... Science . ... Science Users Information > Science Publications > Science Announcements . ... Observing with ESO Telescopes . ... Published: 04 Apr 2014 . ... First data releases of the Elais-S1 and CDFS fields have just been made available. ... The zCOSMOS-bright advanced data products are now available via the Science Data Products query form of the ESO Archive . ... The Call for Proposals for observations at ESO telescopes during Period 94 (1 October 2014 - 31 March 2015) has been released. ...

... 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....

... Stellar Evolution is driven entirely by the never ending battle between Pressure and Gravity . As imbalances are reached, the star is driven to find a new Energy source. ... Pressure and gravitational forces are equal, the star is stable and its core is sufficiently hot to fuse Hydrogen into Helium More about main sequence stars . ... The luminosity generated by the core fusion of Helium into Carbon is far greater than the shell luminosity associated with the fusion of Hydrogen into Helium. ...

... About ATNF overview . ... Mopra radio telescope . ... HI observations of southern LSB dwarf galaxies from the Karachentsev catalog . ... In this paper, we report on HI observations of newly detected nearby dwarf galaxies from the first part of the Karachentsev catalog which contains low surface brightness galaxies spotted on the POSSII. We performed HI observations of 220 galaxies using the 100-m radio telescope at Effelsberg, the NanУ?ay radio telescope, and the Australia Telescope Compact Array. ...

... It was an overnight trip that had been planned for several months in advance, a Project ASTRO event that would also include a half-day study of the solar system and observations of the Sun. While viewing the crescent Moon, the students began asking about the craters. ... Do we need to start astronomy education earlier than fifth-grade? ... The ASP's Project ASTRO has prepared a catalog of projects in astronomy education to which anyone can apply or from which anyone can request materials. ...

... Robert L. Stewart (Brigadier General, USA, Ret.) ... SPECIAL HONORS: Awarded Army Distinguished Service Medal , Defense Superior Service Medal , 2 Legion of Merit, 4 Distinguished Flying Crossed, a Bronze Star, a Meritorious Service Medal , 33 Air Medals, the Army Commendation Medal with Oak Leaf Cluster and V Device, 2 Purple Hearts, the National Defense Service Medal , the Armed Forces Expeditionary Recipient of NASA Space Flight Medal (1984 & 1985). ...

Nowadays at the Department the experimental and theoretical investigations, including astronomical and ionospheric observations, active experiments with space vehicles are taking place. ... Solar Corona physics and erruptive phenomenae. ... Stellar astronomy. ... The Department has organized and put into practice more then 50 expeditions for observation of Solar ecllipces, aurorae polaris, comets, meteor streams, controlled space experiments, and also for investigations of geophysical characteristics. ...

... Proposal Type: General Category: Sub-Category: Observation Category: Total Time Requested: Minimum Useful Time: Expected Data Storage: Prop osal Title: ABSTRACT: Commensal Astronomy Continuum Galactic 326.2 Hours 100-500 GB GALFACTS Commensal Observing with I-GALFA The GALFACTS consortium proposes to observe commensally with the I-GALFA survey (A2186). The inner Galaxy is the most important region for GALFACTS galactic disk science. ... GALFACTS and I-GALFA are natural commensal partners. ...

... Up: Proposal Processing . ... ESO is prototyping a distributed ``Phase II'' system that will allow astronomers to prepare their observations at their home institutions, while maintaining a central repository for all observation data. ... ESO is developing a Phase II Proposal Preparation system (P2PP) to collect detailed scientific programme descriptions, in the form of observation blocks (OB). ... ESO's Phase II Proposal Preparation system is an integral part of the VLT Data Flow System (DFS). ...

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... Telescopes and Observatories . ... Have you ever heard of the European Southern Observatory ? ... When I first heard about the ESO, I thought it was similar to our very own Armagh Observatory and based in one place. ... It boasts a 3.5-metre тАЬNew Technology Telescope тАЭ which was the first telescope in the world to have a computer-controlled main mirror, a technology which was developed at the ESO and now applied to most of the world?s current large telescopes . ... Image credit: ESO) . ...

