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 Unit Telescopes Overview - This page is outdated, an update is in process.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 Secondary mirror (M2 Unit) - This page is outdated, an update is in process.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 Coating Unit - This page is outdated, an update is in process.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

Classroom Activity: Making a Rainbow . ... When white light from the Sun or a light bulb passes through a prism, the light splits into its component wavelengths. ... Red, blue, green colored filters - if possible, cut 1x4-inch pieces of the filters for each student . ... Many students have the misconception that filters somehow dye the light a certain color. ... Younger students can draw the rainbow and make up a mnemonic for remembering the order of the colors (such as, ROY G. BIV). ...

... Description . ... The SCORPIO-2 project: . ... The multi-mode spectrograph SCORPIO-2 was developed using the experience of observations at the 6-m telescope BTA with the SCORPIO focal reducer . ... The focal reducer consists of several units ('floors') mounted in the common case in the following order (from the telescope focal plane): . ... The focal reducer is connected with the platform-adapter which used for guiding by offset stars and for illumination the spectrograph by calibration lamps. ...

Optical Filters . The polarizer quads were also designed to map onto a four-faceted WFC configuration and, consequently, also require a partial filter rotation of -33 degrees to move the filter quadrant 1 (nominal polarization angle 135 degrees ) into WFCs 2 and 3, with some vignetting of both camera fields. Several additional partial rotations have been added to allow observations with different polarization angles on the same CCD. ...

... ATNF Home . ... About ATNF overview . ... Australia Telescope Steering Committee . ... Australian Square Kilometre Array Pathfinder . Murchison Radio-astronomy Observatory . ... Parkes radio telescope . Australia Telescope Compact Array . ... Visiting Parkes radio telescope . Visiting Australia Telescope Compact Array . ... The Large Southern Array (LSA) is a European project involving the construction of a new-generation, Southern Hemisphere, millimetre-wave synthesis telescope. ...

... Next: Star Finding and Up: Image Restoration and Previous: Multiresolution and Astronomical . ... Design improvements continue to be made in the filter developed using mathematical morphology principles for the Infrared Astronomical Satellite ( IRAS ) images. The purpose of this filter is to eliminate Galactic cirrus emission from extragalactic fields. ... With an appropriate normalization, the filter curve was applied to each pixel in the image to remove the Galactic cirrus. ...

In 2007-2008, the planet Uranus will reach one of its annual equinoxes for the first time since 1966. As a consequence, its five major satellites orbiting in the equatorial plane will undergo a season of mutual eclipses and occultations very similar to the one that Jupiter's Galilean satellites undergo every 6 years. ... Some of these events occur when Uranus is at conjunction, or the satellite is transiting or too close to the limb of the planet. ... Complete table of events . ...

In this gallery are many images of Low Surface Brightness Galaxies which have recently been discovered and analyzed. ... The central surface brightness of this galaxy is 24.28 . Malin 2 This galaxy is another huge disk galaxy with a scale length of 15 kpc and a redshift of 15000 km/a. The high surface brightness knot in one of its spiral arms actually has the same color, luminosity and H-alpha equivalent width as the entire Large Magellanic Cloud . ... Truly it is a Low Surface Brightness Galaxy. ...

Arcetri radioastronomy group participates to the ALMA technologic development in three working groups: . Front end: Warm optics for the first 4 bands. In particular Arcetri has designed the feeds for bands 1 (31.4-45 GHz), 2 (69-90 GHz) and 3 (84-116 GHz). ... In particular, a fast sample/hold circuit and a 1:8 demultiplexer have been designed using GaAs technology. Correlator: A digital filter design for the Second Generation Correlator has been studied. ...

O ptimal transport : T heory and A pplications . ... This is a web site of the research project Optimal transport: Theory and applications to cosmological reconstruction and image processing (OTARIE) supported by the French National Research Agency ( Agence nationale de la recherche ) under contract ANR-07-BLAN-0235 . ... Optimal transport is a mathematical subject connecting the fields of optimization, partial differential equations, and dynamical systems in finite and infinite dimensions. ...

