The VLT Survey Telescope: a year after its coming into operation Massimo Capaccioli Department of Physics, University of Naples Federico II National Institute of Astrophysics - VST center at Naples The VLT Survey Telescope (VST) is a 2.6 m wide field optical telescope located at the Cerro Paranal Observatory of ESO in the Chilean Andes. ... The wide field is sampled by OmegaCam, a camera with a mosaic of 32 CCD for a total of 256 Mpixels, provided by the homonymous consortium. ...

. Карикатуры на астрономические темы . 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 . Карикатуры на тему космонавтики . 1 . Прошу прощения за местами возможно не совсем удачный перевод. Иностранный юмор иногда вызывает скорее грусть, чем смех. :-) .

International School "Frontiers in Numerical Gravitational Astrophysics" . Erice ( Italy ), june 27-july 5, 2008 . ... you and/or your students may be interested in the Course "Frontiers in . Numerical Gravitational Astrophysics" that will be held in Erice (Italy) . ... Univ. of Roma, La Sapienza , Italy . ... Univ. of Texas, Austin, USA . ... FRONTIERS IN NUMERICAL GRAVITATIONAL ASTROPHYSICS| . 2nd Course of the International School on | ... Joshua Barnes (Univ. of Hawaii, USA) . ...

Getting to Moscow from the airport: There are three international airports in Moscow: Sheremet'yevo , Domodedovo , and Vnukovo . All three are connected to Moscow through a high-speed railway, called Aeroexpress , with moderately priced tickets (320 rubles, approx. ... The point of arrival is a rail terminal, which is connected to a subway station: Byelorusskaya for Sheremet'yevo, Paveletskaya for Domodedovo, and Kievskaya for Vnukovo. The map of Moscow Metro (subway) is found in Wikipedia. ...

... 9a. Earth orbits Sun? . ... 10a. Scale of Solar Sys. ... If the mean distance of Earth from the Sun is 1 AU ("Astronomical Unit"), then that of Venus is 0.723 AU, of Mercury 0.387 AU and that of Mars is 1.524 AU. ... By noting (1) where on the Sun's disk is the crossing seen, (2) timing its duration at two far-apart points on Earth, and (3) comparing the times, one can calculate the distance to Venus and from it the scale of the solar system. ... One occurred in 1639--too early. ...

... 2. (a) Metallicity function and relations between (b) metallicity and radial velocity, (c) metallicity and maximum distance from the Galactic plane,and (d)metallicity and variability period for RR Lyrae variables in the initial sample.The curve in the first graph is the maximum-likelihood approximation of the distribution using a sum of two normal curves with the indicated means,dispersions,and total numbers. ... next figure | privious figure . ...

which is a teaching division of the Faculty of Physics of Moscow State University by M.V.Lomonosov. ApSA is situated at Sternberg Astronomical Institute , which is a scientific research institute in Moscow State University. Head - Prof. A.M.Cherepashchuk . ... Moscow 119899 . ... Phone (secretary) . 7 (095) 939 1622 . Phone (head) . 7 (095) 939 2858 . ... 7 (095) 932 8841 . Next current meeting of ApSA staff will be held 18 Apr 2001 in the Conference Hall at 17.00. ...

... Baikonur Cosmodrome Yasny launch base Downloads . ... Town of Baikonur residential area of the Cosmodrome . ... For receipt, temporary storage and standalone processing of payloads (including, if necessary, filling with propellant and compressed gases), as well as for preparation, integration and encapsulation of the Space Head Module (SHM), ISC Kosmotras offers an Assembly, Integration and Test Building (AITB), Fueling Station and office premises located at Site 31 of the Baikonur Cosmodrome. ...

... Банка для соли Elan Gallery "Аромат роз", изготовленная из высококачественной керамики, подойдет не только для соли, но и для сахара, специй и даже меда. ... Длина ложки: 10 см. ' title='Моя девочка' border='0' align='left' width='120' style='margin-right: 20px;' hspace='7' vspace='5'/> Трогательный и простой подарок в виде букета алых роз с мягкой игрушкой, на самом деле идеальное сочетание, для того, чтобы выразить всю глубину своих чувств любимой девушке. ...

