1. Australia Telescope National Facility
... 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. ...
2. The Very Large Telescope Project
... 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 Unit Telescopes Overview - This page is outdated, an update is in process.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 Secondary mirror (M2 Unit) - This page is outdated, an update is in process.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 Coating Unit - This page is outdated, an update is in process. ...
3. http://www.stsci.edu/institute/conference/hsl/Nelson.PDF
... Hubble Legacy 5apr02 jen 4 Desire for larger telescopes · History shows largest telescope diameter doubles every 31 years 2.5m 5m 10m 1917 1948 1993 ... Other groups in the US and in Europe are thinking and talking about giant telescopes (up to 100- m) on the ground · Advances in adaptive optics makes this particularly exciting Hubble Legacy 5apr02 jen 5 California Extremely Large Telescope · ... When was the Hubble sequence in place? ...
4. Phil Plait's Bad Astronomy: Bitesize Astronomy
... Bad Astronomy . ... Radio . ... Bitesize Astronomy . ... Think of a telescope as a bucket that collects light. ... So over the years, telescope makers have focused on making telescopes bigger and bigger. ... For radio telescopes, however, the size limit is much bigger. Many astronomical objects emit radio waves, and as it happens telescopes built to detect radio don't have the same stringent smoothness criteria optical telescopes do. ... But radio telescopes can get even bigger. ...
5. Atmospheres Detected on Two Extrasolar Planets
... Atmospheres Detected on Two Extrasolar Planets . ... Credit Copyright: NASA / JPL-Caltech /T. Pyle ( SSC ) Explanation: Do extrasolar planets have water? In an attempt to find out, the orbiting Spitzer Space Telescope made detailed observations of the atmospheres of two planets that orbit stars other than our Sun. Unfortunately, water vapor was not detected in either exoplanet. ... Publications with keywords: extrasolar planet - water . Publications with words: extrasolar planet - water . ...
6. APOD: 2007 February 27 - Atmospheres Detected on Two Extrasolar Planets
... 2007 February 27 . Atmospheres Detected for Two Extrasolar Planets . ... Explanation: Do extrasolar planets have water? In an attempt to find out, the orbiting Spitzer Space Telescope made detailed observations of the atmospheres of two planets that orbit stars other than our Sun. ... Although no water vapor was detected this time, the techniques of measuring exoplanet atmospheres are quite promising, and the search for distant water and other biomarkers is just beginning. ... About APOD | ...
7. Amateur Telescope Makers of Boston
... 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. ...
8. Armagh Observatory
... Armagh Observatory, College Hill, Armagh BT61 9DG, +44 (0)28 3752 2928 . ... Three sixth-form students from St Patrick's Grammar School, Armagh , used the Faulkes Telescope South in Australia in April to observe and measure HW Virginis , an unusual "binary" or double star system suspected to host one or two extrasolar planets orbiting the central stellar pair. ... Armagh Observatory and associated researchers hope to develop this work to look for further evidence of planet-hosting binary star...
9. http://www.mso.anu.edu.au/pfrancis/Mysteryplanet/ass1.pdf
... Five years ago, the giant radio telescopes in outback West Australia detected radio signals, apparently coming from a planet orbiting the obscure star HD666123, in the constellation Carina. ... The "Dot" HD666123 The radio signals are coming from the dot of light marked in the above (negative) telescope image, which was taken at a wavelength of 500nm. ... The "Planet" 360 AU HD666123 You've been tracking the dot, from which the radio waves are coming, for four days now. and it appears to be moving. ...
10. Kepler 36b and c: Too Close for Comfort | Astronotes
... Planets . ... Earth Satellites . ... Looking in the direction of the constellation Cygnus the Swan and launched by NASA in 2009 is the Kepler Space Observatory.Many previous missions searching for exoplanets mainly detected large giant planets, like large hot Jupiters (it is easier to detect larger planets).However KeplerтАЩs main objective is to search for much smaller planets located in a habitable zone which is not too close nor too far from their star; planets which may be just like our Earth. ...
11. Your First Telescope - an Astronomy Net Article
Your First Telescope . Articles | ... Modern amateur telescopes can be divided into three classes: . 1) The refractor is what most people think of when they hear the word "telescope". ... Refractor disadvantages: Some secondary color ("chromatic aberration") still visible in all but the best units, large aperture instruments can be massive, most expensive of the three designs (often by a large margin), "Guilt By Association" with horrible department store refractors. ... www.astronomy.net . ...
12. Science - Page 2
... 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. ...
13. Space Telescope-European Coordinating Facility
... The European HST Archive has been moved to ESA's European Space Astronomy Centre ( ESAC ), Spain, where most of ESA's Space Science Archives are located and operated from. ... The Space Telescope European Coordinating Facility (ST-ECF), jointly operated by ESA and the European Southern Observatory ( ESO ) was, until the end of 2010, the European HST science facility, supporting the European astronomy community in exploiting the research opportunities provided by the Hubble Space Telescope. ...
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15. WSRT deep surveys
... These data were originally part of a PhD-thesis at Leiden Observatory by M.H. Wieringa (1991). 1 name Name of source (char8, example : '76W0771*') 2 freq MHz Frequency of source detection in MHz (int, example : 327 or 608 ) 3 ra_1950 radians B1950 Right Ascension (in radians) ( real , example : 2.328327) 4 ra_1950_deg degrees B1950 Right Ascension (in degrees) ( real , example : 133.403290) 5 ra_err seconds Error in RA ( ... 70W : Umi, 327 MHz only, one field. ... Columns 21 Rows 5850...
16. Земля и Вселенная: астрономия, космонавтика, науки о Земле, Космос, телескопы,
... Размещена статья "Новая карта рельефа Марса" . ... К середине 60-х годов прошлого века многотрудные усилия астрономической общественности нашей страны (в то время Советского Союза) увенчались созданием научно-популярного журнала "Земля и Вселенная", ныне являющегося журналом Президиума РАН. ... Все это в известной степени находило отражение на страницах "Земли и Вселенной" - журнала, пропагандирующего достижения отечественной и мировой науки в области астрономии, космонавтики и комплекса наук о...
17. University of Louisville Wide Field and Planetary Telescopes
... In typical nightly use, the wide field and planetary telescope and cameras record images of favorably placed objects in the sky, including constellations, bright variable stars, nebulae through narrow-band filters, comets, the Moon, and planets. ... Shared Skies telescopes are available for use by students at the University of Louisville and the University of Southern Queensland, and by teachers and students in middle and high schools mentored by faculty at the universities. ...
18. Bright planets meet at dusk | Astronomy.com
... Tonight's Sky . ... The Magazine . ... Observing . ... The double star 54 Leonis, spiral galaxy NGC 3198, and emission nebula NGC 3199 . ... Astronomy for Kids . ... Observing springtime deep-sky objects with a large telescope . ... Bright planets meet at dusk . ... Astronomy magazine subscribers can read the full article for free. ... Get instant access to subscriber content on Astronomy.com! ... Receive news, sky-event information, observing tips, and more from Astronomy's weekly email newsletter....
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20. http://www.arcetri.astro.it/~palla/ANDREAIMMAGINI/sistemasolare/Marte/prc9927.txt
... STScI-PRC99-27 A CLOSER ENCOUNTER WITH MARS Taking advantage of Mars's closest approach to Earth in eight years, astronomers using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope have taken the space-based observatory's sharpest views yet of the Red Planet. ... In these views the north polar cap is tilted toward the Earth and is visible prominently at the top of each picture. ... Dark sand dunes that surround the polar cap merge into a large, dark region called Acidalia. ...