... 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 Unit Telescopes Overview - This page is outdated, an update is in process.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 Secondary mirror (M2 Unit) - This page is outdated, an update is in process.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 Coating Unit - This page is outdated, an update is in process. ...

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For calculating model spectra of early-type helium stars in LTE, we maintain a database of atomic data for, mostly, blue-visual absorption lines of light elements. The data is sorted with one file for each ion. ... III = ++ . ... It will work on both complete linelists (including the atomic data at the start and references at the end) or raw ion files (such as Ni2.d). ... A Fortran utility to convert linelists downloaded from the Vienna Atomic Line Database into the new QUB format. synspec_qub . ...

... Bojan Nikolic web pages (r. 329) . ... casata: CASA Tools for Analysis . ... Get the source-code tarball: . ... If you retrieve casata in this way, you and everybody else will lose the information of precisely what revision of casata you did retrieve. ... It is much better to follow the revision control system download instructions posted at Contributing to casata . Using casata (i.e., how to get it without revision control!) ... Copyright 2005 -- 2016, Bojan Nikolic feedback welcome ...

Trace: volinks . start : volinks . ... SAI VO Projects . ... Help on Wiki search . ... IVOA - International Virtual Observatory Alliance . ... Spectral Data Model . ... CDS , CDS Webservices . PLASTIC - PLatform for AStronomical Tool InterConnection is a communication protocol for client-side virtual observatory tools. ... HTM - Hierarchical Triangular Mesh . Q3C - Indexing the sky with PostgreSQL, download from sourceforge. ... VOPlot - a tool for visualizing astronomical data . ...

Next: The Development of Astronomy in Odessa . ... The suggestions and comments on the UDC 52 revision, which has been carried out by George Wilkins during 1995-1998, are presented: . to assign the subclass ``522. ... This subclass could embrace theories of cosmology and observational confirmations of cosmological conclusions, as well as relativistic astrophysics and gravitation theory, high-energy and nuclear astrophysics. ... Wilkins G.A. 1995b, Revision of UDC 52 for Astronomy, ASCII files . ...

Previous: Appendix B: Map of the Document . Appendix C: RMOH revision history . A draft of the RadioAstron Mission Operations Handbook was produced by Misha Popov in Tex format. An analogous document for VSOP mission was used as a template in process of generating it. Current version (June 2000) of the RadioAstron Mission Operations Handbook is proposed as a base for developing the document. Web version of this document was prepared by Vladimir Yakimov on March, 2001. back to top . ...

CONTENTS: rcs man3 libgxx rcs: GNU revision control system. (v. 5.6.0.1) rcs: rcs: RCS, the Revision Control System, manages multiple revisions of files. rcs: rcs: RCS can store, retrieve, log, identify, and merge revisions. ...

... see also previos version 1991 VII/158 A REVISED AND UPDATED CATALOG OF QUASI-STELLAR OBJECTS ================================================================================ HEWITT A., BURBIDGE G.: 1993 Astrophys. ... A standardization of the files and their description was performed at CDS to allow automatic conversions to FITS tables. The paper contains a catalog of all known quasi-stellar objects (QSOs) with measured emission redshifts, and BL Lac objects, complete to 1992 December 31. ...

... We summarize the discussions that took place during the FITS Birds of a Feather (BoF) session, which was held Monday, September 23, 1996 at 16:00. For completeness we also include a summary of the 1995 FITS BoF, which was never published. ... Oral papers by Clarke, Allen, Mink, Mandel, and Wells were presented in a special FITS afternoon session, and posters were presented by Pence, Farris, Tripicco, and Stobie; see the papers by these authors elsewhere in this volume. ... CFITSIO (Pence) . ...

Astronomy Discussion Forums . ... God and Science ћ SETI ћ Software ћ UFO ћ XEphem . ... Percentage Of Stars With Planets Revised Upwards! ... Post Message | ... According to a recent article at Space Daily, stars with high metal content are far more likely to have planets. ... www.astronomy.net . About Astronomy Net | Advertise on Astronomy Net | ... Forum posts are Copyright their authors as specified in the heading above the post. "dbHTML," "AstroGuide," "ASTRONOMY.NET" & "VA.NET" . ...