... 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. ...

. General Information . Media Files . Participants . Timetable . Local Information . Photos . Back to the album list . Next Click the image to view it in fullsize. Next . Mount Elbrus is an inactive volcano located in the western Caucasus mountain range. Elbrus's highest peak is the highest mountain in all of Europe (5624 meters). View from ASM of SAI. Distance 46 km .

... Exposure Time Calculator (ETC) . Survey processing . ... VISTA is a 4-m class wide field survey telescope for the southern hemisphere, equipped with a near infrared camera (1.65 degree diameter field of view at VISTA's nominal pixel size) containing 67 million pixels of mean size 0.34 arcsec and available broad band filters at Z,Y,J,H,K s and a narrow band filter at 1.18 micron. A wide field visible camera, if constructed, could also be used on VISTA. ... Tile . ... ESO VISTA Public Surveys . ...

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... Размещена статья "Новая карта рельефа Марса" . Размещена статья "Летящие группы Эггена" . ... Выход из этой ситуации - стационарное размещение инструмента в обсерватории, которую чаще всего приходится строить самому. ... Венчает сооружение купол, изготовленный либо из металла, либо досок или пластика, вращающийся на неком рельсе. ... Я решил спроектировать обсерваторию с классическим куполом, в которой можно разместить 0.5 м телескоп и одновременно несколько наблюдателей. ... С.В. Киселев . ...

... One of this year's largest mass ejections from the Sun's atmosphere was recorded last Sunday by TESIS telescopes aboard the CORONAS-PHOTON satellite ( video - wmv 4.3 MB ). ... Over the course of a week, two gigantic solar prominences were simultaneously ejected from the surface of the Sun. ... Earth will not feel the Sun's influence either. ... The TESIS observatory ї TESIS: www.tesis.lebedev.ru . ... One of this year's largest mass ejections from the Sun's atmosphere (movie WMV, 4.3 MB) . ...

... GCN 8471 | ... TITLE: GCN CIRCULAR NUMBER: 8516 SUBJECT: GRB 081102: MASTER refind and final results DATE: 08/11/11 15:50:10 GMT FROM: Vladimir Lipunov at Moscow State U/Krylov Obs E. Gorbovskoy, V. Lipunov, V.Kornilov, A.Belinski, N.Shatskiy, N.Tyurina, D.Kuvshinov, P.Balanutsa Sternberg Astronomical Institute, Moscow State University A. Tlatov, A.Parkhomenko Kislovodsk Solar Station of the Pulkovo Observatory V.Krushinski, I.Zalognikh Ural State GCN Circ 8470, Lipunov et al., ...

. The great Orion nebula. The great Orion nebula is the brightest nebula in the sky. It is seen by the binoculars and with the good eyesight it may be seen by naked eye - a little bit below the three stars, located in one line, forming the Orion belt. The distance to this nebula is about 1000 light years. Back .

... Copyrightї1997 Bob Yen (byen@ix.netcom.com) (http://www.comet-track.com/hb/hb.html) . ... Information on Comet Hale-Bopp for the Non-Astronomer Hale-Bopp rotates about twice a day (3/14/97) . ... The Comet Observation Home Page was been selected to receive the Griffith Observatory Star Award for the week of February 2 - 8, 1997 for excellence in promoting astronomy to the public through the World Wide Web. ... Typically, about 1,000 individual users/computers access this page every day. ...

NMW survey overview . Access image archive . ... The New Milky Way survey aims to detect bright (V<13.5) optical transients near the Galactic plane using an automated wide-field (8x6 deg.) system capable of surveying the whole Milky Way area visible from the observing site in one night. ... All images obtained during the transient search survey are available online (please use the image archive access form ). ... Images per field: . ... Images per night: . ... Milky Way imaging time: . ...