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 Unit Telescopes Overview - This page is outdated, an update is in process.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 Secondary mirror (M2 Unit) - This page is outdated, an update is in process.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 Coating Unit - This page is outdated, an update is in process.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

... Armagh Observatory, College Hill, Armagh BT61 9DG, +44 (0)28 3752 2928 . ... Risks Comparable to NEOs . ... The Increasing Rate of Discovery of Asteroids . ... Comet and Asteroid Collision Probabilities . ... Extreme albedo comets and the impact hazard (PDF Format) . ... Asteroid Impact Animations . ... Workshop on Scientific Requirements for Mitigation of Hazardous Comets and Asteroids - 2002 . ... The Spaceguard Survey Report, 1992 (PDF) . Tsunami from Asteroid/Comet Impacts . ...

... The one year crew. (image credit: NASA/Bill Stafford) . The тАЬOne Year CrewтАЭ has specific objectives to their mission all in a bid to find out if the human body and mind is capable of long missions to an asteroid, back to the Moon or even to Mars in the future. ... On-board the Russian space station Mir four cosmonauts clocked up more than a year in space in the 1980s and 1990s.€а (1942-) has the record for the longest single space flight of 437 days or 14 months in space in 1995. ...

... Jay Apt (Ph.D.) . NASA Astronaut (Former) . ... PUBLICATIONS: Dr. Apt shared his images and knowledge in the publication Earth in Orbit : NASA Astronauts Photograph the Earth , written in conjunction with NASA scientists Michael Helfert and Justin Wilkinson and published by the National Geographic Society. ... From 1976 to 1980 he was a staff member of the Center for Earth & Planetary Physics, Harvard University, supporting NASA s Pioneer Venus Mission by making temperature maps of Venus from Mt. ...

... This is a personal project collecting and documenting early images of Harvard College Observatory, focusing on the site at Observatory Hill (previously Summer House Hill). ... This page shows a list of all images related pictures in the same group. [link] 1887 . ... link] 1887/07 . Earliest source: "[Building in Cambridge under construction]." ... link] 1887/07/13ish . ... Earliest source: "[Telescope dome in Cambridge under construction]." ... Creator: Harvard College Observatory, Cambridge . ...

... AND FIFTH VISITING CREW . TO THE INTERNATIONAL SPACE STATION . ... This morning the Expedition 8 crew (ISS-8) consisting of Alexander Kaleri and Michael Foale, as well as flight engineer of the sixth visiting crew (VC-6) Andre Kuipers, who early morning upon completion of the flight program returned to Earth in Soyuz TMA-3 descent vehicle, arrived to Chkalovsky aerodrome near Moscow. next.. ... The Russian Soyuz TMA-3 manned transport spacecraft was launched. ... Photo-report . ... SEA LAUNCH | ...

HUBBLE SPACE TELESCOPE DAILY REPORT #830 PERIOD COVERED: 0800 EST Daily Status Report as of 055/1200Z. 1.0 ACTIVITIES SCHEDULED AND ACCOMPLISHED: 1.1 Completed Two Sets of FOS/BL 3545 (Evolution of Ultraviolet Spectra in Early Type Galaxies) The Faint Object Spectrograph was used to make four spectral observations of early type galaxy 55W037. ... 1.4 Completed WFC 4713 (WF/PC Calibration: Internal Delta Flats) The Wide Field Camera was used to take one internal flat observation. ...

CS I R O A S T R O N O M Y A N D SP AC E SC I E N C E Cnr Vimiera and Pembroke Roads, Marsfield NSW 2121 PO Box 76, Epping NSW 1710, Australia T +61 (0)2 9372 4100 · ABN 41 687 119 230 Early Science with ASKAP CASS has stated its commitment to delivering ASKAP as fully scoped and is currently seeking additional funding to realise this goal. ... During May 2013, CASS will begin to develop a unified early scientific program in consultation with EMU, WALLABY and other survey science teams. ...

... Completing the Arecibo Galaxy Environment Survey (AGES) . ... A Continuing Drift-Scan Pulsar Search at 327 MHz (AO327) . ... Millisecond pulsar searches in unidentified Fermi sources at high Galactic latitudes . ... Timing of pulsars discovered by the PALFA survey . ... Timing Five Millisecond Pulsars Found in Fermi Unidentified Sources . ... Searching for Millisecond Pulsars in Low-Latitude Fermi Unidentified Sources . ... Searching for Radio Millisecond Pulsars in a New Set of Fermi Sources . ...