The 11 th Asian-Pacific Astronomy Olympiad (November 2015) : . ... Only students did not participated at the IAO-2015 may participate in the APAO-2015 (that is a student may participate in the 20 th IAO or in the 11 th APAO but not in both of these Olympiads). ... National representation quota at APAO-2015 is (up to) 8 students and 2 team leaders (the same number is at the Asian Physics Olympiad): not more than 4 participants for the group Alpha, not more than 4 participants for the group Beta. ...

Astronomy Picture of the Day . ... The Sudbury Neutrino Observatory Institute Explanation: The Sudbury Neutrino Observatory (SNO) has been detecting so few neutrinos from the Sun that the Standard Model of fundamental particles in the universe may have to be revised. Pictured above is the SNO as it was being built. ... The most popular model for fundamental particles , known as the Standard Model , did not predict such schizophrenic neutrinos . ... The Sudbury Neutrino Detector . ...

... Scientific research . ... The scientific and other interests of the departments staff are described on their personal pages. ... Senior Researcher . 939-10-29 . ... Leading Researcher . ... Researcher . ... Leading Engineer . ... Head of Department . ... The scientific results of space research of the Moon . Lunar craters named in honor of members of the institute . ... Our address is: . Lunar and Planetary Department . ... Head of Department Shevchenko V.V. Electronic mail address: . ...

An Ancient Universe: How Astronomers Know the Vast Scale of Cosmic Time . ... INTRODUCTION . ... Based on their personal beliefs, they find fault not only with biological evolution, but also with modern astronomical ideas about the age, expansion, and evolution of the universe. ... An Ancient Universe - Table of Contents . ... The Ancient Universe - The Age of the Expanding Universe - The Age of the Oldest Stars - The Age of Light From Distant Galaxies - The Age of the Chemical Elements | ...

... Telescopes . ... CONTENTS . ... OBSERVATORY STRUCTURE * . ... Review of the 6 m telescope operation . ... The program committee of the large telescopes . ... Small telescopes . ... INVESTIGATIONS IN THE OPTICAL SECTOR . Extragalactic astronomy . ... RADIO TELESCOPE RATAN-600 . Review of the radio telescope RATAN-600 operation . ... Radio astronomy techniques . ... RADIO ASTRONOMY INVESTIGATIONS . ... THESES REVIEW . ... in 2004 the Observatory structure was essentially modified . ...

... Created: 22 January 2001 . ... SERVICE AND CALIBRATION MANUAL . ... Draft Document Outline. ... 4 Preparing NIFS for Use or Storage . ... The purpose of this Service and Calibration Manual is describe the procedures used to service, maintain, and calibrate the operation of the Gemini Near-infrared Integral Field Spectrograph. ... Section 19.4.2 of the document “Programmatic Requirements for Gemini Instrumentation Development” states the requirements for the Service and Calibration Manual . ...

Titan . ... Hubble Space Telescope Images of Titan's surface . ... Later that year, it will release the European-built Huygens probe for a descent through Titan's atmosphere. ... This artist's rendering shows the European Space Agency's Huygens probe descending into the atmosphere of Saturn's moon Titan after being released by NASA's Cassini spacecraft. ... This artist's rendering shows the Huygens probe on the surface of Saturn's moon Titan after being released by NASA's Cassini spacecraft. ...

... The current MOS procedure envisages a less complicated correction mechanism than for the PN. ... The CTI correction applies a scalar correction to the event list set, on an event by event basis, in order to correct for loss of charge which has occurred in reading out the CCD array. ... We expect to correct for a fixed amount of charge loss, and a fractional amount of charge loss, which depends on the number of row and column transfers completed. ... http://xmm.vilspa.esa.es/ xmmdoc/MOS/mos_cti.html ...

... This is a personal project collecting and documenting early images of Harvard College Observatory, focusing on the site at Observatory Hill (previously Summer House Hill). ... Alvan Clark Sons . This page shows a list of all images tagged with "Alvan Clark Sons". [link] 1840ish Portrait of Alvan Clark . ... According to Harvard, it was a gift of Mrs. Alvan Clark [which one?] to the Harvard College Observatory in 1899 (Alvan died in 1887, Alvan G. died in 1897). [link] 1877 Map of Cambridge . ...