... 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 Unit Telescopes Overview - This page is outdated, an update is in process.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 Secondary mirror (M2 Unit) - This page is outdated, an update is in process.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 Coating Unit - This page is outdated, an update is in process.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 . A Very Large Array of Radio Telescopes . ... 20.06.1999 . ... Credit: NRAO , NSF Explanation: Pictured above is one of the world's premiere radio astronomical observatories: The Very Large Array (VLA). ... The VLA is the most sensitive radio telescope ever, and, through interferometry , can resolve a golf ball-sized radio source 150 kilometers away (0.04 arcsec). ... Publications with keywords: radio - telescope . Publications with words: radio - telescope . ...

... June 20, 1999 . A Very Large Array of Radio Telescopes . ... Explanation: Pictured above is one of the world's premiere radio astronomical observatories: The Very Large Array (VLA). ... The VLA is continually making new discoveries, including determining the composition of galaxies , passing comets , quasars , HII regions , and clusters of galaxies . The VLA is also used to receive the weak radio signals broadcast from interplanetary spacecraft . ... About APOD > . ...

... Tonight's Sky . ... The Magazine . News . Observing . ... Gravitational wave search provides insights into galaxy evolution and mergers . ... The double star 54 Leonis, spiral galaxy NGC 3198, and emission nebula NGC 3199 . ... Astronomy for Kids . ... Observing springtime deep-sky objects with a large telescope . Springtime observing for small telescopes . ... very large telescope . ... Receive news, sky-event information, observing tips, and more from Astronomy's weekly email newsletter. ...

Most of these images were obtained by Mike Bessell, Michelle Buxton, Hwankyung Sung, Ralph Sutherland and Bob Watson at SSO using a 2Kx2K Site CCD behind a Nikon or Hasselblad lens or directly on the 1m telescope. A few images are from the Hubble Space Telescope. Some of the M42 images were obtained with the KPNO 1m and ESO NTT telescope. One image is a mosaic of IRAS images. ... Details of the CCD imaging program at MSSSO. ... antenna.jpg (53KB) . ... ngc6744.jpg (59KB) . ...

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 . ...

... The British consortium, currently led by Professor Gordon Bromage of the University of Central Lancashire , includes the Universities of Keele , Nottingham and Southampton , the Open University and Armagh Observatory and will be joining the other partners in the SALT project, from South Africa, Poland, Germany, USA and New Zealand. ... SALT Dome . ... The SALT project is managed by a team based at the SALT Headquarters at Sutherland and South African Astronomical Observatory in Cape Town. ...

... 2000 January 12 . NGC 6791: An Old, Large Open Cluster . ... Explanation: NGC 6791 is one of the oldest and largest open clusters of stars known. ... Open star cluster NGC 6791 , however, contains thousands of stars recently measured to be about 8 billion years old. ... This enigma makes NGC 6791, pictured above , one of the most studied open clusters and a possible example of how stars might evolve in the centers of galaxies. ... About APOD | ...

. ATLAS is a project to image seven square degrees of sky, in two fields (CDF-S and ELAIS-S1), at radio wavelengths, to an rms of about 15 Jy, making it the widest deep radio survey aver attempted. The fields are chosen to cover the Spitzer Wide-Area IR Extragalactic Survey (SWIRE), and the radio images cut through the dust, to trace the cosmic history of AGN and star-forming galaxies. This page last updated by Ray Norris 5-Mar-2007

. The telescope was reassembled over the past few days and stands ready for the windscreen. I have created two site for these pictures: one with small image sizes, the other with larger image sizes. This is the larger image size file. Captions above photo . The following are different views of the assembled telescope. A big thanks to French Leger and Larry Carey, both from UW. Photos taken by Gretchen Van Doren/APO.

Astronotes Armagh Planetarium's Stellar Blog! ... Our Galaxy . ... Space Flight . ... Posted on April 21, 2011 | No Comments An image from the European Southern Observatory, reveals two galaxies, NGC 3169 and NGC 3166, meeting in intergalactic space. ... Continue Reading.. ... 1 Comment NGC 2841 is a rather beautiful flocculent spiral galaxy. The Hubble Space Telescope recently imaged NGC 2841 as part of an investigation into how new stars are created. ... Posted on October 28, 2010 | ...

