... OASES Photo Book . ... On Monday 26 July 2010 we had a performance of music and dance as part of the opening of the prestigious John Hewitt S ummer School , at the Market Place Theatre, Armagh , introduced by Bill Nolan from the North-South Ministerial Council. ... OASES is an innovative programme in which the Armagh Rhymers and the Armagh Observatory are advancing cross-community and cross-border networking by using science and the arts as a way of bringing people together "under the selfsame sky"....

... Astrophysics Group . ... Opening of Battcock Centre for Experimental Astrophysics . ... SKA AAVS0 array . ... SKA production design with Cambridge Consultants Ltd . ... Astronomy, Astrophysics and Cosmology have historically been among the very strongest scientific disciplines in Cambridge. ... Paul Alexander, Head of the Cavendish Astrophysics Group and Director of the Battcock Centre for Experimental Astrophysics, is the leader of CambridgeБЂ™s involvement in the SKA: . ...

... These Frontier Fields will combine the power of HST with the natural gravitational telescopes of high-magnification clusters of galaxies. ... We are soliciting gravitational lensing maps for the last four Hubble Frontier Fields clusters (MACSJ0717.5+3745, MACSJ1149.5+2223, AbellS1063, and Abell 370) based upon the exceptionally deep HST FF imaging and other new ancillary data. ... For the full set of proposal instructions and requirements, see the FY16 Frontier Fields Lensing Map Call for Proposals....

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 Unit Telescopes Overview - This page is outdated, an update is in process.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 Secondary mirror (M2 Unit) - This page is outdated, an update is in process.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 Coating Unit - This page is outdated, an update is in process.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

... 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. ...

... Open Cluster M8 in the Lagoon . ... Credit Copyright: The Electronic Universe Project Explanation: The large majestic Lagoon Nebula is home for many young stars and hot gas . ... Formed only several million years ago in the nebula is the open cluster known as NGC 6530, whose young stars show their high temperature by their blue glow. The nebula, also known as M8 and NGC 6523, is named " Lagoon " for the band of dust seen to the left of the open cluster's center. ... NGC 7380: The Wizard Nebula . ...

... January 27, 1996 . M8: An Open Cluster in the Lagoon . ... Formed only several million years ago in the nebula is the open cluster known as NGC 6530, whose young stars show their high temperature by their blue glow. The nebula, also known as M 8 and NGC 6523, is named " Lagoon " for the band of dust seen to the left of the open cluster's center. A bright knot of gas and dust in the nebula's center is known as the Hourglass Nebula . ... About APOD | ...

... GSAOI Home . ... Science . ... The goal of this project is to detect the termination of the white dwarf cooling sequence in nearby open star clusters, and hence derive cluster ages that are independent of the normal main sequence turnoff method. ... The potential for accurate proper motion measurements, i.e., measurements of transverse motion across the sky, with GSAOI offers a means of overcoming this difficulty. ...

... Structure of Data . ... Catalog . ... In SAI OCL Catalog, we introduce our work on investigation of the Milky Way system of open star clusters. The main goal of our study is a search for new clusters using huge surveys. 168 new clusters have been already discovered by us using J,H,Ks data from 2MASS point source catalog. ... For 141 new clusters, we found their physical parameters using J,H,Ks data from 2MASS catalog and, for a number of clusters, our UBVRI CCD observational magnitudes. ...

Herschel Open-Time Key Projects . ... Arcetri scientists participate in three Herschel Open-Time (OT) Key Projects: one Galactic, and two extragalactic which regard populations of galaxies in the Local Universe. Hi-Gal: Herschel Infrared Galactic Plane Survey . ... Hi-Gal is mostly focused on the problem of Galactic star formation, although a plethora of evolved stars will be also detected in the survey. ... Key Insights on Nearby Galaxies: a Far-Infrared Survey with Herschel (KINGFISH) . ...