... Dept. for Astrometry & Space Geodynamics . ... Dept. for Physics of Stars&Galaxies . ... Dept. for Physics of Planetary Systems . ... Science . ... All Pages . ... Research of the stars with planets which pass apparent star disk (transiting exoplanets). The transit method based on a detection star brightness decrease during a passing of planet in front of its disk. Observed brightness system decries when planet pass star disk and its volume depend of the relative sizes star and planet. ...

The Working Group on Sky Surveys is compiling a list of URL's related to ongoing survey projects. ... Rhodes/HartRAO 2326 MHz radio continuum survey of the southern sky. ... ELAIS European Large Area ISO Survey : 13 sq deg. 15 and 90 micron estimated 5sigma 2mJy and 50mJy . ... Data Centers, Archives, Catalogues . ... Catalogues and Surveys Branch at STScI for on-line access to the Digitized Sky Survey and Guide Star Catalogue. ... SKY SURVEYS and CATALOGUES at the Anglo-Australian Observatory . ...

The Cavendish Astrophysics group is closely involved in the ALMA project , a large millimetre/submillimetre interferometer, under construction in the Atacama desert in northern Chile. The UK Project Scientist, John Richer, is based in the group; we are also involved in developing phase correction algorithms using the water vapour radiometers (see our dedicated pages ). ... For more information, go to the ALMA UK project home page . Cavendish | Astrophysics Home ] . ...

... V.N. Obridko . ... Solar cycle . Coronal holes . ... webmaster@izmiran.ru . ... On the polarization of the solar coronal emission lines . Solar Physics 33 (1973) 169-175. O.G.Badalyan, V.N.Obridko, J.Sykora . ... O.G. Badalyan, V.N. Obridko, J. Ryb k and J. S kora . ... J. S kora, O.G. Badalyan, V.N. Obridko . ... O.G. Badalyan, V.N. Obridko . ... December 2005, ESA Publication Division, ESTEC, P.O. Dox 299, 2200 AG Noordwijk, The Netherlands, Ed. D.Danesy, S.Poeds, A. De Groof, J. Andres. ...

... 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. ...

... During the March 29 total solar eclipse, the Moon's dark central shadow or umbra is vanishing beyond the horizon in this dramatic view of the landscape a few kilometers southeast of Incesu, Anatolia, Turkey. ... The Crown of the Sun . ... During a total solar eclipse, the Sun's extensive outer atmosphere or corona is an awesome and inspirational sight. ... A Total Solar Eclipse over Turkey . ... Stars and Dust Across Corona Australis . ... A Cosmic Call to Nearby Stars . ... Solar Eclipse and SOHO ....

Static Fourier spectrometers are often used for spectral measurements of the ionosphere emissions. There are two main advantages of Fourier spectrometers (FS) - large geometric factor and high spectral resolution; these parameters are two orders better than for grating spectral instruments. ... In scanning Fourier spectrometer optical and electric modulation of signal is used to avoid this problem, for static Fourier spectrometer there are no such ways. ...

... RGB=115,115,115 . ... 332x96, 2k. First, you need a 4 layer document in Photoshop. ... Layer one has the flame image in it, use this one , it's the best picture of fire I own, and I use it a *lot*. ... Layer 3 has the dark grey in it, RGB code 115,115,115. Layer 4 has the grey background from my homepage in it. ... We'll also need a new channel for our mask. ... We want this image to melt into that grey layer, that color "#737373" is the average of the background colors. ...

... Today this year's largest group of sunspots will cross the Sun's central meridian. ... The next day, the number of spots in the group reached five, and the day after, on June 2nd, it was possible to count thirteen sunspots on solar disk, which had been clear prior to this. ... This year's two most powerful active areas, which passed across the solar disk at the beginning of May, 2009, are set to appear in the Sun's eastern sector in two days, on June 6th. ...

Orbit . ... The orbit of the RadioAstron provides four types of study: . rough images of radio sources with ultra-high angular resolution, using all baselines up to the radius of the apogee, that is much larger than Earth diameter; . ... high quality imaging of radio sources, with moderate resolution, by observing either with small projected base lines Earth-spacecraft, i.e. close to the orbital plane, or near the perigee. ... high accuracy orbit determination. ... Space Radio Telescope . ...