... 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. ...

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 Unit Telescopes Overview - This page is outdated, an update is in process.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 Secondary mirror (M2 Unit) - This page is outdated, an update is in process.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 Coating Unit - This page is outdated, an update is in process.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

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... 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. ...

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: . ...

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 . ...

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. ...

... Various FT news articles on comets and asteroids . Various useful links on FT/LCOGT observing . ... Images obtained using the Faulkes Telescope North, operated by Las Cumbres Observatory. (click on animation for more info on 2009 observing run) . ... 2015 December: Comet 67P (Churyumov-Gerasimenko) . ... 2013 November: C/2013 A1 (Siding Spring) and lots more comets . ... 2013 July: Asteroids and comets . 2012 December: Comet C/2012 S1 (ISON) . 2012 December: Asteroids and comets . ...

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. ...

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... 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. ...

... Bojan Nikolic web pages (r. 329) . Currently I hold a Principal Research Associate position at the University of Cambridge. ... More information on the SKA SDP consortium will be available shortly on the public web-pages . ... Previous to that, I developed the technique of Out-Of-Focus (OOF) holography and wrote the software that is currently used for this at the Green Bank 100m (GBT) and other telescopes. ... Welcome . ... Copyright 2005 -- 2016, Bojan Nikolic feedback welcome ...

... This site requires Javascript to function correctly. ... Don't rush to buy a telescope - As Alan MacRobert of Sky & Telescope Magazine says, 'To put a telescope to rewarding use, you first need to know the constellations as seen with the naked eye, be able to find things among them with sky charts, know something of what a telescope will and will not do, and know enough about the objects you're seeking to recognize and appreciate them.' ... ASRAS can help you choose the telescope that's right for...

Mark your calendars to reserve Tuesday, December 13 for a sensational astronomy meeting! The Amateur Astronomers Association of Princeton is presenting astronomer and author Kim Weaver for a presentation titled: "New Eyes on the Universe: Observing Beyond Hubble with the Chandra and Spitzer Space Telescopes," and will highlight violent processes and dust-enshrouded objects revealed only by searching for signatures in x-ray and infrared light. ...

... Up: Telescope and Instrument Control Systems . ... The software is based on a client/server architecture and provides remote access for controlling, monitoring and troubleshooting the array. ... The server software is developed in C++ and runs on a UNIX host machine. ... This computer demonstration consists of remote observing with the Caltech Millimeter Array located at Owens Valley in California to show the feasibility and features of this software package. ... Figure 2: Array Status window. ...

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 . ...