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 Unit Telescopes Overview - This page is outdated, an update is in process.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 Secondary mirror (M2 Unit) - This page is outdated, an update is in process.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 Coating Unit - This page is outdated, an update is in process.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

... These include: South Africa (the SAAO and the South African National Research Foundation, under the auspices of the South African Department of Arts, Culture, Science and Technology); Poland (the Nicolaus Copernicus Astronomical Centre of the Polish Academy of Sciences); the USA (the Hobby-Eberly Telescope Founding Institutions [the University of Texas at Austin and Pennsylvania State University ], Rutgers University the State University of ...

... 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. ...

... Use of the AO is available on an equal, competitive basis to all scientists from throughout the world to pursue research in radio astronomy, radar astronomy and atmospheric sciences. ... Table: Basic Information on the AO Site and the 305-m Telescope . ... Those requiring more details of the instruments available for such studies are directed to http://www.naic.edu/~pradar/pradar.htm for planetary radar studies, and http://www.naic.edu/aisr/sas/sashomeframe.html for atmospheric physics. ...

Euro-Asian Astronomical Society . ... International Astronomy Olympiad . The First (Experimental) International Astronomy Olympiad was carried out by Euro-Asian Astronomical Society and took place at the Special Astrophysical Observatory of Russian Academy of Sciences (SAO RAS) in North Caucasus on November 1-8, 1996. ... Why is it sometimes better to use a small telescope in orbit around the Earth than it is to use a large telescope on a mountain top? ... Grades 11-12 . ... Russia) . ...

... Applying the Lessons Learned from HST Operations to New Missions" , presented at SPIE's International Symposium Astronomical Telescopes and Instrumentation . ... Portable Astronomical Scheduling Tools" presented at the ADASS V Conference . A System for Long-Term Scheduling of Ground-Based Observatories" ( html , postscript ) presented at the Conference on New Observing Modes My technical papers, as well as those by STScI colleagues are available on-line. ... Spike planning and scheduling system . ...

... 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. ...

... Current APO Weather . ... Search Site . ... Information for New Users . ... Technical Staff pages . Night Logs and Mailing Lists (maintained by APO) . ... Technical Documents and Database Search . ... Observer's Documentation and Procedures . ... Problem Reporting and APO Technical Documents Database Search . ... APO Drawing/Document Management Procedures . ... APO Technical Documents Database Search . Home Astrophysical Research Consortium . ... Mail Lists (maintained by APO) . ...

... Mt Stromlo will resume its mantle as the home of Australian astronomy through the planned redevelopment, which includes the placement of two telescopes on Mount Stromlo and one at the ANU Siding Spring Observatory near Coonabarabran, reconstruction of heritage buildings and enhanced viewing facilities for the public, including a new virtual reality theatre. ... Mt Stromlo is not just an icon of Australian science, it is the workplace of number of the world?s leading researchers,? ...

... February 2016 Monthly Meeting - The World At Night (TWAN) . Babak Tafreshi   . Thursday, Feb 11, 2016 at 8:00 PM . This month, we are pleased to welcome Babak Tafreshi, founder and director of The World At Night (TWAN) . ... He is the founder and director of The World At Night (TWAN), a board member of Astronomers Without Borders, a contributing photographer at Sky magazine and the European Southern Observatory. ... 2016 . ... Copyright (c) Amateur Telescope Makers of Boston, Inc. ...

... 2009 April 3 . Around the World in 80 Telescopes . Illustration Credit Copyright: ESO / 100 Hours of Astronomy . ... Today you can, by watching Around the World in 80 Telescopes . ... The Gemini North Telescope (Hawaii, USA) and the large observatories at the summit of volcanic Mauna Kea are scheduled for the first stops in the program beginning April 3 at 09:00 UT . ... About APOD | ... NASA Official: Phillip Newman Specific rights apply . NASA Web Privacy Policy and Important Notices . ...

... The study of magnetic fields is one of the major observational programs running on the 6-m BTA telescope of the SAO RAS. For over 40 years the tools for magnetic measurements were developed and modernized by the Laboratory of Stellar Magnetism Studies, they also perform the observations on the 6-m telescope . ... Traditionally our conferences consider a wide range of problems concerning the physics and evolution of magnetic stars of different types. ... Conference-2014 . First Announcement . ...

Astronomy Picture of the Day . APOD: 2009 April 6 The International Space Station Expands Again . ... In a recently completed mission, the Space Shuttle orbiter Discovery visited the ISS and added components that included a new truss and new solar panels. Star Party on Planet Earth . ... The planetwide star party is part of 100 Hours of Astronomy (100HA), a project of the International Year of Astronomy 2009. ... 100 Hours of Astronomy Begins . ... First, a new truss was added. ... April . ...

... 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. ...

... 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 . ...

... 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). ... This page shows a list of all images tagged with "donors". [link] 1660-ish Portrait of John Winthrop the Younger (1608-1676) . ... That image is a painting of John Winthrop the Elder's great-great grandson, or the great grandson of this John Winthrop. ... Earliest source: "Thomas Hollis (1659тАУ1731)." ... link] 1891 . ...

Winer Observatory P.O. Box 797, Sonoita, Arizona 85637-0797, USA . ... Fees . ... 2/3-m Telescope . ... Irvin M. Winer . ... Site . ... Telescope Aperture / Mount . ... 20,000 . ... Meade 20-inch MAX on MAX Mount . ... Housing in our automatic observatory at our site near Sonoita, Arizona . ... Telescope (you provide the telescope, mount, control computer, cables, etc.) ... Long distance telephone charges for calls initiated by your computer or staff on Winer telephones . ... 2013 Winer Observatory. ...

... Conference Photograph . ... This volume contains the papers presented at the sixth annual conference on Astronomical Data Analysis Software and Systems (ADASS VI), which was held at the Omni Charlottesville Hotel in Charlottesville, Virginia, 22-26 September 1996, hosted by the National Radio Astronomy Observatory (NRAO). ... Astronomical Data Analysis Software and Systems VII 1998, ASP Conf. ... Astronomical Data Analysis Software and Systems V 1996, ASP Conf. ...

... Bad Astronomy . ... Mad Science . ... Site Info . ... Public Talks . ... Keep Bad Astronomy close to your heart, and help make me filthy rich. ... Who is this guy who calls himself "The Bad Astronomer?" ... First, yes, I am a real live astronomer (when people ask me what astronomers do, I tell them "They astronom !" ... These are emitted by powerful objects like black holes, exploding stars, and super-dense neutrons stars. ... Finally, am I really a bad astronomer? ... 2008 Phil Plait. ...

The activities of the group started at the end of 70's with the building of FIRT: the photometer of the National Infrared Telescope ( TIRGO ). The group has also developed a large amount of software and procedures in order to define all the relevant parameters of the systems. ... See also the local Labir4Giano pages. ... In addition to the development of the above instruments, we also carried some observations in collaboration with the science groups of Arcetry Observatory. ... Giano Local Page . ...