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 Unit Telescopes Overview - This page is outdated, an update is in process.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 Secondary mirror (M2 Unit) - This page is outdated, an update is in process.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 Coating Unit - This page is outdated, an update is in process.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

Astronomy Picture of the Day . ... 10.04.2009 . These two frames, taken with a video camera and a telescope, reveal remarkable details of the International Space Station (ISS) orbiting some 350 kilometers above planet Earth. ... APOD: 2009 April 7 The Colliding Spiral Galaxies of Arp 274 . ... APOD: 2009 April 6 The International Space Station Expands Again . ... The planetwide star party is part of 100 Hours of Astronomy (100HA), a project of the International Year of Astronomy 2009. ... April . ...

Astronomy Education News . ... FT Universe Challenge . ... Faulkes Telescopes Universe Challenge . ... A school competition for an astronomy project using the Faulkes Telescopes тАУ state of the art 2-metre telescopes in Hawaii and Australia, which can be remotely operated by students during school hours in Ireland. ... To register for this challenge please contact the Faulkes Telescopes Universe Challenge secretariat by emailing Dr Miruna Popescu . Armagh Observatory - Astronomy Education . ...

Parkes remote operations David McConnell ATUC 25 Oct 2011 Monday, 24 October 2011 1 History May 2007: There may also be implications for astronomer access to the telescopes. ... CSIRO. ATUC October 2011 Monday, 24 October 2011 3 Recent progress (projects PDC, PECM) R · · · · ecent progress towards remote operability and diagnosis Telescope Drive System Signal switching matrix Monitoring and control Power synchroniser CSIRO. ... ATUC October 2011 Monday, 24 October 2011 6 Project Aims 1. ...

... 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 . ...

... Tonight's Sky . ... US state, Canadian province, or country . ... The Magazine . ... Observing . ... Magazine . ... Gravitational wave search provides insights into galaxy evolution and mergers . ... space flight . ... The double star 54 Leonis, spiral galaxy NGC 3198, and emission nebula NGC 3199 . ... Astronomy for Kids . ... international space station . ... Receive news, sky-event information, observing tips, and more from Astronomy's weekly email newsletter. ... Astronomy Magazine . ...

... Telescope concept . ... The Submillimetron Project is dedicated to astronomical studies at the submillimeter and far infrared wavelengths using a cryogenic telescope located on the Russian segment of the International Space Station (ISS). The Astro Space Center of the Lebedev Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences is responsible for developing the Submillimetron Project. ... Currently, the Astro Space Center is carrying out a pre-Project study under contract with the Russian Space Agency. ...

... On 15 May 2003 the Russian Aviation and Space Agency, S.P. Korolev Rocket and Space Corporation Energia and European Space Agency (ESA) concluded a contract to fly Spanish astronaut Pedro Duque, member of the European astronauts team as the transport spacecraft Soyuz TMA-1 flight engineer as the visiting crew VC-5 member (October 2003, ISS-7 and ISS-8 phase) to the International Space Station (ISS) and perform science research and experiments under Servantes SSM Project (ESA). ... Research Area . ...

... 2001 October 12 . Space Station and Space Shuttle: Backyard View . Credit Copyright: Ricardo Borba . Explanation: Knowing when and where to look, many enthusiastic sky gazers have been able to spot the International Space Station (ISS) as a bright star streaking through the twilight. ... Astronomer Ricardo Borba offers this example of the Space Shuttle Discovery docked with the ISS , recorded this August from his backyard in Ottawa, Canada. ... About APOD | ...

. This page contains links to several sites related to SOAR. The SOAR Telescope Project is a collaboration between UNC-CH, NOAO, Michigan State, and Brazil at Cerro Pachon, Chile. This web site also contains some recent photos. A news release on the project can be found here as well, plus a picture of a model of the telescope. Ray Lucas lucas@stsci.edu 05/20/98

... Liyong Liu (NAOC) . Site testing on seeing conditions of the astronomical observatories over China are briefly reviewed, including Xionglong station of NAOC, Gaomeigu station of Yunnan Observatory, Delingha station of Purple Mountain Observatory. ... PDF [3.0€аMB] October 8, 09:55 10:20 . ... In this paper, we will review the site survey activities in the past years, and present the site-testing results on the Oma site, including cloud cover, seeing, water vapor, transparency and sky brightness. ...

