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 Unit Telescopes Overview - This page is outdated, an update is in process.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 Secondary mirror (M2 Unit) - This page is outdated, an update is in process.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 Coating Unit - This page is outdated, an update is in process.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

... Observing . ... Observing springtime deep-sky objects with a large telescope . Springtime observing for small telescopes . ... Astronomy magazine Editor David J. Eicher shares 10 of his favorite springtime deep-sky objects, including the NGC 3190 galaxy group, 3C 273, and NGC 3242. ... In this video, Astronomy magazine Editor David J. Eicher discusses deep-sky objects in the spring sky you can see with a 12-inch or larger telescope. ... Get instant access to subscriber content on Astronomy.com! ...

... ATNF Home . About ATNF . ... About ATNF overview . ... Australia Telescope Steering Committee . ... Australia Telescope User Committee . ... Murchison Radio-astronomy Observatory . ... Parkes radio telescope . Australia Telescope Compact Array . Mopra radio telescope . ... Australia Telescope Online Archive (ATOA) . ... Parkes | ... Australia Telescope 20GHz Survey . ... Visiting Parkes radio telescope . ... Parkes radio telescope webcam . ... The Secret Inner Life of the Orion Nebula . ...

... Ciel Espace, le magazine qui vous guide toujours plus loin . ... les plus belles images de l'Univers d†йcrypt†йes pour vous . ... des pages consacr†йes †а la publication de vos photos Mais c'est aussi une vraie communaut†й avec laquelle partager votre passion et nourrir votre curiosit†й. Accueil Ils photographient le ciel au Very Large Telescope . ... Astronomes ou ing†йnieurs, ils profitent de travailler sous le meilleur ciel du monde pour s'adonner †а leur passion de la photographie. ...

... HST . ... ATLAST Mission Concept Study . ... Left: 8-meter monolithic mirror telescope (credit: MSFC Advanced Concepts Office) . ... The Advanced Technology Large Aperture Space Telescope (ATLAST) is a NASA strategic mission concept study for the next generation of UVOIR space observatory. ... ATLAST will have an angular resolution that is 5 - 10 times better than the James Webb Space Telescope ( JWST ) and a sensitivity limit that is up to 2000 times better than the Hubble Space Telescope ( HST ). ...

... Астронет | ... Сириус, Солнце, Луна и Южный Крест . ... Авторы и права: European Southern Observatory (ESO) Пояснение: Слева направо представлены башни Yepun ( ye-poon ; Сириус ), Antu ( an-too ; Солнце ), Kueyen ( qua-yen ; Луна ) и Melipal ( me-li-pal ; Южный Крест ), изображенные на фоне ночного заката в Паранальской обсерватории на севере Чили. ... Публикации с ключевыми словами: Moon - Sun - VLT - Sirius - Southern Cross - Солнце - Сириус - ESO - telescope . ... От Северного до Южного Креста . ...

... 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. ...

... Meade Instruments Corporation . ... Refracting telescopes (Meade Models NG-60, NGC-60, DS-2070AT, ETX-70AT, LXD55-AR5, LX55-AR6 ) and mirror-lens telescopes ( ETX-90AT, 105AT, 125AT, LXD55-SC8, 8LX90, LX200 GPS Series ) are generally more versatile in a wide array of land and astronomical applications. ... The intermediate-level observer, or the non-casual telescope user who wishes to purchase one telescope for a lifetime, should consider a Meade Model LXD55 series, 8LX90, or LX200GPS. ... Meade 4M ...

... Apr 14, 2016 - Monthly Meeting . ... The Amateur Telescope Makers of Boston, Inc. ATMoB) is an astronomy club devoted to telescope making, observing, and studying the heavens. ... CURRENT MOON . ... April Sky . ... Lyrids Meteor Shower . ... Sources: NASA JPL Space Calendar , StarDate Online , Sky Telescope , Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics , RASC Observer’s Handbook , Abrams Planetarium Sky Calendar and Astronomy Magazine . ... Copyright (c) Amateur Telescope Makers of Boston, Inc. ...

... Telescopes . ... The time requests are accepted in an electronic version with on-line form in Russian or English. ... Unregistered request will be disregarded by the Large Telescopes Programm Committee. In exclusive cases the secreatry of the Committee is entitled to accept an observational time request given permission of the Chairman of the Committee or the director of the SAO RAS. The Program Committee considers generally one time request submitted by the principal applicant. ...

