... Astrophysics Group . ... STFC announces бе119 million contribution to The Square Kilometre Array . ... SKA AAVS0 array . ... One of these is the Square Kilometre Array telescope . ... STFC has as well announced today a contribution of бе165 million to theб European Spallation Source and бе25 millionб to participate in the M3 Space Mission (PLATO).б  Speaking ahead of an event at Jodrell Bank Observatory Science Minister David Willetts announced the funding for the two projects. ...

... 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. ...

Science Support Status Maria Santos-Lleo EPIC calibration meeting, ESAC 9 April 2015 Overview XMM-Newton Mission extension approved for 2 more years Team moves are now frequent, thank you to those who left (excellent contribution appreciated!) and welcome to new, very motivated people! ... EPIC calibration | 9 April 2015 | Pag. ... A O 15 · Call for proposals 25 August ­ 9 October (12:00 UT) 2015 · OTAC results mid Dec 2015 · Phase II: 12 Jan ­ 5 Feb 2016 Science Operations | ...

I'm glad you're interested in collaborating on the ConcepTests for Astronomy WWW database project! ... Paul . ... a) high luminosity, high temperature to low luminosity, low temperature . b) high luminosity, low temperature to low luminosity, low temperature . c) high luminosity, low temperature to low luminosity, high temperature . d) high luminosity, high temperature to low luminosity high temperature. ... Back to Paul Green's Peer Instruction page. ... Back to Paul Green's HomePage . ...

... 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/ . ...

Next: The ESO VLT CCD Detectors Software . ... Up: Instrument-Specific Software . ... The framework for data calibration and analysis of the VLT instrumentation is presented, based on the concepts of a calibration plan, pipeline calibration, quality control, and archiving of calibrated data for a ground-based observatory. ... Quality Control Pipeline provides quality assessment for instrument performance data and observing conditions, and tests the results of the Reduction Pipeline. ...

... A song written by Padi Boyd and performed by The Chromatics, specifically for the International Year of Astronomy. ... 16 December 2008, NUI Galway: Dr. Martin Mansergh TD, Minister of State at the Department of Finance with special responsibility for the Office of Public Works today announced broadcast details of this yearтАЩs Winter Solstice at Newgrange, County Meath. ... The International Year of Astronomy 2009 is an initiative of the International Astronomical Union and UNESCO. ...

... Detailed procedures and reports are posted on the internal QC Operations Web page (www.eso.org/~qc/groupIndex.html). ... Customers are: o PSO For all supported instrument modes, create and certify master calibration data, for following customers: o external user community (through the Archive calSelector service) o PSO (on-line pipeline system), quality feedback o QC group (for IDP projects) Collect, analyze, and report instrument QC1 parameters. ...

... HST . JWST . ... The entire 2010 HST Calibration Workshop Proceedings (PDF, 104MB) can be downloaded here. ... The Legacy of the Hubble Space Telescope Spectrographs . ... The On-Orbit Performance of the Cosmic Origins Spectrograph . ... Performance of the Space Telescope Imaging Spectrograph after SM4 . ... The NICMOS Legacy Archival Calibration Project . ... Calibration of the HST NICMOS F110W Using High Redshift Red-Sequence Galaxies. ... New Scientific Capabilities of the HST WFC3 . ...

... One of the major activities going on at my Mira observatory at Sava, Italy, is to record deep sky CCD images for a personal atlas I'm currently working on. ... Images are made using a SpectraSource CCD HPC 1 camera equipped with a Texas Instrument TC215 chip, 1024 square, 12 micron pixels size, at 16 bit. ... After a 40sec exposure, the PC monitor showed a faint glow just above the camera termal noise. ... The image showed clearly a star in the galaxy core, of magnitude 14.5, some 50sec. ...

The IAA RAS . ... Quasar network . ... PresidentтАЩs award for dedication and diligence in their work and exceptional contributions to the construction of the "Svetloye" observatory of the "Quasar" VLBI complex. ... PresidentтАЩs award for exceptional contribution into the development of the "Quasar" - VLBI network. ... Karachay€нCherkess Republic PresidentтАЩs Letter to the team of scientists, engineers and workers that worked on the construction of the "Quasar" VLBI network. 24th April, 2005 . ...

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... Maxim Mokrousov and Anton Sanin for development of unique space neutron detector LEND and for new results of Moon studies by this instrument The President of Russian Federation Dmitry Anatolyevich MEDVEDEV has signed the decree on February 7, 2011, which awards the President Prize of 2010 for young scientists for achievements in science and innovations to Drs. ... This laboratory studies space and celestial bodies of solar system by experiments onboard spacecrafts using the methods of nuclear...

Hallerstrasse 6 · CH-3012 Bern · Switzerland ISSI Call for Proposals 2015 for Johannes Geiss Fellowship The International Space Science Institute is an Institute of Advanced Studies located in Switzerland. ... Purpose ISSI has approved the introduction of the Johannes Geiss Fellowships (JGF). ... ISSI has a visitor programme, funds post-doctoral fellows, and encourages the participation of young scientists in the International Teams. ... Financial support requested from ISSI. ...

... Jim Janesick of PixelVision Inc.'s Advanced Sensors Division, in collaboration with Taner Dosluoglu and the Advanced Development Group at Scientific Imaging Technologies, Inc., designed the PlutoCCD and Adapt series of CCDs. ... The low light level comparisons and images of image intensified and back-illuminated CCD sensors reported in Section 7.0 were performed by John L. Miller and Jim Byars of FLIR Systems, Inc., and Lt. ... This document was edited by Stacey Easterbrooks, PixelVision, Inc. ...

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... He made observations of a supernova (literally: nova= "new star") in 1572 (we now know that a supernova is an exploding star, not a new star). ... Brahe's meticulous observations showed that the supernova did not change positions with respect to the other stars (no parallax). ... This was early evidence against the immutable nature of the heavens, although Brahe did not interpret the absence of parallax for stars correctly, as we discuss below. Brahe made careful observations of a comet in 1577. ...

MSSSO Annual Report 1997 . ... The Duffield Heliostat was designed and constructed for the Stromlo Exploratory, and forms the central feature within the building. It produces a stationary, high-quality image of the sun, which is one of the major exhibits in the Exploratory, and was installed in time for the opening ceremony on July 26, 1997(Fig. ... The tracker module of the Heliostat is located at the top of the pier in the central area of the building, under a roll-off roof. ...

... Ce projet est une contribution l' tude des syst mes complexes, domaine mergent est vaste par nature inter-disciplinaire. Nous proposons de travailler sur une partie restreinte et cibl e sur les contributions que l'informatique th orique moderne peut apporter ce domaine. ... Les r sultats que nous attendons de ce projet sont avant tout de nature intellectuelle: nous souhaitons comprendre finement les syst mes complexes dans notre discipline, pour pouvoir ensuite collaborer avec d'autres. ...

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