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. ...

... Club By-laws . ... Other Club Activities . ... Public Nights . ... Dr. James Green, NASA, Director Planetary Science will be our esteemed speaker on Tuesday, April 12, 2016 at 7:30 PM in Peyton Hall on the Princeton University campus. ... Our astronomers setup telescopes for public use at Communiversity in Princeton, Super Science Saturday at the NJ State Museum in Trenton and at various public events around Mercer County. ... Amateur Astronomers Association of Princeton, Inc., ...

... Future seminars . P a s t seminars . Seminar council . Optical afterglow of GRB030329: first results and new approaches to observations " . A. Pozanenko (IKI), V.Rumyantsev (CrAO), M. Ibrahimov (UBAI), S.Bondar' (Kosmoten), G.Beskin (SAO) on behalf of large collaboration . ... Despite a successful GRB030329 afterglow observation, the problem of a search GRB optical counterpart (Optical Transient in place of GRB) still remains. ...

Main Astronomical Observatory of NASU (GAO NASU, Kyiv, Ukraine) . ... Main Astronomical Observatory of RAS (GAO RAS, Pulkovo, Russia) . ... Institute of Astronomy of RAS (INASAN, Moscow, Russia) . Institute of Space Investigations of RAS (ISI, Moscow, Russia) . ... Institute of Applied Astronomy of RAS (IAA, St.Petersburg, Russia) . ... National Optical Astronomical Observatories (NOAO, USA) . ... Space Telescope Science Institute (STScT, USA) . ... Strasburg Centre of Astronomical Data . ...

. VLBI Laboratory . VLBI topics: . AGN . Quasars . polarisation mapping . maser sources (OH, H 2 O, SiO) . interstellar scattering . radio supernova remnants in extragalaxies . intraday variability . space VLBI . Other fields: . methods and equipment of VLBI . interferometry observations . Pushchino VLBI station : . coordinates: . telescope RT-22(in Russian) . technical data . site of RT22(in Russian) . Webmaster Subaev I.A. Last update 23.Jule.2002.

... Visible and Infrared Survey Telescope for Astronomy: Progress Report" . ... The VISTA Project: a review of its progress and lessons learned developing the current programme , McPherson, Emerson, Born & Sutherland, in Ground-based Telescopes, eds Oschmann & Tarenghi, Proc of SPIE, 5489, 638, 2004 . Visible and Infrared Survey Telescope for Astronomy: overview Emerson and Sutherland, in Survey and Other Telescope technologies and Discoveries, eds Tyson & Wolff, Proc of SPIE, 4836, 35, 2003 . ...

... 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. ...

... 2008 . ... 2006 . ... Сегодня: 10 апреля 2016 г. Специалисты из European Southern Observatory утвердили план, согласно которому через три года европейскими учеными начнется сооружение гигантского оптического/инфракрасного телескопа European Extremely Large Telescope. ... Он даст наземной астрономии новые, до этого невиданные, возможности. ... Первое зеркало телескопа будет состоять из 906 шестиугольных сегментов, каждый размером в 1,45 метров. ... Решение по этому вопросу будет принято к 2008 году. ...

National Aeronautics and Space Administration . ... Bruce McCandless II (Captain, USN, Ret.) NASA Astronaut (former) . ... He was a member of the astronaut support crew for the Apollo 14 mission and was backup pilot for the first manned Skylab mission (SL-1/SL-2). ... A veteran of two space flights, McCandless has logged over 312 hours in space, including 4 hours of MMU flight time. ... With the completion of this flight McCandless logged 191 hours in space (including 4 hours of MMU flight time). ...

. ESO Telescopes (La Silla Observatory, Paranal Observatory, Space Telescope - ECF) . Fourmilab Switzerland - A variety of documents, images, software for various machines, and interactive Web resources are available here. INSTITUT DE MECANIQUE CELESTE . Stockholm Observatory , GRB99 Photo-Gallery , Free Time . Swedish 1-m Solar telescope . WARSAW UNIVERSITY ASTRONOMICAL OBSERVATORY . Department of Meteorology and Geophysics, Innsbruck University, Austria .

... Recherche dans le site : . Ciel Espace, le magazine qui vous guide toujours plus loin . ... des actualit†йs . des reportages . ... des pages consacr†йes †а la publication de vos photos Mais c'est aussi une vraie communaut†й avec laquelle partager votre passion et nourrir votre curiosit†й. Accueil Le Very Large Telescope film†й en 3D . ... Un film †а regarder avec des lunettes 3D, comme celles fournies avec le n€ђ486 de Ciel & Espace sp†йcial relief (en kiosque jusqu'au 22 d†йcembre). ...

... Логотип миссии GLAST . ... Объектами наблюдения Fermi являются: активные ядра галактик, черные дыры, нейтронные звезды, пульсары, микроквазары, космические лучи и остатки сверхновых, галактика Млечный путь, наша Солнечная система, ранняя Вселенная, темная материя и другие высокоэнергетические источники. ... Не исключено, что именно данные с GLAST сыграют ключевую роль в разгадке тайны темной материи. ... Deep Space 1 . ... GLAST (Gamma-ray Large Area Space Telescope) . ... Союз (космический корабль)...

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... SAI CAS . ... Catalog Access Services . ... This site is about the Virtual Observatory project at the Sternberg Astronomical Institute, Moscow University ( SAI MSU ). We provide a public access to the growing set of astronomical services developed by the SAI RVO development team in accordance with the Virtual Observatory standards. ... We provide access (programmatic and interactive) to the all major and biggest astronomical catalogs (about 4 billions objects total) as well as other web-services. ...

Album : asv-album :: Travels to distant places and countries :: 1998/06 Nauchny, Katsively (Crimea, Ukraine) ::В Научном . ... On the Observatory park alleys. ... In the Observatory park . ... On the road from SAI Crimean Division to Crimean Astrophysical Observatory. View to the Selpukhra direction . Side entrance to SAI Crimean Division . ... Sergey Shoumko, near the front of Crimean Observatory main building . ... A view to observatory from the nearby hill . ...

... Contacting and discussing with people sharing your interests, participating in night sky observations with telescopes as well as a large choice of astronomical books, magazines and video-tapes out of our club library. ... A reasonable compromise for observing both planets and brightest deep sky objects ( nebulae, galaxies) are either a 4 to 8 inch mirror telescope ( Newton, Schmidt-Cassegrain ) or a 3 to 4 inch refracting ( lens) telescope. ... Where can I buy a telescope in Luxembourg ? ...

To see a Russian version of this page, click here . ... Graduated from Moscow State University (MSU), Faculty of Physics in 1976. Ph.D. degree - 1988, MSU. Main field of scientific activities: photometric investigations of various stars, close binary stellar systems and other astronomical objects, including research with use of fast photoelectric photometry with a high time resolution till 1 millisecond. ... New portable photometer . ... Send your mail to: tem@sai.msu.ru ...