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 . ...

Astronotes Armagh Planetarium's Stellar Blog! ... Meteors and Meteorites . ... Stars . ... Monthly Sky Notes . ... This famous depiction of the Leonids was based on a first hand account of a meteor storm by a minister, Joseph Harvey Waggoner. ... In the autumn the Great Square of Pegasus is visible in the southern night sky. ... I hope this guide to the November night sky is helpful and have fun star sight-seeing! ... Tweets that mention The Leonid meteors: highlights of the November night sky | ...

... Telescope concept . ... The Submillimetron Project is dedicated to astronomical studies at the submillimeter and far infrared wavelengths using a cryogenic telescope located on the Russian segment of the International Space Station (ISS). The Astro Space Center of the Lebedev Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences is responsible for developing the Submillimetron Project. ... Currently, the Astro Space Center is carrying out a pre-Project study under contract with the Russian Space Agency. ...

... 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. ...

... Astrophysics Group . ... MRAO Telescopes . ... A radio telescope consists of one or more directional receiving aerials connected to very sensitive amplifiers. Since radio wavelengths range from millimetres to about 10 metres, the actual form of the aerials can vary greatly; many are parabolic dishes with very precise surfaces, while others, like the Cambridge Low-Frequency Synthesis Telescope (right), are similar to television aerials. ... Information provided by webmaster@mrao.cam.ac.uk . ...

... Observations of GRB afterglows with Russian-Turkish 1.5-m Telescope (RTT150) . ... The error box of GRB 051028 (Hurley et al., 4172) was observed with Russian-Turkish 1.5-m telescope (RTT150, Bakyrlytepe, TUBITAK National Observatory, Turkey) in R, on Oct. ... We made 10x30s exposures of the field, which includes X-ray afterglow, found later with XRT (Page et al., GCN 4205). We confirm the presence of the optical transient found by Jelinek et al. GCN 4175) and Sahu et al. ...

. This is a new popup window - close it when you are done . Submitted by Paul Benni on 06/07/2013 22:08:59 . NGC1501 PN . C11 Edge HD at f/10 on a hypertuned CGEM mount, targeting bright small planetary nebulas during sood seeing nights. Setup included an OAG5 off-axis guider and a ST-8300C camera. 3 minute exposures. Logon to post a follow-up comment or review comments from others . Copyright (c) Amateur Telescope Makers of Boston, Inc. About Us Contact Us

... Since 2011 our observatory is a member of GLORIA (GLObal Robotic telescopes Intelligent Array for e-Science) project - wide international collaboration of 13 scientific institutions from 8 countries aiming at opening public access to robotic telescopes, as well as propagating astronomy in general. The GLORIA Project offers Internet users the possibility of studying the sky from professional observatories. ... The experiments are available at the users site of GLORIA. ... About GLORIA . ...

Your First Telescope . Articles | ... Next to "What telescope should I buy?" this is the most common question I usually get asked. ... What you can see depends on a lot of factors, including the type of telescope you bought, the quality of your local seeing conditions, and your level of skill. ... As a result, an experienced observer might enjoy deep sky objects in an 80 mm refractor, while a beginner with a light bucket next door is still struggling to find the Orion Nebula. ...

... The collecting area is increased by nesting concentric mirror pairs, all having the same focal length. ... Figure shows the largest optical element being ground at HDOS. ... X-ray testing demonstrated that the CXO mirrors are indeed the largest high-resolution X-ray optics ever made; the nominal effective area (based on the ground calibrations) is shown as a function of energy in the left panel of Figure , along with those of their Einstein and ROSAT predecessors. ...

... Therefore, the observatory supports educational events, occured in the SAO, including astronomical and astrophysical schools, lectures and excursions at the SAO's telescopes. ... Thursday 9-00 Breakfast 9-30 Opening of the School and Astronomical Olimpiad 10-15 Photo of particapants (near the SAO entrance) 10-30 Lecture about Specail Astrophysical observatory. Chentsov E.L. 13-30 Lunch 14-00 Excursion to historical places of Nizhnij Arkhyz 18-00 Dinner 19-00 Acquaintance evening. ...

... Astronomy news . ... Double Engine Fuels Star's Remarkable Nebula . ESO has just released a stunning new image of a field of stars towards the constellation of Carina (the Keel). ... Interactions in this double system, surrounded by a dusty disc, may be the engine fuelling the star s remarkable nebula. The new image, showing a very rich field of stars towards the Carina arm of the Milky Way, is centred on the star HD 87643, a member of the exotic class of B[e] stars [1]. ...

Next: The Computer Hardware Up: The Care and Previous: Introduction . ... The weather is not as bad as one might expect, base on statistics from 1991 through 1993 one can expect about 120 usable nights a year with about thirty of those being totally cloudless. ... This, along with the fact that the telescope drive motor is misgeared, made it difficult for the telescope to collect research data. ... The dome houses a 14" Celestron Schmidt-Cassegrain telescope that was installed in 1981. ...

... Discussions about options for introducing polarizing optics to the high resolution spectrometer NES, recently developed at the 6m telescope by V.Panchuk, have also been held. ... A strong double-peaked emission in the H-alpha line was found in 1985 and explained in terms of a rotating equatorial disk model, first proposed by Jones et al. (1993) for this object. ... Based on high resolution optical spectra we obtained in 1995, the effective temperature Teff=8500K has been estimated for IRC+10420. ...

. Subaru Telescope's near-infrared image of the protoplanetary disk around the young star J 1604. A black circular mask covers the bright, saturated light from the central star. The gauges for distance are in astronomical units and arcseconds. Prominent features include the hole (white dotted line) in the disk; the arm extending over the hole (on the right); and the asymmetric dip (on the left). // Graduate Univ. for Advanced Studies and the National Astronomical Observatory of Japan

Euro-Asian Astronomical Society . ... International Astronomy Olympiad . The First (Experimental) International Astronomy Olympiad was carried out by Euro-Asian Astronomical Society and took place at the Special Astrophysical Observatory of Russian Academy of Sciences (SAO RAS) in North Caucasus on November 1-8, 1996. ... Why is it sometimes better to use a small telescope in orbit around the Earth than it is to use a large telescope on a mountain top? ... Grades 11-12 . ... Russia) . ...

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 McDonald 30-inch Prime Focus camera (f/2.98) uses a thick, front-side illuminated Loral-Fairchild 2048x2048 CCD with a Metachrome II coating. ... Hence, placing a 2048x2048 CCD at the Prime Focus would result in an angular field of view of approximately 1 square degree. ... These kinds of galaxies, previously unknown, represent a new population of objects that has recently been discovered by members of our team (see May 1994 issue of Discover magazine) using wide field CCD imaging techniques. ...

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Contents. planet: 5 - Jupiter satellites: 1101 - S/2011_J1 : 13 1102 - S/2011_J2 : 13 total number: 26 type: absolute dates: 2011-2011 observatory: 304 - Las Campanas Observatory. ... Year of the moment of observation 3. Month of the moment of observation 4. Day of the moment of observation with decimals 5. Hour of right ascension (alpha, h) 6. Minute of right ascension (alpha, m) 7. Second of right ascension (alpha, s) 8. Degree of declination (delta, deg) 9. ...