1. Australia Telescope National Facility
... ATNF Home . ... About ATNF overview . ... Australia Telescope Steering Committee . ... Parkes radio telescope . Australia Telescope Compact Array . ... CSIRO, Australia's national science agency, operates a number of world-class radio astronomy observatories that are collectively known as the Australia Telescope National Facility or ATNF. ... CSIRO also manages the Murchison Radio-astronomy Observatory, where the Square Kilometre Array telescope infrastructure in Australia is to be centred. ...
2. ESO - La Silla Science Operations
... Science Users Information > Observing Facilities > La Silla Facilities > La Silla Science Operations . ... La Silla News . ... Internal Pages . La Silla Science Operations Department (LSO) is part of the La Silla Paranal Observatory and is in charge of the operations of the telescopes on La Silla. ... In the La Silla Science Operation pages, you should find all the information you need for your observations from the time you have an idea of observations until when you finish processing your data. ...
3. APO Job Announcements
... New Mexico State University is seeking a technical and computer-oriented person as a Support Astronomer for nighttime astronomical observing at Apache Point Observatory (APO) with the Astrophysical Research Consortium (ARC) 3.5m Telescope. б . ... Paper/email documents will not be accepted. ... TELESCOPE OPERATIONS SPECIALIST . ... Responsibilities include nightly operation of the 3.5m telescope and instruments, Quality monitoring the data streams and system performance and observing efficiency. ...
4. Space Telescope-European Coordinating Facility
... The European HST Archive has been moved to ESA's European Space Astronomy Centre ( ESAC ), Spain, where most of ESA's Space Science Archives are located and operated from. ... The Space Telescope European Coordinating Facility (ST-ECF), jointly operated by ESA and the European Southern Observatory ( ESO ) was, until the end of 2010, the European HST science facility, supporting the European astronomy community in exploiting the research opportunities provided by the Hubble Space Telescope. ...
5. ST-6 Data Collection
... Like the Lynxx and the ST-4, this camera has a preferred orientation with the telescope (see figure 4). ... Before taking images, the camera and the telescope have to be calibrated. ... This is the normal CCD camera image mode. The second method is the track and accumulate mode. In this mode, the camera takes several short images, and then adds them together to give an image that is comparable to the same total time image as taken by the grab function. ...
6. Winer Observatory Command and Control
Winer Observatory P.O. Box 797, Sonoita, Arizona 85637-0797, USA . ... 2/3-m Telescope . ... Site . ... Commanding . ... In a typical robotic observing scenario, each afternoon, a telescope control computer obtains a set of objects to observe from its home institution from a command or script file. ... The file is then transferred to the telescope control computer at the Winer Observatory in Sonoita. ... The Iowa control computer then begins processing the telrun.sls file. ... 2013 Winer Observatory. ...
7. A Checklist of Things to Have Before You Observe
... If you were to observe for proposal number a9999, upon arrival at the Observatory you will be provided with: . ... a project area attached to the observing computer (this is typically called, i.e. /share/obs4/usr/a9999) . ... A Source List (preferably placed in your project area on the observing computer - see below) . Your Spectral Line Set-up Files(s) (.sls & .par) (when generated by the gui, these will automatically be placed in your project area on the observing computer) . ...
8. University of Louisville Research Telescope Photo Gallery
The telescope configured for measurements of exoplanet transit light curves is seen from the north side in this May 2010 photo. Lower portions of the dome have been insulated to reduce daytime heating by radiation from the warm metal dome. ... The interior of the dome is seen soon after the encoder upgrade in February 2007. ... Karen Collins, a research astronomer specializing in exoplanets, helped with the telescope installation in August 2006. ... kielkopf at louisville dot edu . ...
9. Siding Spring Survey Equipment
Originally a manually operated photographic telescope, the Uppsala Southern Schmidt (USS, 0.5 metre corrector plate aperture) has been refurbished and modernised. ... This image of omega Centauri shows the central portion of the field. ... Built in 1956 at the Uppsala Observatory workshop in Sweden, the telescope was first located at Mount Stromlo Observatory near Canberra in 1957. ... The Uppsala Southern Station was relocated to Siding Spring Observatory in 1982. ... Siding Spring Survey Main Page . ...
