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 Unit Telescopes Overview - This page is outdated, an update is in process.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 Secondary mirror (M2 Unit) - This page is outdated, an update is in process.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 Coating Unit - This page is outdated, an update is in process.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

... ATNF Home . About ATNF . ... About ATNF overview . ... Australia Telescope Steering Committee . ... Australia Telescope User Committee . ... Murchison Radio-astronomy Observatory . ... Parkes radio telescope . Australia Telescope Compact Array . Mopra radio telescope . ... Australia Telescope Online Archive (ATOA) . ... ATCA | ... Visiting Parkes radio telescope . ... Parkes radio telescope webcam . ... Pictures were performed by цЃngel R. LцЕpez-SцЎnchez & Tobias Westmeier (ATNF/CSIRO) . ...

These few pictures are an update on the progress/completion of selected SDSS projects. ... The collimating telescope (aluminum box on the left) will go back in the clean room for spectrographic work after the camera is back on the telescope. On the small workbench, Jon Brinkmann/APO is testing a power supply from the mosaic camera. A view of the paved and improved access road for the 3.5m enclosure. A view of the paved and improved road for the 2.5m enclosure. ...

CoDR Pictures: March 2000 . CDR Pictures: April 2001 . RSAA Open Day 2001 . Zeroeth Cooldown: August 2001 . Pupil Mirror Array Manufacture: October 2001 . Update: April 2002 . First Cooldown With Mechanisms: May 2002 . Second Cooldown With Optics: October 2002 . ... Manuals * Performance Predictions * Picture Gallery * . Publications * Team Members * Internal Project Links * . Instrumentation Links * Gemini Project Links * Other IR Instruments ...

M1 image More About M1 Nice Color Picture . ... M16 image More About M16 HST image . ... M31 image More About M31 Nice Color Picture . ... M42 image ; M43 image More About M42/43 Nice Color CCD Picture . M51 image More About M51 Color Image of M51 M51 Supernova . M57 image More About M57 Nice Color CCD Picture Very Deep M57 Image . ... M81 image More About M81 M81 Supernova Ultraviolet Image of M81 More about Ultraviolet Imaging . M82 image More About M82 M82 False Color M82 True Color . ...

... 2010 . ... The following images are mosaics obtained on 03 August 2010 at the National Solar Observatory/Dunn Solar Telescope with the Interferometric Bidimensional Spectrometer (IBIS). ... The final images are approximately 238 x 242 arcseconds, or 4 x 4 arcminutes, with a pixel scale of 0.0976 arcseconds per pixel. ... The images show a broad range of typical chromospheric structures, including sunspots, superpenumbra, plage, filaments, and quiet internetwork. ...

... John Butler reports that the HLF-supported programme of restoration of three historic telescopes and their domes has continued throughout the year, and that a growing collection of images showing progress with the Telescopes and Telescope Domes restoration project is available on the Armagh Observatory web-site (see http://star.arm.ac.uk/history/Domes/). ... The new dome for the 18-inch Calver Telescope is now fully operational and awaits the return of the telescope to Armagh later in 2005. ...

... 2001 August 8 . Farewell Jupiter . Credit: Cassini Imaging Team , Cassini Project , NASA . ... The Cassini spacecraft , launched from Earth four years ago, has now swung past Jupiter and should arrive at Saturn in the year 2004. Pictured to the left is a parting shot from Cassini in January that would not have been possible from Earth: Jupiter showing a crescent phase . From the Earth and all points sunward of Jupiter , the gas giant will always appear more fully lit than a crescent . ...

... Comet Hale-Bopp Over New York City . ... It's Comet Hale-Bopp! ... Space suited project Mercury astronauts John H. Glenn, Virgil I. Grissom, and Alan B. Shepard Jr. (left to right) are pictured here posing in front of a Redstone rocket in this vintage 1961 NASA publicity photo. ... The center of nearby giant galaxy M87 is a dense and violent place. ... In its trek through the inner Solar System, Comet Hale-Bopp has passed nearly in front of the Andromeda Galaxy (M31), seen on the lower left. ...

... 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: . ...

... 2014 . GLORIA has succeeded in building up the first large scale robotic telescope network of free access, which will allow any user to provide scientific knowledge. The project, which was initiated in October 2011, makes use of thirteen telescopes: five in Spain, two in Chile, one in Argentina, two in the Czech Republic, one in South Africa and two in Russia. ... A total lunar eclipse will occur on April 15th, 2014, the first in two and half years. ... Last update: 10/11/2014 ...

