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 Unit Telescopes Overview - This page is outdated, an update is in process.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 Secondary mirror (M2 Unit) - This page is outdated, an update is in process.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 Coating Unit - This page is outdated, an update is in process.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

... Bad Astronomy . ... Mad Science . ... Site Info . ... Public Talks . ... Keep Bad Astronomy close to your heart, and help make me filthy rich. ... Who is this guy who calls himself "The Bad Astronomer?" ... First, yes, I am a real live astronomer (when people ask me what astronomers do, I tell them "They astronom !" ... These are emitted by powerful objects like black holes, exploding stars, and super-dense neutrons stars. ... Finally, am I really a bad astronomer? ... 2008 Phil Plait. ...

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 . ...

... Home Lectures Lecture Series 2015-2016 . ... Lecture Series 2014-2015 . ... Beyond New York City . ... The Amateur Astronomers Association is proud to present an astronomy lecture series from October through May each year for our members and the public. ... Amateur Astronomer Association is pleased to announce we will be offering select, limited reserved seating for current AAA members for the Friday, January 8, 2015 AAA Lecture entitled Robert Nemiroff ?2015 Astronomy Picture of the Day?. ...

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. ...

... These other worlds are the moons of our Solar System , of which there are approximately 170 in orbit around our planets.Some of these moons are very interesting, and have diverse and unique features, very different to our barren, heavily cratered Moon .Jupiter, the largest planet in our solar system has the most moons of any planet with known 64 moons in orbit.The four ... Ganymede, the largest moon in the Solar System thought to have oceans located underneath its icy surface.( ...

... 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 . ...

... Lessons Learned from an HST Faint Companion Search Program . ... HST . ... We have searched five nearby stars for faint companions using the Faint Object Spectrograph (FOS) on HST as a coronagraph. ... Although no bright companions were discovered about the other three target stars, the data do not allow us to exclude definitely the possibilities that a companion could have been behind the bar or be found outside the aperture search area, or be too faint to detect with the FOS. ...

AO Home AO Astronomy Schedule Receivers CIMA AO IDL . ... Instructions, Guidelines, and Policies for Observing Proposals . ... The Control Interface Module for Arecibo (CIMA) . Telescope Schedule of the Arecibo Observatory . ... Compute source rise, transit, and set times (LST) for Arecibo . ... Search Schedule Database by project ID, date, or time (return schedule for all projects in date range) . ... Remote Observing with Arecibo . ... Specialist Observing Disciplines: . ...

... 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....

... Search . ... Astrophysics Group . Research . ... Research and Instrumentation . ... While this seems an extraordinary endeavour, in light of what we have learnt about Solar System planets, only a handful of key ingredients are required to start characterising an exoplanet. ... The NGTS project is a partnership between the University of Cambridge, Queen?s University Belfast, University of Warwick, University of Leicester, Observatoire de Geneve, DLR (Berlin) and Universidad Catolica de Chile. ...

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); . ...

... 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. ...

... R. E. Jackson . ... H.-M. Adorf . ... D. C. Wells . ... AstroWeb is a World Wide Web (WWW) interface to a collection of Internet accessible resources aimed at the astronomical community. ... The goal of AstroWeb is to be the most complete, up to date, and useful listing of Internet accessible astronomical resources available anywhere. ... Jackson, Wells, and Adorf noticed that they and others had created largely overlapping lists of Astronomical resources. ...

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. ...