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 Unit Telescopes Overview - This page is outdated, an update is in process.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 Secondary mirror (M2 Unit) - This page is outdated, an update is in process.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 Coating Unit - This page is outdated, an update is in process.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

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... ATNF Home . ... About ATNF overview . ... Australia Telescope Steering Committee . ... Parkes radio telescope . Australia Telescope Compact Array . ... CSIRO, Australia's national science agency, operates a number of world-class radio astronomy observatories that are collectively known as the Australia Telescope National Facility or ATNF. ... CSIRO also manages the Murchison Radio-astronomy Observatory, where the Square Kilometre Array telescope infrastructure in Australia is to be centred. ...

Astronomy Picture of the Day . ... 3.11.2006 . ... In the telephoto picture, a nearly full October Moon is silhouetting the impressive array of telescopes at ESO's Paranal Observatory. ... Fans of Paranal will also note the VLT Survey Telescope at the far right and the small, white auxilliary telescope domes. ... Publications with keywords: full moon - Paranal Observatory - VLT . Publications with words: full moon - Paranal Observatory - VLT . ... Full Moon Silhouettes . ... Perigee s Full Moon . ...

... Artist's concepts of two ATLAST designs . ... ATLAST: Characterizing Habitable Worlds (Postman et al. ... Science drivers and requirements for an Advanced Technology Large Aperture Space Telescope (ATLAST):Implications for technology development and synergies with other future facilities (Postman et al.) ... A 16-m ATLAST Mission Design (Lillie et al.) ... Conceptual Design for a 16-m Segmented UVOIR Space Telescope (Korechoff et al.) ... Science with an 8-m to 16-m ATLAS Telescope (Postman et al.) ...

... Each day a different image or photograph of our fascinating universe is featured, along with a brief explanation written by a professional astronomer. 2006 November 4 . Paranal Moonset . Credit Copyright: Gordon Gillet . Explanation: Just before the rising Sun fully illuminated the 2,635 meter summit of Cerro Paranal in northern Chile, Gordon Gillet captured this stunning moonset. ... About APOD | ... NASA Web Site Statements, Warnings, and Disclaimers . ...

T he Siding Spring Survey (SSS) is a Near-Earth Object search program that utilises the 0.5-m Uppsala Schmidt Telescope at Siding Spring Observatory, N.S.W., Australia. ... The mission of the Siding Spring Survey is to contribute to the inventory of near-earth objects (NEOs), or more specifically, the potentially hazardous asteroids (PHAs) and comets (PHOs) that may pose a threat of impact and thus harm to civilization. ... Based on the CSS Mission page . ... Siding Spring Survey Main Page . ...

... Armagh Planetarium . ... Universe . ... Posted on December 3, 2015 | ... Continue Reading.. ... No Comments A spectacular multi-coloured fireball was witnessed in Ireland and Scotland by dozens of people on the evening of 29 November 2015. ... 1 Comment Is this a new dawn for suborbital travel? ... Hello, IтАЩm Colin, welcoming you to Astronotes, the PlanetariumтАЩs official blog. Here you will find the latest news and views from the fascinating worlds of astronomy and space exploration. ...

New Moons of Uranus . Brent Gladman's Home Page . ... The discovery of two probable distant satellites of Uranus was reported by B. Gladman, P. Nicholson, J. Burns and J. Kavelaars. ... This discovery was reported in the IAU Circular 6764 . ... Discovery image of S/1997 U 2 . This shows the discovery image of brighter of the two new moons of Uranus. ... This shows the discovery image of faint new moons of Uranus. ... This shows another discovery image of faint new moons of Uranus. ... Uranus . ...

The CDK20 North is seen in November 2012 with its new A200HR mount, Apogee 16M camera, and Optec IFW-3 filter wheel. The Sirius dome of the CDK20 North is seen in May 2010, and the telescope is visible through the open shutter. ... Brad Carter (left) and Rhodes Hart (right) of the University of Southern Queensland visited their northern Shared Skies CDK20 at Moore Observatory in September 2009. ... Microswitches were added to limit the range of polar axis rotation on the original mounting. ...