... Aug 2nd, 2010| 05:21 pm | ... There is an ambitious project afoot to build a 3D map of a meteor stream during the Perseids on Aug 11-12. ... I would be especially interested in your comments on the statistical technique I propose to use in analyzing the data. ... Tags: Announcement , Aug 2010 , August , meteors , modeling , Perseids , spatial-temporal modeling . ... Posted by chasc . ... Tags: 2010 , Announcement , astronomical data , astrostatistics , Aug 2010 , August , Computational , workshop . ...

... Next: An IRAF-Independent Interface Up: Software Systems Previous: A New PROS . ... We present a high-level representation of the packages and tasks within IRAF/PROS. ... We have produced a high-level overview of PROS. ... The incremental stages were the short-term goals: a project overview diagram (i.e., an organizational diagram of software modules); high-level diagram (i.e., a bubble diagram of each module in the system); and unifying element tables (i.e., tables of task vs. software attributes)....

... RSDC . ... Press Releases (rus) || in Russian RSDC Quick Jump 9-year Galactic survey Catalog of sources 7-year Galactic Bulge Map Cleaning IBIS/ISGRI sky images IBIS/ISGRI Sensitivity vs. ... The INTEGRAL view of the Galaxy . ... May 2012: 9-year Galactic plane survey . ... They are ISGRI (higher plane detector of the IBIS telescope), JMX1 and JMX2 - two detectors of the JEM-X telescope. ... RSDC is actively participating in the all-sky survey carrying out with INTEGRAL observatory. ... 2016 IKI RAN...

... SEARCH ASP SITE: Match ALL words Match ANY word . ... Graduate Student Researcher, Lick Observatory, UC Santa Cruz . Randi writes: "When I was in third grade, I didn't know what I wanted to be. ... I decided to become an astronomer because that way I could use electronic instruments and computers to study the natural world." ... Vy writes: "I wanted to be a veternarian as a kid. ... Only later, in high school, did I start thinking that I wanted to be an astronomer." ... search . ...

If you are already familiar with the HDF-S, you may just want to check out what's new . If you are not yet familiar with the project, you may want to start by studying the HDF-S public outreach materials and release pictures , or by reading more about the first HST Deep Field, the HDF (North) . The raw, calibrated and processed HST observations of the Hubble Deep Field South (HDF-S) were released on November 23, 1998. ... HDF-S Clearinghouse. ... Visit the Hubble Deep Field South main page . ...

... SAI CAS . ... Catalog Access Services . ... This site is about the Virtual Observatory project at the Sternberg Astronomical Institute, Moscow University ( SAI MSU ). We provide a public access to the growing set of astronomical services developed by the SAI RVO development team in accordance with the Virtual Observatory standards. ... We provide access (programmatic and interactive) to the all major and biggest astronomical catalogs (about 4 billions objects total) as well as other web-services. ...

... PRIME CREW . ... On February 14, 1995 he was assigned to the second crew (PC-20) under the EuroMir-95 program and from February 20 to August 1995 he passed training as a flight engineer, together with G. Manakov and from April 1– with C.Fuglesang (ESA, Sweden). ... On February 3, 1999 by decision of RSA Board he was removed from the ISS crews and assigned as a flight engineer of the back-up crew (PC-28) and the prime crew (PC-29) for the Mir Orbital Station, together with S. Sharipov. ...

... I used Ѕ inch thick Appleply plywood throughout. ... The mirror box is a little unusual. ... The original design uses a fiberglass tube to connect the mirror base plate to the top ring to form the mirror box. ... I decided to build the mirror box like a standard secondary cage instead, using aluminum tubes with push-in inserts. ... All three tubes are retained at the mirror box and the secondary ring using nine, 1-inch thick Appleply clamps, three at the secondary and six on the mirror box. ...

... Sitting (left to right): Yu.S.Ilyashenko, academician V.I.Arnold, A.B.Sossinsky, N.N.Konstantinov, T.Galkina, V.P.Pavlov, S.K.Lando, academician Ya.G.Sinai, academician D.V.Anosov. ... Left to right: S.S.Anisov, graduate student of the IUM; Yu.S.Ilyashenko, president of the IUM; S.M.Gussein-Zade, professor at MSU and IUM, member of the board of trustees. ... Academicians V.I.Arnold (chairman of the board of trustees, to the left) and S.P.Novikov. ...