Cherenkov Telescope Array: The next-generation ground-based gamma-ray observatory) . ... Прочитать про это можно в статье, а можно на сайте проекта <A HREF=" http://www.mpi-hd.mpg.de/hfm/CTA/ ">CTA</A> (Cherenkov Telescope Array). http://xray.sai.msu.ru/~polar/sci_rev/168.html#arxiv/0709.2048 . ...

Astronotes Armagh Planetarium's Stellar Blog! ... Armagh Planetarium . Colin Johnston . ... Telescopes and Observatories . ... January . ... By admin February 20, 2013 Posted in: Armagh Planetarium . ... M42, the Great Nebula in Orion, imaged through Armagh Planetarium?s telescope in January 2013. ... Image credit: Colin Johnston/Armagh Planetarium) . ... M31, the Andromeda Galaxy, imaged with the new telescope in January 2013. ... Armagh Planetarium?s new telescope in action in January 2013. ...

... 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 . ...

... Bad Astronomy . ... Radio . ... Bitesize Astronomy . ... Think of a telescope as a bucket that collects light. ... So over the years, telescope makers have focused on making telescopes bigger and bigger. ... For radio telescopes, however, the size limit is much bigger. Many astronomical objects emit radio waves, and as it happens telescopes built to detect radio don't have the same stringent smoothness criteria optical telescopes do. ... But radio telescopes can get even bigger. ...

... Behemoth black hole found in an unlikely place . ... Astronomy for Kids . ... Telescopes team up to produce highest-resolution astronomical image . ... Using an orbiting radio-astronomy satellite combined with 15 ground-based radio telescopes, astronomers have made the highest-resolution astronomical image yet, revealing new insights about a gorging black hole in a galaxy 900 million light-years from Earth. ... Only registered members of Astronomy.com are allowed to comment on this article. ...

... 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 . ...

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Wide-angle telescopes for photometry and polarimetry in optical and infrared ranges . ... Investigation of the Earth’s atmosphere, comets, interplanetary and interstellar medium with brightness and linear polarization measurements of extended sources and sky background in optical and infrared spectral ranges. ... The devices are small diameter telescopes with CCD-detectors for optical and infrared spectral range with spectral and polarization filters. ... 15-cm telescope with cooling down to 80 K . ...

... European Remote Sensing Satellite (ERS-1) was launched on 17 July 1991, and the follow mission ERS-2 (with the same sensors and an Ozone monitoring instrument added) was launched on 21 April 1995. ... ERS-2 has a fixed repeat cycle of 35 days, and follows ERS-1 tracks with one day's delay. ... Swath width is 102.5 km (telemetered), spatial resolution is about 25x25 m. The Advanced SAR (ASAR) instrument is carried by ESA's ENVISAT satellite launched on 1 March 2002. ... Swath . ... Spatial Resolution...

A vertical solar telescope feeds a white-light image of the Sun into the undergraduate astronomy laboratory. The coelestat mirror system shown here tracks the daily motion of the Sun and directs light downward into the telescope supported from the ceiling of the astronomy lab. ... Conditions in the ionosphere responsible for the strength of the signal are very sensitive to X-ray flux from solar flares and sudden x-ray emitting events outside the solar system, and rapidly alter the received signal. ...

... XIX IAO . Optical Design . ... Telescope Type . ... Focal Length . ... Focal Ratio . ... Focal Length of Eyepiece 1 (mm) . ... Magnification of Eyepiece 1 . ... Highest Useful Magnification . ... Lowest Useful Magnification . ... Optical Coatings . ... Optical Tube Length . ... Total Telescope Kit Weight . ... Dr. Michael G. Gavrilov, Founding Chairman of the International Astronomy Olympiad, . ...