... 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. ...

... 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) . ...

Domes Forum Message . ... Discussion Forums | Domes and Observatories Discussion | ... Self-constructed AstrodomeS - leonis - December 14, 2001 - 17:45 UTC . ... geometric domes - goemetric domes - October 18, 2000 - 23:50 UTC . ... Welcome to the Domes Discussion Forum - Astronomy Net Editor - March 15, 2000 - 14:00 UTC . RE: Welcome to the Domes Discussion Forum - Jim - April 4, 2000 - 14:50 UTC . ... Re: Welcome to the Domes Discussion Forum - louielouie - November 6, 2000 - 18:24 UTC . ...

... Armagh Observatory, College Hill, Armagh BT61 9DG, +44 (0)28 3752 2928 . Left: Old image of sky with predicted position of the new planet (cross). ... New planet 2003 UB313 is marked with a circle. Liz Connolly Using the Faulkes Telescope in Hawaii, Omagh student Liz Connolly has made possibly the first sighting of new planet 2003 UB313 from Ireland. ... Both Pluto and 2003 UB313 are considerably smaller than the Earth, and quite unlike the giant outer planets Uranus and Neptune. ...

The 13 research telescopes on the summit of Hawaii's Mauna Kea are recovering following the October 15 earthquake. The observatories seen here are (from right to left): Keck I and II (large twin white domes), NASA Infrared Telescope Facility (silver dome in front of twin Keck domes), Subaru (silver structure in Keck I's shadow), Canada-France Hawaii Telescope (CFHT) at center, James Clerk Maxwell Telescope (dimly lit in shadow behind CFHT), Gemini 8-meter, and the University of Hawaii 88-inch. ...

Contents. planet: 5 - Jupiter satellites: 1 - S/1975 J 1 = S/2000 J 1 = Themisto J-18 :10 total number: 10 type: absolute dates: 1975-2000 observatory: 675 - Palomar Mountain 695 - Steward Observatory, Kitt Peak Station 568 - Mauna Kea Reference. ... Number of observer (see informations above) --------------------------------------------------------- Year alpha delta Observatory month day with Telescope decimals h m s deg ' '' Observer --------------------------------------------------------- ...

Winer Observatory P.O. Box 797, Sonoita, Arizona 85637-0797, USA . ... Asteroid . ... Site . ... The evening of October 26, 2011, Mark Trueblood, Robert Crawford, and Larry Lebofsky used the Kitt Peak 2.1-m telescope to observe Near Earth Asteroid (NEA) 2008 QT3. ... single still jpeg frame . ... The National Optical Astronomy Observatory (NOAO) issued a press release concerning Morgan's work on Monday, November 21, 2011 and posted it on the home page of their web site . ... 2013 Winer Observatory. ...

... Steeghs Tomography | ... Top right: Hynes (Schematic of an X-ray Binary); http://www.astro.soton.ac.uk/ ~rih/. This site provides information on optical data reduction and on running Doppler and modulation tomography modules. ... Center: The Keck observatory in Hawaii. ... Optical data reduction for Magellan . ... Center: The Magellan telescopes at Las Campanas, Chile. Right: Modulation tomogram of the X-ray novae V616 Mon using Magellan observations (Neilsen et al. ...

Comet 17P/Holmes increased in brightness over a half of million times on 2007 October 24 ( APOD 2007 October 26 ). On November 1 it was still in peak of its brightness, when I pointed at it the 25-cm telescope of my home observatory located in the Nizhnyj Arkhys, Community of the Special Astrophysical Observatory in Karachai-Cherkesia, Russia. Figure 1. Comet 17P/Holmes identified in the frame of SAO 1-m Zeiss all-sky TV camera on 2007 November 1. ... Comet is a green nonstellar object. ...