Official Arecibo picture site . Below are some pictures of the place where I work. ... Picture of the platform, taken by my dad. It doesn't look that big!", he says. Well, we'll see. My dad, in front of the primary. ... You can see how holey the surface really is. ... We see the line feed on the left and part of the Gregorian dome on the right. See from inside, the platform is quite complex. ... Looking down on the Gregorian dome! ... Below: Pictures of my new Office! ...

... HST . ... ATLAST Mission Concept Study . ... Left: 8-meter monolithic mirror telescope (credit: MSFC Advanced Concepts Office) . ... The Advanced Technology Large Aperture Space Telescope (ATLAST) is a NASA strategic mission concept study for the next generation of UVOIR space observatory. ... ATLAST will have an angular resolution that is 5 - 10 times better than the James Webb Space Telescope ( JWST ) and a sensitivity limit that is up to 2000 times better than the Hubble Space Telescope ( HST ). ...

... We can help students grasp the significance of Hubble's extremely keen eye, and learn a bit about angles and math in the process, with the following in-class activity. ... Looking through binoculars or telescopes allows us to magnify a small section of the sky. To measure sizes or distances in that small section, astronomers divide a degree into 60 smaller pieces called arcminutes, and further subdivide minutes into 60 smaller sections called arcseconds. ... 30 feet = . ... 36 seconds . ...

... Astrophysics Group . ... Optical Interferometry . Very Large Telescope Interferometer . ... Optical Interferometry Team Publications . ... VSI is currently the subject of a Phase A study, performed by a European consortium led by Laboratoire d?Astrophysique de l?Observatoire de Grenoble . The Cavendish optical interferometry group are members of the consortium, contributing mostly to the studies of the VSI internal fringe tracker and to the definition of the science cases. ...

... Освоение космоса (Модератор: Chepurny ) > . E-ELT (European Extremely Large Telescope) . ... Благодарностей: 0 . ... 13 Май 2010, 12:14:53 ? Европейский чрезвычайно большой телескоп" (European Extremely Large Telescope - E-ELT) будет построен в горах пустыни Атакама, объявила на днях Европейская южная обсерватория. ... Ответ #1 : 13 Май 2010, 12:29:34 ? ... Цитата: ds40a от 13 Май 2010, 12:29:34 Field of view: 10 arcminute diameter . ... Цитата: ds40a от 13 Май 2010, 13:28:02 И я о том-же. ...

... Telescopes . ... The time requests are accepted in an electronic version with on-line form in Russian or English. ... Unregistered request will be disregarded by the Large Telescopes Programm Committee. In exclusive cases the secreatry of the Committee is entitled to accept an observational time request given permission of the Chairman of the Committee or the director of the SAO RAS. The Program Committee considers generally one time request submitted by the principal applicant. ...

... 2008 . ... 2006 . ... Сегодня: 10 апреля 2016 г. Специалисты из European Southern Observatory утвердили план, согласно которому через три года европейскими учеными начнется сооружение гигантского оптического/инфракрасного телескопа European Extremely Large Telescope. ... Он даст наземной астрономии новые, до этого невиданные, возможности. ... Первое зеркало телескопа будет состоять из 906 шестиугольных сегментов, каждый размером в 1,45 метров. ... Решение по этому вопросу будет принято к 2008 году. ...

... Ciel Espace, le magazine qui vous guide toujours plus loin . ... les plus belles images de l'Univers d†йcrypt†йes pour vous . ... des pages consacr†йes †а la publication de vos photos Mais c'est aussi une vraie communaut†й avec laquelle partager votre passion et nourrir votre curiosit†й. Accueil Ils photographient le ciel au Very Large Telescope . ... Astronomes ou ing†йnieurs, ils profitent de travailler sous le meilleur ciel du monde pour s'adonner †а leur passion de la photographie. ...

. (10m x 2) Keck (I II) . 4.0m VBT . 9.2m HET . 3.9m AAT . 8.3m Subaru . 3.8m Mayall . (8.2m x 4) VLT . 3.8m UKIRT . (8.1m x 2) Gemini (North South) . 3.7m AEOS . 6.5m MMT . 3.6m "360" . (6.5m x 2) (WBT LCT) . 3.6m CFHT . 6.0m BTA . 3.6m TNG . 5.0m Hale . 3.6m NTT . 4.2m WHT . 3.5m MPI-CAHA .