Astronomy Picture of the Day . A Great Day For SOHO . 15.10.1998 . The last 10 days have been great days for SOHO, the space-based SOlar and Heliospheric Observatory. ... The Worlds Largest Ozone Hole . ... The ozone hole that has been a cause of concern in recent years has again reformed over Earth's South Pole. ... October 1st was the 151st anniversary of the day Maria Mitchell swept the sky with her telescope and discovered the comet of 1847 (comet Mitchell 1847VI). ... In ten days.. ...

Images by Rob McNaught from ~20km west of Siding Spring Observatory . Copyright 2011 Robert H. McNaught . Canon 5D, 50mm f/1.4, 20sec exposure ISO 400. ... Canon 5D, 135mm f/2.0, 20sec exposure ISO 400. ... ANU 2.3-m at far left. Anglo-Australian Telescope (AAT) on horizon to left of comet and ANU 0.6-m to the immediate right of the comet. ... ANU/Uni of Arizona/NASA/Robert H. McNaught . Uppsala Schmidt/Siding Spring Survey. ... Siding Spring Survey Main Page . ...

Latest information about St. Petersburg session see in . http://www. brown.nord.nw.ru/conf99.htm . The aim of this session is to bring together people involved in . ... Session will be held in the frames of celebration of 275 -th anniversary . of St.Petersburg State University which G.Gamow graduated in 1925. RETURN] . ... The Conference materials are at WWW: . ...

Poster Schedule . ... Poster Number . ... Poster Title . Building on the Momentum of the International Year of Astronomy . ... UC Berkeley's Celebration of the International Year of Astronomy 2009. ... The AstroDay Festival - A Celebration of Astronomy and Hawaiian Culture. ... The International Year of Astronomy Meets National Science Week in Australia. ... Astronomy Posters and Trading Cards at Mauna Kea and in Japan. ... Refining Our Practice . ... back to Annual Meeting Schedule Overview ...

... 2012 December 7 . Earth at Night . Image Credit : NASA , NOAA NGDC , Suomi-NPP , Earth Observatory , . ... Explanation: This remarkably complete view of Earth at night is a composite of cloud-free, nighttime images. ... It also has advantages compared to cameras on the International Space Station. While the space station passes over the same point on Earth every two or three days, Suomi-NPP passes over the same point twice a day at about 1:30am and 1:30pm local time. ... About APOD | ...

Google doc v5.1 RadioAstron International Science Council Tsargrad Hotel (Boyarsky room) Breakfast starts at 8am Monday, June 18 ( Tsargrad hotel) 10:00 N. Kardashev: Welcome 10:15 K. Kellermann: Goals of meeting and approval of agenda 10:30 Introductions of members and guests 10:45 RISC Terms of Reference Supporting documents: RISC ToR draft 11:30 Break 12:00 M. Popov: SRT in-orbit tests and basic parameters 12:30 Y. Kovalev: Fringe Search: ...

. Pulkovo Observatory of Russian Academy of Sciences is situated . near Saint-Petersburg. It was founded in 1839. 196140, Saint-Petersburg, Pulkovskoye chaussee 65/1 . English version . Russian version . This page has been accessed times since May 1, 1999.

New Moons of Uranus . Brent Gladman's Home Page . ... The discovery of two probable distant satellites of Uranus was reported by B. Gladman, P. Nicholson, J. Burns and J. Kavelaars. ... This discovery was reported in the IAU Circular 6764 . ... Discovery image of S/1997 U 2 . This shows the discovery image of brighter of the two new moons of Uranus. ... This shows the discovery image of faint new moons of Uranus. ... This shows another discovery image of faint new moons of Uranus. ... Uranus . ...

. Note: This material is from a 1994(!) Talk about CCDs - the physics remains the same, only the detector size has increased since then. ___________________________________________________________________ The Electronic Universe Project e-mail: nuts@moo.uoregon.edu

... Pre-university education . ... Samara region . ... A small spacecraft Aist-2D , developed by the scientists of Samara State Aerospace University (SSAU) and the experts of the Rocket and Space Centre Progress will see from outer space what is hidden under the thick top of trees and below the Earth's surface. The radar equipment was installed on Aist-2D , which was delivered to the space launcher complex Vostochniy on January 22. ... Tomography of the Earth's ionosphere will also be carried out. ...