... 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 Unit Telescopes Overview - This page is outdated, an update is in process.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 Secondary mirror (M2 Unit) - This page is outdated, an update is in process.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 Coating Unit - This page is outdated, an update is in process.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 . ... Credit Copyright: G ran Strand Explanation: Illuminated by an eerie greenish light, this remarkable little planet is covered with ice and snow and ringed by tall pine trees. Of course , this little planet is actually planet Earth, and the surrounding stars are above the horizon near stersund, Sweden. The pale greenish illumination is from a curtain of shimmering Aurora Borealis also known as the Northern Lights. ... Publications with keywords: aurora . ...

... 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. ...

... ApJ, 571, 843-855 (2002). ... In: URSI XXVIIth General Assembly, Maastricht, 17-24 August, 2002, p1326.pdf (2002). ... In: URSI XXVIIth General Assembly, Maastricht, 17-24 August, 2002, p2172.pdf (2002). ... In: URSI XXVIIth General Assembly, Maastricht, 17-24 August, 2002, p0115.pdf (2002). ... TINGAY, S.J., PRESTON, R.A., JAUNCEY, D.L. & MURPHY, D.L. "The subparsec-scale structure and evolution of Centaurus A", In: URSI XXVIIth General Assembly, Maastricht, 17-24 August, 2002, p2156.pdf (2002). ...

... 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). ...

... 2010 September 13 . Zodiacal Light Over Namibia . ... Once considered a false dawn , this triangle of light is actually zodiacal light , light reflected from interplanetary dust particles . ... Zodiacal light is so bright in the north this time of year because the dust band is oriented nearly vertical at sunrise, so that the thick air near the horizon does not block out relatively bright reflecting dust. ... About APOD | ...

Main Sections LabIR main page . ... August 1997: new set tested (including the new offset/filter box and a wave generator as a clock, see messages ). ... May 1997: the new offset/filter box is being tested, and should be available at CA starting with the July 1997 run. ... February 1997: FIRPO II succesfully tested at the 6m telescope in Russia. December 1996: new versions of the FIRPO logbook sheets are now available, in two separate versions for photometry (54 Kb) and occultations (42 Kb) . ...

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. ...

Russian . Main . News . ... Minutes of the Telecon on January 17, 2012. ... News of the RadioAstron mission on the Lavochkin Association site up to September 15, 2011 (in Russian). News of the RadioAstron mission up to September 3, 2011. News of the RadioAstron mission on the Lavochkin Association site (in Russian). News of the RadioAstron mission up to August 18, 2011. ... Second version of the RadioAstron Mission Operations Handbook ( in Russian )is placed on the project site . ...

The following is a list of recent hikes I've been on, mostly in the Canadian Rockies near Calgary, Alberta. Some include links to scanned photos. Home

SPACE TELESCOPE SCIENCE INSTITUTE Summary: 17 August - 9 October 1995 TIPS: 12 October 1995 FOS Keyes Instrument : Nominal operation; three reports of noisy diodes; one valid Acquisition: 27 successful; 1 failure; 1 affected by GS Acq problem Science : 22 GO/GTO programs; 1 lost due to ACQ/BIN failure Calibration: 3 programs (Cycle 5 darks, YBASEs, and wavelengths) Publications ...

... Short reports. ... For the countries, starting their activity at the International Astronomy Olympiad (see the Supplementary Instructions N 3 ), the requirements for the short report are not strong. ... According to the information above the regular deadline for receiving the short reports of Nationals Olympiads of the current year (with a set of all problems used on the National Olympiads) is defined as 13 plus 5 = 18 weeks before the Olympiad: July 04 , 2009. ... Personal data for visas. ...

... The eleven years cycle of Sun's activity is approaching its maximum! From August 24th to 29th a team of astronomers, engineers and astro-photographers will travel to southern Greenland to observe the Northern Lights (Aurora Borealis), a phenomenon expected to be particularly spectacular during this period. ... Auroras . The wonderful celestial spectacle of the aurora occurs when very energetic particles from the Sun reach the Earth's atmosphere via the solar wind. ... About GLORIA . ...

... IR-Light Emitters & Detectors . Russian High Technologies . ... Infrared detectors and light emitters are key components that are used for applications including radiometry, guidance, gas analysis, medicine etc. ... Devices are operating in spectral range of 1.0-5.0 um and have high efficiency. ... Light Emitters . ... Spectral response of PRX 27.. ... Applications . ... Among the features there are high speed response, high efficiency, wide temperature range. ... IR-Light Emitters and Detectors | ...

... 9) Oknyanskij V.L. 1994, "Optical-radio time delays in Q0957+561", Odessa Astronomical Publ., ... 11) Oknyanskij V.L. 1994, "Connection between X-ray and optical variability in NGC4151", in Proceedings of Int. Conf. ... 1994. 12) Oknyanskij V.L. 1994, "Connection between X-ray and optical variability in NGC4151", Astrophys. and Space Science, 222, p.157. ... 14) Oknyanskij V.L., van Groningen E., 1997, "Optical spectral variability of NGC4151 in 1990", Astronomical and Astrophys. ...

Astronotes Armagh Planetarium's Stellar Blog! ... Moon . ... Earth Satellites . ... By admin October 4, 2012 Posted in: Moon . A tiny second moon.This is Phobos (27 km across) seen over Mars by ESA's Mars Express (Image credit:ESA) . ... They concluded that at any given time Earth probably has a second moon. ... But, just perhaps, briefly the Earth had a second natural satellite seen by thousands of people.Remember the spectacular fireball witnessed over the UK and Ireland on 21 September 2012 ? ...

... Circumstellar disc of beta Pictoris: constraints on grain properties from polarization. To appear in the Astronomy & Astrophysics . abs , src , ps ] . ... Dust influx to Titan from Hyperion . ... abs ] . ... Characteristics of bulges and disks in interacting galaxies . ... Dust grains around Herbig Ae/Be stars: porous, cometary-like grains? ... To appear in the Astronomy & Astrophysics Supplement . ... Finally, Links may lead you to more options (e.g. via the LANL preprint system). ...

... All contributions must be prepared in English. Contributions, written in other languages, including Russian, will not be accepted. ... The style file sao1.sty is available at the anonymous ftp server ftp.sao.ru:/pub/texSAO/saosty/ . ... November, 1, 2010 . All contributions (including papers of the SAO staff) should be submitted to Dmitry Kudryavtsev ( ). ... Magnetic Stars-2010 . ... Laboratory for the Stellar Magnetism Study of SAO of the RAS . ...

... ATM Discussion Forum . Forums: . ... How to clean the rust on the quartz glass lens - flyingmelon - September 18, 2010 - 08:55 UTC . ... Depends - rick_crockett - May 26, 2008 - 03:52 UTC . ... Canon DSLR CONTROLLER USB SERIAL PORT - costas - October 31, 2007 - 16:02 UTC . ... Star Lap - berry - December 30, 2006 - 21:46 UTC . ... www.astronomy.net . ... Forum posts are Copyright their authors as specified in the heading above the post. "dbHTML," "AstroGuide," "ASTRONOMY.NET" & "VA.NET" . ...

... MRO Users Manual . Observers Checklist . ... Getting to MRO . ... MRO Home . ... The Manastash Ridge Observatory (MRO) is located approximately 9 miles West-Southwest of Ellensburg, WA. ... MRO is operated by the Astronomy Department of the University of Washington for the training of graduate and undergraduate students as well as for astronomical research. ... Students who use the observatory must learn the basics of astronomical observing as well as the care and operation of the instrumentation. ...