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 Unit Telescopes Overview - This page is outdated, an update is in process.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 Secondary mirror (M2 Unit) - This page is outdated, an update is in process.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 Coating Unit - This page is outdated, an update is in process.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

... Galaxies Of The Virgo Cluster . ... NGC 3603: X-Rays From A Starburst Cluster . ... A mere 20,000 light-years from the Sun lies the NGC 3603 star cluster, a resident of the nearby Carina spiral arm of our Milky Way galaxy. ... Most stars appear only as points of light. ... Black Holes Are Black . ... 2001: A Total Lunar Eclipse . ... The brightest of these new stars are so hot that they light up this spiral galaxy not only in blue light, but in light so blue humans can't see it: ultraviolet. ...

Astronotes Armagh Planetarium's Stellar Blog! ... Moon . ... According to Ron Miller, author of the respected history of spaceship concepts The Dream Machines , the first known appearance of the tale in print was in the 2 October Тљ1909 issue of Scientific American where the hero was named т??Wang Tuт?? ... Naming a crater after Wan Hu т??the legendary Chinese inventorт?? was proposed shortly after the Soviet probe Zond 3 flew past the Moon in July 1965 returning images of the Moon?s western farside. ...

... 2006 October 3 . Light from the Heart Nebula . ... Explanation: What powers the Heart Nebula? ... The red glow and the larger shape are all created by a small group of stars near the nebula's center . A close up spanning about 30 light years contains many of these stars is shown above . ... The Heart Nebula is located about 7,500 light years away toward the constellation of Cassiopeia . ... About APOD | ... NASA Web Site Statements, Warnings, and Disclaimers . NASA Official: Jay Norris. ...

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... SCIENCE AND BUSINESS . Such a trifle as a starry night sky of largest observatories turned out to be a small change coin in commercial bargains for exclusive communal services in Russia, and for a few elite flats in penthouses in Ukraine. SCIENCE AND BUREAUCRATISM . ... Till in Russian) . ... Clericalization of science and education (Till in Russian). ... Researcher of the Sternberg Astronomical Institute, The Moscow University. ... SAI home page . ... October, 2008) . ... November, 2007) . ...

... Telescopes . ... The International Conference "Dark Ages and White Nights (Spectroscopy of the CMB)" (June 20-24, 2016) . ... The International Conference "Stars: from collapse to collapse" (October 3-7, 2016) . The traditional annual competition conference of scientific and scientific-engineering papers of the Observatory staff members . ... A session of the Dissertation Council (October 16, 2015) . ... International scientific conference "Large Optical Telescopes" (October, 10-13, 2011) . ...

adapted from Observe: Eclipses, published in 1979 by the Astronomical League and "Safe Solar Filters," by B. Ralph Chou, Sky and Telescope, August 1981) . ... Tape TWO pieces of film together into a sandwich, and tape this over the opening in the cardboard. ... The cardboard frame will act as a shade from the bright Sun, while you safely observe through the film sandwich. ... Undeveloped film is not safe. ... tape . ... At the end of one of the tubes, tape the aluminum foil, and make a tiny pinhole. ...

Mathilde . ... On June 27, 1997 the Near-Earth Asteroid Rendezvous (NEAR) spacecraft flew flew past asteroid 253 Mathilde. ... On June 27, 1997 NEAR made a spectatular 25 minute flyby of Mathilde which resulted in more than 500 images of a dark, crater-battered little world that dates to the beginning of the solar system. ... This first image of asteroid 253 Mathilde, returned by the NEAR spacecraft just before 10:00 AM EDT on June 27, 1997, was taken from a distance of 1800 kilometers (1120 miles). ...

... 200 jet radii . ... bipolar simulation . initial density contrast 1/10,000 (jet/IGM) . ... Density films: (970 frames) . gif, 100MB] [MPEG IM, 5MB] . Density films: (97 frames) . gif, 10MB] [jpg, 0.9MB] [h363+, 0.9MB] [ISO MPEG4, 0.9MB] [pre MPEG4 v3, 0.9MB] [pre MPEG4 v2, 0.8MB] [real, 0.9MB] [gif, 1MB] [MPEG1, 0.9MB] [MPEG IM, 0.5MB] . ... Virtual Jets 2003 (Dogliani, Italy) [slides] [proceedings] . ... This page is maintained by Martin Krause ...

... Deep optical CCD image of the LMC. Diffuse Galactic Light is plainly visible in this optical image of the Large Magellanic Cloud as a haze over the entire galaxy. The phenomenon arises from starlight scattering off numerous dust clouds in and above the plane of the LMC's disk to form a faint, galaxy-wide reflection nebula. ... The CCD image above was presumably taken with a special wide-field camera at optical wavelengths. ...

In the conference room on October 28th: . click on the thumbnail photos to see larger size ones) . At the conference room on February 1st: . ... After the official part on February 2nd: . ... At the plenary session on August 6th: . At the regular and poster sessions on August 9th: . After all in working room on August 12th: . ...

. General Information . Media Files . Participants . Timetable . Local Information . Photos . Back to the album list . Previous Click the image to view it in fullsize. Previous . The BTA (Bolshoi Teleskop Alt-azimutalnyi, Eng:Large Altazimuth Telescope) is a large 6 m optical telescope at the Special Astrophysical Observatory. The BTA-6 was the largest telescope in the world between its first light in 1975 and 1993.

... Home Gallery Astrophotography Urban Lunar Eclipses . ... Beyond New York City . ... Observing Resources for Amateur Astronomers - Part 1: Beginning Observers . ... A History of the First Forty Years of the Amateur Astronomers Association . ... Several lunar eclipses have been visible from the New York area as these photographs from AAA members show. ... Penumbral lunar eclipse, New York City . ... 2016 Amateur Astronomers Association of New York Designed by Press Customizr Powered by . ...

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... Analysis of the WFPC2 saturated star images indicate that the large angle scattering (>3" from a star) is significantly higher than expected. ... The first set was from the SMOV Ghost Check proposal 5615, in which 100 second images of d Cas (V=2.7) were obtained at the center of each chip in F502N. The second set was a series of 6 second exposures of Vega (V=0.0) centered on WF2 through F410M (WFPC2 GTO proposal 5205). ... The source of the WFPC2 scattering may be the CCDs. ...

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... Eclipses of the Moon in 2009 : . In 2009 there are four eclipses of the Moon (tree penumbral eclipses on February 9, July 7, and August 5-6 and a partial eclipse on December 31). ... Moon enters penumbra (P 1 ) . ... Moon leaves penumbra (P 4 ) . ... Eclipse, lunar : . ... It may be total (the Moon passing completely through the Earth's umbra ), partial (the Moon passing partially through the Earth's umbra at maximum eclipse), or penumbral (the Moon passing only through the Earth's penumbra ). ...

Supernova 2009js in NGC 918 . This page is devoted to information on Supernova 2009js in NGC 918 . Basic information on this SN, including the last reported brightness, on this Supernova can be found on the main page . Information on the original web pages for many of these images can be found on the updates and links web pages. Discovered independently by Lick Observatory Supernova Search (USA) and Koichi Itagaki (Japan). ... 2009/10/11.44 . 17.2 . ... Joseph Brimacombe . ...