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 Unit Telescopes Overview - This page is outdated, an update is in process.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 Secondary mirror (M2 Unit) - This page is outdated, an update is in process.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 Coating Unit - This page is outdated, an update is in process.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

... 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. ...

... 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. ...

... Since 2011 our observatory is a member of GLORIA (GLObal Robotic telescopes Intelligent Array for e-Science) project - wide international collaboration of 13 scientific institutions from 8 countries aiming at opening public access to robotic telescopes, as well as propagating astronomy in general. The GLORIA Project offers Internet users the possibility of studying the sky from professional observatories. ... The experiments are available at the users site of GLORIA. ... About GLORIA . ...

... These Frontier Fields will combine the power of HST with the natural gravitational telescopes of high-magnification clusters of galaxies. ... We are soliciting gravitational lensing maps for the last four Hubble Frontier Fields clusters (MACSJ0717.5+3745, MACSJ1149.5+2223, AbellS1063, and Abell 370) based upon the exceptionally deep HST FF imaging and other new ancillary data. ... For the full set of proposal instructions and requirements, see the FY16 Frontier Fields Lensing Map Call for Proposals....

Astronomy Education News . ... FT Universe Challenge . ... Faulkes Telescopes Universe Challenge . ... A school competition for an astronomy project using the Faulkes Telescopes тАУ state of the art 2-metre telescopes in Hawaii and Australia, which can be remotely operated by students during school hours in Ireland. ... To register for this challenge please contact the Faulkes Telescopes Universe Challenge secretariat by emailing Dr Miruna Popescu . Armagh Observatory - Astronomy Education . ...

... Staff . ... Galaxies, AGN, Cosmology . ... A new survey of X-ray clusters of galaxies with the Swift-X-ray Telescope . ... In this framework, an international collaboration between INAF-OAA, INAF-Brera, INAF-OATs, the University for Science and Technology of China-Hefei, the University of Ferrara, and the University of Massachusetts-Amherst, is undertaking a new cluster survey using an X-ray facility that was never exploited before for this goal: the X-ray Telescope (XRT) onboard the Swift satellite...

... Up: Future Instruments and Telescopes, Tools . ... New Generation Astronomical Telescopes (NGAT), a class of telescopes designed to be operated remotely and robotically, require efficient methods for communicating images over heterogeneous and low-bandwidth data networks such as the Internet. ... Methods researched thus far involve the classification of astronomical images based on object parameterisation, progressive image transmission, and evaluation of existing image compression schemes. ...

... CfA Home . HCO Home . SAO Home . ... Welcome to CfA . CfA History . ... Laboratory Astrophysics . Extreme Astrophysics . ... 617) 495-7210 . ... 617) 495-7044 . ... 617) 495-7265 . ... HEA Research . ... HEA Home Page . CFA/HEA Home Page . ... High Energy Astrophysics Division (HEAD) . Chandra X-ray Center . ... Chandra Cluster Cosmology Project . Chandra Multiwavelength Project (ChaMP) . ... Chandra-Planck Clusters Project . ... CfA Virtual Observatory Project . ...

The Astrophysical Research Consortium Small Aperture Telescope (ARCSAT) is a 0.5-m (or 20") Classical Cassegrain telescope, formerly known as the SDSS Photometric Telescope (PT). ... Chief Telescope Engineer : Bill Ketzeback (bketzeba/apo.nmsu.edu) . Remote Operations Upgrade Project Manager : Joe Huehnerhoff (jwhueh/apo.nmsu.edu) . ... SurveyCam PI : Dmitry Bizyaev (dmbiz/apo.nmsu.edu) . FlareCam PI : Joe Huehnerhoff ( jwhueh/apo.nmsu.edu ) . ...

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 . ...

Astrophysics Space Missions . ... Space Physics Missions . Data Centers . ... Lectures in Space Science . ... Compton Gamma Ray Observatory (GRO) . ... University of Arizona , Theoretical Astrophysics Program Return to the top of this document . ... JHU/APL AMPTE/CCE Space Science Data Center . ... National Space Science Data Center (NSSDC) . ... Astrophysics Data Facility (ADF) at NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center . ... Center for Atmospheric and Space Sciences/Utah State University (CASS/USU) . ...

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... The Hubble Space Telescope is jointly run as a partnership between the European Space Agency and NASA. ... For more information on the European contribution to the Hubble Space Telescope go to: http://hubble.esa.int and for more on the VLT go to: http://www.eso.org . ... A Taste of Real Astronomy ? The ESA/ESO Astronomy Exercises . ... The "ESA/ESO Astronomy Exercise Series" has just been published, on the web and in print. ... The language for the ESA/ESO Astronomy Exercise Series is English. ...

Astronomy Picture of the Day . Around the World in 80 Telescopes . ... Credit: ESO / 100 Hours of Astronomy Explanation: Want to go on an extraordinary voyage? Today you can, by watching Around the World in 80 Telescopes . ... The Gemini North Telescope (Hawaii, USA) and the large observatories at the summit of volcanic Mauna Kea are scheduled for the first stops in the program beginning April 3 at 09:00 UT . ... U. Based on Astronomy Picture Of the Day . ... 100 Hours of Astronomy Begins . ...

Astronotes Armagh Planetarium's Stellar Blog! ... Milky Way . Stars . ... This dramatic image depicts Omega Centauri, one of 200 or so globular clusters orbiting our Milky Way galaxy. ... Swarms of tightly packed stars, numbering in the thousands to low millions, globular clusters are cosmic fossils, relics of the early times of our galaxy. Omega Centauri may actually be the core of a smaller galaxy ripped apart and assimilated by our own Milky Way in the distant past. ...

... Last updated 10 October 2014 . ... Dr. Alasdair Dougal Mackey . ... Australian National University . ... 2004 - Ph.D., Institute of Astronomy and Trinity College, University of Cambridge . ... 2003-2006 - PPARC Postdoctoral Fellow, Institute of Astronomy, University of Cambridge . ... 2005 - Lecturer for Globular clusters and globular cluster systems (8 lectures), a course for first and second year Ph.D. б б б б б б б б б б б б б  students, Institute of Astronomy, University of Cambridge . ...

... It was with this spirit that Norman Oberle suggested that area amateurs should have the benefit of a large aperture (25 inches or larger) telescope with sufficient focal length for excellent visual work. ... Norm Oberle and Jim Thomas spent 2,000 hours grinding and polishing to work the mirror into an oblate spheroid. ... Norm worked with Jim Thomas in a basement workshop. ... The Richland club is situated in the Hidden Hollow camp ground, and has long held meetings in the clubhouse on the grounds. ...

INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL OBSERVATORY: . ... We are a participants of ISO (International School Observatory) project! The ISO is a collaborative project between the British Council, the Liverpool John Moores University in the UK and Japan Spaceguard Association. ... Just before our new 2001/2002 school-year we also received some CD-s with LT (Liverpool JMU telescope) information and software and "The Asteroid Catcher B-612" software with images from Bisei Spaceguard Centre (JSGA). ... ISO web site . ...

... Astrophysics Group . ... Work begins on the world?s most powerful radio telescope . ... SKA AAVS0 array . ... SKA Aperture Array in Australia . ... Even in its earliest phase (SKA1), the radio telescope will be the fastest and most sensitive in the world. ... A further two instruments will be in the Western Australian desert: one being an array of many hundreds of aerial clusters working at low radio frequencies, the other a range of around 90 dishes ? ...