... 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. ...

... Tonight's Sky . ... The Magazine . ... Star Atlas . ... An artificial comet holds secrets to Earths life . ... Astronomy for Kids . ... Observing springtime deep-sky objects with a large telescope . ... The planet has extreme temperature swings and perhaps active lava flows. ... A digital supplement to Astronomy magazine. ... Join TravelQuest International with Astronomy and Discover magazines on one of three great tour options surrounding this celestial spectacle . ... Astronomy Magazine . ...

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 Unit Telescopes Overview - This page is outdated, an update is in process.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 Secondary mirror (M2 Unit) - This page is outdated, an update is in process.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 Coating Unit - This page is outdated, an update is in process.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

STEP INTO THE BLUE - MEADE INSTRUMENTS PRODUCT GUIDE . ... Telescopes . LX850 Series . ... Superb optical performance coupled with time proven computerized pointing and tracking has made the LX200 ACF series a best-seller in the high-performance telescope class. ... Meade's revolutionary LS LightSwitchтДв series of telescopes use advanced technologies to do what no other consumer telescopes have done before: take all the hassle out of using a telescope. ... Coronado€о Solar . ... Spotting Scopes . ...

Follow-up astrometry and recoveries are made with the ANU 40 inch (1.0-m) f/8 reflector at Siding Spring Observatory (IAU code 413). ... A routine follow-up of 2003 WY153 on 2003 Dec 15 became much more than routine when a faint object with unusual motion vector was found close to the target asteroid. ... During routine astrometry with the 1.0-m to improve the orbit of the Apollo asteroid 2004 CB, the asteroid was found on March 30 to have a short tail! ... Siding Spring Survey Main Page . ...

Astronotes Armagh Planetarium's Stellar Blog! ... Planets . ... Earth Satellites . ... A Scorched World: too distant to image, Kepler-10b is depicted here by a NASA artist (Image credit: NASA/Kepler Mission/Dana Berry) . The Kepler satellite looks for planets passing between their parent star and Earth. ... Placed beside our homeworld, Kepler-10b would be about 40% wider than Earth. ... Possibly only occasional jagged islands of metal and rock break the monotony of its glowing lava oceans. ...

Detected Supernovae . The search have produced till now the detections of 4 SNe. ... This result highlights the power of infrared monitoring in detecting Obscured SNe and indicates that optical surveys are probably missing a significant fraction of SNe, especially in obscured systems such as starburst galaxies. ... In Fig. we show the archival SOFI image of NGC3256 (left) and the first image obtained in 2001 (right) where SN2001db has been detected. ...

... Armagh Observatory, College Hill, Armagh BT61 9DG, +44 (0)28 3752 2928 . ... The asteroid is only the second known object in a so-called "Martian horseshoe" orbit, going around the Sun on nearly the same orbit as Mars. б Unlike the planet's two known moons, Phobos and Deimos, which orbit Mars much like an artificial satellite orbits the Earth, the unusual asteroid moves in a more complicated "horseshoe" pattern along the orbit of Mars, with the open end of the horseshoe centred near Mars itself. ...

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home education > activities . SEARCH ASP SITE: Match ALL words Match ANY word . ... Activities . ... Astronomy . ... Activities on the . ... This is more about space technology than astronomy, but in this interactive module, students simulate what the astronauts go through when they go up to service the Hubble Space Telescope. ... Younger students are shown a drawing that can be interpreted in two ways and then apply what they learn to planetary images. ... table of contents . ...

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... The search for distant objects which can be both galaxies and quasars is one of the most important problems of observational astrphysics, because it allows one to determine cosmological parameters connected with the time of appearence and evolution of stellar systems, large scale structure of the Universe. ... Radio galaxies are important objects to be studied because they are sources of infrared-optical-ultraviolet continuum, emission lines and continual radio emission. ...

... Missions . ... Future Missions and . ... Research . ... SIRTF is an 85 cm cryogenic telescope (operated at 5.5 K) to be launched into a heliocentric orbit in 2001 or 2002, with a 2.5-year lifetime. ... SIRTF will search for large planets around nearby stars, and will probe circumstellar dust complexes where planet formation is in progress. ... This presentation will focus on SIRTF planet detection strategies and will provide an update on the technical aspects of the SIRTF instrumental capabilities. ...

... Discovering Near-Earth Asteroids . ... The LINEAR program is operated by MIT Lincoln Laboratory under NASA and Air Force sponsorship . ... Dr. Stokes directs the development and operations of the Lincoln Near-Earth Asteroid Research program, under NASA and Air Force Space Command sponsorship. ... Dr. Stokes was honored with the Air Force Meritorious Civilian Service Award for his four years of service to the Air Force Science Advisory Board. ... Copyright (c) Amateur Telescope Makers of Boston, Inc....

... Have you wondered which search method is best suited to discover supernovae? Supernova hunter Michael Schwartz, from Oregon, USA, has made some number crunching on recent SN discoveries. Some of his statistics and comments are in these and following pages. ... The following are some simple statistics describing three different type of search: . ... For each method we show two statistics. They show the number of supernovae discovered by galaxy magnitude and by supernovae magnitude. ...

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... Astrophysics Group . ... Pulsars . ... Stars ? ... The array was designed to detect compact radio sources such as these by virtue of the fact that they would scintillate (twinkle) when observed from the Earth through the interplanetary medium ? ... One of Antony Hewish?s research students, Jocelyn Bell, was set the task of operating the telescope and inspecting the daily charts for the kind deflections in the trace which occurred when a scintillating source passed over the array. ...

RTT150 . ... This search system is designed for generating the necessary information on series of pointings (observations of each source consist of sets of exposures with different filters and sometimes with different exposure times) for observed sources. Search results appear at the separate page as a table with the following data: . DATE - real (not evening!) observations date (in YYYY-MM-DD format); . ... Bin - minimal CCD binning mode (may vary during the observations); . ...

Our publications in 2003 year Pustilnik, S. A.; Kniazev, A. Y.; Pramskij, A. G.; Ugryumov, A. V. Astrophysics and Space Science, v. 284, Issue 2, p.795-798 (00/2003). Ugryumov, A. V.; Engels, D.; Pustilnik, S. A.; Kniazev, A. Y.; Pramskij, A. G.; Hagen, H.-J. Astronomy and Astrophysics, v.397, p.463-472 (01/2003) . ... Astronomy and Astrophysics, vol. 400, p.841-857 (03/2003) . ... Kniazev,Alexei Y.; Pustilnik, S.A.; Ugryumov, A.; Pramskij, A. Astronomische Nachrichten, Supplementary Issue 2, Vol. ...