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 Unit Telescopes Overview - This page is outdated, an update is in process.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 Secondary mirror (M2 Unit) - This page is outdated, an update is in process.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 Coating Unit - This page is outdated, an update is in process.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

... 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. ...

... 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. ...

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. ...

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... 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....

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The Planewave Instruments 20-inch (0.5-meter) f/6.8 corrected Dall-Kirkham telescope at Moore Observatory in Kentucky and its identical companion at Mt. ... The CDK20 North at Moore Observatory has been our primary platform for developing technology for remote and robotic operation in the Shared Skies program. ... g'r'z'i' filter wheel . ... Axis quad video server to send realtime video to the remote observer . ... Telescope monitor camera in the dome also on the video server . ...

... 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...

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... The 2.3m Advanced Technologies Telescope at SтАж . Sidebar Left . Sidebar Top . No Sidebar . Sidebar Bottom . Sidebar Right . Title: The 2.3m Advanced Technologies Telescope at Siding Spring Observatory . ... Sep 1983 . Views: 2212 . 1983 . Views: 2153 . ... Views: 2108 . ... Views: 2129 . ... Views: 1581 . ... Views: 1556 . ... Views: 1526 . 2.3m mount . Views: 1549 . ... Views: 1563 . ...

... August Solar Eclipse Report: Thursday 11 September 2008 . ... Dr Fosbury is head of the section in the European Space Agency (ESA) as part of ESA's collaboration with NASA on the Hubble Space Telescope (HST) project at ST-ECF . ... The lecture is entitled "Astronomy today and the role played by the Hubble Space Telescope". ... Tuesday, 16 September 2008 00:44 . International Year of Astronomy, Ireland National Node . ...

... Editor's choices for the most educational Astronomy Pictures of the Day about orbiting observatories: . ... The trouble is that Earth-bound telescopes must look through the Earth's atmosphere . ... Telescopes which explore the Universe using light beyond the visible spectrum, such as those onboard the Chandra X-ray Observatory need to be carried above the absorbing atmosphere. ... By orbiting above the Earth's atmosphere, the Hubble Space Telescope, pictured above , can get clearer images. ... Index...

... Probing the Universe with galaxy clusters: New windows from new technologies . Dr Mark Bautz . ... A key to this progress has been the study of these objects using telescopes operating at millimeter, visible, infrared and X-ray wavelengths. ... His current research interests concern new X-ray imaging detector and observational studies of clusters of galaxies. ... Copyright (c) Amateur Telescope Makers of Boston, Inc. ...

Winer Observatory P.O. Box 797, Sonoita, Arizona 85637-0797, USA . ... Winer Observatory) was incorporated in 1983 as a 501(c)(3) non-profit public charity to perform basic research in astronomy, provide educational outreach programs, and provide site and maintenance services for small telescopes through cooperative agreements with other astronomical institutions. ... The picture at the top left of this page is of our facility near Sonoita, Arizona, approximately 50 miles southeast of Tucson, Arizona. ...

... A Web browser with Java support and an account to establish a secure Internet HTTP connection to the Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC), is everything needed in order to use the new Control Center System (CCS). Then full access to the telemetry of the Hubble Space Telescope (HST) is given (Figure 2). A public version of CCS is also available. ... Rifkin, A. 1997, Reengineering the Hubble Space Telescope Control Center System, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. ...

... Iowa Robotic Telescope | ... Talon is based on OCAAS, a software suite developed by software engineer Elwood Downey ( Clear Sky Institute ) for use at the University of Iowa ?s first remote facility (the ATF, or Automated Telescope Facility). ... XObservatory : Telescope Control Interface . ... This program calls upon and coordinates much of the interrelated portions of the Talon architecture, and forms the primary control panel for the telescope, dome, and peripheral systems when used locally. ...

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