10. Telescopes - Products
STEP INTO THE BLUE - MEADE INSTRUMENTS PRODUCT GUIDE . ... Telescopes . LX850 Series . ... Superb optical performance coupled with time proven computerized pointing and tracking has made the LX200 ACF series a best-seller in the high-performance telescope class. ... LX70 Series . ... Meade's revolutionary LS LightSwitchтДв series of telescopes use advanced technologies to do what no other consumer telescopes have done before: take all the hassle out of using a telescope. ... LightBridge Series . ...
11. Methods and instruments to measure/monitor major site properties
... The Science Operation Department is composed of Astronomers, Telescope Instruments Operators(TIOs) and Data Handling Administrators(DHAs). ... Astronomers have proposed several methods to quantitatively measure the amount of turbulence above the telescope, which the most common ones is Differential Image Motion Monitor (DIMM). In optical testing, the Hartmann test is the common method to test the quality of optical components. ... Hartmann mask consists of 48 lenses. ...
12. Amateur Telescope Makers of Boston
... Apr 14, 2016 - Monthly Meeting . ... The Amateur Telescope Makers of Boston, Inc. ATMoB) is an astronomy club devoted to telescope making, observing, and studying the heavens. ... CURRENT MOON . ... April Sky . ... Lyrids Meteor Shower . ... Sources: NASA JPL Space Calendar , StarDate Online , Sky Telescope , Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics , RASC Observer’s Handbook , Abrams Planetarium Sky Calendar and Astronomy Magazine . ... Copyright (c) Amateur Telescope Makers of Boston, Inc. ...
13. Zolt Levay, Space Telescope Science Institute
... Hubble Space Telescope News . ... Produce presentation images and illustrations from Hubble Space Telescope observations. ... Member of the Hubble Heritage Team, whose mission is to find and present the most beautiful images from the Hubble Space Telescope. ... Hubble News and Images . Bringing important Hubble science results to the media and the public. ... Space Telescope Science Institute (STScI) . Center of science operations for the Hubble Space Telescope and my place of employment. ...
14. ADASS 2002 Conference Proceedings
... Remote observing has long been a part of the Keck Observatory operating plan. ... Remote observing from the Keck HQ now encompasses over 95% of observing runs at the Keck Observatory. Recently, additional efforts have been made to enable remote observing on the Keck Telescopes from the U.S. mainland. ... In this paper, we present a brief summary of the Keck remote observing efforts from the U.S. mainland, with an emphasis on the system at Caltech, which is the most recent to come on-line. ...
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17. Земля и Вселенная: астрономия, космонавтика, науки о Земле, Космос, телескопы,
... Размещена статья "Новая карта рельефа Марса" . ... К середине 60-х годов прошлого века многотрудные усилия астрономической общественности нашей страны (в то время Советского Союза) увенчались созданием научно-популярного журнала "Земля и Вселенная", ныне являющегося журналом Президиума РАН. ... Все это в известной степени находило отражение на страницах "Земли и Вселенной" - журнала, пропагандирующего достижения отечественной и мировой науки в области астрономии, космонавтики и комплекса наук о...
18. BTA
. This is BTA "indome" main server computer tb.sao.ru . It is local address in SAO's Intranet. But it is visible from Internet through our Web-site proxy as: http://www.sao.ru/tb/ . BTA TSC online Web-pages located here: http://www.sao.ru/tb/tcs/ . BTA WebCameras: . "In-Dome" TV-camera . and it's last images . "Outdor" TV-camera . and it's last images . Also, one can find here some documents: .
19. Iowa Robotic Telescope Facilities
... 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. ...
20. Armagh Observatory
... Armagh Observatory, College Hill, Armagh BT61 9DG, +44 (0)28 3752 2928 . ... Three sixth-form students from St Patrick's Grammar School, Armagh , used the Faulkes Telescope South in Australia in April to observe and measure HW Virginis , an unusual "binary" or double star system suspected to host one or two extrasolar planets orbiting the central stellar pair. ... Armagh Observatory and associated researchers hope to develop this work to look for further evidence of planet-hosting binary star...