... ESO is building what will be the World's largest optical telescope array, The Very Large Telescope (VLT). The VLT Project organisation is responsible for the design and construction of the Unit Telescopes, including enclosures, optics, adapter-rotators and coating unit. ... Unit Telescopes Overview - This page is outdated, an update is in process. ... Secondary mirror (M2 Unit) - This page is outdated, an update is in process. ... Coating Unit - This page is outdated, an update is in process. ...

... Mokhovaya st., 11, Moscow, 103907, Russia. ... Proceedings of the 6th IEEE International Specialist Workshop on Nonlinear Dynamics of Electronic Systems, Budapest, Hungary, 16-18 July, 1998 , pp. ... The method for synchronization of drive-response systems on conditions of a large mismatch of parameters is considered on example of the system based on modified Chua's circuit. The approach to information transmission using such method is proposed. ...

... Events . ... COSMOS 2009 - Ireland's Spring Star Party . The Irish Node for the International Year of Astronomy is announcing that this year St PatrickтАЩs Festival celebrations in all major cities in Ireland are endorsing an astronomy theme. In Dublin , this yearтАЩs theme for the festival Parade is тАШ The SkyтАЩs the Limit! тАЩ . ... Monday, 16 March 2009 00:49 . International Year of Astronomy, Ireland National Node . ...

... ATNF Home . ... About ATNF overview . ... Australia Telescope Steering Committee . ... Australian Square Kilometre Array Pathfinder . Murchison Radio-astronomy Observatory . ... Parkes radio telescope . Australia Telescope Compact Array . ... Visiting Parkes radio telescope . Visiting Australia Telescope Compact Array . ... The Large Southern Array (LSA) is a European project involving the construction of a new-generation, Southern Hemisphere, millimetre-wave synthesis telescope. ...

... Samara region . SSAU History . ... An alignment meeting on data mining, storage and processing of very large data amounts on the basis of hardware and software complex Big Data took place in Samara State Aerospace University. ... The laboratory for processing of very large data amounts on the basis of the hardware and software complex was made in the University and the necessary equipment was purchased. ... Data processing requires powerful processors and advanced computer programs. ... Big Data. ...

... A Large Space Station Over Earth . ... 14.04.2010 . ... Credit: STS-131 Crew, Expedition 23 Crew, NASA Explanation: The International Space Station is the largest object ever constructed by humans in space. ... The station is so large that it could not be launched all at once -- it is being built piecemeal with large sections added continually by flights of the Space Shuttle . ... Publications with keywords: ISS - Earth . Publications with words: ISS - Earth . ... The Planet and the Radio Dish . ...

... Telescopes . ... The International Conference "Dark Ages and White Nights (Spectroscopy of the CMB)" (June 20-24, 2016) . ... The International Conference "Stars: from collapse to collapse" (October 3-7, 2016) . The traditional annual competition conference of scientific and scientific-engineering papers of the Observatory staff members . ... A session of the Dissertation Council (October 16, 2015) . ... International scientific conference "Large Optical Telescopes" (October, 10-13, 2011) . ...

... Today this year's largest group of sunspots will cross the Sun's central meridian. ... The next day, the number of spots in the group reached five, and the day after, on June 2nd, it was possible to count thirteen sunspots on solar disk, which had been clear prior to this. ... This year's two most powerful active areas, which passed across the solar disk at the beginning of May, 2009, are set to appear in the Sun's eastern sector in two days, on June 6th. ...

... 2010 April 14 . A Large Space Station Over Earth . Credit: STS-131 Crew, Expedition 23 Crew, NASA . Explanation: The International Space Station is the largest object ever constructed by humans in space. ... The station is so large that it could not be launched all at once -- it is being built piecemeal with large sections added continually by flights of the Space Shuttle . ... On the far right, a crescent Earth slices through the blackness of space. ... About APOD | ...

... Creation of Space transportation system on the base of large length rope utilization . ... A given address contains the proposal to equip the International Space Station with the long rope and to create on that base a Space transportation system. ... A given system has the multifunctional purpose. ... The rope system could be the base for creating of alternative system of station angular orientation. To utilize the rope system to launch small satellites from the station and to return them back. ...

Regular fees (report and application adopted before the regular deadlines): . Team fee: 450.– Euro/team . ... Euro/person . ... Small delays in reports or applications: fees are 2-5% larger. ... Supplement fee for extra days (before 12:00 of November 8 th or after 12:00 of November 16 th ): . ... Euro/person/day . ... The fees are to be paid cash the first day of accommodation. Dr. Michael G. Gavrilov, Founding Chairman and Coordinator of the International Astronomy Olympiad (IAO) . ...

. Note: This material is from a 1994(!) Talk about CCDs - the physics remains the same, only the detector size has increased since then. ___________________________________________________________________ The Electronic Universe Project e-mail: nuts@moo.uoregon.edu