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 Unit Telescopes Overview - This page is outdated, an update is in process.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 Secondary mirror (M2 Unit) - This page is outdated, an update is in process.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 Coating Unit - This page is outdated, an update is in process.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

... Thursday, Jul 12, 2007 at 8:00 PM . ... In keeping with summer tradition, the membership voted this month's meeting be a Member’s Night/ Flea Market. ... As always, join us for a pre-meeting dinner at 5:45PM at Chang Sho Restaurant located at 1712 Massachusetts Avenue in our fair city, Cambridge, MA. ... Please join us for a pre-meeting dinner discussion at Changsho, 1712 Mass Ave, Cambridge, MA at 6:00pm before the meeting. ... Jul . ... Copyright (c) Amateur Telescope Makers of Boston, Inc. ...

Minutes of the INTAS meeting, Amsterdam, October 28 2000. ... After this, the different groups participating in the INTAS programme presented their interests and expertise within the light scattering context. ... Karine Chamaillard (Paris, not formally taking part in INTAS): light scattering of rough surface spherical particles, DDA method. ... The meeting then proceeded with a discussion on possible projects to be done within the coming 6 months to 1 year. ... Amsterdam, October 30, 2000 Rens Waters ...

... Observing details . ... PPTA_MEETINGS . ... The 2015 IPTA Meeting was held at Parkes and Leura in Australia. For more details go to the 2015 meeting page . ... The 2014 IPTA meeting was held in Banff, Canada. For more details, go the 2014 meeting page . ... For more details, go the 2013 meeting page . ... For more details, go to the 2011 IPTA meeting page . ... The third ATNF Gravitational Wave workshop - Discussion on PPTA related topics held at the ATNF, Sydney, 11th Dec 2009 . ...

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). ...

STScI . ... Visitor parking at the Space Telescope Science Institute is extremely limited. ... Visitors to STScI may park at the San Martin Center Garage, located approximately 1/8 mile south of the Space Telescope Science Institute. Business visitors to STScI should proceed to the front desk and obtain a parking ticket for the garage. This ticket should be used at the entrance gates to the garage; on entry through the first gate visitors should turn left and proceed to the second gate. ...

... The eleven years cycle of Sun's activity is approaching its maximum! From August 24th to 29th a team of astronomers, engineers and astro-photographers will travel to southern Greenland to observe the Northern Lights (Aurora Borealis), a phenomenon expected to be particularly spectacular during this period. ... Auroras . The wonderful celestial spectacle of the aurora occurs when very energetic particles from the Sun reach the Earth's atmosphere via the solar wind. ... About GLORIA . ...

... The purpose of the meeting was to review the current status of project development and to discuss working plan for international cooperation on the stage of preparation to the launch. 22 foreign specialists participated in the meeting representing Australia, Canada, China, Finland, Japan, the Netherlands, Ukraine, United Kingdom, and USA. ... To define personal content of proposed working groups and to develop plan of their activity for 2003 year (15 November 2002, chairmen of working groups). ...

... Radio Astronomy . ... ASRAS Board Members . ... To see the most up to date news and events happening with ASRAS log in with your user name and password and then click on the Activities page. ... Messier Marathon (Member Observing) CANCELLED Saturday, April 9, 2016 9:00 PM Location:Farash Center Ionia NY . ... ASRAS Members meeting - Friday May 6 at Farash Center - Ionia NY . ... ASRAS Board members meeting - monday May 9 @ Farash Center Monday, May 9, 2016 7:00 PM Location:Farash Center Ionia NY . ...

... S.P. KOROLEV ROCKET AND SPACE CORPORATION ENERGIA . ... OAO RSC "Energia" . ... Company's History . ... Flights Chronology . ... ISS Russian Segment . ... News . ... History of flights . ... The State Commission held its meeting at Baikonur launch site where the primary and backup crews for Soyuz TMA-17M were approved and the readiness of the space launcher system was confirmed. ... Contribution of RSC Energia to the Russian Rocket-Space Technology . ... 2015 JSC "S.P. Korolev RSC "Energia" . ...