M1 image More About M1 Nice Color Picture . ... M16 image More About M16 HST image . ... M31 image More About M31 Nice Color Picture . ... M42 image ; M43 image More About M42/43 Nice Color CCD Picture . M51 image More About M51 Color Image of M51 M51 Supernova . M57 image More About M57 Nice Color CCD Picture Very Deep M57 Image . ... M81 image More About M81 M81 Supernova Ultraviolet Image of M81 More about Ultraviolet Imaging . M82 image More About M82 M82 False Color M82 True Color . ...

... 2011 June 1 . Earth Rotating Under Very Large Telescopes . ... Explanation: Why is the Earth moving in the above video? ... The video dramatically shows the actual rotation of the Earth, called diurnal motion , in a clear and moving way, as if the camera were floating free in space. The telescopes featured in the video are the Very Large Telescopes (VLT) in Chile , a group of four of the largest optical telescopes deployed anywhere in the world. ... About APOD | ...

... Освоение космоса (Модератор: Chepurny ) > . E-ELT (European Extremely Large Telescope) . ... Благодарностей: 0 . ... 13 Май 2010, 12:14:53 ? Европейский чрезвычайно большой телескоп" (European Extremely Large Telescope - E-ELT) будет построен в горах пустыни Атакама, объявила на днях Европейская южная обсерватория. ... Ответ #1 : 13 Май 2010, 12:29:34 ? ... Цитата: ds40a от 13 Май 2010, 12:29:34 Field of view: 10 arcminute diameter . ... Цитата: ds40a от 13 Май 2010, 13:28:02 И я о том-же. ...

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 . ...

... Many large telescopes will be available on Earth with which to observe the phenomena associated with the Shoemaker-Levy 9 impacts on Jupiter in visible, infrared, and radio wavelengths. ... The impact site of the fragments of Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 on Jupiter. ... Better knowledge of the effects of Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 on Jupiter may allow scientists to predict more accurately just how serious could be the results of future impacts of various-sized bodies on Earth. ... 87,500,000,000 . ... 320,000...

Astronotes Armagh Planetarium's Stellar Blog! ... Our Galaxy . ... Other Galaxies . ... Telescopes and Observatories . ... Everyone loves stunning pictures of spiral galaxies,€а I have said this before and will no doubt say it again. The folks at the European Southern Observatory (ESO) know this too, and their latest public image release is a bumper set of serenely spinning spirals. ... Tweets that mention Six glorious spiral galaxies seen by the European Southern Observatory. ...

... MILT Description . ... Telescope Control System . ... Biblography The Astrophysical Research Consortium (ARC) consists of astronomers at the following institutions: University of Washington, University of Chicago, New Mexico State University, Princeton University, and Washington State University. ... In addition some advancement in the art and engineering of large telescopes will be pursued. The telescope design itself is one of three major project tasks. ...

... 2008 . ... 2006 . ... Сегодня: 10 апреля 2016 г. Специалисты из European Southern Observatory утвердили план, согласно которому через три года европейскими учеными начнется сооружение гигантского оптического/инфракрасного телескопа European Extremely Large Telescope. ... Он даст наземной астрономии новые, до этого невиданные, возможности. ... Первое зеркало телескопа будет состоять из 906 шестиугольных сегментов, каждый размером в 1,45 метров. ... Решение по этому вопросу будет принято к 2008 году. ...

. (10m x 2) Keck (I II) . 4.0m VBT . 9.2m HET . 3.9m AAT . 8.3m Subaru . 3.8m Mayall . (8.2m x 4) VLT . 3.8m UKIRT . (8.1m x 2) Gemini (North South) . 3.7m AEOS . 6.5m MMT . 3.6m "360" . (6.5m x 2) (WBT LCT) . 3.6m CFHT . 6.0m BTA . 3.6m TNG . 5.0m Hale . 3.6m NTT . 4.2m WHT . 3.5m MPI-CAHA .

The focus of the meeting is to explore scientific frontiers that require large collecting area and state of the art instrumentation over the next 5 to 15 years. ... The meeting will form the basis for an Arecibo scientific and instrumentation roadmap that takes into account developments in electromagnetic and non-photonic astronomy and, in particular, development of the Square Kilometer Array. ... COSMOLOGY & GALAXY EVOLUTION . ... INSTRUMENTATION DEVELOPMENT . ...