... AstroGrid, a three year, PPARC-funded, e-Science project, which forms the UK's contribution to world-wide efforts to build a Virtual Observatory based on Grid technologies, announces the availability of several new, web-based, collaboration tools. The static pages of the project portal, now located at http://www.astrogrid.org , present background information about the project plus links to core documents and the new collaboration tools. ... European AVO Project: http://www.eso.org/projects/avo/ . ...

... Since 2011 our observatory is a member of GLORIA (GLObal Robotic telescopes Intelligent Array for e-Science) project - wide international collaboration of 13 scientific institutions from 8 countries aiming at opening public access to robotic telescopes, as well as propagating astronomy in general. The GLORIA Project offers Internet users the possibility of studying the sky from professional observatories. ... The experiments are available at the users site of GLORIA. ... About GLORIA . ...

Arecibo Observatory . ... All participants will take part in a Hands-on Project at the single-dish school. Mentored by a member of the NAIC or NRAO staff, each of you will join a team of 3 or 4 participants to perform a short pre-planned research-style observation. ... Hence, while summer clothing is appropriate, a light sweater may be needed for the evenings, and also in the air-conditioned rooms, lecture theater and control room of the Observatory. ...

... Tonight's Sky . ... The Magazine . News . Observing . ... Gravitational wave search provides insights into galaxy evolution and mergers . ... The double star 54 Leonis, spiral galaxy NGC 3198, and emission nebula NGC 3199 . ... Globular cluster NGC 2808, elliptical galaxy NGC 2986, and the Sextans Dwarf . ... Open cluster NGC 2818, spiral galaxy NGC 2964, and spiral galaxy NGC 2976 . ... Receive news, sky-event information, observing tips, and more from Astronomy's weekly email newsletter. ...

Participants about project . ... makes the world a welcoming place. ... we see it shared by those who love it. ... us more aware of our own community when we shared it . with the schools around the world. ... pleased my students chose to share the feelings of . ... Our town cannot grow much as it is like an island with . other communities growning around it. ... diverse, with many Mexican people recently adding to . ... Our town is old and the new City Building looked a bit . ... city. ...

To open a connection to the ftp server on a remote host: ftp> open castor Connected to castor.ucs.ed.ac.uk. 220 castor FTP server (SunOS 4.1) ready. Name (castor:erpl08): erpl08 331 Password required for erpl08. ... This shows the user opening a connection to their account on the remote host "castor". ... To open a connection to an "anonymous ftp" server on a remote host: ftp> open info.cern.ch Connected to nxoc01.cern.ch. 220 nxoc01 FTP server (Version 5.20 (NeXT 1.0) .. ...

... Nijo castle. Assembly opening. Maiko. b34. Nijo castle, Shogun palace. ... Standing in the garden of Nijo castle. c01. ... Trying to decide whether to walk upstairs to the tower or not. ... A view from the tower to castle garden. c08. ... Maiko dance (Assembly opening). c13. Maiko dance (Assembly opening). c14. Maiko dance (Assembly opening). c15. Maiko dance (Assembly opening). c16. Maiko dance (Assembly opening). c17. Maiko dance (Assembly opening). c18. ...

... Запорожский клуб АЛЬТАИР > . Catalogue of 109 new Galactic open clusters, for Cartes du Ciel . ... Cartes du Ciel - Sky Charts . ... Этот каталог является версией части каталога "J/A+A/440/403 109 new Galactic open clusters (Kharchenko+, 2005) ", а именно файла stars.dat, содержащего информацию о 26778 звездах до 14.627m , находящихся в 130 рассеяных скоплениях района Млечного Пути (Galactic Open Cluster). ... We present a list of 130 Galactic Open Clusters, found in the All-Sky . ...

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ABSOLUTE PROPER MOTIONS OF 331 OPEN CLUSTERS . ... The proper motions of stars in the fields of 331 open clusters were taken from Four-Million Star Catalog (4M-catalog) of positions and proper motions (Volchkov et al. ... The absolute proper motions for 21 young open clusters have been derived by comparison of precise relative proper motions of individual stars and their corresponding absolute proper motions. ... Sign of proper motions in RA . ... 0.0001 arcsec/yr . ... rms error in RA proper motion . ...