... UNAWE: Armagh Observatory Special Seminar and Workshop, Wed 22nd Nov 2006 Following Professor George Miley's presentation at the 7th October 2005 meeting of the ASGI (Dublin City University) concerning the UNAWE project, the Armagh Observatory is pleased to host a special information seminar and workshop on the UNAWE project, on Wednesday 22nd November 2006. ... UU Coleraine, tel: (048) 9036 6178 / pressoffice ulster.ac.uk Clear skies, Terry Moseley . ...

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. ...

... The molecular lines group at Arecibo Observatory consists of Chris Salter, Tapasi Ghosh and Robert Minchin. ... The molecular line group at Arecibo Observatory started in 2006 with a proposal to carry out a spectral census of the star-burst galaxy Arp 220 . ... However, the most interesting discovery came from the observations of the polar ring galaxy, NGC 660. ... Molecular Lines in NGC 660 Arias de Saavedra Benitez et al., ... A cm-Wavelength Search for Pre-Biotic Molecules in Starburst Galaxies. ...

... 28 April 2010 FTT kick-off meeting 5 Where are we today? Use results from this to secure funds for expansion post 2012 Majority of funds from NMT ­ possibility of some STFC support 28 April 2010 FTT kick-off meeting 6 The FTT /NAS system Ensures that the light beam collected by a telescope is sent down the beam relay pipes in the right direction The FTT /NA system monitors the light The active secondary mirror redirects it 28 April 2010 FTT kick-off ...

On February 11-13 1998 at Kiljavanranta near Helsinki an Interball project meeting was organized by the Finnish Meteorological Institute and Russian Space Research Institute (IKI) . ... Main attention was devoted to mechanisms and manifestations of magnetospheric substorms, as observed from space and from ground observations. Four time intervals were selected for a coordinated data analysis. ... Magnetospheric storm on October 22, 1996 ( The LLBL-Driven Substorm? ... Programme of the Workshop. ...

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High Energy Astrophysics Session IKI , Meeting Room, 2nd floor 3 October Chair: Rashid Sunyaev ( member of RAS ) 09:30-09:45 Dr. Mikhail Pavlinsky ( IKI ) Spectr-RG project 09:45-10:00 Dr. Mikhail Revnivtsev ( IKI ) Nature of the Milky Way X-ray background 10:00-10:30 Prof . Joachim Truemper ( member of the Max Planck Society, German Academy of Natural Sciences Leopoldina, foreign member of ... With participation of RAS members S.Gershtein and V.Zheleznyakov. ...

MOS monitoring Fading Cal sources MOS CTI Column Correction Mallorca EPIC Cal Meeting - February 2005 Darren Baskill: http://www.star.le.ac.uk/~dbl XMM project: http://www.src.le.ac.uk/projects/xmm/ MOS CTI Column Correction Problem spotted in 1E0102.. Mallorca EPIC Cal Meeting - February 2005 Darren Baskill: http://www.star.le.ac.uk/~dbl XMM project: http://www.src.le.ac.uk/projects/xmm/ Problem spotted in 1E0102.. ...

NASA JOHNSON SPACE CENTER ORAL HISTORY PROJECT BIOGRAPHICAL DATA SHEET NAME: Harrison Hagan Jack Schmitt O RAL H ISTORY: 14 July 1999 16 March 2000 EDUCATIONAL BACKGROUND: BS in Science, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, ... University of Oslo, Norway (under a Fulbright Fellowship), 1957-1958 Ph.D. in Geology, Harvard University, Massachusetts, 1964 PRE- NASA CAREER: Geologist, United States ... Foreword by Harrison H. Schmitt. ... Houston: NASA Johnson Space Center, 1973. ...

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