Peremennye Zvezdy", . ... Star Name: . CPD-80 966, CD-80 757, GSC 09468-00654, SAO 258867 . ... We used HD 196520 as the comparison star. ... The mean light level we measure for CPD-80 966 is somewhat brighter than that reported in Pojmanski and Maciejewski (2005), but inspection of the ASAS on-line database shows that the mean light level is itself variable. ... The star CPD-80 966 hence appears to be a semiregular variable. ... Upper panel: V light curve of CPD-80 966 relative to HD 196520. ...

... 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. ...

Pulkovo NEO Page . ... Instrumentation and Observations . ... This Windows application serves for determination of spherical coordinates and magnitudes of the objects. ... The objects coordinates are referred to the system of chosen star catalog. ... 2. choice of reference stars with mouse, . 3. measurement of rectangular frame coordinates of objects and reference stars taking account of predefined background parameters, . 4. calculation of the spherical coordinates of objects. ...

Beginning from the May of the 1997 we started to publish our daily solar radio observations at RATAN-600 radiotelescope. ... Periscope System: South Sector+Flat Mirror . ... It is possible to track a source by moving the secondary mirror along the arc-shaped railway tracks or to perform azimuthal 2D map synthesis . ... 1) It is possible to simultaneously carry out independent observing programs using individual sectors at various discrete azimuths and secondary mirrors on corresponding railway tracks. ...

... The SMS program is a critical endeavor to investigate whether the predictions of standard cold dark matter cosmology are consistent with the observed matter distribution in the Milky Way halo. It is the deepest, most extended search for optically elusive dwarf satellite galaxies and tidal streams to date, covering the entire Southern hemisphere. ... However only a few dwarf satellites have been found around the Milky Way to date - 22 dwarfs compared to 500-10,000 predicted by theory (Klypin et al. ...

... Huchtmeier Richter A catalog of all published HI observations of external galaxies has been compiled. ... the morphological type (internally coded in a crude 1-byte code based on the system of the RC2 Second Reference Catalog of Bright Galaxies (de Vaucouleurs et al, 1976)) in column 4; . the inclination i (in degrees) used by the authors in column 5. ... A General Catalog of HI Observations of External Galaxies by W.K. Huchtmeier O.-G. Richter, H.D. Bohnenstengel and M.Hauschildt May 1983. ...

When entering Plates section user should open the file with information on moments of observations, plate centers, angular dimensions of sky regions covered by plates and numbers of observatories (the file can be created for the first time or can be prepared according to bellow described format in advance). ... It is supposed that the position of plate center and half-dimensions of plate are specified in right ascension and declination (the edge of rectangular plate is oriented to the equator). ...

... Long-Term Observations of the Evolution of the Southern Seasonal Cap of Mars: Neutron Measurements by the HEND Instrument onboard the 2001 Mars Odyssey Spacecraft, M. L. Litvak, I. G. Mitrofanov, A. S. Kozyrev, A. B. Sanin, V. I. Tret’yakov, W. V. Boynton, D. Hamara, and S. Saunders, , Solar System Research, Issue 5, Vol 41, 385, 2007 . ... Comparison between polar regions of Mars from HEND/Odyssey data, Литвак М . ... Исследования Солнечной системы, 2003, т. 37, вып. 5, стр. 378-386. (on Russian) ....

... The described algorithm is suitable for measurements of complex images of stars. ... a) the zero-based number of stars in the complex (multicentric) image, . b) set of preliminary coordinates - x i , y i , for all stars, index i is number of a star, . ... i - index of a star in the complex image; . ... These parameters are calculated by a nonlinear method of a least squares.The main output parameters of this algorithm are x i , y i ; where the index i is number of a star in the multicentric image. ...