Astronotes Armagh Planetarium's Stellar Blog! ... Space Flight . ... One spacecraft seen from another (Image credit: NASA/ESA) . ... It shows the Automated Transfer Vehicle (ATV) Johannes Kepler soaring into orbit in the nose of an Ariane 5 from the Guiana Space Centre in French Guiana. Currently, the ISS is supported by five spacecraft: the Space Shuttle and Soyuz (which carry people too), the Russian Progress , Japanese HTV and ESAтАЩs ATV. Each ATV carries seven tonnes or so to the ISS. ...

... Professor of the Moscow University, . Soros professor . New project: MASTER - Mobile Astronomical Systems of the TElescope-Robots. ... Drawing Books Scientific arts Colleagues Teaching . The Best City Vita Painters Fiction New Drawing . Recent popular papers . ... Recent review: . 1.P OPULATION SYNTHESIS OF HIGH ENERGY TRANZIENTS: . FORMATION AND MERGING OF RELATIVISTIC BINARIES( Roma, 1997) . ... lipunov@sai.msu.ru . Send! Send to galja rar . ...

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Recent Multi­station Single­Pulse Observations (an EPN project) Coordinated Simultaneous Multi­frequency Observations N. D. Ramesh Bhat NAIC, Arecibo Observatory PARTNERS: The EFFELSBERG 100­m Telescope, Germany The LOVELL 76­m Telescope, United Kingdom The Giant Metre­wave Radio Telescope, India N.D.R.Bhat, M.Kramer, A.G.Lyne, C.Jordan, JBO, U.K. A.Karastergiou, C.Lange, O.Loehmer, MPIFR, Germany Y.Gupta & Telescope Operators at GMRT, NCRA, India 1. ... Recent Observations -- EPN + GMRT 4. ...

... Director of the RAS ISR . RAS Academician . ... Astrophysics module Kvant of the orbital complex Mir launched in 1987 contains the largest on the station complex of the scientific equipment named the orbital observatory Roentgen. Observatory Roentgen consists of 4 X-ray telescopes, jointly exceeding the range of energies from 2 to 800 keV. ... Among the most significant results that were received in the observatory Roentgen are: . ... measurement of the periods of 9 X-ray pulsars; . ...

... 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. ...

... Main . ... Russian-Turkish 1.5-m Telecope (RTT150) is the international project carried out under supervision of the Ministry of Education and Science of Russian Federation and the Scientific and Technological Reseacrh Council of Turkey (TUBITAK) . ... One of the main scientific tasks of the telescope is to provide ground support for the space projects in the area of high energy astrophysics, in the first place -- INTEGRAL and SRG observatories. High Energy Astrophysics Department 2016 IKI RAN ...

... Last updated 10 October 2014 . ... Dr. Alasdair Dougal Mackey . ... Australian National University . ... 2004 - Ph.D., Institute of Astronomy and Trinity College, University of Cambridge . ... 2003-2006 - PPARC Postdoctoral Fellow, Institute of Astronomy, University of Cambridge . ... 2005 - Lecturer for Globular clusters and globular cluster systems (8 lectures), a course for first and second year Ph.D. б б б б б б б б б б б б б  students, Institute of Astronomy, University of Cambridge . ...

Rogier Windhorst, Arizona State University, Phoenix . ... October 16, 2014 . Play list . Virginia Trimble, University of California, Irvine . Blurring the Boundaries Among Physics, Chemistry, and Astronomy: The Mosely and Bohr Centenaries . ... Kris Stanek, Ohio State University . ... October 11, 2012 . ... October 14, 2010 . ... October 8, 2009 . ... Last update: October 16, 2014 . kielkopf at louisville edu . ...